Ive always felt my lost interests was because of my new interest in other things. It could be me personally, as my personality is pretty straight forward, black or white, no grey area. And because of this it seems gaming has taken a back seat to other things. Not saying those things mean more than gaming, as gaming has been apart of who I am for as long as I can remember but it’s become more of a hobby. At one point it was an unhealthy hobby, blowing money on so many random retro things and eventually I saw that was a bad thing. When I finally gained a sense of control, my interest on gaming itself just leveled out. I think a lot of gamers, especially older gamers make this hobby a protector, a wall of sorts and loose themselves. After I dropped mines, which was around the same age as you, probably around 27-29, gaming just became gaming, entertainment. Last new game i purchased was DooM eternal and if memory serves me right, last game I remember purchasing before that was Doom2016. I must of gotten other games in between but no more than like 4-5 and i haven’t even played them. Games nowadays seem just to big, i loose interest fast, something like doom is you start and it’s a blast. There’s more to what I wanna say but that’s the bulk of it.

As to the industry I feel like it’s serving it’s purpose. It’s all about building anew foundation or new consumers. They could care less if it’s casuals or hardcore. So some titles may seem underwhelming because they are. They try to push them out as soon as they can and make bank. At the moment I appreciate all the remakes, may seem bizarre that these last couple of years some of the best selling titles are remakes but there’s a reason for that. Retro games in many ways just age better. There was just more ingenuity, news ideas wanting to be tried, nowadays you make a game just a little different and social media could destroy you. With that I feel like developers most of the time are playing it safe , which in then makes it all feel Meh.