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Maybe it was because I was younger but gaming always seemed more exciting. I had an Amiga 500 and can still imagine the Team 17, Gremlin etc logo screens, music from classics like Cannon fodder and Shadow of the beast. So many great games - Dizzy, Sensible soccer, Superfrog, James Pond, Chaos Engine, Whizzball, Nebulus...

Streets of rage, Golden Axe and Sonic on megadrive, Mario Kart and Donkey Kong on SNES, Alex Kidd on NES...the list goes on

I bought a snes a few months back and completed Donkey Kong country again after many years, also had many games of Street fighter 2 and Mario Kart. I have since sold it on because it kept crashing and needing me to blow on the carts

Is gaming just more boring as I am now 25 instead of 10 or were games better "back in the day" ?
 
I'm 25 next month. I've hardly played a game since I split with my ex 2 months ago and I've been out and about quite a lot instead. I'm finding gaming more of a chore. It's quite refreshing to not rely on it and go Outside™ but no doubt I might end up getting into old habits of playing for the sake of it.

I might pick up some of those older games, especially Sensible Soccer. I played that religously during the 94 world cup and was pretty good at it.
 
I know what you mean. I feel the same about offline and online play. Most of the time I just don't have any motivation to play single player campaigns, i'd much prefer to play online with my friends.

Don't know how I coped back in the day with the PS2 where not once did I play online!
 
I think its mainly because of the lack of innovation in games atm , so much has already be done before its hard to get excited about the next game untill something that comes along with some fresh ideas
 
I think games were much better and more fun back in the late 80s/early 90s. You had a vast arry of game genres to choose from and many smaller developers.

Developers seemed to concentrate more on the game play/design aspects to keep us entertained.

Now most games seem to be FPS's using the same engine as the one before. They also like to milk the same IPs too much. Give me the Amiga and its software library :)
 
part of the reason i think is, most modern games are just minor improvements on games previously. there is nothing really new being made, not like in the 80s and 90s. so when we play modern games we are just not that excited by them - we've played them before. new technology will remedy this, this is what happened with art and music (with the advent to photography in arts case and electricity in musics case) - this stopped the forms going stale. until that new technology game developers are just going to have to work harder and harder to keep the consumer entertained.
 
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I know what you mean. I feel the same about offline and online play. Most of the time I just don't have any motivation to play single player campaigns, i'd much prefer to play online with my friends.

Don't know how I coped back in the day with the PS2 where not once did I play online!
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Same for me too. I can't be bothered with single player games anymore. I too owned an Amiga, and I loved it so much. Loved all the games mentioned by Guest2, especially Sensible Soccer. My friends and I couldn't get enough of it. After that had a SNES, which was fantasitc. Then the PSX, then PS2. All of which I played no end of 1 player games. A few years ago though, I found myself less interested in story based games. I used to love final Fantasy, now I would find it a chore to play. I too like Guest2, ask the question, are games not as good as they once where? I think it's a mixture of various things. Games are more complex than they used to be, which suits some people, not others I guess. What we like changes with age, I think that plays a part.

The only time I play games now are with friends online, if they aren't on, I don't bother. Playing a game alone, seems some how pointless now.
 
a lot of the stuff is the same cause the big players arnt gunna risk too much in bad times financially.

take mw2 absolute pure remake and worse but sold gazillions. so why should they change pump endless bucks into something that is basically making them hundreds of millions.

for the last few days me and about 50 others have been talking to avalanche in a chat room and how refreshing it is to have a games company actually listen to you and ask what you want and tell you what there doing every step. good or bad.


this is what made pc gaming good. communities and innovation which is sadly lacking at the moment.
 
Someone needs to come up with a completely new gaming genre I think. I am starting to find FPS a chore now, even Bad Company 2. As good as it is its just "same as" The same applys to any Racing game and most other genres

Starcraft 2 has great balance and gameplay and is the only thing I am currently playing

What we need is maybe a new technology like VR where we can be inside the game
 
I still get excited by games, whether it's an epic kill streak on BC2 or a tough SP game, but I do have less patience with them than I used to. I know that I have far less time for slow or SP games, and tend to steer towards driving or fps games because they hold my attention better. I think I've come to expect more from games, and the fact that I can access them nearly instantly through steam etc makes me care less about games when I buy them, whereas I would've given them more time in the past. There are some great games out there, and as much as there are a lot of dumbed down console ports going, I think we've changed more than the level of innovation.
 
