>>386085I think a large part of game fatigue now has to do with how much time we actually spend gaming. in ye olden days you'd be outside most of the time or else doing other shit so your definition of what a game worth your time was, was much lower.
if you're a busy bee more often than you're not, a couple things happen
>novelty begins to become more attractive, driving you to play a variety of games>you stop needing to sink 100s of hours into gamesbut now that many people are hardcore gamers, because of social media, the atomization of society (symptoms of capitalism in my imo), we expect games you can sink thousands of hours into with complex mechanics. because games are more of a dedication now, because of the way we interact with them, we usually settle on one to four games we actively play. I'm guilty of this myself, i rotate between stalker, cod, tf2, and mgs.
i think that's kinda why the wii for example was nuts back in the day but if you hook up your wii and play it today it's kind of a snoozefest aside from the nostalgia factor. there are good wii games dont get me wrong, redsteel is cray cray if you've never played it but we're so alone and hyperstimulated these days that it's difficult to find enjoyment in certain things, and i think that's how the corpos want it.
they ruined your video games. they took that from you, for the sake of their profit. that's how i see it, anyways. we don't have that contrast between going to the library or out with friends or even just reading books or doing shit around the house that used to make video games a novel, fun diversion. now it starts to feel like a job and i think that's part of where the rise in #GamerRage kinda came from. when your life is in a video game it can be frustrating to be playing ur best and have some guy doing stupid or cheesy shit top you on the scoreboard, just for example. and this used to be, like, basement dwellers, but now a lot of otherwise normal people treat this video game shit serious.
tldr: what ails you can largely be solved by touching grass
