Gaming is becoming very boring and dull

[PSN]

I don`t know you but gaming seems off since roughly a year now.

Before it was nice to be spending time with your friends in games and role play or simulate stuff. Now I`m all alone and it feels off...I am not enjoying games anymore

Gaming now is: dlc skins, battlepasses, buy special currencies.
No one listens anymore to what the players want but just keep on launching games after dlcs after events and so on.
I mean like today you pay 40 50 dollars for a game and hope people play it and it doesn`t die like that game that came out recently and got cancelled after 3-4 days. And even if it doesn`t get cancelled you still don`t have the full game experience as there are DELXUE, ULTRA DELUXE and probably some other mega ultra big words DLCS requiring other extra payments that you need to do in order to enjoy the full game experience you would suppose to already have for the price you paid.

The gaming industry lost it's spark somewhere along the way. The joyful gamers who were once playing now became grown men and the new generation doesn`t know what it wants and swallows everything it gets.

Maybe it's not like this maybe some of you view it differently than me but sadly this is my opinion.

I wish you all good games and most importantly HAVE FUN and take care of your health.

[Start_Running]

Escrito originalmente por D. Flame:

Escrito originalmente por Start_Running:

Some of them still hold up. Ninja Gaiden is a Go to Example, as DO most of the MEgaman games, and SMB3

Not to mention lesser known gems like Crystalis.

Crystalis was never a lesser known gem. It was well known among the RPG players. The thing is back then, especially in the west, Very few gamers were particularly interested in something as slow paced as RPGS. Heck just about any game that the NES Advantage wouldn'tr give you an advantage in tended to be poorly received. Now if you want OBscure. You look at games like Gaurdian Legend, Legacy of the Wizard, or Secret Scroll of FLying Dragon.

[Intelligent Jew Businessman]

Escrito originalmente por Crazy Tiger:

Escrito originalmente por Intelligent Jew Businessman:

Nes predates all those games you mentioned by a decade. Also, the oldest civ game id still play is probably civ 4. And why would i still play rollercoaster tycoon, theme hospital and original tropico when they all have better, more modern successors. Why would anyone want to play simcity classic, 2000, 3000 or even 4 when cities skylines is better in every category.

Ill give you railroad tycoon 2 because that was something special. But there are still many more modern railroad games today.

Alley Cat is a DOS game from 1983, it doesn't predate the NES nor does that matter, it was just an example selection of games that hold up well today. There are plenty of DOS games, or Atari games I still enjoy. I still use the Videopac G7000 to play Pickaxe Pete, for example.

I prefer Theme Hospital to Two Point Hospital and simcity 4 to Cities Skyline, for example. Civ 2 is one of the most enjoyable Civs for me, followed by 4. I play such games because I enjoy playing them. That's all I need, I don't care if it's "the latest in the franchise" or "the best according to random internet person X".

You are entitled to your opinions and im not saying you are wrong. All those games were great games for their time but why would you play civ2 over civ4. They are the same game except 4 has much more content and looks a lot nicer. I can understand not liking 5 or 6 becsuse they were notably different in their mechanics.

I mean, I still enjoy pacman, galaga and nba jam. Original arcade pacman destroys any other modern pacman so i see where you are coming from. And I wish they made a modern nba jam and not that nba playgrounds pay to win card game crap.

[Crazy Tiger]

Escrito originalmente por Intelligent Jew Businessman:

Escrito originalmente por Crazy Tiger:

Alley Cat is a DOS game from 1983, it doesn't predate the NES nor does that matter, it was just an example selection of games that hold up well today. There are plenty of DOS games, or Atari games I still enjoy. I still use the Videopac G7000 to play Pickaxe Pete, for example.

I prefer Theme Hospital to Two Point Hospital and simcity 4 to Cities Skyline, for example. Civ 2 is one of the most enjoyable Civs for me, followed by 4. I play such games because I enjoy playing them. That's all I need, I don't care if it's "the latest in the franchise" or "the best according to random internet person X".

