What happened to gaming? No game is true fun anymore..

[szatanica]

I was scrolling through the immense list of games I managed to gathered over the years and for some reason (and I've been observing this for many years now) nothing really looks attractive and exciting anymore. Sure, there are so many "amazing" games out there, a lot of indie productions into which developers pulled their hearts and souls but somehow games don't give this "THING" that they used to. These oldies, with really bad graphics had something in them, something which makes me want to go back to them over and over (like first and second Fallout or Discworld Noir from the 90s , Fahrenheit, or first Neverwinter Nights, the list goes on). Like they lost something inherently special.Sure, there are some exquisit exceptions like Papers Please or Papetura or Mass Effect but it's a tiny percentage. The rest is just...meh...

Is it the games or is it us/me?

[ZpiR]

Well, since I had no problem enjoying some of the backlog that came out before this modernization of video games, I don't think it's me.

[Eagle_of_Fire]

引用自 Valkyria：

引用自 skOsH：

Remember split screen games?

Ah, good times. There's like three total on steam

Split Screen is completely worthless in 2024, nobody would really make use of it.
Times changes, we can't live in the past.

100% false. I have been actively looking for such games for years on Steam.

[V3LTA]

引用自 Eagle_of_Fire：

引用自 Valkyria：

Split Screen is completely worthless in 2024, nobody would really make use of it.
Times changes, we can't live in the past.

100% false. I have been actively looking for such games for years on Steam.

do your research, less than 10% of people playing on steam would like a split screen future while some games dont need a split screen.

so yeah thats not nothing

[V3LTA]

引用自 Win7User：

*PVP only content
*No story
*Lousy characters
*Launchers.
*Accounts.
*Moderation.
"Getting banned.
*Toxic communities who won't shut up about American politics.
*In game purchases.
*Buying progress.
*Chopping games up and selling them to us in DLC packages one chunk at a time.
*Remakes that change too much.
*Remakes that change too little.
*Sequels that don't stand up to the quality of the original.
*Mods are a thing of the past.
*Trainers are a thing of the past.
*Hacking is a thing of the past.
*As a white male I can't relate to any games because there's no white males in them.
*PVP requirements.
*Having to play games the way developers want me to play it instead of playing it the way I want to play it.
*We're not the ones deciding if a game is good anymore now random online streamers get to decide what's good.
*Game breaking patches.
*Active development that leads to a different game.
*Upgrading games into their own sequels.
*Taking working games away from people who aren't using the "right" operating system.
*Again too much moderation and not enough freedom of speech... You get a 3-month ban for saying a swear word these days.
*Games are trying to copy each other too much. Every game I see I can classify as a DOTA rip off, or a wow rip off, or a Skyrim ripoff, or a fortnight rip off or whatever.
*They don't make sequels to good games anymore. Now they go by how well it can stream and how will it pvps.
*Soloing and single player are apparently bad words these days.
*Every game tries to be an esport now.
*Games focus too much on multiplayer.
*If SimCity 2000 was released today it would have an internet requirement... Too much internet requirements.
*I've been gaming for 30 years. So at this point every AAA company has ♥♥♥♥♥♥ me over at some point. I have a bad memory with literally every company. I wouldn't give EA money if it would save a thousand children from death, I wouldn't give Bethesda money if it meant Trump not winning the election, I wouldn't give blizzard money if my life depended on it, and even if it meant curing cancer I wouldn't give valve 1 cent.
*Games get released over and over and over again. I think I've bought Doom 20 times by now I've bought Skyrim at least five... Come on make a new freaking game already. In fact didn't steam just again re-release Doom classic?
*My saved game progress is not saved on my computer anymore. So I can't keep it safe back it up or transfer it.
*I know people from Asia aren't going to understand what this means and I know it's going to sound racist but a lot of games are two Asian these days. If you don't know what I'm talking about think Pandaland or OverWatch. I live in the United States I can't really relate to Asian crap.
*App games... Do I really even need to say anything insulting about app games? They're like browser games only a little tiny bit better... Totally and completely unplayable.
*Internet requirements. I know we're living in the future and everything but sometimes power goes out... Sometimes internet goes out. Sometimes servers don't work for no reason. And I don't want to have to authenticate credentials in order to play a game. Because that means my credentials can be blocked.

Want more?

i feel like this is a comment without any sense at all.. just pure hate and anger?

[Mr. White]

i feel like this is a comment without any sense at all.. just pure hate and anger?

If you read it like I did you'll see there's not anything wrong about it, I think they nailed it pretty much.
Gaming mentality these days: Toxic as hell
Companies, bs microtransactions: Toxic as hell
Bad practices, and ignoring customers: Toxic as hell
Moderation bullying people on every forum online: Toxic as hell

Also each is a reality.

