Gamers, Has Time Changed You?

[Reaper195]

I'm sick of franchises. I remember when a game came out with no intention of making it into a trilogy (WHY IS EVERYTHING A FUCKING TRILOGY...AND THEN THERE IS EVEN MORE GAMES!). It gets even worse when game story suffers because the developers/writers need to drag it out as long as possible. Assassins Creed is a perfect example. Know why Desmond has fuck all happen? Because fuck all happens with Desmond over the course of series. Hell, he does nothing in Revelations aside from wake up from a Coma. I also fucking hated how AC3 just came out...yet there were two more 2 games based on that Italian ****.

But then again...there is too much I could rant and rave about in AC3. I hate that game more than any other game in the world.

 

[Coffeejack]

When I was younger, I could pretty much play any JRPG of that time and really enjoy it.

Now I'm older, it's a rare day when I can actually stand to play a JRPG.

If it isn't the shitty voice acting, it's the terrible dialogue, if it isn't the nonsensical story, it's the ridiculously clichéd character design.

Which makes the JRPGs I do like, all the better

I don't think I've ever played a JRPG before in my life. Can you recommend a good one to start with?

OP: I think games have gotten too easy over time. They hold your hand and do not reward creativity or initiative. There is no satisfaction in success, there is just the next objective marker or quick-time event. Conversations and cutscenes, instead of being interesting and compelling, are a dull chore. We must be wary so as to avoid lowering our expectations and treating relative competence as genius.

 

[Yabba]

Though I have only truelly been gaming for about 4 years now, I have taken alot more interest into strategy, rpg, and simple non-pvp flying games

 

[Daystar Clarion]

When I was younger, I could pretty much play any JRPG of that time and really enjoy it.

Now I'm older, it's a rare day when I can actually stand to play a JRPG.

If it isn't the shitty voice acting, it's the terrible dialogue, if it isn't the nonsensical story, it's the ridiculously clichéd character design.

Which makes the JRPGs I do like, all the better

I don't think I've ever played a JRPG before in my life. Can you recommend a good one to start with?

OP: I think games have gotten too easy over time. They hold your hand and do not reward creativity or initiative. There is no satisfaction in success, there is just the next objective marker or quick-time event. Conversations and cutscenes, instead of being interesting and compelling, are a dull chore. We must be wary so as to avoid lowering our expectations and treating relative competence as genius.

If you have a PS2, I can't recommend Dragon Quest 8 enough.

Really fun game that doesn't take itself too seriously.

 

[Evil Smurf]

I don't like grinding as much as I used to anymore, and cliches in anime/games annoy me now. I still like playing on the easiest setting though

 

[vun]

I thought I'd changed a few months ago, but the past weeks I've been raging over microtransaction systems and the lack of old school FPS games so I seem to still be me.

 

[Goofguy]

I care much less about linear shooters now than I used to. When I was a lot younger, I used to love Doom, Wolfenstein, ROTT and Dark Forces. Even going to university, I was really in to Quake 4, Prey, F.E.A.R. and the CoD games. Now, I have no interest in them. I still like shooters, but the ones involving open world and RPG elements. My friends keep telling me to get BF3 but I'm just not interested regardless of their rave reviews.

 

[Mr.Squishy]

When I was younger, I could pretty much play any JRPG of that time and really enjoy it.

Now I'm older, it's a rare day when I can actually stand to play a JRPG.

If it isn't the shitty voice acting, it's the terrible dialogue, if it isn't the nonsensical story, it's the ridiculously clichéd character design.

Which makes the JRPGs I do like, all the better

Daystar Clarion once again proves to be a source of wisdom. So this.
Except I don't like any JRPGs anymore.

 

[Bazaalmon]

I used to love MMORPG's, but now they seem way too grindy. Even endgame is just a grind of a different kind. The endless pursuit of shinier loot just doesn't really appeal to me anymore. I really enjoyed borderlands 1&2 though, the silliness really helps.
Also, I hate PvP. That hasn't changed though.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

When I was younger, I could pretty much play any JRPG of that time and really enjoy it.

Now I'm older, it's a rare day when I can actually stand to play a JRPG.

If it isn't the shitty voice acting, it's the terrible dialogue, if it isn't the nonsensical story, it's the ridiculously clichéd character design.

Which makes the JRPGs I do like, all the better

Daystar Clarion once again proves to be a source of wisdom. So this.
Except I don't like any JRPGs anymore.

Wisdom?

Nah, it's just my opinion, I'm fine with other people liking them, but it really is a genre I've grown out of.

 

[sXeth]

Generally less tolerant of grindyness. Which may contribute to why I can't stand the newer FFs with eight million hp bosses. Similarly running around collecting for collectings sake. I'm glad I got all the feathers in AC3 by accident somehow, or I would've probably murdered an innocent bystander at the worthless reward.

My tolerance for difficulty that's based on limiting your actions illogically, or not having enemies play by same/similar rules too. Dark Souls where you can't jump to dodge attacks (Enemies can fly/jump, and one of the combos does include a jump, but its semi-random), Far Cry's molotov throwers with infinite ammo, Skyrim's enemy mages with enhanced destruction spells.

 

[sneakypenguin]

Definately I used to love pretty much any videogames, then I got into online games and its tough to go back. Once youve played humans, anything else seems just lacking. Anything else you can see the strings holding it together and it breaks immersion.

 

[neoontime]

Um...basically the same but I like tower defense less.

 

[pilouuuu]

I'm much less tolerant and have less patience than before. I also feel like I can see underneath the gameplay mechanics. I'll explain that better. I can't enjoy games like The Walking Dead and Mass Effect 3 all that much because I know that there are no multiple endings or multiple paths, so I just feel like playing the story the developers wanted me to play.

I feel a bit disappointed that gaming has such a big potential, but developers fail to deliver. For example: adventure games. I was probably spoiled because the first adventure game I played was The Secret of Monkey Island. Well, Telltale brought adventures back to life, but while their games like Sam and Max and Tales of Monkey Island are fun, their interactions seem limited and dumbed down. The Walking Dead made it even worse and you just basically click on objects to advance the story. As good as the story and characters are, I just expect more from games.

Now, with Mass Effect 3 the gameplay seemed like a chore. The cover shooting felt formulaic, predictable and boring. I just wanted to get to the parts where the story advanced. But even the story wasn't that good.

I'd like developers to make a really good story when the game has one, but not to forget the gameplay. Also, games are interactive things. Include multiple paths and endings! Games back in the 90s had those!

 

[TrevHead]

I've been gaming for 25 years and have been into just about every genre at one point. However since getting into arcade games 5 years ago I would say that i'm not tolerant to grind and filler gameplay unless it's a game that hooks me which i'm the total opposite.

Another aspect where I've changed is that i'm much more cynical of the industry nowadays, very rarely do I let myself get carried away in the hype machine, I've been let down way too many times over the years.

 

[shrekfan246]

I'm less tolerant of games that have slower pacing than a snail moving through a trail of molasses going uphill in the middle in January.

I replay games less often, and they have to really engage me in order for me to be interested. The Mass Effect franchise is one of the few in the last six years that I've played multiple times.

 

[Xman490]

Today, I feel much worse for playing games than I felt when I was a kid. Playing a game for a few hours at a time was something I would do every month or so with little remorse. Now playing a game for just one hour reminds me of how badly I'm using my time.

Also, I play mostly first-person shooters now instead of third-person platformers. Big surprise.

 

[Lunar Templar]

It takes more to garner my interest these days, much less keep it, even from the types of game i like i like