Poll of the Day > Games just seem to be missing the fun factor these days.

(+) Yeah! (+)

The kind ratchet and clank has.

As I type this out, I feel like Im turning into an old man.

blu posted...

Im turning into an old man.

You are.

There are plenty of fun games that come out every year.
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youre just not playing the right games
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TheWitchMorgana posted...

youre just not playing the right games

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TheWitchMorgana posted...

youre just not playing the right games

Eeyup.
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Gravity Rush 2
Game was just a joy to play for me
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TheWitchMorgana posted...

youre just not playing the right games

We have a winner.
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TheWitchMorgana posted...

youre just not playing the right games

I'd like to add that maybe he's not playing the games right.

At least I'm a victim of this as well but with achievements and dozens of repetitive throw away quests and side missions I get to cleaning up the map or checking things off.

It's not like it used to be where exploring some nook and getting every token or helping some random npc will award you with something cool. You'll have a better time just focusing on the main quest than endless game padding.

"Games aren't like the kind of games I like anymore"

Preaching to the choir.
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Call me a fanboy/shill but Nintendo puts out a ton of games that are just plain fun as hell to play.

Judgmenl posted...

"Games aren't like the kind of games I like anymore"

Preaching to the choir.

TheWitchMorgana posted...

youre just not playing the right games

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Bro how can you say this when the new garfield kart was released recently

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blutopic
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That's why I love Insomniac

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Sarcasthma posted...

blu posted...

Im turning into an old man.

You are.

I basically came in to say this. It's not that games have gotten less fun, it's that you're losing the ability to enjoy things.
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Dunno what your talking about. I have just as much fun with plenty of modern games as I do with the ones in my childhood era.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Sarcasthma posted...

blu posted...

Im turning into an old man.

You are.

I basically came in to say this. It's not that games have gotten less fun, it's that you're losing the ability to enjoy things.

OR maybe, just maybe, a lot of games have just gotten less fun.
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EventualDecline posted...

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Sarcasthma posted...

blu posted...

Im turning into an old man.

You are.

I basically came in to say this. It's not that games have gotten less fun, it's that you're losing the ability to enjoy things.

OR maybe, just maybe, a lot of games have just gotten less fun.

Probably not. I still have loads of fun with them...
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What games are you playing, TC?

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It's a shift.
Games have changed a bit. There's still games being made that would fit in with older generations but new gamers don't want that. They started to play games now for a reason.

Start playing games you missed and it's like a new game. I miss games being really arcade like, but also being a full game as well. Like, fighters with a ton of unlockable characters.
You still see these things, just not as much.

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pedro45 posted...

It's a shift.
Games have changed a bit. There's still games being made that would fit in with older generations but new gamers don't want that. They started to play games now for a reason.

Start playing games you missed and it's like a new game. I miss games being really arcade like, but also being a full game as well. Like, fighters with a ton of unlockable characters.
You still see these things, just not as much.

This is a great example of the mixing between the "30 year old boomer" and "ok boomer" meme. It's getting really obvious that there's a generational divide going on with people over 30 and under 30 right now, and a lot of it has to do with how the media have been manipulating us slowly since the mid 2000s. Lots of people are not content with media influencers and social media, and the people who are laregely against it are being labeled as boomers and the like. The same can be said for video games. You can tell a lot about a player based on their favorite Final Fantasy game for example. You can replace Final Fantasy with whatever you want, but this is largely applicable to every major long running IP, not even restricted to games.

Google still doesn't recognize influencer as a word. In 2019. The gaslighting is absurd.
They also don't recognized gaslighting as a term either (but they do gaslight).

This is just another nauseating iteration of George Orwell's 1984, but for the current generation.
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Judgmenl posted...

pedro45 posted...

It's a shift.
Games have changed a bit. There's still games being made that would fit in with older generations but new gamers don't want that. They started to play games now for a reason.

Start playing games you missed and it's like a new game. I miss games being really arcade like, but also being a full game as well. Like, fighters with a ton of unlockable characters.
You still see these things, just not as much.

This is a great example of the mixing between the "30 year old boomer" and "ok boomer" meme. It's getting really obvious that there's a generational divide going on with people over 30 and under 30 right now, and a lot of it has to do with how the media have been manipulating us slowly since the mid 2000s. Lots of people are not content with media influencers and social media, and the people who are laregely against it are being labeled as boomers and the like. The same can be said for video games. You can tell a lot about a player based on their favorite Final Fantasy game for example. You can replace Final Fantasy with whatever you want, but this is largely applicable to every major long running IP, not even restricted to games.

Google still doesn't recognize influencer as a word. In 2019. The gaslighting is absurd.
They also don't recognized gaslighting as a term either (but they do gaslight).

This is just another nauseating iteration of George Orwell's 1984, but for the current generation.

Aged 33, with fellow-gamer siblings of 31 and 26, I have to laugh at where you draw this line.
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Trialia posted...

Aged 33, with fellow-gamer siblings of 31 and 26, I have to laugh at where you draw this line.

Where do you want to draw the line? I guess it has a lot to do when you started playing games.
Games post 2007 are not the same as games post 1997 and definitely aren't the same as games post 1985. There are very distinct jumps in game direction in different eras. The era you were introduced to games at really speaks volumes to the kind of gamer you'll become.

