It's threads like these that make me realize people don't understand the passage of time and eras.
Troika isn't coming back. The things you loved aren't coming back. You're never going to have the same experiences you one did again. You're getting older. There won't be a Thief 5 nor will JC Denton get a new game. Lord British isn't making another Ultima. Bloodlines 2 won't be good
She's not going to call you some day and want you back.
Learn to adapt and enjoy new things. Stop resisting it. You've sucked dry this hobby and there's nothing left. Go learn how to fix cars and snowboard and lift weights and make money before you waste more of what little time you have left waiting for miracles.
Very well put.
I'd also add that creative people also age and rarely, if ever passion, creativity and risk taking increases with age. Look at basically any creative work, be it literature, film, video games what ever, the people who made the greatest works usually made them in their youth-early adulthood, maybe in their 30s at the latest. 70-year-old William Gibson isn't going to change the world with another
Neuromancer, 80-year-old Martin Scorsece isn't making another Goodfellas with the same set of balls or Ridley Scott another Blade Runner. With age, you get more and more set in your ways and will lack fire and taking risks, hell your brain literally starts to deteriorate and men will lose testosterone. And that's fine, that's life and you just adapt to that. Nothing and I mean NOTHING is going to wow you the same way as an adult that you experienced as a child or youth if we talk about movies or games etc. entertainment and not actually meaningful things like having a child for example.