You know what, gaming today's really not that bad

[SvennoJ]

I don't know, I haven't played a new game in a long time and don't have any desire to replay old games. Maybe it's age and burnout is definitely playing a big role, but new games don't excite me like they used to. I have been following Eurogamer since they started to keep up with new releases, yet rarely go beyond the headlines nowadays. And now I see Sony is raising ps+ prices again.

A big part of it is update fatigue. Why get into a game if it's going to change. For example Path of Exile, but any game really. There's a patch, changing the deal, changing systems, controls. Content updates are great, but stop messing with the mechanics and release finished games. It feels like I have to guess when to play a game, when is it 'finished' before it gets messed up by later updates.

And paradox of choice, the more choice the harder to find what you like, the more insecurity about making the right choice / wasting your time on something inferior. Even restricting myself to PSVR2 has all that, updates altering the deal and more choice than time to enjoy.

So I get 'stuck' in playing the same evergreen games. GT7, where I gave up online racing because PD keeps altering the deal, messing up the penalty system and changing physics, but offline racing is still relaxing. Puzzling Places which regularly adds content packs without altering the deal, stays fun. And Synthriders which also releases more songs and has only polished the core gameplay without altering it. (I really wish they would fix the audio clipping through headphones though, maybe I'm the only one that hears it, perfectly fine on 5.1, perhaps better to stick my headphones in the amp than the headset but then I'm double tethered lol)

Big new games feel like work, giant to do lists, while small games are over too soon to get invested in.Maybe the 'spark' will come back, maybe it will take until after summer as I hardly game anymore during the summer months.