I feel like I'm... done with gaming?

I think time:benefit ratio in gaming is a bit lackluster.

I think games which go towards movie-simulation are ultimately flawed. For example, one playthrough of ME2 can allow me to watch about 10 sci-fi films or one to two sci-fi tv sieries, both of which will better ME2's story/lore comfortably.


However BOTW/Dark souls/Mario/Witcher 3 offers a sense of immersion which is unparalleled.
 
My z77 system imploded recently.
I had upgraded to a 1070.
Was going to upgrade and rebuild, but looking at the cost and the time spent on what essentially boils down to 1-2 games seemed rather pointless.
Similar to others 60 hours on a game is a lot of time especially when your in your 40's.

Guess I'm getting old.

I find myself playing on my old ps3 on occasionally. Dark souls is my goto atm.
 
One thing I would say if you're getting tired of gaming is to try something completely different, and experiment a bit:)

I used to be a really avid gamer, especially platformers and FPS etc*, these days I'm far more likely to play something relaxed or casually with friends, and games that I can pick up and put down after 15 minutes have become very important ;) (I hate it when a game only lets you save at check points, especially if it's an hour between them).

Portal was a massive breath of fresh air for me, and a lot of the indie games on steam are to me more fun than a lot of the huge titles as the indies seem to be willing to take more chances with something different.

*Lets just ignore the UO addiction...
 
strumpusplunket said:
Yeah, I don't know what it is. Possibly getting older, possibly just feeling so much is derivative these days.

I've tried playing Quantum Break as it looks like the sort of game I'd like, but I've kind of had to force myself through the first couple of hours and it's making me wonder why I'm bothering.

I am still looking forward to Tropico 6, but nothing else that I can think of.

I now have a quiet PC (compared to my mega-fan gaming jet engine noise machine I used to have) that's also low-power at idle, and I might even just ditch my expensive and thirsty 980Ti for a passive card if I don't feel like playing any more games over the next six months or so...
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I am on same boat. There are no games out there which I will truly enjoy. Tropico 6 is indeed the only game I truly looking forward too.

The other two, the Division 2 going to be for a quick blast but it won't last more than a month. While Imperator Rome it will take 3-4 years worth of DLCs and expansions to become a great game.

Imho I need to find a good CRT monitor and start playing again 90s games, especially dungeon crawlers like Ravenloft 1 & 2, EOB 1-3, or adventures like QfQ 1-5, Ultima.
True they are playable at our current LCD monitors but they are CRAP visually. You cannot have the same quality of graphics designed for 800x600 CRT on a 2560x1440 LCD.
Anyone who says the opposite hasn't played 90s games in CRT.

Contemplating the idea to build an arcade also (with CRT) and put on it platform games like Karnov, Turrican etc.
 
Panos said:
I am on same boat. There are no games out there which I will truly enjoy. Tropico 6 is indeed the only game I truly looking forward too.

The other two, the Division 2 going to be for a quick blast but it won't last more than a month. While Imperator Rome it will take 3-4 years worth of DLCs and expansions to become a great game.

Imho I need to find a good CRT monitor and start playing again 90s games, especially dungeon crawlers like Ravenloft 1 & 2, EOB 1-3, or adventures like QfQ 1-5, Ultima.
True they are playable at our current LCD monitors but they are CRAP visually. You cannot have the same quality of graphics designed for 800x600 CRT on a 2560x1440 LCD.
Anyone who says the opposite hasn't played 90s games in CRT.

Contemplating the idea to build an arcade also (with CRT) and put on it platform games like Karnov, Turrican etc.
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Fastsync helps with the visuals of old games with ridiculous high frame rates
 
Werewolf said:
One thing I would say if you're getting tired of gaming is to try something completely different, and experiment a bit:)

I used to be a really avid gamer, especially platformers and FPS etc*, these days I'm far more likely to play something relaxed or casually with friends, and games that I can pick up and put down after 15 minutes have become very important ;) (I hate it when a game only lets you save at check points, especially if it's an hour between them).

Portal was a massive breath of fresh air for me, and a lot of the indie games on steam are to me more fun than a lot of the huge titles as the indies seem to be willing to take more chances with something different.

*Lets just ignore the UO addiction...
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Think all of us older gamers would like to brush that UO addiction under the carpet.. and our bills for our modem use.

Rimworld is probably the only game recently that's really grabbed me personally, it's very much "make your own game scenario" and throws you in at the deep in to a degree which is far more like games of the 80s and 90s. The graphics are terrible too which seems to help, but the complexity of the game kept it going for me as my little colonists made their own plot lines.

I still remember my first game ending because my 3 characters all died. One disliked men and the other two were men so she ended up having a rage whilst starving and killing them both then bleeding out herself. Good times!
 
billysielu said:
Fastsync helps with the visuals of old games with ridiculous high frame rates
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FPS has nothing to do with it, and NV Fastsync is crap. At least AMD supports cap fps.
But all these are irrelevant.

