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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 JoeMerchant on Monday January 07 2019, @10:57PM (2 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday January 07 2019, @10:57PM (#783430)

    "Sherlock." The BBC series with Benedict Cumberbatch.

    All too short, a regrettable side effect of not extending the Doyle books... and, for Doyle's time, Sherlock did have "deductive reasoning" superpowers.

    Haven't watched "The Good Cop" - I might lump it in with the laughtrack sitcoms if it's too sappy...

    If we want to play a game, I'll name 3 superpower series for every non-superpower non-sitcom series you can come up with.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday January 07 2019, @11:19PM (1 child)

    by Freeman (732) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 07 2019, @11:19PM (#783450) Journal

    The Sherlock series was "short", but the "episodes" were feature length films.

    How about Mystery Science Theater 3000? That one count?

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    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday January 08 2019, @02:43PM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday January 08 2019, @02:43PM (#783665)

      Never got into MS3K, save that for the future I suppose.

      Will admit: BBC has some decent ones, such as Call the Midwife. Also into Death in Paradise now, even it it is the same old unrequited romantic tension murder mystery formula (ala Remmington Steele, early Bones, Lucifer...) the scenery is different (no gritty city strip clubs, though you do get the island bikini parties...) and the stories actually tie into the setting without total contrivance every time.

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