I am just continuously surprised by how many people buy games on Day 1. It seems like the majority of games are glitchy and end up having a boatload of patches and DLC. wait a few years and you can buy a the “game of the year” edition for half the price.

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and gaming is so cheap now, you probably have a whole catalog of games you have been “meaning to get around to”

Always kept saying this: Majority of the people are too bound to their ‘comfort’ game genres that either they feel like the gaming industry is “dead” or nothing excites them anymore, so maybe trying other game genres for a change might just be the ice breaker that they simply need; discovering some new gems that they’ve never thought of.

I used to not give a dime about rogue-lite / rogue-likes genres before and even some of the most promising indie games lately that when I finally gave in is when I realized how much I’ve been missing out~

Depends on the GAME doesn’t it? Why would I get excited for call of duty if I’m into fantasy games?

Or likewise why should someone get excited for metroid when they don’t like that style of games? I like metroid as a setting and lore standpoint but not the biggest fan of the gameplay.

$120 for a new AAA title. $80 for the dlc. Having to devote more time than I have to level up. Or pay extre. Damn right I’m apathetic

Espousing upon an unknown future is a fools errand. Think less. Live more.

I am not excited about new games but I still play things regularly, so I am not worried really. I still play stuff from my backlog (Steam/Epic), borrow Switch games regularly, and so on.

You don’t have to be excited about new games.

I buy maybe 2 or 3 new games a year. Everything else is just waiting for really good sales on older games. If they are actually good games, they will still be good 5 years from now for 20% of the current price.

This is me. Have been gaming since I was like 4. I used to get excited, but as more games came out broken only to be fixed later, and being burned by more of them then I care to admit, I quit giving a shit.

Every time a game, esp single player story games come out, I will just wait and watch what is said about it, pick it up on sale, and play it after the community basically agrees that it’s fixed.

Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the big ones that I think of.

Because the backlog is big enough already 😅 Still trying to get through games from 5-10 years ago. Also, new releases are either disappointing, or are released in a buggy/unfinished state these days.

I feel with me and gaming, I go through periods in a year, where I’ll spend months non-stop gaming and other months catching up on reading, tv shows and some movies. After I finished Resident Evil 4 and Baldur’s Gate 3, I don’t have anything else to play that’s new until early 2024 when Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth comes out. If Robocop: Rogue City comes out on a Boxing Day sale I’ll get it, but other then that I got nothing new to look forward too till early 2024.

It’s probably bad of me to say thing on s/gaming, but I kind of welcome the break from gaming, to refresh my mind on something else until some new games arrive in 2024. I definitely have a backlog of ebooks and shows to catch up on.

I don’t feel that, as a gamer, you should be required to get excited about EVERY new release, including ones in genres you don’t even like.

It’s fine if all you look out for are just the diamonds in the rough, especially with how overly-formulaic big-name games have gotten.

Nes games can be cleared in an afternoon. Modern games require hours and hours daily for weeks.

You need to accept the sad truth that when you had fun with gaming the most was when it wasn’t mainstream and popular, which meant developers and publishers needed to create good products to earn money.

Today that just isn’t true, COD is probably the best example of this. Industry like this breeds shitty products in general and it breeds uninspiring dogshit like Redfield. You also cannot do anything about it. I think I don’t even have to mention the plague of mobile gaming, gachas, p2w and other shit that makes the industry worse in general.

While not everything is bad when we have Fromsoft and Larian, I just don’t get excited at all, I will say that Dragons Dogma 2 is kinda getting me excited, which is a first in a long time.

You don’t get excited about new releases because you’re now apathetic about gaming.

I don’t get excited about new releases because i’m in a perpetual loop of addressing my backlog.

We are not the same.

With the state some games get released in these days it’s difficult to get hyped up.

Would rather a title be delayed than rushed.