I can remember playing super mario bros (the OG one) on my console when i was a wee lad since then playing games never gave me any joy and felt like i was wasting time for nothing .
Edit : For clarification i do enjoy other mediums such as tv, movie, books and enjoy working out etc. its just gaming that i am burned out of .
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I still game but I feel this. I haven’t bought a AAA game in a long time. It’s all fewer and fewer features and details wrapped in shiny graphics using copypasta code from 20 years ago. All the big studios got bought by entities whose only concern is driving up share value, run by people who don’t even play games. Capitalism ruins everything.
To add to this, indie games can be a nightmare if you don’t have great hardware.
I had a low end graphics card in my PC for a few years because I rarely gamed. I looked at some indie games to see if I wanted to get back in to gaming with a low priced game first, so that it didn’t matter too much if I didn’t like it. There were loads of games that had late 90s style graphics, that looked like the platformers I used to play, but they needed quite high end specs to run, especially the graphics.
That put me off looking at indie games for quite a while. Something that looks worse than my SNES asking for at least a 1080 seemed wrong.
In the SNES days, everything had to be optimized. Nowadays, you don’t need to optimize anything because most people have hardware that’s overkill for that era of gaming. Even the engines are probably geared towards hardware that the “average” Steam user has.
That’s a good point, and it’s a shame that it’s correct. There seems to be a load of games that could run on a SNES if they were optimised, but need a proper gaming PC instead.
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