Nowadays, the games are far better than they used to be. :)

I think the problem is that the games have plateaued, as there is less of a Wow!-factor, year on year. A game like Bioshock amazed me, but Bioshock 2 bored me silly in just a couple of hours, and I never went back to it. There are still games like L4D2 and Dragon Age (for example) that get my gaming juices flowing, but it doesn't help that I have much more money than I used to, and buy more games, some of which are total disappointments. (When I was younger and poorer, I would do more research, and only get the good ones).
 
Gaming is the best it has ever been, although I possibly don't get as excited by it as I used to.
I think part of it is that when you get older, you have access to more forms of entertainment. When you are a kid basically what was there to do, watch terrestrial TV, read a book, or play computer games. Whereas nowadays there is the internet, you have loads of money to spend on whatever you want, are allowed to drink alcohol, fornicate etc.
 
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I think Hangtime's pretty much spot on, I used to play Gran Turismo religiously, hardly play it at all now. I do still play PC games, getting into online gaming too now, much more challenging (new games are too easy!). I don't think I'd play a console much at all though, not anymore, only for the odd game of Wii sports resort or something! I'm 21 (going on 31!).
 
i dont seem to enjoy getting a new game like i did when i was younger, i think its because now by the time the game is out i have already seen a lot of gameplay on the internet

back in the early 90's i would get games based on the cover and have to go along the shelf looking at boxart and reading the back of the boxes to try and figure out if i would like it or not
 
The games back then were all about the playability. The simplest of ideas are often the most brilliant. Games today are more about aesthetics than realtive playability I feel. What I mean is they spend a lot of time perfecting the look of a game thus neglecting the actual gameplay iteslf.

A lot of the big studios are all about profit and dividends for the shareholders. It is hard for developers to be creative in environment where the pressure is on them to deliver. The easy option the just to rehash the old proven reilables. You have to look to some of the indie developers or small studios for innovative games that will "Excite" you.

Just my two cents.
 
Kev_19 said:
The games back then were all about the playability. The simplest of ideas are often the most brilliant. Games today are more about aesthetics than realtive playability I feel. What I mean is they spend a lot of time perfecting the look of a game thus neglecting the actual gameplay iteslf.

A lot of the big studios are all about profit and dividends for the shareholders. It is hard for developers to be creative in environment where the pressure is on them to deliver. The easy option the just to rehash the old proven reilables. You have to look to some of the indie developers or small studios for innovative games that will "Excite" you.

Just my two cents.
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This for me.

If someone asked me are the games today actually more fun than the games I played almost 30 years ago, I'd have to say no.

If someone asked me are the games today better looking than the games I played almost 30 years ago, I'd have to say yes.

Sadly I find that so much time is spent on making surfaces look shiny, explosions have slow-mo particle effects, water reflect and shadows dynamically move that an equal amount of time isnt spent on gameplay and replayability. All kind of ends up with games that cost £35 and are completed 7 hours after you buy them.

But for the original posts questions..no...I have to admit that I just am not excited anymore by the games that are around , or even the games that are due. Diablo 3 is probably the one that I am most interested in, maybe Civ 5 too, but even with those I find that I am just not as interested as in the past. Perhaps its just that I have now got to a point where I have seen it all before.
 
The fact is, back in the days of the Super Nintendo, SEGA, N64, PC etc, the games that were released were amazing. I think in the modern day, games are more about their graphics than the gameplay and storyline compared to in the past.

You had pretty poor graphics in the past, but the storyline made up for it, and the graphics seemed to link well with the atmosphere of the game, like in Jedi Knight Dark Forces 2 and Mysteries of the Sith. It's taken the opposite now in my opinion but i also think people are running out of ideas.
 
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