[Rant] Have Your Gaming Attitudes Changed With Age?

Wow, a new topic on the video game section forum. Who would of ever guessed.

This is a topic I've had on my mind for quite a while especially when I turned 30 last year. A lot of us gamers that have been on the forum for quite a long period of time right now probably are the age of anywhere between their mid-20's to their early 30's. One thing I've always wondered is how have your gaming tastes or even your attitudes toward gaming evolved as you've gotten older.

I guess for me I've noticed a big change toward my gaming tastes even attitudes toward gaming in general. The biggest thing I've noticed in recent years is that I literally have no desire to keep up with whats new in gaming. We're already half-way into 2011 and I've only played one game that has been released this year. It's just I have no interest with whats new and great in gaming. I'm not excited at all concerning anything at E3, even with talk of the next generation of systems. Especially in recent years I've just been more focused on playing the older games that I've always wanted to play as a kid to a young adult than to play the next greatest thing in gaming. I understand that I'm falling behind and you know what I'm actually perfectly content in that.

I'm even seriously considering giving up gaming after this generation because there are a lot of things that are even appealing to me about gaming nowadays. The only games I'm excited about this year are two DLC titles for the X-Box 360 and pretty much nothing else. I'll probably be playing games till the day I die, and you know what eventually I may buy the newest console just to keep up with my favorite video game series such as final fantasy and a few other select titles.

I just have no interest in online gaming, playing games on a IOS or android device. I don't think my attitudes toward gaming make me any better than every other gamer but its something that I've come to realize as I've gotten older. It makes me a little bit of a gaming dinosaur but keeping up with what everybody is playing was favorable to me as a kid to my early 20's but it really has no appeal to me anymore.

I've played games long enough that I know exactly what I like and anybody that has known me on the forum knows I am and will always be a big fan of the anime game genre regardless if its a j-rpg, fighting game, side-scroller or platformer (insert jokeful comments here). Strangely enough Skills is one of the few people that can actually recommend a game to me that I absolutely like that is outside of the genre that I play the most.

So with E3 coming, I couldn't care less about what some of the biggest news in gaming will be next week. I'm just perfectly okay with playing the games that I love and collecting the games I've always wanted to own. So while I may be left in dust by other gamers to play the next biggest game, I will always get more enjoyment or equal enjoyment playing something I've always wanted to play that's old instead of playing something new.

To the fellow GFF gamers, how has your attitude toward gaming and your individual gaming tastes evolved as you've gotten older?

Jam it back in, in the dark.