The REAL Reason Gaming Isn’t Fun Anymore
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- Опубліковано 9 січ 2023
- Most people aren't talking about the REAL reason that gaming is no longer as fun. I don't think many people are considering just how good we had it. Year after year getting insanely fun release after insanely fun release. New gameplay mechanics never before seen, EVERY YEAR! When you're seeing something new every year, there inevitably will come a time where there is no longer something new to see. That's where we are now. We've seen 1,000 Skyrims and 400 Battle Royale type games, but when we look back on when Skyrim and Battle Royale's were new, of course they feel more nostalgic! When Fortnite and Warzonze and Apex legends were fun, they were new!! They're not anymore yet that's all we're getting nowadays! This is the ACTUAL reason gaming isn't fun anymore...
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I never got bored with games, they just don't seem to make the kinds of games I like as much anymore
there is only one Dragons Dogma....
Games i enjoy today is epic conquest 1and2
Pretty much damn near impossible to emulate the satisfaction of discovering secrets in video games
That's what I enjoyed when I was younger
Now I can't even look at UA-cam without having everything spelled out from how to optimize a grind down to the finest detail about lore on something that just released an hour ago lol
@@DieOrDelete THIS EXACTLY 💯💯☠️
@@DieOrDelete just don't watch youtube videos or guides regarding the game, have some self-control and push yourself to go in 100% blind
Nothing can beat the anticipation for videogames as the 2000s and early 2010s…
@@thetej2227 He said right thing here.
Nah you're gonna feel the anticipation now. ROCKSTAR JUST ANNOUNCED GTA6
Gta 6
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Because you were probably kid these years. Now you are adult
I realized that it's not I'm getting older, but I'm getting lonelier years by years. It's just not fun playing everything all alone, what you need is to have someone to play with you.
this. omfg this
Well same brother
This kid talking about the good ol days of Fortnite, while my good ol days were on the Xbox and Xbox 360. 2000-2010 Favorite years of gaming for me.
@@AleksiJuvakka if you are actually that old why waste time insulting a game console or someone who liked it act like the age you are claiming
@@willy9204 We found the squeaker Fin.
It's funny to hear it. The honest truth is that it's a bit of both. It is true that games were more feature complete and had more love put into them 20+ years ago. But it is also true that the more you play games, the less interesting new ones become. Even new games that fit your old taste.
@@willy9204he's a kid, borne in an era that was already dead.
I was born in 82, and the Star Wars sit-down vector cabinet was my first video game ever... I even remember it from 4 years old, being at a flea market and playing it with a whistle pop my father bought me... and I had to sit on his lap to play the game.
Gaming has been negatively social for the last 15 years.
Back when I worked at Blockbuster in 03, I used to hang with my ASM many nights... we and his girlfriend would spend hours playing Halo, Burnout 2 crash mode, etc. But that's dead, and it died around that time.
My anecdote? I'm a black guy. The first time I ever encounter racist gamers was playing Halo 2 mp, Oddball. The guys on my team were good, but over the mic, they LOVED calling the skull the "N*gger-beater."
And in my nephew now, 21 years later... he is 9 and the only way he knows how to interact in online games is competitively, and being a bragadocious, uncooperative, loud little shit.
I need to talk to him about it more, but as it stands, it's not the games he loves. He loves having power over others. After all, most single player games he quits immediately, talking about how he's scared of things... he had Breath of the Wild for two years before I got it, and he said he quit because Guardians were scary.
So I learned, and literally perfect deflected 3 to death in front of him. But he's a child, and it seems he likes abusing younger kids in an arena where he is in his perfect comfort zone.
So maybe... you guys only have 10% of the picture.
@@willy9204what? 😂
My biggest problem with modern gaming is the loneliness that comes with it. Even in multiplayer, I am constantly by myself in my own little bubble. Well... I'd like to change that. Most of my favorite childhood games were built so much larger thanks to having a whole neighborhood of friends to experience them with. My goal is to find other people out there who are passionate about video games like me.
Try VR gaming bro! You connect to other people SO much more because you feel as if you’re right next to them in it… you talk… see… and feel each other.
It’s great
@@Grisha_VRthat's true but some people don't have VR 🥲
@@darkness4039 well then GET ONE! It’s super worth it
i can relate to this SO MUCH i understand having irl friends makes it more fun than multiplayer wish thing is most of people in my area don't know games i play
Same bro same
Another reason that never gets addressed: gaming is a social event as well. We now have the internet and multiplayer games, but when I was a child I had friends over to play games together. Even singleplayer games, taking turns and watching each other play, encouraging one another, celebrating wins together. As a teenager we had LAN parties, you had to get together in someone's home, bring some beverages, snacks, a sleepover, do it all over again the next day and you really had something to look forward to. It was a social, but very real get-together, with real human beings, instead of "the other end of the headset". That exact experience is now a convention. Your best social experiences in real-life gaming has now been turned into a cashcow by companies and that's why it will never be as much fun as actual gaming with your friends.
Dude this is a take I had never even thought about. Such a GREAT point!!!
@@Jdyo The perks of being an "old" gamer :') Keep up the good work, it's very interesting to hear someone address stuff like this on a psychological level.
This is what made gaming become so big. If it was the way it is now, it would have been left to the nerds of the time. I loved being outside as a kid. Football, catching bugs, fighting. It was great. Games became a part of that Mortal Kombat, street fighter, even Mario bros. Who ever had the best game that's who's house we went over. If you had a system, you had friends!!
online games are all lonely as heck except for tf2 and cs2, thats cause most online games have only text chat and if it has vc no one uses it
that is so true i swear 2 years ago i used to play with my friends and it was more fun than playing alone in my childhood days
Another possible factor I’d like to mention is that with age comes more responsibility. I can’t speak for everyone, but these days whenever I try to get into gaming, I can’t escape the feeling that I’m wasting my time. I have responsibilities now; things won’t get done unless I get to them.
Your priorities and expectations were never as serious as a child come compared to now. If you were a typical kid, your world was mainly confined to your immediate surroundings and the present, which perfectly lended itself to video gaming since it gave you a “beyond world” to explore and get lost in. Now your beyond world is the future, YOUR future. You have to start thinking about your schooling, your finances, and your purpose in life. These are things you have to start
I think that existential burden breathing down our necks may be another thing that zaps the joy from gaming. This may also explain why the only people who seem to still really enjoy games are those who make their living off them. For them, there is overlap between their existential burden and gaming, which allows them to be fully immersed in the experience.
You do know new people are born and are younger than you, right? You might out grow it. But someone is growing into it.
