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>I would have to have brain damage to still be playing FPS games in 2025, after already playing 100's of hours of those games 20 years ago.
Agreed, only because (as you're saying in your post) they don't really innovate or even refine the genre.
Like the new BF6 game, the destruction is shit, there's no new gimmicks or weapons, the maps are small, I'm not getting more of the things that I've like about the series or even a refinement (in other words polishing jank, like say boats in BFBC2), instead it's just weird dumbing down and repeated shit I've already seen.
All that said, see it from the Zoomer's perspective: Every game they've ever played isn't just a sequel, it's the 10th sequel in the franchise.
They've NEVER experienced an ounce of originality for even a second in their life, whether it's TV, movies, music, books (not that we as a culture have read in a big way since Harry Potter), or video games, it's all rehashes and big marketing.
Any originality or creativity is punished at the academic level, they're told to conform, that they're bad kids, that they're privileged, that they're evil, and when they do something (zoomer speak, zoomer memes, zoomer dances, zoomer clothes) it's mocked and derided.
They were raised by iPads, neglected by their parents, emotionally stunted, then further muted by the self-reporting zoomers told to always be vigilant for wrongthink amongst their peers, always tearing each other down, always posting shit like "Whatever good thing you said you did, or felt, or lived? Didn't happen."
They've got to be one of the most unhappy generations to ever live and even their entertainment outlets, the places where they're supposed to escape, are just a monetized rehash hellscape full of more self policing.
I genuinely sympathize with zoomers.
