Is gaming actually worse than it was back in the day, or is that just boomer nostalgia?

Is gaming actually worse than it was back in the day, or is that just boomer nostalgia?

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no, girls are objectively better the younger they are

As a 34 years old who started playing games on the famicom, I think it's both.

Yes, it is worse, digital distribution ruined gaming.
Games being sold physical only has proven itself to be the best environment for great games to be made. You should want games to be sold physical only even if you exclusively pirate because you'll still be able to pirate but the games will be better.
Paid digital distribution has created the environment for disgusting business tactics such as early access aka paying to test a game when devs used to have to pay people to test their game, having to go through some console wannabe client to legally play games on PC DLC, micro transactions, intentionally releasing unfinished/buggy games to the point of being unplayable since they can just be easily patched later which only further encourages games to be released that way, doesn't leave a sour taste in your mouth for paying for a game that is unfinished/buggy to the point of being unplayable since it is so easy to update, games as a service which digital distribution is, not being able to sell it, being expected to pay for less than air, making games even more popular from easy access to people who otherwise wouldn't play or play as much thus making them a huge market which makes companies make games focused on them instead of actual gamers, lowered the barrier for entry, making games more expensive than ever, etc. It is also Marxist - see Karl Marx' labor theory of value.
The more popular paid digital distribution has got, the worse things get. It is being pushed so hard for a reason.
On PC it used to be $50 max for an actual physical copy that was better than today's collector's editions, now they want you to pay for a download. Low cost =/= cheap or a good deal. Using the logic that digital sales are "cheaper" means that a restaurant charging $5 for a sip of water is cheap because it is only $5 without taking into consideration what you get in return.

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It's more nuanced than that, but it's Yea Forums so all you get is X is good, Y is bad.

Gaming was so much better back then. 2007 ruined everything. This isn't even close to all the good games from any of the years shown.

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It turned more corporate and sterile at the start of this decade there's less risk taking and more safe sequels and remakes just like hollywood.

Worse.
It's ironic that most SJW are so superficial as to only care about identitarian "representation" and ignore the problems of Probably because digital distribution gives them a platform

Truth

Absolutely. These projects cost such an inordinate amount of money now developers literally can't take risks because investors and shareholders will not let them. Smaller devs also have an uphill battle trying to compete with the marketing of the yearly turds AAA studios drop onto the market.