Videogames (and most art and literature) are at there best when they can expose you things you couldn't imagine without them. When you are a ~teenage, old enoug

Videogames (and most art and literature) are at there best when they can expose you things you couldn't imagine without them. When you are a ~teenage, old enough to understand things, but still inexperienced enough to not understand so much, they are a font of mental stimulation. Videogames taught me (some) history, geology, geography, chemistry, phsyics, math, psychology, anthropology, etc, etc. But as I got older (and as Internet got better), there were more and more real things to learn about, and life skills to work at (earning real money, doing real exercise, meeting real people), and a lot of videogame tropes stopped being novel. So they hold less appeal.