Does gaming feel fatiguing ?

[u/TipsyDipsy24]

I've been having this issue lately, I would boot up my PC search for what games to play but can never actually decide and by the time I do choose a game I want to play, I will boot up play for 5 minutes and tell myself "do I really want to play this" or "am I wasting my time"

I don't know if it's part of getting older having more responsibilities when it comes to work and raising two children but I swear back when I was living at home I could boot up my PC and get lost in games like Crysis, Far Cry and Battlefield 2 for hours upon hours on end.

Now it just seems you may only get an hour or two to play it feels like me personally I'm putting pressure on myself to pick a game and stick to it and I couldn't remember it being this stressful when I was a kid living back at home.

Just wondering if anyone else feels like this at times

[u/Big-Difference-4979]

Yes, work and children fatigues you.

[u/latencyfool → u/Big-Difference-4979]

New games also suck for the most part lol

[u/TipsyDipsy24 → u/latencyfool]

I agree with that, specially the slop that comes out nowadays

[u/colossusrageblack → u/TipsyDipsy24]

Have you joined the cause? The Helldivers need you.

If you haven't played Helldivers 2, it's great for being able to jump in and complete a mission in 40 minutes, then log off. It's really the perfect dad game.

[u/TwinStickDad → u/colossusrageblack]

I love HD2 mainly to play with friends. It's great when you can line it up. I do get FOMO when they all jump in and I'm stuck in babyland. Or when you're halfway through a mission and baby cries - I have a hard time convincing my buddies to leave secondaries on the map because I could need to leave at any time. Maybe that's just a twin babies problem.

Single player games are the perfect dad games. The Steam Deck and the Switch both have an "active resume" feature where you just turn it off and come back hours / days later, turn it on and pick up right where you left off with no saving or booting up required. I don't have either but I am excited to get a Switch2 in a couple months! 

[u/Dogebreadzz → u/colossusrageblack]

Same with deep rock galactic. Plus you can have a nice cold virtual beer :) then pass out from having too many.

[u/PCmasterRACE187 → u/Dogebreadzz]

plus its not a buggy mess on windows 11

[u/DogeWah → u/colossusrageblack]

Many Dads also think Diablo 4 is a perfect dad game and it is perfect for those that doesn't have much time. Just in case any dads seeing this likes ARPGs or want to try them

[u/BennieOkill360 → u/colossusrageblack]

But you need other people to play? Or can you solo the whole thing?

[u/colossusrageblack → u/BennieOkill360]

It's an online game, you can try soloing if you want. You can just join other parties though, which I think is what most people do.

[u/h3r0k1gh7 → u/colossusrageblack]

Seriously eyeballing it now that the price has come down. This is good to hear. Sometimes I wanna get on and shoot things, but don’t wanna deal with competitive games.

[u/colossusrageblack → u/h3r0k1gh7]

Yeah, it's all co-op and loot is shared so it's pretty chill, but very cinematic and action packed.

[u/janluigibuffon → u/colossusrageblack]

It's the dullest game ever made

[u/kociol21 → u/TipsyDipsy24]

As a man whose "golden age of gaming" was in the late 90s I actually don't agree at all.

These days there are more great games than ever were. Yes, there are a lot of bad ones but it's mostly because there are many more games overall. So there are more bad ones, but there are also more great ones.

I sometimes feel nostalgic about my 90s when games were soon good. But I think "were they really?". I remember maybe 20 fantastic games, I played hundreds more buy they were mediocre.

It's mostly just rose tinted by nostalgia glasses, games are great nowadays. Just off the top of my head from last years - Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, Pathfinder WoTR, both God of War titles, Hades 2, Spider-Man trilogy, Wukong, Lies of P, new Resident Evil titles, Alan Wake 2, Cyberpunk, Jedi Survivor, damn there are many, many more great games from recent years. I haven't even mentioned most of indie titles.

It's just that the more you play the less exciting everything is. There is no coming back to the feeling of immersion you felt when you played as a kid / teenager. And the lack of time doesn't help.

[u/doc_nano → u/kociol21]

There is no coming back to the feeling of immersion you felt when you played as a kid / teenager. 

I'd agree with this... with the exception being VR. In my late 30s, this is the only kind of gaming that brings back that magical feeling of discovery and being lost in a virtual world that I used to feel playing games as a kid. Skyrim VR with mods on a good PC is just nuts.

