Heh, since I started playing Eve little over a year ago I was able only enjoy Max Payne 3, Limbo and recently Deadlight. Max because of sentiment for previous part, Limbo and Deadlight because they are little pieces of art and survival gems. I don't care about shooters and RTSs, never was really into MMOs.

And there is Eve where I can spend hours doing, well - sometimes doing nothing really in game but a lot around it like fiddling with fits, reading stuff, forum pvp and trololo. Sometimes I giggle like a little girl and I catch a funny looks from my wife and how can I explain to her that my corpies I listen to on comms just went on hilarious discussion about this or that? And she always wants something from me exactly when our fleet finally found someone to shoot at. And why I have a picture of this blond blind chick on my screen?

Well, I don't play other games anymore, I have Eve.

I really enjoyed Limbo. Did they make another?

According to Patti, as of October 2010, Playdead is currently working on its second game; the game, partially funded by the Danish Film Institute, has the working title of Project 2. Project 2 is described by the Danish newspaper Politiken as a spiritual sequel to Limbo. It is a 2.5D platform game, using three dimensional graphics while the playfield remains in two dimensions, and utilizes the Unity engine; Playdead opted for the existing solution instead of their custom-built engine they had created for Limbo, to reduce their efforts. While the game is in color, the title remains dark and nearly monotone in color. It is planned for release on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 systems. According to an August 2011 interview with Patti, the title's development cycle will take about three and a half years.

I used to call myself a gamer, id buy most new releases as they came out and spent a large amount of time playing games all across the spectrum from Railroads to Halo. I was proud to call myself a gamer, kept up to date with the gamin industry for years and got genuinely excited about games coming out until recently.

Over the last year the joy has gone. I just cant enjoy anything any more, i stopped buying new releases a few months back because i found id play them for one session then just call it a day and end up with a wasted -ú35. The only games to have even slightly entertained me recently are Dishonoured, Hotline Miami and Bordelands 2. I fail to even get properly enthusiastic about Mechwarrior and Planetside.

The only game i can enjoy playing now is EVE, im not sure if it the social side or the actuall game but i think EVE has done something to me. Am i just getting old? am i the only one? are games these days just ****?

Am i just getting old? am i the only one? are games these days just ****?

we all get older , you're not the only one, yes there is a lot of shite games these days.

I believe what you are suffering from is burn out, it happens to the best of us, take a break away from gaming for a while. you'll come back refreshed.

I used to call myself a gamer, id buy most new releases as they came out and spent a large amount of time playing games all across the spectrum from Railroads to Halo. I was proud to call myself a gamer, kept up to date with the gamin industry for years and got genuinely excited about games coming out until recently.

Over the last year the joy has gone. I just cant enjoy anything any more, i stopped buying new releases a few months back because i found id play them for one session then just call it a day and end up with a wasted -ú35. The only games to have even slightly entertained me recently are Dishonoured, Hotline Miami and Bordelands 2. I fail to even get properly enthusiastic about Mechwarrior and Planetside.

The only game i can enjoy playing now is EVE, im not sure if it the social side or the actuall game but i think EVE has done something to me. Am i just getting old? am i the only one? are games these days just ****?

What everyone forgets is all the crappy games they played, music they listened to, movies they watched as a kid. So as people become older and look back at their childhood growing up they always seem to think back then - that's when the good stuff was being made damn it! right? - and now everything is a remake or crap or trash or something else that simply doesn't compare to how epic the games they played, music they listened to or movies they watched.

It is just how we remember things. I promise you most of the games you played were crap.

I ended up with a warning in STO for saying that I was a cyno pilot from EVE looking for targets in my bio

There's a story about some guy who wrote a "I'm 12 and what is this" post on an MMO forum (either SWTOR or STO, can't remember) and got banned because the Eula states you have to be 13 and over.

Its because other games don't make you invest so much in them, time and knowledge wise. Thats also why if you quit a.k.a "take a break" from EVE you will come back eventually.

What everyone forgets is all the crappy games they played, music they listened to, movies they watched as a kid. So as people become older and look back at their childhood growing up they always seem to think back then - that's when the good stuff was being made damn it! right? - and now everything is a remake or crap or trash or something else that simply doesn't compare to how epic the games they played, music they listened to or movies they watched.

It is just how we remember things. I promise you most of the games you played were crap.

