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How have you found your enjoyment of games changing as you've gotten older, /v/?
Have you started to enjoy different genres, or find that you don't enjoy others as much?
I've found myself becoming less interested in competitive gaming, it just seems pointless as I get older to be honest. On the flipside, I enjoy story-driven, or world-building heavy games a lot more. It seems like less of a waste of a time if you walked away from a game saying something like "I enjoyed the story/characters/world/quests" rather than investing a ton of hours to git gud at something.
Same as always. A variety of games, though never competitive.
I'm the opposite. I found myself getting sucked into the black hole that is DotA 2 and I'm also occasionally playing some CS:GO with buds trying to raise my rank.
I can't play game where the MC is an high school student (basically any jrpg) because I can't relate anymore.
>>336852065
I only play Splatoon now.
Same as you OP.
Last thing I really loved recently was that Witcher 3 DLC.
My taste has remained the same and I have mostly dropped singleplayer games altogether. Can't stand jRPGs which were mainstays for me.
Still played ranked modes exclusively when they're available. My rating in all games has decayed considerably, and I'm more open to playing with friends now because I know I wont reach my previous peak.
>>336852461
Is Splatoon still alive? I was thinking of picking it up.
>>336852065
I found that I like the adventure genre way more than actually the skill-based games. That is, now I play Dungeons and Dragons. I now play fighting games like Monster Hunter and Guilty Gear, though.
I love competition, but I find my ability degrades by the week and it kills me inside. Cripes, once upon a time in Monster Hunter threads past, I was one of /v/'s premier gunners. I could do just about anything in MHFU with just about any weapon and could even naked gun several things. Now, even with these newer and easier Monster Hunter games, my skill has degraded enough that I'm constantly screwing small things up (though I'm also very convinced that there's some input delay on the 3DS games) and it's embarrassing.
I've also become more fond of puzzles in games. I'm sure ten years ago I would've rather killed myself instead of playing Soul Reaver, but nowadays I love the little puzzles strewn about (in addition to everything else that makes Soul Reaver phenomenal) and having to look at something from a few different angles to figure it out.
>>336852065
>How have you found your enjoyment of games changing as you've gotten older, /v/?
39 here, and I've been enjoying games nowadays more and more. Get a new hobby if this one bites so much.
>>336852657
Funny you should say that, I got into actual tabletop D&D only a couple of years ago (I'm 28 now).
I like stealth games now. Couldn't stand them before.
I've been playing the Thief series and it kinda feels like it was designed for a mature audience anyway.
>>336852065
I am twentyfive turning 26 in July 30th and I find it best when people are watching me play a game. I dunno why but it gives me such a good feeling when people are actually watching me. Some random lucky asshole who had way to much luck in gathering PC games. Also....I like to give a couple of Nintendo Wii U games to folks.
What I have is Freedom Planet (will give that out during a Twitch stream)
Shantae and the Pirates Curse
Affordable space adventures and Swords and Soilders 2.
>>336852690
I used to play TFC back in the day, I'm talking well over 10 years ago. Probably like.. 15 years ago come to think of it, even though I was 13 I played in a top-tier clan in my country.
Perhaps the skill ceiling for MP games was lower then, but I don't think I could get as good as I was then without a massive time investment I can't possibly replicate with work commitments (and long term girlfriend etc).
Less playing more into the news these days hoping something brings back that I'll stand in a Gamestop line(I wouldn't I'd download it) at midnight for it type of hype. Hardly ever any PvP anymore. Just looking for more jolly cooperation offerings to play with my brother and two cousins. The Division, Destiny ,and GTA were/arr those games bit I'm queasy burnt out on them. Single player games have to be really good to me for me to want to see them to the end. I'm no longer anywhere near a completionist when it comes to collectables or achievements. I summon most of the time in Dark Souls. Turning 30 made me a casual.
>>336852762
Thief's environmental storytelling is unparalleled. Such a shame what happened to the latest release.
my teen years were full of the competition scene and i hate to see what it has become, so there's none of that there for me anymore
i play significantly less games than i used to, and almost no multiplayer (unless it's with established online friends i've had for over 15 years now)
honestly the most entertainment i'm getting is out of 2d platformers
i got EXTREMELY BAD at this type of game, and have no idea why, but i'm having a riot trying to clear these games that i used to rock at as such a small child
my quake skills never left me, i'm still someone that could play competitively there, but god DAMN mario, i don't know how to get you out of that quicksand anymore
I've become a lot less interested in video games. I rarely touched video games for the last few years. I always enjoyed challenging games, but now prefer more casual experiences.
It's good in a way because I've been able to enjoy games I hated in the past for being too shallow or easy
Reading this thread comforts me.
Now I know why I don't enjoy video games anymore.
The last game I played that I truly enjoyed was Firewatch and that's just because it felt like a movie than a video game.
Currently studying and on break, lucky enough to live off of inheritance so I can afford to just do nothing if uni's out. Thought I was going to be spending this year playing vidya but I just can't bring myself to enjoy video games anymore.
>>336853321
>Now I know why I don't enjoy video games anymore.
Why don't you?
>>336852065
Exactly 25 and if anything I'm enjoying it more than every as I can finally afford to build PCs with current gen cards powerful enough to run anything. Only thing is poor internet for online games, can't fix that without expatriating..
I know people knock the whole movie-game thing and apply it to just about anything from Witcher to Halo but I've realized the most fun I've had playing video games when I was younger was when I had the feeling of being immersed in a fictional world, a few titles come to mind instantly here: Baldur's Gate, Grim Fandango, Homeworld, Little Big Adventure etc.
Another thing I can't understand with the youngsters these days is this whole "I like X genre but hate Y genre".
Was this always a thing? I don't understand this form of autism, to me when I used to play games regularly I'd love it regardless of whether it was Civ or Doom 3.
Can't beat the old classic SNES and other games from the classic/retro consoles. If the Mainstream releases make you feel meh. Try going back and play something like Super Metriod or Super Mario World.
Then you would feel that time invested in a game is worth it because of all the hidden shit you could find.
>>336852065
i still enjoy the occasional new game, but they are so few and far between that i've stopped buying new consoles and upgrading my computer altogether
>>336853643
I was never into Nintendo games as a kid, I grew up on an Acorn 3000 and later a PC, then a playstation alongside a decent PC.
>>336853356
Life is catching up and even if you're a NEET fag, you'll still think new games are shit cause you can't take your nostalgia goggles off and or you think your skills aren't enough for games that you think are good so you shitpost about it being bad.
These are all excuses if you think about it, it's just that we're getting old. Most of us only have this one hobby and nothing else, so we're probably burnt out.
>>336852065
I just want Nintendo to be great again.
I want more&better Metroid style games.
I want more&better Mario 64 style games.
I want more&better Starfox style games.
I want more&better Zelda.
I want more&better Pikmin.
I want more&better Mega Man.
I want more&better Castlevania.
I want more&better Metroid Prime style games.
I want more&better Earthbound style games.
I want more&better Isometric RPGs
Every genre I want, is either dead, dying, or spoiled. I'm unsatisfied, and don't know what to do about it.
>>336853573
I'm probably older than you and I never liked fighters. To me they feel purely competitive with no actual content. The only ones I've ever enjoyed somewhat have single player campaigns, and even then, unless it's more of a brawler than a fighter, I just don't like it
Taste is relatively the same. I don't buy shitty JRPG's as often.. and can mostly patiently wait for sales now instead of impulse buying them at $60 when they're only worth like $30 at most.
Mostly just play big titles now.. it's just, "Play this hyped AAA title for a month, wait for the next one to come out" .. I wish I had something to play right now. After beating DS3 I got nothing. Thinking about hitting up The Division again...
>>336853746
Have you guys tried picking up other forms of entertainment?
By far and away my favorite form of entertainment these days is reading.
>>336853727
If you get a chance. Try them. Emulate the Gameboy advance/Color games like Legend of Zelda Oracle of ages and Seasons and Links awakening.
Charm and immersion in a fantasy world is quite nice.
If thats not your thing. Puzzle/Platformer games are aplenty.
I just wish Intellegent software would make another Advance Wars game.
>>336853643
Oh crap this.
I can't even beat the Box on Megaman 4 anymore.
>>336853796
Theres bloodstained and I am sure Iga is not going to pull a Keiji Inafune on us. Plus Bigger then SOTN?
Thats dedication.
Unless if your talking about the classic side scrolling time based Castlevanias...Dunno Konami is dead in their tracks from what I can tell. Stock prices are down and their Gambling Machines are the only things keeping them affloat. But not for long.
>>336853849
I enjoy movies, animation and books too.
I consume alot of these but video games are still my favorite form of entertainment and it saddens me how I'm not even excited about it anymore.
My taste in games has changed a lot as I've aged. I used to primarily play long, story-driven RPGs. Now I become impatient and drop games if it takes too long to walk places, or if the game's text is too slow, etc.
When it comes to single player games I pretty much only play roguelikes and roguelites these days. I think it's because you can just jump in and play and constantly be doing stuff, whether you play for 5 minutes or for several hours. If I'm to play something that's not a roguelike/lite, it'll typically only happen if it's part of a long running franchise that I enjoy like Monster Hunter.
From a multiplayer perspective I play Smash Bros with friends a lot and I want to get back into an FPS, but nothing has piqued my interest for a long time. I played TF2 from 2007-2014 but I've not found something to replace it yet. Maybe I won't until TF3, who knows.
tl;dr: I get impatient with games that feel too slow paced now that my free time is far more limited, so I only enjoy games where you can just jump in and be doing something immediately.
>>336852642
It's extremely alive. 26 on the 30th and its one of the few games I currently play.
27 here.
I don't have the goddamn time for competitive gaming. Getting competitively good at a multiplayer game takes too much time. Even when I did have the time for that shit, I preferred single-player games.
I've gone from loving strategy and turn based rpg's to loving action rpg's and survival games. I never play strategy or stealth games anymore.
>>336853994
I wasn't meaning 'I COULDN"T BEAT THEM" in a figurative way. I mean I was saying along the lines that in that Era. Gaming was unique and different.
>>336854182
I love strategy games, but holy fuck they're a huge time investment - at least the Total War/Civ/EU TBS kind.
>>336852065
Pushing 30 here,
Competitive games are the only thing I still find fun. Single player experiences were all designed to be beaten.
As a whole, I don't enjoy videogames anymore, I just play them because it's what I've always done.
It's nice being able to easily afford any console/game/rig, but it leads to a daunting backlog.
>>336852065
I've always been more into single player games like RPGs anyway, so that.
I still crave long as fuck games and love them, I clocked 130 hours on XCX.HAHA LETS EAT TATSU XDDD
I mostly play multi like Mario Kart or Sm4sh with friends, or the occasional ASSFAGGOTS with myboyfriendfor mindless fun.
>>336854049
I didn't necessarily mean more to mean bigger in scale. I meant more as in making new games.
But I think SotN would benefit from a few extra areas. The game does feel rather small. Even considering the inverted castle.
25 year old here.
There was a weird period between 19 and 23-ish? When I felt like games were getting really boring and generally a huge waste of time. Now I'm loving them more than ever before. I can actually get sucked into playing a game for hours and hours once again.
>>336853746
Dude, it's not like you have a time consuming job, and you're living off fucking inheritance, most people have it way harder.
Make use of that time you have, find new hobbies, hit the gym. Fuck, if only I had the time you had.I'm a chef, I manage to stay healthy and /fit/ but it's hard as it is.
>>336854431
Well I do live off of money I didn't earn but I'm using it to get a degree, and when schools in I barely have time for vidya.
>>336853849
I do read more, been reading a lot of Jules Verne.
>>336854431
Fuck the whole Wage Slave life is the main life style.
I'm a Marxist and I believe that what you can do with your time will bring you the most happiness. Not Limited $ forced on you from corporal assholes.
>>336854261
The closest I'de get to strategy is something like Mount and Blade or X Albion Prelude.
>>336852065
31.
i feel as if im enjoying then now more than i did before. i went many a year when i was younger where i had no interest in them after being interested for a long time.
>>336852065
ya, i try new genres out like adventure and puzzle games and i tend to enjoy those now. i have almost lost all interest in fps games which was my favorite thing as a kid. I still play rpg's.
>>336854736
>Slave
I enjoy my job, but it's a busy one.
Also, everything costs money, go figure.
>gym
money
>vidya
Money
>traveling
Money
Unless happiness to you means picking flowers all day, but that probably involves a cost too.
>>336852657
>fighting games like Monster Hunter
I mostly just play older games now, pic related
I am pretty excited for FF15 though
>>336855065
>traveling
to me thats a waste of A LOT of money. im happy where i am. but to each their own.
My taste has stayed has stayed the same for like 15 years now, I'm practically the vidya version of omnivore who can find fun in pretty much anything, let it be brainless AAA action, grognard strategy, JRPGs, competitive gaming or whatever one could possibly imagine. But there are certainly some changes that come from the fact that I just can't play as much anymore as I could when I were younger.
>I just can't enjoy competitive vidya like I used to. Because I have such a limited time to play vidya, I would have to dedicate practically all my time to a one game if I wished to stay sharp in something like CS or Starcraft. Of course skill-based MM could find other equally rusty or new players to play against, but it's not just the same.
>Huge RPGs used to be my favorite genre and they still kinda are, but it's somewhat hard to convince myself to start games that last for some 80 hours. I have stuff like Xenoblade, Persona 4 and Witcher 3 in my backlog and I really would like to play them, but it just seems really daunting to begin them. Of course it's not like I couldn't play them at a slow pace, but I still can't shake the feeling.
29 here. My enjoyment is about the same, save for the wonder I had as a kid. Used to play competitive games, go to tourneys, play mmos etc. Nowadays I just enjoy lengthy single player games, starting to really get back into arcade games (good for jump in/out, my younger bro and I are considering building a cabinet), and I'll occasionally hop on a new multiplayer game.
Starting to feel old as fuck though. Had a fun fight club in DS3 and we were in group chat. The guy hosting it had to bail and said "Got class tomorrow guys. Gonna be finished with HS soon!".
I guess I should be happy that technology allows such a wide range of people to connect. Still, it's a reminder of how I'm not getting any younger. I remember losing my mind getting to play Dreamcast online.
>I've found myself becoming less interested in competitive gaming, it just seems pointless as I get older to be honest.
It's the opposite for me. But maybe that's because I spent my youth playing Quest of Feels shit that I no longer have the patience for it.
That said, Dark Souls is the stupidest piece of shit I've ever seen and makes truly believe this new generation is full of autismal retards.
>>336852701
/thread
>>336852065
I'm well past my 20s and have maybe an hour or two a week to play games. Competitive online games? No time for that shit anymore, sad to say.
Getting older sucks.