[V3LTA]

引用自 Tito Shivan：

引用自 I-Wont-forgive-I-Wont-forget：

I started to play with a "ping pong" console on tv, and later, with my personal computer, I was talking about those games you could buy, really, and sell really, and use as much as you wanted without any manipulative behavioral unfair system behind.

Consider most of those games you could really buy and sell mostly had increased difficulty for the sake of artificially lenghtening the game content.

Those games weren't all that fair back then And we mostly tolerate their flaws out of nostalgia googles.

引用自 TGC> The Games Collector：

If one thing's become completely worthless it's lugging your PC around for LAN.

LAN Parties were the solution to the problem of online gaming being too complicated and clunky at the time. With internet being commonplace these days the need for gathering around a LAN party has diminished.

i never used wifi on my pc, i do play lan with my girlfriend and i know quite a lot of people organizing lan parties too

[Tsubame ⭐]

Personal opinion.

People change. What you liked yesterday you may not like it today, and so on.

Gaming remains fun for a lot of people.

[fRaNtIc]

When it comes to story driven games, I find it harder to get into the story and become immersed these days. I guess it comes with age? But also there is allot of uninspired writing and bad game design out there.

[Volfogg]

I stopped playing games for "fun" long ago, now I just keep playing for the sake of playing. I need that routine.

[inpurpleshadows]

引用自 szatanica：

I was scrolling through the immense list of games I managed to gathered over the years and for some reason (and I've been observing this for many years now) nothing really looks attractive and exciting anymore. Sure, there are so many "amazing" games out there, a lot of indie productions into which developers pulled their hearts and souls but somehow games don't give this "THING" that they used to. These oldies, with really bad graphics had something in them, something which makes me want to go back to them over and over (like first and second Fallout or Discworld Noir from the 90s , Fahrenheit, or first Neverwinter Nights, the list goes on). Like they lost something inherently special.Sure, there are some exquisit exceptions like Papers Please or Papetura or Mass Effect but it's a tiny percentage. The rest is just...meh...

Is it the games or is it us/me?

It's probably both. Your enjoyment of video games is subjective and there are some aspects of modern gaming that don't appeal to some people. There's also the unnecessary inclusion of stuff like microtransactions, loot boxes and over-priced DLC. There's also many AAA gaming companies continuously making soulless cash-grabs with little innovation or unique identity.

Though, gaming is far from "dying" and there still are a ton of new games I love. Most notably, there's Disco Elysium, a game with a fantastic art-style, extremely well-written characters and a narrative where nearly every single decision you make has a massive impact. It was also developed by an independent studio. Speaking of which, a good majority of modern games I consider worth playing were made by indie devs, I'm sure you can find a ton of them on the Steam Store.

[Tito Shivan]

引用自 V3LTA：

i never used wifi on my pc, i do play lan with my girlfriend and i know quite a lot of people organizing lan parties too

They're not toally out of fashion (I still go to some) but the ubiquity of internet has made them way less necessary than they were.

引用自 Tsubame ⭐：

People change. What you liked yesterday you may not like it today, and so on.

Life gets at you, fast.
I like to say I no longer have 'git gud' time. If a game is going to have me spend hours beating a boss, learning a craft system or spendig lengthy amounts of time online I'm probably going to bother little with that game (I most probably won't even buy it)

Games you enjoyed in your 20s may not be that enjoyable in your 40s. And if you don't try to go out of that path to try new things, gaming as a whole can become not that enjoyable altogether.

[Grumpf]

it's called getting old sadge

[Lunduke is the Trump of tech]

the reason gaming isnt fun anymore is steam's fault. Steam controls the entire gaming industry with anti-competitive business practices. And if your game isn't on steam then you will never get any customers. Steam can make rules you must follow as a game developer. You can't even put a lower price on your game in a different store like GOG. If price on steam is $20 then you have to do minimum $20 on GOG as well.

If you want gaming to be fun again then steam must lose their power and stop being anti-competitive. Competetition is key to progress!

[Blitzwing]

引用自 TRUMP FTW：

the reason gaming isnt fun anymore is steam's fault. Steam controls the entire gaming industry with anti-competitive business practices. And if your game isn't on steam then you will never get any customers. Steam can make rules you must follow as a game developer. You can't even put a lower price on your game in a different store like GOG. If price on steam is $20 then you have to do minimum $20 on GOG as well.

If you want gaming to be fun again then steam must lose their power and stop being anti-competitive. Competetition is key to progress!

Well even if we could build a time machine, it would only alter the online store.
30% sounds a lot first, but let's put it into perspective how much it would cost to sell CDs?

Well a lot of people seem to forget that distribution of physical copies is kind of more expensive.

[Blitzwing]

A simple question, if you want to have AAA game today,
do you expect any established company to actually do it?

Surprisingly best games I did recently play, did come from quite small indie teams.