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@@scoopaway9176 While I do agree, in my experience it depends on the game that you're playing. If it's something like the new CoD games then yeah they're woke garbage, but with a game that came out X amount of years ago such as the past decade or more then of course those had sweat and tears loads of dedication and effort put into them. Also I give you props for waking up your PS2 and playing it again in the current day and age where things are moving in the digital direction, which sucks. I've been meaning to hop on my PS2 lately but for some reason never got to it.
imagine eating exclusively from one fast food chain, wondering why you're finding the culinary experience repetitive and feeling physically unwell, then blaming the concept of food itself
Yeah that's the problem with these videos, it's like constantly watching the same few youtubers or tiktokers and then being like: "youtube/tiktok isn’t entertaining anymore"
The whole ‘try something different’ mantra can also be applied to the games themselves! I was getting pretty burnt out on Minecraft, so when 1.20 dropped I decided to try living in a biome I hadn’t before. It was the fresh slate I needed to enjoy the game again, new challenges, new building styles, it’s now the longest world I’ve ever played on.
Same for me. Vanilla got stale with boring updates so I decided to try out modded. It's an absolute blast so far! I descovered lots of great mods and modpacks and I'm having a lot of fun again!
I know you mean in the game, but I like to imagine that you just moved to a new house in a completely different region and then played Minecraft there.
@@ihatehandleupdatesame here, discovered better than wolves (a single mod for minecraft 1.5.2) and been having more of a blast with that than all the modpacks and versions I played
Thats why pvp almost never gets boring for me. I try all modes, in both versions, and try to get good at them. I feel like I always learn something new or remember something I had forgotten. Feeling my improvement and competing in a healthy way keeps me more than entertained.
The strange habit people have of playing the same game they stopped having fun with a long time ago is what fuels these videos. People strangely believe that every game should be fresh and fun forever, and that dropping a game is a big deal when it really isn't. Gamers need to learn how to move on and change, even if it just means playing something different
I haven’t 4k hours in Ark after I got bored I went to played subnautica if I get bored of subnautica I’ll go play monster Hunter rise XD I learn not to stick too much with one or two games
I love “gaming isn’t fun anymore” TikTok’s because they are usually not even 16y/o. “Guess this is growing up” No Timmy, you have an English paper due tomorrow and you’re stressed
Lol yeah I noticed that too. I'm nearly 30 and not once have I thought gaming as a whole was boring. Even at the worst of times there was still good stuff to play.
@@UnlistedGuy most old games are bad and boring too. Law of averages inevitably means that most video games are bad no matter the time period. Get better at looking for good games, there's still lots of great ones even in more recent years. If you still think games are bad, stop playing them.
another thing is that as adults you already played a lot of games and you start noticing every small mistake on old/new games, as children you don't really notice them
that's especially true on genres you've already played a lot of, like when you play too many shooters you're already going to know what a shooter is all about with 30 seconds of gameplay. all the more reason to explore other types of games
I go back to games I used to love a lot and Minecraft tends to just get too repetitive once the nostalgia wears off. I'm sure modding would help but even then, I played it religiously when it was popular to the point I don't feel like I can get anything out of it anymore. Some games are just like that I think
Depression can also be a key factor for games not being fun anymore, on my lowest low everything seemed just mundane and boring to do and even questioning "why did I get this or do I even deserve to play this?"
The game that kind of broke me out of this mentality that I started to have for years was Persona 5. I went into it completely blind and in the first five minutes I was completely confused and just wanting to see what came next. Just made me realize all I ever play is shooters and strategy games and I just needed to try something new. VR has been the same way.
Exactly! This is pretty much what happened to me, but with RPGs. When I started to play Persona 4 last year, I kind of realized just how many RPGs I have, and how I have to have more variety and try new things out. Atm I'm thinking of trying settlement and space exploration games. Maybe a 3D platformer too, Hat in Time looks really fun! I still love RPGs and I look forward to playing persona 5, but I need to try new things too. And while I seriously despise what COD is now, I did decide to go back and play WAW and BO1, which was really fun! But yeah theres no way I'm getting the newer games. Now that I think about it, I dont have any triple A games besides I guess those COD games, Minecraft (does it count?), Sims 4, and I guess fallout games (which I got for free), but outside of that nothing. If anything I hate triple A games probably 90% of the time
@pierrebegley2746 story is good enough to the point its worth the investment imo The game doesn't need to be beaten in a few days you can play the game when you come back home sometimes and probably get the game done in a few weeks
One of my favorite lessons is from an indie game itself, "The Messenger": Good memories can be like bad ones. Nostalgia needs to be treated as a passing memory, if you hold on long enough then you only hold yourself back. For being said in a retro-style game, I think it really fits. The shopkeeper either offers great insight or wisecrack comments and I genuinely appreciate 'em
@@cherry414 It’s that good, when I first got it I fully completed it in 2 days because of how addicting it was. The soundtrack is amazing as well, so many head bangers.
@@cherry414played thru twice might do a 3rd everything just has a certain charm it just falls SLIIIIGHTLY midgame but even then i didnt and do not care
THANK YOU 😭😭😭 I've been so exhausted by these pretentious video essays that try so hard to be deep. Not just essays for games, but even movie and show essayists are like this a lot.
It started on TikTok because multiple people were no longer in school and so there wasn't a mutual time for them and all their friends to be online all the time. So they make these stupid, gaming isn't fun anymore TikToks. Yeah right, same people who brought PS5 straight away and pre-ordered Spiderman-2 and is binging every GTA 6 video
oh they are a lot alright, even music and songs are affected by it, needless to say they are wrong, i've found several great songs on UA-cam alone, i've seen people who loves books still found great novels to read every now and then.
Oh, thank goodness! I've been similarly annoyed by how frequently those videos pop up and how frequently they turn personal hangups into condemnations of gaming in general. Good to see a reasonable response!
There were games released almost 20 years ago that had more features and replay value than titles releasing currently. Blaming gamers for developers complete incompetence and lack of motivation is like a restaurant giving you the wrong order and then telling you to "deal with it".
Facts bro, Like why don’t these people try out something like indie games as an example, or PC? There is more variety than these people think there are
Thank you for shedding some light onto this obnoxious genre of videos 💀 I feel the same way with them and feel like these kind of people are just really bored with life and play the same 3 games every day
@FrogMasterToby-ce5nh again, this is strictly a problem if you're playing the same games. shit even fortnite adds a ton of new features to make the game more fun. Modders have been spicing up old favorites for decades. Gaming not being creative enough is only a problem if you only play AAA games. play neon white buddy
Honestly this is why I love Terraria. I’ve picked it up when I was 11, played it for 3 months, left it, and returned after 3 to 5 years later. When I was 18 I bought it on switch and played it for a couple of months before I played something else. 4 years later and now I’ve gotten back into it and I’ve been playing it since late April, just before my 22nd birthday, and I’ve now played it into June. The key is to play smaller titles more frequently while awaiting for the larger titles to drop.
@@Writing_Gamer_513 The key is to understand that why elder title are popular is because they don’t ask for a daily income to be maintened, everything good is because poeple can enjoy to play it local, they can even pay again for pratically the same stuff just because it mzan it get a official cleaning (looking at skyrim)
the fact that every one of those videos can be condensed down into "I got bored of that one game that I put 5000 hours into as a child isn't fun anymore therefore all video games arn't fun anymore" is insane.
videogames aren't fun anymore because every company is trying to nickle and dime u. like for example playing gta online is literally just like working a job, its not fun whatsoever unless u pay an unreasonable amount of money.
@mrblooper1994 the problem is that there are few games like elden ring and more games like gta online because its 10x easier to make trash than it is to make good games. that and my favorite genre is fps and fps genre is plagued with garbage rn. gaming is getting worse especially if u have a console and cant rely on indi devs. the people in the video are right, gaming isn't the same, its just that they aren't saying the correct reason as to why thats the case. the reality is that there's more money grabbing trash than there are good games nowadays
@@iSuckAtGamesGG for FPS games, you can play witch fire then, an absolutely fantastic game especially If you enjoy extraction type gameplay. And no gaming isn't getting worse it's just changing, we've always had cash cows and shovleware now they just can nickle and dime you differently. Just pick your games smart, and look up UA-camrs that enjoy indie fps games
I think a big problem that people aren't considering is they are only playing video games and nothing else. I remember the summer in which I graduated, and I could play video games all day. At first, it was fun, but then it was so miserable that I was just waiting for college to start so I could do something other than play video games. Now that I have a job and I'm taking college playing video games, it is a lot more fun because I'm not playing every second of every hour of every day. Playi g Video games is supposed to be a hobby, not a lifestyle, You can't just always do what gives you pleasure because pleasure doesn't mean anything without hardship.
Agreed. I love playing a bunch of games, but that’s not all I do in my life or free time. I read Novels and Comics. I watch Tv shows, UA-cam videos and Movies. I write fanfics and make videos. And that’s on top of having a regular IRL job and hanging out with my friends and family. Like the video said, ‘Variety is the spice of life.’
People on the internet LOVE imposing expiration dates on things. They think when they get bored of something, they should get to bite anybody who does it or brings it up.
@@TheTheninjagummybearthe people who hate on the new gow games are complete morons for me bc they are manchildred and insult you if you love the games and say those games have no gameplay when that's not true ,they seem like they depressed in real life
@JkennGG Awh man, I was in that position, too. Something that helped me is taking a long break from games. I spent maybe 6 months not playing video games. When I got back into them I played about once a week in short bursts. Think of it like watching a 2-3 hour movie. Now I'm hooked again haha. I hope you can get that fun back from video games though.
@@GMART50 Thanks :) I picked up motorcycling this summer which was awesome, but I had to put it away for the winter so no more riding. Just doing Duolingo for an hour or so and spending the rest of my free time watching some anime's or movies haha. Hopefully I find a game I just cant put down soon!
in my experience trying out indie games, they're crap at worst and not better than triple A games at best. I didn't have fun at all trying to play Subnautica, or Hollow Knight, or Terraria. only decent indie i played recently was cuphead
How to Make Gaming Fun Again "Stop Playing the Same Game and Genre Over and Over for 100+ hours every day, And Play Something New Once and For a While"
literally what i did, never gets boring, also it's fun trying out modern games when you don't have a gaming computer and 5 consoles. tried out NFS Heat in PS5 just now and i am having a lot of fun
@@lenny_boxx4206 If you get tired of Fallout 3, you can try new genres. Like isometric RPG's that build more on the writing and roleplaying part of Fallout 3, or maybe some immersive sims (the Game Awards just announced 3 new indie projects underway) if you just like freedom in combat progression. Or you could try some games that people online say are similar like Biomutant, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., the Outer Worlds, Metro Exodus, etc. Not all of these have rave reviews, but neither does Fallout 3. Or it is legitimate to try brand new genres. Getting out of League of Legends and Heroes of the Storm I picked up Ori and the Blind Forest and fell in love with Metroidvanias. A friend recommended some SMT games and I binged those for a bit. Another friend got me into a 3rd person shooter game because I loved the Tower Defense elements. And at this point I am pretty much picking up new game types every Steam Next Fest.
I had been in this place around year 2015. Believe it or not, i have been playing games from a year 1996, when i was 3 years old. Always a hobby for me, i tryed going pro a little bit, but didnt like the experience. Anyway, i had this "gaming isnt fun anymore" phase and then came Undertale. Damn, i had it completely wrong, its not the games, its me. It was the way i looked on the them and how i consumed them. When you are an adult and start making your own money, the scarcity of games you had as a kid, is gone. Suddenly, you can buy anything, anytime and that scared me. However i learned to move past it and now, enjoying the hobby more then ever. There is a real issue with the quality of the games though, especially AAA. I am always longing for raw emotinal experience, which can be even better with games, since its an interactive medium. A rare thing in todays market, since for it, the game has to be made from passion and love for games. I was lucky though, since two weeks ago, i happened to play Snoot game and... yea. I have to say, there is yet a lot i have to learn, about myself and other things. Some may think i am childish for games to have such an impact on me and my life, maybe, but i have a different theorem, for as a medium, the games have been with me the longest, what else, if not them, should guide me forward?
This is my thing. I've been playing since 2000 and been on nearly every system imaginable around that time and after, now on PC for the better part of 10 years. For me, it's not that my taste has changed, as I still play games from 95', 05', 15 and even new releases. The majority of new AAA titles being marketed to the general public are bad in many aspects. Having 2 or 3 outliers doesn't negate the issue. That's why people say "Gaming is bad now* because most people are not playing the smaller titles on the 3rd and 4th most popular platforms.
If you want an emotional game that some consider a straight up religious experience, try Golden Treasure: The Great Green. Legitimately one of the greatest games of all time.
Games HAVE changed. Big Companies like EA are doing research about human behaviour regarding video games and design their games with cartain properties to trigger a certain behaviour. Fun is an aspect of all that, but it's one aspect among many that is intentionally designed into the game. Developers try to make games addicting, they design games around microtransactions, partially taking the fun out of it. It's not all games, but the whole industry has definitely changed. It's not that you as an individual can do nothing if you don't have fun anymore, but you are still not to blame entirely. It's however pure ideology to blame everything on the individual when there are structural reasons for certain mass expiriences. Some people are also not reflected and knowledgable enough about all this and they just feel that's something not right. They can try to make better decisions, but in the first place the industry is always the one to criticise first.
Somepne please tell me if any of the ppl who make "gaming isnt fun anymore vids" have made a response to this vid cus i rlly wanna see if theyre pissed off at the stuff expressed here
As someone who has gone through multiple burnouts, I've learned the best things to do is to stop looking for inspiration and just keep creating until something looks good. I think Ed Sheeran said you have to think about creativity like a tap and at first dirty water will run but after a while it becomes clear.
Wow, i really like how you evolved this knowledge into something different, personal. Ive loved drawing throughout my life in bursts, and i think you're comment has opened my mind to why, i struggle to keep at it with passion
Influencer: "gaming isn't fun anymore" Translation: "I burnt myself out playing the same games over and over for sweet, sweet, profit. But now I realized I get more profit from just lazily repeating the same unnuanced criticisms than I did when I actually put work in to make a positive video."
