Anyone else go back to old games because you cant enjoy new ones?

[Goose]

Idk what it is about me. but I keep returning to old games like Skyrim, New Vegas, dead MMOs, because new games just aren't fun for me.

I don't even know what people play nowadays, and playing these old games makes me feel lonely.

I took a 1 year gaming hiatus, came back with a new PC build & I'm already meh about it all.

[[RvB] RedArmyGrif]

I also go back to old games because holy crap $70 for a game that I might try once???

[Gay Furry Femboy]

Nah, as someone who aren't blinded by nostalgia, i just like Skyrim. I feel like newer games lack the soul of Skyrim, now its just become the same cookie cutter games with ridiculously expensive microtransactions.

[every1hasnames]

you may just be losing interest with gaming in general. People change. Grow. what interested them at one age may not interest them at a different one.


when people lose interest with things. usually its not cold turkey kind of thing. but happens as time goes by. Them doing it less and less until they no longer do it at all.


this may be happening for you . you may be losing interest in playing video games and this is just a part of the process of you playing video games less and less.


instead of you buying and playing new video games that are out. the time you do still spend playing video games is spent on games you enjoyed already.
and you may find at somepoint you no longer have an interest in doing that. and you quit playing video games entirely.



this is just guessing.


myself. it takes a while for me to purchase a new game generally due to financial reasons. i only purchase new games when i got a significant amount saved up and purchasing the new game wont affect anything. meaning i only purchase new games when i can well afford it. so much so that that losing that money does very little to my bank account.



and generally just play the games i already have.


my games list grows slowly.

[supernova backshots]

It's pricing reasons

[theo]

I keep going back to old games - Morrowind, Gothic, etc - because I cannot enjoy new games such as Skyrim

[Ihateeverybody]

Yeah I keep coming back to skyrim because I just aint as free in newer games.

1. Fallout 4: I am still too important and Companions require me to be so. Just entering a place makes me special (Those damn Intro Sequences to DC, Good Neighbor, Bunker Hill) its hard to be just some guy (or gal). IGNORE ME! (Venture Brothers Reference). I have mods but still its too much work, not to be the Sole Survivor and everything that goes along with it.

2. Cyberpunk. Same thing, I can't just be somebody working their way through the world. I have to be V. I have to be, they won't let me NOT be V.

3. Dying Light 2, combat was off, didn't really care to be Aiden. Same problem. I want to be me, not them. Choices didn't matter. No really this time, I will keep my word, No this time. No this time for sure. Wait, YOU TRAITOUROUS #(*$, How dare you turn against me after all I have done for you (it took effort for me to lie to you all those times and string you along).

I mean there are good games out there that pulled me way. My Time at Sandrock, Shadow of War (technically an older game, but I hadn't played it yet).

There are games coming that I want to play. Starfield (tempering expectations). Return to Moria (♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ epic exclusive BS). I may give Saint's Row Reboot a shot if/when it comes to steam (but I passed on Agents of Mayhem so might not).

Can't think of much else. I would have given that Star Trek Stragety game a chance but Pardadox....Age of Wonders 4 Launch was crap, They burned that bridge.

[alexander_dougherty]

I have always replayed old games.
I am also reluctant to try out some games because of the prices, if I can get them second hand I am willing to try more....

At the minute though I am enjoying Zelda:Tears of the Kingdom and Star Wars: Jedi Survivor.

[sdack]

There is a limit to how much fun one can have with any game. When one has played some really good games then it simply gets harder to find better ones that can deliver better quality. Many new games copy old ideas and dress them up as new. So it is sometimes pointless to buy them and to pay the extra price for the eye candy. Playing an old, but great game then helps to remember what made it great and what it is one is looking for in a new game.

