I could keep playing shooters for as long as my hands could hold out as I aged, but all of the new ones are so bad. The last shooter that I saw that wasn't a st

I could keep playing shooters for as long as my hands could hold out as I aged, but all of the new ones are so bad. The last shooter that I saw that wasn't a student project/impeccably tiny indie venture and actually managed to capture the spirit of shooting while applying good modernization was DOOM 4 (the DOOM reboot). I'm super excited for Rage 2 and DOOM Eternal, and I say that as someone who was bored to tears by Rage 1 to the point where I put 45 minutes into it and stopped. The last good multiplayer shooter was Tribes Ascend, and that had plenty of flaws apart from being developed by Hi-Rez. Meanwhile, JRPGs are there for me as the shooter market has been swallowed up by the battle royale genre and Overwatch. If anything, I'm enjoying JRPGs more now than I did when I was younger. Indie (FTL, Immortal Redneck) and Doujin (Momodora, 100% Orange Juice) games have also been coming along in a big way as well. Age of Empires 2 is there for me in the modern day on modern systems with the HD release and the expansion packs, but it and Brood War Remastered seem to be the exceptions for RTS rather than the norm. I also picked up Smash Brothers for the first time in give-or-take 15 years, and I'm having a blast. There's so much work being put in to making these games fun. I wish shooters were as interesting as they used to be. Even relatively new stuff like Tribes Ascend was a blast; easy enough to get into, but with enough of a skill ceiling to really sink your teeth into it. If anything, getting older has just left me for a want for something other than CounterStrike and far better than battle royales and Overwatch.