@@prophetseven728 Is comment is obviously not referring to that age demographic.
@@OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOq He did say he can not speak for everyone. But, My statment still stands. Some people just dont get that it not just focuced on their own little world. Not saying that the case for they guy.
@@prophetseven728 No duh, but very young people and newborns aren't likely the audience these sorts a videos are talking to. Gaming "isn't fun anymore" if you haven't started or have barely started, which is the case for newborns and youngsters
It's very true
as someone over 12 years of age, seeing the thumbnail that implies that 2013 was the golden age of games made me chuckle pretty hard...
Gaming isn’t fun cuz it’s not made around being fun anymore, it’s made around everything being “balanced” so you chase the carrot of fun for as long as it takes to realize it’s purposely kept away from you.
Balance is only a factor in competitive games though, doesn't address other types.
😂😂😂 Love your comment
@@EnderSwordExactly. So many people have this same complaint but it makes no sense. Balance and fun are 2 separate things. 1 doesn't inherently take away from the other. If the game isn't fun when it's balanced then the game is just not fun
Balance? Your joking right the inbalance is why games are shit now. But you are on to something with it though. This is basicly how meta works and why games are trash. They lurr you in with a balance game but its a rabit hole nothing is balanced but thats what meta sheep think but the overall game is unbalanced.
Some games balanced broken with broken where fun could exist and some games that were actually balanced was fun.
Like forhonor back in beta before the game became a sesspool.
Deadby daylight was the same way untill toxicity and crossplay.
Balance is a key recipe of success, if you need unbalanced dynamics and broken characters, it's more like an ego problem I think
I think it definitely had something to do with being young too, because when you're young everything feels so unexplored and like unknown terrain
That's 100% the reason. As child you could play with literally a box and it was fun... Think of it! As Adult you become aware of the waste time which video games eat up. You become aware that there are more important things in life than gaming. That's why you get "the bordom". It's an indicator to move on to greater things. Don't play with the box anymore. Play the real life.
Beside you don't get the bordom with things like swimming because they serve you even later in life. I think it's an unconcious process. The brain analyse and tells you stop wasting your potential and be active in things that serve you.
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I actually think you are very right.
But grown ups may also feel like a game is unexplored or unknown.
Because when something new is out it sparks our curiosity. And that makes us wonder.
When I stopped playing games and went to Gran Canaria last year, everything was so new and a lot was diffrent from home. And we did some stuff I have never done before. That is what sparks interest and makes me curious, it keeps you happy.
I think, that finding joy in gaming is only natural, especially if you play the right games.
I do belive that you can find love in whatever you want if it gives you a spark of interest, whatever the age.
That's why I fell in love with Dark Souls 1 at the age of 19.
A brilliant game with a interesting story in the middle of a pandemic. An escape from reality into a dream world where you have to survive or die. It made me feel scared beacuse I so wanted to live as that caracter, I wanted to survive.
But when I played dark souls 2 and 3, they just did not have the same spark. Good games, but somehow I played though 2 and stopped halfway though 3.I played Elden Ring, but the open world did not fit my Dark Souls criteria
I played these games with breaks of about one year apart from eatchother.
It may be that I am now older and look at games diffrently, it may be beacuse I have other values and think that games are bad beacuse of social media or it might be beacuse I have not played somthing that gives me that spark.
One thing I do know, Indie games and good story games are the best, and if you get invested you may never go back to those multiplayer shootergames.
If I want to be with other people, I whould rather go outside and play fotball for example.
I also miss old game communities. Most online games 5 or so years ago had large player bases with fun and interesting interactions. Nowadays most of the people you meet are toxic, sweats, or both.
That's if you can even find people talking. Too much new rules with strict enforcement also hurt these communities.
Its not about games getting boring, its about you getting bored of them. That's a natural symptom of growing up
Doesn't help when games themselves are trying to be as unappealing as possible lol.
Funny how Indie games don’t seem to suffer with this issue. In my experience smaller indie games pretty much rely on creative approaches to make up from their lack “AAA gameplay & graphics”.
IMO many of the AAA games that come out are lazy because franchises are easy and have established fanbases. They don’t require original ideas. Just reskin it tweak a few things and release it for the price of a new game.
indie games are so innovative because they don't have to worry about going bankrupt or losing profits unlike indie companies, so indie developers take more risks. High risk High reward.
I mean just see hi fi rush, hollow knight,and pizza tower
Naaaaah... its... indie games too. After playing enough games, you begin to realise that no matter the game, no matter how fun, once you turn the screen off, it's as if the session never happened.
@@1whospeaks sayonara wild hearts, hopefully that helps.
@@1whospeaks ''its indie games too'' -probably played 1 single indie game
I think the reason why I don't play modern games and instead the old ones is because I think modern games are so focused on realism and graphics to where it's just trying to simulate real life and you don't get to see or experience anything intuitive or creative. Edit: Also there are some games that take realism TOO FAR to the point where it justs ruins the gameplay and makes it not fun.
@@Deez_Nuts242 not at all, your inability to see his perspective is so ironic, modern games should focus on stylisation instead of realism, thats what op is tryna say i think
@@Deez_Nuts242You seem like a rational easy guy to have a good conversation with.
Yeah I feel this way about a lot of games. Too focused on graphics and cinematics that the actual gameplay feel like an outdated tac on afterthought and very limited like seriously
Exactly.
The focus became graphics over gameplay.
Also, Grand Theft Auto and Mario 64 started the trend of boring open world walking simulators and gamers complaining about time to finish games created the need to pad games out with filler.
It's the fault of whiny gamers and youtube gaming review channels and the ability of morons from the peanut gallery to make idiotic complaints.
>mario 64 is a walking sim
stopped listening to you cause you clearly are a r word@@Freakazoid12345
Because back then they used to make games, now they make services first, games second
Ive been playing games for 10 years now and a couple years ago i felt like gaming was getting stale but then i decided to try a genre i other wise would probably not even look its way and then i loved it and ever since then if i get bored i pick a random genre and give it a go and i feel more people should do this 😊
THANK YOU
You're Welcome :)@@hyperflame7255
Great idea. Thanks!
Tried this, never liked any of them
my take was that gaming stopped being as fun when streaming became popularized. Seemed like everyone stopped playing to have fun and started trying to play at the highest level and emulate their favorite streamers.
well that only applies to competetive gaming and not narrative games, party games and etc
or for anyone who don't have time for play, we can just watch the streamer nowadays...
Not a problem at all. Most new games are pretty much mind-numbingly boring and unrewarding in single player mode and at reasonable difficulties.
