Oops, did I prefer that? Yup.

[GalaxTheWanderer]

Why does it seem like every "new" game I play now is lasting a shorter and shorter amount of time compared to the repetitive GBA games I still own? If it weren't for the standstill I'm at in both Megaman Battle Network 3 and 6, I'd much rather be completing my files than ever attempting to play...Anything new, really. StarCraft II was great fun, but it's bored me now. I don't much like playing competitively, one because I'm really not that great at it and it's boring to keep losing, even if you learn from it, and two because I don't like playing competitively by nature. Despite my hate for the White Beast runs everyone wants to do most of the time, I'd rather play PSU360 than go back to Halo: Reach for a while. The Legend of Zelda - Four Swords Anniversary Edition is boring me with "oh no you must get the gold keys now!" and going through the same stages again. I'd much rather my Harvest Moon - Friends of Mineral Town cart shows up and still works, so I could be playing that.

I'll admit, the games I've listed as "new" aren't new at all, but I can manage to take breaks from them, partly because my brother takes Reach and StarCraft II to college with him, partly because even when they are here, I'll still be playing Minecraft, Harvests Moon, PSU and Megaman Battle Network instead. New Vegas held me for a while, but it declined when I found out that max level is 30. And no, I can't get any expansions. I might be interested in going back to Elder Scrolls - Oblivion if I could, but I can't at the moment. I loved Morrowind to death, though.

As to the games I'd rather be playing, you may wish to replace the names of them with older games you own/can borrow from a friend to see if your view fits mine. I won't doubt that at least some here won't share it, but meh. Taking a chance.

[Retehi]

Just sounds like you're getting older, and nothing really holds your attention anymore like certain things from before. Only thing recent I got into was Fallout 3/NV. Everything else is just a quick romp, then it's back to the wasteland/mojave after I forget about game A and B.

Sad thing is I'm at a point where I can afford games I'd like to play now, unlike before, where I'd milk something for months on end cause I was broke.

It kinda stinks.

[GalaxTheWanderer]

It's true that I am older than when I started the games mentioned (particularly Harvest Moon), but things like megaman battle network are, ultimately, more alluring than New Vegas or Reach to me. I'm not much of a Halo fan, but playing Slayer DMRs really captured me. If I'm playing Reach, it'll be that or Firefight. As to Harvest Moon, I started FoMT and A Wonderful Life at 11 or 12, iirc; the drive to play HM games has never died for me. It is the one true constant, I guess.

Regardless, I can't cling to the tried and true forever, right?

[Zarode]

Regardless, I can't cling to the tried and true forever, right?

What's stopping you?

[GalaxTheWanderer]

Everyone has their limits, and mine are. I could very easily cling to Harvest Moon - A Wonderful Life, Island of Happiness, Friends of Mineral Town and Magical Melody forever, except that AWL's disk is too beat up to work, and I can't find FoMT.

I have found that, for Battle Network, by the time I lost my first file in the fourth game, I lost a large amount of interest in it as a series. I was right in the assumption that any more games to come would be the same style as 4. The sprites remained tiny. It was rather frustrating; I liked the sprite style of BN3, personally.

So, tl;dr? What's stopping me is I've played some of those games to death. Also BN4 had a new game + feature and I got to continue 39 once so...Yeah. I've beaten the game over 50 times now.

[Zarode]

The real question with gaming is if you are enjoying it or not. It's like going to the theater to watch bad movies. If you are into it, you love it. If you aren't, you are wasting your time, money, and effort.

There's a big reason why I'm so vocal about which games I do and don't play. Time is precious.

[Rock Eastwood]

I've been wanting to replay the battle networks...

Mostly 1 and 3 because I only got up to the last boss in those two, then my save corrupted.

But 2 was my favorite.

If I ever saw the carts in a store I'd grab em, my gameboy micro is collecting dust. Otherwise I'm in the same boat as you. I just got an xbox 360... and I'm already turning back to SNES roms.

[MESeele]

The first two Battle networks are awesome. But yeah, I know what you mean. Got a Ps3 recently, and I still end up wanting to play banjo kazooie on the 64 more than anything... Damn, the old platforms had great libraries.

