After seeing a few comments regarding OS'ers being fed up with the current gaming landscape and deciding that the ps3/360 era was the final stop for gaming for them, i looked at my situation and realized I am there as well.
The innocence of gaming is gone.
Between the patches, the 'always connected' online blitz,and where I am the broken promises, the broken features and for me the gimped ps4 in comparison to the ps3, I felt its time to stand where I am, find some sports games I like from last gen and enjoy them.
I love playing retro games and I have a to of ps classics d/l'ed from the psn store, i have my movies, music, photos all on my hard drive.
I am content with that.
THis past year i clamored for the simpler days on home console gaming but those are long gone.
Nothing like loading up Castlevania Symphony of the Night on psn and just pure playing.
Maybe its the 50 gb installs, the waiting 5 minutes for game updates, then finally playing and then the game freezes but in any event to quote Murtaugh from Lethal Weapon, 'I'm getting too old for this ish.'
As a mostly sports gamer I dont see the games getting any better outside of features. Do i need a full halftime show if the tradeoff is season stats being completely screwed?
I think the last stand of the old school gaming console was the original wii.
It didnt have a user account to sign into. No patches. No online barrage. Just fun games [and some crappy ones too].
The ps3 has enough to keep me going for a long while.
Its been a fun long ride buying some of these systems through the years, but I have to step away. 44 years old I've been waiting much of that time for them to fix the freezing in Madden.
The innocence of gaming is gone.
Between the patches, the 'always connected' online blitz,and where I am the broken promises, the broken features and for me the gimped ps4 in comparison to the ps3, I felt its time to stand where I am, find some sports games I like from last gen and enjoy them.
I love playing retro games and I have a to of ps classics d/l'ed from the psn store, i have my movies, music, photos all on my hard drive.
I am content with that.
THis past year i clamored for the simpler days on home console gaming but those are long gone.
Nothing like loading up Castlevania Symphony of the Night on psn and just pure playing.
Maybe its the 50 gb installs, the waiting 5 minutes for game updates, then finally playing and then the game freezes but in any event to quote Murtaugh from Lethal Weapon, 'I'm getting too old for this ish.'
As a mostly sports gamer I dont see the games getting any better outside of features. Do i need a full halftime show if the tradeoff is season stats being completely screwed?
I think the last stand of the old school gaming console was the original wii.
It didnt have a user account to sign into. No patches. No online barrage. Just fun games [and some crappy ones too].
The ps3 has enough to keep me going for a long while.
Its been a fun long ride buying some of these systems through the years, but I have to step away. 44 years old I've been waiting much of that time for them to fix the freezing in Madden.
I'm open to getting a PS4, but to date there hasn't been a single game that interests me that's not also available on Steam. (I do also tend to be picky; I only got a PS3 this month and so far have only found one game I definitely want to own.) The main reason I moved into console gaming over PC gaming other than local multiplayer was so I wouldn't have to deal with installation times, patches and whatnot - as the home consoles act more and more like PCs, and as Steam games allow controller and split screen support more and more frequently, I feel less and less inclined to want to own them, since I'm going to have a PC no matter what.
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