Its official, the gaming spirit within me has died

This wasn't just something I woke up to one day but something that has crept upon me over time and this steam sale that passed just proved it. I bought La noire, mirriors edge, super meat boy, and got gifted for just cause 2 and I played each game for 15 minutes and was like meh. I am just not into games any more. I used to be a huge gamer but now my gaming drive has died out. Is anyone else feeling the same way? Do you think it might be the lackluster games? I was a huge resident evil and metal gear solid fan but Resident evil 5 left a horribly bitter taste in my mouth, and Metal Gear Rising is made by the same people who made bayonetta or whatever (apparently). Resident 6 looks like resident evil 5 and it was the worst game in the series, I couldnt even play through the game I had to force my way through.

I remember the days where gameplay was rewarded by cutscences and story progression, now a days you get a cut scene for every little thing you do. I liked metal gear 4, but the installing every act part makes the game unreplayable. Does anyone else feel the same?

I think everyone's glad you made that official because we had our doubts. We can rest easy now knowing it's official.

Does anyone else feel the same?JJ_Productions

No.

if the gaming spirit in you dies then all that means is you never had it to begin with.

RIP.

You just need to find different games. But it also may never come back fully. I game maybe once a month now and its almost only games that I really am excited about, not just games everyone else says are great.

Gaming... Spirit? You mean demon. I can help you get it back, simply...

Touch the demon inside me.

Just take a break imo. Perhaps a couple of years off and start again next gen (or if you feel the urge a few month from now u can pick it up obv). No reason to game if you don't think it's fun. It's not like physical activity or work/school that you pretty much have to do to feel good in the long run. Gaming is progressing fairly slowly atm, in part due to the long console cycle. Also like you said perhaps there has been too much focus on presentation. I'm confident the pendelum will swing back sooner or later though.

Edit: Oh and Mirror's Edge is awesome if yo go for the speedruns. When you get the flow u'll remember why you liked gaming in the first place ;)!

the installing every act part makes the game unreplayable. Does anyone else feel the same?JJ_Productions

This wasn't just something I woke up to one day but something that has crept upon me over time and this steam sale that passed just proved it. I bought La noire, mirriors edge, super meat boy, and got gifted for just cause 2 and I played each game for 15 minutes and was like meh. I am just not into games any more. I used to be a huge gamer but now my gaming drive has died out. Is anyone else feeling the same way? Do you think it might be the lackluster games? I was a huge resident evil and metal gear solid fan but Resident evil 5 left a horribly bitter taste in my mouth, and Metal Gear Rising is made by the same people who made bayonetta or whatever (apparently). Resident 6 looks like resident evil 5 and it was the worst game in the series, I couldnt even play through the game I had to force my way through.

I remember the days where gameplay was rewarded by cutscences and story progression, now a days you get a cut scene for every little thing you do. I liked metal gear 4, but the installing every act part makes the game unreplayable. Does anyone else feel the same?

JJ_Productions

Playing 15 minutes of a game like Just Cause 2 and judging it "meh" is the equivalent of being given a five course meal and stopping because you didn't enjoy the appetizer.

It also gives me an insight as to the type of gamer you are, at least in regards to how you analyze software.

That said, your lack of joy or your spiritual exodus from the medium is your own fault. Gaming offers more variety and quality than at any other time in history and yet I read these types of whiny, pedantic lamentations that are as uninformed as they are indulgent.

My theory is that people like you are joyless because you're spoiled; you've got so much that you are effectively bored.

Gaming... Spirit? You mean demon. I can help you get it back, simply...

Touch the demon inside me.

Swift_Boss_A

Gaming... Spirit? You mean demon. I can help you get it back, simply...

Touch the demon inside me.

Swift_Boss_A

Is that Knight giving her head?

