do you like the new animated avatar with different poses compared to the pixelated one that I just had zooming in and out in the past? let me know ⬇️

A very zoomer like take. It’s not just on us, games have declined in quality, innovation and it’s over saturated with a lot of the same. I have to dig and create excel sheets just to keep track of the games that actually try to innovate

I think there is a very distinct greed in the industry that wasn't there before and it definitely soils modern AAA titles. But indie games where they are developed by small teams or single people without corporate greed and investor demands, definitely have a higher quality (for what they are) on release and over the lifetime of the game

Great video but I feel its missing a point, people are getting older and we want to chase that same nostalgia but AAA games have changed so much in the last decade to monetize the consumer as much as possible ,when there was no battle passes and freedom to unlock at the pace you wanted to, I feel games have gotten better but are so lacking what made the games great before was player choice and freedom to play anyway you wanted, my rule of thumb is if a multiplayer game doesn't have bots or custom games some features where it probably needs it ,it fails to capture what some great moments were missing, games I recommend honestly anything coop is still so much fun,strategy games are sick seriously try inscription,slay the spire and darkest dungeon

It's a dumb take to say that the only thing important in videogames is the challenge, Animal Crossing, STardew Valley and Alba: A wildlife adventure are perfect examples of that, fun or enjoyiment isn't just about getting adrenaline

I think the case is: Why AAA games aren't fun anymore.

In my case, I think it's the shift towards aesthetics & presentation over game play & action. I still enjoy games like the souls series & Dragons dogma, but find it difficult to keep up with the newer, more "cinematic" games. I think a mini-renaissance in the video game industry within which the games industry takes a few steps back to the late 2000s/early 2010s would help re-kindle burned out flames a great deal.

When you talked about watching other people play games you used to enjoy way more, I felt that, I watched my friend play and finish Half-Life 2 for the first time, and seeing them learn the ins and outs of the game like I did a long time ago made me really happy

Something I've been doing recently, is that every year I try to find a new videogame franchise to get into. Even when I assume I will dislike them. In 2019 I never thought I would get even halfway through a Souls game. But now in 2022 I have beaten every Soulsborne game multiple times and thier DLCs. In 2020 I thought Yakuza was just "GTA in Japan." But now I have finished every game including Judgement and it's now my 2nd favorite game franchise of all time. I used to hate grinding and turn based combat, but now Final Fantasy IX is in my top 5 favorite games of all time. Im currently playing through Persona 5 and its been a blast so far!

This video doesn't really apply to me because I already went through this process. With Dark Souls. I went through the process of thinking that games just aren't really that great anymore but it turns out I just needed something new, something to explore that I have not explored before, and not just levels or worlds, but mechanics and narratives and characters. Turns out games weren't getting boring, I just got used to most of the things they offered. The more recent game that really got me to love games again was actually Animal Crossing NH. I had never played an Animal Crossing game before and it was completely new and refreshing. These days I just play less but I also am more varied. I listen to books, I watch shows, and overall I just engage with media in more ways than I did before. I still play games, but just less so. Short well designed experiences are way better than games that can just go on and on like online shooters and whatnot.

I agree that the notifications are definitely something that takes us out of our hobbies. School and work notifications and emails used to come through all the time and I slowly went from having respected alone time to constantly wondering if there's something I have to do or if I will just die.

A TF2 player named Bing Soy is a perfect example of challenging yourself to make games feel more fun again.

Im 21. Autistic. Depressed. But like.... I never really had the issue of "video games aren't fun anymore"

0:48 you just summrmarized the problem in 4 words, take a break from games every once in a while

I 100% agree with this, I would typically stick to RPGs and survival games like Fallout, Skyrim, Resident Evil etc. however, Cult of the Lamb came out and I never really dabbled into rouge-likes but this one seemed really unique and fun to play. So I bought it and oh man it was amazing to game again! I was hooked on that game for a solid two weeks just building up my cult and beating it on the hardest difficulty.

