There are many good AAA games if you take off the nostalgia vision for a moment or two every so often.

As always, it depends on what you're interested in. For me, PC games have been generally downhill since around '97. Not that great things haven't come out since, it's just that that was an exceptionally good year for what *I* am interested in.

But I'm just an old-fashioned luddite TBS gamer with horrible reflexes and no especial interest in all the overdone graphics that characterize the last 15 years of gaming. There's a reason why board wargame publishers like GMT Games and MultiMan Publishing are getting a lot more of my money than the video game industry.

I'm going to wait for Skyrim to clean out the bugs and upgrading my PC so I can play it. :)

Not going to play it when it come out because new releases always have damn bugs. X.X

I always use the old adage(right term?) you never know if you like something until you try it....that's why i'm always snapping up games here either on my own or with help...testing new things/etc. Some stank, but most were good actually....and I usually like mostly newer stuff with a few old titles as well from my youth.

Just saw the new Brothers in Arms trailer. Words can not express my feelings on this, so I'll just bang my head on my keyboard. bkvmn hvn c g fweafre fbe faweskhfefbh figaheawet fkwe fefigwe fgrdstryhesb

I'm afraid I might be in the same group or thereabout. Feel hard to get excited about new games coming out and have almost stopped following stuff like E3 and such, though still reading through indie game blogs.

It's not that I ignore the AAA games, there are some interesting upcoming one, but it's very few I'm ready to throw ~$90 at on pure portential. If the game releases and it turns out great I may, but I won't be queueing up on release day that's for sure.

I looked forward to Portal 2, and really am kinda disappointed. The story was great, but gameplay/puzzle wise it took a large step backwards. I ran through Portal 1 again afterwards, and though I'd completed that several times I still had more moments of having to pause for thought than I did in Portal 2.

I'm looking forward to Deus Ex too.

And Skyrim? I couldn't really care less. From the list Sogi-Ya made of things it looks like Skyrim is More of the Same, all the way from daggerfall and forwards. Pretty graphics which just has a tendency of looking dead and undynamic.
Combat will still not feel like combat (this was okay in Daggerfall and even Morrowind, but by Oblivion they might've done something about it, or at least done a NWN and put up a small textscroll for your "rolls" to show why your sword didn't connect and whether or not someone got badly hurt if they can't be bothered to animate it.
Enemy AI can be a tough one to get in any game. An RPG which doesn't want to be an RPG, but still wants to somehow will just confuse characters.
That said, if you like an RPG with an expansive world to explore, or the mechanics just work for you it might be great in spite of these things. I'm not convinced, but then again I'm no hardcore RPG gamer. I just find it sad that when I played Morrowind I was thinking back to Ultima Underworld and how a game that much older felt more immersive and gave you a world which seemed more alive than this new impressive piece of technology.

And about Other M http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/extra-credits/3126-Learning-from-Other-M
Warning: Some people think his voice is annoying

Some people I find(like my sister as she grew up and married/divorced/etc) lost her passion for gaming and certain things....I wonder, once lost can gaming be regained by the wayward wanderer, or does one lose gaming passion for good at one point in life & that's it?

Oh sure, there are discoveries to be made. Though, at around $60 (new) either way, I have a much better odds of finding a game I'll like from GMT than *anything* from a major video game publisher (remember, we started with the AAA titles in this discussion). I am, and have always been, a wargamer first and foremost. There just isn't anything in the modern video game market that speaks to that with any effectiveness. (Well, other than Advance Wars....)

Now you do have a few video games listed to which you are looking forward so clearly you've done the following a little bit...


BUT

I'll be honest, with the vast number of games spanning genres that sported maybe 1 to 2 titles every year or two a mere decade ago, not to mention new stuff, if you can't find anything you enjoy playing:
1) You've legitimately outgrown gaming, this is fair, we all outgrow hobbies and gaming is an obvious one as we age and find other pursuits, ones which we may not have been able to afford in our younger years.
2) You're just being lazy/pessimistic. Seriously, there are crap-tons (of the metric variety) of genres with titles ranging from indie with 2000 sales worldwide on up to the mega blockbuster that cost millions to make.

So if you're bored with your PC you need to play something you've never played before, get a platform you've maybe never had (handheld maybe? DS Lite or PSP?) and go nuts. Maybe you just need to start finding really niche indie guys and playing the hell out of their games. If you have a full time job and can finish the Spiderweb Software catalog by the end of 2011 I'll buy you some GOGs as a reward. Hell, you could spend a month just playing his games' demos.

So, unless you're outgrowing gaming (which is fine, if you are), you need a better attitude. Yes, loads of games suck ass, the market is 50 times the size of what it was in the 90s, but if you really can't find enough stuff to fill your leisure hours and you still love gaming, you either have too many leisure hours or aren't trying very hard.

Yes but who buys anything but maybe 1 title a year for full price new? Just wait for a sale, and reviews from GOOD reviewers(ie not MOST pros or shock review sites) before deciding....for instance I got dead nation from PS3 for free recently and IMO it's a nice little topdown zombie shooter game with weapon shops and stages/etc.

At least, we have «Dragon Age: Origins» and «Eador. The Genesis».
These games are less secondary than all these "TES V", "HoMM V" or "Final Fantasy XIV" (OMG).

You getting Skyrim someday(not at release I mean but someday after)? And what's EADOR about?

No, I'm not going to get Skyrim anytime.
Eador is an _interesting_ TBS. Really. I can compare it with HoMM III.
Try it if you haven't yet =)

Are you an older TES series fan though? If so what's your favorite? Ever play Redguard?