Burnt out on Video Games

If that is the case, I don't want to get older. :sob:

I feel the same. It is likely just getting older, having your interests become a bit more altruistic. It also may have something to do with the fact that the gaming industry is going down the toilet; Devs doing less work, not completing projects & bitching about their office drama or personal politics. DLC becoming a necessary component of AAA games, single-player gaming becoming obsolete, and worst of all... consumers being too naive/idiotic to even realize something is wrong. In any other industry, an incomplete product or price gouging for the final 10% of a service would result in a HUGE uproar of complaints. Fucking gamers today are allowing this shit to happen... it is pathetic

You bunch of old old guys haha. That means that you can actually say this

I hear ya. All the new, pretty graphics and sounds don't mean a whole lot to me if the story writing, plotlines, mods, etc. aren't there to keep it engaging. I'm still on the fence about Andromeda, but I only got through 1.5 playthroughs on Inquisition. Witcher 3 and every Bioware title before Inquisition were replayed to embarrassing hours of time I could've spent like learning another trade. 

This sounds familiar.

I've been playing games on electronic media since 1979, and I can't see my interest in gaming as such is flagging. However, I play fewer games and I play them longer. I'm also less tolerant of bad writing, storytelling and worldbuilding, probably because of the 2500+ books of fiction I've read since then. Those games that attempt to tell a story I judge by book standards, and while almost all of them fall short and I accept that to some degree, there is a limit. Its not that earlier games in general were so much better either, but that games have become better in many things, and I see no reason why they shouldn't become better in this as well. In addition, I have played a few truly great games, and I judge all games by the great ones, so more and more fall short.

Having said that, the last 12 months have seen quite a few games that captured my interest. The most notable were Dishonored 2, XCOM 2 and most notable The Witcher 3. Along with Europa Universalis IV, which I only discovered last year, and Deus Ex:Mankind Divided which had subpar storytelling but still good enough to enjoy, that was quite enough to last the year. MEA...well, it's more a case of habit. It's not really hat bad, but it wouldn't have captured my attention if it had been made by another developer.

All in all, I'm becoming more selective, but I'm not seeing my interest going away any time soon.

 

I don't think it's anything to do with you getting old.  It's more likely that ideas, plots and storylines are getting worn out by their constant recycling. Same old story, just has a shiny new skin.  Maybe things are getting a bit too formulaic and tired.  Lack of innovation.  You're still young it's their ideas that are old and creatively bankrupt.  Probably need a new wave of indie game developers to shake up the establishment and get rid of the corporate dead wood.   Personally what I would love to see is someone who could do to video games what Quentin Tarantino does with movies.  I'd love to play that game.  You're getting bored because you're not an idiot, you're outside the target moron demographic.

Don't feel bad, take a break. Enjoy something else. Come back later.

Karma is a bitch with or without the Paragon/Renegade system. All the good karma Bioware had has been exhausted and consumed by EA's greed and Bioware's poor decisions. That whole backward gun thing is pretty much an excellent summary of Bioware. 

I wish I had this problem.

I have no time for video games or anything else. Work sucks balls.

Office drama?