I see this too!! It’s too competitive now, everyone is trying like they’re being scouted by the fucking NBA. I’ve NEVRR been a super competitive person so I think that’s one reason I’m not a fan. I can be kinda competitive, like back in the CoD days. But it’s wayyyyy more competitive and fast paced now. Like chill out, video games are for enjoyment
Interesting.
You hit the nail on the head here. I remember when I was a kid playing every single game that released and never being disappointed. Now I rarely get excited about anything in gaming. It’s almost as if we’ve played ever video game at this point even with new games gaming out every week because they are all just copies of each other at this point. I think that’s really where we lost the passion and what leads us to be nostalgic of the past.
I agree!! It feels like we’ve played everything. I think it’s because companies are trying to just copy what works instead of innovate to just make money. There’s a lot of reasons it’s come to this, but greed is a big one.
They re-lease every 20year+ old game with some graphical improvements and then they sell it like its an entirely new game for 70 bucks. They only care about your money. There is no love in the games that are created these dayz and its visible.
@@Jdyo ofcourse. 1 reason is because they simply ran out of ideas. And being creative and unique can only get you that far. It's just like music. Eventually you cannot think of a unique new sound because everything has already been done. Same goes for gaming. Everything is done but they still want to make money with the excuse they want to keep players happy by recreating games who are eating dust for 20years in everyones attic or basement and act like it's a completely new experience.. i'm like bruh.. everyone knows! Xd
I remember when gaming companies would hire entire orchestras for their OST, or atleast they would hire a composer who would have an orchestra. Anyways back then games were very artistic. Now games are more like a product that is just meant to be constantly made to keep profit rolling in. Evil Corruption and greed really took over the gaming industry because it seems evil cannot create anything new just as told by J.R.R Tolkien
I have been playing PS2 games lately. Modern gaming just isn't fun for me right now lol. I still have my Xbox series X too.
I can tell you are too young to remember the golden era of gaming. That era ended around 2008. There was some bleed over of good games until 2012, but after that it's been all down hill. It isn't that innovation isn't there, it's that quality isn't there.
I agree with this completely.
Facts and not to mention bad business practices such as 343 and rockstar. The bottom line issue is that at the end of the day games are being made by company’s and not a nerdy group of people trying to paint a beautiful work of art that not only shared wild imagination and innovation but a story to go with it as well. Games used to be made with love. Now they are the massed produced McDonald’s food I just shit out 11 hrs ago.
This is why I enjoy VR so much, it reignited that sense of awe and wonder I had as a kid, new experiences left and right.
I agree ive been playing some breachers and using it for cardio its very cool.
The real reason it isn’t fun anymore is that 90% of AAA games are almost the same as ten years ago, no wonder they aren’t fun.
And they focus too little on great gameplay and too much on “amazing graphics” and long boring cutscenes
Cause you grow up and realize you have a real life
so true
For me as someone who plays only competetive team work games, i straight up dont even wanna turn on my pc, all i get from games is getting mad and tired, i just prefer to lay in my bed and do nothing at this point
Well as a 21 year old guy who spent most of his teenage years in gaming! I wanna say that I feel like I am wasting my time now! the real world itself is a game that should be explored and this life is the shortest thing you’ve got, I got more comfortable in doing things that are delaying gratification! but still sometimes I miss those 2020 lockdown gaming days:(
U and I the same except im 23
@@qwwamp347Bro what are you doing in life like study or job, whats upp
@@NarutoUzumaki-ix2gx I have an upcoming mandatory military service soon. Until then im living in mom's basement
@@qwwamp347 😂😂😂😂
I grew up playing the commodore 64 and in some ways games back then were far superior
No such thing as Minecraft or online gaming
A couple of things I need to say
1. Plenty of games are innovating, you just have to look past the AAA bullshit and take a look at some indie games
2. How the hell are games like PUBG and Fortnite old already? Maybe I’m in denial, and 19 might be older then I realize (to me seeing some people call the Wii “retro” makes my brain melt), but it still feels weird.
3. I do agree that we need to stop expecting games to constantly be this bigger in scope masterpiece, because it just makes games feel bloated, and I feel like it causes things like the PCVR community to focus more on shit like graphics over a game having actually good gameplay.
I loved fortnite till chapter 2 season 2 or whatever why
Cuz of all the bullshit they added and it became way more diffrent than before
Btw this is an opportunity to go outside
Yeah PUBG is still one of the most played games in Steam and in Asia.
And Fortnite is still up there. It's a stretch to call them "old" at merely 5 years young
Zoomers somehow think 5 years is a long time.
2017 is the new 2012
Wii came out 17 years ago. Hurts my brain a little too. The older you get the faster time seems to pass you by.
If you always need to be playing a new and innovative game then you are vulnerable to periods of disappointment.
Essentially yeh, same thing applies with anything i guess. Shows and movies are very much in the same issue as gaming, new movies feel bland because their cheaply made. So you have to wait much longer for a good movie/show/game. per se.
@@user-mv1jh2gg4o Whats a strawman?
games are more fun when you're younger. not only do you have more time, but you are also more willing to put up with tedious/frustrating moments in games. the main problem with people these days is always expecting and wanting something new. we have so many 9/10 or 10/10 games we can go back and play, but people seem to be more focused on new releases. something about seeing a shiny new toy makes our brains want to get them i guess.
So true
To add to what you said, when I was a kid I'd be going home from school excited to play games. Now when I come home from work it's "what do you want to do this evening - I dunno". We have a lot more on our minds as adults than when we were kids and we will simply not be in the mood to play the games we enjoy, let alone try out new ones we probably won't enjoy because the gaming landscape is nothing what it used to be when we were kids (hurr durr microtransactions arglebargle). After a rough day of adulting it's hardly relaxing to engage in nonsense from greedy companies that's designed to waste your time into making you give them money, it's hard enough to get into the games you used to enjoy at times.
@@abadenoughdude300 Yup. But heres my few cents
*For some kids, gaming is*
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30% escapism, or a cheap dopamine source for a coping mechanism for everyday life.
70% having fun, living in the moment, exploring, and just being themselves.
*And for some adults, gaming is*
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70% escapism, or a cheap dopamine source for a coping mechanism for everyday life.
30% having fun, living in the moment, exploring, and just being themselves.
I’m 33. I will never forget my first introduction to the world of video games - 1995, 5 years old. Wasn’t even Christmas, and a box came in the mail from my uncle (moms brother). Super Nintendo with Donkey Kong Country. I have two younger brothers, and over the years, we became dedicated gamers. It was the SNES, then N64, Xbox, PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One X, Switch, Playstation 4, Xbox Series X. THOUSANDS of games played…. Sadly, I cant think of anything released in the past ten years that gives me anything close to the same experience games offered back in the day.
