Sentiment is all that matters.
Everything else is book cooking.
I really do feel like the golden age of video gaming is coming to an end though. Everquest, Diablo, and Doom lead the first wave of PC gaming, with Playstation and Xbox leading the consoles. WOW on the PC and Modern warfare 1st person shooters on the consoles felt like the gaming peak to me.
Nothing "feels" revolutionary to me anymore and everything feels like an imitation cash cow.