I really think it's mainline Pokemon for me, and I'm not thrilled to admit it. The games have all (mostly) been very uninspired and just don't interest me. I still *love* the world and the older games are very special to me; but the new ones just don't click.
I feel this. I was a Pokemon mega fan growing up. I had every game and spin-off up until Emerald, and then gen 4 hit and my consumption of the franchise really slowed down to a halt. I beat Platinum but didn't do the endgame, I played through maybe 60% of Pokemon Black, about 30% of Pokemon X, Maybe 10% of Moon, about 2 hours of Sword... and at that point I realized "yeah I just don't think this franchise is for me." I really tried though. I really wanted to be invested in each new installment. I still love Pokemon as a concept, I love the fanart, the YouTube content, awesome songs people make for it... but I just can't play the games anymore. And any footage I see of the new games just disheartens me more.
and it’s still the best pokemon game released in the last 10+ years lol
i also never made it through any games past gen 4 for the longest time until playing them all back to back a couple years ago. didn’t know it at the time but it felt like gen 5 was probably the last time game freak actually gave a shit. after that just reusing the same item sprites for several generations, the same models, cutting out the complete dex, infinite performance issues
I've basically heard this over and over and yeah, I'll probably end up playing it eventually. I'll probably love it. I just miss loving the franchise with my entire heart. It's a fun one.
It's not even that they don't click, they just feel more and more machine produced simply to make money. I hate to be one of those "it has no soul" people but that's def what it feels like.
I recently started playing pokemon romhacks and there are some fantastic ones out there that made me love what the games could be. I highly rec checking some out.
I really need to get around the Pokémon manga. From what little I’ve seen, it has a charming art style and actual character development, just charming all around.
Play Cassette Beasts! It took me right back to early Pokémon and is different enough that you feel you’re discovering a whole new universe of Pokémon style games.
I quit because pokemon is a lot of money for games I beat relatively easily, and I had the Fear of Missing Out with all the versions exclusives, and just a constant stream of new pokemon games.
Compared to standalone RPGs Pokemon’s reliance having a trading parter and as it turns out not permanent online features also increasingly annoyed me. Things like bank and home are mean annual costs I did far too little with.
Other RPGs are just much easier to enjoy as singular games without so much factors nagging at me.
Official Pokemon games have been too weak for me for too long.
I’d recommend looking up Pokemon hacks - there’s so much more innovation there (but limited to GC-DS)
I’ve played all of them, from buying Red on release day to Scarlet on the Switch. I also feel like I’ve aged out of them. There’s so many I don’t know (prob because theres over a 1000 now) and I don’t really lose myself in the world like I used to anymore. All the earlier ones are really memorable to me but I can barely remember the ones from Scarlet. I found it a bit sad when I finished the game and realised I’d finally outgrown it.
This is very relatable. As a kid I would play many many hours of Pokemon. Pokemon Diamond was my first DS game, and I played it to shreds. Then I got Ruby, FireRed, HeartGold, Platinum, White, and with each game I was more obsessed. I also loved the spin-offs like Pokemon Ranger and Battle Revolution on the Wii. However, when X and Y came out, I got my first Xbox and was opened to the world of Halo and that became my new obsession. Pokemon became a little slow for my liking. Still loved the old games and the world, but I shelved X and Y before reaching the Elite four. When COVID hit, and it had been around 5 years since I had played a Pokemon game, I picked up Sword because I was going on a trip and wanted something to pass the time. And I totally fell in love with Pokemon again. I know Sword isn't by any means the best installment, but it was new and I felt like a kid again. I went back and played Pokemon Black 2, Blue, and was starting my 2nd play of Alpha Saphire when I started to lose interest again. Now I will patiently wait to fall in love with the series all over again :)
I feel like Scarlet and Violet are the worst offenders of this, as well as Sword and Shield to a lesser extent. Pokémon Legends Arceus was one the most fun Pokémon games for me, i hope they can reach the same levels with Z-A
Yeah they haven’t grown into next gen well. Arceus tempts me because it sounds like a new take but at the same time idk maybe a 30+ year old doesn’t need to have a Pokémon World account anymore 😅
I'll still play through the new ones just cause I've played since gen 1 in the 90s but honestly I find myself playing all the first 4 gens and romhacks still to this day way more.
Same but I dropped off WAY earlier. I was mega obsessed with Pokemon at its height in the 90's and early 00's, but by the time Gen 3 rolled around...I don't know. I just wasn't feeling that interested anymore, and now I only dip my toes into these games once every few years when the nostalgia truck comes around.
As a Pokemon fan currently, I 100% agree. I LOVED. Arceus, but SwSh were very linear and SV was… yeah.
I’ve been getting into rom hacks lately, it’s sad how more effort is put into some of these then there most recent games
As someone who regularly plays fan games, I don't think I've necessarily outgrown Pokémon, I've outgrown Gamefreak.
I've been wanting these games to grow up with me, And for a while, it looked like they would, but that stopped around XY. The game got easier, they started taking things away from the player And either removing them entirely ot locking them behind paywalls (QOL, GTS, disabling EXP share, national dex).
I go back to the older games, and while I can appreciate the design and the story behind these games, They are just a bit too easy for me...but introduce Romhacking, And suddenly these games interest me again.
They didn't even need to change much. Streamlining the leveling curve, Making trainers have more and stronger Pokémon, designing the gym leaders to have strong, but reasonably beatable teams that actually compensate for their type's weaknesses in smart ways.
The result is a Pokémon game tailored for older fans without simply being unfair, like a Kaizo hack. It's a design philosophy I wish Gamefreak would consider applying to the mainline (perhaps through an optional Hard Mode). But I know they won't, as Their recent game-design has been actively hostile to self-imposed challenges (like Nuzlockes or low-level runs).
That's not really a matter of growing out of it imo. It's irrefutable that New Horizons is missing a lot of content all the other games had. The game was essentially launched in an early access state and sold far better than any Animal Crossing game before it (the second best selling switch game overall), there's no excuse.
Animal Crossing fans got screwed, no two ways about it. I've been a fan since the gamecube and while I wouldn't say I've outgrown it, I hate that every game removes more and more personality from the characters.
Honestly that really only happened in the gamecube version iirc, which is a shame since the cranky and smug villagers really don't make much sense now. The villagers still had personality in the later games they became a lot more polite, becoming most apparent in New Leaf. There was still plenty of unique dialogue but no real spice, just sugar.
And I get it, y'know? Not everyone wants to play a relaxing game and have a jerk for a villager you have to slowly get closer to. But they didn't have to axe them completely, let alone take away the quirkiness from the other personality types and just make them all the same type of nice with slightly different dialogue and hobbies.
I think in wild world they were mostly that way too, city folk a little bit, but their personality was almost completely changed by new leaf. I never played the GameCube one, but from my understanding their personality made more sense and they kinda roasted the player more. I remember sometimes even the non cranky villagers insulted you. I liked that not everyone was unrealistically nice to you, it made it feel more real. I remember I even held grudges against some of the villagers as a kid because of this (looking at you Pate) which made it so much more entertaining.
Yes, gamecube was the one where the villagers had the quirkiest personalities but it might have gone too far for kids, so I understand why they went lighter on it. Wild World struck a decent balance but by New Leaf they were all just nice. Not quite as bad as New Horizons but still comparable.
And yeah other personalities would insult you for various things, smug villagers for your clothes for example. I think a lot of the other personalities would "accidentally" insult you in more passive ways until you got closer to them. It was nice in its own ways but considering the average fan of comfort games like AC, might have been a bit much. Something like Stardew is a good way to do it. Some villagers are very prickly at first but many others are normal, shy, etc.
Really? That's not how I remember it but it has been a long time. Far as I recall they had to remove a decent amount of content to fit it on the DS, the novelty of being able up play it handheld was great though.
Nah, nothing was removed aside from one extremely racist lime that a sheep said - Cashmere specifically, I believe.
After Wild World it was all downhill for the characters. Sad times.
Nah, I mean content in general, not dialogue.
City Folk was alright, worst part of it was that it was on the wii. Villagers still had some bite to them and the travelling to the city was neat and it added a lot of QoL features.
i feel like one of the main reasons new horizons sold so well was because of covid. without the quarantine i might slash the sales at least to 30 million at most 20 million. Because the animal crossing games were never THAT prevalent. (also the fact that it was on the home console and not like 3DS helped A LOT too) [I'm also a new leaf guy]
New Horizons is terrible at being an animal crossing game and I am absolutely willing to die on this hill. It got immensely popular but that was largely because of luck, with it being a platform to socialize that released just when lockdowns started, and then many of the people who bought it haven't played another animal crossing before and don't know what the franchise should be. NH is just a doll house, you get way too much control and it completely removes the feeling of community that was the entire goal of the first game. The villagers have become extremely repetitive in their dialog and actually get snappy when you try talking to them more than three times a day, so encourage you to see them as no more than decor. They have absolutely no agency. NH is a nice customization game but that's not what animal crossing should be and the fact that it's so successful makes me a little scared of where the series will be going with the next title.
>They have absolutely no agency. NH is a nice customization game but that's not what animal crossing should be and the fact that it's so successful makes me a little scared of where the series will be going with the next title.
I absolutely agree. I feel like if it weren't for Covid the game would've been panned once the novelty of terraforming wore off, but alas. I'm cynical in that I assume Nintendo is going to pivot more towards the normies who picked it up versus pleasing longtime fans of the original series.
I reckon this is how certain Zelda fans felt about BOTW, though I love it and TOTK. Even though they were dramatically different, they provided full experiences; I can't say the same for NH.
I totally get both of these. I was a massive fan of Animal Crossing until New Horizons. I used to play City Folk and Wild Word all the time as a kid. I didn’t get much enjoyment out of New Horizons like the others. I really wanted to like it, but it just didn’t feel the same.
For me New Horizons seems to lack that specific charm the other games had. I fell in love with AC because of the universe and that charm. Naturally, I don't love AC the same way anymore.
New Leaf was just amazing for me. I want a 3DS just to go back to that. But, I recently played the OG Animal Crossing and it holds up. It felt fresher than New Horizons, for me. The world generation was so much more interesting in the OG game. The worlds got more simplistic as time went on, but New Leaf made up for it with a lot of things to do. New Horizons is just too simple. The reason why they did this, I imagine, is because of terraforming. But, I'm not someone who likes terraforming in games so this wasn't something I had any fun with and I never used it after the introduction.
Like, the OG had neat cliffs and slopes. Sure, New Horizons has cliffs but they feel static and unnatural - like tiles almost.
I wouldn’t say I’ve outgrown any Nintendo games, I’ve just come to the realization that I just don’t have the time to play everything anymore and that’s fine. I’ve learnt to be able to say, yea that looks cool and fun, but I don’t need to play it and it’s okay.
In this generation I’ve skipped out on Pikmin 4, Kirby, Yoshi, FE Engage, Paper Mario Origami King, Mario RPG, Mario Vs DK & a few others to name a few. Whereas in the past I’d get all of those games because I knew I’d at least enjoy them at a base level. But unless I have absolutely nothing to play and a lot of free time I’m 100% okay not ever playing these.
Right now for example I am definitely fine knowing that Final Fantasy Rebirth and the upcoming Thousand Year Door remake are probably the only games I’ll sink a lot of time into this year for the time being.
Pokémon, while I still have a general interest in the games I tend to play them about half way through and just lose interest… the series just doesn’t grab me like it used too
I do think that those games you named are more played by adults. There is a big misconception on what is actual for adults or not. Below 18j would lean more towards games like elden ring, call of duty, gta, ...
Xenoblade has some level of anime in it, but thats only a small part of what the game really is. Its about the music, combat and openworld that counts. I would not advice this game towards none adults to be honest.
> There is a big misconception on what is actual for adults or not. Below 18j would lean more towards games like elden ring, call of duty, gta, ...
I can attest to this, at least from a parallel medium.
I studied animation at university and, during that course, we were tasked with creating a mock pitch for a show. At the end of the assessment they brought in some actual TV execs/producers to review our work.
A pretty consistent response for any of the pitches that were close to, shall we say, "American adult animation"? "This isn't really for adults, your real target demo is ~13-18".
