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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

Depression

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.