Games becoming horribly repetitive

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I used to play Delta Force and Age of Empires online, then moved on to red alert, tiberian sun, WC3 and eventually WoW. I have a decent computer, a ps3 with games like ACBF, BF4, CoD, Fifa, etc. And i cant be arsed to play any of them anymore. I downloaded Far Cry 3 with its good reviews, and also that one bores the shit out of me. Maybe its my game style (Im an achiever, so i start top left of the map and work my way from left to right untill i did everything possible), but all games seem to have so little replayability fun for me anymore. To take a few AAA titles:

- BF is always the same. One side is OP, other side gets crushed. Always people in the same sniper spots and on the roofs, tank wreck everyone.
- Assassins creed apart from the main story is the same 4 things times 50 (collect X, assassinate Y)
- Fifa, sell endless cards on ultimate team to make some cash, otherwise ur team is shit. Every opponent is a maxed out pace team. Playing singleplayer is either too hard or too easy. And every season is the same. No variation, no sudden events, no nothing.
- Skyrim, eventhough i managed to FINISH it. Yes, i found EVERY cave and hub and quest, it was more of a tedious grind without alot of entertainment value. After youve seen like 10 different caves, all the other caves are the same. Fortresses have no variation at all, mobs are dumb, and with a bow and sneak the difficulty is ridiculous. The only thing i still want to try is go full on wizard or warlock like.

Anyway, every game seems horribly repetative for the past weeks. Maybe im getting over my love for gaming or something (boy will the misses be relieved).

Anyone else feel like games are becoming horribly repetative?

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Absolutely; it's been happening for some 10 years now. That's why I don't play mainstream games; those are the most plagued with repetitiveness.

[Clockwork Pinkie]

Watched movies for 15+ years, they got repetitive. Played video games for 15+ years, they're all the same. read books for 10 years, they pretty much all end the same. It happens when you get older. Which is why old people barely do anything, because after doing it for so long, everything is repetitive. If you're feeling this now, then yes, it's time to move on. Best thing you can do, that, or not worry about repetitiveness and keep on doing what you're doing.

[Anonymous Coward]

yeah i know how you feel man, either everyone got really good at games or i just started sucking haha (probably the latter). but it's always a steamroll one way or another, and honestly the long battles will suck if you lose, then it just feels like you wasted time. as for skyrim, i had just got done playing oblivion and i was like omg i am not going through another cave, i'm not a freaking rat!! tried mobas and it was the same deal, got sick of being matched with people who were way better than me. (and WAY TOO many AFK!) perhaps console games with your friends next to you is the best bet. (and even then you had to deal with the tiny 1/4th of a screen...there's just no winning is there!)

[Deleted]

Haha someone got old! Awww, so cute. Newbie old guy. Welcome to the club, let's yell at kids how rude and how worse they are. I'm sure there are kids on my lawn... damn kids.

Good thing is i played games for 25 years now, and sandbox games are new fun for me.

[Deleted]

Games of a specific genre have always been the same. They "became repetitive" after the 2nd one. All RTS games are pretty much the same. Same goes for all FPS games. All MOBAs, the same. And so on, and so forth. The reason they feel repetitive is because you've played them so damn much.

If you have a great idea of how to make a game of a certain genre in a way that isn't repetitive, then perhaps you should work as a game developer.

[Kazlofski]

I hear you, I had that sometime ago...

I try to think less of the activity itself that I am doing, I play mostly for the story. That is something that is usually different and hopefully interesting.
Killing 20 mobs, gathering flowers, escorting a guy... The usual stuff just for different reasons according to the story :P

[Sj]

Games have always been repetitive in some aspect or another. After doing something for so long, it becomes harder to ignore or justify.

[Clrg]

Try playing some roguelikes, spelunky, binding of isaac, dungeon desktop, ftl, risk of rain, rogue legacy.