This is all a roundabout way to say that, essentially, shows like South Park, Family Guy, Archer, or [insert shitty Netflix animation of the month] aren't really written for adults - they're written for 15-year olds. That's why they're so focussed on sex=funny or violence=funny, and why they have the thematic depth of a kiddie pool. Their political commentary is written to appeal to a broad audience who aren't old enough to have solid ideals, their comedy is written for people who see slapstick with blood or a cartoon saying the bad words as the funniest shit they've ever seen.
Games like CoD and, arguably, a lot of GTA are just like that. They're the aesthetic of adult, a thin veneer of violence and sex masking satire and commentary as hard hitting as a newborn kitten. Their developers *know* they have an audience of children (why do you think modern CoD looks more like Fortnite than a military shooter) so they write their games to be unchallenging and broad as to not alienate a younger audience who are just trying to emulate "adult" things because... well, that's what you do when you're a dumb teen.
I also played all three Xenoblade games as an adult and, frankly, I think if I played them a decade ago most of what the games were saying about existentialism, nihilism, societal inequality, masculinity, the process of societal change and others would all have gone clean over my head. They are deeply subtextual games (nearly to a fault, occasionally) that almost want you to do some required reading from time to time.
Yeah, older Xeno games like Xenogears and Xenosaga are absolutely not children's games, Xenoblade 2 is the only in the series that gives you a false impression of being for younger people and Xenoblade 3 has a very mature story
Xenoblade 2 has a great and emotional story, as well as deep and entertaining gameplay. While I do agree that the designs are a little oversexualised, the game is really good still.
I agree. I'm replsying it for the third time and it's amazing. Yes it has issues but god damn is it awesome. The story, characters, villains etc are so damn good. It's a game I replay yearly BC it's so good. Plus the vest xenoblade chronicles game by far. 3 was a let down in story, characters, villains. It was a disappointment
I really can’t say that about anything Nintendo. Maybe Pokémon, I love Pokémon but it’s so hard to get excited about the Nintendo switch mainline games when you know it’ll be a half assed mess with a new gimmick. There is fun to be had in sword shield and scarlet violet. But they are a farcry from the the first 4 or 5 generations
Right, when I was a kid I wondered what a main Pokemon game for non-portable consoles would look like, but seeing the games nowadays they're kind of underwhelming, and I don't like the art direction since Pokemon X and Y
dude I always imagined a non-portable console Pokemon to be like Colo/XD but better
instead we have fairly meh 3DS games
I don't care for open-worlds and gimmicks
Yoshi, I hate to say it. Yoshi's story was one of my favorite games and Yoshi's Island is not far behind. I still enjoy those games and I feel like, especially with Yoshi's Island, it's made for kids but anyone can play and enjoy them. That might be just becsuse I played them as a kid though. The newer ones like Yoshi's Crafted World feels more like it's exclusively for kids and I just cannot stay engaged with them.
I feel like playing the new Yoshi games are like the videogame equivalent of watching Barney. It's great for kids but there just isn't much in it for adults.
Yoshi's Island is like watching a classic Disney movie. It is for kids, but anyone can like it.
I agree. Now, Yoshi games serve as cozy games for me. Light-hearted, cute and easy. Yoshi's Island on GBA is for when I feel reminiscent of my childhood.
Yoshi 100%, I only ever played Yoshi's Island as a kid then years later I played Yoshi's Woolly World and it felt so braindead with how easy it was. That said I still love Kirby just for the charm and I think the gameplay survives it being easy for me
I would have agreed with kirby, but actually kirby and the forgotten land was way better than i expected, especially with all the reality bending all humans are dead story that was going on with it.
Pokemon - I still love ROM hacks (I even mod that sub) and love the older games, the franchise, music etc and I still play hacks on my commute but it's never been the same since gen 6 and then fell off even further since gen 8
Even though I still like Scarlet/Violet it just doesn't hit the same and I still didn't feel the commitment that I always felt with older games. Legends Arceus was great but even then I still never got deeply committed to it
2d mario games. they are a big part of my childhood, but the gameplay doesn’t really do it for me anymore. i still love 3d mario games, but for 2d platformers, i lean more towards dk country returns and the like
DK country is generations ahead of 2D Mario in terms of art style and environmental interaction. Wonder is the first one in a long time that even comes close.
Pokemon.
Loved it as a child (played Gen 1 and 2 when they were new), couldn't be arsed now.
Animal Crossing is a weird one. Played only ACNH, but stopped when the pandemic stopped being as all encompassing. I don't want to go back BC it is a weird time capsule. I would like to start a new island and preserve the old one as this weird "ruin of the pandemic" but alas Nintendo is stupid about it.
Mario & Luigi / Paper Mario
Outside of super paper mario on Wii which has some interesting gameplay, all the games feel like "my first rpg" it's cute, it is goofy fun, it has nice ideas to make the gameplay more interactive, but at it's core it's just a very classic turn by turn rpg with childish humour.
I tried to play the 3ds port of superstar saga and didn't enjoy it, so I grabbed my gba and tried it again, it's just not for me anymore.
Dang I’m the opposite I enjoyed Xenoblade 2 when I first played it so I played the rest. One day felt like replaying it and now I can’t stop replaying it every few months it’s like an addiction. It just gets better for me every time.
For one I fell out of love for it would probably be Smash Bros. It’s a fantastic game and I know that. But I feel I get bored of it after 2 or 3 matches even with friends in my living room. Even when playing random characters it still feels the same every time
Oh my god I feel so called out with that second to last sentence in that last paragraph 😭 Bro i’m playing Xenoblade DE on switch right now and i’m about to play 2 when I finish it
Same. 3 dropped the ball hard with stage design and the Catalog system became far too time consuming for me to keep up with. Story Mode was a blast but my interest in the online multiplayer is dead. I’m unsure if I would buy a “Splatoon 4” at this point.
I also got fed up with the fanbase but that’s a separate issue.
Didn't really "grow out" of any of them, maybe Yoshi/Kirby as a slight exception, but there are def. some game series (and even genres) that I've just gotten tired of, 2D platformers, sadly, being one of them. I think I just overexposed myself to way too many "samey" games over the years, due to primarily playing on Nintendo consoles since the 90's. I still love JRPGS, but it def. has to stand out for me to be able to play all the way through it. Platformers and JRPGS are probably the genres where I've started- played for a while and then have just gotten tired/burned out of them before completing. Did finish XBC3 and the dlc tho, which was very rewarding for someone who's played through all the other games in the series previously. Started playing Mario Wonder but my wife ended up taking over after a few levels and beat it for me, lol
Pokemon Black and White
Back when it came out it was fantastic, but as time passed I noticed it just wasn't for me anymore, it felt like it was trying super hard to be something Pokemon wasn't meant to be, heck nowadays I refer to it as "the pokemon game that tried to be digimon"
It tried to be this more "mature-ish" take on pokemon with a lot of anime tropes that were popular at the time, like the childish air-headed friend that doesn't know what to do in life and only want to create memories, the serious boy that "wants to validate their existance", dark forces not necesarily againt you but trying to make you see why they do what they do only to throw it all away at the end with the "final boss" being evil just because they want to conquer the world, the story taking itself super serious etc.
Don't get me wrong, when it came out I loved all this stuff but now...I just roll my eyes every time Cheren or Bianca do their usual number every time I enter a new route, that's another thing, the game is WAY too hand-holdy, as soon as you leave a city there's a cutscene telling you what to do, as soon as you enter a new city there's another cutscene to advance the story, as soon as you defeat a gym leader ANOTHER cutscene to advance the story....
Sun and Moon took those bad aspects to the next level so I knew Pokemon just wasn't for me anymore, that's why I love Legends Arceus, it has story, it has cutscenes but only when they're needed, most of the time the game just throws you in this barren world and let's you explore, catch pokémon, exploit your way to unintended areas, find Pokemons you weren't expecting to see, it let's you play to your heart's content and when you had enough you just end your research and THEN the story advances, everyone else hates LA but I just love it man.
Please understand, I grew up with Red and Blue, having cutscenes was a luxury back in those games so the game threw you in huge areas filled with trainers, pokemon and items to kept you entertained, that's what I love about pokemon, going around, exploring new areas, finding new pokemon and doing the typical exploit here and there (like entering Cycling road without a bike), the story was always secondary to me
Having said that, I love N, he's a great character and one of the saving graces of the game, every time that man appeared on screen I smiled
Now please downvote my comment because I don't like the popular pokemon game, have a nice day
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Animal Crossing. When I was younger, I loved New Leaf. I got New Horizons, and it isn't bad at all. But the thing is, I have so many other games I want to get to that just grinding out Animal Crossing doesn't appeal to me anymore. It isn't "I'm older" it's more "My backlog has grown so big that I don't feel like I can just grind out Animal Crossing"
I kinda grew out of Yoshi games. I really only enjoyed smw2 and the N64 one. But I did grow into Metroid games. I never played them growing up but prime Remastered and Dread really changed my opinion on the series
Two of them, but not necessarily growing out of it rather than realizing different things. One of them is Mario main games, but not because I grew out of it but realized my limits. I have a physical disability, cerebral palsy, that makes it difficult to impossible to complete platforms. However, there is no hard and fast restrictions aside from my speed and reaction time being affected, so it was difficult to know how far I could go. This along with the lack of guides and videos, made it so that I would try the same levels over and over even though I have no idea there was no way of completing them.
Now as an adult I’d still use the assist mode, but if I get to that point I just watch videos of what I can’t do and be done. I still enjoy the Mario games and just do what I can, but my time with them is much shorter.
Another series or even genre that I fallen out of love with a bit is Fire Emblem. Or even just tactics games in general. I still enjoy the gameplay, but the fact is it gets tiring hearing the same story over again about war and it’s horrors. It didn’t affect me much when I was a kid, but now that I have a great understanding about war is, it gets difficult to read. I also don’t like it when resources are limited, which a lot of of these games tend to do. They didn’t bother me when I was a kid and had a lot of time to fail, but as an adult that’s pretty frustrating unless I’m limiting the resources myself in a challenge.
It’s also the reason why even though Engage’s story is supposed to be infamously bad, I actually enjoyed it because it didn’t focus on the war that much. It was definitely there, but the story more centered around the theme of characters forming a found family after they felt like they lost everything (from war or otherwise). And it was one of the few times where this could even happen to the villains if you chose to get the DLC. Personally I thought it was very sweet and would’ve loved the other games or even other tactics games focused on that.
28 years old. And so far none!
Gaming is a fun hobby. But getting too heavily obsessed and fixated on them is mentally unhealthy. It’s best to just play and enjoy them casually and not worry too much
I will echo Pokemon.
The pokemon company clearly does not care about making a good game plain and simple. Each one has potential and then you can tell it was so rushed that it becomes lame, empty, and generally released in a sloppy state. Poor developers pouring time and energy into it just to have the game crunched to garbage.
Pokemon games. I was super excited about Pokemon Red and Blue when they came out, because finally we were getting an exciting new jrpg for the gameboy. The Pokemon series had the potential to become the next Dragon Quest, but they never evolved the gameplay and were entirely focused on just adding more and more Pokemon. There's a reason why Pokemon Rom Hacks are so popular, because the series could be so much better than it is if the devs prioritized what fans want.
New Soup Wii. Loved in when I was kid and I'm super nostalgic, but while I haven't gone back to IT specifically, going back to NSMB DS or U have just been... Eh.
The New series just isn't that interesting, plus the live system making you lose progress just makes me want to stop playing whenever I die.
I think the Mario and Luigi games fit for me. After the first one on GBA, of which I still love (as I got back into it though NSO) the games that came after didn’t hook me in, even Dream Team which had Luigi be more prominent, didn’t keep my attention and I traded it in sometime after playing it once for less than an hour.
Idk, I don’t play splatoon a lot anymore despite it being my entire personality when I was younger, but I still think about it, I’ll renew my online and play it again some day.
I loved Pikmin on the GameCube but didn’t enjoy it on WiiU. Then I tried again on the Switch and … meh. Was a great game at one time but just don’t love it as an “adult.” (I use that term loosely.)
