Is it normal that i think videogames sort of lost its magic?

I remember video games lost some of their magic when I started working overtime. There was not much time to play games and I was always too tired to pick up a controller.

It kinda came back a little when I got a painful injury at work. I was staying home and playing video games while my back was recovering.

Now I just make the time for the games I want to play. I'm currently playing Fire Emblem Engage. I'm playing it on my breaks and a little when I get back from work.

On another note my boyfriend has a grandma in her 90s who still plays video games. She is determined to beat Cuphead. That game is hard as fuck. Lol

You got older and got new priorities now.

I don’t like playing video games that rely on silly things like ‘skill’ or ‘clicking in the right place’ except like the classic Mario games

I’ve been playing Victoria 3 though since my house is empty atm, it’s like a world building game where you like build up nations or whatever. I’m hooked.
If I so much as smell the intentions of an Anglo Saxon I panic and create the Taliban
Austria is currently eating my tits off
And if you work in my coal mines you will die before 28
Excellent game 10/10

I always play as some tiny African nation or something. No chance in hell I’m playing as Russia. That bitch is way too big and those people are a lost cause

I'm the same way. I used to play video games all the time, but, now, I never feel like playing them. The most I ending doing is like, messing around with Wizardry 8 in the Cosmic Forge, but that's not even playing a game; that's modding one.

I think it's normal to think that as you get older, yeah. They lose that wonder and newness they had when you first started, so now they have to be more special to keep your attention. My mom started playing Destiny 2 recently (she had only ever played the Halo games, years ago), and seeing that kind of child-like interest when she asks simple questions like "how do I sprint" and "why isn't my gun doing damage" really reminds me of what's missing.

Remember, retro is always an option! I decided to revisit a few games I played when I was a teenager to see if they held the same magic they had back then: the original DS Ace Attorney trilogy and Megaman Battle Network 3. Maybe it's the nostalgia, but they absolutely did. I think it was a combination of familiarity and "wow, this is way easier than it was back then. Was I bad???"

100% normal thing, I noticed even mobile games lost the spark they once had with 3G mobiles, because of the experience age, past the information age we once had, games are different, they're still just as good as, or better than, the old games, we get some retro-style games that bring the magic back, and some newer games in the style of retro, I have one of doing my daily or weekly or monthly habits, called Habitica, the games we have nowadays tend to make you spend hours, a long time, playing them, especially those puzzle games and brain games, they tend to be addictive and hook you into more play, that's not how games worked in 2008, but if your games are the stereotype, like 80s space games and retro Mario, and Mario Kart of course games aren't going to have the same magic, because these games have been overused.