Yeah, title brings it to the point.

i just realized that i do become worse and worse in terms of Gaming, from the point of view i had years ago.

back then (when i was.. 14-15.. in 2004-2005) when i got a game, i played it. if it wasnt a sick big failure, i didnt complain. And the replay Value came from the Challenge to play it on higher difficulties, or finding more and more sidequests, or.. other.. shiny things.

Today, i'd clarify myself as a hell of a critic, every flaw, regardless of how minor, gets analyzed. Replay Value comes mostly from Achievements, and when a game isnt perfect, i blame the Dev's for their lack of Skill.

i jus' realized the thing how hardly it did change my sight about games, and its like.. a little shock., and that's why NIER was kind of a relief for me. At first.. i though 'meh', but when i was drawn into that epic story, i didnt care for anything anymore.. i just wanted to see whats happening next, i didnt want to waste my time by complaining about 'notsogood graphics' or whatsoever, and on top, i dont care for the achievements of this game. The Game that teached me a bit about the reason why i kept playing my first Years of Gaming may have unfinished trophies forever. weird, huh?

and you? did your.. way of gaming.. change the past years? or in general when you grew older?

Hmm, well over the years, I seemed to have become far more selective and conservative in my game purchases, as I find there are fewer and fewer that I am enjoying. Last gen and early this gen, I bought several Gamecube/Wii/Xbox 360 games on impulse. Now I've started to take a step back and make sure I really want this game before buying.

I have also begun to despise games with long load times, tutorials, cutscenes, etc. Basically anything that holds up my actual PLAYING of the game.I was at one point REALLY looking forward to Dead Rising 2 for instance, but when my cousin let me borrow it and I played through it, it was almost unplayable to me from all the long load times, endless cutscenes, etc. I also find that I am starting to dislike games that limit my freedom, and am embracing more open world games such as Oblivion, Fallout 3, Minecraft, Diablo 2, Starcraft, etc.

I am also finding I am diverting my tastes from most console games and towards smaller games on XBL Arcade, Iphone, PC, etc, as well as playing more retro games. So I guess I am sort of falling back towards the category of "oldschool gamer," with those kinds of values.

I've never played so many games since I bought a Xbox 360 2,5 years ago. I've been playing on consoles since the NES, but last years have been madness :) I've almost played 50 games since I've got a 360, because there are so many great 1st and 3rd party games. But because there are so many games out there I tend to rely on metacritic scores: when a game has lower score than 80, there's a small chance I'll be buying it. I make some exceptions for co-op games. Some of them, Kane & Lynch and Army of Two for example, aren't great games, but since it has co-op in it, I still have much fun playing these games with a friend on the couch.

I was thinking of buying a new PC, since it is very old (7 years). But most games are also on the consoles, except SCII which I'd really like to play. So I'm wondering now if I should wait another couple of years to buy a PC, when the next gen consoles hit the stores and are too expensive to buy....

Not really much at all... I used to love Final Fantasy, Deus Ex, Zelda, Metal Gear and Bioware :P...

And I still love them the most.

I still like most of the old games on N64, and NES I previously liked... the only one I cn think of is, not so much is the N64 version of goldeneye (don't like anymore) and the N64 version of Perfect Dark (XBLA is so much better imo and I love this though)

I guess I finish more games now. I used to not beat games even if I loved them a lot. Like FF7 and Majora's Mask. I didn't beat them til a year ago,and I loved them, and I bought them at release.

I'm not sure how I've changed, but looking back I probably am less forgiving of flaws than I used to be. Having said that I'll still play games with bugs and other flaws if I'm enjoying them (as in I rarely find game flaws that prevent me having fun).

In fact, I think that my becomming more critical of games and forming stronger opinions is more to do with me playing and having access to a larger library and wider variety of games than I did before. I think it's a case of natural progression that when you've played a large number of games you have already experienced a number of quality titles, games with flawed mechanics or bugs are less enjoyable.

However, I will rarely put a game away even if I find flaws. If I've spent money on it, then I try my best to get something from the game. Maybe it's because I'm mainly from a PC gaming background where bugs have been the norm for many years that I'm fairly accepting of flaws and bugs.

I've become a niche whore. Back in the 1990s, I played through almost any SNES game at least once. By 2002, I got my college computer and experimented with a wide variety of PC games. From 2007-2009, I played and only played the World of Warcraft. After getting a 360 in 2008 (for Fallout 3 of course), I have become very very selective. This selectivity has been reaffirmed this year with awful sequels such as Bioshock 2 and Crackdown 2.

