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[SmokedMeat]

Only real change for me outside of less playtime, is I've gravitated away from dedicated gaming handhelds. It's just more convenient to whip my phone out, then bring along a gaming portable.
I still haven't even bothered installing this month's free Plus games on my Vita.

 

[Anth0ny]

I have way less time to play nowadays, so I try to reach those credits as quickly as humanly possible. Fuck side quests. If the game is good enough, I make a note of it and intend to return and 100% it at some point in the future.

A far cry from getting a game for my birthday and playing the living shit out of it from top to bottom until I get another game for Christmas =/

 

[Degen]

My patience is waaay down

If I can't figure out how to beat an enemy in a limited amount of time, that might be the end of my playthrough lol

RPGs are a thing of the past, not that I was ever really into them

 

[ys45]

I used to play too much games at the same time (a few years back) and was almost never finishing them.
Now I play one game at a time until it's finished (sometime 2 but on a completely different system)

No longer playing multiplayer VS, only playing coop and since it's too much time consuming I don't play mmorpg anymore

 

[Shadow_FFVI]

I can´t for the life of me play games that I don´t think are at least great. I´m married, and need time for my wife, for work, and all of my responsabilities. If I´m going to play, I better love the game or I just can´t invest the time on it.

I used to play even mediocre games if I´d find some redeeming factors, but now I´m not that lenient.

Couldn´t get into Bioshock Infinite, having a blast with Rayman Legends.

 

[Seanspeed]

Overall gamer score definitely not, but checking out a friends game list and noticed he platinumed Dark Souls.... that's my boy, right there.

As a way to kind of judge what sort of gamer somebody is or what they are enthusiastic about, yea, I could see it being pretty useful.

Anyways, the way I game is constantly changing. I feel like I'm becoming more open minded, yet more particular at the same time. Like, I'm willing to try out other types of games more than I would have in the past, but I'm also very quick to drop something or decide if something isn't for me rather than persist with it. I think this is largely a result of being able to afford to do this now. Console games were fairly expensive and if I didn't think a game was great, just decent, I would often stick with it cuz I paid for it and felt I should get my money's worth. Nowadays, 'decent' doesn't really cut it with me anymore. PC games are often fairly cheap, and I'd rather waste $5-10 than waste 5-10+ hours of my life playing something I don't feel is particularly noteworthy. Too many great games out there that should be taking my time instead. Time>money.

 

[JudgmentJay]

The only major shift in my gaming habits happened in ~middle school when I finally discovered the world of JRPGs with Final Fantasy VII. I've always enjoyed both challenging games and just for fun games, and I've always played on any and all platforms with a preference for PC as soon as I had a decent one. No change there.

I always see people saying they've lost their patience for challenging games as they get older... I really hope I never get to that point. It'd be a shame to miss out on amazing games like those in the Souls series due to a lack of patience.