I think you're just getting older. I do not get hyped for new releases for eg. the same way that I did at a younger age. It's like "oh that game is coming out? I'll keep an eye on it when it reaches the bargain bin." It's not like "zomg I must have this game! How come this game isn't coming any sooner? I don't want to play my old games anymore." And I took a long break from console gaming as well until the last couple years. For me, I see games as just another way to entertain yourself. All that hype crap is psychological. In the end it's just dopamine in the brain. It's similar to how you woke up early to open up your presents on christmas morning whereas now you're likely to want to sleep in on christmas morning because your old body and brain need more rest.
I've also grown to LOATHE long games with age. Jrpgs especially (painful to admit because this is a genre I once loved and gave these games chance after chance). If a game is long, it better hold my attention span. This is why hardcore gamers need to stop demanding that games become long. If I'm playing through a tedious chore-like long game and I'm thinking about the last episode of True Blood and wondering what's gonna happen next, the devs are doing it wrong. Video games were and still are my favorite hobby so it's not like I'm sick of video games (many games this generation proved to me that I still love gaming. Just not as passionate about it as I was say when I was 16 and younger). I'm just sick of tedious chore simulators that call themselves video games.
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