Thread 723675837

With age?
I stopped playing horror games because they just don't do anything at this point.
I chose shorter games.
If a game gets too hard il put it on easy.
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>>723675837 (OP)
they haven't

>>723675920
I think that would be impossible

>>723675837 (OP)
Around 24 or 25 I lost interest in games and started finding them all boring and tedious but still kept coming here and following gaming news and events. I'm 36.

>>723675971
no

>>723676006
You can't have the same time you had available as a teen

>don't do anything
What the fuck does this mean? Games are inanimate objects.

>>723676049
oh but you can

>>723675837 (OP)
They haven't
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>>723676081
is this achievable natty?

36 years old
Nothing really changed. I enjoy all kinds of games. I was able to keep playing the shit out of games as I got into a good career and balance my life properly. 100%'d silksong the week it came out. Video games are still fun.

>>723675984
This is the last game I really enjoyed

If a game isn't hard, is too long, has no proper "tech", and lacks proper format, I'll drop it since it's a pointless activity
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>>723676162
You can't go back and play a 3d game for the first time again.
Games where something new every year when I grew up.

>>723675837 (OP)
i play more "forever" games like factorio or total war don't play single player games as much. still play street fighter so that hasn't changed

>>723675837 (OP)
i used to have a policy of "i need to beat the game in order to be able to accurately articulate why i hate it"
now if i think it's bad, i just stop playing, i'd rather talk about things i like

hl2 ep2 is what broke my bad habit, it was a poor enough experience to stop before finishing

>>723675837 (OP)
My habits never really changed, but since the industry by large has, my new game input has kinda stagnated
Shit sucks

>>723676558
If I hate the gameplay sometimes I finish the story on YouTube.

>>723676558
>played through all of dragon age 2 because of this autism
felt like a video game form of waterboarding

The die was cast when my brother pestered me to play Guitar Hero on microphone and deleted my NSMB save out of rage when I didn't want to.
I'm 26.

>>723675984
I'm the opposite. I'm 25 and I'm more invested in games than before, I'm trying out a lot of genres that didn't appeal to me and find things I enjoy in them, I'm playing older games I've been putting off trying for ages, I can sink +100 hours into a playthrough without realizing it, etc.
Maybe you just hit your high too early and burned out.

>>723676558
>hl2 ep2
Really? I thought ep2 was pretty good. I agree with dropping shit if you don't like it though, life's too short to suffer through something you don't like.

>>723676558
Mad myself suffer through The Grey Garden because of this bullshit. Barely qualifies for a game, but I'm sure there's an audience who loves it and it wasn't me.

Used to play competitive games and hardcore grind games, now I just play single player games

>>723675837 (OP)
I've experienced enough different types of stories and hero's journeys, so I tend to avoid cutscene/movie heavy games. My favorite games these days are ones that focus more on fun gameplay than exposition and bloat. I also know what type of games I like or don't like so I don't fall for flavor-of-the-month games based on other people's hype.

>>723675837 (OP)

41 here.

I've played vidya since the mid-80s and initially made the decision to skip the current console generation when I sold my PS4.

However, at the current rate I think I'm finally done. I don't see myself returning to video games. There's just nothing worthwhile once you realize they're basically always the same core structures transposed into whatever is trendy at the time. Sure they have nicer graphics and some little gimmick added on top, but essentially it's always the same games over and over and over again.

When I look back I wish I stopped playing in the late 90s and spent my time on self improvement. Hell, even sleeping would have been a more useful way to spend my time.

>>723677025
that's one of the games i stopped because of that and later went back to, but not to be a part of the cultural moment and be able to complain, but to figure out what the fuck happened
it was amazing with like 1 cave map reused 15 times but with different configurations of CONCRETE BLOCKS blockading the doorways, and stuff like the ankle high rocks being too much for your characters to walk over, and the loosey goosey pronunciation of everything with the voice acting
i began imagining the game as a parody, in the same way that the overlord series is a parody, and it somehow became entertaining and i hate it less now (it's still bad though)

>>723677515
it was the car, at the end of episode 2 they bring out the car, i hated the car levels so much in the base game that when they gave me the opportunity to launch it off the cliff with gravity gun i took the oppor-MISSION FAILED YOU NEED TO PARK IT IN A GARAGE SO THE COMBINE DON'T SEE IT
so when i saw the car appear again i just closed the game, i was done, it wasn't very fun up to that point anyway

It's kind of crazy how I used to get scared shitless playing horror games but now I'm in my 30s and just recently played Alan Wake 2 and was literally never afraid not even while the screen was LITERALLY using jumpscares. I actually asked myself if something was wrong with me, but I don't think so since I still get scared IRL like when I'm walking a street in my town, it's silent and suddenly a dog behind some fence I can't see through starts barking at me as I pass so clearly jumpscares work IRL.

