Its not the same anymore

As a 30 year old i can relate though. I do feel it has to do with poor standard of games nowadays though. I miss games with heart. I can still enjoy replays of super mario 3, zelda on the nes an n64 and still remember how final fantasy 7 and 9 sucked me into the game for hours and hours. Not much games that can actually get to keep me in my chair for longer then an hour. Sleeping dogs was a class sp game, recently got into csgo as it has oldskool simplicity less is more tbh (bf4 and all their cool gadgets can stick it) and playing fifa pro clubs with the same lads.

Think you just need to pick what suits you. Most gamea nowadays arent worth installing. Witcher 3 is one to look forward to though
 
kunoichia said:
As a 30 year old i can relate though. I do feel it has to do with poor standard of games nowadays though. I miss games with heart. I can still enjoy replays of super mario 3, zelda on the nes an n64 and still remember how final fantasy 7 and 9 sucked me into the game for hours and hours. Not much games that can actually get to keep me in my chair for longer then an hour. Sleeping dogs was a class sp game, recently got into csgo as it has oldskool simplicity less is more tbh (bf4 and all their cool gadgets can stick it) and playing fifa pro clubs with the same lads.

Think you just need to pick what suits you. Most gamea nowadays arent worth installing. Witcher 3 is one to look forward to though
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Sleeping Dogs?

Really?

I haven't tried it but it struck me as a typical Ubisoft empty sand-box style game that sounds great in theory but is mind numbingly dull in practice.

What would you rate it alongside in terms of having 'heart'?

EDIT: Aha, just seen it was done by Square Enix.......perhaps I really need to cast my prejudice aside and give this one a look.
 
30 here. I can also relate. For me it has come down, mainly, to lack of time to play and when I do get a chance I can't use a mic (I'm at work or it's late and kids are asleep), so coop/multi is just not the same.

The most enjoyable gaming moments these days for me are when I fire up an old game and play for the nostalgia factor - like Shivers, Myst (particularly Riven), Blade Runner, BC2, RA2, TA etc. I do also play D3, BF4 and CS:GO a bit but I don't actually find them "fun" - they're somewhat entertaining but they're the equivalent of watching a 6/10 film, for me. It just goes by in a forgettable way and you wonder if you'd have been better off spending that time doing something else.

For me, engaging stories and atmosphere are king, so I have always preferred the old adventure-type games. I find them to have more depth.
 
I'm in the same boat, I don't find the newer games that appealing and doubt I will ever clock up the amount of time I spent on bad company 2 on any other game lol.

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I still prefer it over 3 and 4.
 
MatTheCat said:
Sleeping Dogs?

Really?

I haven't tried it but it struck me as a typical Ubisoft empty sand-box style game that sounds great in theory but is mind numbingly dull in practice.

What would you rate it alongside in terms of having 'heart'?

EDIT: Aha, just seen it was done by Square Enix.......perhaps I really need to cast my prejudice aside and give this one a look.
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Yeh square Enix. Says it all really :D

Anyway game has a nice story, a good fightingsystem thats fun to play and very nice gfx (for what its worth).
 
Chimp Paradox said:
I have tried Insurgency thus far. It seems everything has gone "open world" but I dont really care about that. I think I should try GTA or something?
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If you dont want open world then any of the COD games !

However have you missed such delights as

Far Cry 3
Just Cause 2
Skyrim
Starcraft II
The Mass Effect Series
Xcom Enemy Unknown
Borderlands
Borderlands 2
Dirt Showdown

Quite a few of the above I know I've spent 45+hours on.

My latest fix strangely enough is Toy Soldiers.

and I dont game that much as I used to.

(btw I just turned 45)
 
It's nothing to do with the games it's you. I've tried to convince myself the same but I know full well I crave the games of my youth and I just don't find new ones as engaging because nostalgia clouds my vision.
That said, games I'm guaranteed to like are any Elder Scrolls or Fallout and generally GTA and FF. I also find myself liking 4x games more these days.
 
Chimp - are you looking for nostalgia or for games ideas from the present?

For nostalgia, I find that the Steam platform is great for that - American McGee's Alice, Final Fantasy 7/8, Age of Empires II, Bejeweled etc have all been done up so that they still work on modern PCs. I'm only a bit older than you (36) and it appears we're looking at around the same era - late 90s / early 00s :-)

Games like Warcraft II... not sure if that'll work, but you might be able to run it off the Blizzard platform. Age of Empires II is a good follow up to Warcraft II if you like the RTS genre.

