well, I said I wasn't going to buy a console this gen actually because i started feeling the way you are describing and lack of time. (started off as a toddler playing super mario bros. 1 and 3, paperboy, and such). And then came christmas 2009, very late into this gen, I bought a ps3. Now i still don't get hyped about games just like you are saying, and theyre not where I spend all my time like i used to as a kid, but I still do play them.
If the games are good nowadays, I feel it's more about the quality of all the content that's involved in the game or if I actually feel something, it's toward the authenticity in the environment of X game and not so much in the actual fun factor or wtv that's missing as you mentioned. Something is missing, but really I think that something is just in you. (as it is in me lol, i'm not trying to insult you)