>>723679067
that's crazy, the vehicle sections were some of my favorite parts of hl2/ep2. extremely cozy

I play many more game genres where before I mostly only played action, RPG, shooter and strategy games. I still play those genres but having a bigger selection of gsmes to play does mean I spend less time on any single one.

>>723675837 (OP)
I'm 30. There was no watershed moment, but as time has dragged on my gaming cynisism has increased dramatically. I don't even consider playing a game nowadays unless I hear like a month straight of positive word of mouth about it, and even then, I often feel betrayed by you fuckers and your sloppa.
For example, I used to love Mass Effect 2, now I'm playing through it and it just seems so obviously shit. I genuinely can't even understand what the fuck I saw in this game. Mass Effect 1 was still pretty good, but it's showing it's age.

>>723675837 (OP)
>I don't playing anything that feels like work.
Any game that is about crafting or managing resources.
>I stopped watching movies or series.
I also don't play games without game play, like walking simulators or visual novels.
>I don't enjoy most retro games.
I played megaman recently (both base and X) and thought they are trash. They were my favorite games in my childhood and teens. Finished all most of them on release.
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>>723675837 (OP)
>child
played games
>adult
talk and complain about games on image boards with no intentions to play

>>723677025
DA2 is the worst game I've finished.
To be fair, it kind of tricks you into thinking the bad part is over only to get even worse.

>>723675837 (OP)
it's hard to game for more than an hr or two at a time without a break
only a few games i can play for extended sessions without frying my noggin and i hate it

>>723675837 (OP)
i stopped caring about multiplayer after too many years of mmos and guild drama
i dont play nearly as many shooty games mainly because good campaigns are few and far between
i became a patient a gamer
i play way more indie (if you can still call it that anymore) and aa games

>>723675837 (OP)
>Born in 2007
Erm yikes

>>723679608
I'm 32 and barely find an enjoyable game these days, but Mass Effect 2 is my favourite ME and I most recently replayed the trilogy less than 2 years ago.

>>723679608
Imagine being this miserable.

I started liking glass cannon speedy class archetypes less and less, for some reason

>>723675837 (OP)
That's a pretty rough 18. Zoomers need to stop vaping.

>>723675837 (OP)
I played Nintendos for a long time. Loved them. I bought a 2DS and barely touched it. Been on Playstation ever since.

>>723679067
>he hated the muscle car that alyx winks at you in
crazy, almost everyone I ever saw talk about that game said the car was their favorite part, it even played a nice role in the huge fight at the end

>>723675837 (OP)
I've started focusing more and more on older games rather than current releases as time has gone on.

>>723680897
i won't say it's not a good part, because i didn't get in the car
i saw the car, i quit

RAGE is about the only game with vehicles that don't feel like shit (they were cowards for stapling an fps on to it, they should have gone with the original idea that the game was primarily about cars)

>>723681670
You said
>poor enough experience
What was poor about it if you stopped before you even used it?

>>723676171
New Sleep Token cover art here looks dope.

>>723675837 (OP)
Back in high school, I played a ton of turn-based JRPGs. Around college age, I got bored of them, and that's when a friend of mine introduced me to bullet hell shmups. Whereas I once preferred 50+ hour games, I then gravitated toward "short but sweet" stuff, ranging from 30-minute shmups to 3-hour "one sitting" games like Vanquish, Sin & Punishment 2, Metal Gear Rising, and Zone of the Enders 2.

>>723682175
Oh, and I'm 42.

>>723681741
yes, as in the rest of episode 2, before the part where they bring out the car apparently near the end

>>723682270
>near the end
I don't think you even played the episode. The car comes out not even halfway through the episode.

>>723676323
>You can't go back and play a 3d game for the first time again
nobody can, after the very first 3D game ever. what a bizarre thing to get nostalgic about.

