>>714030406 (OP)I'm 37 and I started feeling like video games weren't being made for me anymore back in the early 2000s. I think there was an E3 where God of War, some RockStar games, and a couple others all had special vignettes made as a way of showing off that they deserve to be GOTY or something, and I thought, "All of those games are gay, who plays this shit?" And then somehow Wop Simulator V became the best selling video game ever and every MMO went on to copy a grotesque, cartoony satire of fantasy RPGs. And at that point I thought mainstream video games were pretty much done.
But this is also when Valve peaked so I pretty much became a Valve fanboy. They stopped making games, but it was around the time FromSoft was hitting their stride with Souls games. And I liked all these games.
From has slowed down and become worse in some ways, but during this time we've also seen the advent of indie gaming. I've loved a lot of indie games over the years, for one reason or another. The problem with indie games is they never feel like a full experience, but it's okay because there's so many of them, it's sort of like eating meals made of mall samples. Both Nightreign and Deltarune Chapters 3 and 4 came out recently and I liked both of them quite a bit.
I think the older you get, the more you realize what it is you don't like (or have had enough of), and this causes you to sort of run out of things to distract yourself with. But that's perhaps a sign that you should be making media instead of consuming it. Why are you waiting for someone else to make your dream game? They're not you. They have a different dream game.
