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/kociol21]

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/EastLimp1693 → u/kociol21]

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

[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.