Poll of the Day > Has your interest in gaming decreased or increased over time?

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I would say 2017 made me get back into it/pay attention. I stopped after 2014 as I was bored to tears/saw no releases to look forward to

It's like on one hand I wouldn't mind selling my PS4 but I am not in a rush to get rid of it
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Decreased greatly, Souls series was the last new IP to get my interest at all.

My interest in gaming have not decreased but the problem is that I usually don't feel like doing it for whatever reason. Even when I'm in the mood for it I still have difficulties to boot something up.

I still read and think about videogames most of the day though.
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KevinceKostner posted...

Decreased greatly, Souls series was the last new IP to get my interest at all.

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LeetCheet posted...

I still read and think about videogames most of the day though.

Me too, which is odd. I have issues booting up games when sober ( I guess I'm getting old) but I want to stay involved/keep current with the industry
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Definitely decreased. Increasing my work hours by about 30-50% doesn't help. And two nights a week of bowling.

KevinceKostner posted...

Decreased greatly, Souls series was the last new IP to get my interest at all.

Pretty much that. I can't think of anything in the past few years that was mind blowing.
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Eh. I still game a lot in my free time, but it's never anything new. I mainly just play MW2 and SSB4. I've been about one console generation behind for some time now. Like I got a Wii U about 6 months before the Switch release, I've been playing PS3/Xbox 360 since around the PS4/XBone came out...

I guess I do have interest in gaming, but not new gaming.
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That depends. My desire to play games alone has decreased, but my desire to play games with family and friends has increased.

still about the same, maybe decreased a littls bit because i lived and breathed gaming as a kid and now i only live gaming
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More like refined rather than decreased. Instead of being excited over every piece of shit I see like when I was a kid, now I am more specific with what games I look into.
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Decreased. Most of them have become just too complicated for me.
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KJ StErOiDs posted...

Decreased. Most of them have become just too complicated for me.

Interesting. A common complaint these days is that games are too easy and there is too much hand-holding.

I will say - Xenoblade Chronicles X had so many stats that, after 100+ hours of gameplay, I still don't know what half of them do. So if you mean that type of complexity, then yeah, I get that.
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My interest in playing new games has definitely decreased, but I still like playing older games I may have missed, as well as the occasional new one. I'd say overall it's probably increased, since the backlog of possible games I might play only just keeps getting bigger and bigger as I can't play through games fast enough to keep up.

Decreased slightly, then ramped right the fuck back up in the last few years.

It's still easily the hobby I spend the most time doing. I just need more free time...
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It fell drastically. I only play one tablet game now.

Pretty much constant, since experimenting with potentiometers to move traces of light around an oscilloscope screen in 1961 to playing mostly portable, PSP, 3DS, Vita now.
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My interest is the same.
My genre is dead.
So I watch, wait and expect little.
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Decreased by so much. Just don't have time to get invested in a good game anymore.
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LeetCheet posted...

My interest in gaming have not decreased but the problem is that I usually don't feel like doing it for whatever reason. Even when I'm in the mood for it I still have difficulties to boot something up.

I still read and think about videogames most of the day though.

This is exactly me
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Pretty constant although the internet and abundance of information available takes away a lot of what made video games fun for me when I was a kid. I kind of miss how everything was learned by word of mouth or by watching your friends/family members play.
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Peterass posted...

I kind of miss how everything was learned by word of mouth or by watching your friends/family members play.

nah I don't miss that at all but completely understand. Perfect example; Mortal Kombat fatalities. I don't miss having to pray I find a magazine/person who knows it in order to figure them out. But at the same time it was awesome when you found both

I personally think games have gotten way more complicated and without the internet we'd probably all be screwed/frustrated (imagine trying to find everything in Pokemon Sun on your own, even if it is hand holdy)
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Junpeiclover posted...

nah I don't miss that at all but completely understand. Perfect example; Mortal Kombat fatalities. I don't miss having to pray I find a magazine/person who knows it in order to figure them out. But at the same time it was awesome when you found both

Haha, I remember in school there was one kid who knew all the MK 1 fatalities by heart and was he was considered a super badass because of this. I had that omg this is aweome moment when I finally learned how to do them
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Muffinz0rz posted...

