trying to get back into gaming but can't.

[Grendel]

I have been trying for 2 months to find a game I like. I am 47 haven't played games for 20 years. Everything has been done before except hard core war simulators. These PlayStation like rated R games are just raunchy and boring. I realize now a lot of the games of old were truly designed for kids. I see steam players playing much older versions of games because the biggest players are like hollywood and put out a lot of junk trying to play safe.

Also lots of press saying gaming is as bad as fast food. Steam keeping track of your hours so you know just how many days of your life you spent gaming.

After playing mostly war simulator for this last 2 months I think I am just done with it. Gaming was growing and coming up with all kinds of new stuff when I was growing up and there was new console every 5-10 years with all new kinds of games.

Now after 20 yrs I just can't get into this. Am I alone has gaming not just gone to pits?

[ReBoot]

Gaming hasn't gone anywhere, it's jsut that you don't look at the interesting games. Is there any reason you don't want to look past "the biggest players" and war sims? There's so much more to gaming than those two!

[Grendel]

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Gaming hasn't gone anywhere, it's jsut that you don't look at the interesting games. Is there any reason you don't want to look past "the biggest players" and war sims? There's so much more to gaming than those two!

I find if the game is not sophisticated enough then I feel like i am wasting my time. So goofy fantasy like Mario isn't working anymore. Anything history divulges into grand strat and/or war real quick. Grand strategy was more like grand soup opera. What happened with VR? Was it more like strapping a TV to your forehead? Sorry for the negativity by the way. Video games they just aren't what they used to be for me. Like going through that box of apple 2 games when I was 12. It would bore me to tears today. Awesome back then.

[Grendel]

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ReBoot の投稿を引用：

Gaming hasn't gone anywhere, it's jsut that you don't look at the interesting games. Is there any reason you don't want to look past "the biggest players" and war sims? There's so much more to gaming than those two!

I find if the game is not sophisticated enough then I feel like i am wasting my time. So goofy fantasy like Mario isn't working anymore. Anything history divulges into grand strat and/or war real quick. Grand strategy was more like grand soup opera. What happened with VR? Was it more like strapping a TV to your forehead? Sorry for the negativity by the way. Video games they just aren't what they used to be for me. Like going through that box of apple 2 games when I was 12. It would bore me to tears today. Awesome back then.

I know I am not the only one otherwise there would still be pacman and astroid tournaments going on. So what happened? LOL

[Grendel]

pacman and astroids seem about as much fun as watching paint dry by the way.

[ReBoot]

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ReBoot の投稿を引用：

Gaming hasn't gone anywhere, it's jsut that you don't look at the interesting games. Is there any reason you don't want to look past "the biggest players" and war sims? There's so much more to gaming than those two!

I find if the game is not sophisticated enough then I feel like i am wasting my time. So goofy fantasy like Mario isn't working anymore. Anything history divulges into grand strat and/or war real quick. Grand strategy was more like grand soup opera. What happened with VR? Was it more like strapping a TV to your forehead? Sorry for the negativity by the way. Video games they just aren't what they used to be for me. Like going through that box of apple 2 games when I was 12. It would bore me to tears today. Awesome back then.

Mario (or A Hat in Time, to name a PC competitor), is a fantastic piece. Goofy visuals, sure, so? You're not 14 and insecure, are you? Mario/A Hat in Time got some fantastic gameplay and a plethora of creative ideas dismissing which based on non-big-budget looks is frankly dumb.

Anyway, if you're into big-budget gaming only then yes, gaming might just as well be dead to you and you're better off looking for another hobby.

[Grendel]

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I find if the game is not sophisticated enough then I feel like i am wasting my time. So goofy fantasy like Mario isn't working anymore. Anything history divulges into grand strat and/or war real quick. Grand strategy was more like grand soup opera. What happened with VR? Was it more like strapping a TV to your forehead? Sorry for the negativity by the way. Video games they just aren't what they used to be for me. Like going through that box of apple 2 games when I was 12. It would bore me to tears today. Awesome back then.

Mario (or A Hat in Time, to name a PC competitor), is a fantastic piece. Goofy visuals, sure, so? You're not 14 and insecure, are you? :p2chell: Mario/A Hat in Time got some fantastic gameplay and a plethora of creative ideas dismissing which based on non-big-budget looks is frankly dumb.