Bro I am so happy you listed all of the games you showed in the description, people have started to do that with music, but it still needs to become a mainstream standard to list the games you show in your footage in the description thank you so much you're the bomb
@FrogMasterToby-ce5nh So you are saying that most AAA games come from Ubisoft, EA and Activision? Ignoring games like: Elden Ring, TLOU2, Baldur Gate 3, Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, Resident Evil
For me, I vibed with the “gaming isn’t fun anymore” because I’ve entered a really stressful period of my life where I feel guilty when I “waste time”. I can’t relax or escape because I feel like I need to be doing something else, something more important, something adult. I only have a few hours in the day for personal time, but I’m more aware of the opportunity costs. Gaming hasn’t changed; it’s me. The feeling I miss is one where I don’t judge or critique myself for how I spend my downtime (or having downtime at all, really).
Ah that explains it. Now it makes sense. Like a former alcoholic or smoker criticizing people who still do those thing. That's good that you finally got a life, but these influencers (and those that watch them) shouldn't validate themselves by projecting their past insecurities onto people with control over their habits and criticizing them for something they're not guilty of.
I wasn’t seeing it from that angle. Speaking about how your experience has changed with gaming is not a criticism of people who still enjoy them or have different schedules. I meant only to say that I let my own worries ruin the experience, that I should be able to sit down and set aside time for myself without feeling guilty. It’s not about time management - it’s about prioritizing space for my hobbies period as an act of self-care. Said another way, another person could get their chores and errands done and sit down to play with no worries. I do the same, except there’s technically always more to do. It’s an anxiety issue, not ego.
I was exactly there what you've described. This was in my late twenties where suddenly a feeling kicked in that I need to stop wasting my life. The good thing is that once I've turned over 30, I stopped giving any F about what adults "have to do" or what is "immature"- I just enjoy my life and do what I want ;-)
I find old games, on average, to be better. There are occasional good releases that still happen (mostly from Indie companies) but big budget games are rarely good anymore. I think "Modern Gaming" by Self Deficient made some good points of why people are dissatisfied with modern games. To say everyone that thinks gaming isn't fun anymore thinks so because they grew out of games is completely wrong. I find myself having fun with old games, even ones that I haven't played before, but struggle to get motivation to play most modern releases. Not to mention lots of games are almost objectively getting worse because of online gaming and their want to milk peoples wallets. It also doesn't feel like there's many modern games now where people use in-game voice chat or play for fun instead of the "grind".
Gaming wasn't fun for a while and I realized it was because I kept playing live service games that aren't made to be fun. What really helped me was playing complete experiences like The Gunk, Subnautica, and Yoku's Island Express.
Game developers used to make games that is made for fun to made for money grabbing. I know developers need money but sometimes they are greedy which I hate it
This response is perfect. People only play games that quite literally were not made to be fun in the first place. Gaming became fun to me again after I was finally wrenched from the grip of Destiny
I find old games, on average, to be better. There are occasional good releases that still happen (mostly from Indie companies) but big budget games are rarely good anymore. I think "Modern Gaming" by Self Deficient made some good points of why people are dissatisfied with modern games. To say everyone that thinks gaming isn't fun anymore thinks so because they grew out of games is completely wrong. I find myself having fun with old games, even ones that I haven't played before, but struggle to get motivation to play most modern releases. Not to mention lots of games are almost objectively getting worse because of online gaming and their want to milk peoples wallets. It also doesn't feel like there's many modern games now where people use in-game voice chat or play for fun instead of the "grind".
I definitely agree that a lack of variety can make gaming as a whole feel boring. It sounds silly, but I fell into that trap myself. It's easy for gaming to become associated with comfort and nostalgia if it's something you've been doing for a very long time. When gaming became a comfort hobby, I didn't want to try new things, because that was very intimidating compared to stuff like LittleBigPlanet or Bleed. I was able to break out of that when I tried the free game "Cat-aclysm" on Steam. It's a Digipen student-made game, and it gave me serious Xbox 360 live arcade vibes. It was super reinvigorating to remember that gaming as a whole doesn't encompass the games you only played as a child that are warm, nostalgic, and comfy. You might find a game that you never knew you'd like so much. This is a great video! 😊 I love the positive vibes here.
Sorry but you blatantly assume as if people can easily change genres and enjoy them, to assume you are going to enjoy other genres is incorrect, games are getting less and less unique , even more incorrect if you slap that logic to someone playing competitively
@@josephleebob3828you don't always have to play competitively. Single play exists. Also try a older game in a different genre for example do you like the halo franchise. Try halo wars 2 it is a rts instead of a fps.
@@hastyhawkeye single play gets too boring it has almost no repetitiveness for me, idk if you get this but people dont just switch to another genre and enjoy it, people main a genre bc they DONT like the other ones
Here because someone else got recommended your video right next to one of those “gaming is boring now” videos and the screenshot is semi blowing up on Twitter, i chose the positive gamer path
if u get bored playing video games, then you should actually touch some grass... help mom, fix things, do sports, learn something new so much you can do in life then you can go back to games and its gonna be fun again
Agree! Ever since i started working on my own video game and exercising, which made my free time less available, i could appreciate playing minecraft a lot more than before.
This may seem like an insult but in reality that is true Try doing other things and then you will feel like you are dying to play the game again but you cant Based on my experience i once stopped playing minecraft for 2 years however when i came back i tried doing new things with my friends and yea it was actually fun
finally a counter video to all those depressing gaming isnt fun anymore videos I always saw, literally what keeps me going is exploring new series I didn't get to experience yet from circumstances like now going up with a playstation but using emulation to help cross that forgotten bridge
Video games are art in my eyes. It’s a beautiful representation of imagination with all angles and the gameplay is a coordination and problem solving practice.
It's my personal opinion that videogames are the pinnacle of art as a medium (at the moment). Videogames are typically an amalgamation of visual, musical, and interactive cues. Stationary art pieces and music are independently amazing, but videogames take those concepts to a completely different level by incorporating the viewer/player as a piece of that art.
Video games to me are games. They are made to have fun. I press buttons and something happen. Some heretic on my crosshairs gets pinned to a wall, tires shriek from friction as a race begins and sans bleeds ketchup. I could see an argument of some games being "Art First" but not all of them. Others just wants to tell a story like with may walking sims and visual novels (kinetic or otherwise). A lot these days are glorified slot machines or non chemical addictions that forces you to keep coming back to them while others were artsy like Gris, Braid or Proteus. There are those who are just for the fun of it like serious sam, lethal league or pacman championship edition while others are made not solely for the "fun of it all" like This War of Mine or That Dragon Cancer. Not saying games aren't art regardless if we're talking about it from a subjective or objective standpoint. I just see them first as a means of entertainment, something fun for the most part, then they can be something else after that.
I think why people say "gaming isn't fun anymore" is because they hyper focus on bad games they weren't going to play to begin with and then ignore or downplay every other good game
@@bulgarianreaper6587As a 29 year old I have Halo Infinite, Amnesia:The Bunker, Red Dead Redemption 2, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Cuphead and Yakuza Kiwami 2 on my Steam Wishlist. And on my library I still have to finish Forza Horizon 5, Witcher 2, Witcher 1, Battlefield V, Assassins Creed Odyssey, Fallout 4, Saints Row 2 and 4, Titanfall 2, and I want to replay Halo MCC and Borderlands 3. Like how people fail to find videogames that they enjoy is simply beyond me LOL. Maybe what they really need is to join a martial art class and get kicked in the face by some kyoushin karate black-belt. Perhaps then they'll have more appreciation for videogames lol.
@@TheCapitalWanderer I thought Fallout 4 was actually well-respected? I've barely played the game at this point anyways. And FH5 kicks more ass than FH3, I have 400h of FH3. Granted that game was beautiful at the time it came out so I respect it but FH5 is definitely an evolution in various regards.
I like playing games with friends, its fun. I feel like exploring indie games may be a good idea for some, there are a lot of hidden gems out there. If nothing works maybe take a break from gaming.
Touch grass, as they say, if gaming isn't fun. Reading is a cheap, beneficial, and easy way to entertain yourself. There are literally hundreds of thousands of free books out there that you can just download in an instant. Not to mention fanfic if that's your kinda vibe.
I talked with a friend of mine about this topic because he had played multiplayer games for 10+ years and lately has stated multiple times how "there is nothing to play" and when another friend and i tried to tell him "hey this looks good" he denied every recommendation we had. I understand wanting another big fps or battle royale but my god i just hate not even giving new stuff a try because "ur not feeling it right now" and it's geniuenly just exhausting trying to find a middle ground with people who don't want to try something new.
I was starting to get burnt out on games as well. I used to be anti-indie games because I considered them “unpolished” and “not actual games”. Funny enough, that could be said about AAA games like Halo Infinite, which is still an undercooked unfinished game. But as an artist, I wanted to try a new medium, and I always loved games. So I discovered dev logs and how much more artistic indie games could be. I’ve discovered punch o bunch, risk of rain, and other games I think I would love to try out which has definitely resparked my love for gaming. I got back into Space Engineers and Dark Souls and now I wanna even do a LASO run through the Halo games.
"we grew up bro" Indeed thats a dumb statement. I had a low with videogames in my twenties and now with 35 years I'm having more fun than ever. Maybe its because I enjoy life alltogether much more than I used to. Maybe those people are bored by videogames because they have a boring life in general? If I would live like a slob with no activities then I could not enjoy anything... Anyway, thank you so much for this video. More big creators need to do videos like that against all these "mimimi gaming isnt fun anymore" videos
people who say "gaming isnt fun anymore" are the people who grew up and just played so many games that they get bored easily. They grew out of gaming, they just dont want to admit it, so they blame it on the game developers.
That can be the case sometimes, but it's also entirely possible that their feelings on it are temporary. Being in a rut over something doesn't mean it's a permanent change in mentality.
There were games released almost 20 years ago that had more features and replay value than titles releasing currently. Blaming gamers for developers complete incompetence and lack of motivation is like a restaurant giving you the wrong order and then telling you to "deal with it".
@@LeroyFaceTV And there _aren't_ feature rich games with tons of replay value releasing today? We have an entire modern genre built _just_ out of those two factors in roguelikes.
i think the reason why gaming isn't fun for me is the realization that I want to do other things with my time as an adult. My old childhood favorites will always have a place in my heart for sure, but like with any other hobby, gaming can just be something you grow out of. Which is okay, really. I'm nearly 21, in a serious relationship, and am pursuing my passion as a job. I think its really less that "Video Games aren't fun anymore", and more just a lot of people are outgrowing videogames and wanting to do other stuff. Which I think actually is great: Expanding your horizons, picking up new skills, working to improve yourself... those are all indicators for me of a thriving person. Videogames are still fun. They might just not be "your thing" anymore.
I think there's a really tribalistic attitude that permeates the conversation about whether video games are fun anymore where people categorize themselves as gamers who enjoy playing video games or people who "Grew up" and will never enjoy playing video games again when the reality is that people enjoy whatever they enjoy in that instant they are enjoying it and they shouldn't feel a need to keep doing things they aren't enjoying or not doing things they do enjoy for consistency's sake. I think alot of this originates in the idea that video games are childish or a waste of time, which causes people to reactively form an identity around liking video games and how they'll like them forever in order to validate their hobby. When the reality is that the fact they enjoy it makes it a valid hobby in itself. Maybe they won't enjoy it forever, maybe they will what really matters is whether they are enjoying it when they do it.
I seen a lot of people move on from gaming, but saying its “outgrowing games” makes it sound like its a childish hobby when its not. Gaming is for everyone and is starting to become the norm. Even your grandparents are starting to get games on their phone to mess around with. It also implies it a waste of time but so are a lot of hobbies, watching tv, reading books, playing games, or doing any sort of outdoor activity are all viable ways of “wasting time”. For me, I’m extremely passionate about games I learn something from every game I play. I love learning about video games, how they’re made, and the sense of community I have interacting with other gamers. I’m also lucky enough to have a gf who is also a big gamer and plays with me or is understanding when I spend a lot of time beating a new game that just came out So instead of people “outgrowing it” I think it’s likely that they should take a break or get into something else as well to add some variety to their lives. Idc about outdoor activities or sports, so I’m perfectly fine spending most of time indoors. But most people cant do that and need something fresh in their lives
@@saftigerkeks5212what he means is that he still finds them but people also want to pursue their passion or a type of work they want to do. He means that people want to focus on other things but they just don't have the same passion they used to even though they're still fun. Hope this makes you understand why people feel this way.
@@saftigerkeks5212 I think you misunderstand, they're saying that you might "Grow out" of video games and that's fine not that you have to "Grow up" from them. As people grow older they might not find themselves enjoying the same hobbies they used to, doesn't mean there's a problem with the hobbies themselves, or that they're childish things you inevitably leave behind, just that they may not be what you currently want to do and you should embrace that as a way to find something new. Say hello to your grandpa for me, he seems cool.
i love this, my man really is capable of seeing the wonder and joy in video games. i think you pointed out a really good point, that is when people say “video games aren’t fun” they’re really talking about themselves, not the video games. like it’s impossible to claim meaningfully that gaming as a whole is awful because you’ve play less than 10 games in the last 3 years and obviously would feel it getting stale. having “fun” doesn’t come from doing the same thing over and over again, especially without a goal. i got to immortal in valorant and i just quit the game when i did, i got to where i wanted to be and i was satisfied. trying new things after this was amazing to me, limiting myself to just valorant was fun because it was my choice, and i had a goal i was working towards, AND i didn’t limit myself to just that one game after i was finished with it
I mean, therapy is expensive as sht and some ppl really need that, so I don't see problem with them speaking out their thoughts. The problem for me is that they're claiming it as an objective truth
Playing what the boys are playing is too true lol, all my friends just play the shiny new multi player fps, while I sit around playing single player games
Same,as well as for my low end PC I play games that no one knows: Portal 2, Half Life 2 and I can play other old games because those run well without problems, even GTA 5 I can but not with the maximum graphics as we all know and 60 fps which basically everyone wants, even on my phone since there are only boring games and only online I installed very cool single player games
people I know usually only play massive multiplayer games on console while play my singleplayer indie games on my laptop, which I used to hate until I realised that they're playing the same old things while I'm branching into territories that they have bever experienced, so that I'm never getting bored, while I see people saying that "CoD/Fortnie/Roblox is getting boring I have nothing to play >:(" while I get to play (and sometimes introduce) games they've never seen before
Funny how I got recommended the original video when I got burned out on games and now I'm watching this video with having the most fun with gaming I've ever had in my life
So what new games did you try? If you are bored of shooter i recommend you the witcher 3 of you haven't played it, you could try terraria too (if you haven't played it)
It's funny looking at "growing up" away from video games in my perspective, because as a kid i loved video games, but then at some point stopped playing them. I thought at one point i grew out of the medium, where as now, as i have gotten more invested in video games, not just in playing them, but learning about them and the history, and the unique experiences carved out of them.
