Gaming really doesn't feel enjoyable to me anymore, have I finally grown out of it? I'm 34 btw.
>>737988907Not even the older games you like feel enjoyable anymore? :(
>>737988907Stupid oldfrognigger
>>737988907you problem. age isn’t real
>>737988941Pretty much keep coming back to them, but none of the stuff released in the past decade has stuck to me.
>>737988907Explore different genres
I'm in my 40s and just today I finally beat Alexis Alexander on hard for the first time ever using Shin Fai. I found it quite enjoyable. Thanks for asking & caring.
I tinker and mod games more than play them. It's a fun hobby
>>737988907So hit the gym
If all you play is games then yeah you're going to get bored of it. You need to fill your time with other things and when you come back to games the desire will be there.
I've never heard this complaint from people who werent brain fried retards whod rather scroll their phone.The people complaining about games no longer being fun are people who don't play games. Protip: playing games would solve your problem. You just want to commiserate because its the easiest socialization you can have.
>>737988907Just dont turn into that preachy faggot now that asks everyone to stop playing games now.Nothing worse than some 30-40 year old NPC turning into that "video games are BAD for you" faggot.
>>737988907you're 34, you'll always love games you're just burnt out, literally just don't play ANY game for a few weeks, watch youtube or a streamer or some shit instead, and then eventually you'll get the urge to play something again
>>737988907> have I finally grown out of it?Better late than never.Yes, you've grown up and finally started to understand that for a man, the most important things in life are his family and children. And that after 23–25 years old, it only makes sense to play video games with your own child.I don't know your current life situation, but I strongly recommend that you start building a family as soon as possible, because 34 is already quite a late age for a man.
>>737988907I'm over 40, playing mostly old Oji-san games and having a lot of fun.
>>737988907That's literally how I felt last year (I'm 35). I finally built that RTX5090 rig and I thought I'll get to play all these big games my 5 year old rig couldn't handle anymore, then I realized they're all corposlop trash, the only nu-game that entertained me was ARC Raiders for ~30hrs.Then I got into C:DDA and after I got comfortable enough with the controls to the point I'm not fumbling around anymore and actually strategizing, I started having fun again. I'm turning every run and every encounter into a self-contained story (similar to World War Z, the book).At 34, the most fun I had that year with gaming was replaying RE2 for the first time in 20+ years and playing RE3 for the first time ever, it was a fucking trip.Tl,dr It is possible to enjoy vidya games, step outside your comfort zone and try older or more obscure games
>>737988907Just turned 40 and am rediscovering gaming now that the kid is out of the house. The excitement will come back to you soon as well, I bet.
>>737988907I'm 34 too and I read, listen to music, watch movies, play video games way less not because I lost interest or they stopped being fun, but because I think I reached the point in my life where I have to go out and TRY to be able to have fun. Having fun became work.What increased tenfold for me is mindless doomscrolling 4chan or youtube.
>>737988907Read King Arthur translated by John Steinbeck
>>737988907What does TikTokfrog have to do with any of that?
>>737988907It's either that or unemployment and sexual inexperience
>>737990123I can't take seriously someone in their early 20's trying to tell me when people are old
>>737988907It's not you... it's current modern gaming that failed us gamers
>>737988907just need a second hobby to spice things up.something more active/creative to get some form of variety
>I'm 34 and I still post pepe on the internetngmi
>>737988907I'm still having fun playing efootball, fifa, and dota
Same thing happened to me few months that's when I started pursuing other hobbies more and started limiting play time to 2 hours per day. Now I get my Guitar, Drawing and gaming done all in same day. But muh job? Don't care! lol
>>737988907I only get excitement out of older games i grew up with. Not a case of eternal nostalgia rather it's just that they rarely even make the games that i want to play anymore. Industry was better a long time ago. Now its shit. Nu /v/ likes video games that i hated back in 2007-2008-2011 and treat them as if they were classics today. So we all have very different ideas of gaming.
>>737988907fell for the psyop award
Just be more open-minded. Actually give new (or old) games a chance, don't just decide it's "slop" and move on.
