I think I finally aged out of gaming. My last hurrah was Kingmaker just because I got it for free on Epic and liked it so much I bought it with all the DLC on steam for a replay. But then my enthusiasm petered out in the replay and the DLC didn't add that much. Would still consider Wrath of Righteous just because that looks like it has a Planescape level of worldbuilding.
Because of those Rogue Trader is on my radar but will probably wait 2 years and get the edition with all the DLC on a sale.
It's nothing to do with age, I promise you, going off the types of games you've listed I'm betting that there are very few modern versions of the genres you enjoy playing and it's left you hopelessly limited in terms of choice. Realistically there isn't even that much out there these days for players who want a purely singleplayer experience, it's mostly item shop bullshit and 'online gaming'.
My main likes are FPS/RPG/RTS/City/Civilization Manager style games and we all fucking know what happened with most of the city stuff, endless DLC spam. RPG/RTS games realistically are almost non-existent in terms of releases and FPS' are mostly online and cater to normies or casuals with consoles.
I can't even get me a good sci-fi pew pew these days and I have zero faith Starfield will be any good.
To be fair to modern rpg games kingmaker was excellent outside of the kingdom management mechanics. And I only heard good thing about wrath of righteous again the 2ndary mechanics were lacking.
But i think it is also age. I bought the system shock remake and felt this guilt that I should be doing something else when I played it. Something I didnt even conceive of when dropping 60 hours a week into deus ex or diablo 2 or WoW 20 years ago.
I think I finally aged out of gaming. My last hurrah was Kingmaker just because I got it for free on Epic and liked it so much I bought it with all the DLC on steam for a replay. But then my enthusiasm petered out in the replay and the DLC didn't add that much. Would still consider Wrath of Righteous just because that looks like it has a Planescape level of worldbuilding.
Because of those Rogue Trader is on my radar but will probably wait 2 years and get the edition with all the DLC on a sale.
It's nothing to do with age, I promise you, going off the types of games you've listed I'm betting that there are very few modern versions of the genres you enjoy playing and it's left you hopelessly limited in terms of choice. Realistically there isn't even that much out there these days for players who want a purely singleplayer experience, it's mostly item shop bullshit and 'online gaming'.
My main likes are FPS/RPG/RTS/City/Civilization Manager style games and we all fucking know what happened with most of the city stuff, endless DLC spam. RPG/RTS games realistically are almost non-existent in terms of releases and FPS' are mostly online and cater to normies or casuals with consoles.
I can't even get me a good sci-fi pew pew these days and I have zero faith Starfield will be any good.
To be fair to modern rpg games kingmaker was excellent outside of the kingdom management mechanics. And I only heard good thing about wrath of righteous again the 2ndary mechanics were lacking.
But i think it is also age. I bought the system shock remake and felt this guilt that I should be doing something else when I played it. Something I didnt even conceive of when dropping 60 hours a week into deus ex or diablo 2 or WoW 20 years ago.
I think you've been successfully gaslit on games by people who don't know anything about gaming.