All of the “gaming isn’t fun anymore” thing is instantly defeated by just asking when what they play. I defeated my own pessimism about gaming by just drop 60 bucks on a steam sale. I bought a combination of classics that I’ve never played before and indie games. Variety really is the spice of life.
I play a variety of different games and am still having trouble finding newer ones I like. With all the indie games that are out, It's still hard for me to find a game that really grabs my attention. For example, I have trouble finding newer RPGs and shooters that have a more grounded setting, as opposed to sc-fi or fantasy.
I think some people just need to find that one game that makes them realize again why they love video games. This could be a game from their childhood that they remember or a game they haven't discovered yet. For me, when none of the games I often play are appealing to me, I dust off the old Wii and find some games to play there
@@danjoredd if you like difficulty you can try something like lies of P, or you can look towards the future, therees an upcoming boomer shooter named mouse, just trying to give suggestions!
I find old games, on average, to be better. There are occasional good releases that still happen (mostly from Indie companies) but big budget games are rarely good anymore. I think "Modern Gaming" by Self Deficient made some good points of why people are dissatisfied with modern games. To say everyone that thinks gaming isn't fun anymore thinks so because they grew out of games is completely wrong. I find myself having fun with old games, even ones that I haven't played before, but struggle to get motivation to play most modern releases. Not to mention lots of games are almost objectively getting worse because of online gaming and their want to milk peoples wallets. It also doesn't feel like there's many modern games now where people use in-game voice chat or play for fun instead of the "grind".
It's also important to note that this feeling of "boredom" can occur in any kind of media. I had been listening to a lot of metal, and that's the only thing I'd put on to get through the day. I made a playlist of the best of various genres and bands which actually made my life a lot more fun during work. But when it becomes repetitive? Life suddenly becomes a lot more shittier. What was once working for me, just didn't help. We become like AAA game developers, trying to squeeze out as much money (here, dopamine) as possible. That's when I reached out to another playlist I made a good while back which was a mix of retrowave and darksynth music. It was a good replacement which brought me back to eating all the shit life put on the table for me. Funny thing is, just a while after making the retrowave playlist, I stopped listening to the genre. That's how I got to metal.
"I made a playlist of the best of various genres and bands which actually made my life a lot more fun during work." I have a work playlist of 6600 songs that's just a mix of every genre in the known world. The constant changing of moods that playlist brings helps making work more fun
@@yellowandlimegrat4724 My playlist only had metal music lmao. Metal is still really diverse, but you might want to have music that isn't as intense sometimes. But having a huge playlist of various kinds of music would be fun too. Zetabytes of music which our descendants would download in a few seconds right before the planet is destroyed "Huh, so this is what my great grandpapi had been listening to. No wonder he was deaf."
It really is so heartbreakingly funny that as a child you could just keep consuming game after game after game, but you're likely to be stuck with the same 4 or 5 at any given time. Then as an adult you can buy hundreds of games, but it's difficult to find the motivation to play any of them. You just gotta understand that gaming will never make you feel the same way again, but it can always give you new feelings, as long as you're open to them and put some effort into finding them.
I can't relate. Had my best time gaming as an adult playing Rocket League, Automobilista 2, NieR Automata, Drakengard 3, and the 4 Bayonetta games, and even Minecraft again as an adult. Way more fun than playing Sonic, Sly Racoon or Minecraft as a child.
I really don't think it has that much to do with age. First experiences are just powerful over all but we usually aren't silly enough to say stuff like your first sandwich was magical bc xyz
Another issue is how much more frequent dopamine hits social media like TikTok gives you. I recommend you stop social media scrolling, and spend more time on the things you truly enjoy, because I guarantee you feel more alive spending time with the boys than scrolling TikTok. It’s going to be difficult, and I myself am trying to quit, but you must resist and fight, fight hard. If all goes according to plan this should be one of my last comments on social media as a whole.
I remember my friend said he stopped liking video games, but literally all he played was Pokémon and Pokémon rom hacks and exhausting Pokémon challenges. We played Jumping Flash! (literally the first true 3D platformer ever created) and he said it was most fun he’s had with a game for a while.
Been gaming since I was a small child and I’m now well into adulthood. It’s still my favorite hobby and I can spend hours at a time on a variety of different games. In fact, some games that I’ve played for years still are able to destroy my sleep schedule 😂
THANK YOU! Damn alot of those videos are annoying. I agree about the micro transactions, loot boxes, and unfinished released games being a problem, but for those that can't get out of their bubble playing the same crap over and over need to branch out and try new things.
To be real for a moment, I don’t think people are educated on mental health. I use to think depression meant being sad. But nothing is further from truth. I had no idea why I didn’t want to partake in things I use to enjoy, or just hide from family and friends. It’s also not constant, and can change day to day. Until I saw a doctor I had no idea what depression really was.
@@drgonzo123 Hi, just wanna follow up and back up that claim as a psychology student. "Being sad" is a completely normal thing and can be a sign of healthy emotional wellbeing and you shouldn't be hard on yourself for being sad. There is so much more to an actual depressive disorder and having been diagnosed with one for a few years now it really does change constantly.
@@Virgil-280 thank you. I really had no idea, and I thought wow, how many other people think the same thing? It was never really talked about in my house growing up, so I had no idea what actual depression looked like. Thanks for the info.
Unless, you stop doing them. I used to play video games days on end and would never even consider them being boring. I have a very wide variety of games and I would always make sure to buy a new one for when the one got boring. Even then, I eventually just stopped enjoying them. I still kept playing them because I had nothing else to do, which led me to a depressed stage. I have quit playing video games completely for a few weeks now and it isn’t that bad at all. This analogy is weak because you could say the same about cartoons and then it wouldn’t make any sense.
@@skwillywilly I commented about the depression thing because this exact thing has happened to me. I buy games all the damn time, whether I finish one or not. I have all the consoles and a gaming pc, so it’s a real passion of mine. But sometimes I’ll just wake up and not feel like playing anything. The longest it lasted was about a month. I mean I didn’t play anything at all! I came around and went right back to gaming, but every once in a while I just take a break. Has nothing to do with the games themselves, it’s just me.
i am not lying but ultrakill made me like fps gaming again. corny as it sounds the game is super fun and I never felt so much accomplishness and actual joy learning the patterns to fight against bosses like gabriel and sisyphus. I was just so grogged before hand cuz i would just play the same games over and over again, and ultrakill just ignited that spark in me again to keep gaming
I’ve recently reached the greed layer in ultrakill, ultrakill has been described as a “boomer shooter”. There are a great variety of shooters from RPG shooters, milisims, twin stick shooters, third person shooters, sniper games, arcade shooter games, extraction, battle royale, advanced movement and all sorts of other wacky games like friends vs friends or the finals beta (soon to be released)
Hey! I had a different but similar thing. I oooked for so long for a game that was an FPS that was really fast paced and would be great for my ADHD. Then I found ultrakill! And it did wonders for it. Play ultrakill today! Warning: side effects may Include Increase in edginess Atheism Strange pretending of weapons Flicking coins in the air Vomiting Death Healing from blood
I feel the same with music. They claim music isn't good anymore. Yet I can find plenty different artists that make cool stuff in under 20 minutes. You just have to look past the basic crap spotify throws at you.
Im actually happy that my uncles introduced me to different kinds of games instead of just cod, thanks to them I was interest in all types of genres which made me much more interested whenever a new game would come out
To me COD is like the fast food of gaming. They can easily provide a decent level of entertainment most of the time but once you discover other games you realize where you can find true greatness.
I feel like the only problem with a lot of modern games is that you need to have a better system to enjoy them which might also be why some people feel like there isn't enough games to try
There's too many amazing indie and retro games to even count, that run just fine on less capable systems. Like yeah, you'll have to look beyond the newest AAA games to find them, but it's not actually hard.
Most people will just get disgusted on older game when game like bioshock for example are actually a great game but I've seen people saying the graphic are too muddy and disgusting for them to try
Gaming definitely has its moments of low points, but its never just "over" or loses "fun", it just migrates. I grew up loving 3D platformers and early console FPS games. The kind of shooters where the controls were still janky and flawed, but the mechanics still came from a root source and wanted to give you a genuinely fun game, or cool level experiences. In the mid-late PS3 generation, both those types were smacked away and disrespected. 3D platformers were one of those genres the bulk of companies sneered at and said nobody wanted them anymore, because... nobody was making them anymore, so there was no voice outside of scarce few and Nintendo doing a hard eye-roll. FPS? It was the same thing, even if we were "oversaturated", the actual truth was it was basically one style, one ringleader, one "right way" of doing it: COD-style. Awful over-scripted campaigns, no resource systems, no enemy types, multiplayer stripped of all liberating features like server lists and rapid "kill-time" took out any talent or epic battles. Not to mention, online and media around it was just depressing and negative. People were complaining so much about the junk going on, greedy trends were flying off and dying rapidly, devs were talking about how new IPs or X/Y idea was just un-attemptable for profits to the degree of absurdity. It just felt pretty bleak. So what did I actually do? I barely ever played RPGs until that generation. Suddenly the olden boring image of mashing a button to auto-attack, or grinding turn based campaigns, was getting supplanted by games like Kingdoms of Amalur, Dragon's Dogma, and a few very quite little titles none of you probably heard of called Dark Souls and Skyrim. Two Worlds 2 was also kind of wacky interesting, and Bioware... holy crap those guys are immensely overrated, but I can't say they didn't entertain me a bit and kept me up reading some wiki pages on the things I did like. And then let's not hide the fact there still was slivers of old reliable fun bleeding through. Bullet Storm was an awesome silly FPS game using some crazyed mixed logic, Resistance 3 is everything that generation of FPS should have been instead of COD, and Crack In Time is a franchise masterpiece. Space Marines is one of the best Warhammer action games we ever got, and let's not forget this was the generation of Uncharted, Red Faction Guerrilla, and we all had a point in which Assassins Creed was actually a ton of fun for us. That was it. The was the worst time in gaming, where it felt like what I was loving was coming to an end, and I still got a ton of kickass experiences out of it. And now where are we at? Doom actually had to wake up again, sigh, and carry the genre on its back again as it re-invigorated and influenced the industry all over again, and Overwatch wasn't really that new but rather the successful hit that reminded people we can choose to be less like COD and look at "fun" environments, colorful worlds, and character designs that actually inspire real gameplay to use in multiplayer again. Now I've got to still finish Boltgun, Ultrakill, Turbo Overkill, I've been wanting to replay Dusk, and then there's an insane world of stuff like Iron Lung to Robocop, etc, etc. And that's overlooking a huge world of indie wonders, backlogs, and wishlisted material I still haven't gotten to. Hollowknight merch fills my home desk from how much I love that game, I am planning to reinstall Hat In Time soon for another play, I still need to get back to Monster Hunter Rise, and have you guys seen that we have two awesome Starship Trooper games around now? I literally can't keep up with it all, and I forgot to even mention Dishonored back in the poor period and that is still in my top-10 games right now. Who the fuck is telling anyone that games aren't fun!? Yeah the live service model is generally cancer, but just avoid those goofs and play some Deep Rock Galactic instead that actually put updates to genuine good use instead.
I went back and played Sonic adventure 2 again. I learned a lot. The polish wasn't as pretty as I remembered and the gameplay was great and the characters fleshed out. It was refreshing for me. The responsive controls and snappy gameplay with characters I love to this day was great and when I was done I realized minecraft was fun again. Even though it's the farthest thing from a super polished Game. It was intricate and in its own blocky way, beautiful. I think its that the repetition of the games makes them feel stale, and we loose appreciation for what makes them great in the first place.
If you liked the Sonic Adventure games I would recommend Spark the Electric Jester 3. The dev just continued the formula into something more modern feeling.
I find old games, on average, to be better. There are occasional good releases that still happen (mostly from Indie companies) but big budget games are rarely good anymore. I think "Modern Gaming" by Self Deficient made some good points of why people are dissatisfied with modern games. To say everyone that thinks gaming isn't fun anymore thinks so because they grew out of games is completely wrong. I find myself having fun with old games, even ones that I haven't played before, but struggle to get motivation to play most modern releases. Not to mention lots of games are almost objectively getting worse because of online gaming and their want to milk peoples wallets. It also doesn't feel like there's many modern games now where people use in-game voice chat or play for fun instead of the "grind".
Most of the "games suck nowadays" is just doomertalk, but there is a very real trend of triple A games decreasing in quality every year. You just need to look for indie games and new fun things to try out. COD, Minecraft, Fortnite, etc. have all been decreasing in both popularity and public opinion for a while now. They really just aren't as good. It has nothing to do with "gaming" as a whole, it's just the games themselves.
@@lazyvoid7107 they got people bc of the new update which brings back og fortnite, so the old fans started playing it, and the fans are starting to get older and they will explore new games because it will get boring after 5000h
@@memelurd7341 what about pc games? for bf it's going down, for cod it's going down too, but i heard the new mw are ok, the same with halo, there is no big franchises left that have good games (except re-logic and... and, i can't think of any other franchise)
Well for a lot of people that’s exactly what it is, welcome to life. It’s not all rainbows and butterflies for everyone. Becoming an adult comes with a whole lot of stress and responsibilities for a lot of people, some never manage it well, some do. So we are not making it an equivalent, it literally just is.
One main thing i found that makes people lose interest in gaming is that they refuse to play games that "break their morals", like Christian fundamentalists refusing to play Cult of the Lamb because it's a "cult initiation game", or gamergaters refusing to play games with diverse characters cuz theyre "woke". To which i say: stop caring so much. Games are fictional. Unless theyre causing you real-world harm, like gambling games and whatnot, it shouldnt matter what the subject of the game is. A game being gorey or having a gay dude in it isnt going to automatically decrease the quality, look at games like Celeste who are super open about their lgbtq representation, or a game like RDR2, which has its diversity really really subtle. Play games for fun, not to fuel whatever political or religious propaganda you wanna consume.
"Just maturing I guess" dude I'm 40 years old, heck the average gamer age is high up the 30's...wtf are these 20 something kids talking about when they say "Maturing". You don't mature, you just get boring. One needs to have other things next to gaming, everything gets boring eventually when you do it a lot. Just find other hobbies next to. When I'm bored of gaming I go fiddle around with Blender, I go to the gym, I hang out with friends, do something else for a bit. Or maybe one just needs to find a new genre to get invested in.