[QUOTE="JJ_Productions"]

This wasn't just something I woke up to one day but something that has crept upon me over time and this steam sale that passed just proved it. I bought La noire, mirriors edge, super meat boy, and got gifted for just cause 2 and I played each game for 15 minutes and was like meh. I am just not into games any more. I used to be a huge gamer but now my gaming drive has died out. Is anyone else feeling the same way? Do you think it might be the lackluster games? I was a huge resident evil and metal gear solid fan but Resident evil 5 left a horribly bitter taste in my mouth, and Metal Gear Rising is made by the same people who made bayonetta or whatever (apparently). Resident 6 looks like resident evil 5 and it was the worst game in the series, I couldnt even play through the game I had to force my way through.

I remember the days where gameplay was rewarded by cutscences and story progression, now a days you get a cut scene for every little thing you do. I liked metal gear 4, but the installing every act part makes the game unreplayable. Does anyone else feel the same?

Grammaton-Cleric

Playing 15 minutes of a game like Just Cause 2 and judging it "meh" is the equivalent of being given a five course meal and stopping because you didn't enjoy the appetizer.

It also gives me an insight as to the type of gamer you are, at least in regards to how you analyze software.

That said, your lack of joy or your spiritual exodus from the medium is your own fault. Gaming offers more variety and quality than at any other time in history and yet I read these types of whiny, pedantic lamentations that are as uninformed as they are indulgent.

My theory is that people like you are joyless because you're spoiled; you've got so much that you are effectively bored.

You intuition is off buddy, every console I own I bought with my hard earned money as well as every game and pc. I was making a statement that I find gaming not as fun as it once was IMO keyword opinion. Uninformed? How so? Lately I find myself more eager to go to the gym, or to go out skateboarding or rollerblading, I was never like that. I used to enjoy gaming more then anything and I am experiencing a change and thats how you respond to me? Your a bleeping jack*** piss off

JJ_Productions

Actually, your juvenile response proves I pegged you correctly.

As to the issue of spoiled, you are taking that too literally. You and people like you are spoiled by the excess this medium currently offers and you talk of a bygone era that never existed either because you are viewing it through nostalgia-tinted glasses or you were too young to have actually experienced the era whose passing you lament.

And you are grossly uninformed about this medium, evidenced by your childishly brief dalliances with quality games (a whole fifteen minutes of playtime each) and your babble regarding cut scene rewards, which is one of the most profoundly vapid critiques I've come across in recent memory.

And spare me your indignation. This post was myopic goo; unfit for this board and more appropriate for a blog. But you wanted your whiny little observations made public so accept that some of us find your musings both dull and poorly supported.

Grammaton-Cleric must have a PhD in Ownage or something. Holy s**t.

[QUOTE="JJ_Productions"]

You intuition is off buddy, every console I own I bought with my hard earned money as well as every game and pc. I was making a statement that I find gaming not as fun as it once was IMO keyword opinion. Uninformed? How so? Lately I find myself more eager to go to the gym, or to go out skateboarding or rollerblading, I was never like that. I used to enjoy gaming more then anything and I am experiencing a change and thats how you respond to me? Your a bleeping jack*** piss off

Grammaton-Cleric

Actually, your juvenile response proves I pegged you correctly.

As to the issue of spoiled, you are taking that too literally. You and people like you are spoiled by the excess this medium currently offers and you talk of a bygone era that never existed either because you are viewing it through nostalgia-tinted glasses or you were too young to have actually experienced the era whose passing you lament.

And you are grossly uninformed about this medium, evidenced by your childishly brief dalliances with quality games (a whole fifteen minutes of playtime each) and your babble regarding cut scene rewards, which is one of the most profoundly vapid critiques I've come across in recent memory.

And spare me your indignation. This post was myopic goo; unfit for this board and more appropriate for a blog. But you wanted your whiny little observations made public so accept that some of us find your musings both dull and poorly supported.

No, games are better then ever.

I have no complaints about having to install each act in MGS4. That game is unreplayable simply because the acts after 1 and 2 are boring as hell to play.

