[X] My Assistant

It mainly comes and goes with me. Like, ideas gets recycled to the point where nearly everything feels the same to the point that I'd rather read about it online instead of actually buying it. But every now in then, something that would have been great gets mired down by some bullshit or something

me? being burned out from the repetitive gameplay but the occasional hijinks gets me to b motivated abit more

Since I purchased the Steam Deck, I have been able to play games during my commute, which has allowed me to rediscover the joy of indie gaming.

yes i do because i'm annoyed at how every company is trying to nickel and dime the consumer. all the DRM shit everywhere and what is worse... DLCs....

When dlc's first launched, every developer was saying that nothing would be removed from any game to be released as DLC. Now most games have DLC even though some of the DLC should have been part of the game in the first place. It would have been part of the game just 2 or 3 years ago too which makes it worse i think.

of course, the consumer has some of the blame too since.... we wouldn't have DLC if it wasn't for the consumer buying them up like lemmings ><

The way this post has only become more and more accurate throughout the years...

As for me, absolutely not.

As I have kept growing up, I have realized how much videogames actually mean for me. Now that I am with a gamer gf who also thinks just as me, we do not see each other dropping out of those hobbies any time soon.

Not stopping gaming in general for the foreseeable future, but I am tired of high profile AAA releases. Between the absolute shite releases, remakes, walking sims, the definitely not a fucking movie games, and "optional" microtransactions forced on the players' throats it's very off-putting. I've almost exclusively been playing niche games or something created by indie devs for the past half decade. 2023 is also looking to be a good year for indie releases, too.

As for me, absolutely not.

As I have kept growing up, I have realized how much videogames actually mean for me. Now that I am with a gamer gf who also thinks just as me, we do not see each other dropping out of those hobbies any time soon.

time is the key，i cant use the time to play game allday，so...

I think I may never give up video games.So attractive they are that I never get bored

I LOVE games of all kinds truly, but most 'games' that comes out nowadays is simply dogshit and isnt really worth your time, nor your money.. Think I'll just be replaying some!

+what tamagin said

This post has been edited by CrazyFrog69: Jun 13 2023, 00:56

I want to believe I won't fall out of gaming, but I have been losing time to actually play them

Sometimes.
but if i played games with my friends it can be longer to get tired

Occasionally tired, but after that, there will be a new feeling

Possibly, but actually, I played Tactics Ogre again a while back. For me, I prefer some classic games to those AAA games. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

growing out of online games... yes

This post has been edited by pornfannumberwhatevs: Aug 19 2023, 03:13

I'm at the point where the way to play games is more interesting than playing the games themselves. It's fun to pick up VR every once in a while. Getting a new pc put gaming in a new perspective for a brief period of time. The Steam Deck is nostalgic. I don't see myself growing out of playing video games, but it's hard to find a game now that I feel values my time.

I don't play video games the same way as I did when I was a child, but I don't see how I'll ever stop playing them. There's some games I always come back to every now and then either out of nostalgia or as a habit (like Tetris when I'm bored, stressed, or can't sleep) And lately I play anything my friends invite me to.

Sometimes.

I kind of feel like I'm burned out of playing video games these past couple of years. Life has been fairly good to me these past few years, so I've had the opportunity to do other things with my time besides playing with my Xbox 360, PS3, PS Vita, and even games on my Android phone. And it's funny because I still occasionally buy games for those consoles and on my phone I mentioned before, but mostly when they're on sale for a good price. But as a result of this, my back log of games is pretty big. I even still have some games like Black Ops 2, Skyrim, Twisted Metal, and Borderlands 2 in their plastic packaging from when I bought them on Black Friday last November. Yet despite my back log, the ONLY game that I've been playing constantly these past couple of years, has been MLB: The Show, for PS3. And I guess it doesn't hurt that baseball has been my personal passion since high school also. But I feel even that is starting to wind down for me these past 2 or 3 years now.

Also recently, I've discovered the goodness that is Steam for the 1st time. I have all my games that I've downloaded from Steam on my laptop for now, because I usually just play those games at work when I have little breaks here and there. And the game that I play the most from Steam is Euro Truck Simulator 2 (I've got like almost 100 hours put into that game so far). But now a days, I see myself playing even those games less and less frequently - they just don't hold my attention like they used to when I first got them.

Some of my friends told me that if you put some time off from playing games, it usually helps to rekindle that need to play again. So I might just do that for the next couple of weeks and see what happens. And also hopefully, with the announcement that Sony made about the PS4, maybe that will also help my inner-gamer in me to come out again.

So... is anyone else here on the same boat as me? Just liked to know how others are dealing with or have dealt with this issue before.

P.S. As for why I used a slightly bigger font when I wrote this, someone suggested to me that it's easier on the eyes to read long pieces of writing with a bigger font.

Already am.

My answer is:No
Because I don't play video games too often.
Properly distancing myself from them keeps me interested and gives me time to do my own thing
That's good

For me, it's more that the culture of modern mainstream games just does not appeal to me. I think the last two games that I was hyped for were Doom: Eternal and Cyberpunk 2077. I did a run or two of both games and I don't think I ever touched them again. They were fine (well, after a few patches in Cyberpunk's case), I just don't feel much of a pull to play them. Meanwhile, I still play older games all of the time. StarCraft and Diablo work just fine, and I still clock hours into them. The Doom modding scene is still alive, even after all these years. The steam deck plays pretty much every game I enjoy, so I moved all of my games to it and it's become my new benchmark. If a game doesn't run on it, then I don't care about it. This has the dual purpose of filtering out games that are just unoptimized UE5 stock-asset messes with ridiculous system requirements for the gameplay they offer, because those games tend to suck.

I think the issue is that modern games value "engagement" and advertising gimmicks over an actually compelling game. They pull a bunch of tricks to keep you playing, so you're constantly in this state of fun limbo where you aren't having a lot of excitement, but you're not turned off enough to quit the game. There is a lot of grinding, daily errand lists, and loot hell in modern games today, like they took a look at everything that made me stop playing World of WarCraft years ago and they went "we need to do more of that". They likely do this to increase the chance of you buying something from the cash shops, gacha wheels, and cosmetic stores that plague games nowadays, even the ones that you pay full price for. They even put them in single-player games, which are always online now, because everything has to be a live service nowadays! God forbid we make games like a good book, where it's a complete experience with a beginning and end that you can reread once every couple of weeks. Modern games are patterned more after a theme park or casino that is constantly nickle-and-diming you to be there.

The worst part is that modern (mainstream) game developers seem content with this mediocrity, and get intimidated when they are told that people want fun games, not almost fun games. That is why I strictly stick to indie games or games made before 2013. There are exceptions, but they have to prove they are not the rule before I purchase them.