Graphic quality is the matter and how the graphics were designed for the CRT projection method, not LCD. Even 720p LCD monitor cannot render properly those games.
 
Raumarik said:
Think all of us older gamers would like to brush that UO addiction under the carpet.. and our bills for our modem use.

Rimworld is probably the only game recently that's really grabbed me personally, it's very much "make your own game scenario" and throws you in at the deep in to a degree which is far more like games of the 80s and 90s. The graphics are terrible too which seems to help, but the complexity of the game kept it going for me as my little colonists made their own plot lines.

I still remember my first game ending because my 3 characters all died. One disliked men and the other two were men so she ended up having a rage whilst starving and killing them both then bleeding out herself. Good times!
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Ultima Online was addicted as hell :/ Especially staying until late night waiting for the Germans go to sleep, so we can dig a treasure chest in a PK fested area.
And said Germans, because Drachenfels had half the latency to Greece than Europa back in the 90s.
 
Due to my domestic situation, my gaming PC and other computer gear is now all packed away in preparation for moving out, and I have to say, at the moment I'm missing it like hell - hopefully that's a good sign ... can only get better when I splurge the cash on a new machine :D
 
Panos said:
Ultima Online was addicted as hell :/ Especially staying until late night waiting for the Germans go to sleep, so we can dig a treasure chest in a PK fested area.
And said Germans, because Drachenfels had half the latency to Greece than Europa back in the 90s.
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I bloody loved UO. I was in the Deepwater Guards Guild on Europa, and had a great time.

However PKers were a nightmare, there was a notorious PKer called ' a sheep'. A name that took advantage of the offscreen NPC indicators in the game. A grandmaster mage who frankly speaking I had no chance against.

I say a nightmare, because they were bitter sweet. Annoying in the game but it was all the better because of them.

Trammel ruined that!
 
Rifte said:
I bloody loved UO. I was in the Deepwater Guards Guild on Europa, and had a great time.

However PKers were a nightmare, there was a notorious PKer called ' a sheep'. A name that took advantage of the offscreen NPC indicators in the game. A grandmaster mage who frankly speaking I had no chance against.

I say a nightmare, because they were bitter sweet. Annoying in the game but it was all the better because of them.

Trammel ruined that!
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At the guild "village" location, we had nearby some German PKers having set up their own village. Some were descent enough to pay them and train us :)
(shield master was easy after that)
After few months, and investing to ISDN line (no ADSL in Greece until 2005) had no issue to defend myself in 1 vs 1 situations. :)
While I had become skillful to execute teleportation fast.... :P

Still remember once at a dungeon, some ill prepared (and unlucky) PKers came to gang us. The same moment two of our guild mates were coming over with their Greater Dragons pets.
One of the most hilarious moments in my online game history that never repeated itself in DAOC or TESO which PVP extensively. :(

Shadowbane and Darkfall Online while in same line with UO, didn't felt the same imho.
 
I've mentioned UO so it's only a matter of time before Kainz turns up, bloody addict :D

Panos - I totally get you, it was the risk/reward element of UO which did it for me, every game since has watered it down. I was no mad PKer, but I liked the danger being there if I went out into the wild to mine, explore etc. That added element of potentially (in early days) losing EVERYTHING if you die and can't get back to your corpse etc made it epic.
 
I have this with certain games, I used to play a lot of CS, WoW. Can't bear to touch these games now along with anything in the same categories.

However, good single player games I'm still in to and I'm still in to racing games and have even bought a racing cockpit to go along with my wheel and VR.

I haven't had my PC for a couple of months right now due to buying a house recently and decorating. I am missing it.
 
Same sort of thing happened to me when online gaming became a thing. I could play a single player game for months on end for several hours per day. Then online gaming became a thing and boom I could no longer play single player games.

The only exception being GTA because well it's GTA.

I got maybe 1 hour into the last of us. I think the last single player game I completed was on a vita because well couldn't play online on a plane.

I played driver for like 6 months straight. the free roam mode was amazing to see how long you could last. simple things like that. Now I can't play one for even 6 seconds.
 
Daftbrown said:
The last time I saw you, you were criticising others for picking up IPS ultrawides (on deals) as they were "old tech"! :p
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Actually we were at the LG nano IPS discussion :)

And each tech has it's own uses. CRT is as good as it can get "tech" for playing 90s games. :)
 
I'm at the moment not tired with gaming, but I find as of late I've decided to do more cycling and am glad I have.
 
I was feeling a bit like this, I'd just sit there scrolling through my 400 games and not wanting to play anything. I think its a case of having too much choice. I miss when i was a kid and would have to wait for my birthday or christmas to get a new game, then i'd play it to death.

There are only certain games these days that can keep me entertained. Most recently it has been Stalker with the Misery mod. Time just disappears when I play this as I am so immersed in the game world.
 
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