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Pretty much this, you can't get surprised (let alone amazed) anymore when you've seen it all already.
The same thing happened to me BUT:
1) many, many years later. When I was 30 years old for me well I feel like it was my perfect, "utopian" videogaming childhood. I never had so many great games for so many different systems before and I was old enough to choose videogames with much more self awareness of my own tastes, of what I wanted to play... i was living my passion with the combination of the best from childhood and the best from adulthood, and I binged so many games, really I spent more or less a decade that for me was my personal golden era of gaming, much much better than when I was a kid / teen.
2) Videogaming lately has become really bad. There are way too many scams like subscriptions and "abusive" microtransactions, abusive DRM systems, so many videogames have bad content, not only games with too much "political" content but also too many games that are meant for people who are not gamers.... games made for people who prefer tv shows rather than games, games made for people who prefer movies rather than games, games made for people who prefer books rather than games, games made for people who prefer smartphones rather than games.... go .... yourselves, I want a game made for somebody who want to play a game!!!!!!!!
And also there are way too many games too... indies can be very good sometimes but overall they have had a very bad impact on videogaming imo*... it has become almost impossible to follow gaming as a whole there are way too many games and you cannot be completely aware of literally everything that comes out and choose acxcording to your taste, now it's more like relying on your luck. Before indei games existed I felt like I was not missing absolutely any game possible, now if I think about gaming it seems to me like an ever expanding monster where every sin gle good game is also a hidfden gem and you have to pray that you will find at least one. It is not worth it anymore imo because of all those reasons.
I mean, I don't think that it is because I have changed, I think that it is more because gaming has changed.
And another reason is that I want to keep playing Skyrim (and keep replaying other games too on top of that) and Skyrim is very time consuming... I mean I think that I probably could still manage this if modern videogaming was still worth it, but in this situation well this is just another good reason to not follow new videogames anymore. I prefer to spend my gaming time that I don't spend with Skyrim with other videogames that I already know that I like rather than trying new stuff searching for hidden gems very well hidden inside an ocean made of stuff that is either bad or just not for me anyway.
*the fact that indie games can be very good and even better than AAA games is, in fact, a big problem because the consequence is what I explained... this is the reason why it is so much more hard to find a good game now.
In the past in the very long era of Killer Applications you just had to almost blindly buy every killer application that looked promising for your taste and 95% of the times your purchase was an absolutely great choice, guaranteed, you were mathematically sure that in just a few months your library for any system would have been at least very satisfying, if not absolutely exciting. Now that indies have taken the polace of Killer Applications this does not happen anymore it is so hard to find something good because the output is just too much and it is impossible to manage it in a self aware way. You can only pick whatever you find and pray that it is at least decent. I really don't like this. Back then was so much better and so much more "safe".
31 is not old. I'm 39 and I feel old. You're young.
You begin to understand a "new" game isn't better just because it is new. I go back and play all kinds of older games. Most new games ruin the gameplay by pushing graphics too far and the controls end up poop. Game ends up struggling with the controls rather than living in another world.
I mean, a lot of games for me just look like a reskin of a whole bunch of other games I've played.
And I guess that dopamine doesn't quite rush as much as it does in the teen years.
Imagine a sandwich, instead of taking a tiny bite to feel the taste you go all in until its done.
As said, when people get older, things change. Priorities, preferences, time, interests, etc. It's always possible that you shift away from the things you always did and enjoyed. That's something entirely normal.
Don't force yourself on things, just try other things. Other genres, other hobbies, sports, etc. If you come back to gaming, it's ok. If not, also ok.