Depression.
People remember the good old days of being a child. Not a care in the world. You get to adulthood and realise life is hard. Most people don't have the motivation for playing games with the stresses and strains of modern life. In any case, I think technology has been linked with depression, particularly when using the internet excessively. I know for a fact I feel better once I've took a long break from the net. The same is true for gaming. Stay away from gaming for around 6 months and only use the internet for 15 minutes a day... you'll build some enthusiasm back up during the break.
Indeed.
Nobody is forcing anyone to game. The fact that there are so many people here whinging that
they are not as young as they used to be they just don't make games as good as they used to anymore, suggests to me that there are a whole bunch of people who are stuck in unrewarding behaviour patterns that just aren't doing it for them any more but for some reason they can't break out off.
If gaming is boring y' all, then dont bloody do it. Perhaps you have outgrown it, perhaps your mind and body is screaming at you to focus your attention on something more rewarding, life giving.
The best of the best modern games, are the very best games, that ever did exist. Sure there are lots of over rated hyped up piles of crap around, but there always was. The problem is not the games. The problem is your state of mind. Perhaps life felt good in your teens or 20s when gaming was basically a 'vocation' to y' all, but now that you are 30+, you need to reassess your priorities in life perhaps.
For me, gaming is still high up on my list of leisure past times (better than watching the idiot box or reading and posting reams of crap in message boards, innit) and I still enjoy an excellent game generally much more than I enjoy any other form of electronic entertainment (only a really rewarding, interesting and stimulating book could come higher up the list but 'reading' is also much more effort). But as soon as I feel that I am gaming and trying to get something out of it which I just aint getting, then I am turning it off and doing something else. If I was unable to that for example, and felt compelled to keep on playing Skyrim for example, in order to try and extract some 'happiness' from gaming, even though it was boring me to death, then I suppose I might also come on here whinging about 'games not being what they used to be'.
Gaming is past-time, not a vocation. Nobody ever needs to allow themselves to be bored when gaming for too long, as you always have the option of turning it off and going and doing something else. If you can't do that, then there are issues you need to address within yourself. It aint the games. it's you.
This argument that games were better back then than they are now just doesn't stand...
So online DOOM was better than online BF4?
Quake was better than Bioshock?
Sensible Soccer was better than Pro Evo 2015?
No no no no.....
Of course, there are odd exceptions......I will use this opportunity again to plug Bombjack. Get it on the MAME emulator, ROM is 147kb in size, it was in the local chippy during my youth (mid 80s). Collect the bombs in the correct sequence and avoid the aliens and you will find that no game since has ever tested your wits and reflexes so aggressively and enjoyably as this.
EDIT just seen you 30 ..lol 