I don't know about you guys but over the years the mystique and mystery i found in games has been going down. I didn't have a reason for it at first but i now realised that it has to do with the internet, with guides, and with footage. I recently started to replay all of the ds pokemon games, before starting with black 2 i checked it's pokedex and planned my starting line up. After finishing the game i realised that i didn't enjoy it as much as black, the sense of adventure of mystery, the wait to see what the gym leaders final pokemon is was gone. The internet and guides have allowed to complete games to completion but at the same time they ruined the enjoyment. The same thing happened when i went for 100% in skyrim, trying to compelte every quest or task. The sense of discovery was gone and i just went from point A to B knowing what to do. 

Also since we know beforehand from footage and reviews all of the features in the game we never get the sense of awe when discovering a power. The big sale driving factor of kigdoms of amalur was the combat and about how glorious it was. But since i already saw footage of it i wasn't that sucked in when i saw the amazing and large scale combos. From now i will try my best to limit the footage i see, and to try to not use guides even if i am at raging at the 5% heracross rate. 

Uh, you have the choice to spoil or not spoil a game. The internet is not at fault. Just like how Fast Food places aren't at fault at making people fat. Like right now. I have no idea how the 12th Doctor Who looks like. Since I just avoid articles.

Yes, it's a huge problem nowadays. The sense of discovery and excitement once you actually launch a new game and see it in action for the first time immediately becomes very low. After the first few seconds I start to feel a strong disappointment almost every time.

Promo-footage is the big destroyer. There's far too much of it and I can't help to not watch it.

But on top of this I am afraid I have gotten a bit bored in games in general in the last year, sadly. Probably has to do with age and stuff, but another important reason is that games have become so freaking dumbed down and are cynically designed to satisfy the common lowest denominator mass market low-IQ player.

yes they do, starting from the reviews: the worst thing in the history of video games.

I agree with all of the above.

We still look at gaming footage, and that decreases the suprises we have in games. 

Why would the internet hinder your enjoyment of anything? People need to develop a thicker skin!

I don't think it's the internet so much as the knowledge available (due to the intenet) beforehand that makes playing a new game less exciting.  But I think that's a just one part of it.  It's likely that age and experience are large factors.  Imagine a person seeing a movie for the first time ever.  What excitement and wonder that would stir.  But a thousand movies later, it's hard to impress that same person.  As we play more games, cliches become more apparent, standards climb ever higher, genres grow more familiar.  We always compare our present expereince to the past, and as we accumulate experiences, we find ourselves in familiar territory more often.

It ruins gaming for me because I suck. I used to be the greatest Street Fighter in the world. I used to be the fastest Super Metroid speed runner. I used to be the craftiest Mario Kart player.

Thanks to the internet, I don't even think I'm an average gamer anymore.

Agree... one thing I liked about the 90s and early 00s having no internet at home and buying magazines