>>723675837 (OP)

i guess i stopped replaying games now that I buy games i just play games i hvent played anymore

>>723682451
>I don't think you even played the episode
ok?
good for you?

>>723682912
right back at ya, kiddo

>>723675837 (OP)
I changed my ways when I got my missus pregnant. I put everything aside to get the skills and then get a job. It didn't exactly work out that way. I got several jobs that didn't work out. I am now just a very professional house husband. I homeschool our little one, make meals, do just about every possible thing to raise him the right way. Plus, since the missus works from home, we are never apart. Past that though, my taste hasn't changed in the slightest. Still into fighting games, shooters, rpgs.
Btw, 30 years old.

>>723682974
thanks, toddler

>>723683180
no problem, little man

>feel like 18 was not long ago
>31

>>723683217
later, babe

>>723683347
alright chief

>>723683285
What are you talking about, you're 53.

>>723683285
Literally me, fuck

I used to play MMO's, but now I don't play MMO's because they're all dogshit and taken over by trannys.
Prob the only difference.

>>723683768
God I love how hard Transchads buckbroke 4trancels

>>723683768
7 years ago I tried to get back into WoW (played casually since the end of classic) and I joined some guild and there was a woman discussing being a single mother to a boy and how she hopes that he becomes gay. I said I would disown him. In real life nobody ever talks about this shit and online I'd have to constantly pretend I was okay with all this faggotry so I ended up just quitting all MMORPGs. I cannot stand these people and I cannot stand how fucking gay even the games themselves became. I played The Elder Scrolls Online singleplayer for the story and at some point the expansion content comes in and every second is a fag with 2 fags fucking each other in their faggot assholes and suddenly the story became an allegory for Trump.

I don't have any respect for people who play MMORPGs. You're logging in regularly to rape yourself.

>>723684246
Joke's on you, I only play boomer shit MMORPG's filled with eastern europeans.

they didn't everything i do with time i get better at

>>723675837 (OP)
I don't play new releases unless they REALLY impress me, and I'm more interested in games that feel good to play rather than ones that just look good or have a good story. Games like loop hero and slay the spire are more valuable to me than modern AAA slop.

It's true what they say about reaction speed as you get older, twitch shooters and fighting games just aren't fun to me anymore. On the other hand, I've come to appreciate slower, more methodical games.

>>723675837 (OP)
I'm 37 and since I retired I now play for 12 hours a day, just like I did in college.
One part of me would love to replace that gaming time with a wife but another part of me has observed the habits of too many modern women and asks "is it worth it?"

>Used to have existential dread of becoming older at 18
>Now at 28 years old, I couldn't give a single fuck anymore.

I guess I've suffered enough to be content to just let the chips fall at this point. I'm ready to die. Honestly. Let the civil war begin. I'll get as many fucking Jews as I can get my fucking hands on.

>>723675837 (OP)
>If a game gets too hard il put it on easy.
As you get older it should be simpler to play harder games and higher difficulties.

>>723685157
You're not wrong in being skeptical of women today. Marriage is a burden on the man and a guaranteed insurance plan for the woman in which she is rewarded for breaking her vows.
Don't let yourself become a victim of Misandrist bullshit and sexist policy. Enjoy your life at your own terms, not the state's or a woman's. They both hate you, and wouldn't hesitate to take everything away from you for themselves.

>>723675837 (OP)
>selling most of my old vidya and consoles for chump change
>just gonna stick with the rig until something happens
On the brightside once I get sick of being a member of the mustard race there is always suicide to look forward to.

>look at how miserable I am and how much I hate video games: the thread
Nobody cares. Fuck off.

>>723686980
Exit is that way, faggot. Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

i wish i was born a woman. i would have so much more self confidence

>>723686998
This but for faggots on /v/ that hate video games.

>>723686760
I know. I'll keep hoping for a unicorn but in the meantime I've got the love of my family and friends, and enough money to detach from society almost completely until hyperinflation takes off and everyone takes to burning down buildings for warmth.
But by then we won't have an electric grid for video games anymore so my life path before that point won't be terribly relevant.

>>723686760
>watch the oldman lose most of his shit to the fat ex and her mongrel kids
>tries to claim my stuff under the pretenses that it's hers too
>surprised pikachu face from giving him a heads up on why I'm not following in those footsteps
I'll buy a woman for the night but won't bother going any further than that. Let the whole show burn for all I care.