[DarkHoodness]

Wings of Fire: Disecting your post, so I don't have to. =P (Plus he knows more than me about this anyway)

Ultimately, MeechShrykull1029, you sound like an old man who mumbles about the price of tea and "The good old days" (Even though there never have been "good old days". Ever. Seriously, what's up with that? I guess it's all in the perception.)

Retro gaming is fun, sure, but that's the point - You can play your retro games all you like while you wait for the gaming scene to change and move into a different direction. It changes direction pretty often, so if you don't like what's happening now, wait a couple of years, and it'll be going in a different direction. Easy. =P

2D games are still being produced in some fasion. Even if they're not the same as they were back in thier hay-day, you can still retro-game if you really love them that much. I'm sure there's many, many 2D games that you haven't played yet. And IMO, there's a lot more you can do with 3D games and environments, which gives better games that have the potential to be more fun. It's called progress (and for the record, I'm sure MO would've been a good sequal to AE and AO if OWI pulled it off correctly. I regard Stranger as definately being on-par with the original 2D games.).

And nobody's forcing you to play multiplayer games if you hate them that much. There are many good single-player games out now and many more on the horizon. You just need to get into the modern gaming scene a little more. Heck, I'm sat outside the gaming scene looking in at what's going on through the window, but even I can see great things going on.

Open your mind some more, find out what's good about the modern gaming scene (BioShock, Portal, COD:4, GTA:IV) and enjoy. :P