Stop playing "aaa" garbage like HZW etc...This year, I played horizon Forbidden West, elden ring, hades, and some of my catalog games.
You could say that about any hobby.
But hobbies are necessary, healthy. Who wants to be a workaholic.
I followed the advice of Punished Miku and decided to play some old games of great nostalgic value to me, and it's worked somewhat for reinvigorating my spark for games.Maybe DonJorginho figured it out and they can let you know.
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/i-feel-like-im-having-a-gaming-mid-life-crisis.1636378/
Is it me, or does having access to alot of content, whether it's gaming or movies makes you lose the desire for these entertainment?
13 sentinels on switch...about 20 hours in and its batshit awesome.
perhaps its gamepass burnout?This generation is by far the best time to play video games. You get gamepass, and other subscription services giving you games for cheap.
If you are a pc gamer, you get to buy all the old games for cheap, or emulator for other old systems.
Despite that, I dont feel like playing games at all.
I took my break from gaming, did other activities, just so I can have fresh mind to play games again. Still, the same problem.
Same thing happened to me with movies. Having access to tons of movies, lost me the desire to watch movies. And now, I don't watch movies alot. It's being long time, since I actually bothered myself to watching a movie.
All that is left for me now, is just watching documentary stuff.
Is it me, or does having access to alot of content, whether it's gaming or movies makes you lose the desire for these entertainment?
The great news is I got totally absorbed In Elden Ring and now I'm actually really enjoying gems like.
Tunic was awesome.
13 sentinels on switch...about 20 hours in and its batshit awesome.
Vampire survivors.
Guardians of the galaxy. Awesome game with more heart in its story telling and overall game than 99 percent of triple A games.
Vermintide 2 - Co op with the buds. Can't wait fir the 40k one.
Lego star wars skywalker saga. My light hearted escape.
Exactly. It's entirely subjective.Watching documentaries like OP mentioned can be considered a hobby and I wouldn’t say it’s a waste of time.
Gaming is just that. A way to kill time. Especially if you’re an adult.
Exactly. It's entirely subjective.
You could argue that watching a documentary about something you are not directly involved with or will have any experience with is a "waste of time."Maybe it is. But you have to be insane not to realize that watching Tiger King (I had to Google what it is, lol) or playing Pokemon Blue for 200 hours by yourself is a waste of time.
On the other hand watching a documentary like Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is definitely not a waste of time. It's educational. Or playing Mario Kart 8 with your daughter for 1 hour a week. That's actually a great way to bond with your family.
So maybe I will correct my previous statement: gaming is mostly a waste of time, 99% of time.
You could argue that watching a documentary about something you are not directly involved with or will have any experience with is a "waste of time."
The "waste of time" metric is baseless and argumentative.
Hey thats awesome man! Im glad it helped. I went through something similar.I followed the advice of Punished Miku and decided to play some old games of great nostalgic value to me, and it's worked somewhat for reinvigorating my spark for games.
I've been reminded as to why I fell in love with the medium in the first place and have been enjoying my time revisiting games from my childhood that at the time seemed so breathtaking of an experience.
Hell I even managed to play a few more hours of Horizon Forbidden West after doing this and I actually enjoyed it which surprised me.
I know it may seem simple on paper, play X old game you loved when younger and you feel young again, but it genuinely worked for me and I'm grateful to the kind P.M for helping me out.
The point about about Tiger King is that it's a documentary!Maybe it is. But you have to be insane not to realize that watching Tiger King (I had to Google what it is, lol) or playing Pokemon Blue for 200 hours by yourself is a waste of time.
On the other hand watching a documentary like Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is definitely not a waste of time. It's educational. Or playing Mario Kart 8 with your daughter for 1 hour a week. That's actually a great way to bond with your family.
So maybe I will correct my previous statement: gaming is mostly a waste of time, 99% of time.
Is it me, or does having access to alot of content, whether it's gaming or movies makes you lose the desire for these entertainment?
Its kind of funny because I've grown up poor, longing to play the latest games on the latest systems that I read about in the videogame magazines... Todays I make a lot of money I earn more monthly than my parents did yearly I can buy any game or system I want and yet I feel way less desire to play videogames...
I think the reason at least for me is that I dont have friends to play anymore... I used to have a lot of friends that played PC games, but with the age a lot of them changed, some of them become sport boomers, some of them become political militants... I was the only one left really following the game news and upgrading my pc...they couldn't keep up, slowly our conversations started to become more and more boring and everything was political(for them) and so I've decided to left them for good. But unfortunately I was never able to make new friends.
Hopefully.Thankfully you have GAF! Just ask around and you will find plenty of folks to play games with.
The irony of this is that these business folks will turn around, take a look at their spreadsheets, note the performance margins, skim a bunch of KPIs and tell you that "you don't know what you're talking about". Their measure of success stems from the positive numbers followed by the dollar bill symbol. Not in originality or creative ingenuity.Yes, I’m slowly losing interest. Most games never live up to the hype and expectations. Games these days are nothing but psychological exploitation in order to monetize players. Games aren’t fun any more but feel like chores with dailies and weekly bounties to grind for each season. Miss a season and you miss the reward forever due to fomo.
Modern AAA games really suck. Creative developers are replaced with business people and they fuck up titles, look at Evolve. They were so concerned with preorder bonuses, monetization schemes, season passes, dlc that it gave such a negative reaction that the IP tanked before it got off the ground. Star Wars Battlefront 2 is such an ideal example of this. Apparently no one really learns their lesson and the same is true with Halo Infinite. A Game as a service isn’t living up to the service. It’s fucking horrid and management is shit.
I enjoyed games made in the past where it was designed and created by a small dedicated and talented group. If they felt that something was fun they would create it and play test it within their team. Now everything is outsourced and play tested by external groups, it’s like that game FUSE, it had its creativity sucked out of it.
Honestly business people fucking ruined video games.