I am getting old....

[walkertexasdruid]

For some reason, many of my favorite games do not hold the same interest for for me like they did five years ago. I do not pay attention to what new games are coming out very often, in fact the only one I am looking forward to is Dragon Age 3. Right now the only games I play regularly are my NCAA Football 2010, and my old copy of Civilization 3. Am I becoming an old fogey? :ohdear:

[Tev]

Yes, but aren't we all. Outside of keeping up with the Pokemon games, my ideal gaming consists of Final Fantasy Tactics and Starcraft 2 (which is really just Starcraft, which is really just space Warcraft). There isn't a Raganrok server up any running right now with community members I know and I tried RO2 on Steam for about a month before I gave up because it was silly.

[Aerozord]

RTSs, strategy games, RPGs preferably with complex game mechanics, fast paced reflex based games... yea pretty much the same stuff I always have.

My main reason for not keeping up with games is willful ignorance. Ever since I played Bioshock blind contrasted with looking over every SSBB update I've realized how much keeping up with game news ruins a game. Knowing every character, game mechanic, and plot of a game takes away alot of the fun. I now focus more on reviews and word of mouth before picking up games to avoid spoilers. At most watching an hour or two of a lets play since that way if something major does happen I still get, to a point, to experience it

[Osterbaum]

They way I keep up with new releases is mostly through Steam sales and word of mouth.

I'm also just going to use this opportunity to tell you guys to PLAY WARGAME: RED DRAGON WITH ME.

I JUST WANT PEOPLE TO PLAY IT WITH ME IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK

;_;

[Magus]

After playing through Braid, Brothers, and The Cave recently, I've gotten far more interested in indie titles.

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

After playing through Braid, Brothers, and The Cave recently, I've gotten far more interested in indie titles.


Same here. Not those games specifically, on account of not having them and all. But lately But generally speaking, I've more or less lost faith in the majority of bigger name developers actually making anything worth a piss anymore. 'course there are terrible indie games but I don't feel as jipped if I get an indie game for five dollars or so and it wasn't all that entertaining. Dishonored was the straw that broke that camel's back. what a shitty fuckin game that was.

[Aerozord]

We need a new word for those, cause I mean technically anything made by Valve is an indie game.

something like budget title, but with less of a stigma

[walkertexasdruid]

FF Tactics is great, and I started playing FF X yesterday on my new 42" Plasma. Looks great. :D

[Magus]

Same here. Not those games specifically, on account of not having them and all. But lately But generally speaking, I've more or less lost faith in the majority of bigger name developers actually making anything worth a piss anymore. 'course there are terrible indie games but I don't feel as jipped if I get an indie game for five dollars or so and it wasn't all that entertaining. Dishonored was the straw that broke that camel's back. what a shitty fuckin game that was.

Not liking Dishonored? That's a paddlin'.

[Loyal]

Yeah, I've mostly fallen back on a small number of games I already know I enjoy, like Civ 4, WoW, Fire Emblem, and the odd spot of Castlevania and Dwarf Fortess.

I will be looking into Civ: Alpha Centauri Beyond Earth when it comes out, and absorbing myself into Smash Bros, but beyond that I can't really bring myself to care about new games beyond their soundtrack.

[Bard The 5th LW]

I feel like I've lost patience for games I would have loved round 8 years ago. I've been trying to play Dead Space 2 recently and its just been boring me. Dark Souls and its sequel are the only games I've played recently that have really enthralled me in some way. I plan to replay a few old games sometime soon -after clearing my current library- to see if they still hold up for me. Majora's Mask, Psychonauts, and the Metroid Prime trilogy are probably top on my 'replay' list.

[synkr0nized]

Over time, I basically got into the habit of asking myself, "Would I still be playing this game in a year, or replaying it, etc.?" If the answer isn't an affirmative, I don't get it. This has really cut down on the amount of games I've purchased over the years; I am sure it's also worth factoring in how differently I approach games as an adult than I did as a child.

But honestly there's a lot of stuff out there that I feel like is probably a good product but that I don't really care to play or own myself. I feel like I used to not be as picky.

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

Not liking Dishonored? That's a paddlin'.

A paddlin' will welcomed and still be a helluva lot funner than that uninspired mountain of ass dribblings.

[Raiden]

I made a lot of bad game decisions back during High School/College with my Dreamcast and XBox. Granted, most of them were cheap games on the discount rack.

Then I got Steam. Way too easy to make a poor game decision. Though I got Dark Souls 2 and I find that to be a good purchase.

[walkertexasdruid]

I am so old that I remember being so excited when the Nintendo Entertainment System came out, and how awesome Super Mario Brothers looked. I miss that childlike excitement that I used to have.

[synkr0nized]

Shooting cans and ducks on the NES was definitely a wide-eyed, child wonderment moment. As was the colors and variety coming from the Atari. I also will never forget how after my brother and I got a NES my one grandmother liked Mario enough to get her own. She ended up being better than anyone I've ever known at the game. This is unrelated to the ideas of joy and amazement we had as children with games, but it just popped into my head as a happy memory.


In fairness, even random toys got that kind of hype from me -- and a lot of us, I wager. Still, I know what you mean, and I feel it's been really terrific to have grown up alongside video games' and entertainment's evolution.