You are entitled to your opinions and im not saying you are wrong. All those games were great games for their time but why would you play civ2 over civ4. They are the same game except 4 has much more content and looks a lot nicer. I can understand not liking 5 or 6 becsuse they were notably different in their mechanics.

I mean, I still enjoy pacman, galaga and nba jam. Original arcade pacman destroys any other modern pacman so i see where you are coming from.

Civ 2 is quicker paced, has less detail to it and warfare was more fun to me. Sometimes less options and details are a preference. I still prefer Championship Manager 2001/2002 because for me it had the perfect mix of detail and pacing as opposed to later games in the franchise (noting the name change to Football Manager with 2005 due to the dev/pub split).

The word "preference" is a rather important one in this, cause it all boils down to that. I'm not trying to correct you, mind. Neither of us is wrong, since we both talk from our own preferences and experiences and those are very real and true for the person themselves. But as said, there are various examples where I would pick the older game easily over the newer one because I simply enjoy the older game much more. And if someone doesn't "get" that, that's perfectly fine since that doesn't matter. Not aimed at you, btw, cause you do "get" the principle behind that.

[cottonmouth]

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Gaming was amazing this year, just like every other year

boom

[PSN]

Escrito originalmente por Ionut Catalin Frasineanu:

If you don't like just quit. Don't forget to close the door behind you!

Tipic romanesc si de prost gust....

[☎need4naiim☎]

Escrito originalmente por Kargor:

Escrito originalmente por ☎need4naiim☎:

Sometimes, i buy games just to "teleport" to those years, to relive those times.

It's the opposite for me -- the older the game, the less likely I am to want to play it.

They are just... old.

I can see why you feel that way. But in my case, it works differently. For example, i played the 1992 Lucas Arts game Indiana Jones and Fate of Atlantis for the first time in 2016, with zero nostalgia effect because i bought the game as soon as i saw it (during 2016). It was a total BLISS for me. The music, gameplay, dialogues just ticked the boxes for me. Yes, graphics is just pixelated but it has done the job. I plan to play it by chosing different paths next time around (when i really get off my busy schedules). Mind you, i completed the game by solving all puzzles by myself despite a walkthrough was just a few clicks away. This is my review of the game, in case some people don't believe:

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198254090976/recommended/6010/

[Dura_Ace]

Escrito originalmente por Popson:

I don`t know you but gaming seems off since roughly a year now.

Before it was nice to be spending time with your friends in games and role play or simulate stuff. Now I`m all alone and it feels off...I am not enjoying games anymore

Gaming now is: dlc skins, battlepasses, buy special currencies.
No one listens anymore to what the players want but just keep on launching games after dlcs after events and so on.
I mean like today you pay 40 50 dollars for a game and hope people play it and it doesn`t die like that game that came out recently and got cancelled after 3-4 days. And even if it doesn`t get cancelled you still don`t have the full game experience as there are DELXUE, ULTRA DELUXE and probably some other mega ultra big words DLCS requiring other extra payments that you need to do in order to enjoy the full game experience you would suppose to already have for the price you paid.

The gaming industry lost it's spark somewhere along the way. The joyful gamers who were once playing now became grown men and the new generation doesn`t know what it wants and swallows everything it gets.

Maybe it's not like this maybe some of you view it differently than me but sadly this is my opinion.

I wish you all good games and most importantly HAVE FUN and take care of your health.

I think you might be getting older now. Been playing a long time? Ive been playing games since the mid 90's on PC. I think i am getting burned out now. Just dont care anymore.

I played wow for a long time but WoW is a game of waiting. Wait to craft. Wait for ques to go do dungeons. Wait for weekly reset. Wait for the weekly chest. WoW is also a game of the game devs showing you ZERO respect for you and your time with the amount of piss taking they dish out. And people still play it. I dont play it anymore. I am 53 now and spend less and less time playing games now. Cant be arsed.

I dont play casino gambling a la wow or a la loot boxes that other games have. I dont do games that have micro-transactions.