[shokter]

It's what happens when gamers read a review and lament that a game is only X hours long. Titles get fatted up with repetitive side activities that have little to do with the game itself. I agree with Masterik...while indie rogue likes may at first seem repetitive they actually have much, much more dynamic, long-time play value than a game series like AC (to be fair I've only played the first 3) that (at least the ones I've played -and I should say- enjoyed) basically have a few activities repeated ad nauseam and are beefed up with collect X chores.

This will stop when your average gamer stops caring so much that a title be at least 20+ hours long (so no, this won't stop). It's why I only pay full price for cheap indies and NBA2k (games I know I will play for hours and hours and hours over the course of years) and buy AAA titles (that I sometimes enjoy very, very much but just as often tire of halfway through because of the meaningless content meant to inflate the length of a playthrough) for steep discounts on Steam sales a year or so after release.

[zealo]

I think its partly related to how long you have been gaming instead of just things not being all that innovative, even if there's some truth to both statements.

I have been playing video games for over 15 years now, its kind of natural that i have seen a lot of the tricks developers pull out of their sleeves to surprise before already, i also feels it gets a bit repetitive at times even if i know what is good game design or not despite my personal current opinion of it. Games being made today are often very well crafted in terms of gameplay but my problem is i have seen a lot of it before in various forms.

[Deleted]

- BF is always the same. One side is OP, other side gets crushed. Always people in the same sniper spots and on the roofs, tank wreck everyone.
- Assassins creed apart from the main story is the same 4 things times 50 (collect X, assassinate Y)
- Fifa, sell endless cards on ultimate team to make some cash, otherwise ur team is shit. Every opponent is a maxed out pace team. Playing singleplayer is either too hard or too easy. And every season is the same. No variation, no sudden events, no nothing.
- Skyrim, eventhough i managed to FINISH it. Yes, i found EVERY cave and hub and quest, it was more of a tedious grind without alot of entertainment value. After youve seen like 10 different caves, all the other caves are the same. Fortresses have no variation at all, mobs are dumb, and with a bow and sneak the difficulty is ridiculous. The only thing i still want to try is go full on wizard or warlock like.

Team based shooter always had the problem with unbalanced teams without an admin or something like that.If snipers always in the same spot then it should be easy to kill them. So you could force them to go somewhere else. If want great variety play gmod and not BF.
To Fifa:What sudden events or changes do you expect in a football simulation?Dont really get it cause you can always another playstyle.And in skyrim you pretty much define the difficulty yourself cause you can pretty much make op gear from the start.Skyrim gameplay get can quite reptative after time but you easily mix diffrent type of missions and quests.Or do some other stuff.

All RTS games are pretty much the same.

How is Starcraft pretty much the same as Europa Universalis 4?

[zealo]

How is Starcraft pretty much the same as Europa Universalis 4?

Europa Universalis is not an RTS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4X
Also commonly known as grand strategy.

[Deleted]

Europa Universalis is not an RTS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4X
Also commonly known as grand strategy.

Still real time instead of turn based. Like Civ is still a turn based strategy game.

[Deleted]

They've always been repetitive but I think at least in my case, it's usually because I just do my thing and don't want to explore other ways to play the game. Like for example, I never even tried to get the bad ending in Dishonored, completed it 3 times, always went for stealth and never killed anyone, just upped the difficulty, same with Human Revolution. Then Civ5, I always try to get almost every wonder. Always the same thing, one huge capital, defend and spam wonders till I get a huge advantage, then just either befriend or conquer everyone.

I think a lot of games can be played in different ways but they become repetitive because everyone just goes for "their" thing naturally and either doesn't want to or doesn't enjoy playing them differently.

[InDecisive]

Why don't you try a new genre? Maybe something a little more niche than BF, AC, FIFA, etc. What sorts of games have you never really tried before?

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Still real time instead of turn based. Like Civ is still a turn based strategy game.

