Is not violence that bored me.
But how shallow are games. Or how artificially difficult they are.

With age I search for the right balance between success and failure.
Between story and open world.
Between longevity and climax.

Fantasy games are always too fantasy.
Long games are always too long.
Short games are too short.
Etc....

I can only imagine what it lets you do to the sheep! :D

Hey, that´s German quality humor. It´s more philosophical than usual run-of-the-mill humor. To understand it, you have to read between the line.

:)

I remember that thirst for violence that I and my friends had. Mortal Kombat games and the first Grand Theft Auto were the glory for us.
After that, violence was just like a common theme for games. Nothing special... but I hate censorship on games so I want the true experience. I still enjoying many violent games but violence isn't the main feature.

Nothing like Fatalities and act wildly in the first GTA back in the 90's Our favourite MK was UMK3 just for the fatality demostration feature

Nope. I love sex and violence just the same..

But what I lost my taste to is how empty many games are today.. Sure they have all nice graphics and sounds compared to the 80s and 90s.. but many games today lost creative value.. Everything is rushed like on an assembly to push out faster to make more profits.. In the old days games where made for gamers.. today is for your dollars. Too few good games are made anymore and even those have issues.

I remember when Games companies tried to push the envelope in technology, story and content. Good old days

The most violent game, I played recently, was Sam&Max Hit the Road.
One of the first task is to get a letter from a kitten. By turning him inside ot. And towards the end of the game you even make a human sacrifice (it's two main villains, but still). Heck, some moments are so violent that they are happenting off screen, so you can only hear what's happenting.

In this case, me neither.

... sounds about right. :P

This is why, if you can choose with who hang out, you always pickup: Italians, Greeks, Spanish.

I still enjoy action games, but I've definitely lost my taste for horror. A decade and a bit ago, I was enjoying the fuck out of Saw and Hostel, and playing and having a great time with Condemned: Criminal Origins. Gore and torture porn didn't bother me in the slightest. Nowadays though, I can't stand it. A few years ago I tried to watch The Human Centipede not once but twice, and I couldn't do it. The gore and suspense and jump scares wound me up far too much.

As much as it pains me to admit it, I've really pussed out in my old age.

You have just evolved as a person and that is normal thing. You are not same person were few years ago and you are not alone on this journey, tastes evolve. As kid I was scared of horror movies, than as teenager I was in phase that I had to watch them all, and now I'm bored by most of them and maybe even little bit scared again. I have always disliked violence, but I have played some violent games. Nowadays I prefer point and click adventures and even give up on completing some games like Desperado because I cannot knock out unconscious every enemy instead of killing them. Enjoy the games you like and have a nice day :) !

I am having a similar experience. While I'm fine with Quake 4 and that sort of fantasy stuff, I have trouble with something more realistic, like in the movies. I recently watched some movies with some very violent scenes like Godfather, Goodfellas and Driver and I ended up turning my head during some of the scenes. And if a movie has a rape scene I sometimes need to sleep it over to forget it. There was a scene in Gone Girl, that was so f*cked up I can't watch a movie with that actress anymore.

When I was a child, horror and images of people going through extreme instances of peril stressed me out to the point I had many, many restless nights and nightmares over it. Aliens, monsters, and demons being blown apart never bothered me and still don't. But people experiencing some sort of gory demise or agony would mess with me good.

However, despite the images left to dwell in my mind and the sensation of dread it would leave deep in my gut, I was also always utterly fascinated by it all. I kept going back, not always succeeding, but the logical side of me had to know why it terrified me so much! Eventually, by the time I was just becoming a teenager, I had become a full blown lover of horror and gore, and the movie that really turned me over? John Carpenter's The Thing.

I still remember staying up late at my aunt's home, and at about 3 A.M. on their cable TV, I came across a channel playing the movie. I was in the living room (I had to sleep on their big ass couch), alone, in the dark. From the moment it started, I was enthralled by the bleak and claustrophobic atmosphere, and by the time the dog transformed and mutated into the droopy, gory mess and started to attack them, I was stunned! I was literally on the edge of my seat, and sick to my stomach... and I fucking loved it! That movie made me a believer in horror and a total gorehound!

As I grow older, and experience unfortunate things like death, and see suffering all around me and from within' me, I find a comfort in the macabre and morbid side of humanity and forms of art like movies and games allow me the chance to explore that side. Because in the end, it's just a fact of life we all have to contend with, and life isn't meant to be your friend. Plus, it's actors and polygons and sprites and words. So you get toexperience those emotions that something like an intense scene of human peril can give you without anyone actually getting harmed.

Death can inspire things, reveal things, teach you things about yourself.

And just for fun:
Favorite horror book: The Hellbound Heart
Favorite horror movie: Hellraiser or Jacob's Ladder
Favorite horror game: (most likely) Silent Hill

That's not a book it's a novella. :P

It's like 60 pages!

180, but fair enough. American Psycho could easily fill in that space.

Jacob's Ladder is a horror movie? It's surreal and maybe a bit spooky but I would never call it "horror".