Because of upcoming sales, I want you Sup Forums to think over a problem of modern flood of games

Because of upcoming sales, I want you Sup Forums to think over a problem of modern flood of games.

WHen I was young, I remember how me and other kids in school used to play absically everything they could. We were even replaying demo versions of games and when somebody got their hands on full version, usually it started to circle around, borrowed from one another. We were replaying favorite games, over and over,each time learning something new and having fun.

Now look at how it looks now.

Constant sales, flood of actually timeworthy games, more titles than you have time to play. Its no longer possible to even be "true" player that taste every genre, since there is not enough time, unless you are a neet.

When was the last time you guys replayed a game that was released past ~2004 or something around? Can you even recall?

My games list grows slowly and only recently I realized how foolish I was and took attempts to stop myself from buying new titles. Hell, my Steam library still constains games from Summer sale from PREVIOUS YEAR! I dont even find fun in games anymore, I just clear the list and move on. No looking back, no joy. The last time I felt the fun while playing game was when Dragon's Dogma went out on PC and I was shocked by my own joy.

Why this happened? What to do about it?

Please, share your thoughts.

Ups, wrong image.

>more great games constantly being released
kek

Just stop buying games if you're not going to play them in a reasonable amount of time. Why do you feel so compelled to play everything anyway?

Because they are. Maybe not AAA titles for 60 EUR each, but freqently you get new releases of nice games that might not be masterpieces, but are funa nd worth your time.

I dont know.

I stopped treating games as a fun, but as another duty to clear.

Everything goes around this. I actively seek to get over my lack of social skills in order to find a girlfriend and start a family, not because I want to, but because I feel that is my duty and what I have to do.

I even eat just because it is required to do my duties. I can wake up in the morning, being so hungry that I cant lie straight, but I dont want to eat - I just want to keep sleeping.

Anybody?

Should I just shitpost next time to provoke people into discussion?

There's like FOUR good games coming out soon. You have no reason to complain about "too much to play," because everything worthwhile is being drowned out by this flood of stupidity. Just learn to swim and find the diamonds in the rough of this mixed metaphor.

>There's like FOUR good games coming out soon

Which ones?

I've replayed Bayonetta 1 and 2 as well as Viewtiful Joe several times each. Tales of Vesperia, Tales of Hearts, I've beaten them twice in effort to get all the costumes and sidequests, but I also just love their gameplay. I've been coming back to TxK and Shovel Knight, and Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero?. I just recently played through the entire Souls series, from Demon's to Bloodborne and Dark 3, and I'm ALREADY planning on buying them all again (this time with DLC.) I look forward to replaying these games time and time again, because there is nothing else that can rival them coming out.

I've been assaulted with wave after wave of overblown hype for shit like The Last of Us 2, The Last Guardian, Final Fantasy 15, and whatever else... but all I can look forward to is Nier: Automata, Nioh, and Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Even then, I don't know if they'll all be worth playing. I'll have to make that judgement as they come.

Whenever I read a thread complaining about a problem in videogames I immediately start diagnosing and psychoanalyzing the OP to try to figure out what HIS problem is and why he is projecting it onto the world.

Well, I dont know what my problems are anymore.

>but all I can look forward to is Nier: Automata, Nioh, and Zelda: Breath of the Wild

All console games, so I cant look forward them as well. Thanks anyway.

You think garbage is worthwhile.
You think playing everything makes you someone special.
You think the ultimate gamer is someone who appreciates all games instead of someone who finds what he enjoys and does it well.

What's your greatest gaming memory? What games resonated with you? Recapture those memories and take steps to protect them against the corruption of the industry. Stop hurting yourself by splitting yourself between so many pillars of marketing and stick to one or two pedestals of actual engaging gameplay, even if it's in an indie market.

If Dragon's Dogma is your thing and you want more, then do research and try to find something that can rival it, but stop desperately throwing money and clawing at studios that have no intention of making you happy. Cut back on your spending, sell what you don't intend to play, and spend more time playing what you love and doing research instead.

I urge you to revisit the games you've enjoyed from the past few years. Surely, if you enjoyed them, they're worth it.

Go buy Copy Kitty. Yeah, it's in early access, but it's got content worth four times its price.

Problem is, Dragon's Dogma is fairly unique, plus I dont have stationary consoles, only PC (and NDS/PSP/3DS), but I think I get your point.

My solution is to only play games I believe are either
A. Really good with near universal acclaim
or
B. Novel in some way
or possibly
C. cheap and short

I like to play puzzle games because you can enjoy them in nice chunks without having to worry about investing hours into mastering the gameplay or understanding the story.

lemme know when they make the graphics such that I can stand to look at it for more than a few seconds at a time
thanks

What isn't working for you?
Is it the amateur modeling rendered into 2D spritesheets, or the psychedelic patterns and animated textures on nearly everything that isn't an over-the-top particle effect?

I'm not epileptic, so I just play it for the sharp as fuck gameplay.

fucking adorable

>life was so much better when we were young and things were worse
yawn

What happened is more and more Ganges have been released which are designed to be played forever.
Games as jobs has been the design philosophy of MMOs and has started to spill over into other genres.

If you keep up with even a single mmo, grindy competitive shooter, moba, card battler, ect it's going to eat all your free time and you're going to end up as one of those people who says "i don't have time for a 30 hour rpg" when they have 2k hours in wow/lol/tf2

Though if that doesn't describe you, then you're probably just experiencing burn out and should take a couple weeks where you don't touch a game at all to get that feeling back.