30, don't really enjoy games anymore. Kind of having a mid life crisis and things I enjoyed as a kid are no longer enjoyable.
There are still a few games I enjoy but they have to be special. When I was a kid literally any game was fun, now I am picky beyond belief.
The biggest differences is as a teenager most of my vidya was MMOs, Counter Strike, and multiplayer Cawwadoody, and I've no interest in any of those now. I prefer single player games that I play at my own pace, usually RPGs.
28
>over 250 games in Steam library
>do pic related instead
26 here, I still enjoy my vidya but I don't get the thrill of a new game like I used to
>>336852065
27 and despite working 2 jobs 6-7 days a week still loving video games, possibly more than ever
>>336855319
>Dark Souls is the stupidest piece of shit I've ever seen and makes truly believe this new generation is full of autismal retards.
Why?
I do hate the way some people treat it as the 'hardest game series ever' or some hardcore badge upon completion, but I really enjoy the series. It has issues but it's a nice change of pace and I enjoy the atmosphere of the games.
That being said, I am glad they're supposedly taking a break after 3.
25 approaching 26 here, my tastes have pretty much stayed the same. I have a fondness for retro games, and I never ever believe in the saying "_____ aged poorly." I cant stand when someone ridicules an older game for graphics. I love my ps4 though, and am working my way through Dark Souls 2.
Favorite genres are platformer, action rpg, and shmup (even if I'm not that great at shmups)
>>336852065
I find myself incapable of playing stuff like assassins creed and far cry and stuff. I feel like it's purely a checklist of.l chores. Shitty thing is I want to be able to play those and have fun, but I think I'm too autistic at this point. Other than that i still have a great time with vidya
>>336855891
It looks like a shitty dungeon crawler from the early 2000s which could be forgivable if the gameplay wasn't wonky as fuck and based off of trial and error and RNG bullshit.
Maybe the only cool thing about it is invasions but you're pretty shit out of luck if you don't have internet.
>>336856085
This was main gripe with The Witcher 3. Fortunately The Witcher 3 also has some really meaty quests to enjoy, but yeah, games like Far Cry that are just a checklist of unexplored locations to go and do some random thing in are tiring now. Boring.
>>336856031
I love retro too, but early 3D did age pretty poorly. I love the N64/PS1/SAT but some of those games are just rough to play now.
>shmups
Oh hell yes. I just finished Radiant Silvergun and I'm working on Ikaruga now. The genre has stayed a favorite of mine since childhood.
>>336852065
I've found my gaming preference has been slowly changing. I still love the games I grew up with and I'm always looking for a new experience but I find myself more cautious with new purchases.
I don't have to run out and buy every game that comes out. I'm happy to wait for reviews before going in. I developed a massive backlog and have been slowly making my way through it. The best part about waiting is that I can get really good games on the cheap after a year or so.
I've also found myself more drawn towards games that I can pick up for a round and then put down. I love ROGs and story driven games but I really struggle to find the time to sink dozens of hours into a single game like I did when I was teenager.
>>336855319
>>336856236
Pic related, faggot.
37 here, my taste in games has been pretty much the same ones since I started to play video games, the only change is that now I dont spend days grinding in JRPG's since I just stop caring and go play something else.
Funny thing: I still love to play as the same day I started to, the thing I really hate is community in general, from the "this is no charity" midset of developers to the "PCpiracywhen?" of the consumers the whole industry seems to be filled with retards
>>336856290
Yeah, same here. Tw3 took me like half a year to beat simply because I'd do a big meaningful quest, it'd end and id go back to side quests and lose interest. That game feels like it's the same as those other games but of a much higher quality.
>>336852065
>How have you found your enjoyment of games changing as you've gotten older, /v/?
I care less about actual series/licenses and more about just dicking around with other peeps.
>Have you started to enjoy different genres, or find that you don't enjoy others as much?
Finding that I'm not enjoying games as much, as I work a full time job, study part time and exercise 4 days a week. I just want to get involved in multi player games honestly.
Oddly enough I'm enjoying being more competitive in games more. CS GO seems to be good, as it combines playing with other guys and having a good time too.
>>336852065
>How have you found your enjoyment of games changing as you've gotten older, /v/?
Other than RTS games I pretty much only play first person games now. For me the third person view is vestigial. It only exists because games were first made in a time when first person was next to impossible, or the hardware was too primitive to do it well.
>>336852461
I fucking hate video games now, nearly everything is the fucking same shit I've already played rehashed over and over getting praised again and again by the successively younger generations playing them.
>>336856236
Huh, I like dungeon crawlers though.
>wonky as fuck
The games can be rough around the edges but I've never really felt it was wonky save for rare odd combat situations or weapon interactions. Getting bounced by arrows in Anor Londo was awful though.
>trial and error
Traps, mimics and ambushes are annoying but I never felt that they were unfair or overdone. Proceeding cautiously will usually benefit you a great deal. And bosses are bosses. Get their pattern and weakness and gear up some good defense.
>RNG
Other than gear/drops, how does this come into play?
I'll agree that online definitely has been a big part of the game for me. It's not game breaking to go solo but you will miss out on a lot of potential fun.
Dunno what else to say. Hope you'll give the series another go but if not that's cool. You're entitled to your opinion.
Everything seems like shit lately.
There are several games I'm looking forward to this year but none of them are out yet, and then there's the whole Nintendo fiasco where they basically abandoned the Wii U a year early and won't even reveal NX details to tide us over.
I keep trying to get into some of my backlog but I can't find myself interested in anything right now. The state of everything is just way too depressing
I used to obsess over one game at a time. Especially fighting games. Then I realized that once a new one comes along, all that old knowledge is dumped and replaced. Vicious cycle.
I was jaded for a while, some games brought me back from that.
Last game I beat was Dark Souls 3. Before that was either MH4U or New Little Kings Story.
I still prefer varied genres, always have.
As for the story driven point, I don't think I have a tendency to seek them out, but rather they've been trending for about 5 years and have been really good. I'll get Uncharted 4 because I enjoy those.
>>336856517
>another meme addicted shithead
Thanks for proving my point faggot.
Go back to your pickle pee thread.
31 here, my interest started vanishing when I was 22, but I kept going out of sheer inertia.
I still claim gen 7 killed my interest in gaming, it was so fucking atrocious it made me realizehow quickly and mercilessly good things you love can get ruined.First gen I could afford to be idort, never played so little out of a gen.
I tried extending the lifespan by thingken "maybe I just need better grafekx on retrogaming" so I assembled a sandy bridge machine in 2011. Nothing, I've beaten like four emulated games (took me a decade to even care about SoTC). I have several hundred gigabytes worth of shit, zelda with textures or whatever the fuck weebshit for PS2 and DC. Nothing.
Even on the more relevant games, played DSouls at launch, then stopped at the first bell of Dark, not because it's a bad game or too hard but because I literally could not care less. Same for Witcher (stopped at 1), Ninja Gaiden (2), DMC (didn't even beat 4 let alone Donte).
>>336856085
Skipped the entirety of those series, and I skipped most of the major western series in general, as I literally NEVER cared for most of those. I liked the first Uncharted even though it stayed one year in the wrap before I played it, then I beat 2 and I was done with the series. Yakuza also, played 1-3 then quit during 4 and never looked back. I don't even know why I beat Max Payne 3, fun gunplay but halfway it got stale and repetitive. Maybe because pc has no tps. I do look forward to Shenmue III but not to Trico, I don't care for it.
>>336856783
Stopped quests too whereas I used to 100% everything (the last game I ever platinumed was Graces F, four years ago, last PS3 game I played before selling the console), except now some games I don't even beat. I preferred to go back and play BoFIII rather than beat ToZ, now I'm sort of playing Lunar instead of Weebtunia.
>26
My vidya taste remains mostly the same, except my competitive taste has switched from FPSs to fighters, which I didn't really like before. I actually travel with a group to compete now.
However, my enjoyment of other vidya is almost theoretical at this point. I barely play anything else, and yet I keep buying games that just go straight to my backlog. I think I bought like 5 games for the last PS3 flash sale, a month or so ago and I was siper hyped about it. I haven't started one yet.
That being said, I picked up Operation Raccoon City for $4 two days ago when I went to see Civil War with my crew. Going to start it shortly. Can't be as bad as I've heard.
Lately I find myself looking for indie games and small scale passion projects along with classics I missed from 2-4 generations ago.
I don't understand why a game can catch so much flak from /v/ for being indie.
>>336857265
>Gen seven killed my interest in gaming
Same here.
I like rpgs fighting games and hack and slash
When I was 16 I liked shitty ass fps and jumpscare tier horrors
>>336852424
they're all the same fucking game anyhow
>>336856236
Holy shit. I thought I was alone in thinking Dark Souls was overrated. I forced myself to beat Dark Souls 1 (had to do it all offline because online wasn't working for the DS3 release or whatever) just so people couldn't say "looks liek someone got rekt by dark souls xd". I am a fucking idiot.
Maybe it's because I'm older. I just don't get the "hard for the sake of being hard" thing that Dark Souls has. I feel like the controls are crap and that I was fighting them more than the enemies. It was also a lot of trial and error and that's kind of dumb.
>>336856236
>It looks like
It literally is, it's a reboot of King's Field with third person camera.
I don't feel like playing games very often anymore, but when I do, I play like ten hours straight. I also feel like I need to have enough time to enjoy playing the game, if I can only play for like two hours I won't even bother
As for the games, I've been going through old classics. Mainly because I only have a PS3 and a weak laptop, on the other hand I don't know what new games I would really even be playing. Everything seems so derivative and boring
Also I never seem to finish games anymore. I'll play them for a while, have a good time but then I'll just drop it for no reason. I think I started playing Planescape in like 2012, haven't touched it in a year probably since I got a new machine and didn't bother installing it yet. Always fun going back to it and having no idea what I was doing last
Finished TW3 but now Squad is the only game I play atm.
>>336855319
>Dark Souls
It isn't hard, it just puts pressure on the player more than most modern games. Old games are much harder, especially ones that require memorization of enemies like Contra, Shinobi, etc.
I like them because of the atmosphere and I'm a sucker for the art style that they push for. It all comes together to make a fun experience. Some of the best boss intros in any game come from Souls.
28 here.
The biggest change I've noticed is that, now that I have a job, I'm much more contious about what games I play and when, and how I divy up my time. I don't buy games that I might play maybe, if I'm buying a game, I damn well better finish it. I don't have the time or money to just while away anymore.
Also, though I used to LOVE them, I can't fucking stand games that don't have some kind of hard end. Like MMOs, or Minecraft, or games like that. Can't stand them, don't understand the people who can.
Also, basically any game where I have to grind to progress. JRPGs are the worst. I know a lot of people who are huge into games like Disgaea, and I just can't be bothered. I don't have as much time as I used to, and I really want to feel like I can make tangible progress every time I sit down and play.
>>336857632
I can't remember much trial and error from my first playthrough
>>336852065
Biggest change is not playing FPS games anymore.
I blame that on the new ones being shit
I'm totally uninterested in games with real-world settings and a real world feel (think GTA) for the most part, unless they're historical.
I basically immerse myself in anything that's sci-fi or fantasy. I just enjoy the concept of being in these worlds a lot more. I find the humor in GTA childish too, it desperately wants to be seen as some adult, cutting edge social commentary thing but it's just not funny.
>>336857265
>>336857542
It ALMOST got me too.
I bought the 360 because Gears was praised as the second coming and Halo was somewhat relevant. Super jaded after that.
Then PS3 and the no games meme along with MGS4 being very questionable.
Luckily I found a shit ton of enjoyment in Uncharted 2, Demon's Souls, and even God of War 3, which was enough to keep me going.
>used to love long games
>dream about games being 500+ hours long
>the idea now is utterly repulsive
I can rarely stand to play a game that's longer than 20 hours. Anything longer is usually *extremely* repetitive/grindy or has lots of filler content like fetch quests where you get item for person and have to walk huge distances to do it with no fast travel.
I also feel like I'm not falling for the illusion anymore. Like whenever there's a fetch quest or you have to kill an arbitrary amount of enemies to advance to the next screen, I see it for what it is, a time sink. They're forcing you to be there or do that to pad the game's length and that's all it is
What I crave more than anything these days is novelty, something I actually haven't seen before, which is incredibly rare. Alternatively, something I've seen a million times before but is different enough (or has a huge graphical face lift) can convey a similar sense of novelty but not as strong
>>336857632
>I just don't get the "hard for the sake of being hard" thing that Dark Souls has.
There's your problem right there.
Dark Souls isn't hard for the sake of being hard.
Yes, it's a difficult game, but it's difficult at the service of being immersive and atmospheric. It's a game that forces you to slow down and be observant, at first so you don't get caught by traps, and later so you notice small details that really show how much detail there is in that universe.
That's what really helped me break through my "Dark Souls is bullshit!" wall: Realizing that it's not trying to punish me, it's trying to tell me to stop and sniff the roses.
It's difficult in the exact same ways and for the exact same reasons as games like Super Metroid.
>>336858280
>I bought the 360 because Gears was praised as the second coming and Halo was somewhat relevant. Super jaded after that.
Weird. I'm 29 and I have fond, fond memories of all the Halo games, 1-3 and thought Gears 1 was a ton of fun.
Also primarily a PC gamer so don't pull the consolefag card. I can still remember being impressed by how Gears 1 looked, even by PC standards.
Current gen is a tiny step up by comparison.
>>336857479
Not mommy
31 or 32 reporting in, games these days piss me off by being lazy, artificially locked off, handholdy, arms-inside-the-cart michael-bay setpieces.
I dont think I've outgrown games, its that games got shitty over the last ~10 years, thanks to it becoming a profitable industry driven by people who no longer care about what they make, and consumers who are too pleb to know what they're missing out on by being satisfied with shit
>>336858393
>Dark souls is difficult
>Super Metroid is difficult
I think you might be retarded anon, that or a born and bred casual.
I still think a big problem with games is that the writing is shit.
I can remember playing Lost Odyssey and being amazed at the quality of the Thousand Years of Dreams segments in terms of the stories they told. Then I found out a novelist had written them.
Why are games still using fan-fiction tier writers?
>>336858719
Metroid are like the megaman games, games that are hard more due the fact you have to time your shooting than anything else.
It's like the Ninja Gaiden games on the nes, the hard part was jumpattack.
Online gaming is terrible because I have no patience for ragers and trolls these days. I tend to play singleplayer action games like Bayonetta which have high, compact enjoyment and don't touch open world gaming because it feels like a quantity over quality in game form.
>>336858719
If you didn't think Super Metroid was difficult the first time you played it, ESPECIALLY if the first time you played it was when it first came out, then you're lying.
OR, you're a good player, in which case, you shouldn't be having trouble with Dark Souls either, so what are you complaining about?