No, EU is not RTS. RTS is about micromanaging units in combat, in real time. Grand Strategy like EU or Crusader Kings doesn't have any of that, you're making decisions affecting a country or dynasty or whatever over a long period of ingame time, except instead of turns time passes at whatever speed you want things to go or not at all if you want to pause it.

[kail]

By your definition OP, every game is repetetive. Except maybe Mario party.

[Yunru]

You know OP....thats why we use mods too bring back the old games .
You cant add continent too new games, simply because they arent worth a time ( + its hell too make a mod with all the flashy grafic).
My recomendation:
http://mentalomega.com/ (ra2)
http://shockwave.swr-productions.com/ (C&C generals)
Needs gogle: Obscuro oblivion overhaul, Knights revelation, The lost spires, Adse epic dungeon (for ESO)
...................................and so much more........

You should give it a try. If nothing else, you gona save quite a lot of cash.
Just remember some keywords when gogeling:
Mod, great, *name of your favorite game*

Or try this:
http://www.moddb.com/mods/top

[May90]

I used to play Delta Force and Age of Empires online, then moved on to red alert, tiberian sun, WC3 and eventually WoW. I have a decent computer, a ps3 with games like ACBF, BF4, CoD, Fifa, etc. And i cant be arsed to play any of them anymore. I downloaded Far Cry 3 with its good reviews, and also that one bores the shit out of me. Maybe its my game style (Im an achiever, so i start top left of the map and work my way from left to right untill i did everything possible), but all games seem to have so little replayability fun for me anymore. To take a few AAA titles:

- BF is always the same. One side is OP, other side gets crushed. Always people in the same sniper spots and on the roofs, tank wreck everyone.
- Assassins creed apart from the main story is the same 4 things times 50 (collect X, assassinate Y)
- Fifa, sell endless cards on ultimate team to make some cash, otherwise ur team is shit. Every opponent is a maxed out pace team. Playing singleplayer is either too hard or too easy. And every season is the same. No variation, no sudden events, no nothing.
- Skyrim, eventhough i managed to FINISH it. Yes, i found EVERY cave and hub and quest, it was more of a tedious grind without alot of entertainment value. After youve seen like 10 different caves, all the other caves are the same. Fortresses have no variation at all, mobs are dumb, and with a bow and sneak the difficulty is ridiculous. The only thing i still want to try is go full on wizard or warlock like.

Anyway, every game seems horribly repetative for the past weeks. Maybe im getting over my love for gaming or something (boy will the misses be relieved).

Anyone else feel like games are becoming horribly repetative?

You just ran over the list of all the mainstream games there is today (just forgot to add League of Legends). What do you expect from them? Like any other mainstream (literature, music, movies, etc.), mainstream games are not particularly big on quality and pool of ideas, since their purpose is not to deliver pleasure to devoted minority of fans, but rather collect as much money as possible from as many people as possible.

You say Skyrim is boring? True. But there are also amazing popular Bioware series like Mass Effect and Dragon Age (a new one is released in a month or so, I believe), there is more niche Witcher series, there is Deus Ex: Human Revolution... You just picked the most mainstream single player RPG there is, so no wonder it feels repetitive.

But I see what you mean in general. Personally, story is, pretty much, the only thing that keeps me playing video games these days. Throughout 23 years of gaming I've experienced, pretty much, every kind of gameplay there is, so playing those very RTS that I loved in 90-s now I don't enjoy as it is, essentially, the same "build an economy, train an army and take down the enemy" thousands times over. But if there is a story behind it, like in Starcraft 2 campaigns, this gameplay becomes very engaging, as now I don't just train an arbitrary "Marine", now this Marine is a part of Raynor's rebel group who wants to bring freedom to Terrans, who has children that have been wronged by the damn emperor... If you look at any game this way, you will be shocked by how vivid the gaming experience becomes.

[Flaks]

Try playing some roguelikes, spelunky, binding of isaac, dungeon desktop, ftl, risk of rain, rogue legacy.

I don't know if it's a roguelike but vvvvvv is some of the most fun I've had in a game since metal gear rising.