I never went through a phase like this because I always played a large variety of games on many different systems, always buying them on sale. Most of them were also Indie games with a maximum amount of variety. A side-effect of this was never, ever beating any of them on anything but "easy" mode (until recently), but I also never, ever got tired of them. There was always something new to play, and dozens of games on my bucket list if I ran out of new games.

the major problem with these builder games is that it takes 100+ hours to get anything done, it's like crack and even at 100 hours you feel its still not done. I just don't have the time anymore. Games used to have a good narrative, gameplay, and were concise in their execution. This is what modern gaming is generally lacking and that includes these builder games

I still play many games by diversifying my pallet.

I think a huge reason for sure, is that most of the games just are not even fucking completed. Like they are being launched with bare minimum content because "live service" titles have destroyed the gaming scene. Devs think that because they now are being forced to deliver "free" content, they now slice their game apart. So they drop 3/4 of a game, and then release the other 1/4 as "dlc" and that is just fucked up. I know I'm in the minority, but I would rather pay for dlc knowing the base game will be a whole package, then get a shit base game, that is given content drip fed over "seasons." Single player games have gotten stale for me because they aren't a lot of original AAA titles being released. Just sequels or prequels of similar titles. Yes, Dark Souls is amazing, but how many Dark Souls like games have dropped? The fun factor fades when we get the same game dressed up as something else. Where are the original ideas? Where are the devs that are eager to give us whole new worlds with deep lore and awesome mechanics? I want a story driven single player rpg that has massive world building and a deep customisation option. But these games don't exist because devs are being pushed to release stale titles for the sake of money. Publishers have gotten so greedy that we are getting half baked half assed titles. I hate that. Id rather wait 5 years for a great game with all of that then get a bug ridden mess that is just a copy paste of something we already got. I have hope though. I love gaming. My expectations from getting past great titles is high so it's really obvious when a game has been rushed. Let's pray they turn it around.

Modern games have no soul or substance. Modern games have turned into wanna be movies. I can fire up NFSU2 and play that jawn for hours and have mad fun. Same with Ninja Gaiden Black or OG Ghost recon, Conflict global storm, PGR 2. No matter how much time I play some old games, they never get old for me. I always enjoy myself playing retro games because they were always about having fun gameplay. These modern games feel the same across the board, and there is a saturation of the same gameplay. There is not much variety in gameplay in games nowadays. Anybody right now who would fire up old school max Payne, Def jam, Old school splinter cell, Freedom Fighters without a doubt will thoroughly enjoy those games no matter how old they get.

Ngl Elden ring gave me that same feeling Skyrim did all those years ago and now I’ve become completely immersed in every title they done. I’ve still got sekiro to experience still and I’m waiting 😂

This was a really good watch, thanks for sharing your point of view. Personally i find editing videos for games much much more entertaining than actually playing them, making your own cinematic/mini movie is extremely rewarding, although time consuming.

Great video man 👍👍 U just made me rethink about games all again❤️

350 hour on deep rock, with few skills actually mastered. Also would like to play ultrakill, at least try Furi and consider enchain. Im not stopping anytime soon.

For me the way to get out of this slump was to only play types of games that I hadn't played before. Like hollow knight, like subnautica, like V Rising. Much more satisfying to be surprised than be critical of something familiar.

I use to have a main game for some years, then play some others as a break regularly. This game is often a complex one with many options and ways to play, along getting new content regularly. Some of them are Minecraft, WoW and Empyrion G.S. (5000 hours). Survival and strategy game types are what I enjoy most, that also provide diversity and creativity (building and tactics). Like Command & Conquer and Settlers types, 7 Days 2 Die and Planet Explorers - there are many, where keep coming more. FPS games have often pretty simple game mechanics and are repetitive, along fast paced. Of that genre I had Unreal Tournament as my main many years ago. Now and then I can "go back" and play some older games, like Supreme Commander FA (FAF). VR and proper AI in games are still just in the beginning, where the graphics keeps closing in on being "realistic", so still something to look forward to. Then I also have (had) other interests and hobbies, indoors as outdoors. So I get breaks and "vacations" away from gaming regularly, where go back to a main game or others to put in some more time.