I'm kinda with you. My enthusiasm for gaming has nosedived this generation. Whether or not it's actually true, I feel like the game industry is in such a horrible state of stagnation. My favorite genre is the JRPG (action RPGs don't count), and this console generation, they have practically become more rare than they were in the 16-bit days. The market is way bloated with FPSs now, and I've read recently that FPSs that aren't CoD don't even make money, but such is the state of the industry.

Basically, to make a couple very sweeping generalizations, the Japanese have forgotten how to make video games, and the games Western developers make have an awful habit of looking and playing the same. It's difficult for me to get excited about games anymore. The Last of Us looks incredible. Bravely Default looks pretty cool... That's about it.

Grammaton-Cleric must have a PhD in Ownage or something. Holy s**t.

megadeth1117

Grammaton-Cleric must have a PhD in Ownage or something. Holy s**t.

megadeth1117

:lol:

On topic, if the "gaming spirit" within you has died, it has nothing to do with the quality of modern games relative to what they once were. If anything, games are leaps and bounds ahead of what they were in any previous generation.

I'm kinda with you. My enthusiasm for gaming has nosedived this generation. Whether or not it's actually true, I feel like the game industry is in such a horrible state of stagnation. My favorite genre is the JRPG (action RPGs don't count), and this console generation, they have practically become more rare than they were in the 16-bit days. The market is way bloated with FPSs now, and I've read recently that FPSs that aren't CoD don't even make money, but such is the state of the industry.

Basically, to make a couple very sweeping generalizations, the Japanese have forgotten how to make video games, and the games Western developers make have an awful habit of looking and playing the same. It's difficult for me to get excited about games anymore. The Last of Us looks incredible. Bravely Default looks pretty cool... That's about it.

AlbedoSnake

You are insane if you think all western games look and play the same. Even if you believe that the market is "bloated" with FPS games, there are so many other genres and different types of games to pick from.

[QUOTE="megadeth1117"]

Grammaton-Cleric must have a PhD in Ownage or something. Holy s**t.

JJ_Productions

I don't know man, not my place to decide, but this doesn't really come across as non-hostile.

Your a bleeping jack*** piss offJJ_Productions

[QUOTE="megadeth1117"]

Grammaton-Cleric must have a PhD in Ownage or something. Holy s**t.

Assassin_87

:lol:

On topic, if the "gaming spirit" within you has died, it has nothing to do with the quality of modern games relative to what they once were. If anything, games are leaps and bounds ahead of what they were in any previous generation.

[QUOTE="megadeth1117"] I don't know what that guys problem is, do you honestly think I deserved that kind of response?Assassin_87

I don't know man, not my place to decide, but this doesn't really come across as non-hostile.

Your a bleeping jack*** piss offJJ_Productions

Actually, your juvenile response proves I pegged you correctly.

As to the issue of spoiled, you are taking that too literally. You and people like you are spoiled by the excess this medium currently offers and you talk of a bygone era that never existed either because you are viewing it through nostalgia-tinted glasses or you were too young to have actually experienced the era whose passing you lament.

And you are grossly uninformed about this medium, evidenced by your childishly brief dalliances with quality games (a whole fifteen minutes of playtime each) and your babble regarding cut scene rewards, which is one of the most profoundly vapid critiques I've come across in recent memory.

And spare me your indignation. This post was myopic goo; unfit for this board and more appropriate for a blog. But you wanted your whiny little observations made public so accept that some of us find your musings both dull and poorly supported.

Grammaton-Cleric

Yeah man, I know what you're feeling. This has been kind of what I've felt for a bit over a year now. I find a game ever so often that I really enjoy, but I've found it hard to put any significant amount of my free time towards playing. Some time ago I began to amass a really large backlog and collection of unopened games, and I thought a lot of it was just the whole "enough money to buy games but not enough time to play them". Now I've had practically all summer off and I still can't find a time to really sit down and get some serious gaming done and enjoy it like I used to. And I have a huge collection of high quality games to choose from in my backlog, but none of them are really keeping my interest past a few sittings.

