well 30+ year old gamers of /v/, when and why did videogames stop being fun in your opinion?

when my friends got girlfriends

42 here
Games are still fun

>35
Having a blast playing Black Desert.

40 yo grand wizard here
they didn't stop being fun. nu gayms just suck. I'm still enjoying old games I haven't played in 20 years and ROMhacks that refresh and fix older console titles.

>>714075339 (OP)
They haven't, but I only play games to have fun

>>714075339 (OP)
Games as a whole? Never.
Mainstream AAA sloppa? 2006.

There are plenty of good games out there even now. You just need to look. Tried a jungle/desert strike clone recently. It was good.

32, still like games but I find my interest in nerd shit in general sort of fluctuates wildly. I'll have a few months where I'm really into videogames and comics but then the interest will pass and not come back for a while.

I haven't had sex in nearly four years

in 1995 with three dimensional demons

They didnt

video games are still fun. yes, even new ones. but i spent most of my 20s not playing vidya at all
t. 32

>>714075339 (OP)
Dark souls ruined them

>>714075808
cool. what romhacks are ye playing right now?

i played darktide last night till midnight and i thought it was pretty fun

>>714075339 (OP)
95'fag
Around the later end of the 360/PS3/PSP/Wii/DS era

>>714076070
Amateur. I haven't had s*x ever. I doubt I would unless they invent AI robot companions in like 30 years.

>>714075760
tranny game, do you play with your plug in?

32yo they are still fun

>>714075339 (OP)
aren't most people on 4chan 30+? how do zoomers even discover this website? i guess /v/ is the board with the most newfags so this makes sense.

>>714076319
I played darktide a lot the past couple of weeks. Got good enough that auric maelstrom difficulty turned into a joke but repeatedly got my ass whooped on havoc 20+. I got into a fight with a guy in the team and stopped playing it. I wish I had friends to play havoc with.

I like these threads. They remind me why I set my online status to invisible.

>>714076583
timid fag

>>714076529
No. 4chan has more zoomers. Deltarune, GTA 6 and shitty gen z games hit thread limit within hours of being made.

>>714076570
i dont play havoc because it seems like you need a full premade group to do 25+ but auric maelstroms are fun and challenging enough for me

>>714076529
Zoomers can't create anything so they just shit up our websites

>>714075339 (OP)
>when
Never
and why
My expectations will never be as unrealistic as 90% of this board. If a game looks fun, I'll be interested in it, as simple as that.

Once day you'll realize that the problem is you.

>>714076945
>souls slop #93938573
>fun

>>714076747
>it seems like you need a full premade group to do 25+
Either that or you need good enough randos who are well aware of the team situation instead of just being selfish. Shame that it is the most fun part of the game but you either need the stars to align / have a pre-made team / be a god gamer to enjoy it.

>>714076583
You know that no one would talk to you even if you aren't invisible, right?

>>714077120
also everyone who plays at higher difficulties are hyper autistic trannies who are too timid to speak on the mic. when you run on heresy and lower you constantly have guys coming on and hitting the *crack* siiip and bong rip on hot mic.

>>714077074
>soulsslop is the only genre that exists

>>714075339 (OP)
36
They are still fun.

>>714076945
People act like a game should change their life.

>>714077460
That's true now yes

Get a girlfriend you fucking virgins!

whatever year loot boxes+microtransactions+battle passes were introduced

Games?
Never.
Mainstream games?
When faggots took over. They had already started ruining things with MBAs in the early 00s and by the time twitter hit it all went to shit.

>>714077972
Diablo 2 introduced loot boxes (kinda) so 2000 would be that year.

>>714077618
Ah yes, Donkey Kong Bananza, my favorite Soulslike.

>>714078224
We're talking about adult games not toddlerslop

>>714075339 (OP)
The trick is to have other hobbies

>>714078398
Ah, I see someone didn't grow out of his "mature games for mature gamers such as myself" phase. I would call you underage, but the Xbox 360 came out almost 20 years ago, which makes your case even sadder.

I’m playing PoE. Progressing slowly but steadily.

>>714077797
I did and I’m over it honestly. I just pay a nice Korean lady to drain my balls every month.

>>714075339 (OP)
When Japan went into an irrecoverable inflation spiral.

>>714078462
like what? playing video games isn't even a hobby btw.

>>714075339 (OP)
To be completely honest, videogames are still fun, it's just that I don't have any much time to dedicate to them as possible.
I do feel that games like Death Stranding 2 are utterly bewildering. I'm curious as to who actually enjoyed that one, since the gameplay seemed so rudimentary.