I agreed with the above posters. Other games simply have no attraction.

I used to call myself a gamer, id buy most new releases as they came out and spent a large amount of time playing games all across the spectrum from Railroads to Halo. I was proud to call myself a gamer, kept up to date with the gamin industry for years and got genuinely excited about games coming out until recently.

Over the last year the joy has gone. I just cant enjoy anything any more, i stopped buying new releases a few months back because i found id play them for one session then just call it a day and end up with a wasted -ú35. The only games to have even slightly entertained me recently are Dishonoured, Hotline Miami and Bordelands 2. I fail to even get properly enthusiastic about Mechwarrior and Planetside.

The only game i can enjoy playing now is EVE, im not sure if it the social side or the actuall game but i think EVE has done something to me. Am i just getting old? am i the only one? are games these days just ****?

The only game i can enjoy playing now is EVE, im not sure if it the social side or the actuall game but i think EVE has done something to me. Am i just getting old? am i the only one? are games these days just ****?

But I live in EVE. Not because I have no life or friends, though, but because it's where I choose to be. CCP have created something that I've always wanted. I really couldn't ask for anything more. And I really don't. My life is satisfied, and I will die a happy man even if nothing else ever comes my way.

Here, the internet combines with my love of the science fiction fantasy that I've always been living already, in between doing what's necessary with my life.

This. A thousand times, this. If there was a way to inject my consciousness into the EVE Universe, i'd cast off this physical shell and wave bye-bye to everyone i know *immediately*.

Maybe you are a Graymer just like me. Have a look at this nice article Games Don't Need Saving.

Excellent article, described me perfectly which i suppose isnt hard as i think i fall into the largest gamer demographic. Its a shame in a way but at least i found EVE a few years ago and still have a hobbie i can unwind with, i have friends who didnt and still got turned off mainstream games and left without a way to chill and unwind when they get home ( and before you start where i live going outside to do something isnt really an option, unless you like crack and being stabbed )

I find EVE is an incredibly unique jewel amongst games. First of all, for me personally, I'm a sci-fi fan from way back. When I was a kid, I used to transpose the Dungeons & Dragons rules onto a spaceship game I designed, and had a stack of cool starship designs myself that I'd draw on graphics paper and written up stats and abilities for them. I've never had friends who were in to the same stuff as me - actually, as an autistic kid, I never really had many friends at all, but it didn't matter cuz I had my game.

I haven't been capable of changing much in the way of socialisation, that is, until the internet came along. Because of social networking online, I've been able to develop a social life that I'm just not capable of in "the flesh". Sure I've got a very small circle of very good friends, and I've even been able to hold down relationships with girls occasionally, but I'm not really interested in that anymore. The greatest achievement of my life, the ability to interact with other people on a social level without having to make eye contact and still actually have legitimate social discourse, was made possible because of the internet.

And now the game I created for myself as a kid, using dice and self-written rulebooks and paper, is here on the internet, where I'm kinda making more friends. Now don't get me wrong, I do have a real world life - it's taken a while to establish myself a bit of a niche (which was made difficult by my developmental shortcomings and the fact that I've moved more times than I can count therefore never been able to build myself up in one geophysical location). I'm currently studying journalism via online correspondence (which is yet another way the internet has saved my ****), and I intend to work in investigative journalism when I'm through. I'll be looking for my first internship this coming year, which with my grades thus far won't be too hard.

But this game is my downtime. This game is my real world when the real real world isn't important. This game is an alternate reality, and in a sense, for me personally, it's kinda become my primary reality, and everything I do in the other reality, studying and working, is done out of necessity only.

But I live in EVE. Not because I have no life or friends, though, but because it's where I choose to be. CCP have created something that I've always wanted. I really couldn't ask for anything more. And I really don't. My life is satisfied, and I will die a happy man even if nothing else ever comes my way.

Here, the internet combines with my love of the science fiction fantasy that I've always been living already, in between doing what's necessary with my life. I do play other games, though - I love Halo and Mass Effect (though more for the stories than the gameplay), Forza Motorsport (the only car collection I'll ever need - I'm easily satisfied), and Fallout are my primaries. I love air combat simulators, too - I wanted to be a fighter pilot growing up. I got the grades to go to ADFA, but my developmental issues kept me from getting in.

