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As I've gotten older its rare for me to enjoy games, I can't seem to play for more than 15 minutes before wanting to turn it off/feel like I'm bored.

unixhero 3y ago
Oh my dear dear bored wanderer. You have not tried Baldirs Gate 3.
stcroixx 3y ago
As I get older, game controls just get too complex for me to enjoy casually. Way too many combinations of stuff to remember. NES is most fun - 2 buttons and a d-pad.
- Aachen 3y ago
  What age range is 'older' here? Controls have gotten easier in my experience, at least on anything made for a mainstream audience. Recently it came up on a podcast with a game reviewer among the hosts that games nowadays seem to all have a setting where enemies can be beaten by looking at them angrily and how it's basically story mode at that setting, and how much that's doing for inclusivity and how many non-gamers they've seen play/enjoy such-and-such game. More anecdotal, my partner started playing hogwarts a few days ago and wanted to set it to easy. The default was normal, and there's also "story mode" and "hard" available at opposite ends of the spectrum. She's terrible with wasd+mouse (her own words, but I concur) and wanted to go for easy but I encouraged her to go with the default setting, figuring that'll be balanced to be enjoyable for Harry Potter fans (who are book nerds, not necessarily gamers). So far, she's managed to beat everything in one try! I'm surprised you experience the opposite
  - stcroixx 3y ago
    47. NES had 2 buttons plus a d-pad. An xbox controller has 8 buttons, 2 joysticks, and a d-pad - it's all just too much for me to have fun with. I'd learn to play the accordion if I was up for all that.
undopamine 3y ago
Yup. Realized this when I tried to catch up after a nine-year gap. It has started feeling like a chore now, I find myself playing for the sake of finishing it instead of being in the moment.
CobaltFire 3y ago
This was absolutely true for me up to this year. What changed? I retired, and my chronic burnout started to recede (slowly). I realized that, for me, the issue was learning and remembering new systems were introducing a cognitive load that I just couldn't handle on top of the load I was carrying. I know that's not directly helpful, but it may be worth looking at whether you are showing signs of burnout.

unixhero 3y ago

Oh my dear dear bored wanderer. You have not tried Baldirs Gate 3.

stcroixx 3y ago

As I get older, game controls just get too complex for me to enjoy casually. Way too many combinations of stuff to remember. NES is most fun - 2 buttons and a d-pad.

Aachen 3y ago
What age range is 'older' here? Controls have gotten easier in my experience, at least on anything made for a mainstream audience. Recently it came up on a podcast with a game reviewer among the hosts that games nowadays seem to all have a setting where enemies can be beaten by looking at them angrily and how it's basically story mode at that setting, and how much that's doing for inclusivity and how many non-gamers they've seen play/enjoy such-and-such game. More anecdotal, my partner started playing hogwarts a few days ago and wanted to set it to easy. The default was normal, and there's also "story mode" and "hard" available at opposite ends of the spectrum. She's terrible with wasd+mouse (her own words, but I concur) and wanted to go for easy but I encouraged her to go with the default setting, figuring that'll be balanced to be enjoyable for Harry Potter fans (who are book nerds, not necessarily gamers). So far, she's managed to beat everything in one try! I'm surprised you experience the opposite
- stcroixx 3y ago
  47. NES had 2 buttons plus a d-pad. An xbox controller has 8 buttons, 2 joysticks, and a d-pad - it's all just too much for me to have fun with. I'd learn to play the accordion if I was up for all that.

undopamine 3y ago

Yup. Realized this when I tried to catch up after a nine-year gap. It has started feeling like a chore now, I find myself playing for the sake of finishing it instead of being in the moment.

CobaltFire 3y ago

This was absolutely true for me up to this year. What changed? I retired, and my chronic burnout started to recede (slowly). I realized that, for me, the issue was learning and remembering new systems were introducing a cognitive load that I just couldn't handle on top of the load I was carrying. I know that's not directly helpful, but it may be worth looking at whether you are showing signs of burnout.