I agree with some of what you said , but I really think the industry has gone off to somewhere else that kills enjoyment. I mean when was the last time we got games like Far Cry 3, Fallout New Vegas or FO3, super Mario 3 or Super Mario Land and so on. Industry has definitely changed and not for the better. It’s not all about challenge and it’s silly to blame it all on that. Many games are lacking immersion a huge factor in the fun factor for many. Games are now overdone with skins skins skins,,, that crap kills the fun factor. The list goes on, not just on my lack of ‘challenge’

I always love a good challenge, especially in gaming. The problem is starting a new challenge outside your comfort zone. Getting the initiative to start a new challenge can be so overwhelming, especially as you get older. If I was a kid, starting something new is not a problem since there's plenty of time and the curious mind is still fresh. But after getting older, the mind change a lot, sometimes pessimistic, anxious and stressful. These mental barriers just stops you from enjoying the fun in life and makes you feel awful at times.

What's missing is "story".... a lot of these newer games all they care about is better graphics and mechanics, but they all forget to add a good story to have you engaged the whole time, in my opinion that's what's missing these days. Not challenging myself.

No I just like older games. I bought a PS2, PSP, and a PS3 this year. I also have a Series X, but I mostly play OG Xbox and 360 titles on it. Playing the Saboteur and the original Ratchet and Clank trilogy. Reject modernity, embrace classics.

Im the type of guy who's addicted on social media and have never realized until now that the games that I really enjoyed (after 2018) such as Far Cry 3, BOTW, Portal 1 & 2 are the games where I ignored my phone and didn't open a browser on my PC

If you're not having fun playing games, the answer is not buying more games, instead take a break. A week, a month, a year, whatever it takes. Come back when you're ready. That helps me, other times I have to simply breathe for bit, stop my mind from thinking about other things that may be bothering me. Relaxx. Then jump into the game.

@10:16 It’s exactly this reason that I stepped off of gaming. Start “rant” I’ve tried most genres out there and developed a decent level of mastery on a lot of them. It’s to the point that any new game that I tried out seemed like a rehash of another game’s mechanics and their plot (if they even have one) has become somewhat predictable. I still casually watch gaming vids here but I’ve mostly lost the inner voice that says, “Lets play that game ourselves”. Sad but that’s just how it is. Also, ever since I “quit”, I’ve spent less money and have been more content if that makes any sense so those are positives. 🤷🏽‍♂️ End of “rant”

I love the irony of mentioning the attention span thing in the last 4 minutes where all the applicable people have probably already stopped watching.

I've got the problem of always chasing that first experience I had with a game, recently I've done my 8th playthrough of shadow of the colossus and after it I noticed that I instantly knew the puzzles, where the weak spots were etc. I will never get that awe I had when I was 10 or when I replayed it at 16. I've especially noticed I haven't tried any new games past 2020, I just replay the same games and at the same time I'll be saying "games just aren't good these days" I used to look at a game on steam and read the desc and if it sounded good I'd buy it - now I read the name of the game and dismiss it if it doesn't sounds good. Even if I do buy a new game I sometimes just don't play it till a year later. Gaming has been a double edged sword

Great video I agree with taking the time away from gaming. I moved out from my parents last year and my time was mostly spent gaming. Now with a puppy and picking up basketball as well as work and house chours I don't get nearly as much time to game. But now when I do I appreciate the time I do get to play a lot more.

“look back in 2009” me born in 2008: so let’s look back to 2013

Imo, you are WRONG, games like Elden Ring, Halo, and many more capture my interest. And I have a blast playing them

I hate how I nowadays want to relax and play something from my backlog after working, but instead, I end up wasting an hour on social media. I enjoy story-rich games, but most of the time I play COD mobile while watching TV with my family. Splatoon 3 is a great game, but after playing so much of the first one, I cannot play the 3rd for long sessions. Growing up sucks.

It's not on us when literally every game for the past 10 years has been a carbon copy of each other, with minimal to no innovation in gameplay.

How do you get clibs for these kind of videos? Are they free? Or do you record them yourself? ( Btw great video 😀)

his conclusion is pretty accurate to why rhythm gamers keep on playing or movement shooters are still popular. it's just not that hard to push yourself in those games and the high density actions keeps you satisfied.

