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Grown out of playing games

Grumpy the "made" mafia lieutenant · 2017-11-16T02:36:07

I've long grown out of playing games. Coding games and tools is a different thing all together, I remain fully interested and stuck with coding mobile games and wouldn't choose a different hobby/career (well apart from the fact that I long to improve my coding skills, and my maths and physics knowledge) But playing games, these days (unlike over a decade ago) genuinely bores me to death. I guess I always feel I am coding for the younger generation, similar to enjoying making toys for kids but not enjoying playing with the toys yourself I'm coding mobile games at the moment and I look at and play some few just for gameplay analysis and checking current standards and features but not because I enjoy playing them I know this certainly makes me an odd-ball here, but just wondering how far an odd-ball I am. Is there a few... maybe just one more person like me here OR just me? (if the latter then I have to make sadder clown face )

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Started by grumpyOldDude June 25, 2017 09:08 AM

31 comments, last by wildturkey 6 years, 7 months ago

matt77hias

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November 15, 2017 01:27 PM

I didn't think I would face similar cases this early, but after playing a few hours of Watch Dogs 2, I really thought: "man, I am getting old". I couldn't and still cannot empathise with the main character.

A very annoying thing about some games, is that it looks like 90% of useless grinding. Some games are built on the grinding mechanism, while other games present countless and endless boring main and side quests. I would rather play a game with a duration of 2hours that isn't repetitive than playing a game that adds an additional x hours to the same content.

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wildturkey

November 16, 2017 02:36 AM

13 hours ago, matt77hias said:

A very annoying thing about some games, is that it looks like 90% of useless grinding. Some games are built on the grinding mechanism, while other games present countless and endless boring main and side quests. I would rather play a game with a duration of 2hours that isn't repetitive than playing a game that adds an additional x hours to the same content

there was a very good visual looking RPG called BASTION that came out that was really good if you are into RPGs. it only has about 9 hrs of gameplay but the story and gameplay are good