I'm 26, and my tastes haven't changed that much. Basically the kinds of games I liked when I was younger I still like, but there are a few other genres that I never really cared much before and now I enjoy. I really got into fighting games, not to the point that I play competitively, but I do follow the scene and play a considerable amount.
But honestly, my problem nowadays is time. I still enjoy playing games, but I definitely don't play as much as I used to. Not only because of school/work, but also because with time I got into another hobbies that also take time.
I have been playing Dark Souls 3 since the day it was released and I don't think I have 5 hours on the game yet. I think I beat like 4 bosses so far, something like that.
>>336858678
This.
Modern games have no challenge.
Multiplayer games have fucking high skill floors and low/moderate skill ceilings. I find teammates are dumber than ever.
Everything is casualized.
I'm 28.
>>336858896
I played Super Metroid as a kid and I feel like the pirate boss kicked my ass a few times but not enough that I felt stuck on him, and other than that I just don't remember any real difficulty. The game was time consuming in that I didn't know where to necessarily go or what to do, and that's all most games are these days. If you follow through with the motions, they're not hard, just time consuming. DaS is no different
>>336858880
Mega man is more about timing dodging, movement, and then shooting at least from the games I've played.
>>336858896
Yep, I never thought it was difficult because I am not a casual like yourself. Sorry mate, you sound like you just suck at video games.
I'm 46 years old.
>>336852065
I went from Japanese games to competitive.
28.
I play way less than I used to and not just out of lack of time. I refuse to play games that are complete timesinks. Between age 18 and 25 I spent a lot of time playing either MMOs or MOBAs starting with DaoC and DotA.
These days I just enjoy playing things that really catch my interest somehow, it used to be that I played all the things I felt I "needed" to play, because it was the new hot shit discussed on here or what not.
>>336852065
35 here
I've strayed from FPS and have come to enjoy RTS more. Also point and click adventures.
I stopped getting into 3rd person action years ago.
>>336859242
What's it feel like to know you are going to die before you get to see true virtual reality video games, and long before the best games ever made are made?
>>336859191
Aaaaaaand out comes the e-peen. Gotta have one in every discussion.
>>336852065
I'm 32 and have been into indie games for a while now. I like rogue lites like spelunky and nuclear throne.
>>336859382
I want video games to become like the movie "gamer"
>>336859382
VR is a gimmick to make up for games being shit. It's literally like a super Wiimote.
I'll play whatever, I just can't stand loading screens like I used to. I have a few games on console that I haven't finished but I just can't sit through all that loading. Ssd is it for me
>>336857290
This guy again. God damn it, I'm 5 minutes in. The cover system is utter garbage and it's a fucking cover shooter.
>>336859382
If I'm actually talking with you right now, then it means neither of us make it to the technological singularity
>>336852762
Literally me senpai. Enjoying Dishonored, Thief, Hitman games. Even Mark of the Ninja.
29. First person shooters are unplayable. I like 3rd person adventures now. Long story rich games. I play maybe 3 hours a day if I feel like it. Some days I can't even think about vidya.
>>336852065
30 here. I still play a lot of genres I used to like fps and action games but with the slightly slower reflexes and not being able to play too much due to injuries I also started to enjoy turn-based a whole lot more
also I don't give a shit if I win or lose anymore
>>336859412
>It's e-peen waving to not be complete shit at video games
Again I'm sorry you suck at video games anon, but you got to stop pretending that because of your low skill level every video game you have trouble with is "objectively" difficult.
>>336859474
Well what do you expect? Games are getting boring. There are only a small handful of types of games. The shit is getting old. They need something to spice up the immersion.
Are you telling me that the change from black and white to color in movies was a gimmick?
>>336852065
36, still enjoy competitive gaming, mostly figting games though.
I find myself playing old arcade type of games, I dont like story driven games, I prefer games you can quickly pick up and play and try to get better at them, to get better scores
>>336859521Yeah I know ;_;
>>336859474
Read the post again bub, carefully this time.
>>336859664
No, because that was a lack of something necessary, playing HL2 in VR is not necessary, the game is what it is and what you're adding is a smokescreen.
VR is nothing but malibu stacy with a hat.jpg
Not sure if it's age or just having played enough vidya, but I cannot fucking stand open world collectathons anymore
>>336852065
I'm 18 can I post in this thread?
>>336859852
Of course, you are older than the majority of /v/ after all
>>336859852
Can you? Yes. May you? No.
Turning 28 next week. I still love my vidya, but I've drifted away from the long, non linear, expansive 40+ hour long games (besides the souls series I suppose), and tend to play the quick, pick up and have some instant fun games, like NT, Gungeon, Rocket League, or fast match casual shooters that I can play a round or two and call it a day. Both overwatch and battle born have scratched that itch lately.
I'm pretty sure it's because I don't game a lot of time for gaming between a 50+hr work week, and my other not vidya hobbies. Trying to get into some game that requires a significant time investment is just too much. Which is a shame, because I want to replay FF7 before the remake comes so it's fresh in my mind, but damn is the traditional jrpg pacing killing me.
>>336859792
You actually feel your life goin down the drain. It's like welp, I'll never have that time back.
>>336859792
I kinda felt like this when I replayed Spyro. It's still a nice game and the levels are cool, but running around collecting all the gems felt like a chore. On the other hand it gave an incentive to fully explore the levels, I couldn't even remember some of the secrets
25
Play games less, but I can finally do what I wanted, which is play fighting games on a competitive basis. Back in high school I loved the games, but couldn't go out for tournaments despite knowing where locals were.
Somehow I'm less social online though and just don't want to communicate with random people online anymore so I just don't care as much about cooperative online games and making friends through them.
>>336859984
>I want to replay FF7 before the remake comes
I actually started playing it for the first time recently. But I haven't touched it in like two weeks I think, I'm still on disc 1. But based on the little I've played of it, I think it seems like one of the better FF games I've played. I just don't feel like actually playing it
Quit playing games at 28 but still come here daily to fling shit. I'm 32. Why can't I quit you?
27 year old NEET, the only games I've played in the past few months are CS:GO, Path of Exile and Stardew Valley. If we go back 1 year the list only gets bigger by a few games, Dwarf Fort, Shogun 2, The Witcher 3, Insurgency, and Shadowrun Hong Kong, maybe 1 or 2 others I've forgotten.
I only really get 1 or 2 full price new releases a year, mostly stick to buying old stuff on sale. Helps me save my NEET bux.
26 here.
I think I'm a lot worse at games in general than I was. I'm playing Alien Isolation right now and getting my ass kicked on hard. Also, my brain needed work - I remember playing System Shock and Morrowind in college and being completely immersed in the stories. Something happened a few years ago and I realized I couldn't concentrate, took some time to get myself back.
I still play PS1 and PS2 games when I'm bored, fuck around open world games on my laptop. Mainly I just wish I was more into my PS4 games.
Most of you are worried and/or stressed. The care free times in youth had left you.
>>336860290
ATB is atrociously dated by 2016 standards
I honestly don't know how I ever thought it was good. It's basically 99% mashing the same button over and over again, changing only for boss fights (sometimes)
29. I work 8 hours and then come home at 330. Wife goes to work at 5 and I have the remaining 6 to 7 hours a day to play vidya. Git gud scrubs.
>>336860471
a lot of games is mashing the same button over and over. It's not the best reason to dislike FF7
26 and realizing I'm going to be depressed and retarded forever
>>336860578
How many years do you think you can keep that up and remain content? You're not even 30 yet.
My only tip for people getting older is to not fall for the fucking e-Sports faggotry trying to make your hobby seem worthwhile or something.
You will sink way too many hours and become bitter and jaded as shit. Don't do it. I almost completely fell for it but thank god I came to my senses.
Spend all that useless time learning other languages and travelling now while still enjoying some MP and SP vidya.
>>336860578
She cucks you while you work, you know. Go ahead, smell the sheets and you'll smell a nigger's ass sweat.
>>336860290
It's a fantastic game, but like most jrpgs it's slow paced, not that that is a purely negative thing, because I loved grinding out monsters and maxing materia when I first played the game almost two decades ago, but I just don't Jane the patience for it nowadays.
Maybe dude weed would help, I dunno.
>>336860729
I have other hobbies. Shits pretty comfy.
>>336860656
No, it's not, but it's certainly a good way to explain why someone can't remain interested in this day and age
The story and music are all that's left that's any good, and the relatively bad translation hinders the first one quite a bit. The extremely dated visuals, while conceptually charming, really drive the final nail into the coffin
28
i kinda just tool around on blizz games now, used to be more diverse with my gaming choices but ive gotten pretty casual as the years drag.
though i have decided to visit the souls games, beat ds1 and 2. still need to pick up and try out 3. they fill a nice niche that ive felt has been missing for a while in my gaming life.
>>336860835
I'll take this into considerarion
Thanks
>>336860443
I don't have a job or kids.
I can assure you, as you get older, you enjoy things less.
That's just the way it goes.
>>336860471
I don't even mind it that much, something's just happened where I just rarely feel like starting up any game, unless it's something you can play a couple rounds of real quick. I played some Doom earlier, ran through the levels and went back to what I was doing before. Short and sweet. But if it's something with more depth, I don't feel like committing to it for the next x hours. Don't even know
>>336852065
My experience is more or less the same as yours. I was never highly into the competitive scene, but now I care even less. Stuff like Overwatch is sort of fun but the thrill of WINNING doesn't do much for me. It feels shallow.
I want to be immersed in an environment, world, story. But I find it hard to quantity exactly what counts as immersive. It doesn't count as a genre. A few months back I played Snatcher and found it to be fantastic.
>>336853643
This. But more so for the fantastic library of JRPGS on the SNES
>>336859659
>It's e-peen waving to not be complete shit at video games
It is when the conversation isn't explicitly about what games you did or did not actually find difficult.
It's a knee jerk reaction. You just saw the title of the game and the word "Difficulty" and immediately had to defend your honor, like you've got the self security of a fucking 12 year old.
Whether or not you found Dark Souls or Super Metroid difficult is immaterial. The point is, they use what difficulty they have in the same ways, that is, to draw attention to the story and the crafted world.
>>336852065
I'm only 21, but I've already found a huge difference in my approach to video games since my teenaged years
I used to love games like GTA because you could goof around and do whatever you want, but like you said, that kind of thing seems pointless now, almost because I know I'm just toying with a imperfect program made by an imperfect human...
ironically I've actually fallen in love with the GTA series for a whole new reason now, as you mentioned about the characters and worlds, GTA IV (also red dead) are almost perfect virtual worlds IMO where I actually finding myself getting lost in the virtual reality like I used to as a kid
For that reason I've recently become interested in games heavy on atmosphere and exploration like fallout, subnautica and mass effect.
Anyone got any good suggestions for games like that?
I play when I want, and I'm fine with most games, but I don't buy microtransactions, day 1 dlc, scam dlc, or season passes. I really want to nuke this board though.
>>336853841
Emulators tend to keep me fairly busy between new releases I'm actually interested in. If anything you're lucky you don't have much of a backlog. I'm in the middle of at least 10 games I've been playing on and off.
>>336861071
While this is true, I'm giving it all I got not to become jaded and just move on. 90% of the fight is thinking too goddamn much.
>>336852065
You truly fucked up if you're 25 yo and still play vidya
>>336861293
Oh forgot to mention I'm 25.
>>336860656
There is a difference between it being in a separate battle mode or just happening there as you walk forward. It always drove me crazy how every enemy encounter needs to have an intro, then you wait for a couple seconds to press X, win the fight and then there's a victory scene. Every time you take five steps in the map. It's a total time sink. It would work if the encounters were less frequent and needed more strategy
>>336852065
I actually found I've gotten less patient with games as I get older. I use to play Morrowind ten hours a day during school holidays, now I can barely play any one game for ten hours total.
Never have kids. I play 0 hours per week. I'll be back for you someday /v/, remember me ;_;
>>336852986
>Thief's environmental storytelling is unparalleled.
I'm 28. I spent the last month or so bringing through ad many Pokemon games I could find due to nostalgia. Now I'm halfway through Black and I can hardly stand to look at a Pokemon lol. Other than that I just fly around in circles on GTA.
The death of RTS games made me play a little less. The new expansion for sc2 is horrible, fucking gimmicky units everywhere. I miss the C&C series.
>>336861334
Nah man. It's okay. The trick is to enjoy things in moderation. If you have a wife and family they have to come first. If you have a career you have to pay it attention, keep your training up to speed, and be good to your clients. But you can still spend some time on your indulgences.
>>336852065
I agree with this.
>Hear younger gamers worrying about how they're not gonna have time for vidya anymore once they're adults
>Reach mid-20s and realize you actually still have plenty of time to play
I think the only thing that might actually diminish my time and ability to play video game is if I decide to have a family at any point.
>>336861445
This. I find it so much harder to look past flaws in games now. Even if it's not a technical flaw, just a design preference, something I would have done differently. As a kid I guess we just figured we had no choice so we took what we got but as we got older we gained the power to choose certain platforms, certain genres. I feel like I got lost in the power of controlling my own enjoyment that simply turning the game off and not playing is so much easier than sucking it up and continuing when it's not exactly as you want it.
>>336861272
Deus Ex: Human Revolution, has sort of an open world, but great immersion.
I turn 30 in a few weeks and I have never had much interest in multiplayer competitive gaming, but as I've gotten older what little I had has faded away into nothing. I won't play games that are multiplayer-only, and only do local multiplayer with my friends (e.g. Smash). I also just tend to lose interest in games that much faster. I stopped playing XCOM 2 after about 20 hours, and I still have yet to finish Hearts of Stone on Witcher 3. I feel like I've seen everything vidya has to offer, and rarely get interested in a new game coming out apart from interesting-looking indie games that are more retro in their design, e.g. Ghost Song and Eitr.
I'm a sucker for survival games now though, for some reason. I love Subnautica and I'm starting to get into Savage Lands, and I even tried pirating Fragmented and various other survival early access games to see if I like them. They mostly sucked though.
>>336861334
How old are you, and do you expect to just lose interest in everything you used to like when you hit a certain age? You must be pretty young if you feel that 25 is particularly old
>>336853849
I want so badly to read. My skin seems to crawl from the lack of stimulation. I'm missing out on so much gold it's killing me inside.
>>336861687
I would actually welcome less time. As a NEET it's all I have. On particularly busy or strenuous days whether they be full of yard/handiwork finally settling down for some vidya is a real pleasure. Otherwise it just kills time til the next day to rinse and repeat.