There are plenty of great points in the comment section and in this video but (maybe I'm just speaking for myself) there seems to be less happiness among this generation now than before. I, for one, know I was nowhere near as depressed and dreading my future compared to 13-year-old me who played Halo and Terraria all day. Sure, I was having a rough time at home and whatnot but I'm virtually unbound from my childhood shackles yet I feel less free now than ever. I am aware of more things now than I was when I was younger and that is both enlightening and damning at the same time. That goes for gaming and the modern industries too. I see right through the issues of this society. Games had predatory companies only in it for the money back then but now it's insanely complex schemes they're allowed to pull off in front of millions. And when consumerist societies want something they'll get it no matter how shitty the previous year's release was. Games are just becoming, mostly, a reflection of a stagnation of creativity and creative autonomy.

I'm extremely guilty of using my second monitor for KZfaq while playing, but there's one game series I respect too much to distract myself from and that The Legend of Heroes, the music alone can make my eyes water (and I thought my eyes were too dry for that for a couple of years).

Thanks for the detailed exploration of this! I think there is another facet you brushed up against that would greatly increase your points once aware of it. Andrew Huberman has some really great explanations about dopamine and motivation. His points play into and are a great scientific backing to yours in this video. In short, our brains have a cyclic system where the more powerful of a dopamine "high" we get, the more powerful of a low will occur after. This low cannot be shortcut. Thus, the enjoyment we feel for any given activity is influenced by our recent activities prior to it. That "scrolling thru your games list & not being interested" feeling, even in other activities of life, is often a sign we need to give our systems a break & let our dopamine levels balance out. It is actually a hormone of motivation, not reward (i.e. your pleasure vs fulfilment point). Nothing sounds interesting because we're burnt out on our motivational circuits, until we give them a rest OR find something even more exciting. But the latter is not sustainable; eventually we all cap out. Thanks for reading my TED talk summary :)

When you booted up the Minecraft Tutorial map tears crossed my face, tears of nostalgia

I still have fun with today's video games. I don't play multiplayer games. I play single player and co op games with family. The reason for that some people don't like today's games is cause people have grown up. When your a child literally anything will get your attention and you could have fun with kicking a rock around. Plus today there are so many games that are alike and sometimes that can suck when you experience it over and over with a new coat of paint. Like far cry 3 is amazing but far cry 6 is also really good but it's just like far cry 3 and doesn't change much and because of that many people won't enjoy it.

I'm a completionist previously but I guess I was burnout before so I stop. I tried to diversify and change something in my gaming style like playing indie games (which I find something new that are not often made by AAA developers), old games I had never touched before(apparently I just know I like point&click games), and playing games without thinking about collectibles, achievements, and scores. So far it works for me... single-player and coop only. I tried again multiplayer in the open beta of MWII and R6 Siege, and after 1 hour I immediately uninstall it as it was stressing me out.

What happened to the forza video?

I chuckled at this because I purchased COD MW2 this week. I haven't played a COD in ages. I have played PUBG and strategy games mostly. I'm having the time of my life with this game. It feels smooth, gunplay is fun, and love leveling up the guns. It just proves your point, if it's new it creates that special feeling.

My guy, I am grateful for this video. You opened my eyes about this problem where I just hopped into new games every day and didn't enjoy any of them. DIdn't gave enough time and I was like "Yeah I seen this in other games, every game feels like 'been there, done that'..." I think people should try to play 1-2 game at a time and not just rush trough thousands of them cause you will only notice the downsides.

Doom 2016 and Eternal made me feel like an excited teenager again, that game was brutal!

That challenge to anxiety level thing is why I add 1 more heat to every run in Hades. Keeps it interesting.

For me it's the repetitiveness, the execution of the product and/or the quality

I got tired playing at modern games. But whenever I play on 6th to 4th Gen console/pc games. I do have fun. Idk.. I just find the older titles more pleasing than the latest games. No complex gameplay mechanics.. just pure fun.. games might have challenging moments but not as aggressive as today. I do play those games tho. But if I want to enjoy and relax.. I play old titles. That's all..