I'm sure it will come in waves, take some time off, and then maybe it will just take that one really fun game to fire that spirit up. For myself personally I think a lot of it is that my backlog is almost stressful, and I have so many choices I can't really stick with one for a large amount of time. I'm hoping to regoranize everything and maybe that will help.

I also didn't find your post to be much of criticism of the hobby, as it appears some may have taken it, just an open discussion on how it's personally not doing it for you anymore, and that's quite reasonable as I feel the same.

Yeah man, I know what you're feeling. This has been kind of what I've felt for a bit over a year now. I find a game ever so often that I really enjoy, but I've found it hard to put any significant amount of my free time towards playing. Some time ago I began to amass a really large backlog and collection of unopened games, and I thought a lot of it was just the whole "enough money to buy games but not enough time to play them". Now I've had practically all summer off and I still can't find a time to really sit down and get some serious gaming done and enjoy it like I used to. And I have a huge collection of high quality games to choose from in my backlog, but none of them are really keeping my interest past a few sittings.

I'm sure it will come in waves, take some time off, and then maybe it will just take that one really fun game to fire that spirit up. For myself personally I think a lot of it is that my backlog is almost stressful, and I have so many choices I can't really stick with one for a large amount of time. I'm hoping to regoranize everything and maybe that will help.

I also didn't find your post to be much of criticism of the hobby, as it appears some may have taken it, just an open discussion on how it's personally not doing it for you anymore, and that's quite reasonable as I feel the same.

_BlueDuck_

[QUOTE="Assassin_87"]

[QUOTE="megadeth1117"]

Grammaton-Cleric must have a PhD in Ownage or something. Holy s**t.

JJ_Productions

:lol:

On topic, if the "gaming spirit" within you has died, it has nothing to do with the quality of modern games relative to what they once were. If anything, games are leaps and bounds ahead of what they were in any previous generation.

You're 100% right. It's just something to do to pass the time. There are certainly more important things in life.

[QUOTE="Assassin_87"]

:lol:

On topic, if the "gaming spirit" within you has died, it has nothing to do with the quality of modern games relative to what they once were. If anything, games are leaps and bounds ahead of what they were in any previous generation.

JJ_Productions

I'd say that's a great conclusion to come to. At a certain point, every gamer has to realize that, much like any form of entertainment, gaming does nothing constructive and is really just a time sink.

[QUOTE="JJ_Productions"][QUOTE="Assassin_87"]

:lol:

On topic, if the "gaming spirit" within you has died, it has nothing to do with the quality of modern games relative to what they once were. If anything, games are leaps and bounds ahead of what they were in any previous generation.

Assassin_87

I'd say that's a great conclusion to come to. At a certain point, every gamer has to realize that, much like any form of entertainment, gaming does nothing constructive and is really just a time sink.

It reminds me of that comment made by the Journey/Flower developer basically saying that games need to be more grown up and become an artistic medium, which I beleive created a good amount of controversy. But I think it's true. I'm at the point where I need to feel like I've gained something from an experience to devote a large amount of time in to it. I need to learn something, question something, change my perspective, create something or increase my creative capacity. Something that will just in some way (no matter how significant or not) move my life forward, something that will better me in some small way.

Its why we consider movies and books art, but generally not video games. They are forms of expression that can change a way you might view or think about something, add something to your life. Video games, with some exceptions, don't often provide you with this feeling. They're just time sinks that pull on the right levers in your brain to make you feel good while you experience them. They are a pleasure moreso on the level of gambling, pornography or food than they are art.

And before I'm crucified here, I'm not saying this makes games bad, just a different type of pleasure that might not be as fulfilling for some. My favorite game in quite some time has been Super Mario Galaxy and that really has no form of artistic expression or anything worthwhile to say. They make you feel good and you have fun and that's great. But its too bad if its not enough to keep people interested.