Its because we are unfortunately in the doomer clout goblin era of the internet. I'm glad you made this video and i agree. its why the variety of games i play helps me keep having fun and occasionally i just shut my consoles off get cozy and watch tv coming back when I'm ready.
I've been playing games since I was a little kid. A moment comes when gaming is not that fun anymore, that's when you need to take a break. I spent like 2 months or more without playing anything, and when I came back, I had SO MUCH FUN playing Halo: Reach. And then I went to play other games and, oh my god, I'm ashamed of how many hours in a row I played. Gaming, as any other hobbies, can become boring. Some people make playing videogames their entire personality, that's when depression kicks in.
This is the video I needed. Those guys always annoyed me. I'm playing games most of my 42 years and the only genres that I don't play much are puzzle games and walking simulators. Otherwise I play everything from driving, to FPS to horror to isometric tactical turn based, and from the 8 bit era right up to modern games. I've never been more in love with gaming than I am now. There are so many great games that I'm just spoiled for choice. Variety is absolutely key to enjoying anything in life. Food, music, games, films... if it's always the same thing, of course you'll get sick of it. Variety is reinvigorating. They say a change is as good as a rest.
Honestly Virtual Reality has increased my love for gaming tenfold. Playing Blade and sorcery and killing enemies in the most stylish and brutal ways possible is so much fun. Playing modded minecraft in VR is also extremely fun.
My close friend brought this up a while back. He stated that video games just dont do it for him anymore. I stated that i felt the same way, until i started trying out new genres instead of fortnite, gta online, fifa and minecraft. He gave some lame excuse as to why he doesn't try new games. But the dude spends hours on repetitive fifa content, and I was like that too. But he didnt want a solution, he just wanted someone to agree with his idea ig. I found some of my new favourite games of all time after experimenting, hades, doom and witcher 3 the big names among them. Ive sunk so many more hours into gaming, and hours that i truly enjoy every minute of, not the mundane time i spent doing the 200th cayo perico heist just to buy an X thing that does an X thing which becomes boring after 2-3 uses
I just turned 50. Been a gamer since the late 70's....dedicated,hardcore, almost daily. I'm lucky enough to enjoy a three day off a week work schedule. I also make generous paid time off. I just pulled a 4-day farming simulator 22 session. We just grew up? I say screw that. Adulting sucks.😅
Wonderful perspective, I'm about to bust it out with 30 people trying to master some flavourful spinjitzu burst techniques for the spice of life, wish me luck
I'm 30 years old and I've been playing games for 20 years. This "I'm an adult" thing is bullshit. I have played, play and will always play video games because the amount of games is literally limitless. And yes, I've had that "games aren't fun" moment. Right after I finished The Witcher 3, every game after that looks "soulless", but it's not true.
I hate people being like “GaMiNg IsNt FuN 🤡 “ Have you ever tried playing a new game. Or thinking about how this isn’t gaming’s fault it is their fault.
I've always been in the mindset that the people that think gaming has died don't play enough different types of games. Most of them seem like the dude bros that mostly just play COD, Assassin's Creed, GTA, and the annual sports games. In that case, I would agree, but they don't step out to try what else is out there. Once I got older and had more money to spend on games, I really got into trying new genres and series I had never played before and it's made gaming such a joy again. I play all levels of games, from smaller indie titles, to massive triple a games, and it makes each game more enjoyable ywhen you appreciate them for what they are. I had this realization when I hopped between games on my PC, Switch, and PS in one night and I had so much fun that I felt like I was hanging out with friends even though I was alone. Don't let online synacism ruin your fun, play what you enjoy. Thank you for sharing this perspective, because I felt this way when I noticed the trend. Left a like to boost the algorithm
I think this is spot on. The "dude bros" that get boxed in to a small set of games discount anything that's not a multiplayer FPS. Minecraft gets a pass for them due to nostalgia. I think a lot of indie games also get labelled as "cozy," which that same subset of gamers interprets as "girl games." It, again, leads them to discount games that aren't the same as what they always play.
@tlucas7031 I played "A short Hike" via Gamepass and it was such a great little platformer. No combat, no conflict really. Just you with the goal of making it to the top of a mountain by climbing and gliding. "Cozy" is about right, but it was a fun game I was able to complete in a few hours and I am glad I elected to do that instead of staring at Skyim's character creator for the umpteenth time trying to think of some build to do. And when I came back to skyrim, I knew the EXACT build I wanted. It'd amazing how different experiences can impact and inspire each other.
This is a great video. I get bored of games REALLY quickly, so this is a very normal process for me. A lot of these people haven't ever experienced this kind of boredom, so it's shocking to them. I mean, it's surprising people could even stand to play so many hours of only a few games. And also- although indie games are great, you don't have to play them to have fun again. Theres so many different video games from popular companies that people don't play that much.
Funny story, while I was watching this video, the Ori soundtrack hit me like a truck and I decided to spend my night playing Will of the Wisps because despite being an Ori fan, I've never tried WOTW due to burn out at the time it was released. And boy did I had the best time of my life in a long time. To think that before this, I always thought I grew out of love with the game and Ori was just something I enjoy as a kid. Glad this video open my mind
I, a lifelong Serious Sam fan, cutscene skipper, "story sucks gimme gameplay" sayer, and bethesda rpg murder-hobo, rediscovered my love for video games with detective games, text heavy rpgs like Disco Elysium, indie horror ( Dread X Colections mostly), turn based rpgs, and visual novels like The Silver Case. Give everything a shot people, you never know what might stick.
I've never had any trouble with boredom, there's just too much good stuff out there that I don't have nearly enough time for. It's overwhelming how many amazing games are out there. Add onto that all the shows I'd like to watch and all the books I'd like to read.
imagine arguing about sense of discovery, spoilers or modern gaming ruining things when you could instead just be playing one of the thousand massive indies that came out which only like 5 people discuss openly (ex: sea of stars, little goody two shoes)
I find it crazy just how many people lack common sense in the world and always choose the nuclear option. I always thought it was common sense that if play the same things over and over again obviously your more likely to get tired of it and get bored, but no apparently since one game is boring all games are boring to these types of people. I honestly just think this comes from people online simply saying stupid statements like that to get views or people are just too stubborn and have no interest in trying new stuff that isnt insanely hyped up and mainstream or played by thier friends. I dont mean to gatekeep but I believe people like that aren't true gamers. They are simply people that happen to play games to kill time or do stuff with friends, they dont actually enjoy games for what they are. They are normies, and thats ok, but that doesnt mean its ok for them to then look at gaming as a whole and sh*t on it. I also think this includes a bigger problem that doesnt just affects gaming but everything. Negativity and generalizations. "I'm bored with the 3 games I play so that must mean ALL gaming is boring", "My girlfriend/boyfriend cheated on me so that must mean ALL women/men are trash", "People who like this niche hobby are ALL mentally ill". Stuff like that. I feel like for some odd reason a lot of people are getting so close minded to the point where they are starting to generalize about everything and I feel like its very dehumanizing in a way when you start to simply assume a whole group of people or things is one way or the other based on one bad experience with one person or thing. I also hate when people somehow forget subjectivity exists and say stuff like "I dont like this game or genre and it had some stuff I personally dont like so this game/genre is BAD and DEAD" its just ridiculous how bad its gotten these days and I genuinely think some people do it on purpose just to push negativity to get views. It's honestly disgusting and its starting to make me sick of social media.
i find it crazy why people like you and this youtuber think the only people who think the modern age of gaming is boring is because they play the same games over and over. that’s the only argument you guys can come up with. but go ahead and continue making fools out of yourselves. more and more people will be honest with themselves on youtube and stop playing games altogether until actual game developers make actual good games. enjoy playing multiplayer games alone in the next few years
I do believe it’s just not having variety. Of course when I was younger I was on every fps. Rainbow, cod, overwatch etc. at some point I couldn’t even get on for a second. After that I’ve discovered genres I never thought I’d love Old and new. After a long hiatus I’ve recently gotten back into multiplayer games me and my friends used to play and they are as fun as they used to be years ago when we started. People just have to learn not to overdue it. And multiplayer games still have a variety of genres. People just tend to stay in fps
I remember there was a summer where I got sick of modern games. I almost exclusively played arcade game compilations, actual arcade games and pinball. It was a nice change of pace.
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This is absolute bull crap. Video games are still fun.
@@Texan_christian1132The context of the video is about calling out those who think that gaming isn't fun anymore lol
@@TheSilverShadow17 oh
@@TheSilverShadow17I've been playing my ps2 more than my steam account. Plus gaming is woke garbage nowadays
@@scoopaway9176 While I do agree, in my experience it depends on the game that you're playing. If it's something like the new CoD games then yeah they're woke garbage, but with a game that came out X amount of years ago such as the past decade or more then of course those had sweat and tears loads of dedication and effort put into them. Also I give you props for waking up your PS2 and playing it again in the current day and age where things are moving in the digital direction, which sucks. I've been meaning to hop on my PS2 lately but for some reason never got to it.
imagine eating exclusively from one fast food chain, wondering why you're finding the culinary experience repetitive and feeling physically unwell, then blaming the concept of food itself
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Can't pick a better example myself 👉
Yeah that's the problem with these videos, it's like constantly watching the same few youtubers or tiktokers and then being like: "youtube/tiktok isn’t entertaining anymore"
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The whole ‘try something different’ mantra can also be applied to the games themselves! I was getting pretty burnt out on Minecraft, so when 1.20 dropped I decided to try living in a biome I hadn’t before. It was the fresh slate I needed to enjoy the game again, new challenges, new building styles, it’s now the longest world I’ve ever played on.
Same for me. Vanilla got stale with boring updates so I decided to try out modded. It's an absolute blast so far! I descovered lots of great mods and modpacks and I'm having a lot of fun again!
I know you mean in the game, but I like to imagine that you just moved to a new house in a completely different region and then played Minecraft there.
fr modded changed how I play the game, and it opened up a lot of possibilities that don't exist at all in vanilla
@@ihatehandleupdatesame here, discovered better than wolves (a single mod for minecraft 1.5.2) and been having more of a blast with that than all the modpacks and versions I played
Thats why pvp almost never gets boring for me. I try all modes, in both versions, and try to get good at them. I feel like I always learn something new or remember something I had forgotten. Feeling my improvement and competing in a healthy way keeps me more than entertained.
The strange habit people have of playing the same game they stopped having fun with a long time ago is what fuels these videos. People strangely believe that every game should be fresh and fun forever, and that dropping a game is a big deal when it really isn't. Gamers need to learn how to move on and change, even if it just means playing something different
8k hours in ark and haven’t actually enjoyed it since 200 hours lol
@@FoxVllWhy? What did atop you from just dropping the game and playing something else?
I haven’t 4k hours in Ark after I got bored I went to played subnautica if I get bored of subnautica I’ll go play monster Hunter rise XD I learn not to stick too much with one or two games
@@Rose333X once you start playing ark you can never truly quit (its an addiction)
@@FoxVllatleast you're honest bruh, hope you found fun in ARK or somewhere else
> play shitty games
> play shitty games again
> wtf i am not having fun
> play good games
> play good games again
> wtf i am having fun
I play really good games all the time...
I'm still bored.
I need to go out and see the world to get myself back to normal.
Fr @@bubbleslovebird4974
to be fair there’s the special few shitty games that are so bad they’re good, like a lot of EA Sports games
@@bubbleslovebird4974cap
@bubbleslovebird4974 Bro plays COD and says he's bored
I love “gaming isn’t fun anymore” TikTok’s because they are usually not even 16y/o.
“Guess this is growing up”
No Timmy, you have an English paper due tomorrow and you’re stressed
Lol yeah I noticed that too. I'm nearly 30 and not once have I thought gaming as a whole was boring. Even at the worst of times there was still good stuff to play.
@@mallow2902 There is always stuff to play, just don't play anything on modern ;P
@@Skumtomten1 BS. There's plenty of amazing modern games, you just haven't looked in the right places. 2023 alone has had some awesome releases.
@@UnlistedGuy most old games are bad and boring too. Law of averages inevitably means that most video games are bad no matter the time period. Get better at looking for good games, there's still lots of great ones even in more recent years. If you still think games are bad, stop playing them.
the fact 16 year olds are bored by modern games proves that modern games suck
another thing is that as adults you already played a lot of games and you start noticing every small mistake on old/new games, as children you don't really notice them
that's especially true on genres you've already played a lot of, like when you play too many shooters you're already going to know what a shooter is all about with 30 seconds of gameplay. all the more reason to explore other types of games
My grandma once said to me “Nothing surprises me anymore.”
I don’t think I should feel like that at 15.
@@ninjireali don't think you realize just how much lower it can go. Trust, it can be so much worse for you
@@Spookatz. Preparing for mental anguish.
Are you implying that children are stupid?
Even though Minecraft gets a little boring for me too, it's still a total blast playing it with friends!
Instruction unclear: what is a friend
You just need the right homies then everything will ALWAYS be fun 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
For me it's almost always fun and I don't have friends
I go back to games I used to love a lot and Minecraft tends to just get too repetitive once the nostalgia wears off. I'm sure modding would help but even then, I played it religiously when it was popular to the point I don't feel like I can get anything out of it anymore. Some games are just like that I think
I wish I had minecraft because I have so many ideas for what I would build
There's also this quote, "the world wasn't perfect when you were a child, you were just too little to realize the flause"
flaws?
bro can't even spell flaws properly💀
Both of you only focus on the minor mistake! This quote hits the nail on the head.
@@Hyperlaser_Merc yea that was the point, they only focused on the minor *flaws* instead of the actual damn quote
@@SteadyJack301Flause
Depression can also be a key factor for games not being fun anymore, on my lowest low everything seemed just mundane and boring to do and even questioning "why did I get this or do I even deserve to play this?"
Absolutely
To me its like "Is this even that worth anymore considering everything will be gone in the end?" kind.
@@linkfreeman1998 That's why we exist, to enjoy life and others with the time given to us
I agree, happened to me
@@Daniele63um, actually...
The game that kind of broke me out of this mentality that I started to have for years was Persona 5. I went into it completely blind and in the first five minutes I was completely confused and just wanting to see what came next. Just made me realize all I ever play is shooters and strategy games and I just needed to try something new. VR has been the same way.
