I am getting old....
 

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:

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.

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

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

;_;

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.

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

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

Not liking Dishonored? That's a paddlin'.

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.