Greetings to all,
first to my person: I'm male and 21 years old.
Already since preschool I love to play video games. It began with learning games on the computer, then later went into sports / racing games, ego and third-person shooter, RPGs (my favorite genre to date) and strategy games.
It is and always was an important and exciting story to me. Only then could I actually record a true "bond" to the game. That's missing to me today, in times of Fortnite, PUBG, LOL, Overwatch or WoW, unfortunately almost completely. In addition, large traditional brands such as Splinter Cell, Mafia, GTA, Fallout or Deus Ex are stagnating and / or have hardly any releases, since they no longer fit into the current scheme, ie are of no interest to the children.
Meanwhile, I find my need for an exciting and rousing story, which I miss in games (with a few exceptions such as Prey, Kingdome Come or RDR II) for years rather in the cinema or at Netflix, Amazon Prime or at the upcoming streaming Offered by Apple or Disney. My computer and my console are thus rather as a multimedia streamer, as a game or work platform in use.
Say: For the first time in my (nearly) 20 years of gamer I have no interest / motivation for most games.
At this point, I would be interested to know if I'm the only one with the opinion, or if people can recognize each other there.
Well, what can I say. I'm 45 years old and have been gambling since the Atari 2600 came out in the 80s. Ever since, I've been constantly gambling. Of course I do not mean every day, but always regularly. Always a bit less in summer, but a bit more in winter. The longest where I did not gamble might have been for a month. The opposite was when Anno left in 1701. That was so bad that I even took holidays because of it and barricaded me a week behind the screen. I also lost weight because I forgot the food. Was really blatant, but also passed again. I guess, if I did not have to go to work then I would play a lot more. So it is today, so about 5-8 hours a week. I think that one can still consider normal.
Know the feeling, AAA single player is worth not just like multiplayer where you nice Lootboxen u.ä. Reinhammers can.
But to say GTA is stagnant, well, certainly not, GTAV is still among the "Most Played Games" on Steam. They made record sales with the release at that time.
You just have to switch more to indie games until you get back to such great treasures as Cyberpunk 2077 (yes, yes, never play high-release before release, but c'mon).
Somehow I also got the feeling that the pen & paper is getting more and more popular lately (see, for example, funk formats, video game implementations like Pathfinder: Kingmaker), the reason for that is actually the pen & paper filling the RPG gap.
Ha.
Now I'll give you a different approach to think about it.
On the other hand, I used to love going to the movies in the past, and if the movie was good, maybe even rented a DVD to see it again.
Rarely bought one, because the film had to be really good.
Star Wars z.b. Until part 6. After that, where it re-filmed the Mickey Mouse inventor or trying it was not my world anymore.
Movies like z.b. Transformers are just overloaded action animations with high Blur effects that I get eye cancer.
The right films - with a good plot where you excitedly in the armchair, the next action with feverish are over. You know what happens next anyway.
It's just a shower and time wasting - you can eat popcorn at home. Or even see Netflix.
Everything has been filmed that has to be filmed - you can't reinvent the wheel.
Only make other things.
And at games, the zenith is probably reached. What do you want to play new? If there's somehow already everything, or already existed.
I found GTA cool as an open world game. GTA 3, GTA 4 as well as the 5 series ja good.
But hey - I do not know if I should look forward to GTA 6 - because the story is probably already the same as in the parts before.
You run around, can do anything, steal a car and drive around. Here and there a quest and the game is through.
The only thing is that the world is so big that it's still fun to discover in the 5 row things that you have not looked at so far - or try things that might not have been intended.
Anyway. GTA 6 4K graphics - pure realism? Maybe almost as if you were watching a movie? And the action? 99% the same as before.
So exciting is another. Naughty Dog has done better.
I still find the Uncharted series very successful. And with "The Last of Us" I think they have even gone one better - even if the game itself is linear.
Find the story behind which is already very successful.
But not everyone likes this kind of games. Just as many still go to the movies today. Something always hits the favor of users. And if you think that games are not what inspired you so much before - do not panic - the games industry will make their money like that - even without you.
And if New Year's Eve Stalone wants to go as a retiree in the jungle again as Rambo to make the cinema screen unsafe - then he should. People will also buy a cinema ticket for this.
Where you refer to the last of us: I'm 14 years old and have already played the game with my 12 year old brother… Our parents did not care (only someone with the console was there for a weekend). Then I (14-year-old) played Resident Evil in VR the same weekend. You also have a good story (if you start with the first part). Or Minecraft Story Mode also has a story (but never played it).