[dolmore]

I have a stable of older games that I always go back to mostly because there seems to be fewer good quality games coming out each year. Game development is hard and the timeline for them makes Hollywood film production schedules look damn near instantaneous by comparison. Throw in the ever declining number of game studios and the landscape for great new games is practically a desert. I've been champing at the bit for Starfield, but since Microsoft gobbled up Zenimax I'm a bit leery now. The last "new" game that I got was No Man's Sky -- love it, but after a few hundred hours of play even that gets tedious. Fortunately, my list of go-to games is large enough that it takes a year or so to rotate through them all. I'm starting a new playthrough on Skyrim since I haven't played it in at least that long and I have no doubt I'll have fun.

[SgtScum]

I'm mainly playing older games because they run waaaay better than the unoptimized trash being released lately and of course the influx of woke ideology into damn near everything. There are bright spots though in some new releases like the starship troopers coop game which is woke free and just a total blast and even in early access it runs smoother with less bugs(but more Bugs!) than any of the new AAA titles.

[Goose]

Originally posted by SgtScum:

I'm mainly playing older games because they run waaaay better than the unoptimized trash being released lately and of course the influx of woke ideology into damn near everything. There are bright spots though in some new releases like the starship troopers coop game which is woke free and just a total blast and even in early access it runs smoother with less bugs(but more Bugs!) than any of the new AAA titles.

This too. I got the new jedi knight game for free but havent touched it lol

[Shimozukachi]

Originally posted by Drago Kerman:

Nah, as someone who aren't blinded by nostalgia, i just like Skyrim. I feel like newer games lack the soul of Skyrim, now its just become the same cookie cutter games with ridiculously expensive microtransactions.

newer games lack the modability

[emitfudd]

I rarely play a game twice. Lately I have been looking for new games to play and nothing peaks my interest or I buy it and refund it because it was not at all what I was looking for. I am always looking for games like Skyrim. Valheim was pretty good and I sunk 400 hrs into it. I didn't really want to play Skyrim again because i thought it would be too familiar. Wrong. With the special edition and mods it's like I never played it before. Some things I remember but a lot I don't and Cutting Room Floor adds quite a lot of new stuff. I'm over 150 hrs into a second playthrough and loving it.

And by the time Elder Scrolls 6 comes out I will probably be dead!

[halfmonkey]

Originally posted by Anusflötze:

Originally posted by Drago Kerman:

Nah, as someone who aren't blinded by nostalgia, i just like Skyrim. I feel like newer games lack the soul of Skyrim, now its just become the same cookie cutter games with ridiculously expensive microtransactions.

newer games lack the modability

^This.

Just finished my nth playthrough of Skyrim, but because the mods have changed so drastically over the years (many are near total conversions,) it's never been the same game twice. Same applies for most Bethesda games (Oblivion was my first 'mod-able' game.)

Skyrim in particular though, is structured in such a way that you really can do things with maximum player agency. From the second you're free from the tutorial dungeon, you can go almost anywhere and attempt any currently available path towards the end goal.

I didn't intend to replay this again, but like the OP, haven;t seen anything as engaging in new releases lately and a random video online mentioned unique dialogue in Skyrim if you play certain quests out of order. [Advance as far as you can in the Legion before ever speaking to the Jarl of Whiterun.]

This playthrough was amazing. Not only because it had near-current gen graphics and lighting (through mods, of course,) but because even though I have thousands of hours over the last decade in Skyrim, there's always a little something new to be found in the base game...if you're willing to look for it.

The Legion route does change the main quest in a major way. You can bypass the awful tedious peace treaty with the Greybeards altogether by simply wiping out the Stormcloak forts in the Legion questline after the "truce" quest is triggered and nixing Ulfric at the end. No 20 minute dialogue dealing with how to divide up the power and shifting alliances at all. I was even surprised to see Ulfric in Sovengard for the first time.

Sorry for the ramble, but hopefully Starfield has this kind of community support. That's a new game I am starting to look forward to.

[ĿIFE oƒ ƤIE]

Why would I play newer games that are broken on release when I can player older games that have more soul and maybe some amazing mods.