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How do I make these games as fun as they were when I was a kid? When I play /vr/ I get bored now as an adult. :(

>> No.4761001

>>4760996
It may just be you have played so many video games that there is no way for them to become novel to you again. Do the same thing for 20 years, it becomes boring. Who would have thought?

>> No.4761032

>>4760996
it's because you can't immerse yourself in the world the same way because your imagination is reduced. Instead of seeing a video game as a world to get lost in, you see it as a piece of media that took many people thousands of hours to produce.

>> No.4761035

>>4761032
This too. As a child you can "play" (read: roleplay) while also playing the game.

>> No.4761071

Trying to remember how to fly, eh Peter?

>> No.4761084

>>4760996

As an adult you have preconceptions you didn't as a kid. You have expectations you didn't. You understand how games are made and how they work, and that makes joy (happiness + surprise) harder to find. Your world is larger, and that makes game worlds smaller.

But someday you'll have kids of your own and you'll watch them experience what you did. That's probably as close as you will ever come.

>> No.4761114

>>4760996
as an adult, i still have the same feelings as when i was a kid when i play stuff from that time.

>> No.4761130

drugs

>> No.4761162

>>4761114
it seems though that while playing games you enjoyed as a kid as an adult is rewarding due to nostalgic overload, trying to play new games you didnt try from that same time period as an adult often results in low interest

>> No.4761190

Really the only problem I have now is the perception of time and the nagging in the back of my mind that playing the game is taking away from all the other things I want to get done. Otherwise the enjoyment is mostly the same.

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4761458

>>4761162
I was 24 when I first bought (or even saw) a Sega Saturn last year. Its now my favourite console.

>> No.4761467

>>4761162
I went back and played Spyro and Crash and they were exactly as good as I remembered them. Played other games from the PS1 and I fucking loved them. Tenchu, Resident Evil, Gran Turismo, MGS, all of them are now favorites.

NES and SNES games hold up particularly well also.

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4761470

>>4761467
I'm convinced these threads are started by depressed guys trying to use videogames to feel like they did when they were kids.

>> No.4761480

>>4761114
>"As a manchild"
ftfy

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>>4761480
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

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>>4761162
I disagree entirely. The odd moment of "remember when that happened first time?" is nice, but I am mostly enjoying experiencing games that I never could or did play, even ones I'd never heard of. I'm loving the Megadrive library a lot. I've carefully selected a few cartridges to buy and play even.
Threads like this try to tie feelings of depression, tiredness and boredom to external factors. Games are good.

>>4760996
Play games that are good and enjoy yourself.

>> No.4761536

>>4760996
go do something that doesn't bore you then
dumb thread