COD sucks soooo bad. . . if I was going to get back into videogames I would play anything but COD.  . . 

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satellite_6 said:

COD sucks soooo bad. . . if I was going to get back into videogames I would play anything but COD.  . . 

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10th prestige cod4 reporting in. While I agree that the series has its faults, cod4 was one of the funnest FPSes I have ever played. Hardcore Search and Destroy ftw.

Last CoD I enjoyed was United Offensive which most probably dont even remember but I still have it installed on my computer heh.
 
Maybe in the last 3-4 years I have lost interest in games WoW was just a time sink of a game having multiple accounts was one of the few things that made it bearable after a while.. The most recent game I have enjoyed would be L4D2 with friends otherwise just something to pass the time... Id rather spend hours on youtube and forums looking for music talking about electronics (headphones) then play a game anymore. 21 here school almost done need to look for a serious full time job and move on with my life.
 

Kind of off topic but my friend told me this quote by a hardcore videogame player.
"Without WoW,my life might start to have some meaning, who wants that." I found this hilarious 

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Your fondest youth memories are from playing games? oh my... Perhaps it's time you start enjoying the real life, like your first kiss, first girlfriend etc. I also have "good gaming memories" from my youth, but I would not even place them in the top 10.
 
I'm 22 and still play occasionally, although haven't really been interested in solo/console games. For me it has to be social, so online is the only way to go. I used to be a very serious semi-pro gamer in DoD, CS and most recently DotA.

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To be fair he's only 16.  This is about near the age I stopped playing games.  I grew up with atari/nes and then got snes/genesis.  I was a wiz kid.  I would beat every game my parents or brother bought in a day or so.  So, gaming was a huge passion of mine.  Around 14 when the ps1 had come out I stopped playing games.  Played gran turismo and that was it.  got a ps2 years later and played gran turismo 3 and 4.  Years later got a 360.  I have a hard time getting into the mood of playing games and many times i never play or finish the games i start. 
 
It happens.  Youll never truly lose interest in games.  You'll have your moments.  Consider it a blessing.  And take the above advice.

Or you can start playing some real good games for a change.
Also, yes, L4D2 is quite fun with friends, so is HL2 + Episodes, and Portal.

Try something different instead of shooters although you gotta try TF2, never get sick of it with all the updates

@OP
Hi there i'm 17yrs old, and I'm quite feeling the same though we lived(and are still living) far from each other. I remember when I was in 3rd grade my dad became so frustrated with my playing games all day he practically destroyed the PC in front of me and made me look at it. It was a horrible experience for a little kid, watching a grown man lose temper and swearing and throwing stuff. I was once kicked out of house and I walked like three hours at 9 pm to get to grandma's house crying when I was in 5th grade, and yet I couldn't stop playing games.
 
Now? I don't. It's strange, maybe it actually is part of growing up. 

Odd thing for my second post on a headphones forum but:
 
I found the same thing around 17 (22 now).  I started burning out.  I always loved RPGs (still do), but everything stopped appealing to me.  Mind you, this is after a terrible run in with Everquest and later World of Warcraft (realized my priorities were way out of line, even for a high school kid).  At some point I stopped caring about videogames just for the challenge.  I needed a compelling story.  Some might laugh, but I fully believe videogames are an art form in its early stages of development.  Not all videogames seek this status, and even those that do rarely reach that level, but it is getting there (Critics, I ask you look at EARLY film, animation, or any medium for that matter and consider whether THAT would be considered art by contemporary standards before you jump in against the idea of videogames as an art form.)
 
Anyway, maybe i've just become a bit more discerning, and maybe you have too, but I just find that videogames rarely live up to my expectations anymore.  Storylines have become horrendously shortened and studios spend more time on visuals and "bonus content" rather than crafting a single compelling epic with good gameplay. Maybe that's just me, but I think that's why I''m not as infatuated with gaming as I once was.
 
That being said, I'd still pick up the sticks for a night of Smash Bros (64. Melee was awful, man!) or even COD from time to time in college, but that was "social."

I used to love single player FPS, but from HL2 they started boring me to death..."wait for the script to wake up, find the key, open the door, shoot'em" ad lib is getting odd. Especially when those games are console ports and require 15GB  of HDD space.
 
OTOH, Q3 online is always fun once in a while.

34 years old and I still play games off and on, consistently in the case of the Civilization series. 
 
I read somewhere where the average gamer is now 32, so I guess many that grew up with games, still play often or at least haven't given them up completely.

True CounterStrike: Source fan here!

Well, Crysis II is gonna kill..but it'll take a $1500 PC to play it I'm sure, the kind that sucks +600W to get a decent frame rate.

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Well, Crysis II is gonna kill..but it'll take a $1500 PC to play it I'm sure, the kind that sucks +600W to get a decent frame rate.

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I can't wait to be able to play it on medium quality settings!!! I can run Crysis on Ultra with my current setup but I'll probably have to upgrade some of my components to play it well.

I grew up with Commodore 64 and have the exclusive privilege to complain about how gameplay these days are at a dismal state, the trend already happened with the introduction of Commodore Amiga 500 and have since gotten worse, with all it's eyecandy and easily fooled AI. Nowadays I seldom play, even car simulators have a ridiculous handling (arcade), all things are geared towards the instant pleasing rush.
 
I see no point in online gaming, maybe it's all the sum of that I'm not in a dream-state of what should have been, but see it more as a sporadic spare time activity. Playing just for fun and not all that caught up in winning the princess, basking in the glory of a high score or for that matter.. the rewarding feeling of mastering a new environment. Looking at it in a more disinteresting way makes it so artificial, even with it's lifelike graphics there's the feeling of something cold, a system of making money, no joy.
 
The childlike ability to get all sucked in are somewhere in me, but even with movies I see the pattern all to well, repeating the basic story. I seldom get overtly excited about a new fad, yes..
 
.. I'm not all that dependent on the commercial industry entertaining me while I stuff my face with potato chip, soda and candy. Why?
 
It's not what adulthood seems to be these days, but being an individual means in our times that one stands on the sideline, seeing the whole world rushing towards the edge of the cliff and over it.
 
.. "now let the light devour men and eat them up with blindness!".
 
P.S. Next year I'm gonna buy a PS3 once there's a price drop.