I used to call myself a gamer, id buy most new releases as they came out and spent a large amount of time playing games all across the spectrum from Railroads to Halo. I was proud to call myself a gamer, kept up to date with the gamin industry for years and got genuinely excited about games coming out until recently.

Over the last year the joy has gone. I just cant enjoy anything any more, i stopped buying new releases a few months back because i found id play them for one session then just call it a day and end up with a wasted -ú35. The only games to have even slightly entertained me recently are Dishonoured, Hotline Miami and Bordelands 2. I fail to even get properly enthusiastic about Mechwarrior and Planetside.

The only game i can enjoy playing now is EVE, im not sure if it the social side or the actuall game but i think EVE has done something to me. Am i just getting old? am i the only one? are games these days just ****?

I used to call myself a gamer, id buy most new releases as they came out and spent a large amount of time playing games all across the spectrum from Railroads to Halo. I was proud to call myself a gamer, kept up to date with the gamin industry for years and got genuinely excited about games coming out until recently.

Over the last year the joy has gone. I just cant enjoy anything any more, i stopped buying new releases a few months back because i found id play them for one session then just call it a day and end up with a wasted -ú35. The only games to have even slightly entertained me recently are Dishonoured, Hotline Miami and Bordelands 2. I fail to even get properly enthusiastic about Mechwarrior and Planetside.

The only game i can enjoy playing now is EVE, im not sure if it the social side or the actuall game but i think EVE has done something to me. Am i just getting old? am i the only one? are games these days just ****?

Almost seven years ago I played all sorts of games. My MMO of choice was City of Heroes. I had a PS2 with a ton of games on it. I had a bunch of games on my PC too. I'd spend an hour or two online a night, playing CoH, then maybe throw in Madden 2006, or one of the Romance of the 3 Kingdoms games, or Kingdom Hearts II, or Dragon Quest VIII, or, just, whatever.

Then I started playing EVE. I spent my first month playing 8+ hours a day. I would wake up in the middle of the night to set a skill (no queue back then). I joined a corp, had it die, joined another one. Looked at the Crusader and loved how it looked, so I quickly trained up to fly an Interceptor even though I couldn't use MWDs or T2 Small Lasers or half of the other things I needed to make it fly WELL.

Six months in, I applied for ISD Aurora because six months was the minimum time allowed before I could. I got in. I wrote a story for EON, got promoted because of it. Dedicated more and more time for it.

I lost ships in PVP and killed a few. Got somewhat better, but not great. Never great, just good enough.

At first, I was unemployed so I could spend time playing other games besides EVE. But then I became an adult and got real jobs and suddenly didn't have time to play the newest Zelda game. Hey, Bioshock looks cool, but man... No time! Got dudes to kill in EVE. Screw Bayonetta, someone's trying to blow up our POS.

And now I've got a job working on EVE.

So yeah, I know the sentiment.

I am unwilling to try other MMOs mostly because people will talk about how good its gonna be or whatever, but then they will talk "PVP zones" or what server i should be on. I guess Eve has completely ruined "normal" MMOs for me.

It is just how we remember things. I promise you most of the games you played were crap.

Never played another MMO, EvE was my first, but if I understand correctly, you're saying most MMO's have "zones" or designated servers where you can PvP and no where else?
That's kind of stupid. I'll be sticking to EvE forever then.

I agreed with the above posters. Other games simply have no attraction.

Yea how many games can you say there are that make you want to run up to their HQ building naked ,waving wads of cash .

I used to call myself a gamer, id buy most new releases as they came out and spent a large amount of time playing games all across the spectrum from Railroads to Halo. I was proud to call myself a gamer, kept up to date with the gamin industry for years and got genuinely excited about games coming out until recently.

Over the last year the joy has gone. I just cant enjoy anything any more, i stopped buying new releases a few months back because i found id play them for one session then just call it a day and end up with a wasted -ú35. The only games to have even slightly entertained me recently are Dishonoured, Hotline Miami and Bordelands 2. I fail to even get properly enthusiastic about Mechwarrior and Planetside.

The only game i can enjoy playing now is EVE, im not sure if it the social side or the actuall game but i think EVE has done something to me. Am i just getting old? am i the only one? are games these days just ****?

Almost seven years ago I played all sorts of games. My MMO of choice was City of Heroes..