I quit gaming for years except for hopping in for CoD and FIFA with friends sometimes. Then one day I decided to try again and play Kingdom Come Deliverance and replay Mass Effect when remasters came. Damn I had such a great time even though I used to play a lot of RPG's in the past and have already finished ME trillogy in 2012. My 2nd Mass Effect playthrough felt just like the first one. Amazing feeling, seems like gaming works best for me when I'm playing "just sometimes" and quit for some time when it gets too repetitive.

Heh, funny, IIRC I was pretty much in this phase circa 2009... when I also learned about this concept of Flow ! Otherwise, good points, and even though while I (ab)used Slashdot in my spare time on the Opera mini browser on the 2007 Nokia N75 smartphone, concentrating on the thing at hand was hardly ever an issue, maybe I should try some of those games that I never played, like Call of Duty (so, Modern Warfare 2 would be the best ?) or Dark Souls (starting with the first one ?) ?

My take is: games were fun because they were an escape from reality. It wasn’t so intertwined with social media, “entertainment” for viewers per say. Overtime, with the variety of games and competition within the creators to make the next big thing was rampant. It’s absolutely nothing like it’s used to be. I remember playing all the Lego games. Man 😢

It's either nostalgia causing me to love older games and it's just luck/coincidental that i still enjoy playing them, or, if i have changed as a person and thats why i dislike new games because the initial magic has gone from my youth, then no amount of nostalgia would enable me to play a terrible or average game thats boring... ...You cannot have it both ways, you cannot argue for both at the same time. You've contradicted yourself here. If it is due to people changing through life experience and age, and thus games just don't have the same effect anymore, then surely my changes as a person would induce me to no longer enjoy those old games? I mean actually playing them and still enjoying them (and not just reminiscing about them in my head or via a video playthrough). Nostalgia is purely contained within the memories in the synaptic neurons transference in the brain, it's something inside my brain, tied to the essence of my mind, something scientifically physical but essentially abstract, something beyond a present reality happening now that can be measured and contained (in a jar for e.g). Whereas physically doing something, in the current moment that exists whether i'm aware of it or not, has nothing to do with nostalgia, and thus my enjoyment of something i may be physically doing in real time has nothing to do with nostalgia, nostalgia is an independent factor conditioned purely by memories and feelings, but if i game was that bad, no matter that sense of strong nostalgia, it would be unplayable regardless of any nostalgic feelings associated with it. This whole nostalgia argument for why people still enjoy 'playing' older games needs to be cracked open and dismantled so it can be revealed for the straw-man argument it really is. I haven't successfully done this here, i know, it is difficult to explain, but if anyone can actually make sense of what i've said with my layman's attempt at constructing my thoughts cohesively about something quite complex, then it may well add towards that revelation - that the nostalgia whiners are full of 💩... and games are either objectively better when you play them or they are just simply 💩 games, irrespective of nostalgia.

broo can you tell me the song name on your video on why club pengiun died 0:23 pleees

It feels great to have less than 15 games in my steam library lol. I know my games and stick to them

As a trophy hunter playing games and doing brutal challenges has never got boring for me I play all kinds of different games and I'm always having a blast with it

Okay, you're projecting a lot! I'm having fun with a lot of games, I've played over 150 hours of the closed tests of battle bit this year and it's been a blast and I love it! I've played over 500 hours of project zombies this year, it's amazing! The problem with AAA games is that they are made by people who saw success in earlier games, and just want to make money, be powerful, be famous! There are things in new triple a games, that make me question, did the devs even play this game or any game? The answer is mostly no. But battlebit is a great example of a dev who loves fps games, and the game design is based on that.