KJ StErOiDs posted...

Decreased. Most of them have become just too complicated for me.

Interesting. A common complaint these days is that games are too easy and there is too much hand-holding.

I will say - Xenoblade Chronicles X had so many stats that, after 100+ hours of gameplay, I still don't know what half of them do. So if you mean that type of complexity, then yeah, I get that.

By complexity, I mean the crazy amount of capabilities you have in some games today. Not to say that's a bad thing, I just often have trouble remembering the key/key combos to do tasks at that level of immersion.
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My interest hasn't decreased...

Rather, the game can't hold my interest for very long. Even with old titles I used to play. I get distracted easily now...

Another sign of aging I suppose.

I still buy games and there are still some titles I look forward to but...I usually drop it a while after playing it. That, I find troubling. :/
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decreased for sure. i find myself just replaying old games I've already finished a hundred times. Most new games don't really interest me anymore
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DirtBasedSoap posted...

i find myself just replaying old games I've already finished a hundred times.

I do this a lot. It just seems like too much effort sometimes to play a game for the first time.

I wouldn't say decreased but I'm a lot more picky about what I spend my money on.
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Junpeiclover posted...

Has your interest in gaming decreased or increased over time?

Nope. I'm still very much interesting in video games and where gaming is heading. I've however got more smart in the gaming purchases I make. I find very little reason to rush out and buy games on day one anymore due to how broken and cut up a lot of games are these days. There is still the odd exception to that rule though like with Witcher 3, Persona 5 and probably Kingdom Hearts 3 when that comes out. Hell even consoles are starting to fall into that category. Buying day one isn't worth it anymore and with mid gen upgrades being a thing I'm questioning if it's even worth buying the original modes at all. It were different in the past with the slim models as they were just slimmer versions of the original console. Mid gen upgrades beef up the specs a bit more.

Peterass posted...

Pretty constant although the internet and abundance of information available takes away a lot of what made video games fun for me when I was a kid. I kind of miss how everything was learned by word of mouth or by watching your friends/family members play.

I feel the same way but It's not that hard to stay away from info. Perhaps I should avoid reading up on gaming/following news with more games. I already do it with a few that I know are coming and I'll be buying if all goes to plan. Although I will say some research is probably a must with games these days given how DLC is handled and whatnot.
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My interest in RPG games seem to have decreased, I'm more into action games now instead of games where you have to sit through endless dialogue and leveling up a couple levels just so you can beat a boss while waiting your turn just to attack.

My interest in gaming has remained steady. It is my gaming budget that I have to keep an eye on these days.

Not sure, I enjoy them as much, its just that I usually never have the energy or will to play video games.
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It's never been consistent; I'd say my interest has increased and decreased at different times over the years. I've gone through funks where I completely lost interest in gaming and there have been times where I had a lot of stuff going on irl that there was no way I could make time for a game. Currently, I'd say I'm back in to them.

Stayed about the same, but the time I have to devote to gaming has decreased tremendously over the years. I'm lucky if I can get in an hour or two a night.
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Definitely decreased. Even when I want to play, I usually get bored of it quickly.
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Decreased with age. I spend more and more time on 'productive' hobbies like reading non-fiction, writing, learning a language etc. As a kid I could play a game like Runescape for something like 8 hours straight. Now I would feel guilty playing over 2 hours.

It's pretty much remained the same.
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Grendel Prime posted...

Stayed about the same, but the time I have to devote to gaming has decreased tremendously over the years. I'm lucky if I can get in an hour or two a night.

This about summed it up. I used to have multiple consoles hooked up but now I've only been playing ps3 exclusively. Plus, a new game to me is whatever I find for under $10. Right now I'm playing Borderlands 2 and Dead Space.
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spooky96 posted...

Not sure, I enjoy them as much, its just that I usually never have the energy or will to play video games.

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It's always varied. I could go months without playing a game then play something for a whole weekend.
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