I looked at my discovery que and did ntoe ven bother. I looked at the suggestions and saw that it was the same old rehashed games i rejected that they show me over and over again in case i change my mind. Not gonna happen. All it does is drive me away from the platform as i have seen them all aready and do not wish to se thema gain

[SeedsandPlants]

50gameslike is a great resource to get a few ideas of what else might be out there, plus, it seems you probably have not yet extensively viewed Good Old Games GOG library, 1nsane is a really fun game with springy suspension that slows down your momentum, which is more realistic and challenging.

Seedlings though I haven't yet played it (probably on sale) looks really fun and relaxing. There are many smaller games that are not about graphical immersion but rather gameplay uniqueness.

Downhill (bike racing game) is decent, and besiege is fun until it gets too complicated, and time consuming to learn all the various components.

[xXLIMAPROYT_VEGETTA777FAN_2006Xx]

Everyone is gonna kill me but i had much more fun either playing a tag (chase) minigame or wandering around a strange game with a friend under roblox than anything my brother has installed in his ps5

The only exception to this would be when i played fnaf security breach, i had fun with that one

[crunchyfrog]

Gaming IS duller these days, but mostly in the triple A space exclusively. The sad reality is for many many years it's been going this way and it's well documented.

Companies are often run badly by incompetent people who don't understand their product or basic business a lot of the time. So costs have continued to ballloon, while the risk has increased. And because the risk has increased, this means that less gambles are made on more "out there" games. So they become like Ubisoft - safe, banal, trend chasing pap.

I've said this a million times on here. I'm one of the older farts who has been around since the very start of gaming and I was lucky. I got in right in the 1970s as I did electronics and wanted one of those new fangled kit computers. Instantly I was hooked. I had friends at school who did the same (and coincidentally still remain my friends to this day).

But also I had one friend who was well off and started his on computer store. He was a bit of a nutter, and after hours we'd sit and drink and play in his shop for as long as we liked, usually into the wee hours. And often sleep there too. Great times as we had access to every game and computer available at the time. I also live fairly close to the seaside so we'd always venture each Easter to suss out the new arcade games and get good at them.

I've always bought (and kept) even computer and console I wanted and I still play them.

So nostalgia isn't really rose-tinted for me, as I can and do refer to all games any time. I don't get that thing where you wish you would play a game you no longer had, buy it then get disappointed within 30 minutes.

I also don't have that stupid idea where I fanboy about one platform as if I'm married to it.

So I love them all for their quirks.

Here's the kicker -

For me there were really two big "golden ages" in gaming. Obviously right at the start through the early 1980s as this was when it was new and every other week a new genre was born. Inventiveness was through the roof.

Later on when beat em ups came through and Sega started to show up, I lost interest a bit as I never liked those games. The PS1 era pulled me back in even more and I even ended up writing for certain magazines and got access to a lot of unreleased games, games before release, and got to know a few people in the industry and so on.

The second golden age was the PS2 era. Not only did we have FOUR consoles vying for the best, but just on the PS2 alone there were so many truly great games. It was precisely because there was a sweet spot between cost and technology, so risks could be comfortably taken and funded. Quirky games and experiments were everywhere.

And since then it's slowly got ever more downhill for the reasons I've said.

But thankfully indie games have continued to shine and always will. Because they completely ignore those two things - cost and being risk-averse. They focus on the game and the love of doing it and have belief in their product.

So what does this all mean?

Simple - you have two choices.

(1) Play older games. If you're less well educated about what's ever been released, go to sites like Gamefaqs, metacritic and various individual san sites for consoles that list ALL releases. Find out and scribble down what you'd like and get them. This is precisely why I kept all my games because I go back to them.

(2) Educate yourself on the indies that are about and good. Use the same sites I recommended and scribble down the good reviewed ones.

Honestly even with the terrible state of triple A gaming there is no excuse for not having anything to play.

[Xero]

To me, it just feels like steam itself is dying or becoming boring. For the longest time, I've played offline only until I started to play a certain game and I loved playing online and being a part of communities. Steam would have multiple events each month.

It's October when Halloween is practically celebrated all month long and they are waiting almost until the day of Halloween to celebrate it for sale purposes. Just feels dead anymore on steam. Like there's an awakening shift to do something else other than being on steam. Their illuminati symbols they advertise with the games of the month and year don't help either.