Old Games & Old Guys

 So,

This week I have been thinking about a few things going on with me and gaming. No I am not getting out of it, but were my recent thoughts have been on with my gaming. Really its what am I focusing on and I started to wonder why I am thinking like this.

My recent interests seems to be older games that I either played in the past or never got a chance to play, like this recent obsession with Waraster. This past weekend was also one of our shops local gamers garage sale day and of course I had certain things I was looking for.

But my list of items were all for long forgotten games such as Warhammer Quest, anything Pirates or Old West related, Mordheim related items and possibly LotR items. I made two trips around the sellers area, and nothing jumped out at me. What I noticed was lots of 40k and AOS projects, nothing on my list. My buddy Mike found a few things, but these were more role playing items. But nothing really jumped out at me as anything I needed to purchase.

Also the other day I reached out to my game group, our discord channel and a couple of FB groups about playing some Gaslands, other then one person, no one seemed interested in playing and this is not a old game by any means! It seems that the interest for playing Gaslands has dried up here in the valley. This had me asking my buddy Mike, if he was maybe interested in helping run an event for the game over in Vegas for LVO next year. He was not interested in hosting a game and honestly he was not very excited about playing much other then classic old games as well like Quest, or Space Hulk. 

I totally understand where he is coming from, games today, just are not that exciting anymore to us older gamers. Part of the reason is constantly chasing new versions of the rules and having to spend more money on things we already have. A certain company sure has locked down the FOMO attitude and is constantly changing things up. Perhaps I have hit that point that I really don't care about the latest and shiniest thing anymore in gaming. 

There are a few games that look interesting, but the availability makes them tough. Take for example Black Site Studios, they have three games that I would love to play, Hamutsu, Lunar and Don't look back. But the problem is they sell directly and do not send to retailers, this makes it hard for me to try to get anyone excited to play, especially in your local game store. "Hey that's a cool game, can I buy that here? Nope dealer dosn't sell it. 

And on the topic of new games, I think my time has passed as a flag bearer for games. I have done that for many games, trying to get folks interested. But its a lot of work and I do not think I have it in me to be a cheerleader for free for a company anymore. I know my gaming buddies are not interested in doing that either, once again the curse of the old men, get off my rocks you young kiddos!

So where does that leave me? Well its still in a place of uncertainty, one hand I want to play some older games, want to play them with regularity, but those games now have a small following so it will take time to get them to the table. The other hand, I am tired of always trying to get games going or going again. I guess I just need to learn to be appreciative when I do get to play with friends these older games that we enjoy.

Sorry for the ramble, but felt like I needed to get that off my chest.

TK