The thing abt trying new genres is so true though, I’ve never been a fan of city building, tycoon, or colony sim games but lately that’s all I play

It's not Nutela's fault their coco spread isn't as good. It's the customer's fault. Nothing to do with them replacing the coco with plain white sugar to save money.

i like how I'm only playing osrs and it goes against every single tip on this video and I realize that AND I know i hate playing it but it's all I play and watch youtube/twitch at the same time. don't even know why, I get no satisfaction out of the game except for those 3 seconds when I hit a 99 after 200 hours of mindless grind

i miss gaming in childhood

Psychologist's fallacy: an observer presupposes the objectivity of their own perspective when analyzing a behavioral event.

one of my first experiences with gaming was assassins creed origins. because i was new to gaming, learning the mechanics of how you fight, explore, etc was so enjoyable to me. however, a little later, when i watched some videos about the assassins creed franchise, everybody was hating it. it honestly made me kind of sad because i enjoyed the game so much. now with a little more experience i can see why people shit on it but back then i didn’t understand how people could hate such an amazing game in my eyes. to this day i still pick up the game from time to time, simply to recreate the feeling of magic i felt when playing assassins creed origins for the first time. nostalgia really works overtime.

this is very true and somewhat eerie since i’ve always played first person games since bo1. long story short, my fiancé told me to take over playing sims 4 while she was doing something and that “new” feeling was there. i played sims 4 for hours the past week, even had my siege buddies send me messages asking why i was playing sims 4

For those who keep saying aging is the factor.... it is not. I started playing old games from 2005 and magic is not gone. I loved re3 more than remake. Some games were so much full of content., variety of gameplay rich story and innovation despite it being old. It is like viewing a portrait and a photo. Portrait is full of art and passion while photo is just better looking bland sight lacking in everything even a good angle

In 2009 I was in Virginia car surfing going to garage parties(kickbacks) smoking weed, gangbanging, having shoot outs, fighting an playing alittle bit of Madden an NBA live ah the good ol days

I think it's because we were younger without a care in the world and nowadays games are just businesses

I think I enjoy playing with myself sometimes

I used to be into games like cod, smite, Minecraft, Skyrim etc when I was in middle school/highschool. I got bored so now I mostly play guitar and just play indie horror games with my friends from time to time.

I disagree. Yes, I am not the same person as before, I am older, I have more experience in games, I can't play 13 hours in a row anymore (actually, I can, but not on a regular basis) and I have other hobbies and responsibilities. But I still get same feelings and emotions from games as i used to. Sometimes. Those emotions and feelings don't last as long as before, that's true and that's a problem on my side, I agree. But I do think tho that industry is a bigger part of this problem. I just look at modern games and I can't see myself even wasting my time to find them on torrent to check them out. Not to mention spending money on them and completing them. I look at indie games and I don't want to play them. I look at AAA and I don't want to play them. I got 3 free months of Arcade and I didn't find a single game that's interesting for me. Since 2011 every year there were fewer and fewer games that grab my attention and even fewer games that I actually buy/download and play to the end. I wanted to play ~15 games in 2011 and actually played 10 of them. There are 5 games coming this year I'm interested in. I only got two of them so far and I'm not sure I'm gonna buy/download anything else this year.

That Willem Dafoe clip was on point, lol! I agree with much of what you've said; however, there are plenty of newer games (for decades now?), that aren't new...😉

"and I know you played it" Me: who didn't play it: 🥺

Mw2, black ops 1 and 2, the last of us, watch dogs, dark souls 1, fallout new vegas, battlefield 4, minecraft, far cry 3, sonic unleashed, bioshock, banjo-kazooie, halo reach, gta 5. Ahhh.... the glory days

I understand what you mean, I recently installed and gave dungeon 3 a try. A game I had no interest in but redeemed it when epic games gave it away for free and yet I’m having more fun with it than several games I wanted and paid full price for.

Gaming us dying because of greed microtransactions and developer laziness but its also the fact that we're all growing up

You used Neon Chrome soundtrack?!?!?! Mannnnn you have great taste

It's a theory which does not show how games decline in quality for various reasons. 14th game of call of duty franchise may not feel challenging and exciting not just because we already know all the challenges and mechanics from the first call of duty but simply because despite better "graphics" game is lower in quality then the first one. I never feel bored and I always feel excited to revisit top quality games from the past like Half-Life 1 and Half-Life 2. I even feel more excited after many years then I played them first time because my skills in and experience in gaming are higher. And why is that? Just because these games are cultural productions that do not compromise on quality, they try be excellent and not just "good enough" and they try to balance challenge provided to the player exactly like in the quote - a boundary between boredom and anxiety is the flow. So I think the theory in the video could be also challenged by revisiting few games from the past that that did not compromise on quality and show excitement is related to quality of cultural production