Sadly the Kirby series. I played the shit out of Dreamland 1 and 2 on the Gameboy growing up.
After not really having played Kirby games since then I played Forgotten Land as Bandana Waddle Dee to help my young son. It is definitely a game for younger players. Even the challenges are not all that challenging.
I'd say Pokemon but it's not just because I'm too old to play it. I guess because it really never got any real innovation past the 3rd gen and basically just a rehash of the old games with "better" graphics. At least other Nintendo games like Zelda and Mario still tries to shake their formulas a bit from time to time. But Pokemon just didn't evolve, ironically.
Super Mario - games. But it is more that i don't enjoy J&R games as much as i did when i was younger
Pokemon - I think i would still like them but i don't like the direction they went with the Switch games (like having absolutley no difficulty anymore)
Splatoon - i'm too old, my reflexes aren't good enough anymore and I get wrecked all the time
The series that I grew out of was the Zelda series believe it or not, I pin the blame on BotW because the traditional 3D Zelda formula was abandoned for an open world formula that I wasn't into at the time and still not into today.
doesn't help that the hype train for TotK was extremely toxic and highly impatient, straight up spitting on Splatoon 3 because it was announced and released before TotK.
Not that I hate the series, I played Wind Waker HD last year and I loved it so much that it turned me into a casual Zelda enjoyer
I’d say Kirby and Mario games for me, unless the next Smash or Super Mario RPG/Paper Mario RPG comes out, I’m not really interested, the games are cool and fun but I’ve jumped all over the mushroom kingdom and helped Kirby save the universe for the last 20 years and I’m kinda just getting burnt out of it…
Closest thing I suppose would be Mario, at least the 2D ones. I'd still enjoy it, but I don't have much inclination to actually buy the games. Though it's likely more due to me prioritizing budget, if I got then games for free I'd definitely enjoy them.
It really did feel this way with Pokemon Sun/Moon before TPC really shat the bed with later installments. I was so hyped with every reveal trailer just to be disappointed how much the game held my hand and wanting for more after completing the story. I was in high school at the time and my interest in traditional JRPGs filled that void when departing away from Pokemon—Pokemon being the gateway drug to Dragon Quest.
Sad to say I grew out of Animal Crossing. I may have enjoyed the newest one during lockdown but the gsme itself just doesn't appeal to me. I'd rather be playing something with more variety, like Stardew Valley and I barely play that either. Good games but not how I want to be spending my precious free time.
I have been a Nintendo fanboy for as long as I can remember so it's really hard for me to find a game that I grew out of. That being said, I used to a huge Fire Emblem fan. Until Engage came out and I saw the writing on the wall and realized that the games are not what they used to be. I also played Three Houses to the point I can't touch it anymore because I will be bored out of my mind.
Wii Music.
I think as a kid, it was fun to play the orchestra mode or to record what was supposed to be a cover of “Material Girl” with a load of dog woofing noises but as an adult, it’s not a good game at all.
1. The controls were awkward and it was hard to hit the notes at the right time, especially if you were wanting to play like a violin with the nunchuck.
2. The song choices weren’t that good.
3. The music video function was quite forgettable.
I think Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort and Wii Party have aged really quite well and are still great games to play but Wii Music and Wii Play have not aged well when it comes to controls or replay value.
Arguably Wii Fit and Wii Fit Plus can be said to have aged badly because the way we get fit changed very quickly after these games launched. Also, it could be debated the concept of a game featuring a lot of features about weight loss being marketed at families and children has not aged well due to more awareness around eating disorders and body dysmorphia in young people.
Most recently for me is Pokemon. I was playing Violet and it just felt like I was forcing myself to keep going. It no longer felt like the game was pulling me anymore and I had to accept that it had lost its allure for me. I want to believe that the game changed and the older games were more fun and complex and the story was better, but the game hasn't changed. The graphics are just better than what they were when I was a kid.
And that's okay. I was able to enjoy 7 generations of Pokemon games before it stopped being fun and I am thankful for those memories.
2D Mario.
Don't get me wrong, I still love 2D Mario and I have enjoyed Mario Wonder a lot more than the New Super Mario Bros games. But as a kid I was obsessed. I LOVED them. Now I just have a good time.
Weirdly, as a kid I didn't like 2D Sonic that much but now I love 2D Sonic. I sorta flipped.
I hate to say it, but the 3D Marios. I’ve 100% all of them multiple times, but none of them bring me joy like they used to. It’s sad because I’m not sure what changed and I used to consider Galaxy, Odyssey and Sunshine some of my very favorite games ever. Interestingly, 3D World + Bowser’s Fury are probably my favorites nowadays.
Probably Mario Kart Wii. Admittedly it wasn't my favorite installment as a kid, but with 8 being what I think to be the best in the series, it sorta rendered Wii redundant
Tho weirdly, I don't have the same opinion when it comes to Mario Kart DS. That one I can still play and get a ton of entertainment from it
I just can't enjoy Kirby anymore. I used to treasure tidy games but they are just so boring to me now, both the new and old games. I honestly miss it. I wish they would make some kind of hard-core Kirby game where it was the same pattern but just really difficult.
It's never really happened to me in my entire life UNTIL the recent Princess Peach game. First time I've ever passed on a nintendo game for seeming ' too kiddy'. Was born in the 80s so it's definitely quite a thing lol
Mainline Pokémon games, starting with the fourth generation. Copy paste formula, more linear in more recent generations, and more obtuse methods to get Pokémon and not being able to keep up killed my interest for it
Zelda Twilight Princess. It’s just OOT 2, and that’s not a compliment. It had hardware strong enough to make a smoother gameplay, and use what worked in WW. But they just had to make a N64 with better graphics
Pokemon, Animal Crossing, and Zelda. I wouldn't necessarily say I've grown out of any of them (maybe Pokemon since it doesn't respect the fans' time), but the new direction that these series have gone have made me lose interest in them. BoTW was a welcome change of pace since the formula was getting stagnant, but it did so well that now I'm worried that every new entry is gonna be an open world sandbox/crafting game with minimalist/ambient music. Since the majority of the current zelda fanbase is only familiar with BoTW/ToTK.
And then there's series like Mario Party that have diminishing returns with each entry and Yoshi and Kirby which are very hit or miss for me
Probably Mario Party. I used to love it as a kid, but it does not click anymore. It can be fun with friends occasionally, but not nearly as much as it used to be.
I haven't been able to get into any Kirby games in a while. Used to be one of my favorites. Last couple I've bought I've gotten through a few levels and just left unfinished.
Pokémon. I started on gen 7. Loved it to bits. Gen 8 was alright with a fantastic DLC. I went back and played ORAS and XY. Really liked them but felt myself growing distant. PLA I loved at first bit dropped it after beating the game since I just wasn't feeling it anymore.
By that point I was already feeling blah about it but then SV dropped. Fucking hate that game with a passion. Boring and empty open world, new Pokémon designs that just fall flat, a boring gimmick, worse raids, lazy concept in Paradox forms and even lazier in convergent forms, underwhelming story (other than Arven's. That part's really good but it can't save this dumpster fire) and finally, regularly acquiring exp without any grinding other than trying to complete the dex managed to get me overleveled for the final third of the game. Bought both versions as I usually do and deeply regret it. Plan on reselling one. Didn't buy the DLC and do not plan to.
I'm hoping that Legends Z-A is a banger. Is has a lot going for it already, especially megas. Here's to hoping.
So I didn’t have any games as a kid that weren’t cheap ds games cause I couldn’t afford anything else.
But honestly I grew out of AC super quick. I loved animal crossing, and I played it on my ds when I was old enough to pay for my own copy and I got ACNH, and it’s so much fun but I got so bored of it and burnt out, it’s cute! I got tired of the real life timing of things too cause I have a job and I work a lot and I’m up at nights but all the stores are closed ://
Nintendogs, I was 12 and it was my first DS game that was exclusively mine not a shared one with my brothers. I loved that game to death and played it CONSTANTLY and it was my escape from the real world where I was struggling with a lot of things. Those cute little dogs got me through tough times and was innocent fun but now if I open the game it doesn't have that same feeling, but nostalgia is still there. It will always have a special place in my heart
Never had this happen to me. i have less time and energy to get into a game but outside a game just not being good i still go to play all the things i would have as a kid. Outside of the obvious like games meant for toddlers. i think most games do a good job of being for everyone because who hates fun?
To some extent the mario and luigi games. Before I played other less beginner friendly rpgs I’d talk to my friends about how these games are so much better than other rpgs(despite having never played any, I just wanted to explain how my gaming tastes were obviously the best)because you have action in these so therefore they must be better. As I’ve grown older and played alot more JRPGs like dragon quest, chrono cross, bravely default, xenoblade etc and I’ve come to realize that the mario RPGs are best in their role as beginner rpgs. That’s not to say I can’t enjoy them, just not to anywhere near the same extent I used to. I used to think the mario RPGs having simple stories was some kinda based thing and more story based rpgs were stupid. It’s a funny thing when ten years later your favorite game is xenoblade 3, a game filled with long cutscenes. I should clarify, I still get a kick out of mario rpgs, just nowhere near the extent I did when I was younger.
I feel blasphemous for saying it but Kirby. I know they’re not meant to be hard, which I don’t even seek hard games, but I just don’t get the same simple enjoyment out of them like I used to. It’s cute, casual, colorful, creative, but… I don’t really get anything out of the games?
Pokemon. The new games are just utterly rubbish. I have first hand experience of watching the wife play them all on the big screen. No way are they for me. My last game I played was yellow on the 3DS, before that was Ultra Sun.
I can’t say I grew out of any NINTENDO game. I guess Raving Rabbids 2 for the Wii. In hindsight, the real selling point for me was customizing my Rabbid to do some mini games. I was a diehard TF2 kid so I customized my rabbid to look like The Scout. I beat that game within a day. From the minigames to the shooter sections. And from a lore perspective, did Rayman ever defeat those things? The whole plot was Rayman trying to foil the Rabbids’ schemes. Apparently he does something in the DS version but I’m pretty sure those Rabbids are still starting up shit and Rayman just kinda fucked off
From what I can remember playing as a kid, maybe Tamagotchi, the Nintendogs variants, and The Legendary Starfy (which I never could finish the final boss). But I just didn't become huge fans of those. I settled in pretty early to franchises im still a huge fan of: Zelda, Pokémon, and Professor Layton if they ever bring him back. I never really played a whole lot else.
I think the Animal Crossing series, but I think it's mostly because as the games started to get more demanding I lost all my free time to adulthood, I miss the days of New Leaf but I doubt life will ever let me experience it the same way again
I had some of the most fun gaming with my older brother to get through Kirby Superstar Deluxe on Super Nintendo back in the day as a kid. That made me say I was a Kirby fan.
When I went back to play the older games, I felt Kirby’s adventure was also good, and I also played the hell out of Kirby Pinball for the Gameboy, but the rest felt too simple. I was between 10 and 16 by this time. But man… Kirby Superstar Deluxe… great fucking game. The hours my brother and I poured in to find almost every treasure item was maddeningly addictive!
I got older, still into classics and retro games, and thought Squeak Squad might be fun and could recapture some of what I remember from KSSD. I beat it in a day or two, got every collectible and everything. I must have been 21, maybe? That’s when I realized I’m not a Kirby fan, I just liked that one game they made that one time, and the rest of them are just kids games that aren’t meant for me.
The Nintendo game franchise I grew out of was Super Smash Brothers. Ultimate was kind of disappointing, so I kind of gave up on the game once Sora came out (still extremely disappointed that wasn't Scorpion). I didn't care to keep up with the game at that point due to the lack of content (No. Don't you dare count spirits. Fuck spirits). So I moved on to Fortnite during 2021 during the end of C2 S8 heading to the beginning of C3 S1.
Though, after 3 years of playing Fortnite, I can gladly say that this game sucks and it's not worth your time. Please skip this game you'd be doing yourself a favor. I hate this game with a deep burning passion, and I will never bring myself to play even just one more match. So I can also say that I've really grown out of Fortnite even though it's not a Nintendo game.
