A question for older gamers

I'm 32 and been playing games my whole life. I'm starting to find it very hard to get into games nowadays. I loose interest very quick and I'm unimpressed with todays games in general. Most games I pick them up and throw them aside without a second look. For me to get into a game it has to be realy good. I find myself buying lots of games but not even finishing them. The only time I finish a game is if I realy like it and I don't come by too many I like. I find my standards very high for games.

I think the market is flooded with genaric shooters with the same gameplay mechanics and lineir paths. I'm sick of repetative games with no exploration.

Anyone else feel the same?

Time to get into the traditional adventure genre and to play every WRPG that you have missed, imo. That should cover your exploration fix. Obviously that's all on PC, but most great WRPG are old and run on anyone's emachine, and adventure games are not demanding either.

I'd also suggest getting into indie gaming. You seem to be craving for creativity, and you'll find plenty of that there. I suggest looking up Aquaria, World of Goo, Gish, Wik and the Fable of Souls, Eets, Professor Fizzwizzle, Steam Brigade and Multiwinia.

Personally, I find gaming as interesting as ever, but then again, most of the games I'm playing these days are super obscure, and I'm currently valuing creativity over everything else when picking what game to play next.

I'm 32 and been playing games my whole life. I'm starting to find it very hard to get into games nowadays. I loose interest very quick and I'm unimpressed with todays games in general. Most games I pick them up and throw them aside without a second look. For me to get into a game it has to be realy good. I find myself buying lots of games but not even finishing them. The only time I finish a game is if I realy like it and I don't come by too many I like. I find my standards very high for games.

I think the market is flooded with genaric shooters with the same gameplay mechanics and lineir paths. I'm sick of repetative games with no exploration.

Anyone else feel the same?

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I'm an older gamer too at age 39. I don't play video games as much as I used to either. Maybe you need a "cheat device" to help you through some of those games. I don't really see it as truly cheating, but I just don't have as much time as I used to and spending hours powering up a player in an rpg is too time consuming.

At the ripe "old age" of 36 there isn't too much out I'm going to get for sure. There are a few things I've got a passing interest in. However, I think my current "meh" view on gaming has more to do with the current state of affairs.

I've been a PC gamer since the 80's. I realized that there are several things that haven't change since the days of Zork. A lot of games still come out with massive plain-as-the-nose-on-your-face bugs. Games are still being finished via patches. And most of the industry learned nothing from the failure of past copy protections. If I had known part of the "game" was to get it running and keep it running I might have picked a different hobby. The price hasn't change either. Its still an average of $50.

Lately I've been spending most of my time revisting old favorites. There seems to be a large number of mods I've collected taking up room on my hard drive. Time to start going through them. I recommend you do the same.

Some of that my be from age like impatience for crap you have seen before a hundred times but I think console makers and publishers are largely responsable for the state of the video game industry. Seems like its crap games,mega hits, and sequels and not a lot of variety.

Well, as a 27 years old with 20 years into gaming I know the feeling. I blame it on the fact we old gamers have seen everything by now and find it hard to be amazed or surprised by today's derivative and unoriginal games. Sometimes I still manage to find something that makes me go 'woah', though. Off the top of my head: The environments in Far Cry (PC) and the physics in Half-Life 2 and Portal come to mind.

Still, nothing can match the feeling Mario 64 gave me the first time I played it, 11 years ago.

I'm 44. Wife/Kids now, no more quarters or even an arcade to spend them in. Hey guys-we're getting old and moving out where our lives demand it so. I am tired of the Buy New Console so you can Play Newest Game crap the industry has become. I haven't the money anymore and very little time! New games for an old PC isn't working NEmore. All about Buy Buy Buy. I am now saying Bye Bye Bye!

Hoping the industry calls it quits and moves on, because their $$$$ way has completely killed the point of a game. Console and PC system be damned already! WHAT HAPPENED TO PLAIN OLD FUN? Give me a game without a specific system to play it on- I'm no fanboy. Make a game that works in any system. How about Super Mario 3 for every system out there? Take your "game for machine only" mentality and shove it. Until the "Suits" can make a mercenary company which produces not-systems-for-a-game but a game-for-all-systems (and it had better be a darn good game), I won't be coming back. Let's face it-they are all dying out as game makers anyway, choking on their own bottom lines and political concerns. No fun or Avante Garde left in any of them. Just suits trying to feed me expensive, and often buggy, garbage.

In my 1980's games were for players and scoffed at by others. Gamers were the original Nerds. We knew what was fun then. But now it's all $$$ status quo BS.

Meantime, I'm just going to wait out their extinction, raise my family, pay my bills, and bang away at those 'purer' games of old...the ones that somehow STILL remain playable after decades-how is it that the NES [or insert system here, etc] have the games the 'New World'(ha) keeps remaking and sequeling? It was the GAMES themselves.

Keep The Faith, old gamers-we started the whole thing afterall....

Ha you guys are all old and stuff! Oh wait, so am I.... crap.

I was in a similiar rut a while back. Last gen I bought fewer games than I ever had before by a long shot. I went from getting a game or two a month to getting one or a year. Basically I was at the "been there done that" point. The Wii changed that up a lot for me though. There's a lot of refreshing changes on that system.

A lot of the "casual crap" really isn't all that bad. Most of it is, but some of those games might surprise you. I've spent a lot of time with Wii Fit, Play, and Sports. It's a different way to game and you might actually find it be a lot of fun. It's not something that you can sit there for hours on end playing, but they're fun to kill 20 minutes of time with. Since the hardware is weak a lot of developers are coming up with some very cool artistic designs for the games to make the games stand out rather than try to make things look realistic, and that's a nice change after all these years too. And when I do want the nostalgia factor I have that through VC games and the classic franchises.

My point for all of that isn't for you to run out and get a Wii (assuming you don't have one). It's more to just try to find some new stuff. There were probably genres you didn't like for a while. Try those out again. Try stuff that previously did not appeal to you. There's a lot of new stuff out there, and it's worth trying and it may help revive your interest.

i feel you. recently i feel the same... while i was playing games with passion to beat them all, now i cant even play them or dont finish what i start... now i like short but great games, so before it gets boring i'm done with it.

i was like, getting any game i see on PS2 but now i only have 2 PS3 games and probably it wont be more than 10 in few years... i think gaming needs something fresh, not wii nor just better graphics...

i just dont understand how i can easily play Sensible World of Soccer anytime but cant play the newest soccer game because i get bored instantly... or how simple platformers that all you do is jumping, running are more fun todays assassin's creed,devil may cry 4 etc. ... maybe abit nostalgia but still, new games are just too much identical...

I think all gamers go through a point like this. Mine was last gen. I just really couldn't find a lot to get excited about. Plus, this was a time when I had moved, was paying my own bills, starting a job. Mostly though I feel that I didn't enjoy what the industry was producing. Very few of the "big guns" were exciting to me then or now. I'm enjoying the quirky and old-school games of the Wii and DS much more than most of the 360/PS3 titles. It's not that those are bad games, but they just don't excite me.

I buy only one or two current-generation games per year. I find myself playing older games (NES and SNES) because you get to the action faster and don't have to wait through cutscenes and loading times.