i use to LOVE gamming what happened

[nobitakun]

What happened? you grew up lol.

It's the effect that happens to 99% of the people, what we remember in our childhood is what we most dear. Most of teenagers now will not touch anything before PS360 because they will simply think it looks ugly and very old for the simple reason they didn't grew up with it. Smartphones are the same. They weren't a reality until I already finished high school, and I only got one 3-4 years later, so nowadays I don't care about them. I usually see most of people in subway and bus looking at the phone's screen while I look at them or I just don't do anything, close my eyes and relax, or just see the landscape if able.

 

[Rox00]

From my experience when I feel like I'm not feeling it anymore in gaming, I just take a breather and look back on why I enjoyed it and try out say a game that is something I haven't experienced like and learn new systems that make me realize why I enjoyed it once again. Replaying old classics you like can help as well. Ofc though there's the chance that times have changed and your interests have changed too since you have grown up between that time.

Just know you'll always be a gamer deep down, all those games you have played from your youth won't be forgotten about as long as you are alive.

 

[Bonkers225]

You grew up and matured. Can't fix this.

 

[qw90700]

What happened? you grew up lol.

Dude this is video games, not toy car!!! lol

Some people have no sense of nostalgia or appreciating value of anything in the context of the idea because their brain cannot work without comparing stuff therefore those people leave "bad toys" when they find "better ones" or they will dislike new ones because they will be stubborn on old toys.

Some people are nostalgic so they cannot give on on their toys. That's because their brain cannot let go of the elements from the version of life they started to get to know the first time, so for a sense of familiary their brain prefer to distort the current reality to make the person stuck in past.

For example I'm neither of these people. I still love me old games I enjoyed and it doesn't prevent me from liking new games whatsoever.

So I may have gave up on me toy guns because real guns are way more fun!!! Yet I still play me Duck Hunt on NES via my Nintendo Zapper and when I get bored I still play Rage 2 go figure lolol.

I'm a type of guy who can enjoy horse riding still to this day yet I would love me cyberpunk car that can fly too. What is "better" matters but for me all these stuff have their own taste worthy to still taste. I cannot live my live without being exposed to great variety of things!!!

 

[nobitakun]

Dude this is video games, not toy car!!! lol

Some people have no sense of nostalgia or appreciating value of anything in the context of the idea because their brain cannot work without comparing stuff therefore those people leave "bad toys" when they find "better ones" or they will dislike new ones because they will be stubborn on old toys.

Some people are nostalgic so they cannot give on on their toys. That's because their brain cannot let go of the elements from the version of life they started to get to know the first time, so for a sense of familiary their brain prefer to distort the current reality to make the person stuck in past.

For example I'm neither of these people. I still love me old games I enjoyed and it doesn't prevent me from liking new games whatsoever.

So I may have gave up on me toy guns because real guns are way more fun!!! Yet I still play me Duck Hunt on NES via my Nintendo Zapper and when I get bored I still play Rage 2 go figure lolol.

I'm a type of guy who can enjoy horse riding still to this day yet I would love me cyberpunk car that can fly too. What is "better" matters but for me all these stuff have their own taste worthy to still taste. I cannot live my live without being exposed to great variety of things!!!

Totally agree. Being stuck in the past is sometimes good but not for everything. The past is the past, and if you want to recover it you have to pay a lot of money to artificially keep living in it, so it's a no-no for a peasant like me :(

So lucky that I also like new games, but I usually dislike them when they are remakes of games that I liked how they were and now they changed them a lot to fit with younger audiences. There are a few exceptions though :).

 

[qw90700]

Totally agree. Being stuck in the past is sometimes good but not for everything. The past is the past, and if you want to recover it you have to pay a lot of money to artificially keep living in it, so it's a no-no for a peasant like me :(

Yeah. That's why to buy a TARDIS I bought dogs and my wife hate me for it way more than I turn our conversations into a meme lolol:

So lucky that I also like new games, but I usually dislike them when they are remakes of games that I liked how they were and now they changed them a lot to fit with younger audiences. There are a few exceptions though :).

Yeah but thankfully not all remakes are bad. For example me like me Crisis Core remake but worst remake I ever saw was Resident Evil 3 Remake.

Remakes were always a thing and sometimes they ruined the original or improved it which I mean objectively because some cuts tons of content while some just stick to 1:1, but it's ideal when they add content instead of cutting any.

In this context why current video game industry bad is partly because they focus on remakes too much but worst is they are only after spamming shitty remakes so "remake" idea itself is not bad for me. There was always shitty games, remakes were common yet they intentionally develop shitty games. Relatively we are too exposed to shitty games since 2016. I know golden age of video gaming of 2004-2005 will never come back but damn things are not even how it was around NES-Sega Genesis era. And now AIs want to be implement and games are more like Netflix rubbish, dude I saw many states of how the industry changed but I sticked but especially around 2020 I decided gaming is fundamentally shit anymore, even indie industry ruined because of wankers lolol.

 

[Rocket2049]

today i downloaded about 12 games, ranging from ms pacman maze madness for dreamcast, to obscure ps1 RPGS i never heard of till today, and even the new shantae release as a GBA rom.
i didn't play any of those games today, i instead went around the internets and had youtube going all day on my phone at the same time.
for me it's prob getting old lol, i used to marathon JRPGs like, 24 hour marathons till i crashed out.
i barely play any game for more than 2 hours these days lol.

 

[MrChester]

hi guys i use to be obsessed with gaming to the point it probably wasn't healthy lol

but these days i can only play games that are brain dead in nature aka u just mindlessly go with what is flashing on screen

any tips on getting back into the groove?
i miss gaming lol am i just unc now

ps im esl sorry grammar and such

Hello!

