Sports Game Fatigue

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EricFreakingBerry

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Does anyone age 25+ get sports gaming fatigue much more easily than you used to 8-10 years ago, or is it just me?

I used to play sports games all year. I used to get insanely far in dynasty modes and franchise modes, etc. Or played hundreds of games with my friends. Now I realize as a 32 year old dad I have new obligations, less time, I work more, I watch "Finding Nemo" more, but I'm just talking about the time I have when I pickup a controller.

I've gotten about 5 seasons into a franchise on the latest Madden that was heavily simmed. I haven't played it since December. Because of no exporting draft classes, I grew quickly tired of NCAA despite some pretty decent features.

I've gotten 1 season in on NBA2K13 which is an amazing game, I played more games of it than any sports game so far this year.

I typically create 25-30 of my own wrestlers for Universe Mode in the WWE games, and I've sat down and made about 6 guys and not even started Universe Mode yet. I got the game in November.

When it's all said and done, my gaming time is more spread out. I just end up looking forward to playing some other games more these days and I was wondering if anyone else experiences this, too. I'm not actually complaining, but I'm wondering if the yearly versions of these games starts to take its toll on the player when not much changes from game to game. They remove a feature you love and it turns you off, or they add a feature that was probably in the series 5 years ago and call it something else.

IF (and notice I said IF) the necessity to churn out these games yearly as the cash cows that they are wasn't present, would sports gaming be "better?"
 
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I do not play that many sports games anymore. I used to buy Madden, NCAA football, NBA and MLB games every year. I have not purchased Ncaa in a few years. I bought Madden this year, but got super bored with it. MLB the show is great but I do not play it much. The only ones I still really play are NBA & FIFA.
 
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It just feels different to me these days. I used to get more enjoyment out of them. But today the restrictions on editing and licensing, rehashed features, missing statistical tracking, and barely touched gameplay from year to year has just finally worn me out. I pick them up, then put them down seemingly faster every year. I just wish they'd focus on the games for 2-3 years and offer major roster updates or DLC content periodically in-between.
 
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Licensing has ruined how it used to be, for sure. No creativity anymore. Remember games like mutant league football and super dodgeball??
 
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! Super Dodgeball was the freakin sh!t!

I also just dug out Simon's Quest thanks to the Name That Game thread.
 
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This happened to me a few years back.

I would play 15+ years of dynasty on NCAA football each game. From it's creation up till around NCAA 2008-2009. Around that point the games just started to feel too similiar to me. They got repetitive. Not just NCAA but Madden also. It's mostly the same thing but with diff rosters.

I took a break from NCAA till NCAA 2012. Bought it and had fun with it for about 4 years of dynasty. Then got bored with it.

Same is true with games in general. Not just sports. Only stuff I play now is mostly online Black Ops with friends. Single player games have to have a story to get my interest.
 
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Too many kiddies and punk teens online - kinda ruins it for us old farts. It would be nice if someone could invent a novel way to promote 21+ gaming environments.
 
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Have you played Madden 13? What ive been doing is started off with a team and once I have built them to a dominant level I just demand my release in connected careers and take another job and build that team up and just keep repeating the process. Whats cool about it is you dont have to restart so all your coach's stats are kept and the year doesn't reset.

Keeps things interesting for me.
 
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I still have a few sports games that I put in every now and then whenever I'm bored, but most titles have become so repetitive with each respective iteration that's it's just not worth buying them anymore.

I still buy NCAA on an annual basis, but that's only because of an online dynasty I'm in most years. Other than that, that's about as far as it goes for me these days in terms of online play. I'll play a few randoms online every now and them on NCAA or Madden, but those only entertain me so far since you'll still be paired up against someone every now and then that likes to play cheap.

Honestly, ever since the concepts of online leagues started being implemented into sports games it has pretty much killed any desire I have to play regular offline "season" modes. The trouble with the former is just finding a good group of people to play with.
 
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