I assume that you and your brothers all started off with either the NES generation or the SNES generation. If you're from Europe, you probably started off with a PC. There's differences in gaming based on if you started off with games on console, PC or mobile, especially with PC vs console in the 90s and early 2000s.

The Starting on PC types are kinda rare on GameFAQs. Much more popular on a site like Reddit. I don't really understand that background, but a lot of them started with games like Half Life and transitioned to do basically only competitive PC gaming.
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The cut off should probably be halo its when I feel fps or otherwise simple games began to really take over the industry.

Judgmenl posted...

Where do you want to draw the line?

There's no line. "Generations" are arbitrary. People of one generation is as varied as any other.
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There are definitely trends through years with many shades but not really hard lines.

I enjoyed the new Spider-Man and Tomb Raider along with HZD, but thats the majority of my enjoyment for this gen even though I have many games. Debating on the new Star Wars but the Souls comparison turns me off.

blu posted...

There are definitely trends through years with many shades but not really hard lines.

I enjoyed the new Spider-Man and Tomb Raider along with HZD, but thats the majority of my enjoyment for this gen even though I have many games. Debating on the new Star Wars but the Souls comparison turns me off.

You're not the only one, someone saying "It's like souls" is enough to kill any interest I have in a game.

Shovel Knight!

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EventualDecline posted...

OR maybe, just maybe, a lot of games have just gotten less fun.

Most of the rest of the world seems to disagree, so probably not.
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Judgmenl posted...

Google still doesn't recognize influencer as a word. In 2019. The gaslighting is absurd.
They also don't recognized gaslighting as a term either (but they do gaslight).

This is just another nauseating iteration of George Orwell's 1984, but for the current generation.

I know what a social media influencer is, and I know what gaslighting is, but Im not sure what you mean by google not recognizing either of those, particularly influencers, and how this relates to a dystopian society. Please expand on that thought.

As for your other points about gaming generations and types of gamers, you are pretty much on the nose with that. Gaming has changed over the years, and not always for the better. I agree with some of the advancements and changes in gaming though, like the largely more lenient and convienient saving features that have been implemented over the decades. The lack of saving was usually a by-product of technological limitations, combined with design choices rooted in arcades, that became extremely archaic and outdated on PC and consoles over the years. Many other design choices and advancements over the years however, have either been fads, novelties, or just plain bad or idiotic design, that unfortunately caught on with a fickle gaming public.

Judgmenl posted...

The Starting on PC types are kinda rare on GameFAQs. Much more popular on a site like Reddit. I don't really understand that background, but a lot of them started with games like Half Life and transitioned to do basically only competitive PC gaming.

This is a separate issue from the generational divide, but this is also pretty accurate. Gamefaqs has always been a site thats more for console gamers, and over the years, this distinction had gotten more pronounced. If you look at boards for many new PC games, even ones that are fairly popular, the boards are largely dead, and in many cases, completely empty. Theres not much of a PC scene here, and there never really was. Ive always found PC gamers to be a strange bunch. I have had friends and family members who started as console gamers, and transitioned into PC gamers as they got older, and I see many of the same patterns. PC gamers dont seem to enjoy just playing games in general, they seem to mostly value just playing the same games endlessly for years on end. Whether that be something like Skyrim, or Diablo, or Starcraft, or Minecraft, or CS, or Rainbow Six, or WoW, etc. PC gamers mostly get a game, and then feel that game needs to be some kind of a lifestyle, and stick to it, until the end of history. Now, I know there are console gamers like this also, especially in recent years, but mostly, it seems to me that console gamers value more variety, while PC gamers value loyalty to a single game. As someone who feels that variety is the spice of life when it comes to almost anything, I have always been a console gamer.
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Judgmenl posted...

Trialia posted...

Aged 33, with fellow-gamer siblings of 31 and 26, I have to laugh at where you draw this line.

Where do you want to draw the line? I guess it has a lot to do when you started playing games.
Games post 2007 are not the same as games post 1997 and definitely aren't the same as games post 1985. There are very distinct jumps in game direction in different eras. The era you were introduced to games at really speaks volumes to the kind of gamer you'll become.

I assume that you and your brothers all started off with either the NES generation or the SNES generation. If you're from Europe, you probably started off with a PC. There's differences in gaming based on if you started off with games on console, PC or mobile, especially with PC vs console in the 90s and early 2000s.

"Brothers"... lol.

I am non-binary (biologically XX). I have a sister and a non-binary (XY) stepsibling. Why, exactly, did you think I used the gender-neutral term "siblings"? If they'd been brothers, I'd have said that. =P

Also, I'm British, and I actually started gaming on an Atari - I think 2800 - and a NES soon after, but neither of them were new. I never owned a brand new console till the PS2 came out when I was 14.
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Pata-Pata-PataPON

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Not fun people have trouble having fun.

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Cant recall the last fun game I played was. I finally put Duke Nukem 3D World Tour in. That was fun. And I didnt realize they made a new story from scratch with director commentary, so that was a bonus. I guess the Spyro remakes were pretty fun.

I miss button codes and hidden areas like Pappy Land in San Francisco Rush.

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