Unless it has a great plot, an interesting art style or lovable characters, I can't be bothered to keep playing. They just don't hold my attention anymore. Ended up dropping fallout3 for that reason- it's a good game and has plenty to do, but... I just don't give a damn.

[CupOfCoffee]

I feel the same way. The only game I've bought in the last five years or so and really loved was Bioshock, but even that was at best a fleeting love. I wouldn't go back and play it again, for instance. Nothing seems as magical and fresh as were PSO, Pokemon Blue, Donkey Kong Country 2, Mario World, etc, upon their respective releases. I think it was mostly the lens of childhood that made those so great to me, but regardless, I still like them better than any of my 360 games.

I think this will likely be my last console generation, too. These days I rarely if ever pick up a controller—I'd rather read, or write, or browse the internet in my downtime. (Might still grab a 3DS at some point, though, if it doesn't die this Christmas. And coming out with a new version that's got the two analog sticks without the boat accessory would also help sway my decision.)

[Rock Eastwood]

I feel the same way. The only game I've bought in the last five years or so and really loved was Bioshock, but even that was at best a fleeting love. I wouldn't go back and play it again, for instance. Nothing seems as magical and fresh as were PSO, Pokemon Blue, Donkey Kong Country 2, Mario World, etc, upon their respective releases. I think it was mostly the lens of childhood that made those so great to me, but regardless, I still like them better than any of my 360 games.

I think this will likely be my last console generation, too. These days I rarely if ever pick up a controller—I'd rather read, or write, or browse the internet in my downtime. (Might still grab a 3DS at some point, though, if it doesn't die this Christmas. And coming out with a new version that's got the two analog sticks without the boat accessory would also help sway my decision.)

At first it felt like I could ONLY get into handheld games...

But the 3DS and the Vita regardless of their impressive enhancements from their past predecessors(Why the hell am I using so much big words?) They don't really light up and spark in me at all what so ever.

I can barely explain it, I guess it they just feel less like my idea of fun portable games from fun side scroller platformers to deep RPGs made of pixels and unique portable themed concepts and whatever. To just having this half-assed version of this generation's console in my pocket with short battery life.

I could be horribly wrong and prejudice or whatever, but I don't feel like paying the money to find out. Or at least there's not any games on the portables so far that interest me to do so. Maybe I've just been spoiled with old fashioned graphics for too long, and only liked last gen's graphics because they looked like PS1.

[Outrider]

I hate to break it to you guys, but maybe you were never really into gaming as much as you thought you were? Sometimes people will get really into a hobby and then drop it years later. You probably still enjoy the older games because of nostalgia, but maybe you're just not seriously into games anymore.

Which is fine.

But people on internet forums will definitely give you a hard time about it. (Obviously not this forum, of course... right?)

[Randomness]

I hate to break it to you guys, but maybe you were never really into gaming as much as you thought you were? Sometimes people will get really into a hobby and then drop it years later. You probably still enjoy the older games because of nostalgia, but maybe you're just not seriously into games anymore.

Which is fine.

But people on internet forums will definitely give you a hard time about it. (Obviously not this forum, of course... right?)

:wacko:

Nostalgia is strong. Enough to make me replay old games even though I know everything that happens.

[Gunslinger-08]

:wacko:

Nostalgia is strong. Enough to make me replay old games even though I know everything that happens.

Yep, it's this reason that I go back to games like Jedi Academy time and time again after I get bored of Halo, CoD, or whatever else more recent.

[GalaxTheWanderer]

@Outrider, of course I acknowledge that possibility, but sometimes the nostalgia drives someone to end up actually ENJOYING the game, in some cases almost as if it were only my fifth time playing it. I can't say the first, because no time feels like the first. I can't say that happens often, but when it does, it's one of the most wondrous feelings; Trust me on that.

As to playing older games, I don't find myself going back to them because I get bored of newer games. I just find that the newer games are losing something. And perhaps I don't like gaming as much as I thought I did, but...I can't say that, I can't just accept that, for if I do, I'm left with reading. If I'm left with reading, well...It won't be good. I speed through books far too fast for that to be my main source of entertainment. Television is boring as hell to me, really; Very few shows hold my interest. Law and Order SVU can, but not always. So, yeah. Dropping gaming or trying it just...isn't an option.