[Rant] Have Your Gaming Attitudes Changed With Age?

I'm with Q, for the most part. My free time has lessened in the last few years (minus the last 4 weeks since I graduated and began a job hunt in proper) but my purchasing habits or playing habits have only really gravitated towards specific genres instead of shorter stuff. I play less JRPGs than I used to, and focus on more shmups now than I did 2 or 3 years ago. But that could just be because the market doesn't have that many non-portable JRPGs worth a shit in the last little bit.

I still knock off a fair amount of games in a year, though. Backloggery and my own spreadsheets say I've done 14 so far this year and 46 last year, and then 39 in '09. So maybe it's not really changing at all, I don't know. I know this year so far I've put in some really long hours on some titles like Tactics Ogre (well over 100, now), so.

I'll agree with the growing level of disgust at some of the industry's tactics though, and it has affected some of the titles I choose not to buy. Project 10 dollar just recently made me not support Dirt 3, for example. Can't wait till the same thing happens with the single player portion of console games, that'll be fun.

If we go as far as back as when I was a kid, all I can say is that I have a lower tolerance for crap. But everyone's tastes in everything get more refined as they get older, so that's not really surprising.

Originally Posted by Negro Mountain

The problem is, more and more I sit down on the couch and veg out on TV instead of playing a game. I'm turning into my dad.

I find this exceptionally hard to do. I can sit through maybe a TNG episode or something if it's on a re-run or Sanctuary or Dr. Who if I can catch it, but I think I watch maybe 4 hours of non-hockey TV a week. I vidya instead.

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