You mean, the game that hasn't changed a bit in the past 33, and any attempts to do so, or shake up the formula, are either met with hate or criticism that can be summarized as, "I was an idiot for tossing my Game Boy."
It's a little bit hard to consider what is good these days when you actually find something that you enjoy, present it to others in hopes they'll enjoy it as well, and they fire back that, "No, this is shit, and you are shit for enjoying this." rather than something along the lines of "Hey, here's a game that's (similar, but) even better." You know, perhaps bringing people to a higher ground through recommendation rather than shame. And, I'm not saying this is exclusive to Holla Forums, but I'm just tired of seeing it everywhere, that people "like" things, not because they actually "like" them, but because they're shamed into doing so. And, all it's resulting in is everyone becoming fractured, disarrayed, cynics who only agree with whatever clique their is attached to.
Pretty much this:
I always filed pinball as one of those arcade/fair ground games like pachinko and the mechanical games, though I also distanced it because pinball was distinctly a 70s/80s thing.
I'm probably pushing my post with saying this (Hence the embed), but could I also say that THIS is my other problem with gaming. Not these posts themselves, but the the developers or publishers of titles such as these, that have recently become such insufferable pricks that they literally attack the very audience they're suppose to be selling to, AND PEOPLE ALLOWING THEM TO GET AWAY WITH IT!'
Simply put, I'm just tired of being treated like shit from almost every single spectrum of this medium.
What roots? Even "veterans" of the industry have returned to the areas that made them a success, and even they cannot push out a good game (Or something that tops their previous work).
The way I see it, most people afraid of a "slippery slope" incident, or something similar, happening, which they've seen time and time again.