Exactly! This is pretty much what happened to me, but with RPGs. When I started to play Persona 4 last year, I kind of realized just how many RPGs I have, and how I have to have more variety and try new things out. Atm I'm thinking of trying settlement and space exploration games. Maybe a 3D platformer too, Hat in Time looks really fun! I still love RPGs and I look forward to playing persona 5, but I need to try new things too. And while I seriously despise what COD is now, I did decide to go back and play WAW and BO1, which was really fun! But yeah theres no way I'm getting the newer games. Now that I think about it, I dont have any triple A games besides I guess those COD games, Minecraft (does it count?), Sims 4, and I guess fallout games (which I got for free), but outside of that nothing. If anything I hate triple A games probably 90% of the time
Holy shit persona did the same for me as well 😂
EXACTLY THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME BRO🤣🤣🤣🤣
Tbh that game is way too long.
@pierrebegley2746 story is good enough to the point its worth the investment imo
The game doesn't need to be beaten in a few days you can play the game when you come back home sometimes and probably get the game done in a few weeks
"Gaming isnt fun anymore" is the new "I was born in the wrong generation" for me
yep
grow up
@@aldi7943 ?
@@aldi7943 whatever you say 4 year old
@@DONG-502u are the one who games all day and is mad at people who are past that time XD
You shouldn’t try to have fun, you just have fun. It’s the point of gaming, but you can’t force it.
One of my favorite lessons is from an indie game itself, "The Messenger": Good memories can be like bad ones. Nostalgia needs to be treated as a passing memory, if you hold on long enough then you only hold yourself back. For being said in a retro-style game, I think it really fits.
The shopkeeper either offers great insight or wisecrack comments and I genuinely appreciate 'em
Wtf, I was just thinking about The Messenger while scrolling and the immediately see this comment
Is the game really that good? I've been hearing so many good things about it in the limited print games community
@@cherry414 It’s that good, when I first got it I fully completed it in 2 days because of how addicting it was. The soundtrack is amazing as well, so many head bangers.
@@cherry414Yes!!
@@cherry414played thru twice might do a 3rd everything just has a certain charm
it just falls SLIIIIGHTLY midgame but even then i didnt and do not care
THANK YOU 😭😭😭 I've been so exhausted by these pretentious video essays that try so hard to be deep. Not just essays for games, but even movie and show essayists are like this a lot.
It started on TikTok because multiple people were no longer in school and so there wasn't a mutual time for them and all their friends to be online all the time. So they make these stupid, gaming isn't fun anymore TikToks. Yeah right, same people who brought PS5 straight away and pre-ordered Spiderman-2 and is binging every GTA 6 video
Pretty much exactly this
oh they are a lot alright, even music and songs are affected by it, needless to say they are wrong, i've found several great songs on UA-cam alone, i've seen people who loves books still found great novels to read every now and then.
Oh, thank goodness! I've been similarly annoyed by how frequently those videos pop up and how frequently they turn personal hangups into condemnations of gaming in general. Good to see a reasonable response!
yeah.
There were games released almost 20 years ago that had more features and replay value than titles releasing currently. Blaming gamers for developers complete incompetence and lack of motivation is like a restaurant giving you the wrong order and then telling you to "deal with it".
@@LeroyFaceTV If they keep buying or preordering anyways they deserve the slop they are served.
"games are so boring" - People that only play games from only 3 companies
Facts bro,
Like why don’t these people try out something like indie games as an example, or PC? There is more variety than these people think there are
@@YoshihelicopterBecause even those are uninteresting or cliche.
@@crylune I mean you never know, you could always find a great game some where, you just have to dig deeper
@@YoshihelicopterExactly. Some of my favorite games are ones 99% of people haven’t even heard of
It's not even 3 companies most people just play cs2 or cod or valorant and complain that they are not having fun
Thank you for shedding some light onto this obnoxious genre of videos 💀
I feel the same way with them and feel like these kind of people are just really bored with life and play the same 3 games every day
unrelated but i love your icon!! i love the mother games too!
Fr lmao.
@@jade88104I tought it was conker at first glance Lmao.
And they all share the same opnion, they complain about sheep when all they do is copy past each other, is amusing when you think about it.
@@jade88104 thank you haha! That’s awesome 😊
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN GAMES GET BORING WHEN YOU PLAYED THEM FOR 5 YEARS STRAIGHT WITHOUT TRYING ANY OTHERS?! THATS IMPOSSIBLE"
@FrogMasterToby-ce5nh again, this is strictly a problem if you're playing the same games. shit even fortnite adds a ton of new features to make the game more fun. Modders have been spicing up old favorites for decades. Gaming not being creative enough is only a problem if you only play AAA games. play neon white buddy
@FrogMasterToby-ce5nhgaming isnt dead. tripple A gaming is dead
I agree 100% the issue is over use and saturation to the point they do nothing new.
Honestly this is why I love Terraria. I’ve picked it up when I was 11, played it for 3 months, left it, and returned after 3 to 5 years later. When I was 18 I bought it on switch and played it for a couple of months before I played something else. 4 years later and now I’ve gotten back into it and I’ve been playing it since late April, just before my 22nd birthday, and I’ve now played it into June. The key is to play smaller titles more frequently while awaiting for the larger titles to drop.
@@Writing_Gamer_513
The key is to understand that why elder title are popular is because they don’t ask for a daily income to be maintened, everything good is because poeple can enjoy to play it local, they can even pay again for pratically the same stuff just because it mzan it get a official cleaning (looking at skyrim)
the fact that every one of those videos can be condensed down into "I got bored of that one game that I put 5000 hours into as a child isn't fun anymore therefore all video games arn't fun anymore" is insane.
videogames aren't fun anymore because every company is trying to nickle and dime u. like for example playing gta online is literally just like working a job, its not fun whatsoever unless u pay an unreasonable amount of money.
@@iSuckAtGamesGGdon't play GTA then, buy Elden ring for some open world fun or hi fi rush for something linear and fun
@mrblooper1994 the problem is that there are few games like elden ring and more games like gta online because its 10x easier to make trash than it is to make good games. that and my favorite genre is fps and fps genre is plagued with garbage rn. gaming is getting worse especially if u have a console and cant rely on indi devs. the people in the video are right, gaming isn't the same, its just that they aren't saying the correct reason as to why thats the case. the reality is that there's more money grabbing trash than there are good games nowadays
@@iSuckAtGamesGGgo outside then
@@iSuckAtGamesGG for FPS games, you can play witch fire then, an absolutely fantastic game especially If you enjoy extraction type gameplay. And no gaming isn't getting worse it's just changing, we've always had cash cows and shovleware now they just can nickle and dime you differently. Just pick your games smart, and look up UA-camrs that enjoy indie fps games
“Just play indie games” is my response to people complaining about not liking video games anymore while only playing AAA PvP shooters
Baldi basics is fun af
plus version of baldi basic
@@chris1229sonic for real, I love that game
Or Nintendo games too
Replace indie with Nintendo
I think a big problem that people aren't considering is they are only playing video games and nothing else. I remember the summer in which I graduated, and I could play video games all day. At first, it was fun, but then it was so miserable that I was just waiting for college to start so I could do something other than play video games. Now that I have a job and I'm taking college playing video games, it is a lot more fun because I'm not playing every second of every hour of every day. Playi g Video games is supposed to be a hobby, not a lifestyle, You can't just always do what gives you pleasure because pleasure doesn't mean anything without hardship.
100% agree
Agreed. I love playing a bunch of games, but that’s not all I do in my life or free time.
I read Novels and Comics. I watch Tv shows, UA-cam videos and Movies. I write fanfics and make videos.
And that’s on top of having a regular IRL job and hanging out with my friends and family.
Like the video said, ‘Variety is the spice of life.’
I think a lot of people tend to impose their personal boredom onto others and pass it off as just them being critical.
People on the internet LOVE imposing expiration dates on things. They think when they get bored of something, they should get to bite anybody who does it or brings it up.
Litterally every Minecraft critique video:
literally every "modern game bad" youtuber
I've seen that WAY too often.
@@TheTheninjagummybearthe people who hate on the new gow games are complete morons for me bc they are manchildred and insult you if you love the games and say those games have no gameplay when that's not true ,they seem like they depressed in real life
The real solution is to get a life outside of video games. You can’t relax if you’re always relaxing
Honestly. More people need to hear this, because it’s my main issue.
Well said, when you work at least 5 days a week, gaming never loses its fun factor, I see it as a well deserved reward.
@@GMART50I work 5 days a week, 40 hours a week and gaming has lost its fun factor for me :(
@JkennGG Awh man, I was in that position, too. Something that helped me is taking a long break from games. I spent maybe 6 months not playing video games. When I got back into them I played about once a week in short bursts. Think of it like watching a 2-3 hour movie. Now I'm hooked again haha. I hope you can get that fun back from video games though.
@@GMART50 Thanks :) I picked up motorcycling this summer which was awesome, but I had to put it away for the winter so no more riding. Just doing Duolingo for an hour or so and spending the rest of my free time watching some anime's or movies haha. Hopefully I find a game I just cant put down soon!
“Gaming isn’t fun anymore” insomniac,every indie developer and Nintendo:ok here are some good games
"Every indie developer" good joke, bro.
@@dale3797Shhh, indie studio's are always right
@@bobbymcjoey9432Yeah of course…long as you ignore…the one we fear…YandereDev
in my experience trying out indie games, they're crap at worst and not better than triple A games at best. I didn't have fun at all trying to play Subnautica, or Hollow Knight, or Terraria. only decent indie i played recently was cuphead
@@Lisanicolas366 Okay well theres just something wrong with you at that point lmao
How to Make Gaming Fun Again
"Stop Playing the Same Game and Genre Over and Over for 100+ hours every day, And Play Something New Once and For a While"
literally what i did, never gets boring, also it's fun trying out modern games when you don't have a gaming computer and 5 consoles. tried out NFS Heat in PS5 just now and i am having a lot of fun
If I get tired of playing Fallout Ill start switching to Mortal Kombat
@@lenny_boxx4206 If you get tired of Fallout 3, you can try new genres. Like isometric RPG's that build more on the writing and roleplaying part of Fallout 3, or maybe some immersive sims (the Game Awards just announced 3 new indie projects underway) if you just like freedom in combat progression.
Or you could try some games that people online say are similar like Biomutant, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., the Outer Worlds, Metro Exodus, etc. Not all of these have rave reviews, but neither does Fallout 3.
Or it is legitimate to try brand new genres. Getting out of League of Legends and Heroes of the Storm I picked up Ori and the Blind Forest and fell in love with Metroidvanias. A friend recommended some SMT games and I binged those for a bit. Another friend got me into a 3rd person shooter game because I loved the Tower Defense elements. And at this point I am pretty much picking up new game types every Steam Next Fest.
@@lenny_boxx4206seen the Fallout movie teaser on TGA?
@@lenny_boxx4206 try the monster hunter series.
I had been in this place around year 2015. Believe it or not, i have been playing games from a year 1996, when i was 3 years old. Always a hobby for me, i tryed going pro a little bit, but didnt like the experience. Anyway, i had this "gaming isnt fun anymore" phase and then came Undertale.
Damn, i had it completely wrong, its not the games, its me. It was the way i looked on the them and how i consumed them. When you are an adult and start making your own money, the scarcity of games you had as a kid, is gone. Suddenly, you can buy anything, anytime and that scared me. However i learned to move past it and now, enjoying the hobby more then ever.
There is a real issue with the quality of the games though, especially AAA. I am always longing for raw emotinal experience, which can be even better with games, since its an interactive medium. A rare thing in todays market, since for it, the game has to be made from passion and love for games. I was lucky though, since two weeks ago, i happened to play Snoot game and... yea. I have to say, there is yet a lot i have to learn, about myself and other things.
Some may think i am childish for games to have such an impact on me and my life, maybe, but i have a different theorem, for as a medium, the games have been with me the longest, what else, if not them, should guide me forward?
you should totally play nier automata if you want a raw emotion experience. It does that masterfully
This is my thing. I've been playing since 2000 and been on nearly every system imaginable around that time and after, now on PC for the better part of 10 years. For me, it's not that my taste has changed, as I still play games from 95', 05', 15 and even new releases. The majority of new AAA titles being marketed to the general public are bad in many aspects. Having 2 or 3 outliers doesn't negate the issue. That's why people say "Gaming is bad now* because most people are not playing the smaller titles on the 3rd and 4th most popular platforms.
If you want an emotional game that some consider a straight up religious experience, try Golden Treasure: The Great Green. Legitimately one of the greatest games of all time.
Games haven't changed. YOU changed. What isn't fun for you anymore, is probably a blast for someone else.
well said my g
Fun for babies
Games HAVE changed. Big Companies like EA are doing research about human behaviour regarding video games and design their games with cartain properties to trigger a certain behaviour. Fun is an aspect of all that, but it's one aspect among many that is intentionally designed into the game. Developers try to make games addicting, they design games around microtransactions, partially taking the fun out of it. It's not all games, but the whole industry has definitely changed. It's not that you as an individual can do nothing if you don't have fun anymore, but you are still not to blame entirely. It's however pure ideology to blame everything on the individual when there are structural reasons for certain mass expiriences. Some people are also not reflected and knowledgable enough about all this and they just feel that's something not right. They can try to make better decisions, but in the first place the industry is always the one to criticise first.
@@bjornriefax
Let them have it then
Somepne please tell me if any of the ppl who make "gaming isnt fun anymore vids" have made a response to this vid cus i rlly wanna see if theyre pissed off at the stuff expressed here
As a college art student this actually helped me overcome my artists block by applying the same mentality here. Thank you!
if you dont mind me asking, what type of art do you create
Im a traditional and digital artist but recently moved completely digital about half a year ago@@ChickenMcKicken
As someone who has gone through multiple burnouts, I've learned the best things to do is to stop looking for inspiration and just keep creating until something looks good. I think Ed Sheeran said you have to think about creativity like a tap and at first dirty water will run but after a while it becomes clear.
Wow, i really like how you evolved this knowledge into something different, personal. Ive loved drawing throughout my life in bursts, and i think you're comment has opened my mind to why, i struggle to keep at it with passion
Still in this drought myself. Never thought of it that way
Influencer: "gaming isn't fun anymore"
Translation: "I burnt myself out playing the same games over and over for sweet, sweet, profit. But now I realized I get more profit from just lazily repeating the same unnuanced criticisms than I did when I actually put work in to make a positive video."
