Has your excitement for gaming lessen over the years?

After watching some guys excitement for the new Doom game on YT I realized that I use to get that excited like that a long time ago for a game. But I notice that joy is pretty much gone I still play games and look forward to them but maybe my pessimism for the gaming industry has rotten my enthusiasm for games. Does anybody else kinda of feel like this? I know people will say it's because you are older and have more responsibilities but I don't feel that way at all. Or maybe it's because I've seen some of my favorite series either get cancelled or took a direction I didn't like. But I just hope someday I can get that feeling back of real excitement like I did when MK2 came out on the Snes.

Ironically enough, my answer is because I am getting older, my kids are older and during the week I don't have the time to sit and play games...at least until the weekend; even then, I don't play as often. A lot of new games being released don't catch my interest like games from my youth. I enjoy the games. I enjoy their content. I enjoy the story and the development, but games are not as exciting as they used to be. I understand completely your comment about games going in another direction you didn't like. It seems most developers are running out of ideas and are afraid to take risks. One franchise will see whats working in another franchise and will attempt to mimic one another in an attempt to draw new players without realizing that is NOT what players want. Take a risk!

Yes, absolutely that's one of my biggest problems with this generation we are in. There is not enough new IP's when you compare it to last gen it's surprising how little new IP's there is.

I understand what your saying about franchise fatigue and I definitely get that sometimes as far as Fortnite it's not my type of game I'm really not into MP games anymore. I play all sorts of games from VR, to PC, PS4. I think what Darkwolf said about gaming publishers not taking risk is a great point. There are some games like Ghost of Tsunami that I'm looking forward to so it's not all bad. But for me this gen is lacking or maybe it's just my depression damping my gaming dunno.

I get excited about games, but I don't hype them like I used to.

I was (am) a huuuuuuuuge Command and Conquer fan, and development of Tiberian Sun, essentially the sequal to the original C&C, was hugely hyped back in the day. I bought into it; researched everything about it, clung to every scrap of news...basically knew the game before it was out.

I don't get that hyped any more. Maybe if Star Citizen was literally being released in a month or they announced Half-Life 3 :P but not really.

I do get excited, though.

I love Open-World/RPG games and can't wait to play them. I'm 43. Is that old?

In our house it's a case of a few hours of work (start at 6am finish at 10am) then i spend 4 hours on the PS4. Bliss..!! Yeah no loss of excitement here.

Think this maybe because we don't have children. Although i have an addictive personality which doesn't help.

Poor husband of mine only gets an hour or so after tea..!!

entertain the possibility of exploring with an open mind games that are outside the so called AAA bubble

OP sorry to hear that but my outlook on gaming hasn't changed at all. If anything my love for it is only growing. I feel that gaming is better than ever these days and there's something for everybody with all of the high quality games being released. Sometimes I even jump back a gen or 2 to play something that I've never heard of or something I may have missed like Ni No Kuni on PS3 or Dragon Quest VIII on PS2, which I used to have but never was able to beat. I've even been having a ball playing Pokémon Crystal lately because I missed that one when I was younger. When I saw the Red Dead Redemption 2 gameplay trailer I literally jumped for joy and got excited like when I was a kid watching the Final Fantasy VIII commercial and knowing I'm getting that for Christmas lol. If the passion is there it's there, though. Maybe you should try to take a break from gaming or try a genre that you've never tried before. Step outside the box maybe?

As a kid I didn't follow games that much, I just went to the video renting place and found a new game and try it.

The games I got as present, I played them a lot.

They tried a lot more stuff at each gen or each new system unlike now. Seriously since the Playstation got rebranded as PSOne, consol controlers don't really evolve anymore. Its been like 20 years of the same 8 boutons and 2 analog stick, hard to have innovation.

Also games are more and more movies were you don't really play you just QTE and have reaction but then the game don't have any incensitive to be replayed

Ever since VR hit the scene, I've only been much more excited for the future of gaming as well as enjoying gaming more now than ever before. The flipside is that it makes many genres in traditional gaming less enjoyable, but that doesn't mean I don't play normal games still. It's just VR heightens the bar for me.

