Kind of. I've been playing a lot of PS2/GBA era games lately and I've been having more fun than most modern releases.

I'm definitely "behind a generation" where I wait for games to be available to easily torrent and run on Linux.

Cutting yourself at some arbitrary point on time makes no sense. I simply don't play games I'm not interested in, and play ones that I am. I'm looking forward to Civ VII while playing NES games.

For one, I see no reason to decide I'll never play any game made after a certain point, barring a hardware requirement that I don't want to fulfill (eg buying a new console). That's just arbitrarily limiting good media that I could enjoy.

Second, the "Game Library Completion" preoccupation is another mistake, imo. I understand feeling bad about "wasting" money, but turning one's hobby into a (monumental) task/chore isn't gonna help that. It'll probably just ruin that hobby.

All that said, do what makes you happy. If that's all you want to do, I hope you enjoy it.

Nope. I play a mix of old and new, and I probably always will.

It's just like books, just because the are lifetimes worth of old books doesn't mean I should ignore the new books. I read a mix of classics and recent releases, both usually through the library.

I’ve committed to PC gaming full-time now.

Same, though we also have a Switch because it's just so good for party games. We play couch co-op with our kids and friends, and will probably get the next Switch as well.

95% of my gaming is on the PC, whether my Steam Deck or desktop PC. I play some recent games (currently playing Hogwarts Legacy), as well as plenty of old games (I just played Firewatch from 2016), and I recently bought games from the 90s.

I don't really care when a game was released, as long as it's good. I'll even occasionally play new releases (bought Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom at launch), though I usually wait until they've finished patching the game (1-2 years if I'm really excited). I add new games to my wishlist all the time and check back periodically until I feel like it's ready.

So yeah, I play games from all eras.

I used to spend more on new games but I have cut back a lot, largely because new games suck and are very poorly optimized. I have refused hardware upgrades due to the absurd costs and been playing more on my Steam Deck instead.

Currently playing State of Decay 2 and Helldivers 2, will circle back to Hogwarts Legacy, Core Keeper, and a few other games later.

I’ve been gaming since the late 1970s, and have never considered any sort of cut off date. I just play what interests me (lately that’s been VR games in various genres).

I can’t imagine ever losing interest in new games or platforms, because there’s always a new experience out there and, for me at least, that’s the point. I can’t play everything, obviously, but I can prioritise my time where I think I’ll have the most fun.

I don't see any generation of gaming. Maybe because I don't buy and play on consoles. Even consoles have started to lose generations with backwards-compatibility, re-releases, upgrades, and digital stores.

I play what interests me. And I buy even more than I play of what interests me.

The idea of having enough or too many games to play, I think I reached on about 1.3k games in my Steam library. Because a year has 365 days, so 1300/365 = 3,56, so I could play a different game every day for 3 years. That's unrealistic to match [for me]. Now I have 3.8k games in my Steam library. Which is fine by me; I support what looks interesting to me, and maybe I'll get to them, or some I prioritize, and some are bundled noise or freebies.

I'm not going to stop stumbling over new and interesting games though. And most certainly not evade them when I stumble over them.

Graphically we've had diminishing returns for quite some time now. I also don't find myself that interested in the games from major studios because they're generally just not very good.

I don't see a reason to artificially limit myself, but there are more then enough games from the past to keep me entertained.

That said there are some games on the horizon I am looking forward to. The next Witcher and Civ VII come to mind. I'm sure their GOTY editions will be great!

PS5

Here's the list of the 21 exclusive titles: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:PlayStation_5-only_games

I stopped buying current releases around 2020.

My cut off will be when there are literally 0 games I have interest in.

Nah. I'll always play what I find interesting but I'll go by price, not generation (as a non console gamer, what even is a generation?). Played lots of early access / new releases this year, but never spent over $25 on any single game.

I'm a single player/casual coop guy for sure. I enjoy some multiplayer but not if it's crazy competitive. I'm not going to enjoy getting stomped by kids screaming into voip.

So yeah I know what I'm most likely to enjoy but I'll always keep an eye out for new stuff. And indie games seem to leverage older design principles. And it looks like true remakes are becoming more common

No. I feel like there's always going to be something that catches my attention.

Who knows, maybe in another 10 years we'll get a game series that's on par with the Arkham games, or there will be another Spider-Man series that will get me hyped.

Pretty sure that barring some exceptions, I've reached that point now.

