<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sebatianos @ Mar 21 2007, 10:41 PM) [snapback]284436[/snapback]</div>
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I do agree with quite a few things said before, but there's something I'm afraid hadn't been said yet.
Yes, we are getting old.
When a gamer is younger, the life is simpler. In other words, how many of us (who aren't living a carefree lives at home, with somebody else taking care of the household) really have enough time to get into a game?
I've seen and bought some new games that impressed me at first, but I never even got the chance to find out if I really like them, because I would have to take a weekend off to get into those games. That's why I still have some games I never even played (even a few years after I've bought them). It's a sad fact, but at a certain point in time, reserving time to play long games simply falls down to the bottom positions on the priority list.
With older games it's simpler. We remember them, we can recollect memories, tricks we used to know and it's easier to get back into them. Plus they have a certain sentimental value no new game could ever posses (simply because it's new and can't bring us back into the carefree days of the past).
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I think that you have said it exactly how it is - I feel the same way.
I also have this bad habit of buying games (I am a bit of a bargain bin hunter) but all that happens is, at most I will play just a handful and the rest will be added to my collection. Where they might (very rarely) get played a few years down the line, most get never touched again. As an example, I had Deus Ex for a few years before I put in the effort to really play the game, only played it at the end of 2005/2006 start of period, but even then I actually regarded and still do, as the greatest game I have ever played.
It's not so much I don't want to play them as it is I just can't.
The funny thing is, if I installed some old game that I have played before I could play it a bit right then, but doing that for a new game seems like too much effort for me nowdays. I guess that's why I am going more for the quick simply games when I do get time/feel to play a game. I used to be really into CRPGS, but now I cringe when I think about the time investment needed not only to actually learn the game, but to play it and finish it.
Heck, it took me ~6 months to finish BG1 and ~8 months to finish BG2 when I was still in high school, and even then I was gaming a lot, not every day, but I didn't have to worry about time then as I do now. Now if I think about playing a CRPG, I don't even want to think about it.
The ironic thing is while it seems I am losing my passion for gaming, maybe just getting a little older, getting new hobbies, losing interest in old ones, I still surf all the major gaming sites and Abandonware ones, to read up about games and the newest and greatest titles. I still long for the memories of the past, but to be honest with myself, I really do the the magic is going.
I have also stopped my bargain-bin "spending" sprees ;p. Not that its a "money-money" issue when you buying the games dirt cheap, more of a waste of money issue nowdays for me, since all that is most likely to happen is I buy some older AAA game that I was hoping to get at the time it originally came out, but it will just end up in my collection of games I wanted to play but never got around to - which happens to have been increasing as well.
Problem is though, when you stop going after some oldies, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you are most likely never going to ever get that game again at that price, not to mention that you are in all likely hood going to miss out on a bit of gaming history.
I guess you just got to realize that you can't play them all - you have to say good-bye some time right? I said good-bye to the TV along time ago - will it be so hard to say good bye to gaming as well
Man I can so see myself one day as an old man saying, back in my day gaming was magical ...