Anyway, if you're into big-budget gaming only then yes, gaming might just as well be dead to you and you're better off looking for another hobby.

You know it is the gaming. The war simulator I was playing it was a good one. I found the plane my grandfather flew in ww2 and flew in it. This level of sophistication and realism is something else. I don't want to spend years of my life inside a ww2 simulator as some have. It is a very dark place. As far as advancements in the last 20 years. This is all of what I found. Off the charts sophistication in certain games. Especially war games. I think I will have to check in time to time. Maybe I just can't do daily gaming.

[ReBoot]

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Mario (or A Hat in Time, to name a PC competitor), is a fantastic piece. Goofy visuals, sure, so? You're not 14 and insecure, are you? Mario/A Hat in Time got some fantastic gameplay and a plethora of creative ideas dismissing which based on non-big-budget looks is frankly dumb.

Anyway, if you're into big-budget gaming only then yes, gaming might just as well be dead to you and you're better off looking for another hobby.

You know it is the gaming. The war simulator I was playing it was a good one. I found the plane my grandfather flew in ww2 and flew in it. This level of sophistication and realism is something else. I don't want to spend years of my life inside a ww2 simulator as some have. It is a very dark place. As far as advancements in the last 20 years. This is all of what I found. Off the charts sophistication in certain games. Especially war games. I think I will have to check in time to time. Maybe I just can't do daily gaming.

I don't get it. Do you or do you not want to play war sims? You're saying you don't want to spend years of your life in a war sim, while talking extensively about said war sim. Do you or do you not have fun playing that war sim or war sims in general?

[Grendel]

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You know it is the gaming. The war simulator I was playing it was a good one. I found the plane my grandfather flew in ww2 and flew in it. This level of sophistication and realism is something else. I don't want to spend years of my life inside a ww2 simulator as some have. It is a very dark place. As far as advancements in the last 20 years. This is all of what I found. Off the charts sophistication in certain games. Especially war games. I think I will have to check in time to time. Maybe I just can't do daily gaming.

I don't get it. Do you or do you not want to play war sims? You're saying you don't want to spend years of your life in a war sim. Well, then just don't! War sims isn't the only genre there is, there's other genres, there's good games in other genres. What's preventing you from playing something else entirely?

I might try that. I am a little emotional from the war sim. Yes, I did see people had spent more than a year of their life in the game. It's been out for 10 years. Taking a break from war sim for mental clarity. See it's not that the games are better it's that they are more sophisticated than ever before. To make me feel like this? No I don't want to spend too much time inside of war sims.

[ReBoot]

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I don't get it. Do you or do you not want to play war sims? You're saying you don't want to spend years of your life in a war sim. Well, then just don't! War sims isn't the only genre there is, there's other genres, there's good games in other genres. What's preventing you from playing something else entirely?

I might try that. I am a little emotional from the war sim. Yes, I did see people had spent more than a year of their life in the game. It's been out for 10 years. Taking a break from war sim for mental clarity. See it's not that the games are better it's that they are more sophisticated than ever before. To make me feel like this? No I don't want to spend too much time inside of war sims.

Then play different games. There's no problem with gaming itself, the problem is when you spend a huge amount of time with a specific game and get bored from the game.

This happens. I speak from own experience, there's a couple of games in my library which are REALLY good, which I've spent several hundred hours in, yet which I wouldn't want to play anymore because I'm absolutely done with those games, seen all what those have to offer and playing them became more routine than fun.

The solution is to simply play different games.

[Chika Ogiue]

Gaming is like any other interest or pastime. You need to find what you enjoy. Who cares if you spent X hours, days, years of your life doing something you enjoy? How many years of your life have been spent doing things you don't enjoy? How many of it stuck on the toilet?

Stop worrying about how much time is "wasted". If you're enjoying yourself, you're not wasting time.

If you're not enjoying war sims, and let's face it, those can get old real fast, then find something else. Racing? Fighting? Puzzles? Adventure? What do you want to experience? Whatever it is, unless it's amazingly niche, you're going to find a game that focuses on it.