>>737989031I kind of agree with this. I mean if you’re 57, you’re obviously not running record marathons. But 37? There’s still world class fighters at that age. I would say around 50 is the true decline. Before that everything is equal besides I guess recovery but that’s a meme. >hurr durr 20 year olds muscles recover faster!Literally doesn’t matter because of “old man muscle” which is just your cumulative strength after a long period of time.
>>737992201>where I have to go out and TRY to be able to have fun. Having fun became work.thisyou start thinking about the joy you had as a kid when life was full of new experiences and was low stakes. Now you can’t stop thinking to yourself “am I having fun yet” when doing any activity and it starts to feel like a waste of time.If you do things for the sake of happiness you will never find it. I find it only comes in retrospect. It’s like a curse
>>737992384I'm 32 though. Happily married with kids
>>737988907I'm 25 and just a year ago I could easily get lost for hours in any of my favorite games. Now I struggle to even start playing a game, and if I do, I frequently get frustrated and end up quitting after the first frustration I encounter. I used to be an achievement hunter and play everything on the hardest difficulty on the first try, and now I can hardly even start a new game. When I do manage to finally play something that holds my interest my love for gaming comes back and I usually finish whatever I started within the next few days, playing long 7+ hour sessions like I used to without a second thought, but it's becoming more and more rare that I can actually get myself to play something.
>>737988907it hasn't been enjoyable for like 15 years now. it's not you, some old games are still gems.
>>737988907I turn 40 this year and I game every day.
>>737995585sure you are faggot
>>737988907i'm 37 and i love to game when i'm in the mood but i feel like i need to be productive more and i get distracted by the thought while playingi will say i used to play more jrpgs and i can't enjoy that shit anymore, i got into shmups because you can just play a short sesh and it's intense enough to saturate my adhd brain
>>737995869Based
>>737988907yeah, you should just kill youself. It's over for you
>>737988907You're either gaming too much and burned out or are playing games that suck.
>thread for normalfags who never liked videogameslol.>>737993021NORMALFAG.
>>737988907I’ve just found that I have less patience for slop now that I’m olderIf a game doesn’t grab me in the first few hours I’ll drop itMost recently had this with that french game everyone was crazy about Life’s too short to waste on playing slop
>>737989072Nothing wrong with that, we're well past the age of good games. You don't have to keep up with every newly shilled FOMO slop just so you can make conversation with zoomers on /v/
>>73798890795% of games in the last decade are pure goyslop for gambling addicts and actual retards
>>737988907Your dopamine receptors are fried faggot.
I’m 32 and I never had sex
>>737996562do you feel like you’re missing out?
>>737996329You say that like this like older games weren't worse with slop. PS2 era was filled with an absolute onslaught of the most bottom of the barrel dogshit games imaginable. For every 1 gem released, there would be 30 massive pieces of shit.
>>737988907i'm 33, sounds personell problem>>737989785t. under 6' manlet
>>737996146I can’t take seriously people who only play single player games and never compete against real players
>>737996805I can't take people seriously who don't know how to appreciate a rich single player story and only play sweaty multiplayer slop.
>everything is great, it's you who has changed
>>737996562I was 24 when I had sex for the first and last time. I was shocked by how bad vaginas smell.
>>737996890>StoryFaggot
>>737996805“competing” in a video game that’s not specifically starcraft is a psyop
>>737996890>sweatythe 22 year old who just got off his min wage job from target to hop online is not "sweaty" you skilless fucking retarded bumyou faggots are so scared of anything that isn't a bot because they might...adapt like how human interaction should be
>>737997096>admits to being a 22 year old bum working at Target. Get fucked wagie. You only play multiplayer because your dopamine receptors are too fried to handle dialogue.
>>737988907i boughted a new gaming laptop and downloaded hogwarts legacy and resident evil requiem and havent launched either yet, i just play tf2
>>737997214oh shit look at this dude who can handle DIALOGUEhe can't press buttons without a 500ms reaction delay and call anyone who beats him sweaty but he can surely listen to some NPCs yap instead of reading a bookI'm so proud of you
>Noooo it's not normal to grow tired of something after +25 years!!! you're depressed!! gaming hasn't gotten worse, you're delusional!!>all the top games on steam being +10 years old is random!!!
