I am trying not to give out to many personal details so pardon the vagueness of my situation. Two months ago I moved 3000km away from home, I will be moving back there but not until early next year (barring unforeseeable circumstances). This has resulted in me playing a lot more PC and console games than I have in a long time and its made me realize something: I barely like any games anymore.
The majority of my gaming has been in more traditional forms, I play D&D with my friends. Historically I've DMed most often and that's a 15hr a week job with players as experienced as mine. I've really only had time to play video games I thought were great and just assumed that other good games were coming out but I just didn't know about them. I was wrong.
At first I found a few games I liked but played them all to death. Like I said, I've just spent two months away from my friends and have few chances to meet other like minded people here. I have made friends but they are related to what I'm doing here. I've had little better to do than sit at home and game. However in the last two weeks I have not found a single game that has come out in the last 5 years that can hold my interest that I haven't already played to death, on PC or any console.
I'm not really looking for suggestions, I've already looked over a bunch of similar posts in this and other forums for that before I ran out of titles that interest me. What I really want to discuss is that why I think this is the situation in the first place and I think there are two main reasons.
1. I'm a D&D player so I like fantasy RPGs but no video game can come close to table top RPG in terms of giving me the gaming experience that I want let alone a plot and characters I care about. I love Oblivion and Mass Effect but I played those to death years ago and I don't need to again. Don't get me started on MMORPGs, my gf being a WoW player drives me to insanity on a daily basis.
2. Game companies like television and movie studios are always out for a safe buck and I'm tired of the same old crap. It feels like I played the top few games of each genre already (some years ago, others more recently) and everything else are lesser versions of those. Its not like I don't give other games a chance but most cant hold my interest. One of my first posts on this forum was to say I have not been able to enjoy any other RTS games after having played Supreme Commander and its pretty much like this across the board. If I am bored of the best game in a genre and no one else is even matching its level let alone trying anything new whats the point?
I would really like to know what the people here think of this trend. I know I'm not imagining it because I work in an industry that is about selling out to make money. I think gaming becoming more mainstream is killing it for me, the lowest common denominator is mattering to much these days and I get enough of that with my work. Yes I'm an elitist but I've earn it, I'm a writer and I'd have a lot more money than I do now if I was willing to sell out.
The majority of my gaming has been in more traditional forms, I play D&D with my friends. Historically I've DMed most often and that's a 15hr a week job with players as experienced as mine. I've really only had time to play video games I thought were great and just assumed that other good games were coming out but I just didn't know about them. I was wrong.
At first I found a few games I liked but played them all to death. Like I said, I've just spent two months away from my friends and have few chances to meet other like minded people here. I have made friends but they are related to what I'm doing here. I've had little better to do than sit at home and game. However in the last two weeks I have not found a single game that has come out in the last 5 years that can hold my interest that I haven't already played to death, on PC or any console.
I'm not really looking for suggestions, I've already looked over a bunch of similar posts in this and other forums for that before I ran out of titles that interest me. What I really want to discuss is that why I think this is the situation in the first place and I think there are two main reasons.
1. I'm a D&D player so I like fantasy RPGs but no video game can come close to table top RPG in terms of giving me the gaming experience that I want let alone a plot and characters I care about. I love Oblivion and Mass Effect but I played those to death years ago and I don't need to again. Don't get me started on MMORPGs, my gf being a WoW player drives me to insanity on a daily basis.
2. Game companies like television and movie studios are always out for a safe buck and I'm tired of the same old crap. It feels like I played the top few games of each genre already (some years ago, others more recently) and everything else are lesser versions of those. Its not like I don't give other games a chance but most cant hold my interest. One of my first posts on this forum was to say I have not been able to enjoy any other RTS games after having played Supreme Commander and its pretty much like this across the board. If I am bored of the best game in a genre and no one else is even matching its level let alone trying anything new whats the point?
I would really like to know what the people here think of this trend. I know I'm not imagining it because I work in an industry that is about selling out to make money. I think gaming becoming more mainstream is killing it for me, the lowest common denominator is mattering to much these days and I get enough of that with my work. Yes I'm an elitist but I've earn it, I'm a writer and I'd have a lot more money than I do now if I was willing to sell out.
