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Is it me or are games really not fun anymore (geddit.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Cayenne05dingos@geddit.social to c/gaming

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The best part of video games back in the day was making memories with your friends, now it all feels like structured fun. “This is how you play the game and this is when you are supposed to have fun” Idk if that makes sense.

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[–] DEXSIC 2 points 1 year ago

How old are you. It could be a factor? I am in my late 30s, and have been gaming on PC/Arcade/Consoles since I can remember. The older I get, the more I find video games in general to be 'less fun'. The issue is not the games generally, but what I want out of the games. Also, time is an issue. I have other things that compete with video game time when compared to when I was 12 or 18, and those other things are usually more fun. So playing a video game is the alternative to doing something else I wanted to do, which makes it a chore or not as enjoyable as if I wanted to play the game in the first place.

Take a popular game like Call of Duty. My friends and I sat around the room playing Modern Warfare on the Xbox 360. Passing the controller around, talking smack with each other, being social. That was the experience that was fun, not the game itself. Playing CoD alone on my couch was and is boring/frustrating if you are not in the mood to go super sweaty pro gamer mode.

I'd rather just hang out with my friends than play a video game because that is what I usually did anyway when I played video games. And when I was playing games solo when I was younger, it was because I had no other options or choices for things to do, so the game was fun.

I don't want to be the old man trying to tell others what to do, but I can say what works for me. I have:

1 game I play as an option for when I generally just want to play a video game over anything else. For me, that game has been Dota since WC3 days.
1 game I play for fun when I have nothing else to do (currently Diablo 4. If my wife is asleep or I have no other plans with 1-2 hours to spare, it is a nice way to relax).
1 game where I can hop on a discord voice chat and play with my friends. This is random, and is sometimes spontaneous. This is a way to recreate what my friends and I had when we were younger. The game is on, and we are playing it, but the social component is the fun part, not the game.