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no plan to either

just one day found it extremely boring, and never played them again

What is interesting, is that I was THE biggest gamer. I balanced a full time life—work and school—with like 40 hours a week of gaming

Then one day in my late teens, probably right before I turned 20, it just didn’t hit the same

I then sold every game, console, and anything else related on eBay, and haven’t played since

anyone else experience this?

Personally, I think it was just because I had started getting serious about other interests I had, and felt like gaming was getting in the way

no plan to either just one day found it extremely boring, and never played them again What is interesting, is that I was THE biggest gamer. I balanced a full time life—work and school—with like 40 hours a week of gaming Then one day in my late teens, probably right before I turned 20, it just didn’t hit the same I then sold every game, console, and anything else related on eBay, and haven’t played since anyone else experience this? Personally, I think it was just because I had started getting serious about other interests I had, and felt like gaming was getting in the way

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Happened to me when I started coding.

You lose interest in the mechanics of a game when you know how things work behind the scene.

I still like to play with retrogaming emulators though. It's probably because of the good memories they bring back.

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You lose interest in the mechanics of a game when you know how things work behind the scene.

The story of democracy and politicians.

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Exactly. In fact, I much preferred cracking the DRM on games. It was much more interesting than the game play. I was surprised games had such sophisticated DRM.

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Yeah, those were the good ol' days.

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Like when GTA V online came out and someone cracked the money code via IP somehow and people were gifting money and buying shit left and right.

[–] • 2 pts

Years ago I played COD on PC and there were a ton of maps and skins built by people who enjoyed that more than playing. Some were works of art.

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Mapping is a total rabbit hole of fun activity. I used to map for Quakeworld Teamfortress, for Quake2, and for Half-Life.

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I wish I would have had the patience

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I had that memory with the Unreal franchise. Specifically Tournament '99 and '04. I miss the arena shooter genre. Beautiful maps. Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II was another gem for user-created levels and mods. I still play Doom 2 .wads, but mostly play them in VR.

To answer OP: I game very little these days, and have been generally disinterested in playing games since around '08. Still play, but less and less each year.

Weird thing is that I never did stop collecting; I have a ridiculous collection of consoles, copiers, and games. Tons of rare stuff. Somewhere around 50 consoles, maybe more. Some 2,000 physical carts and discs... I enjoy modding and tinkering more than actually playing in most cases. Even collecting these past few years has been eschewed for guns and ammo.

I travel for work with a MiSTer loaded up with all the old console cores, and their entire libraries. Some 35,000 retro titles on it. Mostly play SNES stuff. Also travel with a gaming laptop. I use both maybe once every couple weeks. Been slowly replaying the Mass Effect Trilogy since the Legendary remaster came out. Currently toward the endgame of ME2.

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I was the same I bought the super Nintendo emulator Nintendo released with old games, someone on gumtree hacked it and put virtually every super Nintendo game on there, that was fun. But recently I bought an oled tv and have been playing that horizons forbidden West game on ps5 and it's actually pretty fucking epic in every sense, I recommend it, but even then I still find myself getting bored quicker than I used to, I used to be able to play zombies on cod for hours and get to round like 60-70 but I just don't have the patience to do that any more. Like op I just got interested in other things like making and recording music etc

I've always been jealous of people who could code though and have an intricate and in depth understanding of how PC's and software actually works. I've never had patience for math or numbers

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Numbers are just a small part of it. The computer crunches them for you.

[–] • 1 pt

Hmm one thing I've always wanted to know is, what's the difference between making something small vs like making a video game? Is the coding essentially the same but just requires a lot more of it, or for more detailed stuff is it all completely different

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I still enjoy Minecraft, probably more so now that I've been programming for years. It really put the JVM to the test.

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Discovered pussy I see.

[–] • 5 pts

Didn't happen till my thirties. Still play with friends once in awhile but it's at the bottom of list. Been playing a lot of golf lately. Really clears the mind.

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Mid 20s for me, began falling off. I was a pretty hardcore gamer growing up. Played WoW obsessively when it came out as a high schooler.

The further I got into high school, the fewer games I played, the less time I spent playing them. Then after I got out of the military and obtained employment in the civilian sector, I feel like I don't have the time to play modern games.

It seems like most modern games require you sink a significant amount of time into them in a sitting in order to make any real progress. This is great for Twitch or other streamers who make a living off of this shit... but for those of us who work 40-60 hours a week at a real job (producing things, y'know), games like this are a waste of money. "Oh neat, I have one hour of free time after work tonight. Maybe I'll play some PUBG."

You play PUBG for an hour, get your ass handed to you. "Man I suck at this game, I need to practice, what time- oh shit, I need to start getting ready for bed!" And thus your skills at PUBG stagnate.

Maybe I'm just becoming jaded and cynical as I get older?

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Same here I just don't have the free time between work and kids. When I do play for an hour or two I feel like I'm wasting my life away anyway.

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Too many auto aim faggots on PUBG

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I was just using PUBG for sake of example. It applies to games I actually like, too.

Lately, Elden Ring- I would really like to beat it, but at this rate, it's gonna be quite a while. And not because I'm total trash at souls games, but just because I don't have much free time to dedicate to it, and making incremental progress in that game gets harder and harder as the Grace sites (fires) get farther and farther apart, and the enemies get tougher and tougher, and I have to practice vs. the harder bosses more times...

Sometimes, modern games feel overwhelming. Too much shit going on, all of the screens are too busy, UI is a fucking gaudy mess, there are dozens of interconnected systems- sometimes too much is bad.

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Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

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Interestingly that's the time life became boring. When you put your toys away, is when you become an adult.

I put them away, but nothing can give me the cheap dopamine rush, gaming could give me. I feel like it's an addiction, that makes base reality less fun comparatively. And I haven't found a good replacement.

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Try learning a skill?

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Yeah, I bought a piano, started BJJ and work a lot. Helps somehow.

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Lost interest when a couple new games came out buggy and weren't fun to play while waiting for the fix. Those were the days of selling games when they weren't really ready. I'm willing to revisit the old good games one day.

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Yup. I may stumble on and play an game by an indie developer from time to time though.

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I game to this day but its now last on my list of priorities.

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Yeah, I only play with friends for about 8 hours a month total. Most games that have came out in the past decade or so have been focusing more and more on making money and realistic graphics but neglect the actual gameplay and story that made gaming such a massive industry in the first place. There are some today that are amazing and well put together but even then I can't justify spending money on them.

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Yeah, when I got my drivers license at 16yo..

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How did that matter? It's not like it really allows you to do anything, can't buy alcohol until 21 and can't work a full time job until you're out of school.

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can't buy alcohol until 21

Haha Fuckin amateur!

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Yea, somewhere around COD: 4 / Black Ops. Just got real bored with it, and real busy with life.

Then maybe about a year ago, I found out there is a way you could make your PC output old video game console's native resolutions (240p, 480i), so RGB-hacked a CRT television and hooked it up to my PC through a RGB/VGA interface. So I've been having a good time with that.

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It is surprising how good the old video games looked with their primary colors and blocky resolution. The more realistic they become, the less imagination is invested in them, and the less immersive they become.

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They look fantastic on the media they were meant to be viewed on.

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I bought some shitty games in a row, and only played half way through them. After that, I just stopped buying video games. I had some enjoyable hours playing various games, but I don't miss playing them. They just got less and less interesting until I ceased to care about them.

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