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That was highly relatable.
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One thing that IMO influences an older gamer’s attitude that he didn’t mention is what gaming was like in one’s formative years (~14-22). Or to put it another way the games/gaming styles you got used to during those years. And as time goes on, new games of the type games you love become fewer and farther between which means it is harder and harder to find new games you like, even ignoring what corporate greed is doing to the industry.
And for me personally… Because I’m old enough to have around at the beginning (the original IBM PC came out when I was 22) I got spoiled to having lots of new games coming out with some degree of originality and often having really good gameplay because the hardware at the time couldn’t support pretty graphics which IMO are now all too often used to cover up deficiencies in gameplay (and writing in RPGs).
NOTE: Truth in advertising demands I note that even in the “good old days” I think games faithfully followed Sturgeon’s Law (It’s an easy Google).
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Everything feels different as you age… and not in a good way… mostly 
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I never was much of a gamer, more a bookish and play-in-the-woods-with-friends type. A little Pinball, Space Invaders and Asteroids in the penny arcades back then in the 1970s. The original ADVENT, whose “breathtaking view” could only be surpassed by the first images of Neil and Buzz from the moon, the first handshake between an American and a Russian on the Mir, and, well, modern outer space images. The FORTRAN source code still lingers around on a 45 years-old—then modern—5¼" floppy disk, because I revived it on CP/M 2.2.
Nowadays, “gaming” for me is a few board games with the family, maybe a quick round of Tux Cart, or a game of Chess, Go, or Mahjong with friends, usually via Anydesk or Rustdesk and a Nextcloud video session. 
(Besides, a nice way to show off your Linux system…)
But I like tinkering with EOS, guess that does count, doesn’t it? 
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I’m a 40+ year old Gamer and grew up gaming started with my brother’s Amiga then his Nintendo 8Bit followed by Snes, N64, some Sega at a friend’s house and then our first computer alot of puzzle games like Myst and kings Quest and other Sierra games.
And alot of games ever since and will game until I die!
I’m going to check out that video when i can.
Yea… I can totally relate… I feel that I don’t have the time, the time I do have I feel guilty that I should be doing something else and then there’s the commitment to a long quest
I really liked two of the Assassins Creeds I played and want to start Syndicate and Origins someday but when? I started Control and it’s great, but haven’t touched it in months. Same with Doom 2016, but if I ever get into it again I’ll need to turn down the difficulty, too hard for an old…
Oh, and I loved Wolfenstein Old Blood and New Order, and have Wolfenstein 2 installed but again, when? And what about the last two Tomb Raider games? So, yea, totally do relate…
If I can retire maybe… 
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Just let me state the fact that I’ve spend way too much time in front of a PC in my childhood and early youth. But with the significant difference: Internet access was in its infancy and essentially nobody had a flatrate. Therefore, when one games content was completed, there hasn’t been steam to directly download the next title.
Long story short, I’ve used to play almost everything ID software ever published. Commander Keen, later Wolfenstein 3D and of course, the DOOM titles. Quake not so much… as its more a multiplayer title than a single player game.
I can still remember when Blizzard announced World of Warcraft… and to me one thing was relatively clear. That I’ll stay away of everything MMORPG. As the risk of dumping stupid amounts of lifetime into a game is way too large for me. And thus, I never touched them seriously. Which hasn’t changed up to these days. I prefer single player games with storytelling.
But back to ID software. When they released Doom 3, I surely had to try it. It’s definitely a pretty nice game. With the major difference that it has been way more immersive and is truly a horror title. Something they dialed back within the later releases. In short, that was too much immersion for me in terms of horror and it is one of the games that I genuinely put aside, even if I’ve anticipated it for a long time, paid full retail price. And I didn’t regret it that I only played it for only a few hours.
The release of Doom 2016 on the other hand, I didn’t really anticipated. Only picked it up months or even years later while it was on sale for next to nothing. But quite enjoyed it during my play through.
So fast forward to the “current” Doom title. I didn’t had the hardware until I’ve build a new PC last year and switched to EndeavourOS. I surely was curious how the new system would perform and picked up Doom Eternal for little money. It runs good, everything fine from a hardware point of view.
But the games mechanics are somewhat stressful to me. There is too much going on simultaneously which has to be taken into account. As you have to balance kill streaks and glory kills to pick up enough resources to not run out of ammo.
For those who play competitively ego shooters in PvP a lot, that is most likely the current pace they’re used to. But for me … I don’t enjoy it.
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I am glad that I made the time for Death Stranding. It was pretty awesome, great cinematic and gripping story, although the need to keep maintaining roads, etc. and the delivery man gig and other things became a bit of a grind towards the end
Same here, i am 39 started with the amiga 500 when i was 4 years old. My parents didn’t watch at us when we where kids and didn’t really care how we spend our time…so i got addicted later and spent most of my time behind a computer then getting out or making homework . These days i have a wife and 2 young kids, i already told my wife that i don’t want my kids get hooked behind a pc/laptop that much as i was in the past.
The video above sums everything up. These days i am less interested in newer games then i was 10-15 years ago. EA bought alot of good companies and destroyed most of it. Look at the command & conquers 4 game for sample. Star wars games from 90’s and 00’s where so much better then the stuff they release now. Microtransactions, lootboxes, dlc’s and so on also destroys my gaming experience. These days games gets released with tons of bugs, star wars jedi fallen order had launch issues and got patched for 5-7 times. The last patch removed denovu and voilla the game ran much faster. Same happend with the sequel. Cyberpunk 2077 was a big disaster at launch and many more games.
Developers only care about money. I have Tempest Rising on my list (command & conquer “clone”) but these days i wait for discounts.
And yes, my gaming hours are decreased by 80-85%
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I have a hard time to figure out which point this video wants to make. It’s all wishy-washy “could be this, or maybe not”.
Yeah i agree Games today are mostly shit!
I do play some new ones like Tempest Rising like you mentioned, it’s good at least Campaign and music!
And sometimes I re-play older games to experience some glory again!
And i play when I have time.
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Same here 
The music composer from the C&C games made also the music for Tempest Rising.
Yes I know! Good old Frank K, He’s awesome!
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