Struggling to keep interest

[jaws104]

have a few that i come back to occasionally, csgo, and at the moment back playing D3.

Last big AA game i bought was GTA V, played for 1 day solid, never since. Back in the day i played vice city for best part of a year...

Re-subbed eve online account recently out of curiosity after 3 years off, logged in, flew around for couple hours then quit off. Definitely don't have time for that game anymore

 

[Ayahuasca]

Gaming has been pretty stale for me this year.

Nothing seems new and exciting anymore it's just similar gameplay in different scenery with a lot of games now.

AI needs improving massively for single player immersion.

Multiplayer games are just toxic central now as well, it's all about trolling, cheating and annoying team mates or opponents as much as possible.

 

[Hiijinx]

The is the reason I don't apply for any alpha/beta testing anymore. Having played games for many years now, there hasn't been much to wow me and testing them before hand just kills the enthusiasm.

Looking forward to games usually ends in disappointment, the best games for me to date have all been unexpected gems which I never really heard of. (Witcher 1, EQ2, Fallout 3, BioShock)

 

[Howling]

*shrug* You guys must just be playing the wrong games. Granted I go through phases where I'd rather do something else - like bingewatch netflix - but there's always games that I'll happily spend my weekend on. Rocket League is a prime example of this, I can always fit in an hour or 2 of RL Currently going through FFX/X-2 on steam, put about 20 hours into that since Friday.
True, there's not always a NEW game that I can sink my teeth into - but there's always something for me When Witcher 3's final expansion comes out (if it's not already?) then I have that to replay with all the expansions - that's another 80 hours of my life claimed

Though, ask me to play CoD or something.. yeah, 10 minutes and I'll quickly be going back to desktop. So I put it to you that you're simply trying to play the wrong things - your taste in games could simply have shifted.

 

[jaws104]

AI needs improving massively for single player immersion.

Speaking of AI, i think part of the problem is modern CPU multi core architecture is not helping

I'm no expert by any means but games like arma really bogs down when there is heavy ai calculations needed, because it's mostly being done on one core, not multiple

Same is true of turn based strategy like Civ5 or Endless Legend. These games graphically are massively superior to previous generations but they still turn into snore fests between turns in late game when all the ai calculations need doing

EDIT :: Mount & Blade is good example, would be epic if it scaled up with #cores but it becomes a slide show after around 300 men regardless

I don't know why but it seems like there is real difficulty properly utilising multiple cores for ai stuff

 

[Aretak]

I struggle to stay interested in the vast majority of games that I play. Every now and then something really grabs me though. Dark Souls III is the latest game to do so. Already played twice the amount of it that I ever did of the mediocre second one.

There's a ton of other games that I've gotten halfway through and completely lost interest in though. Just looking at stuff I've still got installed I can name the likes of Rise of the Tomb Raider, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Just Cause 3, Metal Gear Solid V, Thief, Mad Max, Fallout 4 and Binary Domain. There are plenty more taking stuff I no longer have installed and other platforms into account.

 

[Errol]

Give Planetside 2 a go.

It's free and you can drop in and out of it as much as you like. Play for 30 mins and then log off or play for 3hrs+.

 

[MikeTheNative]

Speaking of AI, i think part of the problem is modern CPU multi core architecture is not helping

I'm no expert by any means but games like arma really bogs down when there is heavy ai calculations needed, because it's mostly being done on one core, not multiple

Same is true of turn based strategy like Civ5 or Endless Legend. These games graphically are massively superior to previous generations but they still turn into snore fests between turns in late game when all the ai calculations need doing

EDIT :: Mount & Blade is good example, would be epic if it scaled up with #cores but it becomes a slide show after around 300 men regardless

I don't know why but it seems like there is real difficulty properly utilising multiple cores for ai stuff

I imagine that it's probably games using older engines that can't taken advantage of multi core CPU's.

 

[jaws104]

I imagine that it's probably games using older engines that can't taken advantage of multi core CPU's.

Yeah that's what people say but where are the new optimised engines? multiple cores are around for ages. Arma 3 was only 2013 and Endless legend bit over a year ago.

Will be interested to see how new mount & blade runs later this year

 

[Aretak]

I imagine that it's probably games using older engines that can't taken advantage of multi core CPU's.

A lot of newer games still struggle to use more than a couple of cores, sadly. Dark Souls III is actually one that doesn't make good use of multiple threads at all, hammering a single one with fairly low usage on the rest. It ran like crap much of the time on the 1090T I was using until a few days ago, yet something like Dragon Age: Inquisition (for my money a prettier game that has much, much larger areas) ran absolutely fine, because it balanced the load properly over all six cores.