I'm in no position to agree or disagree with you. That's such a personal decision based on a hundred facets that differ with each person.

I can say that I still get the magic feeling when I play a really great game, but that I find myself getting tired of all the jerking off that has been predominant this generation. I've concluded that has little to do with gaming itself, and more of it being whored out by men in suits whose minds are dominated by charts and cents.

All I can say is that there is no wrong decision for you. Do what you think is best.

Thats a horrible thing to sayJJ_Productions

I err... I don't think you played the game :P Play it and your gaming spark will be restored.

Is that Knight giving her head?

Zaibach

lol no. BTW I have started new game of Demon's Souls and am ready to help in your playthrough if you want :D

I feel the same way from time to time.

I have very few games, this gen, to actually grab my attention and make me feel any sort of emotion throughout the game.

Games this gen lack interesting, emotional (whether it be a sad story or a story that makes you truly mad at the bad guy/guys) stories, and/or lacking interesting characters.

Excuse me for making a topic about games in a gaming forum. I must have been out of my damn mind to think of something as ridiculous as that. You make pretty large assumptions about me and my views on gaming. If your what they call a "informed" gamer then thank God the gaming spirit has left me cause I wouldn't want to be an arrogant, conceited high horse riding gamer like your self. I play games for fun, not to attack people on their knowledge and views on gaming regardless of what era they joined the gaming world. I find games not as fun, thus the topic, yet you claim i'm yearning for a gaming ear that never existed? Your a joke

JJ_Productions

Your post had nothing to do with this medium outside of some pitiful musings about bygone eras.

This post, fit for a blog and not much else, was propelled by your own ego and the notion that whatever silly internal struggle you are facing somehow translated into broad relevancy for the rest of us.

You were mistaken.

These types of threads are a dime a dozen and overpriced at that. Not only are they wistfully laborious but they are generally predicated on nothing more substantial than vagaries and generalizations, none of them particularly astute.

And you present yourself based on your prose so whatever estimation I've made regarding your personal gaming predilections is your own doing. Dismissing quality software after some brief sampling reeks of ignorance and suggests your analytical skills are either lacking or woefully underdeveloped.

I really don't care if you find me arrogant; that's a redundant insult I get from quite a few of you newcomers and it means nothing. Personally, I find these types of posts both myopic and sadly generic as they always contain the same tired theme of personal fatigue.

The irony is that fatigue for this medium is more than likely your own fault rather than any deficiency within the industry. There is an abundance of variety on the market for the inquisitive and informed gamer but I guess a bit of research is too much to ask of the eternally entitled.

And the next time you presume to call me out as arrogant, dwell upon this little tidbit of truth: you didn't create this post to discuss this medium but rather to discuss this medium relates to YOU.

Like Ive previously stated, this is blog material.

Yup I feel the same way. I lost my interest in gaming throughout the years. I still play but not like I did before. In the past I beat one game and start a new one right away. Now I play one game and take 3 monts plus to beat it. Persona 4 took me a whole year to beat.

Yup I feel the same way. I lost my interest in gaming throughout the years. I still play but not like I did before. In the past I beat one game and start a new one right away. Now I play one game and take 3 monts plus to beat it. Persona 4 took me a whole year to beat.

Solid_Link22

It reminds me of that comment made by the Journey/Flower developer basically saying that games need to be more grown up and become an artistic medium, which I beleive created a good amount of controversy. But I think it's true. I'm at the point where I need to feel like I've gained something from an experience to devote a large amount of time in to it. I need to learn something, question something, change my perspective, create something or increase my creative capacity. Something that will just in some way (no matter how significant or not) move my life forward, something that will better me in some small way.

Its why we consider movies and books art, but generally not video games. They are forms of expression that can change a way you might view or think about something, add something to your life. Video games, with some exceptions, don't often provide you with this feeling. They're just time sinks that pull on the right levers in your brain to make you feel good while you experience them. They are a pleasure moreso on the level of gambling, pornography or food than they are art.

