Has your gaming habbit changed as well?

I find myself quickly losing patience with more and more games, especially those that are lore and cutscene heavy. Where I once used to watch them and read almost anything I could find, these days I just press escape and get annoyed if I have to wait more than 5 minutes for some action.

It's gotten to the point that I think the writers of the games, care too much about their own work and forget that I just want to play the damn game and not watch some lame ass character walking me through some mission and watch scripted event #17

When I was younger I ate all that stuff up, but then again, when I saw younger game developers didn't constantly force me watch these events.

The worst part is if it's unskippable, which pisses me off even more as it kills any replay value. Hell the best games I've played lately, has been simple games. Examples include games such as Legend of Grim Rock, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, Trine 2, you get the idea. The only big budget AAA (or whatever you call it) I've played lately that I
enjoyed was Sleeping Dogs (I found it absolutely awesome that I could replay missions, something I always felt GTA lacked severely).

I don't mind watching the cut scenes if they're not too long or if I enjoy the story. When I was younger I would skip just about all of the cut scenes though . If I can't skip them, it pisses me off, but I'll probably wait them out if I want to play the game bad enough.

Nope.

I've always been interested in the game's cutscenes and story and I still am. I dislike unskippable cutscenes though. If I replay the game then I don't want to see every single cutscene over again.

I hate games that do not have enough content.

Hate games that don't have unskippable cutscenes right before some difficult boss fight.

I've always been a gameplay person, first and foremost, but my favorite games have good stories as well.

I find myself quickly losing patience with more and more games

m25105

Good cutscenes advance the story in important ways. Bad cutscenes are just guys standing around going blah blah blah in order to make the game seem "cinematic". Far too many games fall into that second category.

I think the whole problem is that if they're going to make games that are more like movies then they need to improve the quality of the writing and voice acting dramatically. Otherwise you just get this low-budget B movie cheese, which gets real boring when it's taking itself 100% seriously all the time.

I game less now, but I have the same gaming behaviors. I have to check every corner of every room and listen to all dialogue and cutscenes. OCD.shellcase86

Always loved a good story and still do. I have gotten pickier about what games interest me though. I still am interested by a lot, but i wont force myself through games I find boring, such as Bioshock.

Always loved a good story and still do. I have gotten pickier about what games interest me though. I still am interested by a lot, but i wont force myself through games I find boring, such as Bioshock.

NaveedLife

As a kid I was major ADD I skipped every cut scene never read dialogue but once I hit about 15-16 I started getting into the story more now I really enjoy story heavy games.

My game habits have followed the same trend as the OP - I figured it was due to the fact that I'm 36 and have between two and five children at any given time. The only time I have to game is late at night - which is also when I'm often too sleepy to game. Leads to a lot of "waking up dead" moments!

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Always loved a good story and still do. I have gotten pickier about what games interest me though. I still am interested by a lot, but i wont force myself through games I find boring, such as Bioshock.

Borrizee

Epic beginning, then it just gets so repetitive to me. Feels like corridor after corridor of slightly different looking rooms with simlar enemies the whole way through. I much prefer Metroid Prime series or Batman Arkham series.

Ehhh, it's only natural that as you age you figure out better what you like/dislike and become less tolerant of the dislikes.

I used to tolerate bad writing/cut scenes more because I would stupidly think, "hey, this has got to get better" or "there's probably going to be important info in these scenes so I better pay attention" Now that I'm older and wiser I can tell when cutscenes are just useless bs and yeah, those kinds of cut scenese annoy me greatly these days. Then again, since I am a more knowledgable gamer, I'm also much better at avoiding bad games, so I don't run into that problem too often these days.

One thing that I do now that I never did in the past is -- I will leave a game unfinished if I don't like it. This is due to the fact that I value my free time more highly now that I have less of it -- so I'm not willing to waste my time playing a game that I don't really like.

I'm also much more unwilling to play average games. I think that is due to the fact that there are so many great games out there this gen, and I have so little time to play them, that it seem like a waste of time to just play the average games. So, not only do I avoid bad games and leave them unfinished when I accidently buy one -- but I don't even bother buying average games. That's a big change for me as I was quite the game hoarder during the PS2 era.

As for unskippable cut scenes -- Yeah, they are the devil's work. I hate them even in games that I like. There is just no excuse for forcing us to watch a cut scene more than once.

Hate games that don't have unskippable cutscenes right before some difficult boss fight.

whiskeystrike

Cut scenes definitely existed since the 90s. Simplest example. Look at Goldeneye 007. Whenever Bond finished a level he would act out a 5 or 6 second cutscene, perhaps fixing his suit or escaping a "location".

But cutscenes these days tend to be longer. it get's kinda tedious sometimes. Inside the player might be thinking: Why don't we shorten the cut-scene and let's play a little bit so that I can complete my objectives?

So a cutscene is definitely important, but developers have missed the point on these things entirely recently.