Who are on the same boat? I used to be there. Then I invested some thousands €s on analog wargames: BattleTech and Warhammer 40,000. Can you believe this: some people seem to think that video games and computer hardware required to run them are expensive.ORIGINAL: aaatoysandmore
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Thanks wings for placing these posts on the site. I like looking at them and even though I am not buying right now - sort of in a "Gaming funk"
For some reason I rather just read about the games than play them, weird - I bought DC3 and rarely play it - it's like "wargame burnout"
Are you in your late 40's or 50 and above? I've had burnout for years now and not seeing gaming as I used to. My significant other says I'm growing up finally but I don't want to believe that (haha)
I think it is because the computer has taken over too much of the game experience. Die rolling, movement, doing everything but the strategy part (even command ops and norbsoft games will play themselves if you don't put any input in now). All I really seem to be doing is pressing the left and every once in awhile the right mouse button and rolling a mouse wheel.
I'm questioning what's fun about the games anymore. Why do I sit and watch a machine roll the die for me, move my pieces and make bad mistakes. Sometimes strategy just isn't enough. I miss the physical parts of the game. The rules lawyering [:D], the die rolling (especially the die rolling), the arguments about the rules, the cat accidents. [:'(] the setting up of the board itself. I love the smell of new cardboard in the mornings. ahhhhhh
Thing is I was glad when computers came along to take me away from all that. I didn't know the consequences of it then. Took 30 something years to find out though [X(]
Have all the good new designs been made? Just can't seem to find anything that really entices me to a gotta have it feeling anymore. I'd rather watch old documentaries on YouTube about the Roman and Greek eras and WWII and Civil war stuff now. Every once in awhile will look at some Napoleon ones or movies.
I'm 34 years old and I started wargaming with computers and game consoles. Earliest wargame I remember playing was NES version of North & South. If I ever played other wargames before that on Commodore 64, I have forgot about them. Before any of that though, I played board games. In 2003 or so, I bought Classic BattleTech Master Rules Revised Edition and started my way to "real" wargames. I have spent some late evenings putting together WH40k plastic tanks up to 23 o'clock ( = 11 PM). Yeah, sometimes work hours suck THAT much. But then I got pretty much sick of it and I have several model kit boxes (both tin & plastic, for both BattleTech & WH40k) unopened. At end of the last year I got started playing video games again and it feels fun for a change.
Where do rest of you stand?