Bro I am so happy you listed all of the games you showed in the description, people have started to do that with music, but it still needs to become a mainstream standard to list the games you show in your footage in the description thank you so much you're the bomb
Youre welcome!
Absolutely agree. Listing sources is beneficial to everyone.
It's mainly small channels' thing atm, but I sincerely hope the big guys will pick that up
@@BLET_55artem55they never will, they don't put enough effort in to list a few links
@@zwilder1 😭😭😭
"Gaming isn't fun anymore" mfs when i show them: (any indie game released in the last 5 years)
"gaming isnt fun anymore" mfs when you show them: (insert really good and fun game)🤯
@FrogMasterToby-ce5nh it is far from impossible
@FrogMasterToby-ce5nh Not every AAA game is from Ubisoft, EA or Activision.
@FrogMasterToby-ce5nh So you are saying that most AAA games come from Ubisoft, EA and Activision? Ignoring games like: Elden Ring, TLOU2, Baldur Gate 3, Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, Resident Evil
Gaming isn’t fun anymore mfs when you show them literally any other game than what they’ve been playing for the past decade:🤯🤯🤯
For me, I vibed with the “gaming isn’t fun anymore” because I’ve entered a really stressful period of my life where I feel guilty when I “waste time”. I can’t relax or escape because I feel like I need to be doing something else, something more important, something adult. I only have a few hours in the day for personal time, but I’m more aware of the opportunity costs. Gaming hasn’t changed; it’s me. The feeling I miss is one where I don’t judge or critique myself for how I spend my downtime (or having downtime at all, really).
Ah that explains it. Now it makes sense. Like a former alcoholic or smoker criticizing people who still do those thing.
That's good that you finally got a life, but these influencers (and those that watch them) shouldn't validate themselves by projecting their past insecurities onto people with control over their habits and criticizing them for something they're not guilty of.
I wasn’t seeing it from that angle. Speaking about how your experience has changed with gaming is not a criticism of people who still enjoy them or have different schedules. I meant only to say that I let my own worries ruin the experience, that I should be able to sit down and set aside time for myself without feeling guilty. It’s not about time management - it’s about prioritizing space for my hobbies period as an act of self-care.
Said another way, another person could get their chores and errands done and sit down to play with no worries. I do the same, except there’s technically always more to do. It’s an anxiety issue, not ego.
Don’t criticize yourself for having a hobby. If it’s fun for you, then enjoy it. There’s nothing wrong with that at all.
I was exactly there what you've described. This was in my late twenties where suddenly a feeling kicked in that I need to stop wasting my life. The good thing is that once I've turned over 30, I stopped giving any F about what adults "have to do" or what is "immature"- I just enjoy my life and do what I want ;-)
I find old games, on average, to be better. There are occasional good releases that still happen (mostly from Indie companies) but big budget games are rarely good anymore. I think "Modern Gaming" by Self Deficient made some good points of why people are dissatisfied with modern games. To say everyone that thinks gaming isn't fun anymore thinks so because they grew out of games is completely wrong. I find myself having fun with old games, even ones that I haven't played before, but struggle to get motivation to play most modern releases. Not to mention lots of games are almost objectively getting worse because of online gaming and their want to milk peoples wallets. It also doesn't feel like there's many modern games now where people use in-game voice chat or play for fun instead of the "grind".
Gaming wasn't fun for a while and I realized it was because I kept playing live service games that aren't made to be fun. What really helped me was playing complete experiences like The Gunk, Subnautica, and Yoku's Island Express.
Game developers used to make games that is made for fun to made for money grabbing. I know developers need money but sometimes they are greedy which I hate it
This response is perfect. People only play games that quite literally were not made to be fun in the first place. Gaming became fun to me again after I was finally wrenched from the grip of Destiny
you need to do more than that because even though are repetitive experiences. You should play linear story based games too, open world, etc.
@@HugoStiglitz88 way to channel that "um ahksually" energy. I'm playing what I like and you NEED to keep your snarkiness to yourself.
I find old games, on average, to be better. There are occasional good releases that still happen (mostly from Indie companies) but big budget games are rarely good anymore. I think "Modern Gaming" by Self Deficient made some good points of why people are dissatisfied with modern games. To say everyone that thinks gaming isn't fun anymore thinks so because they grew out of games is completely wrong. I find myself having fun with old games, even ones that I haven't played before, but struggle to get motivation to play most modern releases. Not to mention lots of games are almost objectively getting worse because of online gaming and their want to milk peoples wallets. It also doesn't feel like there's many modern games now where people use in-game voice chat or play for fun instead of the "grind".
I definitely agree that a lack of variety can make gaming as a whole feel boring.
It sounds silly, but I fell into that trap myself. It's easy for gaming to become associated with comfort and nostalgia if it's something you've been doing for a very long time. When gaming became a comfort hobby, I didn't want to try new things, because that was very intimidating compared to stuff like LittleBigPlanet or Bleed.
I was able to break out of that when I tried the free game "Cat-aclysm" on Steam. It's a Digipen student-made game, and it gave me serious Xbox 360 live arcade vibes. It was super reinvigorating to remember that gaming as a whole doesn't encompass the games you only played as a child that are warm, nostalgic, and comfy.
You might find a game that you never knew you'd like so much.
This is a great video! 😊 I love the positive vibes here.
Thanks for the support! I remember playing some viva piñata demo on the 360 arcade it was a classic.
@@mygameopinions Ooo, was it the farming game? I used to play that one a lot, I loved it!
Sorry but you blatantly assume as if people can easily change genres and enjoy them, to assume you are going to enjoy other genres is incorrect, games are getting less and less unique , even more incorrect if you slap that logic to someone playing competitively
@@josephleebob3828you don't always have to play competitively. Single play exists. Also try a older game in a different genre for example do you like the halo franchise. Try halo wars 2 it is a rts instead of a fps.
@@hastyhawkeye single play gets too boring it has almost no repetitiveness for me, idk if you get this but people dont just switch to another genre and enjoy it, people main a genre bc they DONT like the other ones
Here because someone else got recommended your video right next to one of those “gaming is boring now” videos and the screenshot is semi blowing up on Twitter, i chose the positive gamer path
Whenever I feel like “I dont want to play any of these games,” I just choose a game anyway and usually have a lot of fun
if u get bored playing video games, then you should actually touch some grass... help mom, fix things, do sports, learn something new
so much you can do in life
then you can go back to games and its gonna be fun again
Agree! Ever since i started working on my own video game and exercising, which made my free time less available, i could appreciate playing minecraft a lot more than before.
Facts. There is not a single video game that's more fulfilling than helping mom.
This may seem like an insult but in reality that is true
Try doing other things and then you will feel like you are dying to play the game again but you cant
Based on my experience i once stopped playing minecraft for 2 years however when i came back i tried doing new things with my friends and yea it was actually fun
Exactly. Why do people complain when they can just take a break? Doing anything for a long time can get exhausting.
Exactly. Gotta take a break sometimes
finally a counter video to all those depressing gaming isnt fun anymore videos I always saw, literally what keeps me going is exploring new series I didn't get to experience yet from circumstances like now going up with a playstation but using emulation to help cross that forgotten bridge
“gaming isnt fun anymore” - only plays 2k and cod
Video games are art in my eyes. It’s a beautiful representation of imagination with all angles and the gameplay is a coordination and problem solving practice.
based and artpilled
It's my personal opinion that videogames are the pinnacle of art as a medium (at the moment). Videogames are typically an amalgamation of visual, musical, and interactive cues. Stationary art pieces and music are independently amazing, but videogames take those concepts to a completely different level by incorporating the viewer/player as a piece of that art.
Video games to me are games. They are made to have fun. I press buttons and something happen. Some heretic on my crosshairs gets pinned to a wall, tires shriek from friction as a race begins and sans bleeds ketchup.
I could see an argument of some games being "Art First" but not all of them. Others just wants to tell a story like with may walking sims and visual novels (kinetic or otherwise).
A lot these days are glorified slot machines or non chemical addictions that forces you to keep coming back to them while others were artsy like Gris, Braid or Proteus.
There are those who are just for the fun of it like serious sam, lethal league or pacman championship edition while others are made not solely for the "fun of it all" like This War of Mine or That Dragon Cancer.
Not saying games aren't art regardless if we're talking about it from a subjective or objective standpoint. I just see them first as a means of entertainment, something fun for the most part, then they can be something else after that.
What happened to playing outside????????????????????????
I think why people say "gaming isn't fun anymore" is because they hyper focus on bad games they weren't going to play to begin with and then ignore or downplay every other good game
Exactly. I don't care about Ubisoft, Bethesda, EA and Activision. Because I know I wouldn't be playing these games at all, so why care?
@@bulgarianreaper6587As a 29 year old I have Halo Infinite, Amnesia:The Bunker, Red Dead Redemption 2, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Cuphead and Yakuza Kiwami 2 on my Steam Wishlist. And on my library I still have to finish Forza Horizon 5, Witcher 2, Witcher 1, Battlefield V, Assassins Creed Odyssey, Fallout 4, Saints Row 2 and 4, Titanfall 2, and I want to replay Halo MCC and Borderlands 3. Like how people fail to find videogames that they enjoy is simply beyond me LOL. Maybe what they really need is to join a martial art class and get kicked in the face by some kyoushin karate black-belt. Perhaps then they'll have more appreciation for videogames lol.
@@Generationalwealth94i respect you for keeping FH5 and Fallout 4, both communities would beat the shit out of you for enjoying those games
@@TheCapitalWanderer I thought Fallout 4 was actually well-respected? I've barely played the game at this point anyways. And FH5 kicks more ass than FH3, I have 400h of FH3. Granted that game was beautiful at the time it came out so I respect it but FH5 is definitely an evolution in various regards.
I like playing games with friends, its fun. I feel like exploring indie games may be a good idea for some, there are a lot of hidden gems out there. If nothing works maybe take a break from gaming.
Touch grass, as they say, if gaming isn't fun. Reading is a cheap, beneficial, and easy way to entertain yourself. There are literally hundreds of thousands of free books out there that you can just download in an instant. Not to mention fanfic if that's your kinda vibe.
@t.p.9434 cycling is fun. I got myself a bike a little while back. Kills time easily and is like meditation when you're doing it for long periods
@@goosewithagibus "gaming isn't fun anymore"
*Starts reading.*
_"Reading isn't fun anymore"_
@@EEErminestarted piloting
"flying isn't fun anymore"
I talked with a friend of mine about this topic because he had played multiplayer games for 10+ years and lately has stated multiple times how "there is nothing to play" and when another friend and i tried to tell him "hey this looks good" he denied every recommendation we had. I understand wanting another big fps or battle royale but my god i just hate not even giving new stuff a try because "ur not feeling it right now" and it's geniuenly just exhausting trying to find a middle ground with people who don't want to try something new.
Great vid man, love the points you raise here
Thanks stefan!
Sometimes you just need a single person or a group of people to play with
Having people around you is what makes gaming so much fun
I was starting to get burnt out on games as well. I used to be anti-indie games because I considered them “unpolished” and “not actual games”. Funny enough, that could be said about AAA games like Halo Infinite, which is still an undercooked unfinished game. But as an artist, I wanted to try a new medium, and I always loved games. So I discovered dev logs and how much more artistic indie games could be. I’ve discovered punch o bunch, risk of rain, and other games I think I would love to try out which has definitely resparked my love for gaming. I got back into Space Engineers and Dark Souls and now I wanna even do a LASO run through the Halo games.
"we grew up bro"
Indeed thats a dumb statement. I had a low with videogames in my twenties and now with 35 years I'm having more fun than ever. Maybe its because I enjoy life alltogether much more than I used to. Maybe those people are bored by videogames because they have a boring life in general? If I would live like a slob with no activities then I could not enjoy anything...
Anyway, thank you so much for this video. More big creators need to do videos like that against all these "mimimi gaming isnt fun anymore" videos
people who say "gaming isnt fun anymore" are the people who grew up and just played so many games that they get bored easily. They grew out of gaming, they just dont want to admit it, so they blame it on the game developers.
That can be the case sometimes, but it's also entirely possible that their feelings on it are temporary.
Being in a rut over something doesn't mean it's a permanent change in mentality.
There were games released almost 20 years ago that had more features and replay value than titles releasing currently. Blaming gamers for developers complete incompetence and lack of motivation is like a restaurant giving you the wrong order and then telling you to "deal with it".
@@LeroyFaceTV And there _aren't_ feature rich games with tons of replay value releasing today?
We have an entire modern genre built _just_ out of those two factors in roguelikes.
@@LeroyFaceTV not the developers, the people that hired them
Same would apply to movies, books or comics tho, no?
i think the reason why gaming isn't fun for me is the realization that I want to do other things with my time as an adult. My old childhood favorites will always have a place in my heart for sure, but like with any other hobby, gaming can just be something you grow out of. Which is okay, really. I'm nearly 21, in a serious relationship, and am pursuing my passion as a job.
I think its really less that "Video Games aren't fun anymore", and more just a lot of people are outgrowing videogames and wanting to do other stuff. Which I think actually is great: Expanding your horizons, picking up new skills, working to improve yourself... those are all indicators for me of a thriving person.
Videogames are still fun. They might just not be "your thing" anymore.
I think there's a really tribalistic attitude that permeates the conversation about whether video games are fun anymore where people categorize themselves as gamers who enjoy playing video games or people who "Grew up" and will never enjoy playing video games again when the reality is that people enjoy whatever they enjoy in that instant they are enjoying it and they shouldn't feel a need to keep doing things they aren't enjoying or not doing things they do enjoy for consistency's sake.
I think alot of this originates in the idea that video games are childish or a waste of time, which causes people to reactively form an identity around liking video games and how they'll like them forever in order to validate their hobby. When the reality is that the fact they enjoy it makes it a valid hobby in itself. Maybe they won't enjoy it forever, maybe they will what really matters is whether they are enjoying it when they do it.
I seen a lot of people move on from gaming, but saying its “outgrowing games” makes it sound like its a childish hobby when its not. Gaming is for everyone and is starting to become the norm. Even your grandparents are starting to get games on their phone to mess around with.
