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Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to?

posted by martyb on Monday January 07 2019, @07:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the Figured-it-out dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

ArsTechnica:

Gaming was like breathing. It was the biggest part of my life as a teenager, one of my priorities as a college student, and eventually one of my most expensive “hobbies” as a young professional.

Then all of a sudden, after thousands of hours spent playing across genres and platforms, boredom hit me hard for the very first time in my early thirties. Some of my favorite games soon gave me the impression of being terribly long. I couldn’t help but notice all the repeating tropes and similarities in game design between franchises.

I figured it was just a matter of time before I found the right game to stimulate my interest again, but time continued to go by and nothing changed.

Is it that games have failed to innovate, or that real life is ultimately more engaging?

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  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Monday January 07 2019, @11:01PM (1 child)

    by looorg (578) on Monday January 07 2019, @11:01PM (#783432)

    You are welcome. I thought they stopped updating Perfect World and it became weird and crashy. I should look it up and try it again then. Thank you.

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  • (Score: 2) by meustrus on Monday January 07 2019, @11:10PM

    by meustrus (4961) on Monday January 07 2019, @11:10PM (#783439)

    Obviously I haven't tried it with Vox Populi yet, but what I have installed is "PerfectWorld3". Sometimes you insta-lose on startup because the game couldn't find a place to put your capital, but that's only sometimes. For what it's worth, it's working for me with base game + Brave New World on Mac (no Gods and Kings). Unfortunately that setup may present me with some interesting difficulty in getting Vox Populi set up...

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