Are games not as fun because I am getting older?

[Soda ポップ！]

Lately the games that I found entertaining aren't as fun as they used to be, and new games that are being released just don't catch my eye.

I want to have fun playing games again. I dunno what to do.

[MEGA MAN]

yes

[Maria]

I think it has something to do with how our brain develop.

Just like when you save a picture of cats on Instagram because you thought they were cute. Then years later you came back to your phone gallery and found them not as cute as they were (or you could even turn to hate them).

[Irene ❤]

Many games have a "meta" today due to e-sports and youtube.

For example if you play competitive games, almost all people will all play the game with the same style. All copying the movement of a top e-sport player, so the experience is boring.

Or a mmorpg where people all studied what the best guild did and draw the same raid plans.

Games in the past allow players to explore, to enjoy in private, to truly experience. Meta changes the player from a leading dragon to a following slave.

[Swarmfly]

When games cease to become novelties and transform into just another unremarkable part of your mundane life, so lies your question.

[Mega Ultra Chicken]

Depends on the games you're playing. If it's Minecraft, COD, or Fortnite, I would suggest playing Resident Evil, Zelda or RDR2.

[Maria]

Originally posted by Zubovnikov:

When games cease to become novelties and transform just another unremarkable part of your mundane life, so lies your question.

Very nice way to put it. This also applies to pretty much every activity in life

[Jeff]

Games don't take chances anymore. Even a lot of indie titles. They're all playing it safe, so yeah, gaming is boring. I play in spurts now. A few days here, a few days off, a few days there.

The state of the games are a reflection of people of the time: right now people, and thus games, are boring, safe, predictable, and focused on selfishness and greed.

[Rendezvous 9]

That's sign of recovery from video game addiction.
Good thing and you should embrace it.

[MEGA MAN]

Originally posted by 1rz2rz3rz:

That's sign of recovery from video game addiction.
Good thing and you should embrace it.

hmm, interesting!

[crunchyfrog]

No, I don't think that's the case, although we need more details. How old are you, and were you when you've played? What's your circumstances? How have they changed?

These are all relevant.

What I can tell you is my own story and you can take from it anything that applies.

I'm in my late fifties. I've been gaming since the very start. I was into electronics as a kid, and managed to get an early kit computer. I was hooked. I went through loads of the early computers, and was lucky in knowing a local genius who ended up with their own independent computer shop - which made things great or worse depedning on your perspective :)

So I had access and a fair bit of familiarity with all the computers and consoles of the time. By the mid 1980s I went off things a little bit, as I had a decent job, was heavily into motorobikes and partying much more. Plus, I didn't like the direction of beat em ups and such games at the time. Theyve never done anythign for me.

But I still kept up with arcades and still had computers like the Amiga and consoles like the SNES and Mega Drive.

When the PS1 came about I went back in hard. Thsi also coincided with me becoming disabled, despite starting a family, and as a consequence of not being allowed to work fulltime, I ended up writing as a freelancer for certain Playstation magazines. Of course, that only made matters more involved.

And since then I've never looked back. I also never sold any of my games or computers (bar one example) so I still revisit and maintain them regularly.

So the big question - are games worse or is it me?

I'd say from my point of view, it's the former. In the last few years I've become less and less enamoured with a lot of games. I've bought less on the current consoles (especially triple A releases) and I thought I was just going off it.

I do have loads of other hobbies, especially in music production so I tend to just walk away for a while should I get bored. But I still felt something was missing.

My favourite era is the PS2 era, and after revisiting a load of games againand realising that I was still lovign them, I understood the issue was the games themselves. The current styles are just ♥♥♥♥♥ - it wasn't me.

So here's what I suggest:

First off, look long and hard at your circumstances and your sitation. If you're now in a family and have other things going on, then this can greatly affect your enjoyment and concentration. Also, if you've got stuck in a rut, you might not be getting enough exercise or something. Especially poignant nowadays - and simply taking time out to walk round the block regularly can make oodles of difference to your adrenaline and enjoyment.

Lastly, as I've done, look at what you're playing closely. It might be that you just don't enjoy the current live service games or triple A. In which case, start looking up indies more where the real innovation happens.

[sleeps]

a lot of pressure and expectations nowadays. i theorised this is due to how people make the variety seemingly nothing when there are more and this is done on purpose for the sake of making popular things got more support than it should have

i blame youtube video essayists to only mention popular indie games and not actual niche games, indie or not

damn i ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate making myself an investigator for this seemingly minor conspiracy theory

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by mori:

a lot of pressure and expectations nowadays. i theorised this is due to how people make the variety seemingly nothing when there are more and this is done on purpose for the sake of making popular things got more support than it should have

i blame youtube video essayists to only mention popular indie games and not actual niche games, indie or not

damn i ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate making myself an investigator for this seemingly minor conspiracy theory

That's largely untrue though.

A lot of video essayists have largely nil effect on things like game sales.

The onyl time you generally see effects are when people think they can make money. For example, the recent video of Modern Vintage Gamer talking about PS1 Alien Resurrection having a cheat code that allows booting of copied games immediately caused sopies on Ebay to disappear, likely picked up by chancers in the short term.

But actually creating sales for games that don't deserve it, according to you? Sounds ridiculous frankly.

[Mega Ultra Chicken]

The problem is there's equally as many bad games as good games released today.

[【ボス B o s s】]

Originally posted by Soda ポップ！:

I want to have fun playing games again. I dunno what to do.

You might first wish to elaborate on what you consider to be fun, and go from there.

[sleeps]

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Originally posted by mori:

a lot of pressure and expectations nowadays. i theorised this is due to how people make the variety seemingly nothing when there are more and this is done on purpose for the sake of making popular things got more support than it should have

i blame youtube video essayists to only mention popular indie games and not actual niche games, indie or not

damn i ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate making myself an investigator for this seemingly minor conspiracy theory

That's largely untrue though.

A lot of video essayists have largely nil effect on things like game sales.

The onyl time you generally see effects are when people think they can make money. For example, the recent video of Modern Vintage Gamer talking about PS1 Alien Resurrection having a cheat code that allows booting of copied games immediately caused sopies on Ebay to disappear, likely picked up by chancers in the short term.

But actually creating sales for games that don't deserve it, according to you? Sounds ridiculous frankly.

it's not whatever if it's true or not. throw that away. it's more of my own nitpicking and whatever people should at least bring up if they want to

because here's the thing... i get the appeal of games these people are praising. i don't think those games are for me.

everyone has a choice to buy a game whatever they like or not. it just that the world feels like it's a necessity when in reality you can just skip it no matter how much of a masterpiece it is.

feel free to disagree. idrc much