Like, will there be a point in time where you think that with all of the games of yesteryear to play that are thousands and thousands, with thousands more forward ahead to be released. There’s only so much time available to be playing so much in a lifetime.
So that begs the question, do you just decide on which generation of gaming you’re comfortable reaching before saying “Yup, I’m good!”?
I think for me, my cut off has been the PS4/X-Box series X generation. The PS5 is now officially like 5 years old now as of this year which is mind boggling to think about considering people had a very hard time affording the damn thing as well as other consoles because of a certain pandemic and scalpers.
And I’ve not once thought about organizing my resources in any attempt to try and get one or multiple games for it or the console. I’ve committed to PC gaming full-time now. I am completely content with playing what games I’ve gotten in the past and my library could use my attention more.
I’m not worried about prettier visuals, when I can still have the option to slap just another newer GPU down in my PC and beef up the memory as well. My PC build was intended to run 95% of all of my games that no other PC I’ve had in the past could ever do. So, I’m good!
I stopped buying games after COD something, the last multilayer where you could host your own server.
I think depression and anxiety are taking care of that for me. I absolutely loved God of War (2018), but for whatever reason the scale of Ragnarok intimidated me so much that I put the game down within the first 10 hours and haven’t been back.
Too real.
I see no reason to “cut myself off” at any point, I still find games released in the last few years that look interesting, and some with release dates TBD that look neat.
I haven’t bought a new console since July 2015 and have no plans to buy a new generation any time soon.
When my current console dies, I might upgrade, but likely I will find a cheap used replacement and keep playing what I already have.
Someday I will update all my stuff, just not today.
This console generation has been a thorough failure. I have a ps5 which is great to play my ps4 games, but I will only be investing in PC from here on out. Hopefully they release a more powerful steam deck soon that can play my ps3 and xbox360 reliability
My cut off will be when there are literally 0 games I have interest in.
I mostly play retro games, and/or games of franchises that I like. I don’t really follow what’s new or popular because I have better things to do in my life than spend it all on ‘new exciting’ things. The same with movies.
My cut off was a decade ago, when I got my first child and I realised that my time was too valuable to spend it on gaming. Now I have a bit more time too waste and I’ve been looking into gaming again, but I can’t seem to get back into the habit.
No. To each their own, but I think that’d be a ridiculous stipulation to place on myself and it’s hard to imagine why anybody would want to do it outside of super niche reasons.
Not really. I always play to old and new games in parallel. But I have to admit that I tend to play old games more often now then in the past (50/50 now vs 20/80 in the past 15 years ago).
At some point, I realized I will never have enough time to play all the games I want. I would not even be able to play once again through all the games I played in the past even if I gave up new releases until my death.
I do not focus on a specific generation nor machine, I jump between them back and forth depending on my mood. Sometimes I play a few games from the same machine in a row, but it’s not a rule.
I think we have to accept this « frustration ». It’s not even limited to video games. You can’t experience everything, learn everything, go everywhere, in a single lifetime. Life is not a todo list after all.
In a sense, you can even see it as a « bless »: you will never run out of games to play in your life, even if you only enjoy a few types of games.
My only « rule » is to complete every game I start. I think it’s a waste of my time / money otherwise. As a consequence, it forces me to select my games wisely. I won’t start a game before I am sure I will find it interesting enough.
I don’t see any generation of gaming. Maybe because I don’t buy and play on consoles. Even consoles have started to lose generations with backwards-compatibility, re-releases, upgrades, and digital stores.
I play what interests me. And I buy even more than I play of what interests me.
The idea of having enough or too many games to play, I think I reached on about 1.3k games in my Steam library. Because a year has 365 days, so 1300/365 = 3,56, so I could play a different game every day for 3 years. That’s unrealistic to match [for me]. Now I have 3.8k games in my Steam library. Which is fine by me; I support what looks interesting to me, and maybe I’ll get to them, or some I prioritize, and some are bundled noise or freebies.
I’m not going to stop stumbling over new and interesting games though. And most certainly not evade them when I stumble over them.
Exactly. I’m a little more selective about what I buy, but I still have hundreds of unplayed games. I could probably stop buying games and never run out of stuff to play, but there’s always newer games coming out that look interesting.
I’m slowing down on buying games, but I’ll probably never actually stop.
No, I bought consoles when I was a kid, haven’t since. If it isn’t available on PC it just didn’t exist in my mind.
I think we all do that naturally a little bit, just like we also do it for music, and to maybe a lesser extent movies. But completely cut off? Probably not
Yeah, I tend to prefer games and music from when I was 15-25, but I still love new games and artists. The weird thing is I mostly listen to classic rock and metal, despite not being born when they were released, and despite reaching for my era of music when undecided.
I’ve been gaming since the late 1970s, and have never considered any sort of cut off date. I just play what interests me (lately that’s been VR games in various genres).
I can’t imagine ever losing interest in new games or platforms, because there’s always a new experience out there and, for me at least, that’s the point. I can’t play everything, obviously, but I can prioritise my time where I think I’ll have the most fun.
Pretty sure that barring some exceptions, I’ve reached that point now.
Now if you excuse me, I have some modded Doom 2 to play, followed by a reverse-engineered Mario 64, and finally a Zelda3/Super Metroid randomizer. If I have time, perhaps I’ll even get in some rounds of Counter-Strike 1.6 or Diablo 1 (DevilutionX port of course)
Just an update to this, I ended up playing HeXeN on my phone using Delta Touch and a BSP-D8 controller, with Gun Bonsai and Neural Network upscaling.
Greetings mortal! Are you ready to chill?
I’m done with consoles now. I’ll keep what I have but if the current generation is anything to go by it is just not worth bothering anymore.
