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Message: [QUOTE="Ephemera1_, post: 272402, member: 824971"] Whether its food, how we view and interact with the world around us, even things we once enjoyed but no longer have the same passion for, its undeniable that, with age comes a change in palate. A change in what entertains us, a change in what matters to us. I want to know, how has your gaming taste changed over the years? Are there certain genres you initially were turned off to that you now enjoy? Maybe its the way in which you interact with games that's changed compared to how you used to. Certain mechanics you hated that you cant live without now, etc. For me, when i was younger I was very much into fighting games and FPS,[B] AND I STILL AM![/B] [I]However[/I], i'm much more casual in my approach from where I once was. Yes i still want to be at least an above average player in those games, but I no longer have the passion to be an advanced/ ELITE level player. There's been a steadily growing enthusiasm in strategy games for me. I wasn't disinterested in playing them before, but now after briefly playing through Warhammer 40k: Mechanicus, I've got a strong urge to delve deeper into the genre. Card games interest me much more now than they did when i was younger and, Ive also gained a newfound fondness in city builder games as well as simulators. Spacebase startopia, Train sim world, Lawn Mower Sim, those kinds of games. Speaking of sims, Ive also completely phased out sports games from my rotation. I'm a avid watcher of Football(NFL and regular Football) and i do enjoy some basketball/baseball, but i don't buy and play these games because of their predatory practices and just how janky some of the gameplay is now. The last GREAT madden game was probably the ORIGINAL madden 25, back in 2014, and even then, it didn't hold a candle to previous games like Madden 11. I grew up in the NBA live vs 2k era but once 2K won that battle and there was no other alternative, i found the games to be really boring and samey. Basketball sims aren't as fun as football sims IMO. Even modern day wrestling games have been phased out for me as well, I dont want to play a simulation of a fake sport and trying to understand why anyone would doesnt really baffles me. They had the formula down with Smackdown: "Here Comes the Pain", "Shut Your Mouth" and the pre SVR2009 games. Hell, even SVR2009 was more of a mixture of realism and arcadey fighting, and had they stuck with that, i would've been content with it, but alas they didn't. They decieded to go mostly simulation and now we have clunky, slow, boring wrestling games now. Sorry for that little tangent on sports/wrestling games for anyone who never particularly cared for that genre in the first place. Well Thats how my taste has changed personally, what about yours? [/QUOTE]

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