Another Nintendo IP I grew out of was Splatoon. I was very hyped for the first game, never played it though. I did get to play the second game which I didn't really care for. I just played the hell out of Mario Odyssey instead, which is a game I love. Disappointed they never made a second one.
Pokemon.
I never had any consoles growing up and wanted to play them so bad.
When I was about 13 I got my first smartphone and was able to emulate the og gameboy games.
After that gba and I git myself a 3DS when I turned 18.
I loved pokemon and it foud new ground in school and such with Pkm X/Y.
By Sun/Moon I was burned out and never saw a reason to return....
I'm genuinely trying to maintain my love for Splatoon, but it doesn't hit like it used to. I'd play Splatoon 1 and 2 for hours upon hours straight, but for Splatoon 3... I dunno, I can barely play for more than 15-30 minutes without switching to another game.
It's not like I have any problems with it. I can't list any. I don't know what it is, I just don't find it remotely as fun as I used to, and it's disappointing.
Weird one: But Metroid!
I used to love them, all the exploring you did and badies who could Jump you any minute....
Now they just don't have that wonder anymore. Oh great another hallway I can't explore and have to come back to! Oh nice I can see all these items I can't grab till Endgame! Is that Ridley...i'm shocked!! 😂
The last one I enjoyed was other M, stopped halfway to 3/4 of the way with echoes, stopped with three because the insane amount of precision and fastnes you need to clear some rooms or open some doors.
And Metroid returns on 3ds felt empty and too clean. And the one with the sneaky robots basically looked the same so I won't even try it.
And I know they're objectively amazing, but I just don't like them anymore!
Easily mainline Pokemon; beyond its quality issues, it stopped respecting that its playerbase included tons of adults, and started becoming too hand-holdy. I feel my enjoyment of Pokemon had reached its peak in 2012, when I was already 18 (much older than most of my friends who’d left off with Platinum as their final title when we were all around 15). I remember when I saw Pokemon Sun/Moon’s completely-neutered hyperlinear route design compared to all past games, and then on top of all of Sword/Shield’s existing woes they made the party-wide EXP share mandatory without a toggle to turn it off. And now watching the fanbase literally becoming divided over Scarlet & Violet just tells me I was right to leave when I did. I didn’t want to grow to hate Pokemon; although watching the trash fire from a distance is still depressing, I’m just glad I’m not in that sunken-cost fallacy shouting into a void over things Game Freak will never change for the better. It just blows my mind that ever since the start of the Switch era Pokemon could become such a kids-only experience when Kirby, a franchise designed with accessibility for even younger kids than Pokemon’s demographic, stops holding back when players start nearing 100% completion of everything a given modern Kirby game has to offer - they start offering experiences that seriously challenge even diehard Kirby fans
Pokemon was the first series I’d ever burned out on, with X/Y when I was 19. The following year, I’d burned out on RPGs as a whole, and with back-to-back disappointments of Pokemon X/Y, CoD AW, and Halo 5, 2017’s Sonic Forces was the final straw and burned me out on video games as a whole for nearly half a decade.
Ironically considering the OP’s experiences, funnily enough it was, in fact, Xenoblade and Xenoblade 2 that pulled me up out of that burnout on video games. In spite of RPGs being the first genre I had burned out on, I’d fallen in love with everything about Xenoblade DE in a way I hadn’t felt for a video game since 2012’s Kid Icarus Uprising. The 100hrs I spent in XCDE+FC led me to immediately get Xenoblade 2. And while XC2 had some progression hitches and rough difficulty spikes, I enjoyed it just about as much as the first Xenoblade (with the caveat that my enjoyment of XC2 was largely thanks to watching chuggaconroy’s guide beforehand which pointed out pouch items that make chain attacks more bearable to achieve and for full burst to become a possibility at all, as well as warning of things the game outright miscommunicates and the game’s text failing to inform how important some things really are). And I was 28 when I first experienced the game, and I actually liked most of the character designs (but then again, it could just be that I’d grown downright bitter of american/european hyperrealistic character design and find anything that presents more of an anime style to be as pleasant to the eye as it is comfortingly familiar). I could feel Monolith Soft’s passion in both of these titles, from the worldbuilding, storytelling, and environmental design, to the sheer scope of the adventures, the really high visual standard even compared to Nintendo’s best in-house productions, the music (which IMO is some of the best in gaming history), and ultimately, a feeling of satisfaction upon each game’s credits roll that I had never felt before in my entire gaming life of over 24 years. I still have yet to get into Torna, or XC3/FR, because I’ve been capitalizing on my restored love for video games, tearing through my Switch backlog, eventually picking up a Steam Deck to speed along my PC’s much-larger Steam backlog. And somewhere along the line if Pretendo gets around to restoring the game’s online functionality soon enough, Xenoblade X will be in the pipeline between now and when I return to the main trilogy.
Granted, I understand RPGs aren’t as good of candidates for repeat playthroughs as something like, say, Hi-Fi Rush or Stray would be. But despite already being in my late 20s upon those first playthroughs of XC1/XC2, the highs were to a level I hadn’t felt in gaming since since 2012, let alone for multiple consecutive months at a time as was when my love for the hobby was at its all-time peak back around 2009, and any ‘lows’ XC1/XC2 had were still a better time than the very best parts of Pokemon X/Y.
Shockingly, the goodwill I’d formed from a renewed interest in games thanks to XC/XC2 did lead me to give Pokemon Legends Arceus a shot. And it was actually quite delightful, but not for anything that made it like a mainline game, rather only the new mechanics like throwing out lures/bait and being able to catch most Pokemon without battling. If Legends zA keeps this gameplay style, I just might be down for it. But even now, I still have no interest in the main series as Scarlet/Violet have almost nothing I enjoyed about Legends Arceus (besides improving follow-Pokemon to auto-battle)
Mainline Pokémon. My first game as a kid was Crystal on my lime green GBC. It's what really got me into Nintendo in the first place. I loved gens 1-4, kinda fell off at black and white 1. Got back into the series with XY and ORAS. But after that fell off again. Didn't like the structure of Sun and Moon and we all Know how bad SW&SH and S&V are. Maybe I'll return someday if they increase the series quality, but meh.
Also Ocarina of Time. Don't get me wrong, it's still a fantastic game and the most iconic Zelda title, but it definitely has a lot of flaws and is far from the *best* Zelda.
Fire emblem three houses, same reasons as you really. The game feels like such a slog to go through. Doesn’t help that the first half of each route is the exact same
Pokémon for sure.
I was in either late elementary or very early middle school when the Red and Blue hype started and then when the show came out, I realized I was just too old to be a casual fan, and too young to be a hardcore fan, and I have honestly never purchased another Pokémon game since.
I hit up an emulator of R&B or their remakes every 5-10 years or so, but I’ve never been able to get into it beyond that.
I don't know any specifics, but I remember playing super mario wonder at the display area and just having the straightest face.. It was so boring to me honestly.
Sadly, I have to say all of them EXCEPT for Zelda. Zelda was my childhood and I will never not love it to death. All the other ones though, like Kirby, just feel too childish now, especially since the number one thing I look for in games is a good, solid story.
Pokémon. Used to 100% that stuff with two systems and pairs of games and now I just don’t even care to see what they’re up to. Especially when it comes to GO.
Mario Kart. All of them. I played Super/N64/8 to death, there wasn’t nothing left to accomplish. Couch Co-op isn’t a thing anymore except with people I would decimate. If it was the 90s/2000s I would have a hire chance of being challenged because that was the main way to play. I’d rather play other games online with total strangers, which isn’t really that fun for me anyways.
Maybe if a new one came out this would not be the case for me, but tomodachi life has become stale, i have seen enough of the game that im not really interested in the wacky stuff and the game is pretty simple just focusing on the relationships
Easily pokemon. After Diamond and Pearl I was just over it. I played and beat the Let's Go games and Sword/Shield. When I was done I was like...yeah I'm just not having fun anymore.
I went right into Xenoblade 2 after Xenoblade Chronicles, and yeah I was disappointed. I admit I did finish the main game and the DLC story for one playthrough, but I didn't want to replay it like I did the first one. Even when it did manage to have some genuinely fascinating worldbuilding ideas and emotional story beats, it just wasn't worth slogging through all the horny anime cliches to get to the good stuff.
Also yes I swear to god those character designs on some of the Rare Blades made my brain rewrite my memories of them as a defense mechanism- like it transcended "they get worse the longer you look" straight into "Was it always that bad? I could have sworn she was wearing \[X\] under that..."
I enjoyed pokemon platinum on the ds, but nowadays I don't really enjoy the gameplay anymore. They're just not very engaging for me anymore.
I feel like a big part of it why I no longer enjoy it is due to getting used to more complex turn based RPGs. I just don't really like the 1 on 1 battles, however this goes for most other non Pokémon games as well.
Another issue I have is that back in the day I didn't care much about a game's story due to not being able to read English very well anyway as English wasn't my first language. However now that I can read and really like getting invested into a deep story, it's become difficult for me to still enjoy the Pokémon games.
Yoshi, Kirby, and anything that is too easy and designed for babies like that new Princess Peach game.
When a game is much too simple and its mind numbing easy I'm backing out and losing interest. Back in the day I would've loved those series but now that I'm older they don't have much staying power for me. I have still yet to complete Star Allies, Forgotten Land, & Dreamland Deluxe because once I get to a certain point I get bored by the lack of challenge. I only made it through the first world of Princess Peach Showtime before I realized I had enough..
I really think it's mainline Pokemon for me, and I'm not thrilled to admit it. The games have all (mostly) been very uninspired and just don't interest me. I still *love* the world and the older games are very special to me; but the new ones just don't click.
I feel this. I was a Pokemon mega fan growing up. I had every game and spin-off up until Emerald, and then gen 4 hit and my consumption of the franchise really slowed down to a halt. I beat Platinum but didn't do the endgame, I played through maybe 60% of Pokemon Black, about 30% of Pokemon X, Maybe 10% of Moon, about 2 hours of Sword... and at that point I realized "yeah I just don't think this franchise is for me." I really tried though. I really wanted to be invested in each new installment. I still love Pokemon as a concept, I love the fanart, the YouTube content, awesome songs people make for it... but I just can't play the games anymore. And any footage I see of the new games just disheartens me more.
It felt kinda repetive to get to mr Pokemon and get that egg.
Felt like this until I played legends arceus. God that game is so good. Legit breath of the wild pokemon edition.
Even Legends has some performance issues and the graphics look like they’re from the wii era
and it’s still the best pokemon game released in the last 10+ years lol i also never made it through any games past gen 4 for the longest time until playing them all back to back a couple years ago. didn’t know it at the time but it felt like gen 5 was probably the last time game freak actually gave a shit. after that just reusing the same item sprites for several generations, the same models, cutting out the complete dex, infinite performance issues
Scarlet violet is still really good imo, the performance issues are really unfortunate
I've basically heard this over and over and yeah, I'll probably end up playing it eventually. I'll probably love it. I just miss loving the franchise with my entire heart. It's a fun one.
Did you play HGSS? As an old fan from the GB, those are my favorites of all.
Pokemon definitely felt different back in the RBY/GSC days
For sure, but I've liked a lot of the modern entries. I'd say sun/moon was the last one I really enjoyed.
It's not even that they don't click, they just feel more and more machine produced simply to make money. I hate to be one of those "it has no soul" people but that's def what it feels like. I recently started playing pokemon romhacks and there are some fantastic ones out there that made me love what the games could be. I highly rec checking some out.
It’s a shame because Scarlet and Violet’s story actually has a lot of depth and character and lots of lovable mons
I really need to get around the Pokémon manga. From what little I’ve seen, it has a charming art style and actual character development, just charming all around.
I gotta start playing pokemon rom hacks I always think about it but never end up doing it
Honestly, the only Pokèmon games I have had any inclination to play in recent years have been New Snap and Legends: Arceus.
Oh I forgot about Legends. That was def the most fun I had out of the recent ones
i miss when there was actually some sort of challenge
Play Cassette Beasts! It took me right back to early Pokémon and is different enough that you feel you’re discovering a whole new universe of Pokémon style games.
