As I grow older I am finding games to be less and less entertaining. It's not because I don't like/play games anymore. In fact I look for games to play all the time. But it turns out more often than not that they do not meet my expectations. At first sight a game might look like everything I could have hoped for. But once I play it that magical anticipation is over. I face the reality of playing an average game. My console starts to accumulate dust again, and then I start to anticipate another game, reading about it and looking at screenshots--conjuring my own image of the game.
In other words, my imagination eclipses the game. What I think the game is, is more than what it actually is. Could it be that games nowadays limit our imagination? Realistic games don't give us much room to imagine; instead they try to mimic reality--something games can never achieve. So instead of employing imagination, I take a game for what it is. For instance, a game that provides only a basic setting will be made up for with my dynamic, flexible imagination (think NES Zelda). But a game with realistic environments, like Fable, won't let me imagine what it would be like to be there--rather, I am there, in that world where the ambient sounds that come from a river or ocean is always the same. All I see/hear is all there is.
The content is fixed.
Am I out of my mind, or does anyone share my thoughts? I'm just trying to find a reason for why I don't enjoy today's games as much as those back then. Some oldschool games still make me feel like I'm 12 (Ultima VII for example). But it probably has more to do with maturing and getting used to stimulation and entertainment.
it's one of those philosophical nights for me.
In other words, my imagination eclipses the game. What I think the game is, is more than what it actually is. Could it be that games nowadays limit our imagination? Realistic games don't give us much room to imagine; instead they try to mimic reality--something games can never achieve. So instead of employing imagination, I take a game for what it is. For instance, a game that provides only a basic setting will be made up for with my dynamic, flexible imagination (think NES Zelda). But a game with realistic environments, like Fable, won't let me imagine what it would be like to be there--rather, I am there, in that world where the ambient sounds that come from a river or ocean is always the same. All I see/hear is all there is.
The content is fixed.
Am I out of my mind, or does anyone share my thoughts? I'm just trying to find a reason for why I don't enjoy today's games as much as those back then. Some oldschool games still make me feel like I'm 12 (Ultima VII for example). But it probably has more to do with maturing and getting used to stimulation and entertainment.
it's one of those philosophical nights for me.
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