How has your gaming taste changed with age?

[Randomologist]

It hasn't changed at all with age, I'll still play Ratchet and Clank or Burnout on my PS2 equally as much as Ill play Half-life 2 or TF2 on my PC. It has however changed with time and progression of technology- I used to be exclusively singleplayer, but since the dawn of fibre-optic internet I can actually play games like TF2 without being uselessly laggy.

 

[kayo of the Well]

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[ElPatron]

Used to hate First Person Shooters, my main genres were third person shooter/adventure/platform and RTS. Preferred console over PC.

Now I prefer PC over consoles and like flight sims and FPS.

 

[xPixelatedx]

When the N64/ps1/saturn where on their way out and the Xbox/PS2/gamcube were new, I was excited to see what gaming would be like when it was all gritty and real. Then the PS3/Xbox360 gave us this:

Now.... I just want to see it all burn in a fire.

I play a new game today, and my first response is, "Oh! Zombies/Russians.... again". I don't mind repetition with something that works, but I was never a fan of zombies or war to begin with. Such a imagination-less enemy, no thought has to be put into them at all. I liked it better when games had things, you know: creatures, robots, dinosaurs etc.I am tired of playing games and thinking, "Man, this would be sooo much more fun if *insert something from previous generations here*". Games have gotten so bland and un-fun, that's happening every single time now, which is why I have basically given up and am focusing more on increasing the size of my SNES/Sega Saturn/PS1/Gamecube catalog. many of the good games I missed out on turn out to have what I have been missing: Fun. They will also go to any absurd length to give it to me, realism and grittiness be damned! That is the best thing a video game can do.

 

[AD-Stu]

Mine hasn't changed a whole lot in about 20 years of gaming - Western RPGs and driving games have always been my favourites, and that hasn't changed.

What has dropped off is my interest in FPS and RTS games - I loved the first Starcraft, for example, but by the time the second one finally came out I just didn't care about it or the genre as a whole any more. Same with FPS - I date all the way back to Wolf3D, Doom and Quake, but I can't remember the last time I actually spent any real time playing an FPS. I think I had a brief dalliance with the first Rainbow Six game, and that's about it.

 

[esperandote]

My taste hasn't changed just my time to play that's why i play less games over time.

On second thought I moved from Capcom fighting games to The King of fighters.

 

[Tanis]

My tolerance for grind has dropped like a rock over the years.

I'm the same.
While I enjoy JRPGs, I enjoy the more if I can grind less.

I USED to be a HUGE JRPG fan.
If it was turn based, and made in Japan, I got it and I played the CRAP out of it.

Now?
Eh...ANY turn-based game makes me iffy.

 

[Punch You]

My tastes haven't really changed, it's more like they've expanded over the years. I used to hate shooters back when goldeneye and Medal of honor: frontline came out, but now I love certain shooters and first person games, though usually not the multiplayer ones.

 

[Chasing-The-Light]

When I was a kid, all I really played was Harvest Moon and pokemon games. Now I play a lot more variety of games.......... and still play HM and pokemon. xD

 

[spaceinvaderj]

I'm sick of cover-based shooters. I personally preferred shooters such as GoldenEye (wow, that dates me) where there was actual strategy besides "Oh, look! Enemy! HIDE!".

Monster Hunter Tri would have to be one of my favourite games, along with Skyward Sword and TF2.

 

[Creator002]

I was into all sorts of games when I was a kid. I had an N64, so I had Mario Kart, Super Mario, Legend of Zelda, Goldeneye, Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer and Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire.
In high school I had a GameCube which I traded for a PS2 which I traded for an Xbox, so I had a number of different games over the course of those. Most of the games on the latter 2 were RPGs and Action Adventure (though I had Halo and Halo 2).
Last year, before I sold my Xbox 360, I mainly had FPSs (CoD: BlOps, BF3), but I eventually sold that to build a gaming PC and know I have all RPGs and Action Adventures (Dragon Age, Fallout: NV, Skyim, GTA IV).