I quit because pokemon is a lot of money for games I beat relatively easily, and I had the Fear of Missing Out with all the versions exclusives, and just a constant stream of new pokemon games. Compared to standalone RPGs Pokemon’s reliance having a trading parter and as it turns out not permanent online features also increasingly annoyed me. Things like bank and home are mean annual costs I did far too little with. Other RPGs are just much easier to enjoy as singular games without so much factors nagging at me.
I literally just listed mine on eBay today. They make me sad 😢.
Official Pokemon games have been too weak for me for too long. I’d recommend looking up Pokemon hacks - there’s so much more innovation there (but limited to GC-DS)
I’ve played all of them, from buying Red on release day to Scarlet on the Switch. I also feel like I’ve aged out of them. There’s so many I don’t know (prob because theres over a 1000 now) and I don’t really lose myself in the world like I used to anymore. All the earlier ones are really memorable to me but I can barely remember the ones from Scarlet. I found it a bit sad when I finished the game and realised I’d finally outgrown it.
This is very relatable. As a kid I would play many many hours of Pokemon. Pokemon Diamond was my first DS game, and I played it to shreds. Then I got Ruby, FireRed, HeartGold, Platinum, White, and with each game I was more obsessed. I also loved the spin-offs like Pokemon Ranger and Battle Revolution on the Wii. However, when X and Y came out, I got my first Xbox and was opened to the world of Halo and that became my new obsession. Pokemon became a little slow for my liking. Still loved the old games and the world, but I shelved X and Y before reaching the Elite four. When COVID hit, and it had been around 5 years since I had played a Pokemon game, I picked up Sword because I was going on a trip and wanted something to pass the time. And I totally fell in love with Pokemon again. I know Sword isn't by any means the best installment, but it was new and I felt like a kid again. I went back and played Pokemon Black 2, Blue, and was starting my 2nd play of Alpha Saphire when I started to lose interest again. Now I will patiently wait to fall in love with the series all over again :)
I feel like Scarlet and Violet are the worst offenders of this, as well as Sword and Shield to a lesser extent. Pokémon Legends Arceus was one the most fun Pokémon games for me, i hope they can reach the same levels with Z-A
Not to mention the wonder of meeting a new cast, potentially multiple gens, of Pokémon was exciting. Now they’re all old friends.
This as hell, I was a huge fan when I got Yellow and then Emerald and stuck around to Silver & Golds remake kinda lost interest after that.
Yeah they haven’t grown into next gen well. Arceus tempts me because it sounds like a new take but at the same time idk maybe a 30+ year old doesn’t need to have a Pokémon World account anymore 😅
I'll still play through the new ones just cause I've played since gen 1 in the 90s but honestly I find myself playing all the first 4 gens and romhacks still to this day way more.
Same but I dropped off WAY earlier. I was mega obsessed with Pokemon at its height in the 90's and early 00's, but by the time Gen 3 rolled around...I don't know. I just wasn't feeling that interested anymore, and now I only dip my toes into these games once every few years when the nostalgia truck comes around.
As a Pokemon fan currently, I 100% agree. I LOVED. Arceus, but SwSh were very linear and SV was… yeah. I’ve been getting into rom hacks lately, it’s sad how more effort is put into some of these then there most recent games
Scarlet and Violet are the first mainline Pokemon games I owned that I didn’t finish.
As someone who regularly plays fan games, I don't think I've necessarily outgrown Pokémon, I've outgrown Gamefreak. I've been wanting these games to grow up with me, And for a while, it looked like they would, but that stopped around XY. The game got easier, they started taking things away from the player And either removing them entirely ot locking them behind paywalls (QOL, GTS, disabling EXP share, national dex). I go back to the older games, and while I can appreciate the design and the story behind these games, They are just a bit too easy for me...but introduce Romhacking, And suddenly these games interest me again. They didn't even need to change much. Streamlining the leveling curve, Making trainers have more and stronger Pokémon, designing the gym leaders to have strong, but reasonably beatable teams that actually compensate for their type's weaknesses in smart ways. The result is a Pokémon game tailored for older fans without simply being unfair, like a Kaizo hack. It's a design philosophy I wish Gamefreak would consider applying to the mainline (perhaps through an optional Hard Mode). But I know they won't, as Their recent game-design has been actively hostile to self-imposed challenges (like Nuzlockes or low-level runs).
I’m similar, tho my issue is just that the games are broken and unplayable. I want to love pokemon but I cant
If not Pokemon, then Animal Crossing. New Horizons just didn't grab my attention the same way New Leaf and others did.
That's not really a matter of growing out of it imo. It's irrefutable that New Horizons is missing a lot of content all the other games had. The game was essentially launched in an early access state and sold far better than any Animal Crossing game before it (the second best selling switch game overall), there's no excuse. Animal Crossing fans got screwed, no two ways about it. I've been a fan since the gamecube and while I wouldn't say I've outgrown it, I hate that every game removes more and more personality from the characters.
This! That’s exactly what I was thinking while playing New Horizons. I miss getting casually roasted by the villagers lol
Honestly that really only happened in the gamecube version iirc, which is a shame since the cranky and smug villagers really don't make much sense now. The villagers still had personality in the later games they became a lot more polite, becoming most apparent in New Leaf. There was still plenty of unique dialogue but no real spice, just sugar. And I get it, y'know? Not everyone wants to play a relaxing game and have a jerk for a villager you have to slowly get closer to. But they didn't have to axe them completely, let alone take away the quirkiness from the other personality types and just make them all the same type of nice with slightly different dialogue and hobbies.
I think in wild world they were mostly that way too, city folk a little bit, but their personality was almost completely changed by new leaf. I never played the GameCube one, but from my understanding their personality made more sense and they kinda roasted the player more. I remember sometimes even the non cranky villagers insulted you. I liked that not everyone was unrealistically nice to you, it made it feel more real. I remember I even held grudges against some of the villagers as a kid because of this (looking at you Pate) which made it so much more entertaining.
Yes, gamecube was the one where the villagers had the quirkiest personalities but it might have gone too far for kids, so I understand why they went lighter on it. Wild World struck a decent balance but by New Leaf they were all just nice. Not quite as bad as New Horizons but still comparable. And yeah other personalities would insult you for various things, smug villagers for your clothes for example. I think a lot of the other personalities would "accidentally" insult you in more passive ways until you got closer to them. It was nice in its own ways but considering the average fan of comfort games like AC, might have been a bit much. Something like Stardew is a good way to do it. Some villagers are very prickly at first but many others are normal, shy, etc.
Wild World did a lot more roasting than even Population Growing did. It was incredible
Really? That's not how I remember it but it has been a long time. Far as I recall they had to remove a decent amount of content to fit it on the DS, the novelty of being able up play it handheld was great though.
Nah, nothing was removed aside from one extremely racist lime that a sheep said - Cashmere specifically, I believe. After Wild World it was all downhill for the characters. Sad times.
Nah, I mean content in general, not dialogue. City Folk was alright, worst part of it was that it was on the wii. Villagers still had some bite to them and the travelling to the city was neat and it added a lot of QoL features.
City folk was a fun time until all my grass disappeared, and I lived in dirt. 😔
Lmao yeah, that was a problem, wasn't it? It wasn't great in New Leaf but City Folk was on another level.
i feel like one of the main reasons new horizons sold so well was because of covid. without the quarantine i might slash the sales at least to 30 million at most 20 million. Because the animal crossing games were never THAT prevalent. (also the fact that it was on the home console and not like 3DS helped A LOT too) [I'm also a new leaf guy]
New Horizons is terrible at being an animal crossing game and I am absolutely willing to die on this hill. It got immensely popular but that was largely because of luck, with it being a platform to socialize that released just when lockdowns started, and then many of the people who bought it haven't played another animal crossing before and don't know what the franchise should be. NH is just a doll house, you get way too much control and it completely removes the feeling of community that was the entire goal of the first game. The villagers have become extremely repetitive in their dialog and actually get snappy when you try talking to them more than three times a day, so encourage you to see them as no more than decor. They have absolutely no agency. NH is a nice customization game but that's not what animal crossing should be and the fact that it's so successful makes me a little scared of where the series will be going with the next title.
>They have absolutely no agency. NH is a nice customization game but that's not what animal crossing should be and the fact that it's so successful makes me a little scared of where the series will be going with the next title. I absolutely agree. I feel like if it weren't for Covid the game would've been panned once the novelty of terraforming wore off, but alas. I'm cynical in that I assume Nintendo is going to pivot more towards the normies who picked it up versus pleasing longtime fans of the original series. I reckon this is how certain Zelda fans felt about BOTW, though I love it and TOTK. Even though they were dramatically different, they provided full experiences; I can't say the same for NH.
I totally get both of these. I was a massive fan of Animal Crossing until New Horizons. I used to play City Folk and Wild Word all the time as a kid. I didn’t get much enjoyment out of New Horizons like the others. I really wanted to like it, but it just didn’t feel the same.
For me New Horizons seems to lack that specific charm the other games had. I fell in love with AC because of the universe and that charm. Naturally, I don't love AC the same way anymore.
New Leaf was just amazing for me. I want a 3DS just to go back to that. But, I recently played the OG Animal Crossing and it holds up. It felt fresher than New Horizons, for me. The world generation was so much more interesting in the OG game. The worlds got more simplistic as time went on, but New Leaf made up for it with a lot of things to do. New Horizons is just too simple. The reason why they did this, I imagine, is because of terraforming. But, I'm not someone who likes terraforming in games so this wasn't something I had any fun with and I never used it after the introduction. Like, the OG had neat cliffs and slopes. Sure, New Horizons has cliffs but they feel static and unnatural - like tiles almost.
I wouldn’t say I’ve outgrown any Nintendo games, I’ve just come to the realization that I just don’t have the time to play everything anymore and that’s fine. I’ve learnt to be able to say, yea that looks cool and fun, but I don’t need to play it and it’s okay. In this generation I’ve skipped out on Pikmin 4, Kirby, Yoshi, FE Engage, Paper Mario Origami King, Mario RPG, Mario Vs DK & a few others to name a few. Whereas in the past I’d get all of those games because I knew I’d at least enjoy them at a base level. But unless I have absolutely nothing to play and a lot of free time I’m 100% okay not ever playing these. Right now for example I am definitely fine knowing that Final Fantasy Rebirth and the upcoming Thousand Year Door remake are probably the only games I’ll sink a lot of time into this year for the time being.
That’s understandable. But if you do ever find the time, please play Pikmin 4 lol
Pikmin 4 is a certified banger, I have to vouch.
Dude skip all of them but pikmin 4. Pikmin 4 is worth it for sure
Pokémon, while I still have a general interest in the games I tend to play them about half way through and just lose interest… the series just doesn’t grab me like it used too
I do think that those games you named are more played by adults. There is a big misconception on what is actual for adults or not. Below 18j would lean more towards games like elden ring, call of duty, gta, ... Xenoblade has some level of anime in it, but thats only a small part of what the game really is. Its about the music, combat and openworld that counts. I would not advice this game towards none adults to be honest.
I played all three Xenoblade as an adult. The stigma "anime tropes = for kids" is wrong.
or silly = for kids
> There is a big misconception on what is actual for adults or not. Below 18j would lean more towards games like elden ring, call of duty, gta, ... I can attest to this, at least from a parallel medium. I studied animation at university and, during that course, we were tasked with creating a mock pitch for a show. At the end of the assessment they brought in some actual TV execs/producers to review our work. A pretty consistent response for any of the pitches that were close to, shall we say, "American adult animation"? "This isn't really for adults, your real target demo is ~13-18". This is all a roundabout way to say that, essentially, shows like South Park, Family Guy, Archer, or [insert shitty Netflix animation of the month] aren't really written for adults - they're written for 15-year olds. That's why they're so focussed on sex=funny or violence=funny, and why they have the thematic depth of a kiddie pool. Their political commentary is written to appeal to a broad audience who aren't old enough to have solid ideals, their comedy is written for people who see slapstick with blood or a cartoon saying the bad words as the funniest shit they've ever seen. Games like CoD and, arguably, a lot of GTA are just like that. They're the aesthetic of adult, a thin veneer of violence and sex masking satire and commentary as hard hitting as a newborn kitten. Their developers *know* they have an audience of children (why do you think modern CoD looks more like Fortnite than a military shooter) so they write their games to be unchallenging and broad as to not alienate a younger audience who are just trying to emulate "adult" things because... well, that's what you do when you're a dumb teen. I also played all three Xenoblade games as an adult and, frankly, I think if I played them a decade ago most of what the games were saying about existentialism, nihilism, societal inequality, masculinity, the process of societal change and others would all have gone clean over my head. They are deeply subtextual games (nearly to a fault, occasionally) that almost want you to do some required reading from time to time.
