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I don’t find video games much fun anymore

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Donkbaca:
Haha, the pokemon games are actually pretty fun.

Anything blizzard makes is pretty amazing. I haven't bought Starcraft II and I am going to try and not buy Diablo III, because I know those woul suck up all my free time for months...

Gray_Area:
I hear this echo....some phrase about....being high maintenance.

Generic Eric:
*walks up to podium*

Hi, my name is Eric.  I am 33...and I like video games...I like arcade games, tiny plastic guitars, just dance and pinball machines.

This thread has an AA feeling to it.

I have 2 kids, married and my mother in law stays with us.  When I play video games, I make them count.  Same with steaks & beer.  Obviously, I don't have 2 or more hours to spend on video games, but I make sure I enjoy myself when I do get a chance.   Its not about playing what everyone else is playing, its about having a good time.

There are so many more opportunities for us nowadays, that everyone should be able to find a game they enjoy.
 
I hope everyone enjoys themselves no matter what they play.   


...there is something to be said about the "sameness" of games.  There are definitely trends, but if you take a chance on a "different" game you might be pleasantly surprised.

DNA Dan:
I think a part of what makes games from the 80's so timeless is they were the pioneers of a new technology. No matter how many times Nintendo exploits the Donkey Kong or Mario franchises, there's nothing like playing the originals. They are in a class all by themselves. I just don't see those games ever getting boring for me.

bobotech:
I grew up with video games starting off with my Telstar that I got in 76 xmas.  I have been with them ever since.  I am 42 now.

There was a dry period in my life with video games.  I lost interest in video games when the fighters hit the map.  I saw no interest in Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat at the arcades and pretty much quit going to any sort of arcade around the early 90s.  I just was such a lousy player at them that they didn't make me want to play them.  I didnt' get the whole fighter scene at all.

So the '90s were my dry spell.  Granted I had an NES and a few games and then a Genesis with my ex-wife but we had a kid and the systems sort of stayed in the background.

I did get a PS1 for the kids around 1997.

The part that really rekindled my interest was Mame.  I discovered Mame when it was really new.  I think it was around 97 or so.  I LOVED it.  I could play the classic games.  The other thing that rekindled my interest was thrift stores.  I discovered I could buy almost EVERYTHING that I wanted so dearly as a pre-teen and teen for pennies.  I started amassing a large collection of old game/systems/comptuers/etc.  I still ahve all that stuff but the thrifts really started drying up badly by around 2005-2006.  Now i'm lucky to find a decent game or two in all my forays.  

The odd thing was that I rarely played those classic games. I turned into a collector rather than a player.  I was in love with the idea of having the collection rather than the collection of games themselves.  I still didn't play all that much except I would fire up mame once in a while and play and have fun.

I did buy a used dreamcast a few years later and did enjoy playing games on it.  I had a lot of fun on that system.  We then got a PS2 but I rarely ever touched it, it was the kids.  Got an xbox around the same time and same thing, I rarely touched it.  

Then about 3 years ago, I bought my first 360.  I actually started having fun with some of the games.  It was stilll mainly for the kids but I did really enjoy the racing games. I have always been a fan of arcade racing games but have always never found what I was looking for.   however I discovered Burnout Revenge and Burnout Paradise.  I LOVE those games.  I played those frequently and ended up getting the other burnouts for my PS2 and enjoyed them as well.  Oddly enough, one of my favorites was a thrift store find of Outrun 2 for the xbox 1.  That game is arcade racing bliss as far as I'm concernred.

But the odd thing is that about a couple of months ago, I was at an auction and bought a few 360 games for 15 dollars including Street Fighter IV.  I told my buddy about it and he was so excited.  He was a huge fighting fan during their hayday in the '90s.  We started playign it and he started teaching me the finer points which made me acutally enjoy the games.  I got to the point where I had to build an arcade stick because I really was dissatisfied with the stock controller.  That made a world of difference for me.    

One thign about console gaming.  I hate paying full price for new games. I am ususally two or so years behind the curve and then I buy used games as cheap as possible.  For example, i bought 3 games over the weekend.  Need for Speed: Hot Prusuit, Fallout: New Vegas, and Red Dead Redemption each for 10 dollars from some desperate guy on craigslist.  I do not like paying almost 60 bux for each game.

I never did get much into the FPS genre except on the computer with Halflife and its relations.  I just can't handle using the twin analog stick of a video game controller inplace of the wasd/mouse combo.  

So my interest waxes and wanes.  Right now its at a high point but probably in a few months, I will rediscover R/c trucks and and lose interest in video games but for now, I have been playing a lot of video games lately.  

Don't really know if there is much point to my post other than it shows that interests go up and down.  One thing I do know for sure, the over saturation of video games sure has made playing games not a big deal experience that it was when we were kids going over to friend's houses to play atari.  I miss those days.

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