Anyone else becoming disenchanted with gaming?

[Gentlegamer]

My newest system is an Xbox, and I managed to find some games on there that totally justify it being in my possession.

Not including "Outrun 2" (which is why I got the system)

Burnout 3 (custom soundtracks? jawusum!)
Gauntlet: Dark Legacy (multi system I know, but being on Xbox is what matters)
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger
Destroy All Humans 1/2

I put these games away for awhile until I return to them at a later time....which is a sign of a really good (and fun) game.

May I suggest Crimson Skies? It's an awesome arcade-style flying combat game. Very underrated.

[mick_aka]

Getting very fed up with gaming as a whole to be honest.

[GameUser-16-32-128]

Too much emphasis on eye candy and complex controls, those are my biggest complaints about the current gen games.

[Puffy2k316]

Yeah I'm sick of it. Games don't look or play as good as they did when they were 2d sprites. I got rid of all my next gen consoles and I don't plan on getting the next crop of consoles anywhere near launch based on the way microsoft fucked over early adapters this gen.

[David J.]

The newest consoles/handhelds I have are an Xbox and PSP. The PSP has a few good games, but the fact that Sony has pretty much fucked the user base over constantly, and never pushed it like it should have...makes me wonder why I still have it. I plan on selling/trading most of my games.

As for the Xbox, it has quite a few good games, but too bad that M$ just abandoned it like that. I have quite a few games, but most of them are getting sold/traded off too, because I haven't really played much of them more than ten minutes.

I thought about getting a PS3, but I wouldn't touch it, a Wii seemed cool, but no thanks, and a 360... Thank you M$ for making shoddy hardware.

So the newest system I still really touch/play is the Dreamcast, and I get a lot of shit about it at work.

[Kollision]

Besides the shoot'em ups on JPN XBox360, I've had no interest whatsoever in the latest generation of consoles.

Have you got it already?
I'm having a blast with Death Smiles, and Mushi Futari is right on the corner.

[zetastrike]

I'm not too interested in the current gen, other than things like the VC and XBLA. It's all about eye candy now.

[otaku]

not really I love gaming love it but I really need to focus right now my life is spiralling out of control I'm going to need somewhere to live don't have work right now either I do own a car buts its a pos and I need insurance and gas for it. Need food and I have debt...think I'm gonna have to let my toys go look for my sales soon...

[sketch]

The sentiments here reflect my own. I honestly think the paradigm shift into 3d gaming had initial excitement because of the novelty, but it brought inherent game design issues which have never been fully addressed. Since the advent of mass 3d gaming from the PSX, games have mostly followed a "me too" approach in a fairly limited selection of game styles (fps, racing, flying, 3rd person action/adventure, isometric rpg, etc.). The real improvement to games should be better game design and AI (two things which are tough to market, and also tough to achieve, so there's not much incentive to make these improvements). Instead, we get gimmicky controllers (cough-Wii-cough) and massive eye candy (PS3/Xbox360). But modern gaming is stagnating.

I'm not saying all new games suck, but most of them are just refinements or graphically updated versions of prior games, and while I never tire of well-designed 2d games, I do tire of well designed 3d games that bring nothing new to the table. As someone said, 2d games are generally "pick up, start playing". I don't want to spend all day learning and playing a game.

It all boils down to personal preference. Some genres don't do well in the 16-bit era (like driving games), but I feel myself losing interest in this area as well. I would've sold my PS3 right now except my kids play it, and it also functions as a bluray player, so it does have value in my house. But it doesn't get used by me.

[Zz Badnusty]

Have you got it (JPN 360) already?
I'm having a blast with Death Smiles, and Mushi Futari is right on the corner.

No
I just can't justify the purchase right now.
I'm also not sure about how downloadable content works with an import console and games in the US.
How does a player in the Americas get downloadable content for Death Smiles?

[kool kitty89]

Serious Sam and Serious Sam SE for PC ...best FPS ever

high quality cartoony graphics too

QFT, great satire in those too. (the "hippie gore" option is awesome)
The later ones are OK (like the GC one and Serious Sam 2), but I don't really care for the change in style.

May I suggest Crimson Skies? It's an awesome arcade-style flying combat game. Very underrated.

Definitely a great game, PC game mind you, a lot better than the Xbox one.

IMHO there are too many buttons on modern controllers (even the Wii) so that's a turn off for me. Also all these FPS's that are out-- I prefer simpler cartoony graphics and staright forward playability. Figuring a game out makes it much less appealing.

Buttons, heh, try a colecovision. (or Intellivision or 5200)

Not a fan of PC gaming I take it. (fromt the "fighuring a game out comment" given that a lot of older PC games were like this, especially those tricky adventure games, along with some of the flight/combat sims like Wing Commander or X-Wing)

[TheRollingStoner]

Yes, definitely.

More often than not I find myself sitting on my couch, staring at my collection of Xbox 360 and PS3 games and thinking, what in the hell am I going to play now?! Then I decide to either watch a movie or to pop a game in my Dreamcast. It's pathetic, really.

That's exactly what I do with my NES collection, I sit there and stare blankly and eventually I just decide to watch tv or do something else. I do the same thing with music too. I hate it.

[Puffy2k316]

Not a fan of PC gaming I take it. (fromt the "fighuring a game out comment" given that a lot of older PC games were like this, especially those tricky adventure games, along with some of the flight/combat sims like Wing Commander or X-Wing)

Console games now (at least the xbox and ps3) are just toned down versions of what the PC was producing 1998-2004 anyway. That's another reason I hate them, I was a huge PC gamer during that time and console games just can't replicate it, no matter how hard they try.

And now PC gaming is dead

[tomaitheous]

Console games now (at least the xbox and ps3) are just toned down versions of what the PC was producing 1998-2004 anyway. That's another reason I hate them, I was a huge PC gamer during that time and console games just can't replicate it, no matter how hard they try.

And now PC gaming is dead

That's just it. Consoles system nowadays are *not* trying to replicate old PC games. That's ridiculous. If you think they're cheap knock-offs, then you just don't get this generation of games. If anything, it's because of this generation that I can actually sit down and enjoy/play in a looooooog time. You've probably just reached a saturation point, that's all. Take a break for a few years. Play some old classics.

For the PC era of 1998-2004, I couldn't stand a lot of stuff out there - save for a couple of FPS/games. PS2/Xbox/GC was even worse for such games, with the PSX/Saturn/N64/DC being the lowest point. This generation is actually refreshing for a change.

[NeoVamp]

I've been disenchanted with gaming for a long time now,
I have pretty much every console except for the 360 and none of them give me the happy
feeling that my Sega Megadrive gave me, or the feeling i had when i played Snes over at a friends house.

so sometimes i think its just a side effect of getting older, but then i see people
older then me be all happy about the latest FPS/RPG/etc game,
and.. I just don't know why i don't feel happy about games anymore.

I still enjoy a couple games, had a blast with Fallout 3 and Oblivion, had a blast with Ghostbusters,
but.. those games are far and wide, even the old Megadrive games i buy on Ebay don't give me a happy feeling anymore.

so i don't know if that counts as disenchanted or if its just that i'm depressed in general,
but i feel like the only reason i still buy/play games is in faint hopes of one day
re-experiencing the joy i had with them when i was younger.


Maybe its time to finally admit i just don't really like games that much anymore.