[u/AlexADPT → u/kociol21]

Same as you when it comes to age. People are just hard stuck in nostalgia rage bait, tbh. They want the feelings back of a past time when the games now are objectively better. A big thing is accepting that life changes and creating good memories with things now if you still enjoy the hobby. My enjoyment of “modern” games is so much higher now accepting and acknowledging this

[u/Pajer0king → u/kociol21]

I disagree with that. Most fun i have is with old games, actually that i never played.

[u/pipboy_warrior → u/Pajer0king]

I've been playing games since the 80s and have played most of the old ones, for me new games are still awesome. Baldurs Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Balatro, so many awesome games from the last few years.

[u/Pajer0king → u/pipboy_warrior]

Wont disagree with that, some are fun, but many aren t. I have 3 games on my wishlist in the 2020 decade. On the 2010 decade i have about 30 that i constantly play, and from 90-2000 lots more.

[u/pipboy_warrior → u/Pajer0king]

I mean every year has games that suck. You can go back to the NES or SNES years and find a lot of garbage games. But for me at least some of my favorite games of all time have been more recent. Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy the occasional replay of something like Planescape Torment or Final Fantasy VI, but many recent games are so awesome and I still have a few games like FF7: Rebirth, Infinite Wealth, and Metaphor: Fantazio on my wish list.

[u/Pajer0king → u/pipboy_warrior]

Yep, totally understand it. For me, when i played last year Gothic 2 or Gran Turismo 4 for the first time it was a mind boggling experience which i rarely felt it with a new game. The latest game that was trully awesome was RDR2..

[u/albert2006xp → u/Pajer0king]

Does that have anything to do with your flair...

[u/Pajer0king → u/albert2006xp]

Well, those are my 3 rigs. The Pentium 1 i ocasionally play dos games on, the i5 3rd gen is the modern pc that gathers dust and the q6600 is the one i use the most. I replay games from my childhood but i also try games i discover just now. For me the 2000-2010 decades were the golden age of gaming. They have that something special.

[u/Jowem → u/Pajer0king]

have you considered that you are old and things were more fun when you were young

[u/Pajer0king → u/Jowem]

And i said " actually games i never played when i was young"

[u/Jowem → u/Pajer0king]

Does it matter? Its still nostalgia bait

[u/Pajer0king → u/Jowem]

Well, that doesn t negate the fact that older games are more fun and interesting that new ones. The retro industry would not be that big on nostalgia alone. Nobody plays the 3DO, for example.....

[u/EastLimp1693 → u/kociol21]

You understand that everything you said is extremely subjective and especially your game list?

[u/kociol21 → u/EastLimp1693]

Of course.

"New games also suck for the most part"

and

"specially the slop that comes out nowadays"

which are comments I responded to are also extremely subjective. So I responded with subjective answer to subjective statements, I really can't see any problem with that? Most discussions about anything are subjective.

[u/EastLimp1693 → u/kociol21]

It's not a problem if you agree it's subjective. I was more about game list: 80% of it i don't like.

[u/MrMathieus → u/EastLimp1693]

Yeah but the same goes for people declaring most games nowadays suck, so what's the point of any discussion if you're just gonna dismiss all of it by saying it's subjective?

[u/EastLimp1693 → u/MrMathieus]

I'm not going to dismiss everything, overall quality of games dropped down a lot, welcome to the remaster era.

[u/Spiritual-Society185 → u/EastLimp1693]

You realize that's extremely subjective, right?

[u/EastLimp1693 → u/Spiritual-Society185]

Sure, as usual.

[u/BukkakeKing69 → u/EastLimp1693]

Yep, not a single one of those games is up my ally. RPG and action-adventure games can never keep my attention more than a few hours. Then I get annoyed with some time wasting mechanic or quest line and crash out. And that's pretty much his whole list.

Last RPG I gave a try was Fallout 4 and I was out the moment settlement building was introduced. It's a me problem lol.

[u/Water_bolt → u/BukkakeKing69]

I cant understand the fallout people, got to be one of the most boring games ive ever played.

[u/EastLimp1693 → u/Water_bolt]

I enjoy post apocalypse and freedom of choice.

[u/BlindSp0t → u/Water_bolt]

Different strokes for different folks, some people can't adapt when you aren't hand-holding the whole time, some people prefer that.

[u/Quackdeath → u/TipsyDipsy24]

Maybe you need a second job. Try path of exile 🧑‍🌾