It actually sucks when people say that they are going to stop playing games and I have stopped playing block fortress empire , it is fun but no longer and it's not fun when to see someone never returning to that game again

Its difficult to stay in this flow zone, when you either are tired due to work or not have time and isolation to do so. Sometimes i would love to sink my teeth into a game and play it for little longer, but it doesnt seem possible as much nowadays, even if i love playing games as a hobby. It doesnt help the fact that the games, mainly triple a, have a serious quality decline for the sake of monetization that sheep eat it up. Have you noticed how many "remakes" have come out in the last few years?! For a good reason... Most importantly, as an adult, with a job, i know the value of money and my time, and hence why, i keep high standards, and modern games dont come even close to such expectations. Me and my life may have changed from the way back then, but videogames even more so by a landslide.

Elden Ring made me love games again

hi, I lot of people complaining of your video in the comments, maybe because it says a lot different things and visions in the same video. BUT, I think that you said a lot of interesting things. I guess Ill use your video to try and play elden ring. Im not very into hard games or rpg, but something in it makes me wanna play and give it a try. I randomly got in your channel by the project zomboid video and now u have a new follower here at youtube. So.. thank you

Sports games such as Fifa, Madden, 2K are the ones that bred this monitization slowly into anything that can be played which created this greed for maximum monitization regardless of the games quality. DLC was cool you got an extra addition for a fully fleshed out game (maps, weapons & characters) for a fraction of the full games price but now there are rarely even fully finished games released, yet you can pay $10 for a skin in a game that is broke.

I stopped playing activision games and it helped me out a lot.

Handhelds are keeping my interest much more. Vita, DS/3DS, Switch.

For me my main genre is looter shooters. My main is destiny, but I've gotten everything I want to I'm just playing other things. I'm kinda excited for first descendants, though it's giving off anthem vibes.

definitely true. I'm 29 now. Most of my friends keep bugging me to play mmorpg / fps online game and wonder why i enjoy on play offline game by myself. It's bored me out totally right now to play those online games. They won't understand how briliant games like Disco Elysium or Chained Echoes

I play single player halo and try all the speedrun strats for a challenge. online pvp fps just bores me these days. factorio is amazing but even that still gets stale after a while, thats why rimworld is my go to, it seriously is different and challenging every single time.

The games today are an empty void. They have no soul no ideas no emotion nothing.

There's an old adage, "There's a first time for everything." Unfortunately, this adage has a counterpart that more often than not, goes unmentioned; "you can only experience things for the first time, once, then never again." What I've come to realize in life is that there are several memories of moments in my life that I look back on fondly and even wish I could relive, even when I've had similar experiences that mimic and even dwarf those old memories. That doesn't stop me from reminiscing. A harsh truth of life is that every moment you live through lives in the subsequent shadow of past experiences. When you're young, and know very little about the game world you inhabit, you're imagination runs wild creating crazy possible scenarios, while reality beckons with ever increasing changes turning an alien landscape into a home of sorts of the mind. Imagination becomes reality bending to your will, or so it seems. Once that is done, and the world becomes more familiar, you settle, but your mind still wonders every now and then of new possibilities. As you approach the edge of the world and its limits, in life or otherwise, ideals get replaced by fact, and imagination gets replaced by memories. Once that happens, you still desire to have that childlike curiosity, but achieving it ultimately gets replaced by a tireless effort to find it in the first place, and eventually you realize just how limited some game worlds are. You can only live through an experience once, then it becomes a memory, and future endeavors to relive the memory are just that, endeavors to relive the past. New things are hard to come by, but so worth it when you find them.

"did i ever tell you... the definition of insanity... doing the same exact sh*t expecting different results"

You hit the nail on the head, i went from final fantasy to games like Combat Mission and Command: Modern Operation, and thats what i consider fun and enchanting now...

Ayyyy robokast, i wish u came back to unturned *revisiting unturned in 2022*

What game is that at 11:09

Gaming is more expensive than it used to be 15 years ago