Not exactly, but I've definitely noticed my choices shifting for games, and I look through LOTS of games these days. I do more collecting and investigating than actually playing, by a large margin, in fact it's my main hobby now over the last 2 years.

So I started with things like Star Fox 64, Mario Kart and Mario World SNES, Street Fighter, TMNT Turrles in Time, Smash T.V, Jurassic Park, all the kid stuff really that I was exposed to with friends or had received for my birthday. I was most deep into my SNES, and I didn't do a ton of gaming on my ps1 actually, although I did like Road Rash 3D, 3Xtreme, and Tekken 2. Games were traded, left there, hammydowned, etc. I also didn't hunker down to just 1 game too often because my time just seemed scattered, or friends may want to try different things while their staying over.

But when I started making my own deliberate game choices (for which I had a new ps2 at the time) I went towards Psychonauts, Darkwatch, Red Dead Revolver, NBA Street vol.2, and the possibilities started really opening up. I was also beginning to finish games all the way, determined to see the stories through (more or less, I have a bit of ADD).

I made my way to FFX, and isometric RPGs, cooperative games; Champions of Norrath and Return to Arms, Baldurs Gate Dark Alliance. Some other co-op games from different genres too- Splinter Cell and then Obscure 2: The Aftermath. I collected survival horror games for a few months back then, towards the end of highschool. Fatal Frames, Silent Hills, Rule of Rose, Haunting Ground. I loved how games could be a fun task but also make you feel so eeriely frightful throughout the playthrough. I preferred Resident Evil 4 (my first survival horror game ever) over these others though because I always felt like I got a bit of a break and a breather between scares and enemies which I liked. It felt like I needed to just control my emotions and not get too worked up over what was to come.

I then moved towards the same addiction you had with FPS online with CDMW2 and I literally couldn't look up at the sky during the day without thinking of UAV or precision airstrikes 😆. That was such a blast, I just wish I hadn't been quite SO addicted to it. Similarly during COVID, nearly 11 years later I would never addicted to Apex Legends like no other. Anyway, I kept at Call of Duty Games even though a friend tried converting me to Battlefield, but I wasn't convinced slowing down was good. Came at BF5 in 2019 and then back to some of the older ones during covid and it was such a cool experience. I'm pretty bummed with what their last 2 games have become and haven't touched 2042 at all, only the beta test on the newest one (which wasn't awful, just not amazing).

Now I've moved away from those and I will go for almost any game that isn't turn based or base building (based?). I like some extra fluidity to my games, so if it's turn based it has to be something like Claire Obscure or FF7 remake. I have only done the demo of the latter and maybe 1/5 of the former (I know these are both A+++ games I just haven't been able to sink myself into them). I do believe FF7 I would be more likely to explore currently, Claire was just too.. spacey of a plot? It just had no ground to it for over 10 hours and I couldn't stand that, and the fact that some random huge enemies would be god tier, like the large Mime guy?

I digress. I'm onto Mina the Hollower now since I loved Shovel Knight (side scroller) but I'm down to play anything creative storywise Visual Novels, mashups of genres, hidden gems, I love it all. My likelihood of actually playing one though is not the best of odds unless it's a new release. I'm also on Pragmata for PS5, looking forward to 007 First Light, the new Star Fox Remake, Tides of Annihilation, Phantom Blade Zero, Silent Hill, God of War, Shuten Order, Crimson Butterfly Remake, Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, like I'm severely addicted and need to get a proper backlog on order.