oh then I don't know those game, could you post some of them so I can check them out?
As I remember I've only played Baldurs like games, fallout 1-2, and those dungeon crawler games like wizardry.

"Modern games don't have the detail."

Laughs in Dark Souls and the WItcher 3.

You mean the SSI gold box games? You think they were a more complete implementation of a D&D ruleset than Baldur's Gate? Which ones in particular would you recommend? I haven't played them, but would like to check them out sometime.

Nostalgia is a powerful thing. The games released around BG's time ran the gamut from bad to great, just like games released today.

Personally, I am sick of most "pixel art" games released today. I am not even sure if they know that the games that they are trying to emulate, did a great job at 320x200/640x480 and 256 colors, and tried to make things look at realistic as possible. These days, pixel art games look like an abortion, and it seems like a dev inability/shortcut, instead of providing clear and decent graphics.

Ah yes, i do agree. These are some of the best games in the past 15 years. However, they are a drop in an ocean. We are gamers who treat gaming as a hobby, so we know these games. The brutal reality, however, is that GTA V (just one out of many games in that series) outsold all the Witcher games combined HEAVILY (sorry for bad syntax). Dark Souls is great, but only non-casual gamers will enjoy it.

Again, i may have oversold my original claim, but the brutal truth is, games made with heart are a drop in the bucket compared to the repetitive blockbuster crap

Money has ruined everything ..... there I've said it ... are you happy now?

Money is the route of all evil and the answer to everything.

The world would be a better place without money, while at the same time giving me a ton of money would make my world a better place.

So OP, the complete answer to your question, is "Gaming is money" and not "Gaming is doomed".

To get over your misguided notion, I suggest a game of Doom ... old or new.

Some would say - Gaming is Doom!

You mean ... Pink Floyd were right?

And not just them, but they say it with style ... and don't do silly threads. ha ha ha ha

Humanity is doomed as well, but thankfully nobody is whining about that.

Yes because it won't have happened by the time i die, which is within the next 2 decades

The Romans said that before. Probably the Greek too. Or the Assyrians... Gilgamesh probably knew that...

But we never learn.
"Not in my lifetime..."

Once you have kids, that perspective changes. A lot.

Yes it is doomed, utterly doomed. my suggestion is that you give up playing games and find yourslelf a new hobby, an un-doomed one.

(goes back to Creeper World 4)
you don't expect to live to 30?

I will never understand this type of thinking, no offense.

Why not just buy/download old games?
Why are you so invested in Gaming if you haven't had any fun since the early 2000s when Baldur's Gate 2 and Metal Gear Solid 2 released?

Just play the games you like :)

Actually, I have a feeling I might witness the end of mankind as a species sometime in the next 20-40 years I may live.
But I don't want to have kids, and thankfully possibility of that happening is highly unlikely.

My comment refers to the fact that everything is inevitably changing and coming to its end, mankind included, but being bitter and complaining about it achieves nothing. Its much wiser to actually do something with time which you have left.