So I was stoked beyond belief about Baldurs Gate 3, Alan Wake 2, Starfield, Assassins Creed Mirage, Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty and played them all and loved them but every one is about 50%-75% finished. At this point my computer has nothing installed on it but The Talos Principle 2 (which is great) and I just can’t seem to find something to hold my attention. Is there anyone out there that is a lifelong gamer that just can’t seem to keep your interest all the way through? I built a brand new PC for these games and they all worked and looked beautiful but man I just can’t keep it going.
TLDR - Old school gamer can’t seem to keep interest in games to finish them anymore, anyone else?
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Define elder gamer ? Because if you’re looping me into that… lol
Resident evil 4 remake is my GOTY for this reason. It’s short, campaign is fucking great, core gameplay is satisfying and fun af. Has some nice replay ability and extra modes. So if I have the urge to play it again I can.
I’m a 31 year old millennial gamer as well
One word RUST
I kinda have the same issue but for a very different reason.
I dont like things i enjoy ending. Its why i still watch the simpsons. And why i havent finished baldurs gate 3, being a DIK 2 or Cyberpunk.
What i have done is replay the bits i have played.
For me personally, Elden Ring and Dark Souls ruined the rest of gaming for me. Whatever formula they use gets me completely hooked and obsessed. Just about every other game I’ve tried pales in comparison and I lose interest pretty quick
Honestly I’m the same at the moment and just made the dumbest decision to add a PC in the mix as well.
I spend more time trying to find a game I can sink into than actually enjoying them, it’s highly frustrating, but now I have the problem of deciding where to buy the games as well… PC is being sold off and I’ll take the hit, lesson learned.
PS5 + Switch is what I initially have.
I have a problem of getting all the way to the end and not finishing it. Cyberpunk, Starfield, and Far Cry are my biggest culprits. I believe one part of it is fatigue. Long games are exhausting and I hit a point where I’m just over it. Another part is that I want to try and finish as much side stuff as I can before it’s over and somewhere in there it loses me.
I have coped with this by playing shorter, more linear games. I’ve recently finished Dead Space which was great (I’m not typically a horror game guy). Right now I’m playing through the Batman Arkham series again. The shorter and less complicated a game is, the more likely I am to finish it.
48 year old. Had the same issue until I went out of my comfort zone and tried a genre I’m not normally into (metroidvania). Now 53 hours into Hollow Knight, loving it, and just about to finish it.
I would suggest picking up shorter linear games
Get Elden Ring
Open world, runtime padded, chore ridden games are no fun at all. In the 2010s players became so obsessed with how long games are and level design scope was increased so much that it started taking the fun out of games.
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Play shorter games
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play repeatable multiplayer games
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Stop playing every big AAA title that comes out. They are getting to the point where you would have to play games for most of the day every day to complete everything good that comes out.
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Learn to cope with the fact that you’ll never be able to play everything you want to.
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play longer open world games with the goal of finishing fast and not doing all side quests or having to experience the entire story.
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I was the same way. We have been programmed through phones and social media to have extremely short attention spans (meme level entertainment) that we just continuously scroll through, often seeing 30+ images of things not relating to one another in under a minute. Stop scrolling and you will come to enjoy them again.
I’m 37. Around the same age as you I’d assume.
If it’s interest just try other genres. I don’t care about souls games anymore or “the challenge” and I care more about stories and gameplay on the easiest setting possible.
But you might just be growing out of gaming the same way we grow out of watching shows like Barney or magic school bus.
Usually 80% is almost completion in today’s games standards. The rest 20% are chores objectives or completion for platinum trophies which requires a lot of grinding
With newer games this is definitely an issue for me, I rarely purchase new games because when I do I rarely finish them. The exceptions recently for me would be Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom, Metroid Prime Remastered, and Metroid Dread. I play games on many platforms but recently Nintendo’s first party games have held my interest longer.
Often I just go back and play my favorite games from my past. FF4/6, Super Metroid, Chrono Trigger, etc.