Not really, because of my daily life have to make compromises but my interest in games remain the same more or less. Some genres I enjoy less for recent releases; due to business practices (season passes, day-one DLC, barely playable Early Access). Yet still buy many games and have a lot of fun with the majority. Still playing MH: World despite its release in January and already obtaining the Platinum a while back, even grabbing the new P.C. port for a different coop experience.

My hype for Resident Evil 2 Remake, Bloodstained, and Devil May Cry 5 shows I enjoy games as much as ever.

D00M: Eternal I'm just mixed with, D00M IV was something that got me very excited. And expressed such up to release and past it.

Eternal seems too close to an expansion. And I don't know if it's going to be better in all the right ways. The hook shotgun is a bit stupid honestly.

I think my excitement for games is starting to dwindle if it hasn't already been for a little while. I've been gaming pretty heavily about the past 10 years. And the 5-10 before that I still played games but stuck to spending a lot of time with very few games. Anyway, I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with games today. I just think I'm getting older and have played enough games to just not really be super impressed by most games anymore. Don't get me wrong, I still very much enjoy video games. Just maybe not as much as I did a few years ago and beyond.

I'm getting to the point where I'm trying stick to playing to the best games out there that I know I'll enjoy. It sounds like something obvious, but I think I've been too open with what I've been willing to play which has ended up with me going through several games that turned out to be mediocre or underwhelming.

Being a hardcore gamer my whole life (going back to the Atari days)... I have played so many games and seen just about everything. Naturally, it is going to take a lot to truly impress me these days. Some games look better than others, but I rarely get super excited for a new game. I still love gaming, but you won't find me waiting in line or going out of my way for a new release/launch.

Another thing that contributes to lack of excitement is my backlog of games. I always have more games than I have time to play them. So, it is hard to get excited for a new game when I know that it will just become part of the backlog. I am never waiting around to play a new game.

Buying new game got me excited back during 360 era.

On Ps4 era, I no longer feel that excitement. Because of the updates. Every new game I buy for Ps4, I have to wait for hours for the update to download. So, instead of feeling excitement, I feel resentment for having to wait for ages for the patching, before I can actually start playing the darn game!

There are PS4 games that had so huge updates, it took me two days to download them. Ye gods...

I don't think my hype over gaming has declined ever since I was a kid, it's like any time i get a new game I'm like a little kid at Christmas time.. I'm get all overly excited. I'm just a true gamer at heart.

Yeah, it really doesn't happen as often anymore. Mostly due to games being overall worse today than they were in the past. They make shiny trailers trying to hide their derivative unoriginal games, and it often works on others, but I've learned to see through it and thus don't get very excited often anymore. There's so much dumbing down nowadays. Yeah, it's nice that grandma now can play too, but where are the games for the gamers?

Take the latest Battlefield games, for example. Yeah, really cool action movie trailers you've got there. But the actual games are still CoD on bigger maps instead of the BF series we had in the past. Instead of planning strategies with other gamers and having tons of fun, I try my best to ignore children in my CoD like BF who wants to insult me while sucking at the game.

There are still a few games you just know are going to be awesome, looks awesome, sounds awesome etc. and that's when I get excited. That still happens sometimes, but compared to the past, it happens a lot less now.

I can relate very much to what everyone is saying. There have been so many times I've got hyped/excited only to be let down. And as someone mentioned, the formulaic play-it-safe model that so many big publishers employ is only producing decent-ish games - but nothing to get too excited about.

Also, technology is stagnating so we're only seeing slight improvements in gameplay/graphics these days, whereas in the past the improvements were more dramatic.

I would say that it’s relatively the same. I still get pretty hyped for a good deal of games that come out these days.

Most people ignore how hard the financial crisis in 2008 hit the game industry and how recovery has really shifted the way the industry looks today. It pretty much wiped out the "middle class" of game developers. Studios were dropping like flies last gen. For most of the middle of the road companies they accepted buyout/merge offers or they folded. Some converted their business models like Majesco and went to mobile-only development.

Conservative development practices is a rational response to rising game development costs and lower levels of investment. And as far as what you were used to seeing on shelves last gen, people focus a lot on publishers and lose track of all the actual development studios there used to be...there just aren't that many making full retail titles anymore and it certainly doesn't pay to be innovative on the AAA scale. There are a lot of different factors but the crisis exacerbated a lot of the already existing problems of bloated development budgets, chasing moving graphical goalposts, gamer buying practices, and so the result is what you see now: fewer "big" games and a lot of smaller indie stuff with very little in the middle.