Based on what you've said, I'm gonna guess you've become a little bit lazy. Your sense of taste is like a muscle and you've let yours atrophy. I'm not suggesting you try to pick up a bunch of conventionally difficult games, but try to challenge yourself more. Perhaps find a game you already know you can beat and then start questioning what ridiculous other ways you can beat it.

For example, I really love the Dishonoured games and so I decided to do a run that doesn't use any of the void abilities (they're basically magic spells). To the layman, I imagine this sounds like I was just playing half of a game, but in fact that couldn't be more wrong. Not being able to teleport meant I got really into the climbing, movement, and level design, all the additionally money from selling runes (used to buy magic) went towards equipment, and in generally, I was just finding I had to come up with new answers to situations I'd dealt with hundreds of times before.

Aside from that, another thing I'd recommend is playing "bad" games. It's easy to get fixed in the "I only want to play PS2 JRPGs because I know I like PS2 JRPGs" or something mindset (looking at like 50% of this sites users). But if you only play PS2 JRPGs, you're only equipping yourself to judge PS2 JRPGs - if you only play games people tell you are good, you'll only be equipped to judge broadly appealling games that people say are good. Experiment around and develop your taste

P.S. this whole "new game bad, old game good" thing I see parroted is just dumb. Vapid assertions like that are only gonna slow you down and make you unwilling to experiment

I hope the spark comes back, my friend

 

[moonbits]

You fried your brain; go do something else and come back. You'll see it's just as good as ever.

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"new game bad, old game good" thing I see parroted is just dumb.

b-but this is the retro game talk forum... it's our motto..

 

[qw90700]

You fried your brain; go do something else and come back. You'll see it's just as good as ever.

For me if I don't play a game for like 1 week my brain adapts to a lifestyle without gaming then to be able to play games again I need to play games for full one day or spread gaming to 1 week without any missing gameless day!!!

 

[Matricks]

Im alwayz on nolife retrogamemode 24/7 with listening to

NoLife-radio

 

[fake-kun]

It sounds to me like you're having burnout. Maybe take a break from gaming?

 

[MajesticSiN]

Life happaned

 

[Nothingness]

old games = fun
new games = waste of money

Completely agree

 

[DaeZun]

Touch some grass, hang out with your friends, learn something new, take up other hobbies, save some money to travel to other places instead of Steam games on sale that you'll probably drop after half an hour...

It's not that there aren't any good games anymore or that they're no longer fun. It just becomes monotonous doing the same thing every day. I mean, you may really like pizza, but if it's the only thing you eat every day, you'll eventually get tired of it.

 

[iamthemilkman]

A lot of games became way too big and bloated full of meaningless side content used to artificially extend the playtime.

I, like you, also like a basic point A to point B kinda game nowadays because I just don't have time for a bunch of 40-100+ hours games.

 

[qw90700]

It sounds to me like you're having burnout. Maybe take a break from gaming?

Yeah, I think OP played this game a lot therefore was takendown from playing video games for a while lolol: https://retrogametalk.com/repository/ps2-iso/burnout-3-takedown-usa/

 

[Skellerick]

You can always play short games, the kind you can finish in an afternoon or a weekend. It might help you slowly get back into the gaming mood.

 

[ThirteeTooBeets]

Maybe you need a rest, if the mid gets stagnant it gets tired and you enjoy things less. Try to do some other things on the side and see if you want to eventually play games again

 

[Shad79]

Everyone grows older, But i attribute this to gaming as a whole changing
idk how young you were but if you loved gaming in lets say early to mid 2000s games didnt look the same as they are now. And games also weren't just sequels of already existing successful franchises, there was alot of new and interesting games too unlike now and alot of franchises these days that used to be big also died out (soul calibur as an example)
i'd recommend going back to playing the type of games you loved playing and if anything just playing it all over again

 

[qw90700]

Everyone grows older, But i attribute this to gaming as a whole changing
idk how young you were but if you loved gaming in lets say early to mid 2000s games didnt look the same as they are now. And games also weren't just sequels of already existing successful franchises, there was alot of new and interesting games too unlike now and alot of franchises these days that used to be big also died out (soul calibur as an example)
i'd recommend going back to playing the type of games you loved playing and if anything just playing it all over again

I can say if I had started playing games around 2004-2005 I would stop playing games in 2010. Why?:

The 2004-2005 era was when developers could finally realize tons of their game ideas they couldn't before due to console wars + technology limitation + unstable industry. Relatively in the PS2 era things were just "right" therefore developers rode their wild horses so free. Relativelly "shitty games" amount reduced and "legendary games" amount was in its peak moment.

And then games became more generic and then F2P games got so popular it was when "golden age" of gaming died out and around 2010 industry died never to be recovered lol.

So why I can still stick to the industry?: It's simply just because I grew up with Atari 2600 and this simply doesn't even need explanation why and what it means lol.

 

[Matricks]

Generation Diversity was my Anti Gaming Fatique, I growup from 1st gen. videogaming till last gen. and doing modding/hackin till PS4PRO and Switch hardware modchipping.
No Gaming Fatiguex4vr, So I have always stepup something new to enjoy forever.

Noway, 2011/2012 I had GOAT 3D period was for me the Golden era into 3DTV Gaming with 3D Glasses
PS3 Killzone 3D was epic the 3D FPShooter GOAT, nothing beat that ever, it was really like Im IRL Battle.
and bunch of great 3d games I played was alot better than any VR games.
Resident Evil VII on PSVR was fun but nothing VR have Straight Fast Paced Actions Arcade to compete with 3DTV styles ever.
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[Max]

Some say it's saturation, too many options to play everywhere, pay attention to your thoughts, focus your time and mind on something else and you will rest from gaming until you regain the love for it.