RandomCode (dead comment): yeah, me too. I just lose interest in games so easily any more, and with so many other priorities fighting for my time, game playing seems needlessly wasteful. I just can't enjoy it unless it's a social event with a bunch of people, which you see less and less after 30. But I do remember spending hours obsessed with games like Metroid, and love the nostalgia posts like this evoke.
Well probably 90% of games are just brainless mass entertainment productions and it's quite pointless playing them anyways. But a few games are true works of arts and playing them, just like going through an insightful book/movie, gives you a lot. This might be the most convincing reason if I were to keep playing certain games.