It’s hard to play games these days because it’s either a huge open world you have to dump hours of free time into or it’s highly competitive so you spend hours getting good. It’s turned into a think that if you want to do it, you can’t really do anything else.
pick up devil may cry v or a resident evil game I BEG YOU
This is a good point. I only bother now with easy to learn, hard to master games. Like In To The Breach, last game I played.
I agree with this because i have another good example. A really obvious one: UA-cam. It's the same, back in 2012 - 2015 there were very few UA-camrs and it was something new and fresh for us, all of us stopped using the TV and started having fun watching someone else play a game and react to it or simply make funny videos. But now, there are MILLIONS of UA-camrs and you just open it and start scrolling for 15, 20 or half an hour until you find something that's somewhat "interesting" for you.
I went back and played some old games I missed when I was younger and they were excellent enjoyable experiences. The nostalgia argument doesn’t hold up when you can literally play older games and they’re still good
This makes a ton of sense. I agree with your position after thinking about it. I'll be more patient in the future.
Finally somebody gets it. It's not "corporate greed" that made the young millennials and older gen Z kids stop enjoying games. It's the expectation of constant innovation that did it.
Tbf, it's an understandable expectation. Gaming just kept getting better for decades straight. Decades. Now that it's sort of hitting a plateau it's an odd thing to have to accept. But you're right.
LMAO gta online is an example of corporate greed ruining fun games
it’s literally corporate greed.
@@brown-eyedcheese5440 he's too deluded in his own belief, that corporate greed is the reason. Despite showing him evidence and real life examples, would convince him otherwise. Straignt up cognitive dissoance
Company of Heroes 3 has a 10 years gap between it and CoH 2 and probably 5 years in development. Now how does it play? Like a CoH 2 reskin with LESS FEATURES. And of course it's definitely because of "the expectation of constant innovation" that their first major update was for an in-game store, not bugfix. The same goes for Fallout, Dawn of War, Battlefield, Red Alert... and all of the new AAA games.
Young millennials and your 30 years old gen Z "kids" still enjoy games. It's just that we don't enjoy the new soulless games anymore, no matter how much you corpo shills try to hype them up and gaslight us.
I Think The Solution to the ''Graphics look too realistic'' Problem, is to go the stylized route. Indie games are doing it, as they always have. Like with Teardown, It's a cool destruction game with Pixelated Graphics, but the graphics are somehow really impressive. I Think the AAA game dev companies need to do more stylized games.
They have no imagination to be creative. They've been developing for shareholders for too long.
I always preferred a stylized art style to hyperrealism, which is why some NES games have aged so well.
honestly the witcher 3 is peak realism with enough video game feel, imo.
@@esmooth919Probably Because They We’re The Best Games For Their Time
I feel like people need to learn to evolve, These new games are really damn good.
this is why i enjoy watching people play games, i rarely play any video games myself lol
“ you don’t miss the older version of some thing you just miss being happy”
The main issue I believe is the money centric views of game development companies pressured by bring a public company, instead of listening to their developers and customers/gamers
Exactly. That’s the main issue.
I'd argue the problem is exactly that - companies trying to make "bigger and better" games. I don't think i'm the only one here, who wouldn't mind more smaller in scale games that had somekind of focus and identity instead of trying to be "all in one" simulator. This open world sandbox stuff filled with side quests, items to craft, resources to gather bla bla bla..... it's all just overwhelming, and when you get overwhelmed you just avoid playing the game cause it's frustrating. Developers have totally went overboard with trying to add more gameplay hours into their games.
I feel like RTS genre has not received enough love from AAA studios for over a decade. To be honest, there are many other genres that do not have enough releases, like survival horror games for example or arena shooters like quake.
Also, what happened to games that allowed you and your friend to play through the entire campaign/story? Every multiplayer game is now pvp based, wish there were more games that let you and your friend play through the main storyline via couch co-op or online atleast.
I think what developers should focus on is more variety, i swear most AAA releases are some variant of GTA mixed with some crafting elements and that's why it feels like we have no innovation.
So id like to point out how this actually started happening when game development was seen to be a profitable business.
what also happened was that major gaming studios became so large and compartmentalised that they lost focus on WHY they were making those games. This compartmentalisation also meant that and individual dev just does their job, and has no view of the bigger picture, or if they do, management does whatever they want instead.
basically what im saying was that turning creativity into a business killed creativity. as you said, thats why COD has sucked so many times. its why ubisoft keeps making halfassed AC games. Its why no major studios make anything new, not because we've run out of things to make but because the studios decided it's potentially unprofitable to take risks and innovate any further to make something truly new and unique.
When shareholders come before the gamers, you are doomed to make a poor product.
I never got bored with games I just never had enough time to enjoy them as much as I would’ve liked to
That’s a sad issue😭 always wanting to play but being unable to
Man, I envy you. I guess it's still much better than having time but don't feel the fun at all.
Honestly tho thats better, you can cherish the time you spend on the games instead of just feeling like you repeat the same game over and over agian untill you get bored
@@gustthestupidnoob2393 repeating the same game over and over again is literally what you people do, you wont quit your same 3 games from 3 main genres, minecraft, call of duty and something else thats similar, you think thats diverse enough but no bro theres probably more than 500 types of games that are all unique, probably more than that as alot of indie games are different and fun to play, you do not need to play the same games
@@crockdog9838 i dont play minecraft anymore cuz it sucks, i play borderlands 2 for a month or 2 like maybe once a year due to how much i enjoy it, i tried playing battlefield for the first time last month and had way more fun than usualy, i played rdr2 for the first time last year and enjoyed it way more and so on and so forth. I dont play may fav game often.
Also enjoying a game genra is different to playing minecraft and only minecraft
P.S: whenever i get bored i play a new game and have fun with it instead of play the same shit agian.
i think the problem isn't that we're not willing to wait longer for good games. it's more that the developers aren't willing to take the time. look at all the games these days. most of them are in early access for more than a year. so we're playing a game that's still in development and doesn't have all the features we expect. If the developers wait some time, plan the game properly, and give us a finished one, i think we'll have more fun than if we play a game with maybe half as fun because of missing features, bugs, and performance issues. because when they fix some of those issues, it's more like "yeah, finally, but that's what i expect them to do" instead of "oh, look how smoothly this game works" or "look at all the features this game has!" The older games were stunning because they made huge advances all at once rather than a small one every 3 to 4 months. today's games are more like eating only soup one day, only beef the next day, and only vegetables another day, instead of enjoying a delicious ramen.
developers have become lazy and make so many excuses esp in this era,more than the past eras...in the past they would cut corners to get the graphics and game play to be better overall...