>>714078064

>>714076945
Problem is that nowadays marketing is so full of obviously staged bullshots and cinematic trailers that you can easily tell that they don't have anything fun to show off.
Videogames on the whole are still fun, but you need to be more judicious with where you spend your money and where to withhold it. In the age of digital distribution, there is no shortage of games to find and play.
I'm not saying you need to be full on cynic, but keep some healthy skepticism when a game is so brazenly framed as "omg its the latest fun thing" that shows zero gameplay.

>>714075339 (OP)
>35
Games still fun. I don't play them every single day anymore but it's not because I like them less, my life just filled up with other stuff. Recently been doing deliveries to fund a transit network for The People in Motor Town: Behind The Wheel. It's mad cozy.

>>714078570
You're an adult playing Mario games

>>714078765
I play music

>>714078648
>PoE
you would be better off playing a slot machine.

>>714076945
>>714077603
>My expectations will never be as unrealistic as 90%
>People act like a game should change their life.
Failed autists and normalfags, that usually use these threads to blogpost throwing a pity party.
If you can't use the "outlet" of videogames in the year 2025 to have fun, then you are the problem.
inb4
>bUt MuH mOdErN sLoP aND cUlTuRe wAr!
Sounds like a (You) issue.

>>714079225
Not really.

>>714079160
And you're a subhuman who doesn't even own a Switch nor a PC and suffers from sour grapes because everyone else can play whatever game they want.

>>714075339 (OP)
2007. This was when I just started renting shit every weekend and it became just looking for game with easy achievement lists. Things have only gotten worse since and now I can't even rent games.

i still like playing games the issue is i do it out of boredom 75% of the time

>>714075339 (OP)
42
Stopped being fun probably a decade ago, but I didn't fully lose interest until around 2021. I can't see them as anything but a waste of time now. For whatever reason, I'm still here anyway.

>>714076529
just make a thread making fun of zoomers and look at the massive asspain it generates. That's not all ironic there's some genuine broccoli hair butthurt coming from real zoomers.

>>714075339 (OP)
10 years ago. Modern gaming just isn't for me. Just watched a video on '90s fighting game series I've never played (but had heard of) and it looked really fun. The art style of the era is some much more to my liking as well. Also bought a few '90s classics recently for single player, VS and coop fun.
Pic not related

>>714076084
Nah mate. Early 3D was rough but it reached its zenith in PS2 and then the age of decadence began.

>>714076945
I guess I wish I could lower my expectations like you and have fun, I guess. But video games are either fun to me or they're not. Most of the tine they aren't.

>>714076416
there are 0 lgbt NPCs in the entire game
this isn't final fantasy 14 or world of warcraft
cope

>>714075339 (OP)
They will always be fun. You just need to play good games.

games are still fun and worst case I can replay old games with a lot to choose from

>>714075339 (OP)
37 here
>roadcraft
>underspace
>playing original sin 2 with friends
>monster train at work
>expedition 33 and death stranding on backlog
>thinking about new playthroughs of wotr and RT
Just wish I was a neet again so I had time for all the stuff I wanna play

>>714080173
I don't think I would say I keep my expectations low, instead I don't have them so high to a point that I might lose interest in trying a game. I believe Death Stranding 2 would be a good example, I haven't played 1 and I'm interested in buying it, many will say how it's nothing but a walking simulator, but what I've seen looks interesting enough for me to give it a chance because I want to be the one to form my own opinion about the game. On the other hand there's Wukong, the gameplay looks very boring for such an overhyped game and it never caught my attention when there are so many other Soulslike and action games out there that do a way better job, like Sekiro.

>>714080884
Sounds like a reasonable outlook on things.

>>714075339 (OP)
New games stopped being fun around 2014. It's really weird hearing zoomers having nostalgia for 2015, when everything was already super retarded.

>>714076309
MMZ2 Revisited and FFT The Lion War
MMZ1 Revisited was such a nice QoL boost, so after taking a break, I decided it's time to go back through Z2. FFT TLW is much less aggravating than TWoL Emergence because I just cannot stand that shitty dialect change that Squenix forced into it and TO:LUCT.

>>714080704
>thinking about new playthroughs of wotr and RT
I can never tolerate owlcat games. After completing kingmaker, I realized that it was the worst kind of blatant power fantasy with horrible writing.

