Is it games or my tolerance?

shifty_uk

shifty_uk

shifty_uk

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I have an abundance of pretty well hyped games but I just don't seem to have the mental endurance for it anymore. It's gutting as I long for the days where I'd sit up for an entire night playing objective on MOH Spearhead or thundering around death match on UT GOTY. Out of my entire array of console games I think I've only completed three of them.

Are games becoming more about fancy trickery and graphics and less about playability or am I just getting old?

Give me some Spearhead, CSS or original UT any day. I wish I still had a PC. :(
 
With the games you have mentioned I would suggest that you prefer MP to SP and that would suggest why you have not completed that many games.

What did you think of BFBC2? In my opinion it's fantastic and I could waste many hours on it.
 
Maybe your tastes are changing. I know mine have as I've got older. Actually, they seem to change every few months; I just go with it, drifting between my PC, PS3 and 360. I spend more time on my PS3 atm, but I know that before long I'll probably drift back to my PC for a while.

You sound very multiplayer focused though with what you mention. You say you've only completed three of the games you have, but then go on about missing CSS or UT. Maybe you're just not playing the right games, or maybe you need a multiplayer fix.

As for the mental endurance, I still game a lot, but I can't do it in anywhere near the same marathon sessions that I could when I was younger. Not by a long shot.
 
I think the video game industry is completely dead and void of ideas
they simply don't understand what a video game should be

But then I am writing video games now and it is bloody hard

But go on any game development forum and you will find 95% of topics about graphics and almost nothing on what counts: gameplay, emotions, psychology, "lighting peoples' brains up like xmas trees", etc.

Right now video games are what you make of them
 
I'd say its cos you are getting old... Been a gamer all my life, and now I do not have the same patience as I once did. The game has to be real good for it to capture my imagination. I tend to only have time for the quick pick up and play titles these days, like arcade classics. I do occasionally get into a game and play all night such as Halo Reach, started playing it and had to finish it.. Same with the GTA's that come out. But these are few and far between unfortunately. I guess i get easily bored.
 
shifty_uk said:
Are games becoming more about fancy trickery and graphics and less about playability or am I just getting old?
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I think the answer lies somewhere between the two. There doesnt seem to be much in the way of invention or innovation in mainstream gaming at the moment. Were treated to retreads and ripoffs that bring nothing new to the table. Combine that with the fact that some of us have been gaming for twenty odd years and its not surprising that we get a bit bored with it all every now and then.
 
As one of the old-school gamers, I know my frustration about newer games is the sheer complexity of the controls. It seems every scene change or every goal achieved they make you learn something new in order to keep progressing. Old tactics just don't work anymore. In my old feeble mind I can only take so much.

It is even worse when trying to play other games in between. All the controls learned on one game don't work on another. Then, when going back to the first you totally have to re-learn everything. It is almost best to start from the beginning again. :(
 
I too feel the same way, I remember staying up till early morning when I was younger playing games, from Final Fantasy VII, Tactics, FFX, Gran Turismo, World of Warcraft, Age of Empires 2.. Now the last game that kept me entertained enough for more than 1 hour was Final Fantasy XIII and Sacred 2.
 
Its the console. Theres no community you're just in a room full of kids screaming "noob" at each other. I had a 360 for a couple of weeks and never used it for FPS because the PC versions were superior and cheaper and i'm 29!
 
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I have an abundance of pretty well hyped games but I just don't seem to have the mental endurance for it anymore. It's gutting as I long for the days where I'd sit up for an entire night playing objective on MOH Spearhead or thundering around death match on UT GOTY. Out of my entire array of console games I think I've only completed three of them.

Are games becoming more about fancy trickery and graphics and less about playability or am I just getting old?

Give me some Spearhead, CSS or original UT any day. I wish I still had a PC. :(
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I played CSS for about 5 hours today... How many years on? And like your self, I have so many games I have yet to complete but cant be bothered with!

(In order of catagory, as that's how I have them labelled up on my shelf... Sad eh? lol)
NFS:Shift
F1 2010
Dirt 2
Forza 3
Singularity
Transformers WFC
Borderlands
Dragon Age Origins
Fallout 3
ME2
Just Cause 2
Dead Rising 2
GTA4
Red Dead Redemption
Bayonetta
Enslaved Odyssey to the West
Overlord 2
Lego Star Wars
Lego Harry Potter

Thats 1 game shy of 2/3's of my games... Yet instead I played a game older than all the games I own on the console lol.

And correct me if I am wrong, some awsome games in that list!

ags
 
I have so many games at home that I've not even bothered to get past the 1st level. I've only bought them cos i got them on a deal. Whereas once upon a time I'd play the game regardless of price. At least with a full price game I find myself forcing to play it a little more thus allowing myself to get into it. Halo Reach as an example.
 
try giving it a break for a couple of weeks/months. i was the same 6 or so months ago after getting fed up with MW2 and couldnt get on with any games.

once i got back into it i really started (and still am) enjoying games again and now i seem to want to play at every chance i can.

although i have been thinking the same about some of the critics 'great' games are mediocre (GTA4), repetative (Bioshock) and somtimes just dull (Fallout 3).

age is also a thing as when your younger you only have to go to scool 30ish hours a week and dont have any responsibility after you leave where as once your working and older there is less free time and more things available, i.e. women, alcohol, TV etc...
 
what the video game industry needs is for money the to dry up

if people stopped buying games when they launch and not allow themselves to be manipulated - GTA4 was just taking the p*ss out of us - fake screenshots and no demo = something not right (but the ASA are on to them now - it won't happen again)

then they would have to write good games

if you love video games - wait for the prices to drop to £15 in the shop before you buy

that would focus the studios minds a bit

the fact that GTA4 can sell $500,000,000 in 7 days shows that people don't buy games because they ARE good - but because they HOPE they will be good

the fault lies with the customers - if you buy **** they will (obviously) sell more
 
Only game that has actually had me sit down and play solidly for once since Fight Night 3 / PGR 4 / Mirrors Edge is Assassins Creed 2. I thought the first one was okay for about 15 minutes, but the second one had me hooked. Much more polished.

I miss playing in Clanbase on Allied Assault Realism. I think 1,450 was our highest ranking. :(
 
I turn 40 this year and it's funny you should bring the subject up but I've been getting like this with open world sandbox games where you can go do anything and explore, find a billion items etc etc. I used to love this kind of game and now I'm finding my patience fading fast with them. I feel much more comfortable when playing a game with a fast moving narrative such as WET and gears of war etc.
 
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I turn 40 this year and it's It's funny you should bring the subject up but I've been getting like this with open world sandbox games where you can go do anything and explore, find a billion items etc etc. I used to love this kind of game and now I'm finding my patience fading fast with them. I feel much more comfortable when playing a game with a fast moving narrative such as WET and gears of war etc.
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Im in my forties and feel exactly the same way.
 
I'd also say its coz your growing up/getting old as i have been a gamer for 15 to 20 years and i just get more and more excited about games fortunatly i have and probs never will grow up lol
 
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