Am i getting old if i feel the same way, i get really excited to have some time off to finally game only to then realize its really exhausting and i'd rather just watch some series or stream
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At some point you recognize the game is just giving you another to-do list.
Yeah instead of playing an RTS game I started my own business. Grinding out some turns harvesting puts real gold in your pockets. But the angry villagers can be a problem sometimes.
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Nah, I think that starts happening when you first get a job. Jobs take longer than school and generally are more labor intensive, and there's also the commute, and when you get home you have to do chores and either make healthy food or eat something garbage for your body, and that's just as a single person or a couple. It's no wonder everyone's tired, the 9-5 grind can be really exhausting, and when you're tired anything that takes effort feels like a grind.
Just to be clear, I don't mean to sound hopeless. There are things you can do that make life feel meaningful and to allow you to enjoy your time, I just mean that life can be tiring.
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Idk about you but I'm a dev, and when you have a job tbag keeps your brain ON a lot of the time, I feel like it's more common to want to turn it off in your down time
Same, there's no gas in the tank at the end of the day. I problem solve for a living, it's hard to get into that after work
In the last couple of years I feel like that. Games that require a lot of time to get into, or to complete, feel like not accessible anymore.
I play either those games I used to for I already know them, or something with a very short route to dopamine. I've found playing Burnout series not causing me this burnout, kek. Just racing, no long-time investments, just crushing cars and see them fly. A good way to rest after a day of complicated tasks and decisions.
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I feel like my steam library is just an ode to all the game streams I've watched.
This is me trying to finish Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
I have fallen asleep multiple times playing that game. The stable music is perfect if you're trying to drift off to sleep. Something about that flute...
Yea there seems to be so much to do that I spend all my time wondering what to do next, only to find that its not that fun and then spending more time traveling to somewhere else
I’m having a lot less fun with totk than I did with botw 😞. It’s like combination of too many quests, too many caves and being forced to build stuff all the time. I just want to climb mountains, glide, find cool weapons and do shrines. I also hate not having the shrine radar like in botw. I feel like I’m roaming blindly and getting 1 shot by enemies all the time
You can get the shrine radar in TotK
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My manager talked me into buying Diablo IV since I was into DnD.
I don't know why people play games that require grinding when there are so many better options.
Diablo is cancer tbh. Mindless grinding, zero skill. The only challenge is creating a nice build but that requires grinding and anyone can copy it from a YouTuber and learn to use it in a few minutes.
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Why? KINGMAKER AND BALDURS GATE ARE RIGHT THERE DUDE
I remember when grinding diablo was something you did because you liked killing endless hordes of monsters. It wasn't because the game told you to do it.
Also crazy being a fan of 1 and 2 when they were new and having fans of 3 and 4 telling you this and that were always part of the series, clearly showing they have only ever played Diablo 3 and 4 because they're always things that were first introduced in 3 and were the things that fans prior to 3 criticized when it came out.
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This hits hard
I feel you, fellow player. That, plus kids…
Finally get home from work and get a chance to play Zelda TotK! —Start falling asleep while playing…
Then try to figure out wtf I was doing the next time I start up the game
That's why I'm so glad to WFH, it saves both time and energy.
I am still too tired after a day of WFH
Me too...but at least now I sleep a bit more because I don't have to commute between home and office..
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Getting old with kids you’ll start to feel this. You just want to disconnect from the world after a certain point. It sucks because you WANT to play; you just… don’t want to lol.
It's even worse as PC gamer.
My Gaming rig literally sat there 4 years unused because of two kids.
Now I feel the urge to game again, everything in this rig is outdated. Spent couple hundred bucks to get it ready again and it was amazing getting back to building a PC.
Now do I have time for playing? Hell na, see you in three years upgrading again.
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I fired up Dragon Age: Origins today to scratch the itch (I swore I had it somewhere but couldn't find it) and in a blink of an eye I had already played for four hours straight
And that was enough for me lol I got shit to do and the gaming experience feels different these days. Still enjoyable, though, and god what a throwback
I am replaying Dragon Age: Origins right now also! Same experience for me. I'm trying to watch all dialogue scenes also and let them play out without skipping.
I turn around and a few hours has passed without me even knowing...
Damn. I loved that game so much. I miss old BioWare RPGs.
I relate to this too much ... I'll play through my library eventually
Right??
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Y'all are allowed to only do things you enjoy. You know that right? ...right?
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Can we have antiwork back
Finally successful enough to buy systems, buy every system, never play anything.
Im on lunch with my deck sitting next to me in it's bag. I just don't have the energy anymore after work. Hell part of it is every time I get into a game I have to stop to let my dogs out or in and then that steals enjoyment as now I'm watching and waiting for them instead of being immersed. It sucks.
I hear you. Still love gaming but relationship with it has evolved as I got older. Too many responsibilities to have all day game days anymore. When I have an hour or two I feel like it's not enough to really enjoy my time and half the time I don't even bother to start. Plus all the games I think I really want to play are either unreleased or unfinished messes when they are, so I don't even buy them.
Ouch
I worked in games for a number of years, so on top of being exhausted coming home, it was near impossible to not fall into work mode when I tried playing games for fun.
Got into making games as a hobby a few years back and it basically made it impossible to play games like I used to. Took a while to separate those parts of my brain.
It definitely takes an active effort to enjoy games when it's also your work. What worked for me was finding the weird niche stuff that didn't resemble the stuff I worked on at all. I imagine if you're a developer that it could also help get the creative juices flowing too.
Accepting that basic bitch games are actually great helped me a lot. They're fun and have shitloads of people playing them for a reason. Looking at you Fortnite and Diablo 4.
Also line up your installed game icons in the order they should be played in on the desktop helped a lot. If I'm not sure what to play I load whatever is furthest on the left. First row is single player games. Second row is multiplayer games.
It's currently Dave the Diver, Diablo 4, and Osu! is permainstalled these days.
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Playing multiplayer games with the bros solved this for me. Currently we’re playing through a Minecraft modpack and after that we might start playing Battlebit.
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I’ve realised there are games I just want to watch cut scenes and know the story now.
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I still game whenever I have time, it has just shifted to less hyper-competitive fare. I mostly play games I can mod to suit my preferences, CyberPunk, Skyrim, Fallout 4, etc. Combat difficulty set on high.
I used to be very competitive in Halo, but just like most of gaming, I got turned off when the act of gaming turned into a microtransaction sales pitch. Also, even in competive gaming, I always needed to play something with a story I could enjoy, and Bungie's Halo was it before Microsoft fucked the lore up beyond all repair. Destiny is a little too vague and ethereal for my tastes.
As long as my eyes work and my hands don't get arthritic, I will game.
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Can't play tired I need a coffee and a nap to be In good shape to game and even then it's always mind shut off games no story stuff.
4hour limit is effecting the way I play but oh well I'm still playing the stuff I love and not forcing my self to play so all is good
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