Has your taste in video games ever changed?

[hermes]

Yes, constantly.

I have been a gamer since I was, like, 8 years old. To think my tastes didn't grew or changed since then would be ridiculous.

 

[sageoftruth]

Not a whole lot, namely because my taste was pretty broad to begin with. Last weekend, I even went back to trying some games I used to play like Mario 64 and Banjo Kazooie, games I used to have trouble with before I knew my way around 3D controls. Then again, considering how easy they are for me now, I guess my taste has changed a bit. It was nice to re-visit them, but they were not that fun. I think I've lost interest in 3D collectathons.

I can't speak for entire genres, but there are a lot of games that I used to tolerate until new games with better controls and interfaces came along. What used to be a minor annoyance I just had to deal with is now an actual flaw that other games have solved.

 

[SlumlordThanatos]

I don't really play RTS games like I used to.

Growing up, games like Age of Empires II, Empire Earth, Starcraft, and Warcraft III were all my favorite games.

Then, when I got older, I discovered that I really, really suck at them. I was never one to learn the keyboard shortcuts and work on my APM, so I would get demolished by some Korean dude on a near-lethal dose of Adderall every time I tried to play online.

I like me some turn-based strategy, though. I only recently discovered the Civilization series...

 

[pookie101]

i used to play alot of fps and rts games as well as flight simulators alot..

i lasted 46 minutes in the new doom game before it bored the crap out of me and rts games just dont grab me anymore

as for flight simulators well the genre changed. it used to be you could press a few keys and be up in the air but these days they are so complicated its stupid and killed my interest. i miss the days of the microprose sims

 

[meowchef]

Absolutely. As I kid, I played almost exclusively sports games and platformers like Mario and Sonic. As I grew older, I became more impressed with stuff like the old Call of Duty games (2 still has a special place in my heart) and Grand Theft Auto games. When CoD moved away from historical settings which I adore, and I realized that most (if not all) open world games people cut tons of slack just because they're big (decent at lots of things... good at none) I started to pay more attention to RTS and RPGs and that has sort of evolved in more story driven games in general now.

 

[Hieronymusgoa]

I basically like the same stuff I liked about 20 years ago but I get a lot less patient with stuff that involves nothing else than spending a lot of time. I still like JRPGS but only if there is nearly no grind. I still like turn-based stuff but it has to be somewhere between Darkest Dungeon (too high a difficulty for me) and the *ahem* rock-paper-scissors of Fire Emblem. I still can't play any sports or racing game which hasn't some kind of supernatural or scifi stuff in it. I am still bad at FPSs and won't play them unless it is something like Bioshock. I am still not a big sucker for graphics and will take most weird indie-games over a triple A title, because they often do stuff differently. I play games since around 1988 or so, so I've seen most stuff already and need something really new or really well done to get me to play something longer than 30 minutes.