@@jackstraw4222developers havent become lazier, have you seen the video? i agree that the standard is real life graphics and imo it's ridiculous it is the standard
as long as the standard is that high, you cant have games that are truly masterpieces imo. the focus of the game will be on the graphics and making things "realistically" and some game mechanics wont get as much attention
this is why elden ring is such a good game; the graphics aren't a copy of real life so the devs could focus on the right thing: the game
Youre right, most games these days just suck
@@edugon3c some have,they asked for more time of ,and are allowed to take long vacations or go to the gym...
@@jackstraw4222 and they fucking should???? in what world wouldn't you want someone else to have time off, long vacations and time for gym?
The irony of using sequels almost exclusively to illustrate how different the games were to 2013😂
A game that i can't break isn't fun. When a single player game become just a run and shoot loop, it gets boring quickly.
If i can kick things off ledges, gaslight NPCs, create a bubble of destruction capable of blowing the world while it wasn't intended, that's fun.
The real problem is that you got old, and old people love to complain
Sometimes rightfully so. I said sometimes.
@6:09 you touched on something I've always been saying. Realism killed gaming. Making games all behave like reality forces games to all be THE SAME. What made great games like Zelda, or Final Fantasy, or Pokemon, or Sonic or Sci fi games like Halo so incredible is that they WERE NOT based on reality. Realism is dull, it destroys creativity. Moving towards realism in art design destroyed gaming.
The real reason has to do with the individual.
A video game doesn’t change unless they update it. So if you feel different about what you played in the past then it just means you got bored of it and need something new.
The game itself didn’t change, the way you feel about it did.
As of playing new games and not being amused: That’s a guarantee since not everything that comes out is gonna click with us. That’s a given ever since video games were a thing.
And if you can’t find anything at all in the future, then look in the past. We have more access to old games now than ever.
And if that doesn’t cut it get a new hobby.
Don’t be like those who complaining about game developers because their life lacks fulfillment.
I grew out of gaming, i used to enjoy it when i was young but now I’m almost a adult, i just don’t have fun as much as i used to be, i would only play games cause of either friends or siblings these days.
This genuinely might be one of my favorite JDYO videos ever. SUCH great points and something i think the majority of gamers need to recognize today - the industry really has changed and if we’re not willing to change with it, we’ll never be satisfied. You killed this one JDYO
I wasn't willing to change with it, so I quit AAA gaming, and switched to indie gaming, where there's huge innovation every year. I've never been happier.
Gaming was just more fun when it wasn't so mainstream, and I could say that about a lot of things. I think you nailed it on this one. I always had this thought that I've played all that there is to play. I pretty much gave up on gaming over time. It's not exciting anymore.
It's always been mainstream. You're just getting older and that's OK.
@@cameleyeznah gaming didnt really start to get mainstream atleast compared to other forms of entertainment until the mid 2000s or early 2010 when games like gta and cod got big
@dragonborne 9591 On a multi-player wave yeah. But video games have been mainstream since the 80s. Obviously with the internet gaming has connected everyone and now it's bigger than ever but gaming has been mainstream for nearly 40 yrs.
@@cameleyez i would agree that games was always mainstream were not for the stereotypes that we were all basement dwellers and neckbeards who dont bathe and the people saying games where going to turn us into school shooters
Atleast compared to things like disney or michael jackson or say back to the future or star wars
yeah, the only thing thats really limitless is the amount of stories that can be made, they're just a lot longer and more complicated, so like you said, they take a lot longer to make.
Online gameplay,exclusive licenses,microtransactions and stockholders have destroyed gaming
I stopped gaming in 2006. Sold my gfx card and decided I would be outside instead. Since that time when I come back to check on gaming, I see literally nothing new. In some games the graphics are a bit better, but i'm actually surprised about how bad games look in 2023. I was born in 1982 and so I got used to seeing graphics look better and better every year, but it seems like that more or less stopped about 2015. The worst part about new games, is that they literally play EXACTLY the same as when I stopped playing in 2006. It's the same game being pushed out year after year...
Literally the only genuine gaming experience I feel like I've missed out on is Skyrim. I think I'm now waiting for a really good VR based rpg with chatgpt integrated as standard. Something truly immersive. If it takes 15 years to get there, then I won't be playing games for the next 15 years. I've broken free and i'm happy being outside the house living life in the real world - where when you level up it actually matters and makes a genuine improvement on your life.
this is one thing my younger self would never think i would say, i think its about time i put my gaming side away, im burnt out on it nothing is fun for me and lets be honest being an adult and working Everday doesn't give the time to play games for hours on end
And its only getting worse. And now AI is getting in the picture. Its scary to imagine how tall affect young people as far as their work life balance. 😞
I 1000% agree with you. People need to be patient and realize that everything takes time. If they want GTA 6 to fail,all they gotta do is keep rushing Rockstar.
my take is that it stopped being fun when everything went from "buy once there is your game" to "buy the game,buy the battlepass,buy the cosmetics and the things that should be free but cost money" and this made rare items go from "hey he must be playing for along time to "oh shit he has 20 dollars/euros"
People counter this argument by saying studios in the past made games for profit too but unlike modern games those games of old didn't have every facet of their existence dedicated to profit (except for maybe arcade games lol). Nowadays it's so obnoxiously ubiquitous it's like your only purpose for playing a video game is to spend money on it. Old gamers remember what it was like when the game you paid for was THE GAME YOU FN PAID FOR but for younger gamers this is the reality they grew up in, and it's sad.
Seeing this made me realize how special some new games were. Kirby for example stayed 2d for the longest time, and its first 3d entry absolutely blew my mind - not just the gameplay, the music, locations, and the story, while mostly relatively simple all hit so hard.
Nintendo games still fun even when its a bit childish
@@LouruOffNintendo as games devs are good as a company we hate them
I feel its more on the industry adoption. Game development went from lucrative hobbies to marketable products.
Kinda like taking the home chef out of the kitchen and replacing them with a nutritionist.
Everything else is just a symptom of that. Over emphasis on the esport viability, outsourced work to out of house dev teams, refusal to innovate, dumping the budget into marketing, hiring behavioral experts to craft psyop monetization schemes to squeeze every last cent out of the end consumer, removing the local social elements to discourage sharing the product and force more indivdual sales, etc.