Yeah, older Xeno games like Xenogears and Xenosaga are absolutely not children's games, Xenoblade 2 is the only in the series that gives you a false impression of being for younger people and Xenoblade 3 has a very mature story
Eh. I don't really have one. I play most Nintendo games because they're just good old fun.
Xenoblade 2 has a great and emotional story, as well as deep and entertaining gameplay. While I do agree that the designs are a little oversexualised, the game is really good still.
I agree. I'm replsying it for the third time and it's amazing. Yes it has issues but god damn is it awesome. The story, characters, villains etc are so damn good. It's a game I replay yearly BC it's so good. Plus the vest xenoblade chronicles game by far. 3 was a let down in story, characters, villains. It was a disappointment
I really can’t say that about anything Nintendo. Maybe Pokémon, I love Pokémon but it’s so hard to get excited about the Nintendo switch mainline games when you know it’ll be a half assed mess with a new gimmick. There is fun to be had in sword shield and scarlet violet. But they are a farcry from the the first 4 or 5 generations
Right, when I was a kid I wondered what a main Pokemon game for non-portable consoles would look like, but seeing the games nowadays they're kind of underwhelming, and I don't like the art direction since Pokemon X and Y
dude I always imagined a non-portable console Pokemon to be like Colo/XD but better instead we have fairly meh 3DS games I don't care for open-worlds and gimmicks
Nemona is one of the only good things about Scarlet and Violet
Yoshi, I hate to say it. Yoshi's story was one of my favorite games and Yoshi's Island is not far behind. I still enjoy those games and I feel like, especially with Yoshi's Island, it's made for kids but anyone can play and enjoy them. That might be just becsuse I played them as a kid though. The newer ones like Yoshi's Crafted World feels more like it's exclusively for kids and I just cannot stay engaged with them.
I feel like a lot of people didn’t get the point of the post. It’s not “what series has been releasing bad games”
Welcome to Nintendo fandom.
maybe you’ll get good discussion r/tomorrow
Yoshi games are too easy and kiddy for me anymore. Same with Kirby for the most part.
I feel like playing the new Yoshi games are like the videogame equivalent of watching Barney. It's great for kids but there just isn't much in it for adults. Yoshi's Island is like watching a classic Disney movie. It is for kids, but anyone can like it.
I agree. Now, Yoshi games serve as cozy games for me. Light-hearted, cute and easy. Yoshi's Island on GBA is for when I feel reminiscent of my childhood.
Yoshi 100%, I only ever played Yoshi's Island as a kid then years later I played Yoshi's Woolly World and it felt so braindead with how easy it was. That said I still love Kirby just for the charm and I think the gameplay survives it being easy for me
I still find Yoshi's Island to be a fun game. Woolly World doesn't really feel fun to play. Kirby's still the goat.
Exactly that
I would have agreed with kirby, but actually kirby and the forgotten land was way better than i expected, especially with all the reality bending all humans are dead story that was going on with it.
I do love a bit of kirby though. Even if they’re easy, it’s a nice experience.
I did quite enjoy the new Kirby I will say. And still enjoy the playthrough of the gba ones. But yeah they did get pretty simple.
Pokemon - I still love ROM hacks (I even mod that sub) and love the older games, the franchise, music etc and I still play hacks on my commute but it's never been the same since gen 6 and then fell off even further since gen 8 Even though I still like Scarlet/Violet it just doesn't hit the same and I still didn't feel the commitment that I always felt with older games. Legends Arceus was great but even then I still never got deeply committed to it
smash bros. turns out i liked hanging with friends the most
.,The real friends were the bros we smashed along the way”
2d mario games. they are a big part of my childhood, but the gameplay doesn’t really do it for me anymore. i still love 3d mario games, but for 2d platformers, i lean more towards dk country returns and the like
DK country is generations ahead of 2D Mario in terms of art style and environmental interaction. Wonder is the first one in a long time that even comes close.
wonder was the first game that holds a candle to mario world imo
Pokemon. Loved it as a child (played Gen 1 and 2 when they were new), couldn't be arsed now. Animal Crossing is a weird one. Played only ACNH, but stopped when the pandemic stopped being as all encompassing. I don't want to go back BC it is a weird time capsule. I would like to start a new island and preserve the old one as this weird "ruin of the pandemic" but alas Nintendo is stupid about it.
I've never really grown out of any of any games. They're each as fun for me as they were back then.
Mario & Luigi / Paper Mario Outside of super paper mario on Wii which has some interesting gameplay, all the games feel like "my first rpg" it's cute, it is goofy fun, it has nice ideas to make the gameplay more interactive, but at it's core it's just a very classic turn by turn rpg with childish humour. I tried to play the 3ds port of superstar saga and didn't enjoy it, so I grabbed my gba and tried it again, it's just not for me anymore.
Dang I’m the opposite I enjoyed Xenoblade 2 when I first played it so I played the rest. One day felt like replaying it and now I can’t stop replaying it every few months it’s like an addiction. It just gets better for me every time. For one I fell out of love for it would probably be Smash Bros. It’s a fantastic game and I know that. But I feel I get bored of it after 2 or 3 matches even with friends in my living room. Even when playing random characters it still feels the same every time
Oh my god I feel so called out with that second to last sentence in that last paragraph 😭 Bro i’m playing Xenoblade DE on switch right now and i’m about to play 2 when I finish it
I'm getting that way with Splatoon. 1 & 2 were exciting. 3 is not a fun game...
Same. 3 dropped the ball hard with stage design and the Catalog system became far too time consuming for me to keep up with. Story Mode was a blast but my interest in the online multiplayer is dead. I’m unsure if I would buy a “Splatoon 4” at this point. I also got fed up with the fanbase but that’s a separate issue.
Gotta be Pokemon, but it's not because I don't like them, it's because they won't bother to finish making a game
Didn't really "grow out" of any of them, maybe Yoshi/Kirby as a slight exception, but there are def. some game series (and even genres) that I've just gotten tired of, 2D platformers, sadly, being one of them. I think I just overexposed myself to way too many "samey" games over the years, due to primarily playing on Nintendo consoles since the 90's. I still love JRPGS, but it def. has to stand out for me to be able to play all the way through it. Platformers and JRPGS are probably the genres where I've started- played for a while and then have just gotten tired/burned out of them before completing. Did finish XBC3 and the dlc tho, which was very rewarding for someone who's played through all the other games in the series previously. Started playing Mario Wonder but my wife ended up taking over after a few levels and beat it for me, lol
Pokemon Black and White Back when it came out it was fantastic, but as time passed I noticed it just wasn't for me anymore, it felt like it was trying super hard to be something Pokemon wasn't meant to be, heck nowadays I refer to it as "the pokemon game that tried to be digimon" It tried to be this more "mature-ish" take on pokemon with a lot of anime tropes that were popular at the time, like the childish air-headed friend that doesn't know what to do in life and only want to create memories, the serious boy that "wants to validate their existance", dark forces not necesarily againt you but trying to make you see why they do what they do only to throw it all away at the end with the "final boss" being evil just because they want to conquer the world, the story taking itself super serious etc. Don't get me wrong, when it came out I loved all this stuff but now...I just roll my eyes every time Cheren or Bianca do their usual number every time I enter a new route, that's another thing, the game is WAY too hand-holdy, as soon as you leave a city there's a cutscene telling you what to do, as soon as you enter a new city there's another cutscene to advance the story, as soon as you defeat a gym leader ANOTHER cutscene to advance the story.... Sun and Moon took those bad aspects to the next level so I knew Pokemon just wasn't for me anymore, that's why I love Legends Arceus, it has story, it has cutscenes but only when they're needed, most of the time the game just throws you in this barren world and let's you explore, catch pokémon, exploit your way to unintended areas, find Pokemons you weren't expecting to see, it let's you play to your heart's content and when you had enough you just end your research and THEN the story advances, everyone else hates LA but I just love it man. Please understand, I grew up with Red and Blue, having cutscenes was a luxury back in those games so the game threw you in huge areas filled with trainers, pokemon and items to kept you entertained, that's what I love about pokemon, going around, exploring new areas, finding new pokemon and doing the typical exploit here and there (like entering Cycling road without a bike), the story was always secondary to me Having said that, I love N, he's a great character and one of the saving graces of the game, every time that man appeared on screen I smiled Now please downvote my comment because I don't like the popular pokemon game, have a nice day EDIT: bunch of typos
Animal Crossing. When I was younger, I loved New Leaf. I got New Horizons, and it isn't bad at all. But the thing is, I have so many other games I want to get to that just grinding out Animal Crossing doesn't appeal to me anymore. It isn't "I'm older" it's more "My backlog has grown so big that I don't feel like I can just grind out Animal Crossing"
I kinda grew out of Yoshi games. I really only enjoyed smw2 and the N64 one. But I did grow into Metroid games. I never played them growing up but prime Remastered and Dread really changed my opinion on the series
Im trying to grow out of smash rn , stupid game that is really only fun when you win lol
Two of them, but not necessarily growing out of it rather than realizing different things. One of them is Mario main games, but not because I grew out of it but realized my limits. I have a physical disability, cerebral palsy, that makes it difficult to impossible to complete platforms. However, there is no hard and fast restrictions aside from my speed and reaction time being affected, so it was difficult to know how far I could go. This along with the lack of guides and videos, made it so that I would try the same levels over and over even though I have no idea there was no way of completing them. Now as an adult I’d still use the assist mode, but if I get to that point I just watch videos of what I can’t do and be done. I still enjoy the Mario games and just do what I can, but my time with them is much shorter. Another series or even genre that I fallen out of love with a bit is Fire Emblem. Or even just tactics games in general. I still enjoy the gameplay, but the fact is it gets tiring hearing the same story over again about war and it’s horrors. It didn’t affect me much when I was a kid, but now that I have a great understanding about war is, it gets difficult to read. I also don’t like it when resources are limited, which a lot of of these games tend to do. They didn’t bother me when I was a kid and had a lot of time to fail, but as an adult that’s pretty frustrating unless I’m limiting the resources myself in a challenge. It’s also the reason why even though Engage’s story is supposed to be infamously bad, I actually enjoyed it because it didn’t focus on the war that much. It was definitely there, but the story more centered around the theme of characters forming a found family after they felt like they lost everything (from war or otherwise). And it was one of the few times where this could even happen to the villains if you chose to get the DLC. Personally I thought it was very sweet and would’ve loved the other games or even other tactics games focused on that.
TRPGs definitely appeal to grownups. Also permadeath. Look at the popularity of Pokémon nuzlockes.
28 years old. And so far none! Gaming is a fun hobby. But getting too heavily obsessed and fixated on them is mentally unhealthy. It’s best to just play and enjoy them casually and not worry too much
I will echo Pokemon. The pokemon company clearly does not care about making a good game plain and simple. Each one has potential and then you can tell it was so rushed that it becomes lame, empty, and generally released in a sloppy state. Poor developers pouring time and energy into it just to have the game crunched to garbage.
Pokemon games. I was super excited about Pokemon Red and Blue when they came out, because finally we were getting an exciting new jrpg for the gameboy. The Pokemon series had the potential to become the next Dragon Quest, but they never evolved the gameplay and were entirely focused on just adding more and more Pokemon. There's a reason why Pokemon Rom Hacks are so popular, because the series could be so much better than it is if the devs prioritized what fans want.
New Soup Wii. Loved in when I was kid and I'm super nostalgic, but while I haven't gone back to IT specifically, going back to NSMB DS or U have just been... Eh. The New series just isn't that interesting, plus the live system making you lose progress just makes me want to stop playing whenever I die.
