the retro blahs

[chuckster]

I was actually discussing the complete opposite phenomena with my wife a few days ago. She is a big gamer as well and focuses mainly on PS4. For the past few months I've been playing nothing but PS1 and back. I'll sit down to test a cable or new controller and be sucked into Legend of Dragoon or Super Mario World for hours every time, but when I think of playing a modern game I just lose interest.

It is surely nostalgia at work, but I believe it is also our recent focus on collecting for original hardware. I think the hunt, investment, and slower pace of original hardware collecting really boosts retro gaming interest, and I can see how the loss of this 'thrill' can lead to a tapering off of interest overall. When we were primarily emulating, it was basically like Spotify; we traded authenticity and a more complete interaction with the game for convenience, and there was little reason to stick with a game for long.

I did recently play through the new DS3 DLC and RE7 to try and break out of the 'modern doldrums', and I'm working on Doom 2016 now, but I can already hear Hard Corps calling.

[alienjesus]

If anything, lately I've been in the opposite mood, like the post above. All my modern game consoles have ever-increasing backlogs whilst I spend my weekends playing N64 and Mega Drive instead.

[PartridgeSenpai]

I just have blahs generally. It comes across genres, ages, and consoles. Lately it's been retro blahs just because I've played most retro games I've wanted to play. That combined with how much my backlog of 7th gen stuff has expanded because of how cheap they've been the past couple years has just led to me playing a lot more newer stuff than compared to the past.

[Segata]

I just play whatever whenever. I will play on my PS4 and in the same day play on a retro system a few games. I never really fall in one or the other. I just don't play my retro stuff as often simply because my neighbor is so loud often I don't want to be in there when he is.