Games were fun from 6 to 19, then I didn't like them from 19 to 27, Now they, and everything else in life, is fun again (27 to 31)
The reality is you were able to enjoy games as a kid because you had no financial burden, stress, and responsibilities. Also most likely your pleasure receptors weren't fried.

Figure out money (a good 1 or 2 years worth of your living expense in your bank account), Shelter (ideally a house with low mortgage but nice apartment is fine too), health (don't be fat, workout at least 3-4 times a week, eat only meat veggies and fruits, no alcohol, cigarette, coffee, sugar, drugs, or at least try to keep them as once a week treats), and no stress.

Once you've done all that, I recommend booking a vacation to a cabin or beach for a week with nothing but creative things like woodworking, drawing tool, instruments, etc.
No books, no games, no phone or tablet, the most bland food you can. Shit will reset your brain to feel pleasure from hearing wind in the leaves.

Watch as you magically start to enjoy things again because you've basically recreated the lifestyle of a child.

>>714081153
You sound like a huge pussy ass faggot.
Kill yourself

>>714075339 (OP)
37. Games became trash completely 5 years ago. But like 5-8 before then they were going downhill. All this new shit sucks. I play it but it's trash. I haven't bought a game for like 15 years. I pirate everything and still feel ripped off. Everything looks and plays the same.

>>714076945
>My expectations will never be as unrealistic
Same... Plus I just accept part of the reason older games seemed so amazing at the time was I was either a kid or at a time in my life with little to no real life BS. Now real life creeps into everything and robs me of time etc.
I will admit I do miss the easy mode of being college age and having a massive amount of online friends all up around the same time and playing games etc. Even if it was just community server gaming buddies.
now it's all just faceless masses of randoms but at the same time I'm happy that everyone I know in real life is off living life too and not just oh look all of us sitting around 24/7 gaming like it's college days again.

>>714081256
>He doesn't lifemaxx to make games more enjoyable
You clearly don't like games

>>714081528
>lifemaxx
You're just a retarded failed normalfag slave

>>714081437
>I'm happy that everyone I know in real life is off living life too and not just oh look all of us sitting around 24/7 gaming like it's college days again
There's no reason an adult with agency cannot make plans to be available once a week to do things with friends. Half of you act as if you work 3 fulltime jobs and your spouse will literally murder you if you are online for more than 30 minutes.

>>714081395
>I pirate everything
I don't believe in pirating games again more being they are so cheap on sale, in bundles or even free on Epic. I want to be paid for my efforts, one should pay a dev for their efforts. Even if I will admit to be a hypocrite on this issue when it comes to Hollywood media content.
being IMO they are getting paid already and I'm off to the side with no impact. Unlike say a small indie dev who legit needs people to buy their game for $10 on sale vs just pirate it.

>>714075339 (OP)
It didn't. Especially now that we're in the middle of a stacked gaming year.

Just move on and stop buying COD and Assassins Creed, man.

>>714081395
There's like a million indie games worth playing.
Yeah, there's a trillion bad ones. But just by sheer volume, the 0.0001% that are good will easily occupy thousands of hours of your life.

>>714081587
>He doesn't understand the divine progression of normalfag, to exposed doomer neet, to enlighten normalfag who gleefully battles entropy
Tsk tsk, lil' zoom zoom... so young, so naive

>>714081920
>brown ESL thinks he's "enlightened"
KEK

>>714077603
No the retards that live on this site just have a compulsion to be contrarian about anything. It's that simple.

>>714081669
>Half of you act as if you work 3 fulltime jobs and your spouse will literally murder you if you are online for more than 30 minutes.
Sadly, that's not as ridiculous as it sounds, especially nowadays when a lot of people have to work 2 jobs just to make meets end and have enough money to pay rent for their "study apartment". And I'm sure most 30+ year olds here won't let me lie, things were way better when we were teens, we lived through an era of almost perfect stability and back then owning a house was not only a dream to achieve, but an almost guaranteed fact in life.

Things are just very different and are definitely getting worse for everyone, even the 10's weren't as bad as the 20's have been so far, and we're only halfway through the decade.

>>714081669
>act as if you work 3 fulltime jobs
The issue isn't that a person doesn't have free time or that you can't do whatever you want with that time as an adult. The problem is getting everyone to have the same free time on the same day.
once you start to +1 in some kids, wife and a range of hobbies your gaming time start to decline to almost nothing. The only way to combat it is the pick up hoop style of solution.
where you have a very large group and make it known that ok we are doing something every 3rd Sunday at 7pm... then you get a revolving door of people who show.

