not excited by new games

MookJong said:
We are having a family BBQ on Saturday and believe it or not I am getting Micro Machines 2 setup to play with my cousin...I'm 36 and he is 37 :)
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I remember that game, haven't played it in ages! I used to love playing Mario kart on the snes back in the day too as was a laugh with friends.
 
Been like that for years me now, i just put it down to getting older :p

I might put a new game on, play it for a couple of hrs a day, then after a while, i stop playing, and i might not play it again, another game for months. :D

Last new game i played through till the end was Resi Evil (took me months though), havn't even started playing GTA V yet, when i got that, i spent a couple of days just running about exploring the city, not played it since, i just shove old games on every now and then, and play them to completion (which takes a while for how long i play em for at the time), like Fear, Fear 2, Black Mesa, still havn't done anymore of The Evil Within either, im only on about chapter 3 (i think), im at the bit where you let the scientist/doctor fellow through the gate, level with the pig barn, where mateys chained up :D,not touched that for eons :p

Im upgrading to a Fury X as well :D
 
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I find that there is plenty of choice for fps and the rpg selection isn't bad, but the rts genre is sorely lacking these days. My friends and I have had to return to Supreme Commander and AOE for a fix of that. Even the latest Total War games suck with regards multiplayer etc.
 
Eames said:
The last game I truly enjoyed and would play for hours a session was battlefield 2. I still play new games but I don't play anything for more than a hour at a Time anymore.

I was thinking of just getting a laptop and buy games on gog.com, old games are just better.

Fallout is better as a isometric rpg, star wars battlefront has boring auto rifle spam, half life 3 will be a dissapointment.
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Ok thanks for letting us know.

Enjoy.

/grumpiness
 
Same boat especially for PC gaming the only game I'm looking forward to is Lost Ark when that eventually gets a EU release.
 
Yeah I haven't been excited by it for awhile, looking forward to dice' Star Wars though even though I have never watched it! NFS also might be half decent as it is going back to the underground era. EA seem to be the only ones making me half hopeful atm but we know what they do with hope... Oh and Mirrors Edge!
 
Gaming lost its soul for me, some games are still mildly interesting, but i think im pretty much done with it.

When you look at it, you see all the signs of venture capitalism now and it's just sad.
 
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Jonny L said:
I find that there is plenty of choice for fps and the rpg selection isn't bad, but the rts genre is sorely lacking these days. My friends and I have had to return to Supreme Commander and AOE for a fix of that. Even the latest Total War games suck with regards multiplayer etc.
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RTS
Strategy
Management

basically the thinking mans game is all but dead these days.

Still waiting for Evil Genius 2 :|
 
I agree with the OP, certainly as far as first person shooters are concerned anyway, I wish BF3 had been a remake of BF2 but with the better visuals etc instead it's a totally different experience and not better for it.
I read with interest that Dragon Valley is being redone for BF4, I doubt it's a patch on the original though, which will be a shame.
 
The best thing I ever did was ditch my desktop, and buy a high-end gaming laptop and a PS4. My gaming laptop gives me access to the PC's entire back-catalogue of games that I love (RTS, RPG and some FPS mainly) while playing everything completely maxed out with AA and being portable enough to take to my friends places for impromptu LAN gaming sessions. My PS4 then provides my AAA title fix (and looks fine on my HDTV, I really like it) and will not need to be upgraded throughout its lifecycle.

I really, really don't miss my old desktop, especially as PC game originality and quality is declining in recent years vs the good old days. :)
 
A lot of people grow out of it as they get older, especially if you have a career and a family.

As each year goes by I seem to be spending more on hardware and buying more games but not actually playing most of them. Majority of single player titles bore me to death nowadays and I only get stuck into online games with some kind of decent progression system so it makes time spent feel worthwhile.

I don't think I'll ever completely quit but unless there's a massive overhaul of the gaming scene I'll probably end up only doing a few hours a week.
 
I'm in a similar boat. Though I did enjoy GTA5. A lot. Wish it was much longer, though.
Didn't finish the RTCW3 or whatever it was.... or anything. In fact the last thing I played lots of was Sniper Elite 2 and Just Cause 2. Other than that L4D2, TF2 (which are now ancient) are the only games I've genuinely enjoyed for long.
 
Same, just don't get the same enjoyment out of them. Lots of uninspired rubbish being spewed out but being honest it's more a case of growing out of it (without trying to be condescending)

Good example is pillars of eternity. Have always felt BG2 was fave game of all time but only got half way through pillars of eternity before i lost interest

Still enjoy some of the more niche stuff. For me Perfect Golf is great, Don Bradman Cricket 14 is also fantastic, wish i found that one sooner
 
My ineterest is waning a bit.

I bought only one game in the steam sale, Alien Isolation, a game I would have bought on day 1 if it came out 2 or 3 years ago. I have a G27 wheel clamped to my desk but I haven't used it properly for months. Im thinking of upgrading my HD7950 but then there's only one game on the horizon that I'm interested in playing . . . Battlefront, which will probably be a huge cash grab letdown anyway :(
 
Might be worth trying some genres you wouldn't normally touch. I've found it's less that new games don't excite me as I get older and more a change of what I do like, when I was younger I was always about the latest, greatest RTS and FPSs, now I can't remember the last game I touched of either genre and I'm more likely to settle down to a long session on Civilization or Crusader Kings II, and that's a game that if you showed me that a few years ago I'd be the first one deriding it for being little more than spreadsheets attached to a map.
 
I'm the same now, hardly play any games and none of these latest games interest me. However I did spend 3 weeks over Christmas playing The Settlers II - Vikings, best gaming I've had in 10 years or more, fantastic gem of a game.
 
I think the problem is that new games are not new just same game different skin. Gaming needs shaking up big style some great releases this year yet not one has kept my interest for longer than 1 hour as it just feels like I have played it before.

Also every early access game seems to be a waste of money 90% don't even seem to hit release stage.
 
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