>>336852065
Becoming worse with each year, but the genres i like seem to release good stuff,
>stellaris hopes up
>darksouls 3,
>factorio
>master of orion seems to be good, shit steamreviews because of butthurt faggots mb
>>336861242
Yeah right, I came here to "defend my honour" my dubious honour of not having found two games that aren't particularly difficult, not difficult. Yep, totally a "knee jerk reaction" to point out your "omg dark souls is so good" faggotry is exactly that.
>The point is, they use what difficulty they have in the same ways, that is, to draw attention to the story and the crafted world.
>DaS and SM
>Story
Oh I see, you aren't casual as I first thought, you are just retarded. Seriously mate, this is a thread for 25+ people, not teenagers reading off blurbs from their favorite youtubers.
who /neet/ here?
>>336862205
This is pretty much how I felt for a long while after turning 18. I decided to get a job eventually, not because it felt wasteful to not be working, but because playing video games after working is so much more gratifying. And purchasing games with money you actually earned really gives you a new perspective on how much you enjoy or criticize them.
29 and mgsv was the very last kick in the nuts from vidya I'll ever get. I'll never get excited for a video game again.
>>336862498
Right here anon.
>>336861757
He's just another underaged shithead who thinks age defines everything.
He'll grow up when life takes a shit on him, just like the rest of us.
I'm 27 and just now really feeling the crunch of not wanting to play. My gf just left me after 10 years because I still play games and never "matured" to movies and watching plays and stuff. Said she couldn't be with someone like that. So I don't know maybe because she left me for a more "mature" guy last month it's kind of ruining all joy in playing games.
I enjoy brain games more often these days. i play tetris a few times a week for a couple hours while watching something. I'm actually more interested in shit like DnD these days which is a drastic turn from when i grew up.
>>336862894
>Not liking good plays and movies
Really anon?
>>336852065
I don't feel like replaying the same games anymore. Maybe it's because I have money compared to when I was a kid, so I can just buy whatever I want. It's harder for me to play for long periods of timebecause all the new games coming out are garbage
>>336862894
That's fucking lame, anon. I hate that people interpret games as childish just because they require input and constant attention to progress. Especially when some video games have better stories and characters than the ever stagnating movie industry. Plays can be alright sometimes, but only if they're not pretentious.
>>336862894
Bitches come and go, man. Don't let it ruin your sense of self.
I no longer have the same amount of time to burn on vidya as I used to
I've drifted towards multiplayan like dota2 or tf2, because they can be played in short bursts. As a bonus, these are games I can play with my friends, who no longer live in the same city as me.
29 here.
I always played pretty much anything, with focus on novel gameplay/narrative/aesthetics. That never changed, and I actually feel like I can describe better what I like and why I don't like about a game. I'm stubborn as hell with any form of media I'm involved, thanks to that I can count with my fingers how many games I have dropped.
I used to play a ton of JRPGs, but between the grind and how repetitive is the dialogue, I'd rather steer away from them. Except for playing emulators via smartphones, where thinking is not that necessary. That and my waning love of fighters are the biggest changes.
I've never cared for trends or hype, and I get this feeling that the "jaded gamer" is someone who did. You're not forced to like what's coming now and is popular. Play old classics or indies, whatever.
These days I've been more interested in strategy games, specially city builders and 4x. I also like games with simple rules that derive in complex scenarios, like Frozen Synapse or Mini Metro.
I play around 3 new games per month, average 1.5 hours a day. And yes, I still love them, maybe even more.
>>336863060
>liking plays
Are you 50? A hipster? Or just a gigantic faggot?
>>336862894
>10 years
>not married
That's why she left you. Sorry but it's true. Why are you so afraid of commitment?
>>336863060
It's not that I don't LIKE plays or movies, it's the fact that I'm not hyped to see romantic comedy number 5 this month, or so and so's friend who is in this shitty college play doing a musical.
>>336862874
I remember when 25 felt far away, then suddenly you're there and you realise you don't really feel very different
>>336863339
I wasn't, We discussed it like 50 times and she always said she hated the thought of kids and marriage because it just seemed terrible. I was the one wanting marriage, but she decided 3 years in she didn't want it.
>>336862894
>27
>10 years
High school romances never last. You two probably should have broken it off years ago but both of you were too chickenshit and kept together for fear of the alternative
>>336863060
>go to a play
>can't see shit unless you're in the front row
>>336863498
This anon speaks the truth.
>>336863094
>Not liking pretentious 19th century Russian playwrights
>>336863307
>Mocking someone for age in the 25+ gamers thread
I hope you are not serious.
>>336863367
Oh well if she had dogshit taste then that's another matter entirely.
>>336852065
I don't. If I play at all it's for an hour at the most on a freak fortress server. Weekdays it's 30mins tops.
Swapped out this hobby for drawing instead.
>>336863612
Not entirely. Her parents were high school lovers(still together) and so are mine(still together also), so I went against what was telling me was stupid and tried.
>>336863367
If it helps you, anyone who just dumps you over shit like that isn't worth your time. No, seriously.Thank baby jesus I'm gay and my guy loves vidya, even if he's a huge fucking casual
>>336860835
im not jaded because ive played Halo 2 professionally, halo 3 professionally and Rocket league professionally and halo 5
Over all im pretty happy wrecking scrubs.
though i can tell my age is showing in my reaction time. seeing as i started out pro at 15 during halo 2
>>336862793
>>336862498
Genuine curiosity here, since this thread has been relatively civil, what keeps you guys as NEETs? I've never had much to motivate me in life, but after I fell into a career in culinary, I come home from work feeling great, despite the physical and mental beating kitchen life brings. Have you not been able to find a passion in life, or is it something else?
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I play Hearthstone while watching Kripp.
>>336863636
Well everyone I've met who actually LIKE plays, as in, actively going to see them, fits into those cathegories.
So not mocking, just telling what I see.
>>336853849
no i'm too busy smoking weed
I feel my hype has dramatically diminished.
Games are still fun, but rarely is there anything that stands out as unique.
It feels like games have been too samey and everyone is just jumping on the same trends.
I like my games to stand out in a variety of ways, be it unique art styles, gameplay or even just game mechanics that are unusual in today's market.
I still buy the occasional video games, but nothing like it used to be. And I find myself clinging more to my favorites even if they are older and their playerbase is dwindling or non-existent.
Still a prominent hobby, but its share of my free time is being replaced with other hobbies I enjoy.
>>336863903
This desu
I enjoy gaming less and less as it feels like I've seen it all before. The only reason I still play games is to hang out with my friends online instead of at a bar.
>>336863732
neet master race reporting in
it's hard to complete a degree or hold down any job for with crippling anxiety and depression
>>336863732
>what keeps you guys as NEETs
I'm a miserable husk and everything but being NEET seems that it's going to be much worse, at least as a NEET I can sleep or drink myself into a stupor whenever it hurts too much to be conscious, if I had a job that freedom would be greatly restricted.
>Have you not been able to find a passion in life
Nope never.
>>336863903
>intellectual
>discussing a book most people had to read in high school
Wow, way to be a reader, Quentin.
>>336853849
Off roading is a big hobby of mine.
>>336864276
>Hobbies: Mixing sleeping pills and alcohol
Is this really a hobby?
I'm 22 but I haven't enjoyed games in years.
The only reason I play them sometimes is to blank my mind.
I have so many more exciting and important things going on in my life I shouldn't ever be playing games. Soon. I will delete all my games and sell my steam account. Soon.
>>336864579
Yeah, they have a big convention every six months.
>>336863717
>Halo
I work and on days off I patiently wait on my messengers for a friend to ask me to play something, if noone asks I go take a nap.
I use to ask but they always abandon me to do other things.
I give up on IRL and online friends.
I need hobby
I got back to bed
>>336864579
Anything's a hobby if you are dedicated enough to it. I mean if buying and collecting shit is a hobby, than what's to say this isn't?
>>336859521
>>336859747
>>336859382
Don't kid yourselves. Shit's coming sooner than you think.
Just think about it based on stuff we can already do: We can hook up prosthetic arms TO OUR BRAINS and then CONTROL THEM WITH OUR THOUGHTS. Just like your normal arm.
If we can do that, then it means we can replace our eyes with ocular devices. We can replace almost ANYTHING.
So, what if we just replaced it all, but instead of using physical parts like eyes or arms, we used those same nerves to move a character's arm in a game.
I'm in a severely depressed state with my crippling poverty and trapped lifestyle
So I decided to git gud at a certain game, reach the higher eschelon and get involved in some the tournament / competitive circuit as my hobby
This whole e-sports shit is riddled with people who simply can't fucking speak to save their lives and I hope to get involved somewhere there.
At 28 I still enjoy games, but I've found that I don't have much patience for games that try to force emotions (TLoU, gameplay polished to a mirror sheen, but I couldn't feel anything for the characters.) or try to cover up their deficiencies through stories. That and games that don't have a good hook, doesn't need to be gameplay, but show my why I should play the game with the little time I have to do it.
I guess I'd like games to begood and fun.
>>336864156
I get attacks of severe anxiety and have probably had some form of depression most of my life yet I'm doing a PhD. Stop finding excuses.
>>336864865
Good luck anon, I'm rooting for you!!!
27.
I just wish I had friends to play games with.
I can't play with the 12 year olds on neo-/v/, they'd just call me grandpa and give me an atomic wedgie.
>>336852065
I found that quick bursts of gameplay is best. I can't stay and play for long hours.
>>336863447
Should have left her when she said that, these kind of women always trade up when they see an opportunity
>>336864960
Thank you buddy. I really appreciate that. Truly.
>>336864156
I have severe depression and crippling anxiety and i still work 8 hours in lifting boxes from one truck to another truck. I get paid 7.25 dollary doos only to come home and sleep because depressed. Been like that for 4 years now, looks like I've aged 15 years since I started. You can complete your degree, I believe in you.
>>336852960
>Turning 30 made me a casual
same, mostly I don't have the time to waste. I do like the challenge but it's hard with no time.
I remember when games like Morowind came out and I thought in the future we would have a bunch of amazing open world single player adventures.
The industry let me down. Only Mount and Blade and New Vegas gave me that feel since then. Crusader Kings 2 was great but ruined by constant shit updates
>>336852065
if you are over 25 and playing vidya there's something wrong with you. when i hit 24 i plan on stop playing vidya as a whole as thats when its time to get a job a girlfriend and a life. vidya isn't something anyone that age should be doing and if you are over 25 and playing vidya? you are up there with aspies like chris chan and nick bate.
>>336863732
Lack of passion and substance abuse, desu
>>336864797
And then what?
A utopian world where all is right would be boring. What would you do, walk around and smell the roses? You can do that already and I don't see you doing it. I mean, what if this reality *is* the video game. We're in Peter Molyneux's dream world and instead of doing literally anything we want, we're bitching about how we can't do anything in these virtual mini-games on a chinese picture board
Video games. Video games never changes.
No matter what happens or how things improve, you will always be seeking the next best thing rather than appreciating what is
>>336865624
Please respond
>>336865624
Ecks Dee Dee.
>>336865381
I remember when the 360 and PS3 were being announced I was just imagining how many amazing, beautiful games we could get if Nintendo followed the same path. I was imagining next-gen zeldas, marios, metroids etc.
Then we got the Wii,
I will never forgive them.
>>336859521
>>336859747
>neither of us make it to the technological singularity
We don't want to be around for that. The approach to the technological event horizon is the best part. Attaining the furthest reaches of technological power, A.I. will likely not only be able to create and change matter, but also life and all things seemingly intangible. It'll probably be like the rapture, only consciousness will be instantly judged obsolete. After all, keeping pets/companions is a primitive practice. All life will be soul-hacked and everything will liquefy into Tang™.
>>336865624
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>>336865624
Fuck off normalshit.
>>336860705
This, man.
>>336864797
>We can hook up prosthetic arms TO OUR BRAINS and then CONTROL THEM WITH OUR THOUGHTS. Just like your normal arm.
If you actually follow prosthetics and BCIs the level of control is incredibly coarse, there's also the fact that there's no good way around biocompatability and rejection, and the problem of infection from BCIs to prostethics. Even this "advanced" control is created through faltering control of several surgically separated nerve clusters.
The kind of fine tuned non-invasive control over nervous and neuronal activity required for even the most basic full sense virtual reality is at least 50 years of medical and other technological advances away. Though admittedly several enabling technologies may shrink that time, For instance brain simulation at the finer than eletrophysiological stage might yield better control algorithms, We could also arguably create a patchwork system that creates a fairly close approximation of true VR (think hijacking the spinal chord to deliver bodily sensations and control, combined with some sort of seamless VRD, the former still far in the future in terms of feasibility) but even then there would be the problem of most other senses. Without some sort of direct brain stimulation that is noninvasive we still will never really control all senses without a whole bunch of invasive and otherwise specialty control systems.
>>336865794
>Implying I don't
I for one welcome our non-biological sapient overlords.
>>336865870
luckily for me forever only has to be a couple weeks
>>336865782
Honestly Nintendo has just been Nintendo. I love the gameplay of their games, but I have never felt like I was transported toca world and having an adventure, except in Wind Waker.
>>336865930
>non-invasive
I don't think that will change. People's standards for what is acceptable to do to their body will change.
>>336866075
Why, what's happening then?
>>336865856
no you fuck off you stupid fuck
you aspies come on here whining about how you miss the old days of /v/ like oldfags when guess whatr? new /v/ is better.
we took down shit like tortanic xbone and the other shits ruining gaming
we started gamergate with /pol/ and that has made /v/ bigger then before
go back to tumbr or reddit and ask if you can play in the ballpit or to your p2w mmo.
>>336852424
how can you not relate with someone younger? if you meant can't self insert it makes more sense
>>336866250
just gonna end it
>>336866252
tortanic deserved to sink. /v/ belongs to the rabblerousers, not bureaucrats.
>>336866090
Unless medical technology advances to the point where the dangers are minuscule, I highly doubt that invasive cyberbunk wetware will ever become popular, or accessible to the general population. Not as long as there are still other avenues of approach.
>>336860705
>>336865870
>I'm a soothsaying sorcerer wizard who knows the future
>>336852065
comp gaming definitely. i just try to have fun and just shoot the shit vvith randoms.
i dont give a shit much about nevv releases anymore. i only look forvvard to games i care about. looking forvvard to mutants in manhattan
>>336865624
if you're hopelessly addicted at 24 you aren't going to wake up on your 25th birthday and get your shit together son
>>336866325
Do you think it will be better? I'm considering this route myself.
>>336866252
>typing all these words
>in this particular order
>and then hitting "post"
lol can you imagine
>>336866424
>vv
This thread is for 25+ years old anon, not 25+ decades.
>>336865624
>When I hit 24 I plan
>I plan
>>336865794
Will the dead be brought back to life?
What if this reality is a simulation devised to recover the consciousnesses of individuals who didn't make it to the singularity?
