Huge budgets, massive hype and all sold on lies, misinformation and toxic pre-release demos based on a product that isn’t even underway yet. We are getting games like Mass Effect: Andromeda, Fallout 76, Anthem etc. Ha, we all know how much of a dog shit Anthem was. (I’m not talking about the big games that are clearly 10/10 masterpieces here, let’s be real they’re no doubt amazing games) There’s some of them one off epics that come out that make you thankful for being a part of this community and enjoying the hobby like we do, for example Metal Gear, God of War, The Last of Us, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and Anthem *spits coffee*. Video games these days are complete crap. Personally I think it’s a mix of all the above. Is it because everything is all the same thing regurgitated again and again? Is it because nobody (seemingly except for Kojima Productions) is willing to take risks with video games these days and as a result we experience nothing new? Or is all this just in my head and I’m experiencing video game fatigue? Then every other game that comes out I just can’t find the motivation to play. I wish I could wipe that game from my memory and do it all over again, to be fair I may do just that when it releases on PC. Years later it launches and I sink over 120 hours into it and love literally every second I played of it. It is a game that really caught my interest from the get go, not knowing what the hell it was or why it would be good I just knew from the beginning it was going to be a game that I was going to love. In the last year the only thing that has really got hold of me is Death Stranding. You know them days when you couldn’t wait to get in and sink hours into Call of Duty for example, I just don’t have that anymore.
Basically what I’m talking about is that I feel like I have to force myself to play games these days. What could be better after a long stressful day than to shoot the heads off a bazillion demons in DOOM?īut there comes a time which I’m sure anyone reading this will not see coming but know it once it hits them. Things get tough and sometimes playing your favorite video game is the best thing ever at the end of the day. I’ve spoken with a few people in the community on Twitter, notably The Dad Gaming group on Facebook because I think many of them level with me a bit more than people who have less responsibility in life compared to being in a committed relationship with kids on the scene. This feeling I’ve been having for quite some time has been looming for a little while.