Am I to Picky? Gaming got boring? Trashgames?

[Tapy]

So ... im at the point where i am tired of playing the same games over and over again (at the moment those games where like PUBG, EFT etc. ) .

I was browsing the steam sale page again in hope to find a new game to play with my friends but guess what... i skipped over 60 Sites of "sales" with not ONE single game that im really interested in.

Is it only me ? Am i too picky? Or is gaming getting more and more "boring"?

I remember, when i was younger and was playing on consoles instead of PC back in the days, there where so many games that i was actually HYPED for , checking for news thousands of times each day, pre ordering games and so one... what happened?

One of my m8´s has the same feeling he told me, we feel like there is no games coming out anymore which is acutally amazing us...Its like there is no "wow effect" , no point of getting really addicted to games anymore.

We bought some games this week, but in the end we didnt kept ONE of it, we had to refund all of them, because they werent really giving us fun....

Whenever I browse in the Steamstore i catch myself everytime thinking " who the ♥♥♥♥ is playing TRASH like this?!" The steamstore is full of games that IMHO NO ONE is gonna be playing for real...

Im wondering if anyone else is feeling like that?

[RoguelikeMike]

I suffer from this too. I've played every kind of game, and I've liked a lot of games, but the ones I do like don't seem to be made very often, or very well.

Growing up, FPS games were single player experiences. Now, they're multiplayer. No longer are you a bullet sponge dealing out mayhem, you're a realistic human being that has to hide and cower in fear if they get shot. Ah, hiding in my FPS games, it feels so wrong, because it is....

Where are my Command and Conquers? My real time strategy games? (good ones) Where are the MMORPGs like EverQuest? Why do companies still keep spending millions on making yet-another-WoW-clone? Where are the open world isometric adventure games?! Fallout, Zelda? Where are the turn based RPGs? It used to be like a tropical rainstorm of them, but now its a drought.

Yes, I know about Pantheon. Yes, I've heard about the trickle of turn based RPGs. Yes, I've seen the Russian Fallout clones and the mobile-phone-quality Zelda clones.

There just aren't enough good, original games coming out anymore. Too many are making games to make money, instead of making money because they made a great game.

Y'know what? Too? Too many are making games to be pretty art spectacles. I don't want an art spectacle. I want a fun game. Not to look at, hear, or read, but to play.

[RoguelikeMike]

Kargor の投稿を引用：

Riedy の投稿を引用：

In the end, you just need to understand why you like the games you do like and try to find games similiar to it.

That's not the bestest idea in the long run, though.

Every once in a while, somebody starts complaining about "no new games", "all games are pretty much the same" etc. You go to their profile, and you find they play about 3 types of games: multiplayer PvP shooters, multiplayer PvP shooters, and, every once in a while, a multiplayer PvP shooter to spice things up a little.

If things are getting boring, chances are people should be trying something else, rather than "more of the same".

In other cases, accounts are just full of the ever same collection of games, like a "big name" collection. Again, maybe, just maybe, "the crowd" isn't always the best advice when it comes to personal likes and dislikes.

Try out things. Yes, there are things I haven't touched (like those aforementioned PvP shooters), but with "crazy sales" all the time, I've picked up a lot of games that I probably would not have considered playing a few years ago.

This isn't a very good way to determine what someone has played. Believe it or not, games existed before steam, so if you judge them based on their steam history, you won't get the full picture.

I had played and owned games on:

Atari
NES
SNES
PC (and believe it or not, other game services existed before steam)
SEGA GENESIS
Playstation (1)
Playstation 2
Gameboy
Nintendo DS
Nintendo 3DS
Playstation 3
Xbox 360
PSP
PS Vita
PS4
Xbox One

So yeah, my top games on steam, despite being here for years and years, are Fallout 4 and Dark Souls games, and The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. You ... wouldn't get a very complete picture of my likes by just judging me based on my steam games. I own a lot, play very little of most of them. (most of them are terrible games I bought on sale.... because... desperation)

[seungwan]

Daaaamn, had this same feeling right until now. I thought I was getting old (but i really am lol), but i still want to play games. But i'm kind of tired of playing them, y'know that feeling?

I love playing Skyrim back then, i play for hours and hours day and night. I tried to play it again because i already forgot some parts of it, so that kinda encourage me to play again. It was fun at first 2 days, but it gets boring. Same for other games, like PUBG. I was excited to play it for the first time, but after playing 10 games, it gets boring (for me tho).

The only game i enjoyed playing right at this age is Life is Strange. So i guess i was looking for feels, story/plot driven games like Life is Strange.

[Crazy Tiger]

I think it's more that when you grow older, you change and that also reflects the way you practise your hobbies. There are games I can still play hours, but others I just can't. I mean, I grew up with Championship Manager (which later became Football Manager). I could play it whole weekends, but now I can't even play it for an hour before I'm bored with it.

But I play so many genres nowadays that I can easily find a different game to dive in. A few years ago I got an Ipad and I found so many great board- and cardgames. That category of games has become the mostly played for me and I love it. Whenever I can't get into a "bigger" game, I fire up Sentinels of the Multiverse, Solar Settlers, Ascension, Pathfinder: Adventures or Meteorfall and I'm happy.

[Ganger]

Games are better than ever before, I have been gaming for 40 years and seen how games have moved forward from the late 70s to now and it's only improving year by year in terms of graphics, gameplay and quailty all round. Maybe you should try other places as well as steam for your gaming choices, origin, uplay, epic, gog but name a few have some really good games too.

[Tapy]

bitchlasagna の投稿を引用：

Daaaamn, had this same feeling right until now. I thought I was getting old (but i really am lol), but i still want to play games. But i'm kind of tired of playing them, y'know that feeling?

I love playing Skyrim back then, i play for hours and hours day and night. I tried to play it again because i already forgot some parts of it, so that kinda encourage me to play again. It was fun at first 2 days, but it gets boring. Same for other games, like PUBG. I was excited to play it for the first time, but after playing 10 games, it gets boring (for me tho).

The only game i enjoyed playing right at this age is Life is Strange. So i guess i was looking for feels, story/plot driven games like Life is Strange.

Yeah exactly this :P same for me with playing games which i enjoyed at the time they had released! good example: Dead Island, when it was about to be released i was soooo hyped, i looked up for news , screenshots etc. everyday , i played it a lot on my 360 back then... now as it got on steam in germany this year (was banned in germany due to youth protection) my mate and me bought it to play Coop, well .... we endet up refunding it, it was just not fun anymore for some reason ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Muppet among Puppets]

It wasnt banned, you just couldnt buy it in german stores.

Is the new version not as good as the old?

[Tapy]

Muppet among Puppets の投稿を引用：

It wasnt banned, you just couldnt buy it in german stores.

-yes i meant it like this, used the wrong words tho :P

Is the new version not as good as the old?

- i would say no, felt like the same version.

[Priceadon]

2019 gaming has been a lot like 2018 gaming.... a big fat yawn with a small number of exceptions. gaming is dead for now. If people stop praising ♥♥♥♥ games and paying to test games ie early access then games will start to eventually get good again.