What if I am judged unworthy of transport to Prime?
>>336866424
>this nigga has a broken vv key
lol
>>336859664
Games are boring because most of the time the developers are looking to only hit a few generes now games will never be as diverse as they were in the ps2 era again. They whine about how long it takes to make each asset now. Some company's have given up all together because it's too hard to even compete now.
>>336866445
I don't see how it could be worse, so of course
30 here. I play more games now than I did was under 25.
I have a fiancee and a job. When I was under 25 I was going out a lot more and my social life was more important to me. As I got older I cared less about going out and am more content to just chill, drinks some beers or whatever and play vidya when other people are marathoning shitty TV shows.
>>336866380
Well, I don't think it's about popularity. I think it's about what the government believes is mandatory. I think it will eventually be treated like vaccinations. You'll be guilted into getting it, or it will just be peer-pressure brought on by being "left out". Like the internet. "
What, you mean you DON'T have a computer or iPhone/Android? How do you even access Facebook lolol"
Why do you NOT have a neural socket? Are you
>>336866576
>>336866628
yeah its fuckin stuck, using rubbin alcohol and everything. have to vait to buy a nevkeyboard tomorrov
27 here.
>>336852065
I have a limited tolerance for competitive gaming, but that hasn't really changed. I can play them and enjoy them but I'd never get into the habit of watching streams thinking they'll make me a better player.
I like figuring shit out for myself, and that largely happens in single player games. Lately I've been playing Armored Core: Nexus and Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together. Witcher 3 if I want something with more story and world building than gameplay.
The biggest change I've seen is probably the number of shooters that I play, which is essentially none. I fondly remember S.t.a.l.k.e.r. and Battlefield: Bad Company 2, but Stalker is dead and I wouldn't touch a modern battlefield title.
I turned 29 in April. I'm starting to enjoy gaming on a PC more than a console, but I still enjoy handhelds. Any games that I can get lost in are good for me. TES, Fallout, Purseowner, that sort of stuff. I used to like Final Fantasy, but they've spurned my interest, so fuck 'em. I've also found myself becoming better at platformers lately, which is surprising cause I used to suck shit at them. I still like to go back and play old games, but never anything past ps1. Unless NES tetris on my phone counts, still can't get enough of that game.
>>336866709
Shit. Good luck man.
>>336866772
I fucked that post up. Thanks fingers. Maybe when I get my dyslexia cured by having 12 cores dedicated to manual manipulation these things will stop happening.
>>336866724
are you me?
> That feel when a friend asks you if you wanna catch another disposable hollywood capeshit movie.
>When you tell someone your into anime + games and they recommend you Rick and Morty
That honestly sounds like the most boring shit ever. Dont know how normies do it.
>>336867017
thanks
>>336866323
Not that anon but the same coming-of-age story gets stale after a while. At first you can relate, but then you get tired of hearing about teenagers making the same dumb mistakes because they don't know any better.
>>336866780
Government is just an extension of the people, for them to believe something is mandatory means the zeitgeist must be the same, and I do not see how such a thing would be possible with the technology being so limited in use and ability to the average person, combined with the drawbacks. While it is true that the general feelings of the population are valuing privacy less and less that is because the trade off is greatly in the favor of giving it up, not simply because no one is rationally valuing privacy.
>>336866445
>>336866709
This is an awfully selfish stance for me to take, but I'll have less people to shitpost on /v/ with if you do that.
116 123 for UK Samaritans
1 (800) 273-8255 US national suicide prevention hotline
please don't kill yourselves, anons
>>336867230
just not strong enough to do the right thing
I probably wouldn't even have my shit together by the time I hit 30
>>336867283
Why? So we can suffer more?
>>336867230
Everyone's thoughts and actions are motivated by selfish desires anon. No reason to be ashamed of it.
>>336865624
I tired that. I went as far as to move to another country. I only stayed clean for 8 months.
But what you don't realize is that if you don't completely replace every waking moment with activities or new DEEPLY SATISFYING hobbies, you'll run into countless spots where you have a few hours to burn. And you'll slowly gravitate back to playing games, by first simply asking "Hmm, I wonder what's happening in video game news?"
Then it's "community", then it's "hype train", next thing you know you're hitting the download button. "It's just a demo", you'll say. Boom, the next moment you realize you're standing at the check out counter or putting in your credit card information. sobbing.
>>336866772
>telling people I don't use facebook because it's just a marketing platform
26, I find myself getting into older series I missed while I was growing up, more than I do finding newer stuff that I like. I'm thinking of trying out ace combat after I'm done with SMT stuff.
>>336867219
shouldn't happen unless you're seeing it as condescending which would only happen if you are self inserting
I wish I could have fun in moderation.
I should probably drink in moderation, too.
>>336855607
Nice Bakery setup.
>25
>old
>>336867223
Anyways to finish the thought that I kind of left hanging. In such a case we will probably see a future where such things are common place, but not mandatory (unless we drop the ideal of individual freedom) just enforced by social norms just like any other behavior has (the shift from monarchs with theologically derived rights to rule to naturalistic human rights such as freedom)
As for your example of mobile phones, I think the next big thing is going to be AR replacing phones with ubiquitous computing power and accessibility to the internet, work and media. It's utility value is simply so high I don't doubt that large scale adoption just like mobile phones saw will happen quite soon after a decent quality version of the technology hits hits. Which if certain sources are to be believed is going to be soon(tm).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmdXJy_IdNw
These threads almost make me feel ok with being 28 knowing there's a lot of us. Goddamn time flies. It's scary as fuck and makes me sick. My tastes are basically the same, except I'm definitely leaning towards more and more 'complex' games like roguelikes, crpgs, 4x, grand strat. My attention span has improved quite a bit with age.
>>336867223
>>336867951
Shit this was meant for >>336866772 Didn't even notice the misquote.
Less interest in shooters and competitive games despite being more competitive than I have ever been in the last couple years. Have been transitioning into GSG, Point and Click Adventure, puzzle games. Far less patience in games. I took DeS to NG+5 before losing interest; playing similar games like BB, DaS3, or Salt and Sanctuary I rarely even go into NG+ because it just feels like a tedious slog and a waste of time. Though to be fair Salt and Sanctuary has some god awful hit boxes and NG+ is 'everything 1 shots you' the game so its exceptionally exasperating.
35 here. I enjoy games more than when I was younger. I play older games, like snes up to PS2 way more than modern. I don't hate modern stuff, but I just don't have time for both.
26 here
I had all of my prime vidya years stolen from me by World of Warcraft
Now I pretty much only play rome/m2 total war mods and old DOS games.
>>336852065
Your pretty much on point there. 27 years here. I work 5 days a week and like to spend my off time just relaxing. It's like I can see past the Web of multiplayer and say "this is literally ball in the cup" with how repetitive and shallow compete time gaming can be. Story and game play are what I'm pushing towards now. Something I can pick up and put down for later, instead of endlessly grinding and training for ego. I hit the gym daily for that.
>>336867854
I wish I could have fun at all.
>>336852065
27. My degenerate weeb ways are fading. I want to read more books and travel to more places. I stopped going to /a/ and lurk /out/. This must've been how moot felt when he left 4chan to camp in the woods.
I think the last game I bought new was Dragon's Crown. I have a hard time keeping track of new games now, I just go back to trying out old ones.
>>336868047
way more strategy games here, but I was playing some of them back in the day as well.
to this day I still fire up Romance of the Three Kingdoms usually once a year and go on a ragin azn tear through medieval China.
I still like the same games, but I have no time now. So, I choose one game and beat it over the course of a month or two. I used to be a completionist, but now I just beat the game and maybe do some side stuff. No 100%. I'm not afraid to use guides now either.
I'm playing Suikoden V now and since I won't play it again, I'm just going to follow a guide to get all the characters.
I'm 30 and barely play video games at all anymore. Last one I put any amount of time into was Fallout 4. GTA V before that. These days I mostly just play Euro Truck Simulator or Assetto Corsa.
Gone are the days of video game hype ;_;
>>336867230
Honestly one of the kinder things I've read. Bad feels man.
>>336868438
I know that feeling. I do things that are supposed to be fun but don't have fun
>>336868460
>My degenerate weeb ways are fading.
Tell me about it, I haven't really even watched anime since around 22 and I'm fucking 28 now. It's kind of sad because it's all I used to do besides video games.
I haven't played a video game in years. PS2 era. I still come to /v/ so I can have hot takes about games to share with my coworkers. I actually like to watch sports (baseball, hockey mostly) but working in tech I can't really discuss that with most of my coworkers. I'm sure some of you are in the opposite situation.
I've though about trying to get back into it so I can stop living a lie but I'm just not very interested, and when I tried to play a game last, even an older one I had played before, I was completely useless. Some of my work "friends" want to play online with me or even in person and I'm running out of excuses. Not sure what will happen when I'm found out.
>>336868886
That's called depression. You are depressed.
i can still play fps like csgo fine, its just my interest isn't there anymore.
i cant stand open vvorldgames anymore, they lose my interest quick.
older games like jedi academy and deus ex have been my favorite games in the past years.
games that involve lots of involvement really hold my interest, mostly action cuhrazzzy games.
rpgs are donezo to me as so too, too much of a chore
I feel better reading this thread.
With few exceptions I don't enjoy new games and find I have to force myself to play them. I thought I was just getting sick of games but I've recently started playing some older classics I never got around to trying and found I enjoy them greatly. The problem is that my tastes have not changed while gaming has. I now understand why my dad loved his Atari so much but found no interest in the games I played as a child.
>>336869992it's true though, they really don't make them like they used to
>>336852065
>How have you found your enjoyment of games changing as you've gotten older, /v/?
It has actually.
When you've played video games ever since you were a kid, you find the competition was just an added spice into your "fun". Also, nowadays video games really isn't what it used to be and the DLC really sucks the enjoyment out of it. But I am hyped for No Man's Sky. It's one of the games that I've always wondered if any one will pull off that kind of gameplay. It's been my dream since I was a kid. The kind of game that I would actually want to play since I'm a sucker for sci-fi stuff.
>Have you started to enjoy different genres, or find that you don't enjoy others as much?
No, it's been pretty much the same. I'm a variety kind of guy so I've tried all genres and it always leads me back to my all-time favorites: RTS and simulation types.
Playing video games over the years, I give up on being so competitive like I was in my teen years. You see these youths do the same thing and realized they're on the same train track as you in the gaming world. I guess I am truly in full realization that I am actually having fun playing video games.
I've ventured away from competetive games and online multiplayers over the lats year or so and really opened myself up to essentially every other genre and platform there is. I used to discount singleplayer games because multiplayer games felt alive and relevant, now I'm going in the opposite directions.
From being PC only I'm now PS3, PS4, wiiU, 3DS, Vita and I'm playing through DS,GBA, PS1 and PS2, wii and gamecube libaries. Also considering an eventual Xbox 1.
I'm essentially overwhelmed by the amount of good video games they are to play now and since I own all these platforms there is always something coming out that I want to play and I've never felt better or more interested and hyped about playing video games than my competetive days of playing only PC.
Feels so dam good
>>336870331
>But I am hyped for No Man's Sky
anon… let me refer you back to >>336867283
23 here, dont even play video games anymore. No time and most of my gaming days are back on the ps1 and ps2 also counter strike
31, I still mostly play the same kind of games I did when I was younger, except FPS. Halo, CoD, Battlefield, etc all bore me. When I was younger I played stuff like quake 1-3, tribes, RTCW. Once console shooters became popular I just stopped playing the genre.
I still play a lot of rhythm games & JRPGs, but I care less about the story in rpgs and more about the characters or gameplay. I want another Valkyrie Profile and I'm pissed that the new one is some mobile garbage.
The one thing that has changed is that I've become more interested in fighting games, but thats largely due to online play and my friends when I was younger not being into those games.
I also kind of miss games like TIE Fighter. I haven't played something like that in a long time.
>>336852065
i just don't have time to play.
I work and work and work and by the time i get home from work all i want to do is relax and watch youtube or giantbomb. playing a game would be too mentally taxing for me unless I'm actually off that day.
I stream on Monday nights, but when I stream it's usually just Jackbox where I can slack off and my friends in voice chat sort of carry the momentum.
It's sad because not only do I miss playing games, I want my sadly underdeveloped youtube channel to grow, and I want to have a stream some time that has a 2-digit view number. That'd be pretty fun.
I need to make a new video. I might actually do it tonight, even.
26 now. I play games to unwind after a hard day/week at work. I don't care about difficulty or challenge anymore. I get enough of that as a software dev. So usually I'll play casually even if the game is intended to be competitive. Things like mmo where I can just take my time and mindlessly kill things for hours or just having fun running matches with overwatch.
God I barely even play games now. But I can't stand anything with competitive matchmaking. I don't even care if it's competitive, I just can't stand the thought of one more fucking game where I get matched up with some 1-20 dumbass and I end up carrying a loss, or better yet getting raped myself.
>>336852065
Pretty much the same as ever. Only difference is I play a hell of a lot more games in Japanese now, but they're the same types of games I was playing in English 20 years ago.
>>336852065
nope
27 here
been playing this for 17 years. no other game has/will ever fill that void ever
>>336852065
I enjoy the same types of genres that I did before but I stopped enjoying competitive games, unless it's something silly like 100% Orange Juice.
I've also noticed that I've lost a lot of gaming skill. For example I played Kingdom Hearts 1 when it first came out and the only boss that gave me any trouble was Sephiroth. But recently I've tried to play Kingdom Hearts 1.5 and I'm having trouble killing Maleficent. I also tried playing Dark Souls recently for the first time and I'm pretty awful at it.
It's pretty disheartening.
I get into the lore of games a lot more now. Before I would just play through a game and not really learn much beyond what they directly told you in the game. Now I like to go read through wikis and other sources to learn more about the world if I find it interesting.
>>336871597
I hope to be where you are in a couple years time.
>>336872106
頑張れ、アノンさん。
27
Single player games have definitely become a priority over online. I still enjoy multiplayer, but only if its a huge game like Battlefield where it dosent matter what my teammates are doing. Overwatch sounds great, but I dont want to have 4 fucktards on my team dictate how much fun I have for the limited amount of time I can play.
"60 Hours of Gameplay!" sounds more like a burden then a selling point in most cases. The Witcher 3 stresses me out just looking at reviewer's questlogs.
Fuck early access, there are too many good games to play rather than waste time playing your concept idea.
My sweet spot has become high production value indie games like EnterTheGungeon, Dont Starve, Hotline Maimi, Spelunky, etc. mixed in with single player games like MGSV, DS3, and Fallout 4.
Basically single player skill based games are more fun the reading a wiki guide to understand some autistic game or playing against 3rd worlders with no job in competitive games.
