Gaming

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

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.

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."

I think the biggest thing that has reduced my excitement for new releases is the lack of rentals and demos. When I was a kid, every weekend I would go to Blockbuster to get the newest cool game then go to the corner store to load up on junk food and play the hell out of that game for a weekend.

10-20$ for an awesome weekend of gaming even with a friend sometimes is an amazing value proposition. 80$ or more when I don’t even really have that kind of disposable income for a game that I may not even enjoy? That’s a harder expenditure to rationalize.

Though I do find myself still getting excited for new releases though. Not usually for new games but for new dlc. Every time a new expansion for Stellaris comes out I am super excited, I bought and played Phantom Liberty day 1. I am already invested in those and paying another 20-40$ to be able to enjoy more of them is fantastic. If a dlc comes out for BG3 I will definitely pick it up and another strong example for this are many of the dlcs for the Borderlands games always excited to get them or I will just straight up by the whole complete edition again just to play them all.

I just think as we get older and have other priorities in life the things we look for change you know?

Depression

I don't care much about new releases. I care more about seeing gameplay. There's one streamer that I watch a lot and ended up getting into Vampire Survivor like games because of it.

Got nothing to do with aging, it's just hard to trust most gaming companies right now that will launch games that are blatantly unfinished, just because they can fix it later. A minor bug is one thing, but just look at things like Cyberpunk or ME: Andromeda.

It's really saying something that Capcom of all companies are one of the few that sends out games that actually work day 1, just look at Resident Evil 4 Remake, they faced a hell of a challenge to not disappoint fans who would be going out of their way to find problems just to prove that a remake of RE4 wasn't necessary, yet not only did they perform adequately, they knocked it out of the fucking park, the Remake was fucking amazing, I must've spent weeks playing it over and over, even when I'd already got the platinum trophy.

I just hate the modern market/industry right now. Fortunately gaming is bigger than just right now, I can explore so much that I missed

$120 for a new AAA title. $80 for the dlc. Having to devote more time than I have to level up. Or pay extre. Damn right I'm apathetic

Always kept saying this: Majority of the people are too bound to their 'comfort' game genres that either they feel like the gaming industry is "dead" or nothing excites them anymore, so maybe trying other game genres for a change might just be the ice breaker that they simply need; discovering some new gems that they've never thought of.

I used to not give a dime about rogue-lite / rogue-likes genres before and even some of the most promising indie games lately that when I finally gave in is when I realized how much I've been missing out~

Don’t get your expectations up and you’ll never be disappointed! Haha…..ha….. sigh

Anyways yes.

You don’t get excited about new releases because you’re now apathetic about gaming.

I don’t get excited about new releases because i’m in a perpetual loop of addressing my backlog.

We are not the same.

Depends on the GAME doesn't it? Why would I get excited for call of duty if I'm into fantasy games?

Or likewise why should someone get excited for metroid when they don't like that style of games? I like metroid as a setting and lore standpoint but not the biggest fan of the gameplay.

This is me. Have been gaming since I was like 4. I used to get excited, but as more games came out broken only to be fixed later, and being burned by more of them then I care to admit, I quit giving a shit.

Every time a game, esp single player story games come out, I will just wait and watch what is said about it, pick it up on sale, and play it after the community basically agrees that it's fixed.

Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the big ones that I think of.

I am just continuously surprised by how many people buy games on Day 1. It seems like the majority of games are glitchy and end up having a boatload of patches and DLC. wait a few years and you can buy a the "game of the year" edition for half the price.

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and gaming is so cheap now, you probably have a whole catalog of games you have been "meaning to get around to"

You need to accept the sad truth that when you had fun with gaming the most was when it wasn't mainstream and popular, which meant developers and publishers needed to create good products to earn money.

Today that just isn't true, COD is probably the best example of this. Industry like this breeds shitty products in general and it breeds uninspiring dogshit like Redfield. You also cannot do anything about it. I think I don't even have to mention the plague of mobile gaming, gachas, p2w and other shit that makes the industry worse in general.

While not everything is bad when we have Fromsoft and Larian, I just don't get excited at all, I will say that Dragons Dogma 2 is kinda getting me excited, which is a first in a long time.

I am not excited about new games but I still play things regularly, so I am not worried really. I still play stuff from my backlog (Steam/Epic), borrow Switch games regularly, and so on.

You don't have to be excited about new games.

Because the backlog is big enough already 😅 Still trying to get through games from 5-10 years ago. Also, new releases are either disappointing, or are released in a buggy/unfinished state these days.

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.

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