> I'm an adult and I don't have weeks to sink into a game I play about a game a year on average, and I still follow the industry out of the corner of my eye. I

> I'm an adult and I don't have weeks to sink into a game I play about a game a year on average, and I still follow the industry out of the corner of my eye. I most recently played Hades and it blew my mind, stylistically and gameplay-wise. It's like someone threw into a blender some of the best game concepts in the last four decades, a few books on Greek mythology, a dash of ingenuity and creativity, and a game came out - in what looks to be a fairly economical product, too. There are probably hundreds of thousands of professionals trying to make honest-to-god works of interactive entertainment. And I wouldn't begrudge anyone trying their best to make a career work, anyway. But: > There's still so many good games without any of that crap though Well, not enough to sustain an event of games that don't suck, apparently! E3 marked a video games summer solstice of sorts when I was a little kid, a feeling which permeated into my first job out of college. But you're right, and I'm just being nostalgic: the art in its purest form will probably never die.