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[Mooreberg]

Play Yakuza 4. There is this scene involving a hitman in a parking garage that is the greatest work of entertainment yet produced by human beings!

 

[BosSin]

There's your new hobby

 

[Loxley]

1.) Go to a hobby store, buy this:



2.) Invite some friends over.

3.) Enjoy.

 

[mambadragon]

Don't look at it as a hobby. Play when you feel like it and only buy new games youre genuinely excited to play

 

[flyinpiranha]

1.) Go to a hobby store, buy this:



2.) Invite some friends over.

3.) Enjoy.

This game is fun as hell!

Oh, and this generation doesn't suck. If you can't find a good game to play it's you, not the "generation".

Did I mention RC cars? So much fun.

 

[dock]

I had a bit of a lull in my love for games.

I started to enjoy games much more again once I realised that I wasn't obligated to pay any real attention to the 'wave' of popular games coverage. With the 'networks' that are in place through blogs, forums and twitter/etc it's so easy to discover a wealth of interesting content to keep me satiated.

On the other hand, so much of what you're saying sounds like a brat insisting he can do a better job. As a full-time developer I find this pretty insulting. There are a wealth of reasons why games end up the way they do, especially this generation, for better and for worse. Often for worse, but it depends on the game.

It can be important to play games for yourself. Finding your own niche, having a personal relationship with the product, rather than the weird four-way orgy between the media, the internet, the game and yourself... which can often leave you feeling quite left out!

Some people achieve this by latching onto things like the PSP or DS where there's loads of curious titles, or even the indie PC game scene. The retail PS360 market is definitely less creative at the moment, but things like Vanquish, Bayonetta, Malicious, Nier, El Shaddai and Demon Souls are still doing interesting things, and it's encouraging to see 2D fighters and SF4/MVC3 have a place again.

 

[Lunchbox]

what a depressing ass thread

hope i never become like op and always remember to take my chillpill when playing vidyagames

 

[RadarScope1]

Now I put down games that seem like they lack the potential to actually keep me interested. Just drop them like a stone.

This is big. I've started doing this, too. I don't give a rip what GAF or Metacritic say anymore. It is not worth wasting your time on games that don't connect with you but that you THINK you should like just because others do.

 

[overcast]

Saying this generation sucks is such a bullshit excuse for losing passion in a hobby. Many people still love this hobby.

 

[Rahxephon91]

Yeah this gen has been fine. Not enough Japanese titles, which is a shame, but still great.

 

[Ickman3400]

Saying this generation sucks is such a bullshit excuse for losing passion in a hobby. Many people still love this hobby.

Yup, 20+ years of gaming and this is probably my favorite gen ever. There's not a lot of dry times in the year anymore, usually just a month-month and a half in summer, and we're getting floods of good games in spring now which usually never happened in prior gens. The rise of western games really prevented any lull I might have gone through.

 

[Tain]

Saying this generation sucks is such a bullshit excuse for losing passion in a hobby. Many people still love this hobby.

Honestly, yeah. Why would new games sucking make you stop playing older games?

Where on earth is the sense in that?

 

[D3RANG3D]

Live Journal-AGE beware, long ass rant.

So, lately I've been spending much more time bitching about games than actually playing them. And I'm starting to feel like I should give this a rest for a big while, but I'm not sure if my issues are unfounded or not. They probably are.
I'll try not to turn this into yet another IQ thread, we have enough of those, but some of my issues reside there.

As an example to start off I'll use Ninja Gaiden II. For the last couple of weeks I wander off at home/wherever and begin to imagine how cool it would be for me to buy out Tecmo's share in Tecmo Koei and patch the game. Now, I'm sure a fair amount of people who like NG II would want to do the same. I start coming up with these amazing ideas for the patch, how I would create the greatest action game in existence with 6 or so months of hard work from Team Ninja. I'm so jaded that I think it's reasonable to patch BLACK, bump the native resolution to 720p and release it over Xbox Live with added Achievements. Even worse, I plan to release an NG compilation with Ninja Gaiden 2 BLACK + NG BLACK and hire Itagaki back, while buying the rights for Devil's Third along with him and have Valhalla and Team Ninja as separate studios that share staff at Tecmo. After a while I realize the ridiculousness of it all, that it'll never happen and start to feel like crap.
Then I put that off for a while and start to bitch and moan to my friends about how this generation is complete trash. How Achievements and Trophies aren't even standardized in both the content of the picture and the way they are displayed when unlocked. How MS are dumb for not enforcing some rules so that Achievements have the same basic design for their pic that. How Sony sold me on HD, 2 1080p displays ad 120fps, made me buy a new television and then some of my most played games run at sub-HD and a lot of others have atrocious framerates.
I trash MGS 4, I trash NG II, I try and fail to trash Vanquish, you get the picture.
After I'm done with that I start trashing Capcom and tell the people around me how I could turn them into the most amazing developer out there. I have a way to fix everything if given the opportunity. I'll add Trophies to DMC 4. I'll make RE5 fun. I'll take out any Capcom logos in Bionic Commando and Dark Void and create a worthy sequel to Bionic Commando. DLC will become free regardless of content and make all previously sold DLC free. I'll cancel DmC and announce DMC 5. I'll bring back Kamiya and Mikami. You name it. Kid in a candy store, pretty much. Then, the same thing happens as with NG II, I'll realize I can't and feel like crap.
Here comes Konami, same thing, but I'll have a hard time fixing them than Capcom. Rinse and repeat the whole process.
That's 3 developers already. Eventually I'm tired of trashing the Japanese and start trashing western developers. I''ll claim they have style but no substance. No attention to detail, too much emphasis on stuff blowing up, killstreaks, perks, online. Their QA is terrible, etc. (Which is funny, because even Japanese QA is terrible these days)

Pretty tired of trashing them for that, so I feel like I should bring up something new. Now it's time for the whole IQ debate. Why did I buy an HDTV? Why do these people refuse to give me 60fps? Why do they come up stuff that will force them to scale down the resolution?

At some point in all this I begin to feel like I'm an elitist with the wrong setup. My rig is... well, not complete shit, but getting close to it as time moves on. So, in theory, a high-end PC would fix my IQ issues, right? Right. Except I don't have money for it. I'm left with my 360 and my PS3 and we're back to zero. Not to mention this doesn't solve my other problems.

I don't think I've even enjoyed a game during this generation without finding some dumb design decision (in my opinion) to bash it for it. And I clearly remember being the most ignorant gamer out there, but actually enjoying games during the 90's and the PS2/Xbox/NGC days.

tl;dr, I think there's something very wrong with me and I can't really enjoy games anymore. I should be trying to have fun and stop nitpicking on petty shit. I should have a bought a God damn Wii and play only Nintendo games.

Spoiler

Venting is nice.

 

[zero margin]

I'll reply to this one since it's the most recent but, I, too have seemingly become disinterested in games. To a shocking degree. I started doing trucking which basically does not allow any time or at least the convenience to play games, so that means in the last few months I've had minimal contact with games in general and now when I pick them up I just get bored very quickly. Even the 3DS which is conducive to doing this job/lifestyle doesn't hold my interest.

EDIT - Might go back to golf and fly fishing, maybe take up shooting.