[Grendel]

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I might try that. I am a little emotional from the war sim. Yes, I did see people had spent more than a year of their life in the game. It's been out for 10 years. Taking a break from war sim for mental clarity. See it's not that the games are better it's that they are more sophisticated than ever before. To make me feel like this? No I don't want to spend too much time inside of war sims.

Then play different games. There's no problem with gaming itself, the problem is when you spend a huge amount of time with a specific game and get bored from the game.

This happens. I speak from own experience, there's a couple of games in my library which are REALLY good, which I've spent several hundred hours in, yet which I wouldn't want to play anymore because I'm absolutely done with those games, seen all what those have to offer and playing them became more routine than fun.

The solution is to simply play different games.

Good advise. As an old hat I don't find much I enjoy. Pretty sure every war sim will be like this going forward. I do see your games are not in the top 100. I have no idea how to look outside of the top 100.

[ReBoot]

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ReBoot の投稿を引用：

Then play different games. There's no problem with gaming itself, the problem is when you spend a huge amount of time with a specific game and get bored from the game.

This happens. I speak from own experience, there's a couple of games in my library which are REALLY good, which I've spent several hundred hours in, yet which I wouldn't want to play anymore because I'm absolutely done with those games, seen all what those have to offer and playing them became more routine than fun.

The solution is to simply play different games.

Good advise. As an old hat I don't find much I enjoy. Pretty sure every war sim will be like this going forward. I do see your games are not in the top 100. I have no idea how to look outside of the top 100.

Start by not looking at the top 100 to begin with

I get my game recommendations from external channels, mostly. RockPaperShotgun is a good source of (p)reviews. Ars Technica isn't exactly gaming-centric but got some good reviews as well. Then there's YT channels I can personally recommend, that would be GManLives and IcarusLives (similar names are pure coincidence). There's also the series "WTF is" which isn't running anymore as the dude succumbed to cancer, you still can look up his reviews though.

I said "mostly" earlier and that's because I do follow Steam's recommendations every now and then. That is when looking at a store page of a game I really enjoyed, I look for the "similar to this" part at the bottom of the store page and look there.

Then there's user reviews. Shameless self-plug: you can go through my reviews and see if some of the games there tickle your fancy.

Finally, knowing what you actually want is quite important. You're saying you don't want to spend years of your life with war sims, yet you're talking about nothing else in this thread (except that tiny jab @ Mario). You know what you don't want, that is war sims. Do you know what you want?

[Grendel]

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Good advise. As an old hat I don't find much I enjoy. Pretty sure every war sim will be like this going forward. I do see your games are not in the top 100. I have no idea how to look outside of the top 100.

Start by not looking at the top 100 to begin with :lunar2019coolpig:

I get my game recommendations from external channels, mostly. RockPaperShotgun is a good source of (p)reviews. Ars Technica isn't exactly gaming-centric but got some good reviews as well. Then there's YT channels I can personally recommend, that would be GManLives and IcarusLives (similar names are pure coincidence). There's also the series "WTF is" which isn't running anymore as the dude succumbed to cancer, you still can look up his reviews though.

I said "mostly" earlier and that's because I do follow Steam's recommendations every now and then. That is when looking at a store page of a game I really enjoyed, I look for the "similar to this" part at the bottom of the store page and look there.

Then there's user reviews. Shameless self-plug: you can go through my reviews and see if some of the games there tickle your fancy.

Finally, knowing what you actually want is quite important. You're saying you don't want to spend years of your life with war sims, yet you're talking about nothing else in this thread (except that tiny jab @ Mario). You know what you don't want, that is war sims. Do you know what you want?

Not really. I will take a look at these things. Maybe check back in a few years. I am sure that there will be something sooner or later. It is kind of a void. I think also because the most competitive games are 10 years old which is good and bad. Bad only because there is nothing else out there. Talking about the top 10-20 games inside and outside of steam.

[Grendel]

you know lol/dota wow fn

[Worldzworstgamer]

There are still great games out there. You just got to find them. Also about being old and gaming maybe your mind is telling you that you have some unfinished business elsewhere in your life and need to set aside the gaming for now to deal with whatever that unfinished business is. Nothing wrong with that. Good luck to you.