Maybe I am getting too old for gaming

it's not you. it's the industry.

I did not see GTA or Red Dead Redemption on that list. Those should occupy some time until Elder Scrolls VI.

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Maybe I am getting too old for gaming

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DoUrden

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we know

It’s sad. Then you have Horizon Forbidden West and Elden Ring being released within a week.

You need to start playing games that predate your list. Most of those things aren’t even that old.

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I'm surprised it took this long for this thread.

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I'll admit I do kind of miss his weekly key binding rage threads.

Games aren’t supposed to be fun bro


They’re only there to distract you from the fact that you go to the wage cage and pick taxes for 12 hours a day and then go home and have like 2 hours for yourself before you have to sleep and go back

Back in the day you’d go do fun rewarding work at the factory or coal mine for 8 hours and then go get drunk with your boys at the bowling alley before driving your muscle car home to your 5 bedroom house that cost 20k and your not fat wife. And then boomers voted for nafta and ruined it


So yeah just drink your corn syrup and play your vidya and take your ssris millenial

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While I’m sympathetic in the sense that we like a lot of the same games, you need to branch out.

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I'll echo this. The industry has definitely changed for the worse, but there are still plenty of gems. You have look harder and play types of games you normally don't to find them.

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The quality of games has dropped dramatically. I remember in the SNES and N64 era being able to buy most games and they would be pretty good.

It's not an age thing either. I notice kids like my younger cousins are much more critical of games these days than I remember when I was their age.

That said, there are many good games out there. I think the age of the AAA developer is dead.

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I think this is nostalgia talking. Don't get me wrong, I think the industry is in really bad shape, and I have had a huge drop in enthusiasm for the gaming world lately, but the older consoles had a lot of garbage on them, too.

I prefer old games and still have all the old console hardware hooked up to my TV, with Everdrive cartridges with SD cards of full sets of ROMs on them. I sometimes have friends over and we go through it picking random games -- most games are third-rate clones of more popular, well-known games, or they just suck.

The difference in our perception is not age, it's the changing times. In my experience growing up back then, we just didn't have as much room to be that critical, because there really weren't many other entertainment options. Those games didn't need to compete against the web, youtube, twitch, movie streaming, free to play online games, texting friends, etc. etc. for our attention. We else were we going to do, ride bikes? Watch Aladdin on VHS for the 20th time? Nah, we'll give that Mario platformer ripoff with terrible controls and collision detection another try, and hey, maybe we'll warm up to it.

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it's not you. it's the industry.

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This.

Games are now coming out unfinished and/or with paywalls for content that would've been included in games years ago. Games that we wait years for after a great reveal come out sucking like Cyberpunk, Anthem, Battlefield, etc.

Games like Halo aren't playable for hours on end like they used to be because they're supposed to be live service games, yet they take months between content drops.

I've resorted to getting an hour or so in on shooters and then moving to older games like a modded out Skyrim/Fallout