Do You Believe That Games Lose Their Appeal Over Time?

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But it's still lost its appeal now, hasn't it?

Yeah.....six years later. I can't complain about getting 6 years worth of solid gameplay from an online capable game that had a very strong active community for four straight years and continued to keep a dedicated community of online gamers for it's last two years.

You may play games with online multiplayer more nowadays, but the topic isn't about whether games lose their appeal over time played, it's whether games lose their appeal over the years.

I just reread the first post. If we're talking about strictly old school pre-online multiplayer games then my answer is still the same. I have a long list of games I loved to play back in the day and may pick up once every few years but in general I don't feel as compelled to go back and replay 8 bit or 16 bit era(for example) games as I was back then. So yes they have lost some of their appeal to me.

But let's be honest here, which game did you really enjoy more?

They were two different experiences that I enjoyed for different reasons. But like I already said, I'm much more likely to go back to an online multiplayer game than a purely single player one.

I'd rather play a game once that I enjoyed every second of, than an online game that I played for months or years and not getting that same sense of satisfaction, only playing because SOMETIMES it was fun or some modes were fun or my friends were playing it too.

And thats your perogative but I'm on the other side of the spectrum. Don't get me wrong, I still love my single player games like Alan Wake and Batman: Arkham Asylum. And luckily the advent of achievements have given me even more reasons to go back to them. But once I have beaten the game and found all of the achievements I pretty much move on to the next game.

For me multiplayer is definitely not making or breaking the game as to how good it is.

If you are talking about that in relation to the single player portion of multiplayer games then I agree. I view them seperate but I also look at them as two halves to a whole. So I may love the single player in a game like F.E.A.R.(which I did) but find that the multiplayer portion was lackluster. I'll still tell people I thought it was a good game but lacked compelling multiplayer. Or it could be the reverse.

But to conclude this, I do feel that old school games can lose their appeal over time. This doesn't mean that I now think they are all bad(I still like sporatically going back to Nes games among others). However, games from systems before the Nes have virtually no appeal to me. My first two consoles were the Atari 2600 and 7800 and today I can't play anything on those systems without great distain. They have lost any kind of appeal they once held over me as a child.