You completely missed the fact that these gaming companies have been overtaken by greed adding all of these micro transactions.
exactly best example of that is fc 24
I remember when people said the same exact thing in 2013
This is why I like character action. They innovate in a way that a couple newly unlocked moves become a million things and you’re still not done experimenting (DMC4 has been estimated to have over 400 combo possibilities and that’s an incomplete game)
All the people that make "gaming isn't fun" vids , are video game addicts that realised that life isn't only about video games , and they probably don't have a job and depend on some1 to live , so they sit on their couch watching 2 movies and 6 episodes of a show , then play video games for 4 hours , then watch yt video
I think another reason why gaming isn't fun anymore is because of game patents, like the ones that happened in Tears Of The Kingdom and the Nemesis System in Shadow Of Mordor. At least they expire, like the "playable game in a loading screen" concept that was patented by Namco being expired in 2015 and the "arrow acting like a compass" from Crazy Taxi being patented by Sega, now expired in 2018. Still sucks that we have to deal with patents even today tho, even if they have them long ahh expiration dates.
i was thinking that games quality has just gone down because there's still a lot of good games that have recently came out
Personally it's because we're becoming too desensitized because of games.
We need an ever increasing amount of graphics and content to get the same dopamine hit as before.
Now oddly enough lifting weights and doing practical things outside feels better and hits better than games.
Plus the community is getting younger and more toxic with each passing year
2010-2015 were not just big years for gaming, but life in general. Everything felt so fresh back then. We had a president like Obama who was like no one else before. Pop and electronic dance music had a new sound that was never heard before. Cartoons and such had aggressively eye catching looking characters and art that we hadn’t seen since the 90s and we as people were more relaxed and care free back then because there was too much to enjoy. Partying was huge because of the constant party music being released and people were dying to hear those songs live on the big speakers. As Jdyo said, we were able to get more done and make more money with less work making us carefree, happy and more nice towards each other.
Yeah, somewhere around 2015 +/- some years , the world changed… I know it’s cliche, but rise of smartphones & social media warped our minds, IMO. 😢
@@JacobAndJamal it absolutely did. Back then the internet wasn’t that big so we had balance but now that it’s so gigantic that people can’t even sleep at night.
Since 2017 or 18 I always said 2015 was the last normal year, even before the pandemic and ppl didn't know why
@@anthonyv1971 yea it was the last year that really felt like the late 2000s/early-mid 2010’s.
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I'm currently not in love with the old games anymore. But whenever I test new games with good graphics design I find them more interesting than the old mobile games
Nah man, Activision, Ubisoft and Blizzard releasing the same games for the last 6 years and pumping them with micro transactions is what is ruining gaming. It’s not that they “can’t” inovate, they just see that their clients are buying their trash man. If you think that gamers are spoiled, you’re way off the mark. We have no problems waiting for a good game, it’s the studios that release unfinished games and then pump out dlcs that basically complete them. Get your mind right…
I really just don’t care about graphics and a lot of these technological improvements. It’s still about Gameplay to me. Discovering the Souls series in 2021 in my 30. was the most fun I’ve had since playing Pokémon when I was young. I found Dark Souls, a 10 year old game, to be much more fun than technologically “better” games like RDR2 and TLOU2, which to me kinda feel like interactive Netflix shows more than “games”. I just want gameplay to be the focal point of AAA games going forward, not handholding, cutscenes, and roadblocks.
I've heard the "all i care about is gameplay" sentiment many times before and it doesn't acknowledge that gameplay and graphics/technology work hand-in-hand in making a fun experience.
For example, Skyrim's core game design could have been implemented in a different looking game that would run on Playstation 2 hardware. It would probably still be fun on that hardware, but I will argue it wouldn't have been the smash hit it was. The joy of Skyrim is due to in equal parts to the sheer artful spectacle of it as the fun and accessible RPG elements.
And that's not even touching on performance. If Dark Souls ran at 15 frames per second at 360p on consoles and PC's at the time, you could speak all day to how sound the game design is, but you still wouldn't want to play it.
In other words, games require a baseline of technical competency (graphics) to be fun and that baseline is quite high now. I imagine you didn't play Dark Souls on period hardware, did you?
@@AGFuzzyPancake It's both really. I play Atari 2600 games. You don't need good tech to make Battle Zone and Space Invaders fun. But you DEFINITELY DO for God of War or Halo CE. It's not direct causation, but you're right there's a relationship. Technology definitely enhances experience.
Anyway, I don't like your examples, I'm not a fan of Souls Like games and Skyrim is horrible, Oblivion is better, but I acknowledge the point.
@@XboxxxGuy With Skyrim, I was just trying to name a game nearly everyone is familiar with that had graphics that enhanced gameplay. I also enjoyed Oblivion much more for reasons I could write a book about.
OP mentioned Dark Souls, so that's why I mentioned it.
@@AGFuzzyPancake Huh, I mean... Morrowind would be PS2 era or below.
The problem with Elder Scrolls is that the combat system sucks balls; but the lore and atmosphere carry the games.
Also, really, Oblivion? Dogshit system, the absolute worst of all games.
@@fistofram5526 the millions of units it sold speaks contrary to it being the worst of all games.
There are several factors that may contribute to the feeling that new video games lack soul and are more business-oriented than player-friendly. One possible reason is the increasing focus on monetization and microtransactions in modern video games. Many game developers prioritize revenue generation over creating a rich and immersive gameplay experience, leading to games that feel dry and boring.
Another factor is the homogenization of game design. As the gaming industry has grown, there has been a trend towards creating games that appeal to the widest possible audience. This often means simplifying gameplay mechanics and removing elements that might be considered niche or difficult to understand. While this approach can make games more accessible, it can also lead to a lack of depth and complexity that can make them feel soulless.
Additionally, the rise of open-world games has led to a focus on quantity over quality. Many modern games feature vast, sprawling worlds filled with repetitive tasks and activities. While these games may offer a lot of content, they can also feel empty and devoid of personality.
Sick comment 👌🏼.
But you need to ask WHY it's focusing on monetization, and that's because it's more profitable than innovation or creativity.
