I felt the same way for a while. I wondered why I didnt have the desire to play games like I once did and originally thought that it was just me getting older and not having as much time. I dont think thats what it is at all.
Think about it for a sec. As older gamers, we have seen the entire evolution of the videogame industry. My first system was an atari 2600 playing games like Pitfall, asteroids, and river raid. We've seen the creation of the platformer, the sandbox game and the first person shooter over the years. We can remember when those genres were new and fresh, when they were just experiments in new game concepts. They were fun because it was something that we had never seen before. Those concepts became popular and are now the norm in gaming which brings me to my point.....
Gaming innovation has stagnated. Very few developers are willing to take chances with new games or genres and therefore gaming seems more boring because almost everything has been done before. Nearly every game released is just another shooter or sandbox game with the same basic structure but with a different setting or characters. We feel like it is boring or that we are growing out of it because we have seen the same thing over and over again.
We are just harder to impress i think than most because we have seen more. I still get as excited for games at 30 than I did at 18, just in different ways. Whereas a few years ago a new shooter may have my interest more, nowadays its something like Portal. unfortunately games like portal, which are clever and different are rare. We just have to sort through more crap to get to the good stuff
Loving the new quest system. Ive wasted all damn day doing these things and its still not old. They are challenging enough to be fun and some of the really obscure ones give you a really nice sense of accomplishment when you finally figure it out
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