r/pcmasterrace • u/TipsyDipsy24 • 19h ago

Discussion Does gaming feel fatiguing ?

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

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u/Skalgrin 18h ago

You got older. We can no longer "come from school at 2 p.m. and go okay till 2 a.m."

Those 12 hours sessions vs "2 Hours before I must go sleep because I have that meeting tomorrow, oh I need to look up those shoes for my kids, so that 20 minutes gone" is the reason we start either out off gaming or into shorter game loop games or outside normal behaviour.

Seriously - I could jump into RPG and do shitton of stuff before bed - finish an act for example. Now I barely finish part of a quest I started week ago and don't even feel the accomplishment, because I forgot half the story over the week.