It also implies it a waste of time but so are a lot of hobbies, watching tv, reading books, playing games, or doing any sort of outdoor activity are all viable ways of “wasting time”. For me, I’m extremely passionate about games I learn something from every game I play. I love learning about video games, how they’re made, and the sense of community I have interacting with other gamers. I’m also lucky enough to have a gf who is also a big gamer and plays with me or is understanding when I spend a lot of time beating a new game that just came out
So instead of people “outgrowing it” I think it’s likely that they should take a break or get into something else as well to add some variety to their lives. Idc about outdoor activities or sports, so I’m perfectly fine spending most of time indoors. But most people cant do that and need something fresh in their lives
Thats such a dumb take. My grandpa plays videogames, and he is almost better than me in some Parts. He is 81 years old.
@@saftigerkeks5212what he means is that he still finds them but people also want to pursue their passion or a type of work they want to do. He means that people want to focus on other things but they just don't have the same passion they used to even though they're still fun. Hope this makes you understand why people feel this way.
@@saftigerkeks5212 I think you misunderstand, they're saying that you might "Grow out" of video games and that's fine not that you have to "Grow up" from them. As people grow older they might not find themselves enjoying the same hobbies they used to, doesn't mean there's a problem with the hobbies themselves, or that they're childish things you inevitably leave behind, just that they may not be what you currently want to do and you should embrace that as a way to find something new.
Say hello to your grandpa for me, he seems cool.
i love this, my man really is capable of seeing the wonder and joy in video games. i think you pointed out a really good point, that is when people say “video games aren’t fun” they’re really talking about themselves, not the video games. like it’s impossible to claim meaningfully that gaming as a whole is awful because you’ve play less than 10 games in the last 3 years and obviously would feel it getting stale. having “fun” doesn’t come from doing the same thing over and over again, especially without a goal. i got to immortal in valorant and i just quit the game when i did, i got to where i wanted to be and i was satisfied. trying new things after this was amazing to me, limiting myself to just valorant was fun because it was my choice, and i had a goal i was working towards, AND i didn’t limit myself to just that one game after i was finished with it
I mean, therapy is expensive as sht and some ppl really need that, so I don't see problem with them speaking out their thoughts. The problem for me is that they're claiming it as an objective truth
Yeah moderation and variety has kept me interested in the hobby into my 30s
I hate when people bring up indies as the only good modern games. Like no pffff,
He didn't say they're the only good modern ones, he just said they don't have a lot of the problems people complain about with modern AAA games
Playing what the boys are playing is too true lol, all my friends just play the shiny new multi player fps, while I sit around playing single player games
Same,as well as for my low end PC I play games that no one knows: Portal 2, Half Life 2 and I can play other old games because those run well without problems, even GTA 5 I can but not with the maximum graphics as we all know and 60 fps which basically everyone wants, even on my phone since there are only boring games and only online I installed very cool single player games
This is very different for me and my friend group. We all have a blast playing indie games and telling about our experiences to each other.
people I know usually only play massive multiplayer games on console while play my singleplayer indie games on my laptop, which I used to hate until I realised that they're playing the same old things while I'm branching into territories that they have bever experienced, so that I'm never getting bored, while I see people saying that "CoD/Fortnie/Roblox is getting boring I have nothing to play >:(" while I get to play (and sometimes introduce) games they've never seen before
@@Burnbtrab2.0"games that no one knows"
"Portal 2, Half Life 2"
that's an oxymoron
Funny how I got recommended the original video when I got burned out on games and now I'm watching this video with having the most fun with gaming I've ever had in my life
same
So what new games did you try? If you are bored of shooter i recommend you the witcher 3 of you haven't played it, you could try terraria too (if you haven't played it)
It's funny looking at "growing up" away from video games in my perspective, because as a kid i loved video games, but then at some point stopped playing them. I thought at one point i grew out of the medium, where as now, as i have gotten more invested in video games, not just in playing them, but learning about them and the history, and the unique experiences carved out of them.
All of the “gaming isn’t fun anymore” thing is instantly defeated by just asking when what they play.
I defeated my own pessimism about gaming by just drop 60 bucks on a steam sale. I bought a combination of classics that I’ve never played before and indie games. Variety really is the spice of life.
I play a variety of different games and am still having trouble finding newer ones I like. With all the indie games that are out, It's still hard for me to find a game that really grabs my attention. For example, I have trouble finding newer RPGs and shooters that have a more grounded setting, as opposed to sc-fi or fantasy.
I think some people just need to find that one game that makes them realize again why they love video games. This could be a game from their childhood that they remember or a game they haven't discovered yet. For me, when none of the games I often play are appealing to me, I dust off the old Wii and find some games to play there
@@danjoredd if you like difficulty you can try something like lies of P, or you can look towards the future, therees an upcoming boomer shooter named mouse, just trying to give suggestions!
i still got em, old and new
Terraria is such a wonderful game
I find old games, on average, to be better. There are occasional good releases that still happen (mostly from Indie companies) but big budget games are rarely good anymore. I think "Modern Gaming" by Self Deficient made some good points of why people are dissatisfied with modern games. To say everyone that thinks gaming isn't fun anymore thinks so because they grew out of games is completely wrong. I find myself having fun with old games, even ones that I haven't played before, but struggle to get motivation to play most modern releases. Not to mention lots of games are almost objectively getting worse because of online gaming and their want to milk peoples wallets. It also doesn't feel like there's many modern games now where people use in-game voice chat or play for fun instead of the "grind".
I'll occasionally boot up my SNES and play A Link to the Past when I feel that way.
It's also important to note that this feeling of "boredom" can occur in any kind of media. I had been listening to a lot of metal, and that's the only thing I'd put on to get through the day. I made a playlist of the best of various genres and bands which actually made my life a lot more fun during work.
But when it becomes repetitive? Life suddenly becomes a lot more shittier. What was once working for me, just didn't help. We become like AAA game developers, trying to squeeze out as much money (here, dopamine) as possible. That's when I reached out to another playlist I made a good while back which was a mix of retrowave and darksynth music. It was a good replacement which brought me back to eating all the shit life put on the table for me. Funny thing is, just a while after making the retrowave playlist, I stopped listening to the genre. That's how I got to metal.
It's a psychological phenomenon, but I forgot it's name
"I made a playlist of the best of various genres and bands which actually made my life a lot more fun during work."
I have a work playlist of 6600 songs that's just a mix of every genre in the known world. The constant changing of moods that playlist brings helps making work more fun
@@yellowandlimegrat4724 My playlist only had metal music lmao. Metal is still really diverse, but you might want to have music that isn't as intense sometimes.
But having a huge playlist of various kinds of music would be fun too. Zetabytes of music which our descendants would download in a few seconds right before the planet is destroyed
"Huh, so this is what my great grandpapi had been listening to. No wonder he was deaf."
It really is so heartbreakingly funny that as a child you could just keep consuming game after game after game, but you're likely to be stuck with the same 4 or 5 at any given time. Then as an adult you can buy hundreds of games, but it's difficult to find the motivation to play any of them.
You just gotta understand that gaming will never make you feel the same way again, but it can always give you new feelings, as long as you're open to them and put some effort into finding them.
I can't relate. Had my best time gaming as an adult playing Rocket League, Automobilista 2, NieR Automata, Drakengard 3, and the 4 Bayonetta games, and even Minecraft again as an adult. Way more fun than playing Sonic, Sly Racoon or Minecraft as a child.
@@danjoreddyou wouldn't say that about other hobbies like making music, painting, or sports
I really don't think it has that much to do with age. First experiences are just powerful over all but we usually aren't silly enough to say stuff like your first sandwich was magical bc xyz
@@scary5455 You gotta play spark the electric jester 3 man its an amazing 3d platformer
Another issue is how much more frequent dopamine hits social media like TikTok gives you. I recommend you stop social media scrolling, and spend more time on the things you truly enjoy, because I guarantee you feel more alive spending time with the boys than scrolling TikTok. It’s going to be difficult, and I myself am trying to quit, but you must resist and fight, fight hard. If all goes according to plan this should be one of my last comments on social media as a whole.
I remember my friend said he stopped liking video games, but literally all he played was Pokémon and Pokémon rom hacks and exhausting Pokémon challenges. We played Jumping Flash! (literally the first true 3D platformer ever created) and he said it was most fun he’s had with a game for a while.
You should def introduce him to danganronpa or if he doesn’t like blood you should introduce him to Roblox, I feel like he’d like that platform a lil
@@EepyPandiok not that I DISLIKE Danganronpa, but how did you get from 3D platformer to a visual novel
@@hydrolix5745 most Pokémon fans I’m friends with liked danganronpa
Been gaming since I was a small child and I’m now well into adulthood. It’s still my favorite hobby and I can spend hours at a time on a variety of different games. In fact, some games that I’ve played for years still are able to destroy my sleep schedule 😂
THANK YOU!
Damn alot of those videos are annoying. I agree about the micro transactions, loot boxes, and unfinished released games being a problem, but for those that can't get out of their bubble playing the same crap over and over need to branch out and try new things.
If new gen games aren't fun. Go to the classics. Or play single player games. I revisit a lot of single player games during the winter and it's fun.
i just play a variety of games
Fun fact a symptom of depression is not finding joy from things you love doing.
To be real for a moment, I don’t think people are educated on mental health. I use to think depression meant being sad. But nothing is further from truth. I had no idea why I didn’t want to partake in things I use to enjoy, or just hide from family and friends. It’s also not constant, and can change day to day. Until I saw a doctor I had no idea what depression really was.
@@drgonzo123 Hi, just wanna follow up and back up that claim as a psychology student. "Being sad" is a completely normal thing and can be a sign of healthy emotional wellbeing and you shouldn't be hard on yourself for being sad. There is so much more to an actual depressive disorder and having been diagnosed with one for a few years now it really does change constantly.
@@Virgil-280 thank you. I really had no idea, and I thought wow, how many other people think the same thing? It was never really talked about in my house growing up, so I had no idea what actual depression looked like. Thanks for the info.
Unless, you stop doing them. I used to play video games days on end and would never even consider them being boring. I have a very wide variety of games and I would always make sure to buy a new one for when the one got boring. Even then, I eventually just stopped enjoying them. I still kept playing them because I had nothing else to do, which led me to a depressed stage. I have quit playing video games completely for a few weeks now and it isn’t that bad at all. This analogy is weak because you could say the same about cartoons and then it wouldn’t make any sense.
@@skwillywilly I commented about the depression thing because this exact thing has happened to me. I buy games all the damn time, whether I finish one or not. I have all the consoles and a gaming pc, so it’s a real passion of mine. But sometimes I’ll just wake up and not feel like playing anything. The longest it lasted was about a month. I mean I didn’t play anything at all! I came around and went right back to gaming, but every once in a while I just take a break. Has nothing to do with the games themselves, it’s just me.
people will be like "games are not fun anymore" and play something like valorant
i am not lying but ultrakill made me like fps gaming again. corny as it sounds the game is super fun and I never felt so much accomplishness and actual joy learning the patterns to fight against bosses like gabriel and sisyphus. I was just so grogged before hand cuz i would just play the same games over and over again, and ultrakill just ignited that spark in me again to keep gaming
I’ve recently reached the greed layer in ultrakill, ultrakill has been described as a “boomer shooter”. There are a great variety of shooters from RPG shooters, milisims, twin stick shooters, third person shooters, sniper games, arcade shooter games, extraction, battle royale, advanced movement and all sorts of other wacky games like friends vs friends or the finals beta (soon to be released)
Indie games are great for this, they can take swings at established genres and reinvent them in ways that are actually fresh.
for me that game was dead cells, been playing that thing like there's no tomorrow
Hey! I had a different but similar thing. I oooked for so long for a game that was an FPS that was really fast paced and would be great for my ADHD. Then I found ultrakill! And it did wonders for it. Play ultrakill today! Warning: side effects may Include
Increase in edginess
Atheism
Strange pretending of weapons
Flicking coins in the air
Vomiting
Death
Healing from blood
This is so real! I started playing and it brings me so much more enjoyment than what I usually play
I feel the same with music. They claim music isn't good anymore. Yet I can find plenty different artists that make cool stuff in under 20 minutes. You just have to look past the basic crap spotify throws at you.
FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT
Yeah, it's like watching the same tv show and same episode everytime every day
Im actually happy that my uncles introduced me to different kinds of games instead of just cod, thanks to them I was interest in all types of genres which made me much more interested whenever a new game would come out
To me COD is like the fast food of gaming. They can easily provide a decent level of entertainment most of the time but once you discover other games you realize where you can find true greatness.
I feel like the only problem with a lot of modern games is that you need to have a better system to enjoy them which might also be why some people feel like there isn't enough games to try
There's too many amazing indie and retro games to even count, that run just fine on less capable systems.
Like yeah, you'll have to look beyond the newest AAA games to find them, but it's not actually hard.
I wanna play the new payday so bad but I’m still running on an Xbox one.
Then dont feel discourage to play old games that you can play in your current system or console then
Most people will just get disgusted on older game when game like bioshock for example are actually a great game but I've seen people saying the graphic are too muddy and disgusting for them to try
Gaming definitely has its moments of low points, but its never just "over" or loses "fun", it just migrates. I grew up loving 3D platformers and early console FPS games. The kind of shooters where the controls were still janky and flawed, but the mechanics still came from a root source and wanted to give you a genuinely fun game, or cool level experiences. In the mid-late PS3 generation, both those types were smacked away and disrespected. 3D platformers were one of those genres the bulk of companies sneered at and said nobody wanted them anymore, because... nobody was making them anymore, so there was no voice outside of scarce few and Nintendo doing a hard eye-roll. FPS? It was the same thing, even if we were "oversaturated", the actual truth was it was basically one style, one ringleader, one "right way" of doing it: COD-style. Awful over-scripted campaigns, no resource systems, no enemy types, multiplayer stripped of all liberating features like server lists and rapid "kill-time" took out any talent or epic battles. Not to mention, online and media around it was just depressing and negative. People were complaining so much about the junk going on, greedy trends were flying off and dying rapidly, devs were talking about how new IPs or X/Y idea was just un-attemptable for profits to the degree of absurdity. It just felt pretty bleak.
So what did I actually do? I barely ever played RPGs until that generation. Suddenly the olden boring image of mashing a button to auto-attack, or grinding turn based campaigns, was getting supplanted by games like Kingdoms of Amalur, Dragon's Dogma, and a few very quite little titles none of you probably heard of called Dark Souls and Skyrim. Two Worlds 2 was also kind of wacky interesting, and Bioware... holy crap those guys are immensely overrated, but I can't say they didn't entertain me a bit and kept me up reading some wiki pages on the things I did like. And then let's not hide the fact there still was slivers of old reliable fun bleeding through. Bullet Storm was an awesome silly FPS game using some crazyed mixed logic, Resistance 3 is everything that generation of FPS should have been instead of COD, and Crack In Time is a franchise masterpiece. Space Marines is one of the best Warhammer action games we ever got, and let's not forget this was the generation of Uncharted, Red Faction Guerrilla, and we all had a point in which Assassins Creed was actually a ton of fun for us.
