Espousing upon an unknown future is a fools errand. Think less. Live more.

Well most new games are either something already done since 20 years like Far Cry and Assassin’s Creed or something bugged with the need to wait at least 3 patches to be hable to play it with limited problems or being first a skin store then secondary a game with update being mostly limited to cosmetics

With the state some games get released in these days it’s difficult to get hyped up.

Would rather a title be delayed than rushed.

I buy maybe 2 or 3 new games a year. Everything else is just waiting for really good sales on older games. If they are actually good games, they will still be good 5 years from now for 20% of the current price.

80% of games now are “maximize profits with minimum effort.” The biggest problem is people continue to consume and reinforce these bad practices.

Nes games can be cleared in an afternoon. Modern games require hours and hours daily for weeks.

online gaming kinda burned my dopamine receptors. i was always a single player guy, got into online multiplayer gaming heavily during the corona lockdown and i generally haven’t felt happy ever since. Apex, Fort, MW19 and Warzone with so many more games. nowdays i don’t play multiplayer games anymore, as for single player? i buy them and play them. still feels different than before corona times.

CP’77 was the only game that genuinely made me happy in this last two years, that and that one light parry in for honor

Yes and no.

After so many years of gaming, is super easy to spot what I like and what I don’t like. You can also spot the quality of the game fast enough.

When I was younger, I would have played literally every game possible that I could get. Now I barely find anything interesting to play.

I need better quality content, I don’t need games that “get good after X hours”, I need good, fluid animations, not clunky gameplay.

I don’t care if your story is amazing, if the gameplay sucks. I don’t care if the gameplay is good, if there’s no interesting hook to keep me in either. If you try to make a game that look good, but have PNG image of fruits in a basket, I’ll skip it because I love small details in games.

I still get excited but significantly less. I still remember scrounging up all the info I could on Cyberpunk. A workmate and I would literally greet each other with “X days to go…” (which was funny when it would get delayed)

Last game I was excited for was Starfield but I decided to focus on my backlog, and since then I’d say I made the right decision given what I’ve heard about it. Now I’m just waiting for mods

I feel with me and gaming, I go through periods in a year, where I’ll spend months non-stop gaming and other months catching up on reading, tv shows and some movies. After I finished Resident Evil 4 and Baldur’s Gate 3, I don’t have anything else to play that’s new until early 2024 when Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth comes out. If Robocop: Rogue City comes out on a Boxing Day sale I’ll get it, but other then that I got nothing new to look forward too till early 2024.

It’s probably bad of me to say thing on s/gaming, but I kind of welcome the break from gaming, to refresh my mind on something else until some new games arrive in 2024. I definitely have a backlog of ebooks and shows to catch up on.

Still excited but generally don’t have the time to keep up and jump straight into a new release. My backlog is so big now I’m playing games from 5 years ago lol. Good for the wallet I guess.

I don’t feel that, as a gamer, you should be required to get excited about EVERY new release, including ones in genres you don’t even like.

It’s fine if all you look out for are just the diamonds in the rough, especially with how overly-formulaic big-name games have gotten.

I’ve never felt like that at all and I really don’t understand it. I feel like I’m more excited than ever and there just isn’t enough time to play everything I want. Seems like people have something else going on in their lives they need to deal with if they can’t enjoy something they love anymore.

There are so many old games to play that I rarely play new releases. The only one I played this year was Armored Core 6.

Somewhat true but not entirely. The title that is. I can’t associate with the post. I sometimes get excited depending on the game/dev. Fromsoft and Valve are 2 good examples. They announce a game, I’m excited. Obviously there’s the odd game here and there. Like Judas for example. “From the creator of Bioshock”, I doubt anything short of a λ appearing on screen can get me more excited than that.

But otherwise? Not really. I’m stacked on games for life already. It’s like hearing a new Pizza has been made. Cool but there’s like 100000 others I haven’t tried yet. Hard to be excited for that. I think there’s 3 reasons people lose that good feeling you get when playing video games:

1. No variety. Because the pizza analogy only made sense in that context. In reality you’d get sick of pizza. Might wanna try different games not just battlefield, cod or assassins creed.
2. Doing nothing else. A job doesn’t count, adulting doesn’t count, sleeping doesn’t count. Do something different. Pick up more hobbies or try to do something different on the PC. I can exemplify how this is a reason because I’ve been there. You ever left the house to go to a party or meet with people and after just a short while there you start thinking of playing some game? Yeah, do that more often but also stick to it however long it takes. You might not even game that day but the next you’ll feel a lot more in the mood for it or you might give it up all together in light of finding something you enjoy more, nothing wrong with that.
3. Adults are just tall children. It’s easy to trick us, jiggle some keys before us and we behave like it’s magic. That’s how I see game trailers at least. Almost never reflective of the actual game. You look at it and you imagine it all wrong thinking it’s the greatest thing possible and picturing doing shit in the game that’s just not doable. Then the game comes out and it’s just a game. Nothing you imagined it being and now you feel bored again without realizing, that memory how the trailer looked in your head long gone.

My advice is: just don’t think about it. Variety, just do something. Doesn’t matter what just do it and if you don’t enjoy doing it you’ll brain will come up with something you will enjoy in the meanwhile. Bonus points if you can do something useful. That would be a neat story.

“When did you build a gazebo?”

“Well I was bored of gaming and wanted to get back into the mood.”