Gamers, Has Time Changed You?

[Auron]

I used to play every RTS out, the problem is they are all Starcraft 2 now so that changed. changes for heart of the swarm are looking promising but the game is utterly broken, as in EALA broken right now but because it's Blizzard no one really complains even a third as much as they would about any other developer's RTS.

Relic is dead(well the entire dow2 team was fired last year and a game they were working on was cancelled or delayed if it was coh2), EALA was killed, age of empires turned into a terrible cash-in, RTS looks pretty bleak other than the next C&C which might be good.


I always liked CRPGs but when I still was a console gamer I liked Jrpg as well, specifically Final Fantasy up til 9, Chrono Trigger and Cross(which was a lot less awesome but had a beautiful soundtrack.), nowadays I can't stand jrpg even Final Fantasies look stupid to me, I don't know if I changed or they changed too much though, it surely became a lot more weird to look at.


Oh yeah I completely shaved consoles after my Playstation 2, brother still has an xbox and I like fighting games very casually but I just don't see them as a reason to buy an expensive console.


Don't think I've adopted any new genres, fps, mmo, all strategy, adventures(telltale saved this from being a distant memory.) and action games still pretty big.

Still not fond of sports and racing games, so yeah changed a bit but not that much.

 

[Dr.Panties]

I care much more about story these days.

It's gotten to the point where any game with a shit story or no story (that is to say, 99.99% of games) isn't good for anything more than a brief distraction.

Gameplay alone just doesn't cut it any more. Unless it presents me with something completely new or reinvents the wheel I just struggle to care.
"Oh what's this you say, game? I have to click on all the people who aren't speaking English to kill them? Amazing! Ohhh, and in this game I click on orcs until my numbers get big enough that I can click on bigger orcs! Mind blowing! One button for a quick, low damage attack and another button for a slow, high damage attack you say? Good God man, this is just off the charts!"

You and I are like polar opposites. These days, tight mechanics, replayability, challenge, and decent single player campaign are the only aspects that appeal to me. Story is for film and literature.

 

[Pink Gregory]

If anything, I have a much longer attention span; I've never been critical, because I don't want the 'perfect' game, I'd rather have many that all are all the pieces of perfection.

I'm much more understanding of complicated systems in 4X games (probably my favourite genre now), but I never feel anything's been 'dumbed down', and I often find things to be overcomplicated for little purpose other than being able to brag about it.

 

[BreakfastMan]

Eh, I dunno. I probably have. Can't really think of anything. My tastes haven't really changed, just expanded and similtaneously became more refined, if that makes any sense. I still appreciate the same things in games today as I did when I was 12 or 14, I just appreciate more besides them, play a wider variety of games, and have more refined tastes when it comes to the things I do enjoy.

 

[Joccaren]

Uh... Nope, I'm about the same.
The only difference is I don't play the same games as I've already played them to death, and have new games to play to death instead.
Tastes haven't changed, gaming's priority hasn't changes [Whenever I CBF doing anything else and there is nothing that urgently needs doing]... Really its just that I'm playing different games, and I'm playing them better. That's about it really.

 

[Dr Jones]

I'm much less tolerant of grindy-bullshit now.
Beyond that, I'm actually more open-minded about games than I was then.

Same here. I'm still by all means a kid, but I've become much less tolerant of repetition. I remember I just stopped playing Uncharted 3 after I realized it was literally nothing but cover -> shoot -> cover (though it's not alone on that). I did finish it later on the easiest difficulty just so I could see the ending, I did like the story and Indiana Jones feel of it.

 

[unindexedsearchengine]

I play a lot more multiplayer than a few years back. Back then, I admit, I wasn't pretty good at games. Certain games got to me on the second difficulty setting, and I didn't dare step up to play with others. Now I play a whole lot more multiplayer games, and I gradually get better and better. In certain games I have improved immensely, when 2 years ago I was happy when I got 1 kill in a multiplayer fps, these days I'm always top 3(usually first) in blacklight: retribution. Doesn't sound like much, but I'm not particularly good at shooters.
I also played a lot more RTS games back then, dunno why I stopped. The only RTS I play now is starcraft, but I don't feel like getting into any others.

I also developed an acute hate for JRPGs. Not something I'm proud of, but there it is.

 

[gigastar]

Well over the past few years ive been slowly shifting from a console gamer to a PC gamer, mostly thanks to Steam.

Apart from that ive never been someone who was really grounded in one genre. Ill play anything so long as it interests me.

 

[Strazdas]

Yes, a lot.
I used to be a guy that would live for strategy. give me strnfghold, warcraft, starcraft and i dont need to breath. give me CS, Half-Life and i would go for suicide. (obvious dramatization)

Nowadays i play mostly RPGs, and sometimes they are not "shootery enough" because i grew to love shooters. As for strategy, i still play some, but much much less, and those "Shooters with rpg elements" really start to satisfy me.

Also the multipalyer aspect. for all i care, 10 years ago miltiplayer could not exist. i didnt need it and never used it.
now i visit a MMO every day, twice, so yeah.

Actually im on intentional planing towards getting into more strategy after i finish my Morrowind project and see if i still enjoy it as much as i did, if yes, then i play mroe strategy games, if not, ill move towards more shootery ones.