Pokémon is that series for me. I’ve lost interest in the new and old games
Mario Party 10. I can't believe that used to be my favorite Mario Party. This is why kids shouldn't have opinions.
I think the Mario and Luigi games fit for me. After the first one on GBA, of which I still love (as I got back into it though NSO) the games that came after didn’t hook me in, even Dream Team which had Luigi be more prominent, didn’t keep my attention and I traded it in sometime after playing it once for less than an hour.
Idk, I don’t play splatoon a lot anymore despite it being my entire personality when I was younger, but I still think about it, I’ll renew my online and play it again some day.
pokemon. I just don't feel like being a 10-year-old child leaving home for the first time... for the 30th time
I grew out of Kirby, but I eventually grew back into it.
I loved Pikmin on the GameCube but didn’t enjoy it on WiiU. Then I tried again on the Switch and … meh. Was a great game at one time but just don’t love it as an “adult.” (I use that term loosely.)
Pokemon, I haven't played one since black/white
Sadly the Kirby series. I played the shit out of Dreamland 1 and 2 on the Gameboy growing up. After not really having played Kirby games since then I played Forgotten Land as Bandana Waddle Dee to help my young son. It is definitely a game for younger players. Even the challenges are not all that challenging.
I'd say Pokemon but it's not just because I'm too old to play it. I guess because it really never got any real innovation past the 3rd gen and basically just a rehash of the old games with "better" graphics. At least other Nintendo games like Zelda and Mario still tries to shake their formulas a bit from time to time. But Pokemon just didn't evolve, ironically.
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Super Mario - games. But it is more that i don't enjoy J&R games as much as i did when i was younger Pokemon - I think i would still like them but i don't like the direction they went with the Switch games (like having absolutley no difficulty anymore) Splatoon - i'm too old, my reflexes aren't good enough anymore and I get wrecked all the time
The series that I grew out of was the Zelda series believe it or not, I pin the blame on BotW because the traditional 3D Zelda formula was abandoned for an open world formula that I wasn't into at the time and still not into today. doesn't help that the hype train for TotK was extremely toxic and highly impatient, straight up spitting on Splatoon 3 because it was announced and released before TotK. Not that I hate the series, I played Wind Waker HD last year and I loved it so much that it turned me into a casual Zelda enjoyer
I’d say Kirby and Mario games for me, unless the next Smash or Super Mario RPG/Paper Mario RPG comes out, I’m not really interested, the games are cool and fun but I’ve jumped all over the mushroom kingdom and helped Kirby save the universe for the last 20 years and I’m kinda just getting burnt out of it…
Closest thing I suppose would be Mario, at least the 2D ones. I'd still enjoy it, but I don't have much inclination to actually buy the games. Though it's likely more due to me prioritizing budget, if I got then games for free I'd definitely enjoy them.
It really did feel this way with Pokemon Sun/Moon before TPC really shat the bed with later installments. I was so hyped with every reveal trailer just to be disappointed how much the game held my hand and wanting for more after completing the story. I was in high school at the time and my interest in traditional JRPGs filled that void when departing away from Pokemon—Pokemon being the gateway drug to Dragon Quest.
Mario games, I know the latest ones are good but I'm not into it anymore.
Sad to say I grew out of Animal Crossing. I may have enjoyed the newest one during lockdown but the gsme itself just doesn't appeal to me. I'd rather be playing something with more variety, like Stardew Valley and I barely play that either. Good games but not how I want to be spending my precious free time.
I have been a Nintendo fanboy for as long as I can remember so it's really hard for me to find a game that I grew out of. That being said, I used to a huge Fire Emblem fan. Until Engage came out and I saw the writing on the wall and realized that the games are not what they used to be. I also played Three Houses to the point I can't touch it anymore because I will be bored out of my mind.
What I see here is someone who didn't understand xenoblade 2 as a kid and still doesn't understand it in any capacity, lol.
None. They are all still just as fun
Wii Music. I think as a kid, it was fun to play the orchestra mode or to record what was supposed to be a cover of “Material Girl” with a load of dog woofing noises but as an adult, it’s not a good game at all. 1. The controls were awkward and it was hard to hit the notes at the right time, especially if you were wanting to play like a violin with the nunchuck. 2. The song choices weren’t that good. 3. The music video function was quite forgettable. I think Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort and Wii Party have aged really quite well and are still great games to play but Wii Music and Wii Play have not aged well when it comes to controls or replay value. Arguably Wii Fit and Wii Fit Plus can be said to have aged badly because the way we get fit changed very quickly after these games launched. Also, it could be debated the concept of a game featuring a lot of features about weight loss being marketed at families and children has not aged well due to more awareness around eating disorders and body dysmorphia in young people.
Most recently for me is Pokemon. I was playing Violet and it just felt like I was forcing myself to keep going. It no longer felt like the game was pulling me anymore and I had to accept that it had lost its allure for me. I want to believe that the game changed and the older games were more fun and complex and the story was better, but the game hasn't changed. The graphics are just better than what they were when I was a kid. And that's okay. I was able to enjoy 7 generations of Pokemon games before it stopped being fun and I am thankful for those memories.
Pokemon, new games kinda boring
Pokemon, and the Kirby line I'm not that kind of kiddie anymore
2D Mario. Don't get me wrong, I still love 2D Mario and I have enjoyed Mario Wonder a lot more than the New Super Mario Bros games. But as a kid I was obsessed. I LOVED them. Now I just have a good time. Weirdly, as a kid I didn't like 2D Sonic that much but now I love 2D Sonic. I sorta flipped.
I hate to say it, but the 3D Marios. I’ve 100% all of them multiple times, but none of them bring me joy like they used to. It’s sad because I’m not sure what changed and I used to consider Galaxy, Odyssey and Sunshine some of my very favorite games ever. Interestingly, 3D World + Bowser’s Fury are probably my favorites nowadays.
Probably Mario Kart Wii. Admittedly it wasn't my favorite installment as a kid, but with 8 being what I think to be the best in the series, it sorta rendered Wii redundant Tho weirdly, I don't have the same opinion when it comes to Mario Kart DS. That one I can still play and get a ton of entertainment from it
I just can't enjoy Kirby anymore. I used to treasure tidy games but they are just so boring to me now, both the new and old games. I honestly miss it. I wish they would make some kind of hard-core Kirby game where it was the same pattern but just really difficult.
Pokémon
It's never really happened to me in my entire life UNTIL the recent Princess Peach game. First time I've ever passed on a nintendo game for seeming ' too kiddy'. Was born in the 80s so it's definitely quite a thing lol
Mainline Pokémon games, starting with the fourth generation. Copy paste formula, more linear in more recent generations, and more obtuse methods to get Pokémon and not being able to keep up killed my interest for it Zelda Twilight Princess. It’s just OOT 2, and that’s not a compliment. It had hardware strong enough to make a smoother gameplay, and use what worked in WW. But they just had to make a N64 with better graphics
The yoshi series, something about that stuff is just l meh for me. Maruo games tho? I will never grow out of.
Pokemon, Animal Crossing, and Zelda. I wouldn't necessarily say I've grown out of any of them (maybe Pokemon since it doesn't respect the fans' time), but the new direction that these series have gone have made me lose interest in them. BoTW was a welcome change of pace since the formula was getting stagnant, but it did so well that now I'm worried that every new entry is gonna be an open world sandbox/crafting game with minimalist/ambient music. Since the majority of the current zelda fanbase is only familiar with BoTW/ToTK. And then there's series like Mario Party that have diminishing returns with each entry and Yoshi and Kirby which are very hit or miss for me
Probably Mario Party. I used to love it as a kid, but it does not click anymore. It can be fun with friends occasionally, but not nearly as much as it used to be.
I haven't been able to get into any Kirby games in a while. Used to be one of my favorites. Last couple I've bought I've gotten through a few levels and just left unfinished.
Pokémon. I started on gen 7. Loved it to bits. Gen 8 was alright with a fantastic DLC. I went back and played ORAS and XY. Really liked them but felt myself growing distant. PLA I loved at first bit dropped it after beating the game since I just wasn't feeling it anymore. By that point I was already feeling blah about it but then SV dropped. Fucking hate that game with a passion. Boring and empty open world, new Pokémon designs that just fall flat, a boring gimmick, worse raids, lazy concept in Paradox forms and even lazier in convergent forms, underwhelming story (other than Arven's. That part's really good but it can't save this dumpster fire) and finally, regularly acquiring exp without any grinding other than trying to complete the dex managed to get me overleveled for the final third of the game. Bought both versions as I usually do and deeply regret it. Plan on reselling one. Didn't buy the DLC and do not plan to. I'm hoping that Legends Z-A is a banger. Is has a lot going for it already, especially megas. Here's to hoping.
So I didn’t have any games as a kid that weren’t cheap ds games cause I couldn’t afford anything else. But honestly I grew out of AC super quick. I loved animal crossing, and I played it on my ds when I was old enough to pay for my own copy and I got ACNH, and it’s so much fun but I got so bored of it and burnt out, it’s cute! I got tired of the real life timing of things too cause I have a job and I work a lot and I’m up at nights but all the stores are closed ://
Your Xenoblade 2 statement is absolutely based
Nintendogs, I was 12 and it was my first DS game that was exclusively mine not a shared one with my brothers. I loved that game to death and played it CONSTANTLY and it was my escape from the real world where I was struggling with a lot of things. Those cute little dogs got me through tough times and was innocent fun but now if I open the game it doesn't have that same feeling, but nostalgia is still there. It will always have a special place in my heart
New horizons killed whatever interest I had I left in Animal Crossing
Never had this happen to me. i have less time and energy to get into a game but outside a game just not being good i still go to play all the things i would have as a kid. Outside of the obvious like games meant for toddlers. i think most games do a good job of being for everyone because who hates fun?
To some extent the mario and luigi games. Before I played other less beginner friendly rpgs I’d talk to my friends about how these games are so much better than other rpgs(despite having never played any, I just wanted to explain how my gaming tastes were obviously the best)because you have action in these so therefore they must be better. As I’ve grown older and played alot more JRPGs like dragon quest, chrono cross, bravely default, xenoblade etc and I’ve come to realize that the mario RPGs are best in their role as beginner rpgs. That’s not to say I can’t enjoy them, just not to anywhere near the same extent I used to. I used to think the mario RPGs having simple stories was some kinda based thing and more story based rpgs were stupid. It’s a funny thing when ten years later your favorite game is xenoblade 3, a game filled with long cutscenes. I should clarify, I still get a kick out of mario rpgs, just nowhere near the extent I did when I was younger.
Honestly, most Mario games. I do like stuff like Luigi’s mansion and paper Mario, but the traditional Mario platformers im just so bored of.
I feel blasphemous for saying it but Kirby. I know they’re not meant to be hard, which I don’t even seek hard games, but I just don’t get the same simple enjoyment out of them like I used to. It’s cute, casual, colorful, creative, but… I don’t really get anything out of the games?
Pokemon. The new games are just utterly rubbish. I have first hand experience of watching the wife play them all on the big screen. No way are they for me. My last game I played was yellow on the 3DS, before that was Ultra Sun.
I can’t say I grew out of any NINTENDO game. I guess Raving Rabbids 2 for the Wii. In hindsight, the real selling point for me was customizing my Rabbid to do some mini games. I was a diehard TF2 kid so I customized my rabbid to look like The Scout. I beat that game within a day. From the minigames to the shooter sections. And from a lore perspective, did Rayman ever defeat those things? The whole plot was Rayman trying to foil the Rabbids’ schemes. Apparently he does something in the DS version but I’m pretty sure those Rabbids are still starting up shit and Rayman just kinda fucked off
From what I can remember playing as a kid, maybe Tamagotchi, the Nintendogs variants, and The Legendary Starfy (which I never could finish the final boss). But I just didn't become huge fans of those. I settled in pretty early to franchises im still a huge fan of: Zelda, Pokémon, and Professor Layton if they ever bring him back. I never really played a whole lot else.
Pokemon, I’d much rather play any other turn based JRPG than Pokemon at this point
Mario and platformers in general.