'Bermuda Lost Survival' and 'Mist Survival'

two new games I am adding to my very long list of games to play. I am playing these two this weekend for sure

Prior to 2017, I was really down on the modern gaming scene. I had to start rebuying many retro consoles to help recapture the fun that I was no longer getting from modern gaming.

Since last year, I've started to get some joy from the modern gaming scene again. There are still many things that I hate about the modern gaming scene, but I find gaming much more enjoyable since 2017 than I did from around 2012 to 2016 which I consider to be the worst 5 years of gaming that I've ever experienced.

The biggest thing that has helped turn my outlook around has been the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo has really brought back a lot of the fun that I felt was missing from gaming in recent years and I think that the Switch might eventually end up being one of my top 3 favorite consoles of all time when it is all said and done.

I also love how 2017 started a resurgence in retro-style games such as Sonic Mania, Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, and Cuphead. These are the types of games that I love and given how extremely well they have been selling, that gives great hope that we will be seeing a lot more of these retro-style games in the future.

Another thing that has helped me start enjoying the gaming scene more again has been getting much more selective about the games that I spend my time on. I used to waste my time trying to play all of the big AAA games even if I was not having any fun with the games. But as a hardcore gamer, I felt that I needed to try all of the big games that everybody was talking about even if most of them were crappy movie-games that I hate. I've now changed my attitude and will no longer waste my time trying to play games that I know that I probably won't enjoy no matter how much hype they are getting. Instead I now give more of my time to the select few games that I am enjoying.

I buy more games than ever, but there are rarely games that really excite me from just looking in the trailers and let's plays. It is just the games again and again. Even my favourite game of the year, Ni no Kuni 2, is just generic JRPG than I played many times before. It is good because I like those games, but it is the same game again.

For example, Red Dead Redemption 2 looks good, but it looks like it brings nothing new to table. Generic Open World game that looks like a better version of the first RDR. Shadow of the Tomb Raider on the other hand, looks good, but brings nothing new after 2013 and Rise.

i like hunt showdown now

@Ish_basic: I can think of a few developers who no longer exist now. Unfortunate too...

I won't lie to you. I never had an interest in card games to honestly make an educated opinion about them here. My apologies.

It kinda has and hasn't. I mean I still play, buy, and enjoy video games on a regular basis, but I'm finding myself less and less excited about new releases and the upcoming consoles.

There's a number of games on the PS4 I'd love to play, as long as they can play on the stock ps4 at around 30 fps or greater. (25 fps minimum.) Such titles include the Spyro trilogy remaster collection, Digimon World Next Order, both SAO hollow realization and Fatal Bullet, and Ace combat 7.

My PC, though fairly powerful compared to a standard, avrage store bought pc, was designed to work around the hardware I currently owned due to a limited budget, so I doubt I'll be buying too many of the newer, non-exclusive games for the pc, with the exception of maybe Forza 7 and the Halo wars games. And sunset Overdrive if it comes to pc, which I can affirmatively say that unless you see it in the Microsoft store or steam for Pc, it never will, no matter what raving PC fanboy or click-bait news story says otherwise. That's coming from a guy who loves pc gaming and has every since he got his first new pc back in 2004.

Nintindo has given me less and less reasons to buy the Switch and if the recent rumors of a new, more power switch are true, then that just sank the systems appeal in my eyes even farther. Especially given the fact that said rumor also states that some third party developers will have the option to port their games to just the new switch, leaving older switch owners out of luck. Now granted, if this is only a one time thing, and if the switch still has enough good first party titles to warrant a purchase, then I may go and buy it at the end of the switches life cycle and that notion holds true irregardless of said rumor.

Look, I have an original game boy advance, two 3DS systems, an NES system, a Nintendo 64 system and a Nintendo Wii I recently picked up at a yard sale, one that's capable with Gamecube games I might add. That gives me a total of nine Nintendo systems once you count backward compatibility so I seriously doubt I need a tenth Nintendo system, even though I am considering biting the bullet and buying a Super Nintendo in the near future.

