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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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Original Submission

• Re:The Aspects I Enjoy Have Changed (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 08 2019, @07:06AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 08 2019, @07:06AM (#783582)

  A lot of what the author reports rings true with me. Searching my own feelings about it, I realize the things I enjoy most about games now are not the graphics or adrenaline factor. Rather, it's attention to detail, depth, and story.

  I will now quietly puke in an secure undisclosed location. Phoenix666 just said "shiny". All is lost, all is lost. I would append my user name, but the shame is too much. Phoenix! We trusted you, man! We followed you! We preferred your submissions to aristarchus's. And now this? Words have I not.

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