Idk it depends on the open world creators... take Rock Star open worlds they are so engaging that once you do all the missions you still play the game as there is still stuff to do like blow up the city and cause havoc...some people never do the missions because this world they made is so distracting... now look at ubisoft open world... do the missions and there is Zero incentive to stay in the world... no missions is the death of the world and game... I had fun in many ubisoft open worlds but even in old Edzio Assassins creed games after you beat the game and do all missions and check off the stuff on the map the world expands and yet gets empty... and most developers of open world follow the ubisoft model. So it's not that open world is bad just what type of open world, and I think that developers need to think about this before just chasing trends as God of War (new ones on ps5) is great and it is a linear type game still with an open world feel... yet you cannot progress without completing missions and the game expands but not too much not enough to be open world... like Halo CE is a good example of a very linear progression that felt awesome as you could explore everything but it was very much so a linear processing game. When open world is done right like Breath of the wild its great... done poorly like almost any new ubisoft formula it feels dead.
I also think that we get a dopamine easier nowadays compared to before (with all the electronics and easy access to information and entertainment)that we get bored easier even when engaged in activities like gaming which is supposed to be fun. I’ve t done something called a dopamine fast a couple of times which included replacing gaming with other wholesome activities like going to the gym or reading a book and have found myself enjoying playing games again
You certainly have a point (I mean, saving up allowance to get the game you actually know you want and installing a random games off gamepass only to delete it 10 minutes later are definitely entirely different things) but as an old gamer when I look at game release news I don't get excited for new ideas, I see companies trying to push less for more with obligatory in-game shops and timewasters. I bought several times more games as a teen in the 90's than I have in the last 10 years as an adult with disposable income (most of my adult purchases were nostalgia buys anyway). I still love gaming, but modern gaming doesn't love me, apparently, and doesn't want my love either.
A focus on accessibility and graphics has stifled innovation due to the massive costs and dev cycles associated with AAA graphics.
The decisions of game design are currently made either by committee or by a producer and are no longer made by a passionate game designer or project lead.
There is a reason why games made by small studios or single devs are keeping the flame alive: Like VTOL VR, Ballistic NG, Outer Wilds, The Long Dark, Thief 1&2, Dusk, Dwarf Fortress, The Witness, Rain World, GTFO, Children of a dead earth, Xenonaughts etc.
It’s good to take a break from gaming every once in a while. I learned the hard way after taking a year off from school and only gaming that entire time. I quickly lost interest. But I learned how to pace things out, and savory the good games I played. The first time I did this was with God of War (2019). Truly taught me how to take my time to enjoy what I have.
Yeah I remember playing games like 24/7 during quarantine and getting burned out so fast
Unless you have 1,129 (and counting) games like me and you don't have time for shit to play them.
@@XboxxxGuy tbh I had a lot of games in quarantine I guess it’s a combination of you never find anybody to talk to anymore on video games and that most games want you to grind them constantly to get everything or else you miss out
@@XboxxxGuyyo can you paypal me so i can afford god of War ragnorok?
This is true, I remember playing cod 1 a thousand years ago and how realistic it was, but then it came cod 2, cod 3, cod 4 and every release was like boom! blewing my mind with better story, better graphics, keeping myself entertained with so much freshness. The standard was heading to and evolved to real life, wich paradoxically, kills the constant release of new games because of the long development times. And we, as costumers, can't get back to our old standards.
As you've stated, games are taking much longer to make but that shouldn't be the case. Movies are still being made in the same timeframe, perhaps even quicker, than they were in the past. Technologies have gotten better: CGI, cosmetics, makeup and other amenities that aid the production of a movies has become more accessible and refined throughout the years. Avengers: Endgame only spent 5 months in shooting and was released 15 months later. On average though it takes about maybe 1-2.5 years for a high production movies to be created from beginning to end.
In terms of gaming, GTA 4 took about 3.5 years to make whereas GTA 5 took just 3 years. Why is it just now that the production time has suddenly skyrocketed only within this generation? In my personal opinion, it has absolutely nothing to do with the advancement of technology since that has become easier to access for everybody. Literally, anybody with a modern smartphone can make 3D photogrammetry art without having to spend a single dime or days or weeks creating it from scratch as it would have taken in the past.
The problems the industry faces has everything to do with the decision-makers at the top of the business hierarchy that have made things difficult for everybody involved in the development of these games. The games cost more to make? Then why not add in more manpower to the production? They're simply looking for ways to save money while still paying low wages to their employees. It's why the quality of gaming has gone down tremendously in AAAs, why we no longer see innovation and why they're taking so much longer to make.
So true. As someone who played video games since the 90s it makes me to sad to think my kids won't experience the same levels of excitement I did when new consoles and games came out that made giant steps forward for gaming.
im 23 and my little sister (14) hopped on my laptop and fell in love with fallout 3 and nv, the witcher series, and skyrim. She said to me ''These are the games you got growing up? they,re really fun to play alone like binge watching a show" and it made me realise that its not me just getting older and out of games.
Just lock them in your home and pretend those 90's consoles are new and every time you get a new one it's one from a newer year until you can't get any
this video is so accurate and im sure most people will agree. keep up the great work man
Most of these npcs in the comments can't seem to agree.
Coming home after school, jumping on COD immediately and jamming out till midnight with your buddies. Those were the times… nowadays there’s nothing more to gaming than a bunch of sweats with pay to win camo’s
finding a good singleplayer easy but finding a good mp game to play with my friends is next to impossible
Damn. I was trying to find out why I haven’t been having fun lately and I think I figured it out. Thanks dude.
I wanna add the inflation of prices also made it discouraging to buy/wanna play anything new. Nowadays every single game is around $60-$70 and the size of each game makes it to where you kinda have to choose what AAA games you wanna play because of lack of storage space. I remember when it was actually cheaper to buy games digitally rather then a physical copy, now they made digital copies the same prices as a physical copy. I think that’s why so many people love games like war zone, pubg, Fortnite, etc. it’s because they’re all free games meaning easier for people to access because there’s no massive paywall
This why i prefer PVE then PVP, no grutches,no hate and salty.
With PVE,With a healthy mindset,and friendship collaboration.
Example like deep rock galactic and left 4 dead series etc.
also, the second reason why gaming became boring is because that people don't accept singleplayer games, so companies are forced to make multiplayer games and the reality is that LITTERLY every multiplayer game is 80 precent filled with 6 years olds so like however how good the game is it's just going to be filled with these 7-year-olds that makes the game not fun anymore so like think of rec room every time i join a game of golden trophy i am a real try hard and i want to beat the game but every time i try to join a lobby Letterly all my teammates are these 6 year olds who don't know how to do anything they will constantly friendly fire me for some reason and they don't have a mic or can't talk or anything and also they never revive me when i die and they die every second which makes the team lose gold so EVEN if we won we will just get a bad rank and that happens with LETTERLY every lobby and skill based matchmaking won't solve anything because levels in the game Letterly mean nothing so like maybe I am a level 7 but that other guy is level 47 they are still that 6 year olds that suck also companies make their game less skill based so like if you have 1000+ hours in the game you would still lose to that one 7 year old because the game is so less skill based and it would feel the worst
This is the reason why I stick to singleplayer games. I want to play to have fun, not have my gaming experience ruined by obnoxious people. I can only spend a few hours a day gaming and I intend to milk every single drop of enjoyment out of it, by myself.