>>336867874
Fuck. Yes. Fucking love this game.
I play more on portable and less on console.
I can't always get right back to a game so being able to start and stop easily is nice.
35 btw
>>336863732
I generally don't get the point of life. It seems like you spend most of it doing things you don't want to do; first school and then work. I don't have any motivations, and I'm not passionate about anything so I don't have any goals except to die in my sleep.
>>336867893
>25
>not old
29 here.
I find myself being drawn more towards story games but it takes me forever to get through them. My Witcher 3 playthrough took almost 9 months.
I usually also have a single player game or two going simultaneously that I switch between. Right now it's FFIX and Trails in the Sky.
I also pop into FFXIV whenever they have a big patch to play the new content.
Most nights I only have a couple of hours of playtime because of work and life so I find myself playing a lot of World of Warships and Warthunder.
I'm actually gaming more now that I have been in the past couple of years because I finished the car I spent my weekends restoring last year.
>>336852065
Nothing has changed except the amount of time. I want more time to play, so it's time to make money using money rather than relying on a 9-5 job. Taxes are a bitch, but it's always been a bitch.
>>336873881
28. Almost the opposite experience for me.
Slowly realizing that a GAME needs to take advantage of its strengths (i.e. interactivity) and not try to be retarded movies.
Games can do interactive storytelling and be immersive without having a single cutscene or expository dialogue. Hilariously, the best examples of this are the Mad Max movies.
When I was younger, I refused to play games with weak stories, and hated games which had no story.
>>336852065
For me, games only get better as you get older and time goes on.
Not only you get to see a few new good games every few years, you can also choose to play EVERYTHING released up to that point, which is great.25 is small time by the way.
>>336852065
Same boat i find myself playing threw some ps1 final fantasy games and mostly rpgs if i do play online its with people ive been playing with for 6 plus years and its usually games like rainbow six or dark souls
>>336874856
Im 31 by the way lol
>>336873881
>9 months
>Simultaneous playthroughs
If I don't finish a game over the course of a weekend, maybe 4/5 days, and focus intently on it, I lose track of shit and drop it, the exception being Civ.
I've tried to play GTA4 SIX TIMES, and I every time I get a little farther, but I always get distracted with the trainer that changes the weather and lets you fuck with car presets and stuff.
I almost never touch my console or computer for playing video games, I generally play my Vita since I can start and stop when I want to and most games are geared towards that. A lot of games these days seem like they want to be a big time investment and I am not down for that. I just want my 30~60 minutes in and out.
Im 26 and I play mostly Ranked games of LoL. Not because I enjoy it but because ive been playing since S2 and sank a lot of money into it.
Ive been enjoying games like Darksouls because of the challenge and because as stupid as it sounds its my anti rage game.
32 oldfag here. I play more games since I spend less time with friends and family. Also my wife plays too, so we play a ton of coop. We don't go out anymore and it's basically our own hobby.
>>336874987
I have to hop between games at this point because nothing holds my attention long enough to beat it in one stretch anymore.
I usually burn out at about 20 hours. After that I have to find something else to do.
>>336852065
29, 30 later this year. I haven't seen my console and handheld gaming habits change any. I play a wide variety of non-competitive games, often getting sucked into one a a time for awhile.
The biggest change for me is that I can't seem to get into playing as much on my PC. Mainly because, despite my profession requiring using a computer all day; when it comes to online gaming, I'm finding my wrist unable to last long before it begins hurting. Probably carpal tunnel.
30 here. I generally go through phases of gaming a lot or barely at all. Right now it's a lot. I still love games, but I think they've lost a lot of mystery. I'm rarely surprised anymore, I guess that just comes with so much time playing them and knowing what to expect. I play a wide variety, always have. Right now it's mostly Overwatch beta.
I probably have more time right now than ever before (except maybe during my teenage years) to play games. So many friends have moved away or gotten married and started families, and I honestly don't care much anymore to make new friends. I don't mind being alone anymore, the loneliness isn't there like it used to be. I prefer being alone more than socializing these days. I have a girlfriend but our work schedules are so polar opposite we only see each other 1-2 days a week.
I am pretty content just hanging out by myself and gaming or doing my other hobbies and spending time with friends only a few times a month.
I just turned 25. I'm trying to study Japanese so that I can be that one middle-aged guy who translates porn and videogames and manga as a hobby.
>>336877309
i started to try and learn so i could read all the loli VNs that will never ever be translated
>>336878134
I took it for three years in college. I barely remember hiragana at this point.
>>336852065
24 turning 25 this year.
5 years ago I would've devoured content saturated RPGs like XCX and FF Type 0 for every fucking morsel. Now I just want to get through them.
That being said, I find myself playing pvp games more and more. Smash andDestiny. But I guess that's a bit of a natural evolution, used to play a lot of Brawl and Halo 3.
Still stoked about FFXV though.
>>336852065
I no longer enjoy fast-paced twitchy games as much as I used to, largely just because I don't have the abundance of energy that I used to.
As a result, my tastes in the types of games I play, the options they provide me, and the playstyle / tactics I employ have changed. I've become more prone to planning, prediction and preparation. Anticipation and adjustment form the core of how I play now. Taking time to plan, to build, to put together, to test, to watch unfold... How I play now would have been unbearable to a younger me.
It's not so much that I no longer enjoy twitchy reflexive games anymore, it's just that I don't enjoy them as much and play them far often.
Furthermore I can no longer justify purchases under 20 hours of playtime, and depending on the game, if it's too shallow I may not justify it even then, preferring to go for 30-40+.
Also I do enjoy immersing myself into lore and quests a lot more now. To the point that a game like Xenoblade X with a not so great main story can be more than redeemed by the plethora of what I perceive to be excellent quality sidequests in terms of worldbuilding, narrative, choice and variety of topics touched on, with some even being quite dark, being more than a small surprise from what is ostensibly a first party Nintendo title.
>>336855076
It actually could be considered a PvE fighting game when you look at its mechanics from a particular angle.
When you go on a hunt, it's typically to track down and defeat a singular target more often than not. Said singular target then engages in a battle of positioning, timing, anticipation, reflexes, and endurance with you, constantly having to keep aware of your every attacks' limitations as well as your enemy's. It's more easily compared to fighters in how it handles its combat mechanics than almost any other genre of game.
>>336852690
Everything I've experienced and witnessed tells me there's no input delay from 3DS games, or at least Monhuns. Maybe it's that your buttons have become less sensitive from intensive play over the years?
Besides, let's be fair, it's not really just your skill degrading. The game is constantly changing in small, nearly imperceptible ways.
Monsters are on average a lot less predictable now than they were in 2nd Gen, as well as being quite a bit more mobile. To compensate for something like Exhaustion, standard speed and rage intensity were boosted. In G-Rank, monsters are in general a lot faster than they used to be with shorter times between actions, so if you're too used to a certain play speed from earlier, simpler games, I could see why you may experience some feelings of degradation. It doesn't help that small pieces of each weapon are constantly changed with each entry, and some absolutely have had timing changes which may trip up someone too used to earlier incarnations.
26 and a half. I no longer look forward to upcoming games. I find the more hyped I get for a game the more disappointed I am when it turns out to be garbage. I mean I knew Fallout 4 was gonna be bad, but I didn't think it was going to be "THIS BAD". Now I just stick to what I know and replay games. I only buy a game after a games been out for a while.
I think the only game I'm looking forward to is the new Etrian Odyssey, but I have a feeling that it's not getting ported.
After thinking about it, I still just play whatever game seems solid, regardless of genre. I want to say I'm more into competitive games these days, but Zelda didn't have online multiplayer, so it's probably more just there's more PvP games out there, and the internet makes finding opponents easy.
I have developed a keen appreciation for Roguelikes, being one of the few types of games even older than I am.
I enjoy that there is no TRUE way to play them, that there will always be a chance that no matter how skillful or experienced you are at the game's mechanics it might still not be enough.
It makes the eventual victory worth it on a level beyond that of any other game I have played.
Note; I said RogueLIKE, not RogueLITE.
I find myself avoiding games that take a time sink.
>buy a fightpad and a few fighting games
>know i need to practice to git gud
>don't want to dump thousands of hours into a video game
>when I could be doing other things
>play flying games, space shit for ages
>buy $200 hotas
>am complete SHIT with the hotas because I've been using KBM my whole life
>rarely use the hotas because it'll take hundreds of hours to get to the same skill level I'm at with KBM
>don't want to take several days to learn how to play sims like DCS A10C
>when I could be doing other things
>get into an MMO with a PvP focus
>don't want to grind for weeks just to stay competitive
>when I could be doing other things
>try dota 2
>people give me shit for jumping in after a few botgames
>they tell me I should put literal days of playtime into bot games before jumping into
>it just feels like a waste to play against bots in a competitive game
>especially when I could be doing other things
>>>>>never actually do other things
>>336883308
I'm >>336882783.
On the face of it, a Roguelike is a timesink due to the RNG, but remember that the gameplay is in many ways as important if not moreso than the overall outcome.
Gameplay in such games can be varied and will often surprise the player. Even advanced, experienced people will find themselves struggling against the unknown.
No two playthroughs will be the same, and once you get past the initial barrier of understanding the mechanics you can easily enjoy such games, whether it's for 10 minutes or for hours at a time.
>>336864613
Good for you, faggot.
Turning 26 soon but gaming has been kind of just a time waster since I was 21. I end up reading more about games than playing them
I still play fighters from time to time and action games from series I like but I haven't picked up a brand new series in a while. I've been a cut scene skipper my whole life so story heavy games really don't do it for me
I did find myself getting attached to achievements for a while, finally I just turned their notifications off because I was spending way too much time grinding for pointless shit in games I shouldn't have played more than once
>>336883609
The closest thing to a roguelike i've spent considerable time with is Crypt of the Necrodancer. I've tried roguelikes (I can't remember any of their names) and I just had no idea what I was doing and would just die before I saw anything worthwhile. It got to the point where I didn't even know if there WAS anything worthwhile because I was nevner seeing any of it.
26, almost 27 here.
I had a very stifled childhood, so I've only been playing games from the 90s and early 2000s.
I think most newer games are shit.
I don't think my overall enjoyment of games has changed. I don't play them as often as I'd like, because I'm just really lacking in energy.
>>336852424
So it's okay to be a soldier, a knight, a demon, a space marine, a wizard, a talking animal, or a serial killer, but it's no longer okay to be a high school student?
I'm 26. After a period where it didn't really give me much enjoyment anymore during the PS3 generation, I now feel like I've gone full circle and enjoy games maybe even more than as a kid. I can only play a little bit on the weekends, but I always enjoy myself and have a much better grasp of what is out there, and what games I am interested in. Tbh I thank console gaming for this, my friends are mainly pc gamers and they play online games, and hearthstone and mobas and probably even still wow. They have clearly lost the enjoyment and excitement they used to find in gaming. I also try to play couch co-op as much as possible.
Hey anon's! I'm 20 years old in this thread and there's nothing you can do about it!
>>336889236
Ctd
I just feel like I've given it a good place in my life where it can't interfere with my wwork and social life, but I still get a lot out if it. I can be quite excited about upcoming games, and I'm interested in a wider variety of games then when I was young, I only recently got into jrpgs.
I'm 32 and I find myself liking indie games more and more, especially if it involves RNG dungeons.
I feel like Nintendo games have less gameplay to them and care more about presentation than content (Dong Freeze and Woolly World notwithstanding).
I also enjoy more "pick up and play" games since I feel video games take 30 minutes to teach people what usually takes 2 minutes to adjust to and learn. I used to hate loot and shoot grinding games but I love them now.
>>336852065
I just turned 28.
I care less about competition and actually enjoy playing with casual/bad players more than anything else. Friends are what is important.
I just want to get home and play my favorite games to unwind from work.
I also bitch about things a lot less on the internet. I honestly enjoy things a lot more than I did in my late teens/early 20's.
>>336852065
I'm lucky to still be able to enjoy most game genres. I wouldn't say I stopped enjoying competitive games, but merely had to put a bit of a block on those in general, due to the time restraints of growing up, in order not to plunge backlogs of the various hobbies I adore (vidya included) into oblivion.
>>336852065
>older than 25
Hahaha omg why didn't you kill yourself yet grandpa?
Sry but you only have a few years left before your body starts to diminish until you die.
Let that sink in for a minute grandpa.
I'm 18 years old. Get off 4chan grampa ayy lmao
I just play retro games now
>>336852065
I turn 26 next week. I haven't played anything except CS GO a little here and there, kinda lost interest. Maybe I will get rising storm vietnam, Squad or BF1.
But overall I noticed how much time a wasted palying all these games. What I could have done in all the time playing MW2 or Halo. But then again it was fun.
>over 25s thread
>90% of the lads and lasses in here are between 26 and 29
I don't know what I expected
>>336864613
Yet you post on /v/ you faggot
>>336852065
Same as before except i have almost zero hype when it comes to any new vidya now. Only thing that i really hate about gaming now compared to back then is how sensitive everyone is. Everyone has to have their opinion respected no matter how retarded they are and if you call them out on it, youll get reported. Shit is honestly dumb. Only game where shit talking is tolerated at all anymore is dota 2 i think. Real big shame
>>336852065
>How have you found your enjoyment of games changing as you've gotten older, /v/?
>Pirate for half hour before buy
>No MMOs
>No ASSFAGGOTS
>Bonus points for being culturally relevant, novel, or influential. I've seen a lot of shit, I don't need to waste my time seeing the same thing over and over.
But really, I spend less time gaming than I do developing my own game as a hobby. I've played Offworld Trading Company and Banner Saga 2 the past month but I don't plan to start Dark Souls 3 anytime soon. I'm sure the online will be better after it's patched a few times, anyway.
>>336852065
>376 replies
I wonder how many people here are actually over 25.
>>336892492
Im sure everyone is 12/f/jp
>>336853321
>lucky enough to live off of inheritance so I can afford to just do nothing if uni's out.
People like you will be strung up on lampposts pretty soon
30 year old here next week
Gaming has took a turn for the worse
>konami has stopped making videogames
>capcom now only exist to milk a handful of franchises like monster Hunter,resident evil,Street fighter and ace attorney
>square Enix hasn't released a good game in years instead promising us FFXV for ten,TEN fucking years, i turned into an old codger waiting for FFXV
>the Wii u has been a total disaster full of mediocre looking nintendo games
>that's without mentoning NOA attitude about censorship which is getting as bad as it were back in 1998
>all of the smaller studios that made the more unique stuff are dead and have been replaced by nothing
>cinematic """" games"""" that only exist and sells thank to extreme amount of marketing while being more or less factory produced
>kickstarter shit that promises to be "just like momma used to do it" only to turn into a cheap looking copy made by a san Francisco hipsters or worse, mn9
>YouTube being used as one of the most awful marketing scheme thanks to this whole retarded "tuber" culture
>delays, delays everywhere, kickstarter get delayed, persona get delayed, star Fox get delayed, we are still waiting to play games that were supposed to happen last year
>barely any new IP or idea, instead as japanese give less and less shit about the console market everything get westernized and fall for the open world meme
>the 8th gen has been out for several years and there are barely any game that defines it
The worst part, no one ever want to accept this, they will say it's nostalgia or even worse, mention all the time they played bloodborne and gaze at the amazing future that await us when the truth is i expect nothing interessing at all at this year e3
>>336852065
I thought 4chan was not allowed to people that were less than 25.