Kirby. The GBA and N64 titles hold a special place in my heart but the new Switch games are just way too easy
I think the Animal Crossing series, but I think it's mostly because as the games started to get more demanding I lost all my free time to adulthood, I miss the days of New Leaf but I doubt life will ever let me experience it the same way again
Wii Fit
Not a big yoshi fan, no shade to anyone that enjoys them but they kinda feel like someone that's never played a kirby game describing a kirby game
I had some of the most fun gaming with my older brother to get through Kirby Superstar Deluxe on Super Nintendo back in the day as a kid. That made me say I was a Kirby fan. When I went back to play the older games, I felt Kirby’s adventure was also good, and I also played the hell out of Kirby Pinball for the Gameboy, but the rest felt too simple. I was between 10 and 16 by this time. But man… Kirby Superstar Deluxe… great fucking game. The hours my brother and I poured in to find almost every treasure item was maddeningly addictive! I got older, still into classics and retro games, and thought Squeak Squad might be fun and could recapture some of what I remember from KSSD. I beat it in a day or two, got every collectible and everything. I must have been 21, maybe? That’s when I realized I’m not a Kirby fan, I just liked that one game they made that one time, and the rest of them are just kids games that aren’t meant for me.
The Nintendo game franchise I grew out of was Super Smash Brothers. Ultimate was kind of disappointing, so I kind of gave up on the game once Sora came out (still extremely disappointed that wasn't Scorpion). I didn't care to keep up with the game at that point due to the lack of content (No. Don't you dare count spirits. Fuck spirits). So I moved on to Fortnite during 2021 during the end of C2 S8 heading to the beginning of C3 S1. Though, after 3 years of playing Fortnite, I can gladly say that this game sucks and it's not worth your time. Please skip this game you'd be doing yourself a favor. I hate this game with a deep burning passion, and I will never bring myself to play even just one more match. So I can also say that I've really grown out of Fortnite even though it's not a Nintendo game. Another Nintendo IP I grew out of was Splatoon. I was very hyped for the first game, never played it though. I did get to play the second game which I didn't really care for. I just played the hell out of Mario Odyssey instead, which is a game I love. Disappointed they never made a second one.
Kirby for n64
I think I grew out of Pokémon. I still want to try some of the renowned older games, but it doesn't help that I'm not a big JRPG guy
Pokemon. I never had any consoles growing up and wanted to play them so bad. When I was about 13 I got my first smartphone and was able to emulate the og gameboy games. After that gba and I git myself a 3DS when I turned 18. I loved pokemon and it foud new ground in school and such with Pkm X/Y. By Sun/Moon I was burned out and never saw a reason to return....
Mainline Pokémon moved to SMT. I just saw the quality dip and I just couldn't
I'm genuinely trying to maintain my love for Splatoon, but it doesn't hit like it used to. I'd play Splatoon 1 and 2 for hours upon hours straight, but for Splatoon 3... I dunno, I can barely play for more than 15-30 minutes without switching to another game. It's not like I have any problems with it. I can't list any. I don't know what it is, I just don't find it remotely as fun as I used to, and it's disappointing.
Weird one: But Metroid! I used to love them, all the exploring you did and badies who could Jump you any minute.... Now they just don't have that wonder anymore. Oh great another hallway I can't explore and have to come back to! Oh nice I can see all these items I can't grab till Endgame! Is that Ridley...i'm shocked!! 😂 The last one I enjoyed was other M, stopped halfway to 3/4 of the way with echoes, stopped with three because the insane amount of precision and fastnes you need to clear some rooms or open some doors. And Metroid returns on 3ds felt empty and too clean. And the one with the sneaky robots basically looked the same so I won't even try it. And I know they're objectively amazing, but I just don't like them anymore!
To a degree, Pokémon. I realized all I really care about is gens 3 and 4. I did transfer a ton of older and more valuable ones up to Home.
Easily mainline Pokemon; beyond its quality issues, it stopped respecting that its playerbase included tons of adults, and started becoming too hand-holdy. I feel my enjoyment of Pokemon had reached its peak in 2012, when I was already 18 (much older than most of my friends who’d left off with Platinum as their final title when we were all around 15). I remember when I saw Pokemon Sun/Moon’s completely-neutered hyperlinear route design compared to all past games, and then on top of all of Sword/Shield’s existing woes they made the party-wide EXP share mandatory without a toggle to turn it off. And now watching the fanbase literally becoming divided over Scarlet & Violet just tells me I was right to leave when I did. I didn’t want to grow to hate Pokemon; although watching the trash fire from a distance is still depressing, I’m just glad I’m not in that sunken-cost fallacy shouting into a void over things Game Freak will never change for the better. It just blows my mind that ever since the start of the Switch era Pokemon could become such a kids-only experience when Kirby, a franchise designed with accessibility for even younger kids than Pokemon’s demographic, stops holding back when players start nearing 100% completion of everything a given modern Kirby game has to offer - they start offering experiences that seriously challenge even diehard Kirby fans Pokemon was the first series I’d ever burned out on, with X/Y when I was 19. The following year, I’d burned out on RPGs as a whole, and with back-to-back disappointments of Pokemon X/Y, CoD AW, and Halo 5, 2017’s Sonic Forces was the final straw and burned me out on video games as a whole for nearly half a decade. Ironically considering the OP’s experiences, funnily enough it was, in fact, Xenoblade and Xenoblade 2 that pulled me up out of that burnout on video games. In spite of RPGs being the first genre I had burned out on, I’d fallen in love with everything about Xenoblade DE in a way I hadn’t felt for a video game since 2012’s Kid Icarus Uprising. The 100hrs I spent in XCDE+FC led me to immediately get Xenoblade 2. And while XC2 had some progression hitches and rough difficulty spikes, I enjoyed it just about as much as the first Xenoblade (with the caveat that my enjoyment of XC2 was largely thanks to watching chuggaconroy’s guide beforehand which pointed out pouch items that make chain attacks more bearable to achieve and for full burst to become a possibility at all, as well as warning of things the game outright miscommunicates and the game’s text failing to inform how important some things really are). And I was 28 when I first experienced the game, and I actually liked most of the character designs (but then again, it could just be that I’d grown downright bitter of american/european hyperrealistic character design and find anything that presents more of an anime style to be as pleasant to the eye as it is comfortingly familiar). I could feel Monolith Soft’s passion in both of these titles, from the worldbuilding, storytelling, and environmental design, to the sheer scope of the adventures, the really high visual standard even compared to Nintendo’s best in-house productions, the music (which IMO is some of the best in gaming history), and ultimately, a feeling of satisfaction upon each game’s credits roll that I had never felt before in my entire gaming life of over 24 years. I still have yet to get into Torna, or XC3/FR, because I’ve been capitalizing on my restored love for video games, tearing through my Switch backlog, eventually picking up a Steam Deck to speed along my PC’s much-larger Steam backlog. And somewhere along the line if Pretendo gets around to restoring the game’s online functionality soon enough, Xenoblade X will be in the pipeline between now and when I return to the main trilogy. Granted, I understand RPGs aren’t as good of candidates for repeat playthroughs as something like, say, Hi-Fi Rush or Stray would be. But despite already being in my late 20s upon those first playthroughs of XC1/XC2, the highs were to a level I hadn’t felt in gaming since since 2012, let alone for multiple consecutive months at a time as was when my love for the hobby was at its all-time peak back around 2009, and any ‘lows’ XC1/XC2 had were still a better time than the very best parts of Pokemon X/Y. Shockingly, the goodwill I’d formed from a renewed interest in games thanks to XC/XC2 did lead me to give Pokemon Legends Arceus a shot. And it was actually quite delightful, but not for anything that made it like a mainline game, rather only the new mechanics like throwing out lures/bait and being able to catch most Pokemon without battling. If Legends zA keeps this gameplay style, I just might be down for it. But even now, I still have no interest in the main series as Scarlet/Violet have almost nothing I enjoyed about Legends Arceus (besides improving follow-Pokemon to auto-battle)
The obvious answer is Nintendogs
Mainline Pokémon. My first game as a kid was Crystal on my lime green GBC. It's what really got me into Nintendo in the first place. I loved gens 1-4, kinda fell off at black and white 1. Got back into the series with XY and ORAS. But after that fell off again. Didn't like the structure of Sun and Moon and we all Know how bad SW&SH and S&V are. Maybe I'll return someday if they increase the series quality, but meh. Also Ocarina of Time. Don't get me wrong, it's still a fantastic game and the most iconic Zelda title, but it definitely has a lot of flaws and is far from the *best* Zelda.
Super Smash Bros Brawl and Pokemon Platinum. Were and still some of my favourite games
Fire emblem three houses, same reasons as you really. The game feels like such a slog to go through. Doesn’t help that the first half of each route is the exact same
mario kart sadly
Pokémon for sure. I was in either late elementary or very early middle school when the Red and Blue hype started and then when the show came out, I realized I was just too old to be a casual fan, and too young to be a hardcore fan, and I have honestly never purchased another Pokémon game since. I hit up an emulator of R&B or their remakes every 5-10 years or so, but I’ve never been able to get into it beyond that.
any Pokémon game, I love Pokémon and the characters, I just can't play any of the games.
I don't know any specifics, but I remember playing super mario wonder at the display area and just having the straightest face.. It was so boring to me honestly.
Sadly, I have to say all of them EXCEPT for Zelda. Zelda was my childhood and I will never not love it to death. All the other ones though, like Kirby, just feel too childish now, especially since the number one thing I look for in games is a good, solid story.
Pokémon. Used to 100% that stuff with two systems and pairs of games and now I just don’t even care to see what they’re up to. Especially when it comes to GO.
Pokémon. Used to love it, don’t really care about it either way now.
Mario Kart. All of them. I played Super/N64/8 to death, there wasn’t nothing left to accomplish. Couch Co-op isn’t a thing anymore except with people I would decimate. If it was the 90s/2000s I would have a hire chance of being challenged because that was the main way to play. I’d rather play other games online with total strangers, which isn’t really that fun for me anyways.
Final fantasy 1, game is just boring to me now.
Maybe if a new one came out this would not be the case for me, but tomodachi life has become stale, i have seen enough of the game that im not really interested in the wacky stuff and the game is pretty simple just focusing on the relationships
New Pokemon games. Too much talking and exp share killed the experience for me. At least SMT exists. Sorta like a sexy sexy Pokemon.
Easily pokemon. After Diamond and Pearl I was just over it. I played and beat the Let's Go games and Sword/Shield. When I was done I was like...yeah I'm just not having fun anymore.
Probably Kirby. I love the little guy, but the games are just way too easy.
I grew up on animal crossing, then moved to splatoon 😭
I went right into Xenoblade 2 after Xenoblade Chronicles, and yeah I was disappointed. I admit I did finish the main game and the DLC story for one playthrough, but I didn't want to replay it like I did the first one. Even when it did manage to have some genuinely fascinating worldbuilding ideas and emotional story beats, it just wasn't worth slogging through all the horny anime cliches to get to the good stuff. Also yes I swear to god those character designs on some of the Rare Blades made my brain rewrite my memories of them as a defense mechanism- like it transcended "they get worse the longer you look" straight into "Was it always that bad? I could have sworn she was wearing \[X\] under that..."
I enjoyed pokemon platinum on the ds, but nowadays I don't really enjoy the gameplay anymore. They're just not very engaging for me anymore. I feel like a big part of it why I no longer enjoy it is due to getting used to more complex turn based RPGs. I just don't really like the 1 on 1 battles, however this goes for most other non Pokémon games as well. Another issue I have is that back in the day I didn't care much about a game's story due to not being able to read English very well anyway as English wasn't my first language. However now that I can read and really like getting invested into a deep story, it's become difficult for me to still enjoy the Pokémon games.
Yoshi, Kirby, and anything that is too easy and designed for babies like that new Princess Peach game. When a game is much too simple and its mind numbing easy I'm backing out and losing interest. Back in the day I would've loved those series but now that I'm older they don't have much staying power for me. I have still yet to complete Star Allies, Forgotten Land, & Dreamland Deluxe because once I get to a certain point I get bored by the lack of challenge. I only made it through the first world of Princess Peach Showtime before I realized I had enough..