Now if you excuse me, I have some modded Doom 2 to play, followed by a reverse-engineered Mario 64, and finally a Zelda3/Super Metroid randomizer. If I have time, perhaps I'll even get in some rounds of Counter-Strike 1.6 or Diablo 1 (DevilutionX port of course)

No, I bought consoles when I was a kid, haven't since. If it isn't available on PC it just didn't exist in my mind.

No. To each their own, but I think that'd be a ridiculous stipulation to place on myself and it's hard to imagine why anybody would want to do it outside of super niche reasons.

I see no reason to "cut myself off" at any point, I still find games released in the last few years that look interesting, and some with release dates TBD that look neat.

I haven't bought a new console since July 2015 and have no plans to buy a new generation any time soon.

When my current console dies, I might upgrade, but likely I will find a cheap used replacement and keep playing what I already have.

Someday I will update all my stuff, just not today.

I think depression and anxiety are taking care of that for me. I absolutely loved God of War (2018), but for whatever reason the scale of Ragnarok intimidated me so much that I put the game down within the first 10 hours and haven't been back.

I wouldn't want to restrict myself to a specific platform or timeframe but I could give up some major genres. For example I'd be ok with letting go of all FPS and most 3D focused games (presentation, not rendering tech).

I haven’t bought any of the new consoles; the only thing I’ve seen come out that’s interested me but I can’t play on the previous generation is Microsoft Flight Simulator. Maybe someday I’ll get a Series X for that, but I think I’d enjoy the experience on PC better anyway (really curious to try it in VR with my Quest) so I think I’d rather spend the money on building a new gaming PC that can handle that.

I’m not consciously cutting off any generation, I just haven’t had the time for as much gaming now and I haven’t had the budget to pursue the latest and greatest, especially if I probably won’t have time to play it anyways.

Only console I ever got was the original Game Boy. But I'll definitely upgrade my PC at some point, there's only so many games I actually like and I don't think I'll be content just never playing the next Baldur's Gate 3. I'll have to upgrade my PC anyway at some point just for regular PC things, might as well buy a new GPU, too.

I might consider stopping when there's some new ubiquitous gaming technology that I'm just not into (e.g. I still haven't tried a VR game and I'm not keen on changing that anytime soon).

This console generation has been a thorough failure. I have a ps5 which is great to play my ps4 games, but I will only be investing in PC from here on out. Hopefully they release a more powerful steam deck soon that can play my ps3 and xbox360 reliability

Not really, I wouldn't watch big names though, they're going to pump out the same stuff as always.

I would expect new and good games to continue to come out and I'm looking forward to them.

I stopped buying games after COD something, the last multilayer where you could host your own server.

There aren't that many games that are really so timeless and epic that you have to play them, and most are a waste of time. If anything the industry only produces enough high quality games each year for my wishlist to remain about the same size as I buy a handful that interest me and play them.

Seems I'm way too picky for that. I fell down an MMORPG rabbit hole for several years a while back and have spent the last several years catching up. Already starting to feel like I've played most everything from older gens I'm going to really like.

One thing I've noticed is I'm wishlisting way more upcoming games than before. There's the occasional exception, but if I keep a rolling release schedule, I'll generally still be playing new stuff well after release.

I'm done with consoles now. I'll keep what I have but if the current generation is anything to go by it is just not worth bothering anymore.

I think we all do that naturally a little bit, just like we also do it for music, and to maybe a lesser extent movies. But completely cut off? Probably not

Not really. I always play to old and new games in parallel. But I have to admit that I tend to play old games more often now then in the past (50/50 now vs 20/80 in the past 15 years ago).

At some point, I realized I will never have enough time to play all the games I want. I would not even be able to play once again through all the games I played in the past even if I gave up new releases until my death.

I do not focus on a specific generation nor machine, I jump between them back and forth depending on my mood. Sometimes I play a few games from the same machine in a row, but it’s not a rule.

I think we have to accept this « frustration ». It’s not even limited to video games. You can’t experience everything, learn everything, go everywhere, in a single lifetime. Life is not a todo list after all.

In a sense, you can even see it as a « bless »: you will never run out of games to play in your life, even if you only enjoy a few types of games.

My only « rule » is to complete every game I start. I think it’s a waste of my time / money otherwise. As a consequence, it forces me to select my games wisely. I won’t start a game before I am sure I will find it interesting enough.