Is gaming dead or am I aging?

[Jokl]

I cannot find a new/old game that can keep my attention longer than 2 hours now. When it feels like only a year or two ago I could be stuck for 5+ hours on one game.

[eram]

its 100% you

[Jokl]

Originally posted by eram:

its 100% you

elaborate

[eram]

Originally posted by Jokl:

Originally posted by eram:

its 100% you

elaborate

sure

you are playing the same old game or didnt find refreshing new games or you simply dont feel it at the moment, Or any other reason or combination of reasons.

every year there are loads of good games to play. its not the games its you.

[Cathulhu]

I concur, even today games can manage to motivate me to play them longer than two hours.
You just need to find the game that scratches your itch.

And i started gaming back in the 80s. So make of that what you wil.

[Jokl]

Originally posted by eram:

Originally posted by Jokl:

elaborate

sure

you are playing the same old game or didnt find refreshing new games or you simply dont feel it at the moment, Or any other reason or combination of reasons.

every year there are loads of good games to play. its not the games its you.

do you have any recommendations?

[eram]

Originally posted by Jokl:

Originally posted by eram:

sure

you are playing the same old game or didnt find refreshing new games or you simply dont feel it at the moment, Or any other reason or combination of reasons.

every year there are loads of good games to play. its not the games its you.

do you have any recommendations?

when you dont even know what games you will like no not really
whats good for me may not be for you..


and a lot of the games i play are with a group of friends, they dont work well in solo.

[Cathulhu]

Indeed. We'd need some baseline to make proper recommendations. Games we enjoy are not necessarily games you will enjoy.

[Tristin]

You are aging my friend.

[ReBoot]

Are you, by any chance, stuck to A games? Every time someone loses interest in gaming, it's A games they aren't interested in anymore and A games really lost their touch with anything, really (except huge production values) in the last 20 years. They certainly lost creativity, offering the same gameplay loop over and over again.

As for recommendations, I can give you a good bunch. No idea if we share the same game taste, but I do think I have an interesting bunch there.

All that said, changing the game if it doesn't keep you ain't no shame either. I've recently started playing Gotham Knights and it simply didn't keep me. At all. Instead of wondering whether I've lost my gaming touch, I've started Okami and kinda forgot the rest of the day, this thing's a gem!

[InnerPhoenix]

yes age can make a difference, but i feel ya , once you play so many games, new games these days just feels like a reskin of a game you played 20 years ago, and it is true, most companies still with the same setup, imo if your looking for new and different then you should be looking into small indie games, better chance of finding a type of game you have not tried yet or a new spin on something. lately for me anyways it feels like games just have no real depth to them , ya they look cool, you get great fps, and the worlds look fantastic, but that where it ends, i think companies need to spend more on the writers, whens the last time you played a game that had you hanging on every pop up of dialog lol.

[eram]

i personally can not wait for Enshrouded.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1203620/Enshrouded/

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

It's like just you, the issue is if you stick to same game for too long, or change too often may get bored, or get those "ughh so boring" or "I'm not feeling it, I wanna do something else now" feeling, and that what it could be, either looking for something new, or innovating to you, or looking for something to rekindle old passion, or wanting to experience something you never tired before, stuff like that.

Maybe really into stories, and just want a story that isn't copy & paste add more twist to it, maybe you hated racing games, and might be worth giving it another chance since been long time with more racing games to choose from now, or maybe want new combat used to slow action, now you want blazing fast reaction games. So depends on you really, and where might go, and how you experience things.

[Chika Ogiue]

Your problem isn't age or gaming. It's simply that your taste in passtimes has changed.

[BJWyler]

Considering that more people are playing games than ever before, and have more access to games than ever before, I would say it's a "you" problem. People will try to use the excuse to say buggy releases, or games they have no interest in mean gaming is dead, but that is a very myopic view. I could say the same thing if I was only interested in party based dungeon crawlers like the Wizardry games of old. People feel that everything had been "corporatized" or lacks innovation tend to lack the ability to expand their horizons and see that there is a lot of stuff worthy to play out there. They claim games lack innovation, but that's a concept that is foreign to people and most can't even give examples of what innovation is.

The truth of the matter is that digital platforms like Steam allow the industry to thrive through indie projects and AAA titles alike. I have always found that asking randos in the Internet for game recommendations is one of the dumbest things ever. Gaming is subjective, so one must put in the effort oneself to find games one likes. There are hundreds of outlets to learn about and research games. Make use of them to find all the gems out there.

At the end of the day, people who claim that games lack innovation tend to lack imagination.

[Dean Winchester]

Maybe stop gaming for a bit, and get rid of your means to do so. When you come back, you'll be more interested in playing something.

Furthermore, most new major games suck, so I have low expectations these days. Maybe you feel that way too.

Finally, I have my favorite games and know what I enjoy after many years of playing. Other games that don't fit just don't scratch that itch. And I've played so many games that I'm not really blown away by anything that often. On top of that, improvements in visuals have probably plateaued. I mean, you're not getting mind blowing innovative AAA games anymore.