Games Suck Lately or am I just too picky? - Page 2

TL;DR
Developers care all about graphics because this is what people want, gameplay mechanics are not important anymore and nobody cares whether the new game hit is, when it comes to actual gameplay, just a bad version of another game and nothing really fun. This cant' lead to something good.
tl;dr end.

The problem with modern games is that they are all about graphics and shiny features that don't actually improve the gameplay, thus having the same crappy gameplay mechanics everytime.

I often sound like a douche when I talk about most modern games, but just take some games as an example. Watch the ads, watch the videos, watch the interviews.

Take guild wars 2:
It's all about shiny graphics, cool new features and how everything is now persistent and has a cool new system.
What that really means is that they don't care whether or not these new features actually bring a better gameplay, or if they really changed anything at all. They cared more about the graphics part(explains why the focus their marketing around that) and how they made everything good that was once crappy.
Funny thing, after the sentence "It was all crappy, we made it good." they say "You will still have the same feeling you had in game XY."
And yea, what about the gameplay mechanics?
You see that in the videos people just press 1 over and over again and sometimes another key, do they ever explain why? No. It seems that they simply don't care that their battle system is a POC.

Now look at Modern Warfare: What exactly is advertised? The graphics, stunning new animations and featurs and all that blargh, but nothing new about the gameplay. Nothing new about how you actually play or how you are able to interact with everything.
You always see the same crappy gameplay that involves pressing 1 button and spamming fire, no tactical features or strategic features, just killing guys over and over again.
At the "pro" level people like to pretend it's otherwise, and this is true until a certain point, but in the end it's all about who shoots faster....

Now take some of the old games.
Dark Age of Camelot was always advertised as the "cool PvP MMO with massive battles", and this is what it is. It has the best PvP out there(opinion, but at least the pvp is at the top); graphics are okay too but thats not a too important point.

Look at battlefield, everyone expects it to have awesome, big battles with tons and tons of features, and this is almost always the case. There are a few exceptions where bf wasn't that good, but BF3 is getting there again.

Or, for example, take Oblivion. It's not really that good compared to morrowind and similar games because they focused too much on graphics, but they were still expected to keep the elder scrolls feeling. They tried that and did a decent job with that, thus making oblivion a good game overall.

You can really feel the focus through advertising and the way people talk about their game. If you hear them talking about shiny graphics and new features without exactly explaining the gameplay mechanics, you can usually tell that the game will suck.

Look at Deus Ex:hr, while the game is really good compared to most other modern games, it's not even near the first deus ex, you can really feel the focus on graphics and shiny stuff and how that influenced the gameplay part.

Even starcraft 2 looked crappy at first because they only advertised graphics, this luckily changed however and the game became actually good.