I still play them, but more sparingly. The biggest obstacle for me is the time investment. So many big AAA single-player titles are massive time sinks these days. I can pick up and play many an old NES, SNES, or Genesis game and beat it in less than two hours. It's easy to go back and play those games because they ask so little of my time. Meanwhile, games today can take 20, 40, or even 60+ hours to beat. The scale and scope of video games has grown substantially. If you can only play a couple of hours a day you might be working on that one game for weeks worth of play sessions. And so much of that time is often busy work, particularly in open-world games where the map is populated by a bunch of repetitive checklist objectives.
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