While the Xbox one console has a few exclusives and games exclusive to it and the PC that do excite me, it's not nearly enough to warrant me to buy the console. Look,I owe the Xbox 360 and it has Halo combat evolved anniversary, Halo 3, Halo 4, Halo 3 ODST, Halo wars, Forza 3 and four, Forza horizon 1 and 2, Fable II and III, Ace combat 6, skies of liberation, Beautiful Katamari, and several other exclusives I'm interested it. The Xbox one has the Halo Master chief collection, which all but one of the games was made for the Xbox 360, Halo 5 and the new Halo game. But... There's only so much of Halo one can take before you get tired of it. Then there's Forza, which you can get on PC, and Sunset overdrive, which you cannot get on PC. Case in point, only 2 exclusive Xbox one games excite me, and though by itself the system is impressive, it's just not enough for me to buy it. I like the system, having played it a time or two at a friends house back in the day, but without a reason to buy one, there's no reason to buy one.

Sega is...Sega. While I love both the Dreamcast and the Genesis, due to the fact of the Dreamcast having issues with it's lazier and a lack of replacement parts, I'll be sticking to the Genesis.

I wouldn't say my excitement has lessened, but as I get older I've definitely become a lot more picky with the games I play.

I wouldn't say I've become less excited either. I, like most of us have matured as a gamer and realized more clearly what works and what doesn't for me. So I've become more picky with the games I play, if I see a game that I like I actually become more excited than I used to back in the days.

In my case it certainly has lowered my interest. But I must say that it is not a problem of games, it is a theme of 'life itself'. I have an age, a daughter, and a lot of work to pay a mortgage. I have really lost time for everything personal; Besides playing less, I go less to the movies, I do less sport. I have no time

Definitely yes. I have an explanation that we as a player base now through the last 10+ years of gaming have seen a lot of similar game releases.

As more and more people learn how game development works, the importance of how the game is is now put on the designers and the flow of the game, not as much on the systems of the game.

When you have played enough of different variations of the genre, you start to notice the patterns and that every game is somewhat a version of the previous games that gave inspiration.

Some games even look "reskinned" now that i am aware of the development process within an industry... Or i might be starting to get old who knows haha

Yes, if I see a very cool game on tv, internet, etc I don't really to need buy the game. I can just watch few minutes of the game and then feel bored. Multiplayer seem to interests me more now than rpg games now. If I have a game somewhere laying around I would play it. I dont have that overwhelming need to buy games.

I still get excited, but it's definitely different from when I was younger. I'm 28 now, but when I was 16-22 yrs old, all my friends were still around and into video games so that made it more exciting in that respect. LAN parties specifically made everything more fun.

Now days I am still excited though. E3 is like a little holiday for me. I get excited for new hardware and certain games, maybe less games, but some I still get into. Still play quite a bit even with a family and job.

This summer has been a low point since there hasn't been much that interested me, which most summer are like that. This fall I am pretty pumped for though. I plan on getting Shadow of the Tomb Raider, FIFA 19, RDR2, BFV, and eventually AC: Odyssey.

Poor husband of mine only gets an hour or so after tea..!!

Not at all. If anything it’s the best time to be a gamer. Games are progressing at an increasing rate & it’s exciting to see where creative people take the gaming industry, anyone who has become less interested in gaming as of recently, clearly weren’t all that interested as they thought.

To be honest, I think a little as I noticed that my gaming time have slowly decreases day after day. I used to dig in to a game for 10 hours a day but for now 2-3 hours is a max for me. I don't have that hype that used to drive me to play games anymore :(

Yes, since I started working my gaming time decreases. Before I can play 8 to 10 hours straight playing Dota 2 but now I can only play a couple of matches.

Remakes I look forward to. I also look forward to new Nintendo games. (Super Mario Party looks great so far.)

As for more modern games...I'm not really interested in them. I hardly use my PS4. The Spyro Reignited Trilogy looks good.

Kingdom Hearts 3 I am interested in, but not overly excited for it. I've kind of lost interest in the series because I guess I've grown out of it. Take me back to 2006 when Kingdom Hearts 2 was released and that's all I'd talk about.