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Le Chuck:
The violence is fake but the profanity is real.  I understand. 

mimic:
What I am really asking is if you feel, like you are almost back to school, as if you have to learn something you don't need. Like with old folks when they're faced with a DVR vs their old trusty VCR. For example every time I play new game and I am configuring my keys and I see something like GTA IV on foot, airplane, car, etc menus, I almost don't want to play. I will configure half and then I keep on reconfiguring as I progress. But I'm not 70/80 yet. Will I want to play games then, or is this the end of the road?

But the worst are the CHOICES, that's where the old people syndrome really kicks in. Again Batman (or God of War series, etc), is the perfect example. When you are at the upgrade screen, that's where I'm staring at the screen and reading and I don't know which upgrade I should go with first! Or like in God of War series the list of all the combos, should I go with this one or that one first, that's what gets me! Should I buy/get this one 1st or that one. All I want is that one PERFECT game that will wrap it all. Then I read the reviews or comments of kids, and they all claiming they played the same game 15 times! On different dificulty levels, etc. Or bragging they invested 400h into skyrim (dont even start with me on RPGs and their choices!) But after completing a game I have no interest in replaying it again AT ALL! Yet I can play Centipede over and over? THERE IS NO CHOICES!

Does that mean I have problem making decisions in life or just in game!? Is anyone else experience this? Or am I ALONE!?

OMG! I need to make an appointment with a doctor... wait better yet psychiatrist! Why are those bugs crawling all over me!!! Where are my arthritis pills!!!!.... wait, wait, I'm not 80 yet!

EDIT: After re-reading others post it seems as some people share my issue with combos being a chore, but how about "them" choices, are you guys bothered with too much? After all I hardly finished any arcade game, unlike many PC, and yet that does not bother me?

RandyT:

--- Quote from: mimic on August 21, 2012, 10:46:48 pm ---Is anyone else experience this? Or am I ALONE!?[/u]

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You are not alone, but it may or may not have anything to do with where you are in life.  There have always been games where part of the gameplay meant learning to traverse menus, buying stuff to upgrade equipment, maps, etc...  It's probably more a factor of whether you enjoy doing this kind of thing.  Personally, I never really cared for it much, and now, with all the extra processing power and teams of folks working on titles, they have been able to expand on the concept to the nth degree.  The first title I saw with this kind of madness was Borderlands.  My nephew was kicking through the menus, explaining all of the "cool" stuff he was doing, and I just sat there thinking "there's no way in hell I'm going to put in the time this is going to take to learn all of that".  It's not that I can't, but it's difficult for me to find the value in the investment, just to play another FPS.

You may just be becoming more of a pragmatist with regard to your available time.  Or maybe, becoming more of a pragmatist in that regard is a natural occurrence in the aging process, in which case, both would be true   ;D

But don't worry about it.  If you really want to play the game, you'll put in the effort, and if not, there are plenty of other good titles out there which don't require it.

MaxVolume:

I have to add that I agree with the point regarding "reboots" or updates of classic titles, but unfortunately they're not always done well.  Most of the ones that get all the way through the development process have been done well, but some make me wonder how they got that far.  There are some like Pitfall, Defender and Spy Hunter that are horrible, either because it was just a mediocre game that got branded with a classic title to sell more units, or because I'm just not into that particular genre unless it's a dirt simple "stick figure" deal where I can play for five minutes and then move on to something else.  I also hated what they did to Breakout, and I think they just took it in the wrong direction.  I was surprised at that, because I really enjoyed the update of PONG... guess they didn't want to make Breakout too close to that and killed the game in the process.  Either that or it's just me.

On the plus side, updates of Q*bert (even as early as Q*Bert 3), Centipede, Space Invaders, Galaga, Tempest, Xevious, PAC-MAN, Robotron, and even Missile Command have been pretty good.  The three Space Invaders titles for the DS are particularly good, especially the AWESOME Space Invaders Extreme 2.  I can't say I play them regularly, but most kept what was good about the original game even though they added a lot to it.  The update of Frogger was good, but the later games lost me.  A lot of that is probably because they were aimed at younger kids, but even early stuff like Frogger II: Threedeep! seemed to lack the fun of the original.  I also like Dig Dug Deeper and COMBAT, but others like Dig Dug Digging Strike didn't really do it for me.  Mostly personal preference I guess... just depends on what you want out of the gaming experience.

Mat:
I don't like complicated control schemes but it's not due to age.  I thought a lot of PS1 and PS2 games were too complicated back when I was a teenager.  I've always preferred simple games I can pickup and just play.

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