 

[Ecliptica78]

I've been very on and off with gaming now for a couple of years. I'm currently playing the Souls games and Doom as these are the kind of games that remind me just why I got into gaming at a young age. The Souls games in particular have something most modern games don't and it's how rewarding they feel to play. Mastering a boss, learning an area and its enemies attack patterns, the beautiful combat mechanics, trying the different classes, finally figuring out how to parry properly.....just love these games at the moment.

Sadly, a lot of games these days fall into the trap of using big budget and a shiny new graphics engine to mask an otherwise average game with dated mechanics. I may take some stick for this but the Uncharted games are a prime example of that. I admit I did like the first one but it hasn't aged well and everything that followed was tripe in my opinion.

So many modern games just don't appeal to me anymore. Another gripe is multiplayer. I know some love it but I really don't. I feel that games suffer from adding this content too. Why not just put more effort into the campaign? I reckon I'm in the minority on that one though.

So, aside from the Souls games, Doom and Witcher 3 I'm playing precious little else right now.

 

[Smokey Deza]

I too am a jaded gamer. I have so many well received games in my Steam library that I've got nowhere with. I'll load one up and the tutorial will tell me to click on the troop menu, then click to build a tank. Then click on the tank and move it to the enemy troop. Next click on another menu to view the map. All I end up doing is clicking on 'exit to desktop', are you sure? 'Yes'. I simply can't be bothered with spending more than two minutes learning a game sufficiently to play it any more. Even the tiniest of irritations has me exiting to desktop when in the past I'd have persevered.

Experienced this with that warhammer space battleship thing. Instructing me on how to move a ship. How to go left and right etc treating me like a 5 year old. Really just gtfo.

 

[Smok3y]

Only game that keeps me going atm is Siege and I mainly play that on PlayStation due to hacks/cheats on pc which I feel is the main reason I'm losing interest certainly in pc gaming at least.

 

[jasoncb]

Same - I lost interest in single player games a long time ago. I only play games that have multiplayer PvP, but the golden days for those games have long gone.

Too right, the amount of weak minded players and trolls makes multiplayer an unpleasant grind. Remember when you played games for fun rather than unlockables/ranks/griefing.

 

[montymint]

Too right, the amount of weak minded players and trolls makes multiplayer an unpleasant grind. Remember when you played games for fun rather than unlockables/ranks/griefing.

Give me CS 1.2 - 1.5 back!

 

[uber soldat]

Multiplayer used to be hardcore gamers having fun together. Now its griefing 10 year old ****tards that seem to be drawn to most games.

 

[jasoncb]

Games were heading a good direction until the Xbox 360 was released, ever since then its been going downhill.

 

[Telecaster]

I too am a jaded gamer. I have so many well received games in my Steam library that I've got nowhere with. I'll load one up and the tutorial will tell me to click on the troop menu, then click to build a tank. Then click on the tank and move it to the enemy troop. Next click on another menu to view the map. All I end up doing is clicking on 'exit to desktop', are you sure? 'Yes'. I simply can't be bothered with spending more than two minutes learning a game sufficiently to play it any more. Even the tiniest of irritations has me exiting to desktop when in the past I'd have persevered.

Exactly how I am.

I fired up New Vegas and got into a one of the scenes where you click through the characters talking, in the past I would have read it all, now I just keep clicking it until it's gone away and it lets me carry on with the game, only I've probably missed loads of important stuff by not reading it...

I did it twice and just switched it off.

Yes it probably is down to getting older, but I think it's partly to do with not having the time to properly immerse yourself in the game, I don't have time for endless options and binding a full keyboard's worth of keys, I won't play it often enough to remember all the bloody bindings anyway! If it needs anything more than WASD and LMB/RMB then I CBA.

 

[jasoncb]

Exactly how I am.

I fired up New Vegas and got into a one of the scenes where you click through the characters talking, in the past I would have read it all, now I just keep clicking it until it's gone away and it lets me carry on with the game, only I've probably missed loads of important stuff by not reading it...

I did it twice and just switched it off.

Yes it probably is down to getting older, but I think it's partly to do with not having the time to properly immerse yourself in the game, I don't have time for endless options and binding a full keyboard's worth of keys, I won't play it often enough to remember all the bloody bindings anyway! If it needs anything more than WASD and LMB/RMB then I CBA.

Looks like your done with pc games, does that 980ti need a new home? Seriously though it sounds like console gaming might be there way to go, just fire it up and usually the same controls for most games.

Can't believe I just recommended a console to a pc gamer, I need to go cleanse myself.

 

[Uther]

I turn my game computer (in sig) on once a week for a couple of hours at most.I have games sat in my steam library I have never even started. I feel very jaded about the whole gaming scene currently.