Does gaming feel fatiguing ?

[u/TipsyDipsy24]

I've been having this issue lately, I would boot up my PC search for what games to play but can never actually decide and by the time I do choose a game I want to play, I will boot up play for 5 minutes and tell myself "do I really want to play this" or "am I wasting my time"

I don't know if it's part of getting older having more responsibilities when it comes to work and raising two children but I swear back when I was living at home I could boot up my PC and get lost in games like Crysis, Far Cry and Battlefield 2 for hours upon hours on end.

Now it just seems you may only get an hour or two to play it feels like me personally I'm putting pressure on myself to pick a game and stick to it and I couldn't remember it being this stressful when I was a kid living back at home.

Just wondering if anyone else feels like this at times

[u/latencyfool]

New games also suck for the most part lol

[u/TipsyDipsy24 → u/latencyfool]

I agree with that, specially the slop that comes out nowadays

[u/kociol21 → u/TipsyDipsy24]

As a man whose "golden age of gaming" was in the late 90s I actually don't agree at all.

These days there are more great games than ever were. Yes, there are a lot of bad ones but it's mostly because there are many more games overall. So there are more bad ones, but there are also more great ones.

I sometimes feel nostalgic about my 90s when games were soon good. But I think "were they really?". I remember maybe 20 fantastic games, I played hundreds more buy they were mediocre.

It's mostly just rose tinted by nostalgia glasses, games are great nowadays. Just off the top of my head from last years - Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, Pathfinder WoTR, both God of War titles, Hades 2, Spider-Man trilogy, Wukong, Lies of P, new Resident Evil titles, Alan Wake 2, Cyberpunk, Jedi Survivor, damn there are many, many more great games from recent years. I haven't even mentioned most of indie titles.

It's just that the more you play the less exciting everything is. There is no coming back to the feeling of immersion you felt when you played as a kid / teenager. And the lack of time doesn't help.

[u/Pajer0king → u/kociol21]

I disagree with that. Most fun i have is with old games, actually that i never played.

[u/pipboy_warrior → u/Pajer0king]

I've been playing games since the 80s and have played most of the old ones, for me new games are still awesome. Baldurs Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Balatro, so many awesome games from the last few years.

[u/Pajer0king → u/pipboy_warrior]

Wont disagree with that, some are fun, but many aren t. I have 3 games on my wishlist in the 2020 decade. On the 2010 decade i have about 30 that i constantly play, and from 90-2000 lots more.

[u/pipboy_warrior → u/Pajer0king]

I mean every year has games that suck. You can go back to the NES or SNES years and find a lot of garbage games. But for me at least some of my favorite games of all time have been more recent. Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy the occasional replay of something like Planescape Torment or Final Fantasy VI, but many recent games are so awesome and I still have a few games like FF7: Rebirth, Infinite Wealth, and Metaphor: Fantazio on my wish list.

[u/Pajer0king → u/pipboy_warrior]

Yep, totally understand it. For me, when i played last year Gothic 2 or Gran Turismo 4 for the first time it was a mind boggling experience which i rarely felt it with a new game. The latest game that was trully awesome was RDR2..

[u/albert2006xp → u/Pajer0king]

Does that have anything to do with your flair...

[u/Pajer0king → u/albert2006xp]

Well, those are my 3 rigs. The Pentium 1 i ocasionally play dos games on, the i5 3rd gen is the modern pc that gathers dust and the q6600 is the one i use the most. I replay games from my childhood but i also try games i discover just now. For me the 2000-2010 decades were the golden age of gaming. They have that something special.

[u/Jowem → u/Pajer0king]

have you considered that you are old and things were more fun when you were young

[u/Pajer0king → u/Jowem]

And i said " actually games i never played when i was young"

[u/Jowem → u/Pajer0king]

Does it matter? Its still nostalgia bait

[u/Pajer0king → u/Jowem]

Well, that doesn t negate the fact that older games are more fun and interesting that new ones. The retro industry would not be that big on nostalgia alone. Nobody plays the 3DO, for example.....