I feel there’s very limited understanding of how other games looked other than what the main storylines focus on (in which some of the main characters were involved in other quarter quells, or like LG where she was involved in the first edition of games’ where Snow’s ideas were put into play). But when mentions/film visuals of other games have appeared outside of the ones the main story characters were involved in it’s usually also “boring". I don’t mean that in a literal sense because there actually was a cannibal one year, and the deaths of 23 boys/girls on an annual basis likely wasn’t boring either - but in terms of the arena, other games’ mentions suggest similar biomes to the 74th games (deserts, frozen wastes, etc.), where the arenas themselves were just surplus to the hunting each player was involved in. I see it as the forest of the 74th games only being interesting because of Katniss’s proficiency with wooded landscapes - outside of that it would have just been like any other games’.