Has any one else started losing their faith in gaming as they get older?

[Song of storms]

Single player is a thing of the past, companies now focus more on multiplayer, because the money is in the multiplayer.
Surely single player games are not going to fade away, but this is not like the 90s and early 00s where the main dish was the single player and the desert was the multiplayer. Now it's the other way around.

Sure there are some greats Single players, but they are just a few titles.

Iconoclasts, The Awesome Adventures Of Captain Spirit, The Adventure Pals, Minit, Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom, Overcooked 2, Celeste, God of War, Spiderman... should I continue? These are all games that came out in 2018, by the way.

Again, just because you don't see flashy ads everywhere about these games doesn't mean that they don't exist. If anything, you're proving that mass advertising works great because a lot of people like you believe that there are no great single player games that come out every year anymore.

 

[E1ite007]

Maybe because I didn't grow up with a console, but since I got into gaming a few years ago, I haven't stopped since.
I remember when I was a kid (not that I'm a full grown-ass adult right now actually, I'm close to 20 years old so I'm between both of being and adult and a kid), I saw with a lot of excitement all of my mates playing on their GBAs, or with their DS consoles (although they never let me play with one of theirs, so I dunno what was I excited for, LOL), and even a pair of cousins had a PS2 and I trully wished to play with it (and I did just about 2 times), but even I consider myself a "vintage gamer", I haven't touched a GBA for example in my whole life, and the first time I played with a DS(i) being when I bought one in April 2015.
I dunno, maybe because my gaming usually consists about still being hyped for new consoles and games, although I cannot have 'em and play them, and I only play vintage things (NDS, N64, PSX, PSP, SNES, NES, MS-DOS Games) with the Xbox One being the exception because I got it for the first time this June, and also my n2DSxl that I got last Xmas.

 

[THEGUY3ds]

Me, I used to enjoy wii and ds games when I was younger. it was so fun now it gets boring after a while of game time.

 

[KHEOPS]

I think, with years of gaming experience in video games
I started with c=64 with 30 minutes of loading
Then the nes, master system, genesis, snes etc....
Have we become more judgmental than playful?
After having seen and tried so many games, on so many different machines, maybe that's why we are difficult today to satisfy?
For solo or multi games I have no opinion, but in any case the shoot'em up genre has been very rare for more than ten years.
As I said in my message before this one
Except skyrim (at its time) and ,zelda botw (session of one hour max)
Almost all games bother me after ten minutes Except retrogaming...

Played again at this moment in star ocean on super famicom, because in 2018 I can finally understand the Japanese scenario, which has been translated into English. (Patch ips made by passionate people)
And frankly, I play this game , 8 hours of total savegame game, and quick save are convenient (snes9x retroarch switch), than octopath traveller played 37 minutes on switch, then I never played again

 

[FAST6191]

Maybe because I didn't grow up with a console, but since I got into gaming a few years ago, I haven't stopped since.
I remember when I was a kid (not that I'm a full grown-ass adult right now actually, I'm close to 20 years old so I'm between both of being and adult and a kid)

Leaving aside what I said about tastes forming at 19 then how is 20 not a full grown adult?

 

[Jonna]

Leaving aside what I said about tastes forming at 19 then how is 20 not a full grown adult?

Man I just turned 30 today and I still feel like a kid.

 

[E1ite007]

Leaving aside what I said about tastes forming at 19 then how is 20 not a full grown adult?

I dunno, maybe because I never had a childhood, I still like child-ish things, and that should disqualify me as an adult.
Trully I dunno, maybe I'm an adult because of my age… but I don't feel like an adult yet.
I feel that an adult cannot like things like Club Penguin, and Animal Crossing, and watching cartoons… and maybe it's right, but... I dunno man.
You just broke my life right now... I don't know who am I, not that I used to know actually, but at least I could define myself... and now... you're right.
I must be an adult. I'm almost 20 years old.. and I haven't made anything with my life yet.

 

[FAST6191]

I have long gone with getting older is biology and therefore mandatory (for now at least, science looks like it might crack that one and even within our lifetimes), growing up is considerably less so.

Or in song form


I am older than both of you but I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.

"made anything with my life"
It is overrated. I have met, and subsequently taught, any number of people that made it to 50 doing a job they hate and packed it in to do other things (usually work with their hands, which is where I would come in). If they are lucky it is 30 when that happens.

If what you like is not hurting anybody else then no worries -- most people that would complain have no joy in their lives.

As far as "I never had a childhood" then depending upon what that means it can have some profound effects. If it is only mildly clinging to things some might forgo then you got off lightly.