If you buy AAA games made after 2011 you are a fucking idiot. If you willingly surrender your wallet and anus for shittier and shittier games, you are a fucking idiot.
buy the latest sequel Moviegame for $100+tip
wait for 500GB download to finish
has battlepass, lootboxes, emotes
"live service" where features the previous game had on launch day are gone and dripfed back to you over time
or in the case of destiny 2 they will simply take the $250+ worth of dlc you already paid for and remove it in an update
hard mode isn't even hard
runs like shit despite having fortnite plastic graphics
Meanwhile:
google any old game + rom
download finishes in seconds
the game is just fun with lots of replay value
customise your character without microtransactions
hard mode actually rocks your shit
well-optimised even back then; today it can run at literal 1000's of frames per second on a potato pc
has loads of mods
game works without an internet connection
Indie games are still good but even they are conceptually modest compared to old AAA games due to small budgets. There's never gonna be an indie Xenosaga for instance