>How have you found your enjoyment of games changing as you've gotten older, /v/?
Not really. If I find a game that I enjoy, I'll sink hours into it like I did as a kid.
>Have you started to enjoy different genres, or find that you don't enjoy others as much?
Again, not really. I've certainly been turned off by most FPS games these days, but I find that's mainly due to the declining quality and emphasis put into superfluous features rather than making the base game enjoyable.
>>336892886
>focusing on old brands that used to be good
you think gaming has gotten worse because your opinions of it are tied to japanese brands that last cared 20 years ago
>>336891029
that belt gives her +26% chance to find magic items
>>336892886
Well anyway i went on a long tirade about why i hate modern gaming now but to answer OP question, i still like my classic or heck even the occasional indie game that get it ormobile stuff like PAD
>>336892886
The real challenge of today's gaming is to find the couple of good games among the pile of crap.
4chan used to be useful for that, not so much anymore since the young people invaded.
>>336893474
>4chan used to be useful for that
no it didnt.
I still enjoy games a lot but I've definitely felt my immersion dwindling with age, but I think that's just a natural progression of things, as you get older, you start seeing that games tread the same waters over and over again and you're left less impressed as a result.
There are a couple of genres I simply can't enjoy anymore though, mainly ARPGs which is a damn shame, but the base combat simply doesn't interest me anymore, building my character does, but with every level and with every loot upgrade the steps towards your next upgrade gets larger and larger, I played a significant bit of Grim Dawn and enjoyed it but I also know it's (probably) gonna be my last ARPG.
>>336889292
That's fine, you still have plenty of time for life to destroy your soul
>>336867385
Who cares! You don't have to have it together, just stop giving a fuck and do whatever you want.
>>336892492
192 IDs, anon
>>336889292
>I'm in the spry age of 20.
>And shitting away my youth on 4chan.
>Implying we need to do anything.
I'm playing games a lot less. I just feel I'm wasting time when I could be achieving something, learning, making something.
Games have moved away from what I like anyway. Heavily story driven games is where I love games
>>336894290
so go watch movies, you'll still be a vegetable
>>336894290
>Games have moved away from what I like anyway. Heavily story driven games is where I love games
? wtf games are moving harder towards what you like than anything else
>>336893584
Except that it did. 2005-2010 /v/ was extremely useful for finding out about high quality games.
>>336894736
maybe if you're coming from the perspective of not knowing how to find high quality games yourself. that's somethign i'll just never understand
it boggles the mind how so many of you can look at a gameplay video and not be able to judge whether a game is good or bad. there are so many blindingly obvious things
>>336852065
>Have you started to enjoy different genres, or find that you don't enjoy others as much?
I have pretty much dropped everything that requires grinding of any kind. Also, multiplayer? Nope. I don't have the time for that shit. Work and family just take too much.
Instead, I've picked up puzzle and sim stuff. Basically, I've turned more casual. Less time for gaming means less time to git gud - or rather, less time for games that test skills that require time to build up.
But my core stuff - 3rd person shooters, wrpgs - is still there.
34 here.
I believed that I had grown out of gaming in my late teens/early 20s, as I got heavily into other hobbies like making music, but got back into gaming again quite heavily from about age 25-30 because I was able to afford a good gaming PC. Consoles never interested me.
Then I got into a relationship, moved out, and all the responsibilities that come with it, and I just found myself enjoying games less. I still play them, but only for maybe an hour or two a week on average.
I just don't have the time or inclination to be good at multiplayer games, and I managed to give myself RSI from all-night TF2 and Wolf Enemy Territory sessions, so I find myself preferring to play with a controller these days.
>>336852065
29 year old dinosaur here. Still look young and beautiful though.
>How have you found your enjoyment of games changing as you've gotten older, /v/?
Definitely less. Part of that is getting older and just generally growing out of games and the novelty of them having long worn off. The second part of it is the industry going to shit.
Growing up with a NES and SNES I remember the days where you actually had to earn beating a game so it felt like an accomplishment. Games were harder and people didn't cry about it. Everybody bought a game with the knowledge that they might not be able to beat it and that was fine. Games were generally much longer too because you had to actually master them in order to beat them. Now you buy a game and know you'll get a streamlined 5-8 hour campaign that you'll easily beat and that's gonna be it.
I know however that it's not just the industry getting casualised that makes me not so interested in it. I know it's also that I'm older and the novelty has worn off. For instance I can download any NES, SNES or Genesis game that I want right now but I don't because I just don't care anymore. If I was a kid again in the '90s and had access to all these games for free I'd be playing all of them.
>>336894858
Because youtube was a big thing back then, right?
Stop making it so obvious that you are a child.
>>336895006 (continued)
A game that really surprised me was Dark Souls when I was like 25. It reminded me of how much I used to love gaming as a kid. It took me right back to those childhood feels. The reason for this is the game's format was new to me so it had the novelty I craved (I did just play through Demon's Souls for the first time right before it, literally back to back with my first DaS playthrough, so it felt like an extension of that playthrough), the world itself was fucking beautiful and I could not wait to see more of it (this also reminds me of childhood gaming. Just making it to a new level was a reward in itself as you could see the new art design and it felt good) and the game didn't hold your hand. Soulsborne are like the only modern series I really give a shit about anymore. Playing DaS for the first time at 25 made me feel like I was 12 and playing OoT for the first time, and I never thought I'd get feelings like that again in my older age. I'm hoping again that another game is gonna come out from nowhere and surprise me the way Souls did.
>Have you started to enjoy different genres, or find that you don't enjoy others as much?
Yeah. FPS has gone to shit. No genre has been fucked up as badly as the first person shooter. As a kid hands down my favourite genre was FPS and 'retro' FPS's like Doom, Blood, Duke, Quake etc are still my favourite games. I don't give a shit about modern FPS's anymore though sadly. I can't remember the last time I was truly hyped for an FPS game. Probably Crysis 1. There's absolutely nothing upcoming that has my interest either.
>>336895071
in 2005-2010? yeah youtube was immeasurably huge already during that time. were you being serious? did you realize that we used to watch quicktime and realplayer game videos on review sites in the 90s?
24/25 here. Never been in games that much.
Played them when i was a young kid in the 90's, mostly Megadrive/Ps2 shit and Pokemon.
Then when I turned 20 I went to this site for animu and got into "nerd" culture so ended up on /v/.
I play very few games, this year only Witcher 3. I read news from the community, comment shitstorms and sometimes watch lets plays.
>>336852065
My history with gaming is rather stop and start. Played games on the PC and Gameboy Colour in the early 00's just before my teens then spent most of my teens without gaming altogether. Only got into it again at 22. 26 now turning 27 in December.
Don't really take gaming all that seriously. There are a lot of "issues" people have which I consider a bit weird. It's still a fun medium to me.
My enjoyment has declined slightly mainly due to the homogenization of games, alot of games seem like im playing the same game over and over with different skins. Just about all the games that I enjoy are now niche games which are getting butchered as fuck from transaltion/localization efforts to make them more marketable to normies. Graphics have reached the point of diminishing returns and most developers seem like they want to make the game prettier rather than more complex mechanics by having more things on screen if this shit carries on the medium is going to stagnate I'd even go as far as saying that we are already stagnating but the industry is being propped up by aggressive advertising campaigns.
>>336895302
>There are a lot of "issues" people have which I consider a bit weird
do tell, outsider
29
i used to buy one game a month on average
now its more like one every 3 months
everything is so samey
>>336895429
>I'd even go as far as saying that we are already stagnating
how can a form of entertainment stagnate when more new types and genres and new experiences are being made than ever?
>>336852065
27 here. I was bored of gaming for a really long time and didn't play any games for most of my 20s.
I recently got into speedrunning, and it has completely refueled my interest in gaming. There's so much hidden depth to games that I never paid attention to before, and it's fun to get really good at games that I've loved since I was a kid.
Speedrunning even got me interested in playing games casually again. I have a big collection of retro consoles now and I've regularly been playing and completing all the gems that I missed out on, really taking my time and completing each one 100% unless I get too bored of it.
I'm still not at all interested in the majority of modern games though. Feels like most of them are riddled with endless movies and cutscenes and QTEs. Wish they'd just shut the fuck up and let me play lol.
32 here im still enjoying the fuck out of them. But i play less compared to the past. I recently started playing DaS1 on my pc and i really love it and im enjoying it.
>>336895596
You should play Dishonored, fun game to speedrun
I have feelings of nostalgia more often and enjoy the same old titles I used to play when I was a teenager. I don't enjoy new games and feel like they are the same - not that I didn't have the feeling back then, but I'm not motivated by peer pressure to keep up with the upcoming titles.
I fell in love with JRPGs, Persona, Final Fantasy etc. that I used to hate when I was a teen.
>>336852065
Yeah. 26 here. Since I was 20 I have had streaks where I didn't play shit for weeks or even months. Partly because of lack of time, but mostly because of lack of interest.
I've become way less interested in RPGs. Never played any MMOs anyway, but I really liked single player RPGs. Both western and to a lesser extent japanese.
I've always likes shooters, but now I'm into multiplayer shooters more than ever. Not that I play a lot of them, or very fast ones. I mostly play a ton of Rising Storm / Red Orchestra 2.
And I played Stalker CoP for 2 weeks non-stop last week.
The strange thing is that I usually don't feel like playing anything when I do have time, but whenever I have a deadline or exam coming up I get a very strong urge to play vidya.
Then I tell myself I gotta work hard now and can play vidya later, but then I make the deadline and my motivation to play is instantly gone and I go back to hanging out here.
>>336852065
I get bored faster. I have less patience for bullshit.
5 years ago I would have adored Dark Souls 3 but now I'm pretty mixed on it. It's good but honestly it fucking should be since all the game s are the same.
>>336895453
character representation. Is it really that important?
character tropes. Come on, it's a video game. Really don't know why people expect novel quality material all of a sudden.
immersion. Just seems like a vague term to me.
Generally people being nitpicky when it comes to different elements they don't like. The whole attitude is strange to me. When I play a game it's not with this sort of Cracked like mentality of trying to be a smartass by finding faults in logic or character development, it's with the idea of having a good time.
>>336895523
>more new types and genres and new experiences
Could allude to some examples?
VR ill accept is a move in the right direction provided that they can get it to an affordable price.
>>336895261
Youtube wasn't even around for the first month of 2005, it was created in Feb 2005, while it did take off very quickly. It was hardly like it was today where you could type in anything and get footage on it.
Secondly
>Game review sites
If I was talking about mainstream games, which I wasn't, then yes of course. I'll stand corrected if you point me to a gaming review video for dwarf fortress circa 2006.
>>336861995
Not that guy but reading is my #1 hobby and I used to have the same problem. Try something like twirling a pencil in one hand while you have a book in the other.
There are just too many games out now.
If I wanted to play everything that ticked my fancy I would have to put in something like 50 hours a week, Just to keep up.
You need to step back alittle, Accept that you won't be able to play every game you want
I sometimes find myself just wishing a game was over so I can jump over to the next one, then the next and so on.
>>336897148
There are a lot of games, but they're mediocre. Everything lands on Steam, Apple Store, PSN, etc. without any quality control.
These aren't the days of the Nintendo Seal of Quality, which even Nintendo abandoned (because no third party has been touching Nintendo for 2 gens)
>>336852065
I tend to like fun games now.
Almost always skip al the cutscenes.
Videogame writing is always shit,even the "good" ones are shit compared to movies and books.
I just want to play a game and have fun after a long days work.
>>336852065
>MFW TURNING 25 THIS YEAR
>HELLO DARKENESS MY OLD FRIEND
>>336852424
>ever having been able to relate to the typical JRPG high school student
Fucking normalfag
>>336853849
I picked board games for a while, great hobby, give it a try
Boardgamearena.com
>>336897380
i know the feeling but nothing actually happens when you turn 25.
30 though....:^)
I'm 26 now.
When I was younf I didn*t cared that much about vidyas and was more out with friends.
I played some Jump'n'Runs on my N64 and also Zelda but didn't got much of the point behind it.
When I was like 19 I started to play RPGs for PC like Morrowind, Gothic, Oblivion etc.
Then I lost the Mood for Gaming again.
With 25 I started to get very intense into gaming. I was addicted to Minecraft several times, played MH3H up to 16hours per day for a month. Get very addicered into Mount and Blades, GSG.
Always played a visuell novelle from time to time and am playing one right now.
It's the first time that I'm always play on a game already for 6month.
This development really worries me since I'm engaged and move together with my fiance soon. She's very demanding and I'm afraid she won't tollerate my Gaming. :(
32
I stop playing grinding games or JRPG, it's a lost of time. I play less shooters than when I was young. I refuse to play a story game, I play only to git gud now. And I still love racing games and play them a lot.
i pretty much only play zombie survival on gmod now
still get the occasional game of wolfenstein: enemy territory and euro truck simulator in there
>>336897619
I don't want to turn 30, i'm still a jobless virgin, how am i supposed to get my shit together?
>>336895954
>It was hardly like it was today where you could type in anything and get footage on it.
yeah good thing i went to sites like the-magicbox
thanks for telling me about the "early" internet though, ive only been on it since 1994 :)
>>336897996
How about accepting your life and yourself and enjoy your life the egoist way?
help
>>336897309
this.
and modern games make it so hard. I hate games that have become and excuse to tell a shitty story, they've got it the wrong way around.
>>336898078
get a job
impress women with your ability to provide for them and your future family
or don't
>>336898485
But family isn't fun. It takes lots of effort and you only habe a little time for yourself.
The other way you can enjoy yourself as you want.
All you need is to overcome your natural urge.