 

[Vault101]

Now, I only buy about 3 games a year because they mostly all suck.

you sure you havn't changed? or its nostalga or whatever

don;t really think the question applys to me as much....I didn't really "game" as such untill like 2012...I guess thats shaped my preferenced to like story driven games, I don't have a preference for genre expect you couldn't pay me to play an MMO (even if I was a runescpae kid back in the day...actually thats probably part of the reason) I also think

well whatever Mass Effect is, thats kind of my ideal game....a longish game with a intertsing story and 3rd person combat/shooting, I like 3rd person oh and a player charachter that talks

though thease days I don;t game as much because Ive been doing (arguably more productive stuff) like working on my art skillz (or lackthereof)

Same here. I'm still by all means a kid, but I've become much less tolerant of repetition. I remember I just stopped playing Uncharted 3 after I realized it was literally nothing but cover -> shoot -> cover (though it's not alone on that). I did finish it later on the easiest difficulty just so I could see the ending, I did like the story and Indiana Jones feel of it.

I never liked the gun/gameplay much (probably due to it being on a gamepad) the story always annoyed me too...I actually kind of liked it but HATED nathan drake and the attempt at drama was always laughable at best

 

[The Great JT]

I'm far less tolerant of modern-day FPSes like Call of Duty and its ilk, and I'm certainly going to throw a game with an insulting story under the bus.

 

[evilengine]

As a kid I played to be entertained, if a game was punishingly difficult or tricky I'd find ways to work around it, mostly by using cheats or not playing it as it should be played. In Thief I wouldn't particularly sneak around much, I'd just hack away at the guards, or just use the level skip code to a more accommodating level.

Today, in my early twenties, I'm a changed man. I rarely, if ever, use cheats in a game. Even games like GTA, I refused to use any cheats, at the very least until I had completed the main storyline. Now I like the challenge a game gives me, though it must be a reasonable challenge, not cheap tricks the game uses to make it unfairly difficult.

I will say though, I felt games I played back in the mid-late 90's to be easier to play and finish back then. For instance, I tried playing Indiana Jones on GameGear, and found the controls to much stiffer then I remembered, levels more difficult and overall much more clumsy. Not sure if that's because I'm old and my fingers aren't as twitchy as they once were, or simply because I had few games to play back in the day so I played the hell out of what I had, until I had everything memorized. How times change.

 

[zehydra]

I care much more about story these days.

It's gotten to the point where any game with a shit story or no story (that is to say, 99.99% of games) isn't good for anything more than a brief distraction.

Gameplay alone just doesn't cut it any more. Unless it presents me with something completely new or reinvents the wheel I just struggle to care.
"Oh what's this you say, game? I have to click on all the people who aren't speaking English to kill them? Amazing! Ohhh, and in this game I click on orcs until my numbers get big enough that I can click on bigger orcs! Mind blowing! One button for a quick, low damage attack and another button for a slow, high damage attack you say? Good God man, this is just off the charts!"

Funny. I'm almost the opposite, I usually get tired of games that focus too much on story pretty quickly.

Just let me get to the gameplay!

I also typically prefer sandbox-style games (surprise, huh)

 

[BoredAussieGamer]

When I started gaming, I couldn't save my game (N64 cartridges we just never seemed to have) so I would always use cheats, I would always play on easy, I barely understood what was going on (although that did pass after about a year or two) which lead to more cheating, and I never seemed to notice single digit framerates on PC games. Keep in mind, I started playing games when I was six.

Nearly 12 years on, I understand what's happening on screen (except in RTSes), I play on Normal difficulty, I appreciate the story alot more, and I go bananas if my framerate drops below mid 20's. I also don't tend to cheat as much unless it's a play-through after beating it on hard to unlock all the bonus goodies.

If time hadn't changed me, I'd say something is seriously wrong.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

Eh the older I've gotten the more influence I want to have over a game. I want to control how my character speaks or talks, and I also like my games to be open ended that I can find my own way of solving the problem.

Like in Hitman: Absolution:

Spoiler

I'm suppose to outshoot this texas chick for a my silverballers back? Fuck that noise! I stole a magnum revolver and slaughtered the entire gun store. Gee for someone that's suppose to be such a good shot, she's the one dead not me.

 

[The_Echo]

If anything, I'm a more active gamer than I was before.

When I was a kid, a new game happened basically once or twice a year. I missed out on so many games growing up.

As far as my actual gaming tendencies go, I haven't really changed much. I still have a penchant for RPGs, which shared the majority of my gaming with 3D platformers. And all the games I enjoyed back then are still enjoyable to me now. Somehow, though... I think I got dumber. (8-year old me somehow managed to complete Kingdom Hearts without any help at all. I had to look up walkthroughs on more than one occasion this year. :I )

 

[Mr.Cynic88]

My biggest change as a gamer between my childhood and adult life is that when I play video games, I no longer, well, act like a child.

Back in "the day" I was one of those controlling-throwing gamers who would scream and curse at the television if I got stuck for too long at any given part. To this day I seldom play multiplayer games, because I almost lost friends over my intensity. Beating a video game was of paramount importance to me, because I didn't have anything else going on in my life.

Now I play video games as my favorite pastime/geekism. If I get stuck on a part, I figure that's a good hint that I should do something more constructive with my time. I play every AAA release on normal - which is a cakewalk for a seasoned gamer - so I can continue to be up-to-date on the industry and gaming culture in general. I stopped getting mad at the games I play, and see them for what they are - some of the greatest escapism available today.

 

[CommanderL]

I used to play Mainly on consoles I now Only play on pc
I used to care about gamer score and be obsessed with finishing games Now I don't care and only play for fun
I used to throw and scream and smash holes in walls when I did bad at a game Now I alt tab out and do something that dosnt make me mad
I care more about the industry then I ever did