You know if you become older you see the things completly different than when you were as a kid. To this day i see a lot of people who are loving games like gta, skyrim or dragon age or any kind of game that takes a lot of time and also have open worlds with different options where you can do all kinds of stuff. But i am personally really turned off by these games.
I loved gta 2 and later also 3. I played these games a lot when i was a kid but these day looking at the newer gtas how you can do everything in this game, even the most useless thing like golf its a turn off for me. Its not that i think this gta5 is bad its just that i dont see anything great about anymore as times have changed and so did i.
People used to buy games like gta because they were huge, back then there was no internet, a very small second hand videogame margin as well as a huge difference between older and newer generations of games. In the early stone age of gaming people spend something Like 100 bucks on cartridges if you count inflation, friends used to borrow each others games or play them in each others rooms. Of course with intruduction of cds gaming became more affordable but still it wasnt like it is now. You had still to buy games and if new gadgets like the dreamcast and ps2 came out the ps1 and other older consoles became like history by the day these new consoles came out not to mention the switch from 2d to 3d gaming.
If you played a game like gta3 at that time, seeing this 3d world, how you can drive in the game, shoot and various other aspects you pretty much played it for months. Because its a game you necessarily dont like that much but its fun and gives you most value for your view money. Of course there were those other games you wanted to have at that time who had only a single player campaign and werent open world. You know games like zone of the enders, shadow of memories, metal gear solid 2 and silent hill 2 etc. All games who i am pretty sure all of you would at least liked to beat them to find out what the story is about. But of course it was simple too expensive buying a game simple for looking interesting like with movies, you spent full 60 bucks on it. And of course with renting the game there was no gurrentee if you could beat it as you probably had no internet or buying a guide for your rented game was too expensive.
This mentallity changed for me and i think a lot of other people think the same way not because we have different means now but because times have changed. Gamers these day are spoilled with tons of games and experiences.
-free to play games, thats right games these days can be financed by giving you them for free
-cheap or free indie games
-most games are now designed to have longlevity with multiplayer etc.
-archievements, another thing to keep you playing your games
-dlc and addons if done correctly
-mods
-demos can be downloaded at any time. This is a another thing that was different in the past. Back in the days you used to buy these things from magazines. People were exited about them and treated them almost like games.
-its now the 8th generations of consoles, there are tons of games out there. Tons of older games just lying around in flee markets and bargain bins. Hell even ps3 and 360 games can be bought for 5 bucks, and these games look good. The 7th gen to 8thgen wasnt as much of a graphical improvent as the ps1 to ps2 was. And by being older youre more acostumed to playing all games regardless of graphics, espacially 2d games.
-backlog of games
There is no point for me that i will play any gta again, because there will be no point in time where i will starving out from having nothing to play. I rather would buy a game i am done after 10hs of campaign and keep playing the games i havent finished yet and other things instead playing a gta again and again, the same single game.
Anyways i just had the feel rambling a bit of somthing which was in my mind for some time you know, feel free to hate me or what ever.