>>714082141
Sounds like a mutt problem, lol.

>>714075339 (OP)
39 here.
Games are still fun. The issue is my vision is failing.

>>714075339 (OP)
Next-Gen

>>714082141
>make meets end
>"study apartment"
>in quotes
Why are you so fucking retarded?

>>714075339 (OP)
They didn't.
The combination of being able to play ANY game from before 2000 pretty much instead of what's on the stores/rental stores, and the many good small indie stuff coming daily, more than fulfill the gaming needs.

It's only shit if you let the propaganda dictate what you play.

>>714082197
>my vision is failing.
that just means we can get away with gaming on a larger monitor at a lower resolution and not really notice or care. Yet I will admit having to wear reading glasses to game after a life time of never needing glasses makes me feel old as dirt.

>>714082192
Same here in Finland. That said, the countryside is emptying up so you can easily get a house there for barely anything, as long as you're willing to live without any services and businesses nearby.

>>714082063
Already resorting to brown calling?
So desperate, I was hoping for a less boring shitflinging contest. How boorish.

>>714082748
Cope Pajeet

>>714082812
Post eye color

>>714082459
I don't mean my vision is simply getting worse with age. I do not have a concrete idea of how much longer I'll have sight. Hopefully it's years, I've just gotta see how things progress. And cross my fingers for technological advancements.

>>714075339 (OP)
Games are still fun. You just gotta move the games aside that try to be the next big hit, and find the games that are made as passion projects. I am not defending either of these examples, but I'd rather play Undertale over Call of Duty. A game that's made for the sake of being fun will always be enjoyable, while a game made specifically to make money will stop being fun very quickly.

>miserable old faggot general
I've seen one of these threads up every day for a while now, you guys need to get some real fucking hobbies if videogames are that boring

>>714075339 (OP)
Only very recently and even then I struggle to say they're unfun and not that the industry as a whole just doesn't suck now

>>714083748
Last /v/3 helped me find some really nice timewasters

>>714084003
It varies, downers like the OP tend to fill threads with people wanting to vent about their shitty lives and don't even talk about videogames, other threads vent a bit but still talk about having fun with videogames and other things.

>>714084003
>eed to get some real fucking hobbies if videogames are that boring
They really should

>>714075417
This, video games were only fun when you had a freind around.

>all the replies saying videogames are still fun
>barely anyone mentioned any specific game
lol

>>714085958
When there are thousands of great games waiting to be played, it's pretty hard to say one name.
But if you want a random good game to play, go play penguin adventure on the MSX, is made by hideo kojima.

>>714086232
>penguin adventure
It was alright but I think Vampire killer is the best MSX game ever made.

>>714075339 (OP) tl;dr they're more fun than ever, but life has different requirements now

30+ here - when your life sucks, games stop being fun - you're an adult now, you're supposed to take care of yourself & your environment. I can honestly enjoy vidya to this day, as long as there aren't any things to do. If there are, I'm just stressing that the chores or whatever are being put off - do the thing, play games.

Also you need people for your mental health - if you haven't spoken to anybody or haven't had the most basic company in ages, that will impact you, and your enjoyment of vidya.

>>714075339 (OP)
Not even remotely true. The industry may be shit but that doesnt stop games being fun just because YOU are a washed up regretting bitch who treats 30 years like 70.

>>714075339 (OP)
>paperboy
I remember playing the second game. it was fun.

33 year old Mexican here

Have been expanding my tastes lately and I'm currently enjoying 3D platformers, rogue like games and Metroidvanias, I just recently completed Guacamelee 2 Complete, Super Lucky Tale and Turok.

I'm currently playing some PS+ games Team Sonic Racing and Sandland.

Also have a massive backlog of games, I really need to stop buying games LMAO.

Thinking on playing Thymesia or Another Crab's Treasure when I'm done with the current games

Kinda want to get a Switch 2 but shit's too expensive, Mario Kart and Donkey Kong Bananza looks great tho , a shame that the new Fromsoftware game is multiplayer.

Overall, I still enjoy vidya but I need to play different genres to keep things fresh and interesting

>>714086579
Even better than Metal gear 2?

>>714087779
you got me there. I still prefer vampire killer for its better OST.

>>714075339 (OP)
30 year old, just beat yooka laylee. It's not quite banjo but its good enough

>>714075339 (OP)
They're still fun. I'm emulating old ps2 games

>>714088959
Understandable.