Has your gaming changed?

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From the ages of about 12-29 I've always been an online shooter fan. Loved the fast and frantic of the Battlefields but also the tactical twitch than Counter Strike offered. Over the past 2 years these online shooters seem to be massively triggering me if you pardon the pun.

I now find myself engrossed in neglected single player games in my Steam list and I'm loving it. No stress or toxicity. Just playing Mark of The Ninja and I'm loving having to put the pieces together for how to beat a level. I still love a good FPS but the online aspects is becoming much less important for me now. I'm almost reverting to the days before online gaming when single player games were all we had.
 
RPGs are and always have been my first love, but I've found myself less interested in platformers than I was in my youth/childhood, less interested in sports games, and more inclined to give quirky indie titles a fair go.

Basically, though, just as in the primitive Speccy/Amiga days, give me a good RPG with lots of stats and build options and I'll be lost in it for days on end :)
 
Gaming has changed for me only in as much that I'm much more focussed these days. Back in the days of the Spectrum games weren't ever really that easy to complete, if that was even an intended goal, whereas nowadays if you don't finish a game you're doing something wrong. So I've gone from dipping into loads of games within a short space of time to only ever playing one game through and then when finished moving onto the next. I'm not quite sure if I've made the right choice.
 
I find myself increasingly less inclined to invest in games that have overly complex or clunky implementations of basic functionality also less and less inclined to invest in games that supposedly have longer term gameplay as increasingly developers seem to just change whatever they want whenever they want and its extremely annoying when you've put a lot of effort in towards a goal and the developers just change things around with no consideration - they should be two basic tenets of any game developer - basic mechanics should fit like a second skin with minimal clunkiness, etc. and while more convoluted mechanics might be interesting as a novelty they quickly become tedious when you have to do them time and time again and established mechanics should be touched with as light a hand as possible unless they are badly broken and where possible preserve old functionality even if new approaches are used.
 
Yeah but only because games are **** these days. I could play all these modern games for free if I choose and still don't bother.

Because if I want to play an FPS I play BF2. How preposterous is that?

Games suck consoles ruined everything and Valve are ***** give us L4D3 already.
 
RobTheMonk said:
From the ages of about 12-29 I've always been an online shooter fan. Loved the fast and frantic of the Battlefields but also the tactical twitch than Counter Strike offered. Over the past 2 years these online shooters seem to be massively triggering me if you pardon the pun.

I now find myself engrossed in neglected single player games in my Steam list and I'm loving it. No stress or toxicity. Just playing Mark of The Ninja and I'm loving having to put the pieces together for how to beat a level. I still love a good FPS but the online aspects is becoming much less important for me now. I'm almost reverting to the days before online gaming when single player games were all we had.
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This almost echos my own experience. Used to play BFBC2 almost every evening with friends but just can’t take the focus required now to play online shooters. I now find myself playing stuff like Planet Coaster, AC:O’s, some VR stuff like Elite Dangerous etc which I can relax to at the same time
 
I wouldn't bat an eyelid if there was never another online multi-player game made ever again. I get the extra competiveness of playing against real people but the actual gameplay and experience is really shallow for me. I'll take an immersive single player campaign each and every time.
 
Like a lot of folk here I've moved to either exclusively single player experiences or some form of co-op players vs environment as I simply cannot stand the toxicity online nor frankly understand some of today's yoof! :p
 
I find I now like a game which I can sink my teeth into and go at almost exclusively for several weeks or even a couple of months. I like a campaign or a story where you can influence the outcome (a bit). e.g. Sunk hundreds of hours into Fallout 4 working the different factions and possible endings, different companions and building different skills.
 
I used to take my gaming way to seriously, I'm a lot more relaxed and more interested in seeing what can be achieved by doing something with my own little challenges than going for a win.
My interests have always been a bit scattered so nothing new in that department, I'll play almost any game I get my hands on... I think the only genre that I no longer play is horror as I don't find it as exciting any more.
 
I'm 37 now, used to love online shooters but the gaming community is so toxic these days it's not worth the bother.

I just stick with single player games that I can pick up and put down easily. Zelda, Horizon Zero Dawn, AC:Origins, Rayman Legends have been pretty much all I've played the last year.
 
Used to be shooters and MMO's but apart from Siege I haven't got the patience anymore for shooters and I've ran out of good MMO's to want to keep playing.

A solid long RPG is where I tend to spend my time now.
 
I was predominantly a sports/ FPS or RPG gamer when I was a console gamer. Now I use the pc more than my Xbox and PS4. I pretty much just use the pc for RPGs. Sports games and the occasional FPS go on my console, I just didn’t click with using a mouse and keyboard for things like cod or BF. And now it’s been so long I get destroyed on FPS games :(

I don’t think I’ll ever lose the RPG love though.
 
I used to be a BIG gamer up until about a year ago, now I just can't be bothered.

It's all gotten so politicised and the culture of the thing has just become something I despise (for the most part).

Then there's the simple fact that we're moving away from the games I enjoyed playing the most. Short, concise, intriguing narratives. Not too say they've all disappeared of course, they're just not as commonplace now.

Started playing WoW again recently and that's enough for me I think. Can log on for an hour or so, chill out and waste a bit of time.
 
Not much has changed, I've always liked high quality games and I've always liked certain genres:

diablo 1 -> diablo 2 -> path of exile

doom -> quake -> half-life -> crysis -> battlefield series

warcraft -> red alert -> starcraft -> starcraft 2

ultima VII -> baldur's gate -> divinity original sin

ninja ryukenden -> king's field -> blade of darkness -> demon/dark souls

Civ series, Heroes of Might and Magic, Street Fighter series etc.


The time I have available for gaming is (obviously) the main thing that changed through the years.
 
I'm definitely more prone to play single player these days than MP, much like you I find online shooters to be mostly rage inducing pew pew fests with the majority of players running around like headless chickens.

Gone are the days of FPS where people played as a team, CS/DOD and the likes. A mod had infinitely more gameplay to it than todays AAA shooters.
 
Back in the day I played early online games such as Battlefield 1942 & used to love it, now I avoid online play like the plague
 
Yeah in the sense I haven't loaded up a single title this month, struggled to feel engaged on anything for longer than an hour and realised I was just wasting time away that could be better spent elsewhere. I'm sure in the future I'll get hooked on something again for a little while but can't see me returning to the days of looking forward to finishing work to sit and game all evening.
 
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