>>336898485
The job market is incredible awful where i live to the point several people i know have gone outside this shitty cityi don't really care about getting laid
>>336898683
if the job market is shit and you have nothing holding you down aka a family, go forth and prosper. Move where the jobs are.
don't think I'll ever quit fighting games completely, I basically grew up in my local arcade, but I get what you mean OP I'm starting to feel jaded and washed up, I never thought I'd ever play rpgs like dark souls or oblivion, but right now they're the games I'm playing the most
I might start playing CS or DoTA again, maybe even league of legends, just to satisfy my competitiveness
Honestly I like the same things I've always liked, I think in some ways my horizons broadened, but not at the cost of things I enjoyed already
Some of My favorite games as a child were things like DKC2, Morrowind, Arcanum, VTMB, FFVIII, MGS1, Gran Turismo and so on
And what I've found, is occasionally revisiting those games has left me very tolerant of jank in games in general and being able to enjoy a game for it's story or world or whatever regardless of clunkiness or framerate, I recognize those issues exist, but they don't actually affect how much fun I have.
I still have a preference towards RPGs, but in reality I find them harder to get into, not because of time or taste, I can play an RPG for an hour or so at a night and enjoy it over time, it's more the ways in which games get "streamlined" to be more easy going and accessible, at some point all these series are kind of shells of their former selves and you know sometimes there are smart decisions that I think are perfectly fine, but in general it's a combination too much streamlining and too much risk aversion, a lot of newer RPGs play it too safe.
I adore the Souls series, I sunk 400 hours into DS1 because it invoked the sensation I had as a kid of trying to figure out some of these RPGs like a great puzzle and then learning to get good at them and play efficiently.
Fromsoft also seem to just make what they want to make and so I never get that sensation of "They're playing it safe" or "They've watered it down"
People often like to throw Nostalgia goggles comments at people who prefer older games and sometimes that might be true for some people, but I loved the new Wolfenstein games, I loved SW Episode VII as much as the original Star Wats trilogy, etc. etc. these things tell me you actually can bring back things only older games/RPGs AND also modernize them without losing that charm they once had.
>>336898604
>But family isn't fun. It takes lots of effort and you only habe a little time for yourself.
its called growing up m8
but yeah it fucking sucks
>>336852065
>>336897794
>I stop playing grinding games or JRPG, it's a lost of time
basically this.
I like Space Station 13. I like games that I can code for. I like games where I can pick it up and start playing and having fun instantly.
I no longer have the free time of a teenager where I can spend tens of hours just to get to the "fun" part.
As far as what games I play though it's the same mix of competitive, multiplayer, casual, strategy, and basebuilding I've always played. Cities Skyline has replaced Sim City 2000 and Rocket League has replaced arcade games but its still the same types of games I've always played.
>>336899076
>Fromsoft also seem to just make what they want to make and so I never get that sensation of "They're playing it safe" or "They've watered it down"
Of all the criticisms I have of the souls series, this isn't one of them. At the very least, they aren't afraid of making a game that won't appeal to everyone.
There's so many overhyped games every year that when they come out turn out to just be a series of checkboxes decided by a committee the publisher sent to maximize profits.
Even DaS2 which had a load of problems, at least it wasn't afraid of itself.
I got addicted to dota at 25, so there's that.
appart from that my tastes have pretty much crystalized. I don't go for anything that got a high metacritic and give it a chance any more, the only games I really enjoy (besides dota) are atmospheric first person games with good gameplay (ie not bethesda stuff) and so I've been happily working my way through that genre.
hate everything except for cs go now
>>336852065
The opposite for me actually. I was never interested in playing competitive multiplayer games or games that are known for how difficult they are. I used to finish games on normal and then move on to the next one. Now I play Fighting games and shooters online. I've started playing the Souls series and character action games. I also tend to play on the hardest difficulty now if possible. My life has become less thrilling since moving away from my old friends so I'm probably trying to find excitement somewhere else.
I also started playing games with cute girls doing cute things. Really like Senran Kagura and Neptunia. I'm not really sure what caused this.
>>336899298
I have a lot of gripes about DS2, but that game has a shit load of pretty "decent" content, to the point where I'm alright with kind of not thinking about the world building issues and some of the dumber/weirder lore stuff, and just rolling with it, I recognize it's the odd one out and all that.
But it's fine now, we have DSIII now which was the "sequel" Dark Souls deserved (but didn't need, until DS2 happened anything)
So I sort of look at 2 like Fast Food, it's not as good as real Food and is kind of disgusting in places, but you get A LOT of it for your money and at some point that has to satisfy some sort of need.
>>336852065
Kind of in the same boat as you OP. I rarely play multiplayer or online games these days, focusing more on story driven single player games.
I've also dived into all the genres I never played before. It's been fun.
>>336899551
Ive heard that's RNG: The Game lol
>>336852065
35 year old gamer. Any multiplayer I play these days is strictly co-op vs AI. I just don't have the desire to let snotty kids gloat because they have 40+ hours a week to devote to a game that I just don't anymore.
Also, I'm rediscovering a lot of older games that I never really grasped the nuances of when I was younger. Replaying Grandia 2 right now, and I realize I never really gave the combat system the respect it deserved 15 years ago.
>>336899679
>I also started playing games with cute girls doing cute things
I didn't like that when I was 7 and I'm certainly glad I still don't like that at 27.
JRPGs feel like huge time investments instead of comfy. I like playing games that have a lot of mechanical depth.
>>336900318
git gud
t. 30 year old gamer
>>336900318
>i suck at vidya and can only play against bots: the post
lol. there's also a mute all button there friend.
29yo here
The only enjoyment I have now is watching other people play videogames
I'm too old for this shit
>>336900485
>>336900768
I wish I could hold up your posts and just point at them when people ask me why I don't like gaming against people anymore. That shitty "t." meme and someone unironically posting "lol". It's like the business card scene in American Psycho.
"My God... he even write 'git gud.'"
>>336901378
lol y r u even here m8
cuz u got no one irl? lmao
>>336852065
Always been into story driven and SP games. I just don't care as much about vidya anymore.
I think Souls games are boring, and had the patience to go through DeS only once.
I'm 28.
I am 27. The past few years I haven't been able to finish many games because I just get bored. I have followed VR for many years and have been excited about it, well I finally got my vive and I have to say without a doubt the best experience ever. I am so excited for the AAA games that come out for it. Every friend that has come over has also been blown away. My mom tried it yesterday and said "it is like being at Universal Studios".
Isn't it frowned upon to be a NEET anywhere past 25?
Its time to move out son
I'm a 33 years old manchild. I play more than before. Until the end of high schooI I played single player games mostly because I didn't have friends. I played them all on easy, using cheats if there was available. It was safe and nice. After HS it seemed multiplayer is the next best thing so I started playing only to realize I'm absolutely shit in any game I try, no matter how long I practice. My real life problems (slow, dumb etc) followed me there. I tried everything I could think of, playing one game for years, reading every strategy guide and forum, practicing hunderd-thousands of hours but nothing helped. People who have normal life and barely have a few hours to play a week stomped me to the ground and I can do nothing to improve.
So I started collecting achievements in games because for some reason I think they matter even if I don't brag about them. At least anyone you can do them in most games by reading up walkthrough or grinding hunders of hours. I barely enjoy any game now, but I have nobody in the real world and I need it to distract me from my shit life.
And obviosly as the years pass I'm even shittier than before.
Sorry for the blog but I'm pretty devastated because after a week of playing it is obvious I'm useless even in Overwatch. I really hoped there will be finally a game where even I can be okay.
I only like games with instant gratification now. Don't have time to sink into anything else.
Stuff like Bayonetta where the minute to minute gameplay is inherently satisfying.
>>336901828
A good chunk of the kids in /v/ during 08-10 are now professionals with a career. We're just not as noisy as the little shits that are ruining this place.
>>336901856
Dude, I think you need to stop playing games and work on your social skills.
Not trolling either, go out and meet some real people at a meetup or someshit. Your post has me a little concerned.
>>336852065
kek i'm 28 and i don't have as much time n'or interest for games
also PC>console yet since i work at my office, i tend to play on my PS4 because i do enough sitting in front of a computer.
Age has had a less dramatic impact than the Internet has.
The Internet has made me hate myself.
>>336852065
I am less and less interested in single player. Also I am becoming a filthy casual. Like the CoD and Destiny playing kind of casual.
>>336852065
I started preferring good games as I got older. I still enjoy the fuck out of games, just not 99% of all the garbage that's released over the last decade and a half because most of it is just poorly designed cash in that doesn't even pretend to be worth playing. Not to say that the older generation didn't have it's share, just not 99%, more like 30-40%.
Multiplayer games aren't even worth playing these days either because every god damn developer is fucking atrocious at netcode. Shit is just so fucking unplayably bad now on the multiplayer front despite everyone having crazy ass fast connections with bandwidth and they can't even get shit like two people in an empty room shooting at each-other to work right.
>>336898898
>CS
>DOTA
>competitive
>>336852065
I have less time to play but that's about it
>>336903848
i thought this was as an over 25s thread?
or are you too immature to look past the memes?
>>336894736
>2005-2010 /v/ was extremely useful for finding out about high quality games.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. No.
By 2010 /v/ wouldn't even know what a good game was. In 2005-2007 /v/ could at least agree on Cave Story and God Hand. Otherwise /v/ was absurdly casual as fuck and sucked the metaphorical dicks of terrible games nonstop.
>>336852065
>I've found myself becoming less interested in competitive gaming, it just seems pointless as I get older to be honest. On the flipside, I enjoy story-driven, or world-building heavy games a lot more. It seems like less of a waste of a time if you walked away from a game saying something like "I enjoyed the story/characters/world/quests" rather than investing a ton of hours to git gud at something.
Yup.
>>336892886
>turn of the worse
>wii -> wii u
Really? That's your turn from the worse a system which has maybe five not terrible games and a metric fuckton of shovelware.
Mediocre looking Nintendo games is basically an upgrade by Nintendo standards.
Your entire account seems to have at least a huge fifteen year blindspot.
>>336904119
>In 2005-2007 /v/ could at least agree on Cave Story and God Hand.
Not him but: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. No. Even back then those games got shat on. If you want to have point, stop pulling shit out of your ass.
>>336852065
I play a lot of hearthstone now mainly. I can't do gaming beyond short bursts as I find I have a lot of other things that need doing/want to do. I like RPG's, but good ones are so few and far between nowadays that I end up playing them very rarely.
Bitch about HS, but arena is like a constantly evolving math problem, and I find that to be really fun. I don't play constructed and am infinite in arena, so whenever I do play HS I just grind out a couple runs and leave it at that until next time.
>>336904086
>shitty garbage that's not fit for competitive is competitive.
Objective facts about a game are not memes. However, facts about games being called memes is a meme. So, NO U.
>>336852065
I basically gave up on competitive gaming once I got some real responsibilities in life.
I still play QuakeLive and CSGO, but extremely casually and almost always just against bots. I don't play the older games in the series anymore simply because the offline play is worse.
I now tend to play in much shorter bursts than I used to - I will usually boot up QL/CSGO and play for about 20-30 minutes and then take a break.
I generally find I do not get immersed as easily in games. I still play Morrowind and Skyrim from time to time, but it's obviously not the same as it once was. It's very rare to find a new game that keeps me immersed enough for me to play more than 1-2 hours at a time. I think this is actually mostly related to the fact that I now have many other priorities which distract me - whether it is work, family, exercise or chores. When I was a kid I could sit down basically for an entire day and not have to worry about anything other than the game I was playing.
>>336904470
> Even back then those games got shat on
Problem is, I was actually on /v/ since the beginning. So trying to pretend you knew what it was like isn't going to fly. Unless you just hated them so much you're fucking delusional.
>>336904524
alright, give me an example of your idea of a competitive game, no hard feelings, just legitimately curious
>>336904784
>I was actually on /v/ since the beginning
So was I. Stop making shit up.
>>336904520
dont involve the cat in your moba shitpost
Not really. I've gave indies a shot a few years back when they were starting to have production values and be an interesting new ground for the video game industry. Then Early Access was a thing, and now i don't trust indie games.
I pretty much stick with what i know these days. Only game i've really enjoyed since 2000 was WC3, and i guess Mount and Blade.
>>336901856
33 year old wizard in your mothers attic?
>>336855607
I'm still playing crusader with my homie till 5 am
I never had this much fun in years
Nowhere near into games as much as I used to be, Uncharted will br the first buy in 6 months although I have been lent games in that time, I am frugal so usually get lent them when friends are done.
It's a special comfy time now when I play a game for hours on end and I love it since I don't play that long any more.
>>336904904
You seriously need to see a psychologist about your situation. Not even joking. You literally, in real life, believe a fantasy situation that never actually happened. Read old threads, find help, whatever it takes. It's not my job to fix your shit.
>>336852065
I pretty much only play RPGs, hack and slash and strategy games, maybe the occasional horror title.
RPGs have become stale narrative driven cess pools
Hack and slash have slightly improved but not so much that I can rationalize the full retail price spent to play the game.
Strategy is pretty much dead, rts and tbs are pretty much dead in the water while grand strat is clinging on for dear life. Fucking paradox are shooting themselves in the food constantly with preoder bonuses and DLC packs out the ass to milk their loyal fanbase for everything they have until no one buys into their shitty games anymore. One last ditch effort to milk the dead horse before they go the ways of 3DO and bullfrog.
Everything is terrible.
Enjoying games more than ever at 28. 268 hours on DS3 now.
I've started to enjoy competitive games more with my friends, usually we just played couch co op rpgs or fighters together.
We're all mid to late 30s and honestly, I can't imagine gaming without such close friends anymore. We literally buy every new game together.
>>336904967
>hearthstone
>moba
anon...
I'm 26 and I really crave the old feeling of achieving something that only a group of people could do. My friends and I used to make clans, lose 30-0 in enemy down matches and I used to tag along to mc40 raids.
I also miss the idea of something being really hard to achieve. I never dedicated enough time in wow to get an invite to bwl, or the raids in tbc or wotlk. I used to read over the attunement requirements in tbc and think wow was so big. I had the same feelings about tier 4 pvp in warhammer and the ncwa in the original planetside. However when I occasionally play wod I just afk the raids and it's not epic anymore.
These days I play ck2 and total war atilla. I also consider playing eve but I figure the game is played on forums rather than in game and I can't really committe to a Corp anymore.
>>336852065
Just turned 25 two days ago.
Few exceptions aside I'm more interested in playing older games from late 90's and early to mid 00's that I missed because I got my first own PC as late as 2008 and to that point my only gaming system was PS1.
Only different habit-wise is that nowadays I can't sit down and truly get sucked in and immersed to the game the same way as before until I've made sure I've absolutely no work related duties or other routines to fill for a good while.
>>336901856
I'm going to pull a wild hypothesis and guess you are a jobless, hunchback neet locked into your room/apartment for days or weeks straight.
Exercise, get a job and see people. When you get healthier in body and spirit I wanna say that your potential gaming skills rise too.
>>336905069
Yup. I have a shit tier job tho for below minimum wage.
>>336908701
Tried it around 25 for 3 years. Didn't work.
>>336901781
>Destiny
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