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I don’t find video games much fun anymore

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fallacy:

--- Quote ---? And really when it's all said and done, when I mastered the game, unlocked all the achievements, and schooled all the n00bs - what's left? A bored man, on a coach holding a plastic toy. Face it, you didn't get bored of games, you just found more meaning to life. Consider it a solid indication that you're doing something right.
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LOL but I am still board. The only difference now is I don't have video games to help me with that  :P

lokesen:
I'm 31 too and I know what you mean...

But after a few years of gaming fatigue, I turned my attention towards indie games and discovered Braid, Super Meat Boy and Machinarium. Now I high quality games can actually still be made and it is not my age or taste that has changed, just the creativity of most commercial games.

drventure:
For me anyway, the games are kind of secondary. They're fun, but most times, I don't even play a full credit's worth of lives. But I enjoy the hell out of building on my cab, coming up with new ideas, surfing other people's projects to see what kind of creative things people are doing, and scrounging through junk shops and garage sales for parts.

Donkbaca:
There are a couple of reasons I can think of.  First the classic games are pushing 30, heck even the games from the fighter resurgence of the 90s arcade scene are nearing 20 years old. That is just a long time to be playing anything, especially for games that were really designed to be played for a few minutes at a time.  
I am in love with gamin at the moment with the release of
SSFIV, MvC3, NBA jam and the Mortal Kombat. But these will dissapoint because the nature of gaming has changed. Those games were fun partly because of the arcade experience of plunking your quarter down and facing off. Now the closest we get is XBL, and it's just not the same.

Gaming was a big part of my youth, all the way through college, and a big part of the fun was gaming with friends. That was part of the reason for me getting g an xbox, to play online with all my buddies that moved away, but it's just too hard, we are too busy.

The nature if games has changed too, they are too long.  I don't have 60 spare hours to put into a game. It used to be you could get a good game and beat it in a day. There was something cool about that. Now that is impossible, and I think games suffer by trying to make them too big and too long. The new thing is non-linear gaming and open world, which is fun, to a point.  Eventually you get bored because the story isn't as important and you kinda start thinking, what's the point ? Also I get maybe 4 hours a week, tops for gaming.  If I get an 80 hour game that's 20 weeks to beat it at least. That's 6 months. No way I remember what happened in a game 6 months ago.

The last epic gaming experience I had was the first metal gear solid. Got it the day it came out and played it all day with a buddy until we beat it. That experience is impossible today.

Controls have gotten too complicated too, and for no reason. It's like game companies feel obligated to use as many buttons as possible. Take the new NBA jam. All you need is three buttons for the game, but you can use every button in the controller. For offense and defense, turbo is the same, block/shoot is the same, but pass and steal are different buttons. Oh, and you can't reassign buttons. Stupid.

*edited to repair sleepiness*

leapinlew:

--- Quote from: Donkbaca on March 29, 2011, 08:37:20 am ---The last epic gaming experience I had was the first metal gear solid. That game was awesome. Got it the

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OMG, the suspense is killing me.

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