Current Events > Anyone else kinda "over" video games?

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I mean there's still older games I like and I try to play them in my increasingly spare time. But I just look at new games and just feel kind of empty. Nothing exciting happens in video games anymore.

Over the prices of new games. Still play a lot of 90's garbage though. It's a part of my lifestyle at this point.

I basically skipped the X1/PS4 generation, other than buying the Zelda Wii U
Skipping the PS5/XS generation as well, I guess, since Switch "doesn't count!" for some reason.

That's because the last ground breaking video game was Minecraft in 2011.

Games these days are all just reskins, fresh coat of paint. Shooting games are all the same, 3rd person action games are all the same, fighting games are all the same.

The only difference are the setting and stories.

just been playing backlog and older titles. waiting for totk, dd2, incubus & the last crown blackenrock.

going through gothic series rn. on chapter 4 of gothic 1 almost at chapter 5 but i want to finish some treasure hunt side quest. playing as a mage which i find pretty fun even tho its repetitive. just kite around and freeze enemies + wind/fire blast. i read that gothic 2's mage is super gimped in the beginning and takes like 5 hours to even start casting stuff and then a lot of prep to get a decent enough mana but im looking forward to that so much.

Cobra1010 posted...

Games these days are all just reskins, fresh coat of paint. Shooting games are all the same, 3rd person action games are all the same, fighting games are all the same.

Obligatory Penny Arcade, from over twenty years ago.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/6/6/AAEhCpAAESeq.jpg

Back then the nerdy thing was to like video games. Nowadays the nerdy thing is to dislike video games. Just saiyan

Gaming becomes increasingly stupid the older you get.

I think the last 5 digital purchases I've made are old games.

tommybel89 posted...

Gaming becomes increasingly stupid the older you get.

This is true, and I grew up at the very dawn of videogames (late 70s), give or take Spacewar.
The quarter-eaters were pretty stupid, but now it's getting maliciously so.

Damn_Underscore posted...

Back then the nerdy thing was to like video games. Nowadays the nerdy thing is to dislike video games. Just saiyan

This probably sounds strange but I'm not sure kids today can really appreciate games in the same way people did in the generations before. The culture was different so the games were different too. There's too many other sources of instant gratification and media drip-feed to really want to get lost in a video game. At least that's been what I've observed of kids who "game" these days.

Cobra1010 posted...

That's because the last ground breaking video game was Minecraft in 2011.

Games these days are all just reskins, fresh coat of paint. Shooting games are all the same, 3rd person action games are all the same, fighting games are all the same.

The only difference are the setting and stories.

I sure hope you don't consume any art at all, since we pretty much used up all the true originality decades before anyone even had superhero movies and the like to cry about. People have mostly been creating nothing but variations for longer than most of us have been alive.

Sorta

These hyper realistic looking games coming out these days just don't interest me anymore. For me, I'd just rather watch a movie at that point. The only thing I play really nowadays is retro stuff, Nintendo games (lot of Smash/Kart), or stuff with a retro look/feel. I do have a soft spot for Gears of War, but that's the only one in that vein really.

Maybe for new releases, can't be hyped for broken products.

I just don't give a shit anymore.
Metroid 5 finally happened last year or the year before, and I hated it.

Yet, here I am fucking around in Metroid Prime all over again, not really doing anything.

Could just be old but Ive been over gaming since the model became:
Safe formula but with a time crunch for devs so its barely held together with no passion while the world moves onto the next cashgrab a week later.

I cycle through nes-ps2 era nostalgia with indie games and Pokmon projects.

Krojen posted...

I cycle through nes-ps2 era nostalgia with indie games and Pokmon projects.

Same, but 2600-Wii

I had that feeling until I played Sekiro, and learned the reason I was feeling that way was because too many modern single player games are too easy. There's no threat of you ever losing so it's more like watching a movie than playing a game.

Nope

Squall28 posted...

There's no threat of you ever losing so it's more like watching a movie than playing a game.

Don Bluth proved this wrong in 1983, when Dragon's Lair was playing a videogame and watching a movie at the same time, and losing cost you an entire dollar.

Honestly, what Don Bluth did in 1983, is exactly what's wrong with video games forty years later. It's all presentation and no substance.

You like retro games, yet you don't think new games are interesting despite all the great action-platformers, shoot em ups, and beat em ups that have released since the PS4's release?

Trust me. I think AAA games are straight trash; a bunch a retreaded ideas, nothing remotely challenging or novel, and loads of time spent on everything except something that requires what little skill the actual gameplay requires. And I've still been very pleased with what last generation has offered and continues to offer. Don't really see the point in the current generation. Seems almost every new game that comes up that looks interesting can be played on the PS4.