And before I'm crucified here, I'm not saying this makes games bad, just a different type of pleasure that might not be as fulfilling for some. My favorite game in quite some time has been Super Mario Galaxy and that really has no form of artistic expression or anything worthwhile to say. They make you feel good and you have fun and that's great. But its too bad if its not enough to keep people interested.

_BlueDuck_

I'm not going to crucify you but I would remind you to remember that games are still a very new medium and it has only been in the last decade or so that we've reached a technological juncture where they can legitimately convey the deeper narratives, themes and emotions you allude to. Like all mediums videogames are overridden with pulp and lowbrow gratification but we are also seeing the artistic merits, however slowly, emerging and it is spectacular to witness what this medium can offer when fully mined and exploited.

I have extensive educational and professional knowledge of literature and film and yet I would argue that games have the potential to be just as artistically and emotionally profound. Even more impressive however is how many contemporary games are giving us a blank canvas to forge our own experiences through broad interactivity, something no static medium can hope to replicate.

This generation has made some massive strides towards artistic legitimacy and from my own vantage point, I'd assert they are just getting warmed up.

[QUOTE="JJ_Productions"]Thats a horrible thing to saySwift_Boss_A

I err... I don't think you played the game :P Play it and your gaming spark will be restored.

Is that Knight giving her head?

Zaibach

lol no. BTW I have started new game of Demon's Souls and am ready to help in your playthrough if you want :D

Which game are you talking about? Demon souls? If so, my brother just bought it the other day, still unopened. Apparently its hard from what I heard. Might have to spend 15 minutes with it to see whats up.JJ_Productions

It's not so bad. Just need to have the patience for it. Gotta really sink some time into it get the feel of it.

Mine has not died yet. For some reasons I prefer to play old school games rather than newer games nowdays.

[QUOTE="JJ_Productions"]Which game are you talking about? Demon souls? If so, my brother just bought it the other day, still unopened. Apparently its hard from what I heard. Might have to spend 15 minutes with it to see whats up.c_rake

It's not so bad. Just need to have the patience for it. Gotta really sink some time into it get the feel of it.

Mine has not died yet. For some reasons I prefer to play old school games rather than newer games nowdays.

riou7

i know i got alot of years left in me but im sorry - ths gens games are just boring , and ive tried all kinds of them , it seams outside the wii ,

this gen just plain out sucks sure theres titles like saints row 007 nascar or gta and driver but man they dont pump enough of those now do they , ive ben through 200 + xbox360 games since owning it , and i beat nearly all of these games with less then 5 hours and the only ones i ve really liked to the point i can play again and again is

driver gta iv saints row goldeneye quantum of solace bloodstone wwe nascar , test drive unlimited dead rising and dead island , the rest just feel like call of duty , its like they take call of duty and reskin these games ,

its appearent in the history channel games , heck the 2nd one ive played actually has the same mission as cod 3 lol

Gaming... Spirit? You mean demon. I can help you get it back, simply...

Touch the demon inside me.

Swift_Boss_A

anyway. tc i have ups and downs and i play every genre of games out there and for somtimes 3 weeks to a month i wont touch a game.i'll just brows netflix but thats about it.it happens

Bro this will help. Clean your house and rearrange your room. Go out and jog, whatever. Get out of your comfort zone. After a while you will feel renewed and ready to tackle any problems you have. Such as getting enjoyment out of video games.

A change in environment goes a long way into breathing new life into something.

[QUOTE="Swift_Boss_A"]

[QUOTE="JJ_Productions"]

I err... I don't think you played the game :P Play it and your gaming spark will be restored.

[QUOTE="Zaibach"]

Is that Knight giving her head?

JJ_Productions

lol no. BTW I have started new game of Demon's Souls and am ready to help in your playthrough if you want :D