80s-2013 PEAK GAMING. I was a 90s kid I grew up playing it all. I'll be the first one to tell you everything is watered down now days. It's all about the money and not the product. If you grew up playing Ps2, Xbox, or gamecube you know some amazing games.
It's a lot of factors that play in to why gaming is not as fun anymore, you could write 100 pages on it. To keep it short, I think it's because it has become so incredibly mainstream, which brings with it aspects of game design, creation and things of that nature that just dont produce the games we used to love. Do you think the people who made Age of Empires or Quake thought about skins, microtransactions, modern politics, streamer partnerships, expansions to mobiles etc when they made those great games? I think you can see what I mean.
Thank you, I've noticed that too and I was wondering how many other people felt the same way. I am no longer alone in the world! 😀
I think another reason is companies releasing unfinished games that can only be 'fully' enjoyed by purchasing overpriced DLCs or Battlepasses.
Most publishers regurgitate the same old games with little difference and expect us as consumers to pay $60+ whatever unnecessary dlc/expansion pack/battle pass the game comes with.
as an older gen z kid, psp holds a special place in my heart. it was THE flex machine along with blackberry phones. i didnt grow up playing games a lot, me and my bro would pass football for hours as for fun, we were only allowed to play an hour a week. but the wait made each session sweeter
games rn are better than ever, better graphice, great stories etc
i think i just miss the time when gaming was a fun hobby, not a tool i use to distract myself from daily lives. i miss the time when i was happy
miniclip !
You make good points. Luckily I still find plenty to enjoy every year though. Still love gaming and don’t see that changing.
you know, that is a really good point. The market is full of copy-cats and lookalikes, all competing with each other without a lot of originality.
I agree with your perspective, seems reasonable and well thought through.
Impatient also isn’t an issue, the issue is that the games was wait 6 years for flop and the promises made are lies
Oh yeah this a banger video !!! 🔥🔥 Amazingly put together & Narrated bro. Innovation is 100% the reason. Everything is getting repetitive. We improved soo fast and its hard to top the last. Thats why GTA is taking so long. JDYO DA GOAT HAS SPOKEN💯💯
I MISS YOU SKRAPE THANK YOU BROTHA 🔥
@@Jdyo Video Gaming is NOT fun anymore because over the years video gaming has decreased in Quality rather than increase.
Video Gaming in General NEEDS to come back to being on an elevated plateau and elevated ground instead of being deep down in the sewer dumps.
4 Qualities That Video Gaming in General should REALLY be about are Fun Factor, Compelling Factor, Captivating Factor and Fantastic Quality and Absolutely nothing less Than Those 4 Qualities put together, Period Dot Dash.
I am 36 years old by the way, Black American male.
Seriously thank you so much for making this video. I've watched so many other videos that basically said that we were living in a different time and we were younger so it was all due to nostalgia. But you are absolutely correct that game companies had it easier and could produce games that were huge improvements year to year. it honestly gave me a whole new perspective And now I am going to be more patient for big releases for games. What really drove it home for me personally was when you mentioned that in the year 2000 the most sold game was Tetris, and now it's 2023 and in terms of technology that's a very short amount of time. Anyways thank you again for making this video.
There really is something you aren't seeing here.
If innovation was the only thing we'd have more indie games pop off.
My guess is that Competitive games changed the landscape a bit. It's no longer "which game is the most fun" but "the most popular" and "so that I can become the next big streamer/content creator and get millions of dollars each year". And then they say to themselves "Well I haven't hit rank X in the new and popular game, why even bother streaming if I cannot reach that tier, nobody will watch" and then they don't stream.
And... OFC. Macro transactions. Wallets replacing systems that actually drove player retention. Cool Black Ops Skins? Had to play for them! Overwatch skins? Play enough, you'll unlock a bunch of cosmetics, so even though matchmaking was shit, teammates where biased, scumbag a$$holes towards you and other humans at least you got something out of it.
Big Companies literally took the L out of Play and made their IP's all lose.
Finally someone addresses the same issues I have with the current gaming industry in general. It is not monetization, it is not nostalgia, it is not competitiveness nor boring open world fetch quests, even though all of these could also be a factor aswell. It is the fact that gone are the days where a single game like Half-Life 1 and 2 or GTAs 3 to 5 would entirely create a new revolution in the entire industry by themselves with just one release because they were just that ahead of their time and groundbreaking and redefine entire genres all over again from the square one. I've grown up through my childhood and early teens believing we would all have NPCs with individual daily routines and AIs that could realistically rival that of human beings organically, but here we are with generic Ubisoft Open World game #47 once again.
Although I wouldn't go as far as to say it died, gaming started to finally show signs of hitting the wall after the early 2010's. The PS4/Xbox One console generation was truly the era when everything started going downhill with 0 innovation.
For the last 3 years or so i stopped having fun at games too. I tried differrent titles, new genres, but i just don't get the kick out of it anymore. I can't. I've been thinking about why lately and honestly, i just came to conclusion that i grew up out of it. I played since 8 years old, now i'm 19, I've had enough of this. My interests simply changed. I guess i'll just move on.
My problem with gaming is because you have to pay money just to play online, companies like sony microsoft and Nintendo decided to make their multiplayer cost money and that’s just straight up greedy
Agreed. Online play should be free. You have to pay for the game, and with most games there’s also micro transactions WITHIN THE GAME YOU PAID FOR so why would I also pay to play online???
@@Jdyo EXACTLY, and once you buy it it’s limited and in my opinion it should last forever, it’s like they want you to not have fun
The problem is that back in the say people were making original games but now its just a game called "amongus squidgame" thats popular
Going from 2d to 3d was such a big freaking revolution of gaming and i honestly think we will never get anything like that with it again. It was like going from acoustic guitar to electric guitar with amps n pedals. 3d games like especially when ps2 hit, theres nothing that can recreate that level of revolution when the complexity of modern games is challenging that of reality
The next is going to be 3D to XR, but it will take some time.
Yeah Modern Games Have Reached A Level Of Realism
This explains why I feel burned out on AAA games, but not indie games. Indie games keep evolving and innovating every year.