I still play a ton but I only play maybe 1 or 2 new games a year. Some recent years it's been 0. The majority of games that I play are replays and the rest are games that are just new to me but not newly released.

Brave Dungeon is the greatest JRPG there has ever been, and that's a 2017 game
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/brave-dungeon-plus-dark-witch-story-combat-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/brave-dungeon-3ds/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1712820/Brave_Dungeon__Dark_Witchs_Story__Combat/

Questionmarktarius posted...

Same, but 2600-Wii

Id add Wii to the rotation if I had an easier way of playing it. Similar problem with a few DS titles.

Im sick of video games trying to make me feel emotions with their C-tier stories

just do the gameplay and leave the cinematic bullshit to actual movies

looking at you PlayStation exclusives

Turtlebread posted...

Im sick of video games trying to make me feel emotions with their C-tier stories

So I see you are a Disgaea fan.

"You are having EMOTION now!" just gives concussions from the severe facepalms. Disgaea subverts that shit.

Turtlebread posted...

Im sick of video games trying to make me feel emotions with their C-tier stories

I remember taking a break from a several year absence of viewing trailers for AAA games to watch a montage during some con. Every second of every trailer was cinematic. AAA gaming is dead.

I find myself trudging through a lot of crap to find gems, but the payoff is worth it when you find a real special game in this modern era of gaming. Mostly indies.

MabusIncarnate posted...

but the payoff is worth it when you find a real special game in this modern era of gaming.

so... Brave Dungeon?

Just play what you want for exactly how long you want. You don't need to beat a game to enjoy a game

with the exception of an intense obsession with TABS for a few months, i otherwise haven't bought a new video game since 2006 unless it was gifted to me; tend to just play old games

How can you be sick of Assassin's Creed TC? Don't you want to play the new one?

J/k of course. Yeah modern AAA gaming with the few gems here and there every few years etc fucking sucks ass today

Turtlebread posted...

Im sick of video games trying to make me feel emotions with their C-tier stories

just do the gameplay and leave the cinematic bullshit to actual movies

looking at you PlayStation exclusives

Amen, 100% agree

For the most part.

There's still a few that interest me, but they gotta have either addictive features or something that'll hook me like reasonably good rpg mechanics.

I pretty much can't stand first person shooters or racers anymore, so tactical/rpg style games have taken their place. On the other hand they sometimes get out of control with complexity and stats.

This is probably why at one point for several months one of my most played games was tran sim world, not because it's riveting action, but because there's so little input physical input allowing you to just chill. Meanwhile there was that satisfaction of doing it correctly.

One issue is that I've basically thrashed my right index knuckle/tendon over time, so using a mouse/controller hurts a bit now.

That said I do still like some, but it's hard to woo me like they used to.

I dont play video games as much as I used to. I spend more time exercising or reading books than I do playing video games these days. Many of the newer ones just dont catch my attention anymore.

If anything I'm over most "modern" video games. So many these days are all style but little to no substance.

There's so many instances nowadays where I find myself asking "why didn't they just make this a movie?" which is something that was pretty much never said back in the NES, SNES, etc eras.

Listening to the music from the Atelier series and it's making want to buy the games. I can't hold all these games man.

Nope, because Im not jaded.

Nah. Still love it.

I have to do a lot of research on a game and be sure it's one that I will get a lot out of if I spend time with it. As an adult, I don't have time to play games that aren't 10/10.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Don Bluth proved this wrong in 1983, when Dragon's Lair was playing a videogame and watching a movie at the same time, and losing cost you an entire dollar.

Honestly, what Don Bluth did in 1983, is exactly what's wrong with video games forty years later. It's all presentation and no substance.

No idea what you're talking about

No, not really.

There are actually quite a few I'd like to play but none can be played around my two children and by the time I'd be able to play them, I'm usually too tired in the evening to care, so I just conk out in the evenings instead.

I still like games but I don't have the energy to play them

The last good year for gaming was 2006. Everything else after that has made me constantly disappointed and angry. I have not found a good post 2006 game.

Yes and no. I don't get many new games anymore like I used to and I just play the same few games I really like over and over until the rare new one I'm actually interested in comes around.

Squall28 posted...

No idea what you're talking about

He's pointing out that everything you hate about modern games was the same in older games. Sans the crippling nostalgia.

My interest tends to fluctuate over time. I'm currently playing 3 different games and have more in mind once I finish the ones I'm playing.

A lot of the time my depression strips any joy out of gaming tho so I fall off when that happens.

ellis123 posted...

He's pointing out that everything you hate about modern games was the same in older games. Sans the crippling nostalgia.

Cherry picking a game doesn't prove a point. Movie type games were so common now that I almost quit. Movie type games were an exception back then.