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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   
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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• And Linux too... (Score: 5, Interesting) by stretch611 on Tuesday January 08 2019, @01:13AM

  by stretch611 (6199) on Tuesday January 08 2019, @01:13AM (#783498)

  I forgot to mention... I am a gamer, but the last 10 years only linux has been installed in my house.

  In my parent post, every single game I mentioned except for Civ III & IV are playable in native linux. (I believe that both III and IV can be played in WINE, Civ V and VI both have native linux builds.)

  As a matter of fact, the linux gaming site that I frequent, just had an article yesterday: 132 of the 250 most highly rated games on Steam support Linux, even more when counting Steam Play [gamingonlinux.com]

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  Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P

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