How did you maintain your love and excitement for gaming?
The excitement and love for gaming died off for me at about age 22, now I am in my mid 30s and I still don't play video games or have any interest to.
I see people my age still going nuts over video games just like they did when they were 12 years old. How do they do it? How do they retain that childlike excitement?
>How did you maintain your love and excitement for gaming?
i didnt, but i still hope of it returning eventually
>How do they retain that childlike excitement?
they are probably stupid, with easily influenceable minds.
>How do they retain that childlike excitement?
by being effeminate manchild cucks
My hype for gaming died out in my mid 20s. I don't give a damn about modern games that much. Or rather, I pick up games when they've been out for several years.
Do something else. Don't make it your "main" hobby. You'll just burn out.
You know why you enjoyed videogames so much as a kid? It's because it let you took a break from the drudgery of school.
By not letting go
I am 25 and still love games. Just put over 100 hours in Yakuza 7. I go in and out of gaming phases though. Sometimes months without interest in games, and sometimes I spend entire weeks just gaming and thinking about gaming.
I stopped enjoying video games when I started lifting weights. I didnt even intend on that happened, it just happened. Something about the gym made me stop caring about video games. I cant pin point exactly what it is, perhaps its the progression system of the gym? I dont know, but whatever I was getting out of video games, it got replaced by lifting weights.
Half Life came out when I was 32 so I was already past that doomer phase
Weed and antidepressants.
40 here, still enjoying video games as much as I did back then when I was 16.
One thing though I still enjoy playing old games once in a while but rarely replay any modern one. I'm not going to make any conclusions, that's just how it is for me.
I lost interest for a few years but came back
Catching up now and playing almost a game per week
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Cool, go back to sucking dicks on Zig Forums then. Why are you even here?
Do they use the internet a lot, or go to reddit, or even this place? They're probably "ignorant" then. And what I mean by that is that they're not reading about all the criticism and negativity that the internet is known for. Helps to stay excited for new games and such. The internet can really hijack your reward system too if you spend way too much time on it, especially in places like these. That's my shitty opinion, as I'm approaching my mid-30s too, and it's rare I find a game I enjoy nowadays, though I still appreciate some here and there. It's not as exciting as it once was for me.
You probably burned yourself out on porn and drugs. As a result, those vidya games just don't cut it anymore. At least that's my theory.
32 here, and I still play vidya. I have a feeling I'll always play vidya. Started on platformers, moved on to shooters, and have been into MMOs/RPGs for half my life
based lifting bro
>How do they retain that childlike excitement?
They probably play it casually, like a normie. The reason you've been burned out is because you played way too many video games than normal and like a drug it has numbed your dopamine responses.
Stop playing video games. Stop watching porn. Stop using the internet. Do this for at least 3 months. You'll reset your brain and then you'll have a great appreciation for all media.
Sometimes you just gotta move on
I play shmups
>How did you maintain your love and excitement for gaming?
By not buying into the hype trends and just enjoying the games that I like, same thing I did as a kid.
I went through those boredom phases now and then when I was in high school and even more when I was a NEET. Then I quit playing games for four months while I studied Japanese, started playing games in Japanese, and that seemed to do wonders. For a while it was just the excitement of playing games in Japanese that kept me interested, but I was fine even when playing English games. That was years ago and my interest hasn't faltered since. Working for the past several years probably helps too since I never feel like I have enough goddamn time for all the games I want to play. It's gotten to the point where I'm starting to try to convince myself to skip some games I'm interested in just so I don't always feel "behind' and have time for other things.
i haven't enjoyed a game for years
>35 oldfag
Sometimes i play a lot and other times i don't play any game for weeks. As i have money i tend to have a lot of games so i can chose when i want to play. I enjoy old games and new games. These weeks i played genshin impact, then jedi fallen knight (on hard) and now i'm with ys seven.
I also play apex legends, never get into fps multiplayer until it came, and i jave a lot of fun, even when i'm average at best.
i feel the same way about movies and tv shows
there were years where i just havent watched it at all because i got burned out
games are just a form of media now, by getting older you are not getting back in time to newspapers and lawns and shit, just wait for that one game to suck you back in
I didn't. I don't feel excited for games anymore, maybe a little for certain releases but generally not. The feeling disappeared in my late teenage years.
By letting go of the older games, realizing that the past inst coming back and playing new stuff.
>How did you maintain your love and excitement for gaming?
I only play what I know I like in moderate amounts and when I know it isn't distracting me from other responsibilities. That's literally it.
30 and love games
Sounds like you might just be a miserable person generally. You should probably leave Zig Forums, it’ll just make you more obnoxiously cynical.
im 30 and i mostly watch streams of people play video games instead. Once in a while I will commit to play one video game and finish it to completion rather than going back and forth between games. Instead of binge watching Netflix or watching pointless tv shows, I play video games instead so my co-workers can't judge me.
>I see people my age still going nuts over video games just like they did when they were 12 years old. How do they do it?
They are probably still in the mental age of 12.
It's normal to lose your child-like excitement. What is not normal is to lose interest all together.
I'm turning 32 and I feel like gaming is almost the best it ever was. The diversity of the medium, brought on by renessaince of mid-range level gaming publishing and emergence of indie scene, plus the amazing accesibility of older games which are often now better than ever thanks to community support, the fact that AAA gaming has dramatically improved from what it was during the 7th gen all together make games almost exciting to me as they were in the golden era.
Sure, I've learned to be a lot more sceptical, I don't get hyped for games pre-release anymore, my expectations are much more realistic and reserved, but my god I can't complain about not having games to play and have as much fun as I had with them as a kid.
Come to think of it, almost half of my all-time favorite games came over the last five or ten years anyway. Games like Factorio, Pathologic 2, Prey, Bastion, Alien Isolation, Doom Eternal, Dusk or Space Engineers are all amazing products of current day age.
Meanwhile, I can pick up games as old as Master of Magic now with massive explansion, complete reballance and actually solid A.I., or replay Morrowind with visual enahncements that make it look better than any contemporary fp-RPG and so much improvements and so much new content that it's actually bigger than Oblivion and Skyrim combined - and for the cost of a pack of cigarettes.
You have no idea how much fun I have with what dedicated post-release support has done for games like Freelancer, Gothic, Morrowind, Red Faction...
Gaming is great now. AAA area has a lot of space to improve, but overal, things are better than ever.
>By letting go of the older games, realizing that the past inst coming back and playing new stuff.
Factorio took all "tycoon" type games and transcended all of it. You are wrong, you are just looking at the wrong part of what is now just an amazingly diverse and wide industry.
Tell me which game you can't let go and come back each year. For me it's diablo 2.
Fallout 1/2
Master of Magic
and also my bizzare guilty pleasure:
Shogo: Mobile Armor Division.
I do not understand the last one, I have no idea why I love that absolute piece of shit so much.
>How did you maintain your love and excitement for gaming?
I don't. I just make other people feel bad for theirs.
>childlike excitement
give up on this immediately, it'll fail and make you miserable while rendering you pathetic to the outside. this is where söyfaces come from. just pace yourself, when games was all i did it became mundane and pointless. do something else with your time like a job or higher education, make it special again. simply limiting your time with vidya is enough to make it something to look forward to.
That's my point bro, a lot of people are stuck in the past on these older games and automatically assume anything new is bad, so they end up missing out on fun games.
almost 25 here, done nothing but play vidya my whole life and i still get excited for new ones, the most recent being project wingman
sounds like you need to stop playing AAA garbage