Why have I been so bored with games lately?
So I've been playing video games ever since I was a kid. My dad started me with Frogger on the Atari 2600 and I continued through through most of the systems all the way to my current PS3. I loved video games. But lately, I'm sad to say, I kind of lost my spark. I have to push myself to be interested. For some reason, it's hard for me to really gain interest in most of these next gen games.
Now it's not the games that are at fault here. There are AMAZING games out there. What I actually think is changing is me as a gamer. Back in the day, I always wanted to get my hands on the next best thing. I wanted to play every AAA title, discount bin, and used game that I could get my hands on. But now, something weird happened.
I used to blame this on the death of the split screen, a.k.a online gaming. I thought that the days of all of your friends sitting on the couch playing games together was the golden age and I would reminice about how things used to be better. But really, back then, it was kind of a rarity for me to partake in 4-player split screen. We had our Goldeneye, Timesplitters, Smash Bros. and Halo moments but comparing that to the number of single player games I used to play it's a very small chunk.
My latest theory is that I've played so many games, that a lot of games are starting to look the same to me. But I still can't bring myself to fully buy into that excuse.
Maybe my taste in games are becoming more defined. 1st person shooters and 3rd person adventure games don't really do it for me anymore. I find myself really enjoying puzzle games and more of the old classic arcade/console games.
Hmm. I think that may be it. I guess I felt guilty that I wasn't fully enjoying the large production AAA titles anymore and was finding more joy in the more classic style gameplay. The top titles are still entertaining to play but I think I would find myself starting up a game of Megaman before Uncharted.
I don't know, now that I've been thinking about it maybe my new found love of board games influenced this problem. Or maybe I'm getting older and this is what happens when you have more things to worry about than just school. Or maybe I'm just too afraid to let go of something that has been a part of my life since I was a child and I feel like I'm betraying it by walking away from it. Or maybe I'm looking too far into something when there's nothing really there at all and I'm just plain ol' genuinely bored. Psh, all of this complaining is lame, I think I'm going to go find a game to play.
