Anyone else losing ALL but a smidge of intrest in gaming ??

[n3crius]

I think this syndrome is just getting old.

You've watched the birth of gaming from the most simplist of forms to the complex beast it is now. You've played every type of genre there is to offer whether they cross genres or not. You've seen a thousand or more game storylines, watched a thousands more cutscenes, taken a thousand and more characters to their death or glory. Gotten hold of a few million items all with different effects, interacted with thousands of npcs, seen a million or more deaths, ressurrected a few hundred people, driven all sorts of vehicles and craft. Seen many different environments (unless you play halo), vastly beautiful structures to the dirtiest backroom toilet and maybe destroyed a few along the way. Donned superpowers, flown, scaled walls, urinated on various things, used various weapons of mass destruction.

For a kid it's all new, but for a majority of the forum, it's not the first time we've seen it. After all that it would take a hell of a game to really impress us through and through. But like someone said, the business is to the masses aswell as making engines for other companies to buy.

I think that's definitely what happens to a lot of people, just getting old, priorities etc.

I'm nearing 30 and I've been playing games from 8bit. To my girlfriends frustration I never tire of games, and frequently get overexcited about some forthcoming game. Yup, most of them I've already played in some other guise and I could say a new game may be a bit of a rehash with newer tech, but to me I see progress all over the place. Sometimes its revolutionary, more often it comes in drabs.

 

[Khrest]

32 years or so playing games and, at 41 I really do seem to have lost it. I have disposable income and can afford basically what I want (which might be half the problem), but nothing grabs me anymore.

I upgraded at Xmas to a GTX and C2D combo but the money is just sitting here being used as the most over-powered browser in existance.

I have lived games ever since Breakout on the Fairchild F in or around 1975 and I really feel as though I have reached the end of the line. Nothing impresses me for more than a few hours anymore.

The game that has soaked up as much time as any lately has been Wii Sports and my son and I have played it most days since launch. I just don't sit and play for hours like I used to. I probably lost two grades on my O levels because of gaming and nearly lost my marriage in the early years because of my addiction to the Amiga.

Wii, 360, DS, GBA, PC, PS2, GC..... I have them all yet nothing ignites those fires anymore

I feel as though I have seen it all and I am well jaded about it

Sorry to be so depressing. I am really happy for those that still get a buzz from the industry But it's not me anymore

 

[V4NT0M]

Anyone else losing ALL but a smidge of intrest in gaming ??

Not since I got my xbox 360, I was stuck playing CS and MMORPGS, and those MMORPGS aways degenerate into a lot of standing around and talking, really wasnt good for me.

But since I got my 360 jsut over a month ago, have had loads of fun in awe at GOW graphics and playing games online, not to mention some great games to look forward to.