That was it. The was the worst time in gaming, where it felt like what I was loving was coming to an end, and I still got a ton of kickass experiences out of it. And now where are we at? Doom actually had to wake up again, sigh, and carry the genre on its back again as it re-invigorated and influenced the industry all over again, and Overwatch wasn't really that new but rather the successful hit that reminded people we can choose to be less like COD and look at "fun" environments, colorful worlds, and character designs that actually inspire real gameplay to use in multiplayer again. Now I've got to still finish Boltgun, Ultrakill, Turbo Overkill, I've been wanting to replay Dusk, and then there's an insane world of stuff like Iron Lung to Robocop, etc, etc. And that's overlooking a huge world of indie wonders, backlogs, and wishlisted material I still haven't gotten to. Hollowknight merch fills my home desk from how much I love that game, I am planning to reinstall Hat In Time soon for another play, I still need to get back to Monster Hunter Rise, and have you guys seen that we have two awesome Starship Trooper games around now? I literally can't keep up with it all, and I forgot to even mention Dishonored back in the poor period and that is still in my top-10 games right now. Who the fuck is telling anyone that games aren't fun!? Yeah the live service model is generally cancer, but just avoid those goofs and play some Deep Rock Galactic instead that actually put updates to genuine good use instead.
"if you only play visual novels, try reading a book" 😭😭
Or watching a animation
I went back and played Sonic adventure 2 again. I learned a lot. The polish wasn't as pretty as I remembered and the gameplay was great and the characters fleshed out. It was refreshing for me. The responsive controls and snappy gameplay with characters I love to this day was great and when I was done I realized minecraft was fun again. Even though it's the farthest thing from a super polished Game. It was intricate and in its own blocky way, beautiful. I think its that the repetition of the games makes them feel stale, and we loose appreciation for what makes them great in the first place.
If you liked the Sonic Adventure games I would recommend Spark the Electric Jester 3. The dev just continued the formula into something more modern feeling.
I find old games, on average, to be better. There are occasional good releases that still happen (mostly from Indie companies) but big budget games are rarely good anymore. I think "Modern Gaming" by Self Deficient made some good points of why people are dissatisfied with modern games. To say everyone that thinks gaming isn't fun anymore thinks so because they grew out of games is completely wrong. I find myself having fun with old games, even ones that I haven't played before, but struggle to get motivation to play most modern releases. Not to mention lots of games are almost objectively getting worse because of online gaming and their want to milk peoples wallets. It also doesn't feel like there's many modern games now where people use in-game voice chat or play for fun instead of the "grind".
Most of the "games suck nowadays" is just doomertalk, but there is a very real trend of triple A games decreasing in quality every year. You just need to look for indie games and new fun things to try out. COD, Minecraft, Fortnite, etc. have all been decreasing in both popularity and public opinion for a while now. They really just aren't as good. It has nothing to do with "gaming" as a whole, it's just the games themselves.
Fortnite is not dying so yeah
@@lazyvoid7107 they got people bc of the new update which brings back og fortnite, so the old fans started playing it, and the fans are starting to get older and they will explore new games because it will get boring after 5000h
There are a few AAA series that have been consistently good such as Kirby. In general 2023 has seen a major spike in quality for Nintendo.
@@memelurd7341 what about pc games? for bf it's going down, for cod it's going down too, but i heard the new mw are ok, the same with halo, there is no big franchises left that have good games (except re-logic and... and, i can't think of any other franchise)
@@Zbyszkov2 Btd6 is probably one of the best Tower defense games of all time.
“Just maturing ig”
Can we please make adulthood or maturity not be equivalent to depression and stagnation and stress please.
Well it takes effort to manage those issues, so probably not
Well for a lot of people that’s exactly what it is, welcome to life. It’s not all rainbows and butterflies for everyone. Becoming an adult comes with a whole lot of stress and responsibilities for a lot of people, some never manage it well, some do. So we are not making it an equivalent, it literally just is.
One main thing i found that makes people lose interest in gaming is that they refuse to play games that "break their morals", like Christian fundamentalists refusing to play Cult of the Lamb because it's a "cult initiation game", or gamergaters refusing to play games with diverse characters cuz theyre "woke". To which i say: stop caring so much. Games are fictional. Unless theyre causing you real-world harm, like gambling games and whatnot, it shouldnt matter what the subject of the game is. A game being gorey or having a gay dude in it isnt going to automatically decrease the quality, look at games like Celeste who are super open about their lgbtq representation, or a game like RDR2, which has its diversity really really subtle. Play games for fun, not to fuel whatever political or religious propaganda you wanna consume.
"Just maturing I guess" dude I'm 40 years old, heck the average gamer age is high up the 30's...wtf are these 20 something kids talking about when they say "Maturing". You don't mature, you just get boring.
One needs to have other things next to gaming, everything gets boring eventually when you do it a lot. Just find other hobbies next to. When I'm bored of gaming I go fiddle around with Blender, I go to the gym, I hang out with friends, do something else for a bit. Or maybe one just needs to find a new genre to get invested in.
Its because we are unfortunately in the doomer clout goblin era of the internet. I'm glad you made this video and i agree. its why the variety of games i play helps me keep having fun and occasionally i just shut my consoles off get cozy and watch tv coming back when I'm ready.
I've been playing games since I was a little kid. A moment comes when gaming is not that fun anymore, that's when you need to take a break. I spent like 2 months or more without playing anything, and when I came back, I had SO MUCH FUN playing Halo: Reach. And then I went to play other games and, oh my god, I'm ashamed of how many hours in a row I played. Gaming, as any other hobbies, can become boring. Some people make playing videogames their entire personality, that's when depression kicks in.
This is the video I needed. Those guys always annoyed me. I'm playing games most of my 42 years and the only genres that I don't play much are puzzle games and walking simulators. Otherwise I play everything from driving, to FPS to horror to isometric tactical turn based, and from the 8 bit era right up to modern games. I've never been more in love with gaming than I am now. There are so many great games that I'm just spoiled for choice. Variety is absolutely key to enjoying anything in life. Food, music, games, films... if it's always the same thing, of course you'll get sick of it. Variety is reinvigorating. They say a change is as good as a rest.
Honestly Virtual Reality has increased my love for gaming tenfold. Playing Blade and sorcery and killing enemies in the most stylish and brutal ways possible is so much fun. Playing modded minecraft in VR is also extremely fun.
Check out SuperHot VR, it's genuinely a masterpiece (definitely not a bottled comment (if you play the game you'll know what I mean)))
My close friend brought this up a while back. He stated that video games just dont do it for him anymore. I stated that i felt the same way, until i started trying out new genres instead of fortnite, gta online, fifa and minecraft. He gave some lame excuse as to why he doesn't try new games. But the dude spends hours on repetitive fifa content, and I was like that too. But he didnt want a solution, he just wanted someone to agree with his idea ig. I found some of my new favourite games of all time after experimenting, hades, doom and witcher 3 the big names among them. Ive sunk so many more hours into gaming, and hours that i truly enjoy every minute of, not the mundane time i spent doing the 200th cayo perico heist just to buy an X thing that does an X thing which becomes boring after 2-3 uses
I just turned 50. Been a gamer since the late 70's....dedicated,hardcore, almost daily. I'm lucky enough to enjoy a three day off a week work schedule. I also make generous paid time off. I just pulled a 4-day farming simulator 22 session. We just grew up? I say screw that. Adulting sucks.😅
Preach!
"game isn't fun anymore"
Said the guy who only plays competitive stressful games
"Why isn't gaming fun anymore?" - Person who only plays two genres of videogames at most
Two games*
make it 2 franchises by the same studios in the last decade
I have this felling and i have played Subnautica, Uncharted 4, Walking Dead ( Telltale),Tlou, Tekken 3, bloodborne...
Ive played all kinds and it truely isnt fun for me anymore
I always played a lot of genres from FPS to JRPG and i'm feeling the same way. Maybe the problem is in my head.
Wonderful perspective, I'm about to bust it out with 30 people trying to master some flavourful spinjitzu burst techniques for the spice of life, wish me luck
Ayo... ☠☠☠
I'm 30 years old and I've been playing games for 20 years. This "I'm an adult" thing is bullshit. I have played, play and will always play video games because the amount of games is literally limitless. And yes, I've had that "games aren't fun" moment. Right after I finished The Witcher 3, every game after that looks "soulless", but it's not true.
"shut up" literally bruh
I hate people being like “GaMiNg IsNt FuN 🤡 “
Have you ever tried playing a new game. Or thinking about how this isn’t gaming’s fault it is their fault.
I've always been in the mindset that the people that think gaming has died don't play enough different types of games. Most of them seem like the dude bros that mostly just play COD, Assassin's Creed, GTA, and the annual sports games. In that case, I would agree, but they don't step out to try what else is out there. Once I got older and had more money to spend on games, I really got into trying new genres and series I had never played before and it's made gaming such a joy again. I play all levels of games, from smaller indie titles, to massive triple a games, and it makes each game more enjoyable ywhen you appreciate them for what they are. I had this realization when I hopped between games on my PC, Switch, and PS in one night and I had so much fun that I felt like I was hanging out with friends even though I was alone. Don't let online synacism ruin your fun, play what you enjoy. Thank you for sharing this perspective, because I felt this way when I noticed the trend. Left a like to boost the algorithm
I think this is spot on. The "dude bros" that get boxed in to a small set of games discount anything that's not a multiplayer FPS. Minecraft gets a pass for them due to nostalgia.
I think a lot of indie games also get labelled as "cozy," which that same subset of gamers interprets as "girl games." It, again, leads them to discount games that aren't the same as what they always play.
@@tlucas7031 Ultrakill is truly the coziest game I know
@tlucas7031 I played "A short Hike" via Gamepass and it was such a great little platformer. No combat, no conflict really. Just you with the goal of making it to the top of a mountain by climbing and gliding.
"Cozy" is about right, but it was a fun game I was able to complete in a few hours and I am glad I elected to do that instead of staring at Skyim's character creator for the umpteenth time trying to think of some build to do.
And when I came back to skyrim, I knew the EXACT build I wanted. It'd amazing how different experiences can impact and inspire each other.
This is a great video. I get bored of games REALLY quickly, so this is a very normal process for me. A lot of these people haven't ever experienced this kind of boredom, so it's shocking to them. I mean, it's surprising people could even stand to play so many hours of only a few games. And also- although indie games are great, you don't have to play them to have fun again. Theres so many different video games from popular companies that people don't play that much.
Funny story, while I was watching this video, the Ori soundtrack hit me like a truck and I decided to spend my night playing Will of the Wisps because despite being an Ori fan, I've never tried WOTW due to burn out at the time it was released. And boy did I had the best time of my life in a long time. To think that before this, I always thought I grew out of love with the game and Ori was just something I enjoy as a kid. Glad this video open my mind
I, a lifelong Serious Sam fan, cutscene skipper, "story sucks gimme gameplay" sayer, and bethesda rpg murder-hobo, rediscovered my love for video games with detective games, text heavy rpgs like Disco Elysium, indie horror ( Dread X Colections mostly), turn based rpgs, and visual novels like The Silver Case. Give everything a shot people, you never know what might stick.
I've never had any trouble with boredom, there's just too much good stuff out there that I don't have nearly enough time for. It's overwhelming how many amazing games are out there. Add onto that all the shows I'd like to watch and all the books I'd like to read.
imagine arguing about sense of discovery, spoilers or modern gaming ruining things when you could instead just be playing one of the thousand massive indies that came out which only like 5 people discuss openly (ex: sea of stars, little goody two shoes)
I find it crazy just how many people lack common sense in the world and always choose the nuclear option. I always thought it was common sense that if play the same things over and over again obviously your more likely to get tired of it and get bored, but no apparently since one game is boring all games are boring to these types of people.
I honestly just think this comes from people online simply saying stupid statements like that to get views or people are just too stubborn and have no interest in trying new stuff that isnt insanely hyped up and mainstream or played by thier friends.
I dont mean to gatekeep but I believe people like that aren't true gamers. They are simply people that happen to play games to kill time or do stuff with friends, they dont actually enjoy games for what they are. They are normies, and thats ok, but that doesnt mean its ok for them to then look at gaming as a whole and sh*t on it.
I also think this includes a bigger problem that doesnt just affects gaming but everything. Negativity and generalizations. "I'm bored with the 3 games I play so that must mean ALL gaming is boring", "My girlfriend/boyfriend cheated on me so that must mean ALL women/men are trash", "People who like this niche hobby are ALL mentally ill". Stuff like that. I feel like for some odd reason a lot of people are getting so close minded to the point where they are starting to generalize about everything and I feel like its very dehumanizing in a way when you start to simply assume a whole group of people or things is one way or the other based on one bad experience with one person or thing.
I also hate when people somehow forget subjectivity exists and say stuff like "I dont like this game or genre and it had some stuff I personally dont like so this game/genre is BAD and DEAD" its just ridiculous how bad its gotten these days and I genuinely think some people do it on purpose just to push negativity to get views. It's honestly disgusting and its starting to make me sick of social media.
i find it crazy why people like you and this youtuber think the only people who think the modern age of gaming is boring is because they play the same games over and over. that’s the only argument you guys can come up with. but go ahead and continue making fools out of yourselves. more and more people will be honest with themselves on youtube and stop playing games altogether until actual game developers make actual good games. enjoy playing multiplayer games alone in the next few years
I do believe it’s just not having variety. Of course when I was younger I was on every fps. Rainbow, cod, overwatch etc. at some point I couldn’t even get on for a second. After that I’ve discovered genres I never thought I’d love Old and new. After a long hiatus I’ve recently gotten back into multiplayer games me and my friends used to play and they are as fun as they used to be years ago when we started. People just have to learn not to overdue it. And multiplayer games still have a variety of genres. People just tend to stay in fps
Those videos are the reason that UA-cam isn’t fun anymore
How?
I remember there was a summer where I got sick of modern games. I almost exclusively played arcade game compilations, actual arcade games and pinball. It was a nice change of pace.