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Gamers who have gamed for a long time (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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do you find it difficult to get into games? I’ve got Epic Games and Steam Games libraries chock-full of classic top-tier games along with many other newer games like Stray or 2077, and a bunch of indie titles. I just can’t be bothered to download and install them, much less try to get into the characters and storylines. Used to be I couldn’t wait to see what happened in the story, what new items you could collect, what new worlds the developers had created. Not anymore. I return to playing the same franchise for a quick FPS match or three and then I’m done.

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[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah for me it's the sheer number of games, plus the increasing enshittification of games and just being older and having less free time. I literally have like 200 games I've got for free across various platforms, so if I fire one up and it's clearly not finished, or it's immediately trying to sell me stuff or even if it's just a bit boring and annoying I'll dump it immediately and move onto the next one.

Whereas when I was a kid I had a SNES with about 10 cartridges and that was it, so I played the shit out of those even when they sucked lol

[-] houseofkeb@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I know right! Every time I come back to a game and they've changed every thing about it again I wonder why I bother. I think that's part of the reason Melee has survived for so long, the community establishes the meta more than someone whose incentive is to keep selling you things.

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