>Despite a wider variety than ever before, video games don’t have the same effect on me as they used to. I must have hit the jackpot then, because in my 40s, g

>Despite a wider variety than ever before, video games don’t have the same effect on me as they used to. I must have hit the jackpot then, because in my 40s, games absolutely feel to me now like they used to. They continue to excite me and some of them even still take over all my free time for a while, pushing out all my other hobbies and what little social life I have. Do all of them? Nope, but they didn't all hit me like that back in my teens, either. Some of them are just astounding, though, and after playing one of those games I actually get a little sad that no other game is there to take me up to that same level of fun. The most recent game for me like that was Ni No Kuno 2, which turned out to be a lot better than I expected. (I hated the combat in NNK 1 and didn't complete it, and wasn't expecting much from NNK 2.) So glad to be proven wrong there. Other games like Uru, Fallout New Vegas, and The Witness have done the same in the past, and there's usually at least 1 each year that does it for me, if not more. Many of the games that don't hit that level of obsession still are a ton of fun, too.