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.
You lose interest in the mechanics of a game when you know how things work behind the scene.
The story of democracy and politicians.
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.
Yeah, those were the good ol' days.
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.
Same here.
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.
Mapping is a total rabbit hole of fun activity. I used to map for Quakeworld Teamfortress, for Quake2, and for Half-Life.
I wish I would have had the patience
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.
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
Numbers are just a small part of it. The computer crunches them for you.
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
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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