Graphics mean much less to me now than in the past. I picked up Crysis in 2008, found out my comp at the time couldn't run it, fast forward two years, I buy a gaming laptop, beat Crysis, and I wonder what in the hell was I missing out on? All Crysis is, is the original Far Cry shortened with suit powers. Far Cry was a far better game than Crysis and Far Cry had cutting edge graphics for it's time.

Basically, my love for games comes down to this. I don't want a character with a backstory. I want to create a character and have his/her journey represent what I would do in the game. Real time strategy and FPS have too much production in them and aim to be movies. RPGs such as the Fallout series, Elder Scroll series, Mass Effect series, and Fable series have a bit of backstory but nothing I don't approve of.

Second, I need nonlinearity and big open worlds in my games. Any sandbox game from Rockstar I gobble up like a 2 year old and his cup of Kool Aid. GTA, Red Dead, and any WRPG that is open-ended has me hooked regardless of reviews.

Finally, I desire moral complexity. I don't like the Fable morality of good = errand boy chump and bad = a big prick. I need shades of grey such as in Fallout: New Vegas where I can create an alliance between one faction who two years earlier slaughtered the women and children of another faction. Likewise, in Fallout 3 I loved the Those! quest where I can save the orphan's hometown, promise to look for a home for him, and am confronted with 4 choices:

1. Tell him to stay home and have the scientist who created the mess look after him

2. Sell him into slavery

3. Reunite him with his aunt who lives on a derelict aircraft carrier

4. Tell him my job is finished , life sucks, I ain't finding you a home so deal with it

TL;DR: I am a niche whore. Games I buy have two or all of the qualities: 1. Protagonists who are basically you ingame, 2. Non-linear open ended worlds, and 3. Moral complexity with definite shades of grey.

Hmmm...

Not much has changed drasatically but there definitely have been changes.

1) I pay more attention to graphics now. During PS1 and PS2 days, yes I was blown away by some of the games that really stood out graphically but I didn't neccessarily care. But now I do pay closer attention to graphics. What I mean is that graphics is great, I'll love the game more. By no means am I suggesting that if a game has pretty average graphics, then I won't play it or it's crap but rather feel a bit dissappointed that it doesn't have great visuals. I never had this kind of judgement during the PS1/PS2/N64/GC era. If a game back then was fun and good but lacked some graphics, then that's that and I still love the game no matter what. But this gen if the game is great and fun but have average graphics, then I feel a bit disappointed...

2) More selective of the games I buy because know I use the internet to help me judge whether a game is good or not. To tell you the truth, I never used the internet for anything other than study purposes during school. It wasn't until 2005 when I started to discover a site like IGN and use them as my main guide. Then of course as the years go by, I discover far more sites and hence I began to read more and more about games and know which games were coming out when.

3) Trophies has become the primary reason for single player replayability. The only exceptions to this are MGS4, Uncharted 2, Dragon Age Origins, Heavy Rain and God of War III, where I wanted to experience the epicness of those SP Campaigns and to see go the alternate routes and make the opposite decisions in DAO and HR, etc. But other than those games, if I was to replay a campaign, it would be because of trophies.

went from 

COD is awesome to

COD isn't awesome to

Why did i play COD to 

Online isn't good enough i need stories in games or else nothing at all 

It's more of my gaming preferences rather than philosophy, but in mid-2008, my gaming tastes had a monumental shift.

Firstly, I played Final Fantasy III and started to love RPGs, before I had only played the Pokemon games.  From that point on I have played the rest of the numbered FF games, all the FF tactics games, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG, all Paper Mario games, Secret of Mana, Shining Force, Tales of Symphonia, Dragon Quest IV, V and IX, Skies of Arcadia, both Golden Sun games, both Dark Cloud, Ogre Battle 64 and Star Ocean: TLH.  RPGs are now my favourite genre by far.

Secondly, I broadened my horizons beyond Mario/Pokemon/Metroid/Zelda/Smash Bros, which formed the majority of my gaming collection at that point.  I started playing RPGs as I mentioned above, I bought Okami as well, my first Megaman game - 9, Gunstar Heroes, Street Fighter and Little Big Planet around that time.

My views haven't really changed but my buying habits sure have, I buy a lot more crap than I used to, I spend less time on each title as a result, but I have always been a collector at heart but I love gaming so I collect what I like and play what I can, before I just couldn't get every game I wanted and often had to wait for the 30 to 20 dollar range.  

I've always been a cynic when it comes to gaming, but with more selection I'm less likely to keep playing the crappy to meh range games I used to play and focus more on the amazing ones, I would enjoy bad games I still do, but I'll berate them as I play.