The Sims, you can still play either from disc or off EA's Origin platform. They're on Sims 4 now.

I'm not too clued up with modern games, but people like Varkanoid (awesome name btw) have already provided some more recent game titles. Talking of Borderlands, I am actually playing Poker Night 2 atm which is a mash-up of several franchises including Borderlands :-)
 
cheesyboy said:
How? That's more than 5 hours a day!
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I average 7 hours a day, from 7pm to 2am.
I get up between 8 and 9, at work from 10-6 (excluding any days/nights where I have to go out on site).
There's also this weekend-thing, during which I may get lucky enough to spend loads of time playing! ;)


I do find a lot of games very formulaic, these days...

I'm not usually a fan of Multiplayer/PvP type stuff, for various reasons.
Mostly, I find people tend to be complete [redacted]s and I'm here to have fun, not deal with the same [bleep] and griefing I get at work all day.

I'm pretty happy with the idea of co-op games, online or otherwise, but what I really like is games with a decent story. As a kid, I read loads of books, watched loads of movies and I played far too much D&D/RPGs, so that may be the reason.

"You're a soldier, here's a gun, go kill people" is not a story. I need a reason for what I'm doing, which is why I never got on with TitanFall.

Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Freelancer, Thief, Assassin's Creed, Portal, Skyrim, Tomb Raider (even the 2013 one), Sleeping Dogs, AvP2010, Borderlands and even A:CM - All great games with great stories... mostly... OK, not TR2010, but games like that.
 
Chimp Paradox said:
I used to love Goldeneye. Rainbow Six. Sensible World of Soccer. I'm 30 now and just got a PC powerful enough to play games having used SFF and HTPC for as long as I can remember.

But I just cannot get the same kicks I used to.

Anyone else feel the same?

What can I try to get out of it!
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You got older.
 
ttaskmaster said:
I average 7 hours a day, from 7pm to 2am.
I get up between 8 and 9, at work from 10-6 (excluding any days/nights where I have to go out on site).
There's also this weekend-thing, during which I may get lucky enough to spend loads of time playing! ;)

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What about spending time with your wife - or does she play too? And walking the dogs, and housework? Even when I was a teenager, or student I didn't manage that much!

My gaming time reduced when I moved in with my girlfriend (now wife), but was still probably 30 ish hours a month, compared with maybe double that when I was a student. Then reduced down to less than 15 hours a month with the onset of parenthood.
 
I think most gamers go through this, I hark back to the days I had an Amiga and played all sorts of games but mostly Player Manager and Populous, until 3 or 4 am and then get up and go to work, nowadays the only "game" I play is a sim, rFactor2.
 
You have a life / job now. Same situation.
List of games that I spent a significant amount of time playing/or enjoyed significantly in a chronological stylee:
- Marathon & Marathon 2
- Warcraft 1 & 2
- Halo 1 & 2
- WOW (killed my enjoyment of MMORPGs eventually as I totally over-played it)
- GTA Series
- The Witcher: EE
- DA:O
- Dead space 1 & 2
- Firefall
- BF3
- Terraria
- Hearthstone
- Destiny (playing with my housemate on his PS4)

I still enjoy gaming, but I find with all my other responsibilities vying for attention and often just wanting to chill out, the high adrenaline/time sink style gaming often gets left aside for more instant gratification games or perhaps a more relaxed pace as well. I've recently tried to finish Tomb Raider and I think i'm about 80% complete and just got totally bored of it.

Don't force yourself to play or feel pressure that you should be enjoying a game when you are not. Uninstall it and move on to the next one that peaks your fancy, play it until you are bored, rinse and repeat. I suggest you check out the indie scene & some game review sites, try a few styles of games you haven't played before (ie. sandbox, survival, puzzle, adventure etc.) the new format may help to rekindle that love of gaming again!
 
Felt the same as the op. Broken releases just make me want to pack up. I've not gamed for around 6 months now but games like Division and GTA5 I'm looking forward too.
 
Im the same with most of my games too. However I play Dota 2 these days and its the best thing Ive played. Im 30yrs old.

I also play Super Mario games on the WiiU and they are spectacular. So polished!
 
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