How to Enjoy Games Again
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2022
- If you've recently been struggling to play and enjoy games as much as you used to, then this video could help! Recently I've been trying different ways to get back into gaming with as strong of a passion as I had as a child, and it's actually been going quite well! So I really recommend trying out some of the tips in this video :)
I can confidently say that I actually worked really hard on this video. It took hours of editing together the audio and clips and I feel like it's one of the first videos I can truly be proud of. I'm really going to try and up my game with the future uploads so if you enjoyed this one, please subscribe or share with people who might enjoy it too!
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Big thank you to my partner, the Core gang, and the Phasmo friendos for making games a lot more fun to play the past few weeks. This type of video was also heavily inspired by a fellow UA-camr called "LankManDan" who has a second channel dedicated to healthy mindsets around games and content creation.
I used gaming footage from the following UA-cam channels:
Narpy
Cyboman Gaming
MahaloVideoGames
Killer-Toni
Throneful
Unbuliebubble
All other gaming footage was recorded by me.
Thanks for watching :)
Hey y'all, this video is starting to blow up again which is absolutely incredible! Thank you everyone for all of the comments; unfortunately, there are just too many for me to reply to at the moment, but I'm reading every single one! People who resonate with the video, or who were helped by it, and those that disagree too, thank you all for the great discussion and feedback! More videos coming soon! Just very busy with college <3
when i have free time i lose the interest to play games but when im extremely busy its the exact opposite, great video btw
Mental health issues are a big thing as well. Depression and anxiety are a MFer. It builds this internal stress of "Responsibility vs relaxation". I've sat at my desk for hours looking at my library, play a game for a couple minutes and close it out and find something else. All the while thinking about my life's responsibilities. Finding a better job, getting in shape and out of pain, cleaning my dirty house, spending time with my wife, and so on. Finding ways to work around it is good, but finding the root cause of the problem is best.
I've discovered that this video applies to many hobbies, not just playing games. In fact, a lot of these tips apply for watching movies. I've seen thousands upon thousands of movies but I still have fun watching new ones, even rewatching old ones, because I make watching movies a big deal and I watch them with friends every weekend. This is the reason it continues to be fun for years.
I've recently only noticed that when i was younger, my playtime (be it videogames or in general) was very short and limited. Every time i would be playing a game and actually start to get into it, it would already be past my allowed time. "Aww man I only just started tho!" was such a nostalgic and sort of sad felling as well, but only now i realise how essential it was. I used to cherish my hours of playtime and would always stay excited in the build up to it, which made it althemore precious and enjoyable. "All good things must come to an end," was the same mantra that was told to me after every finished play session, and as I grew oler I started to understand what it meant and felt it's psychological value too. Now I'm much older and I play games for hours upon hours, with no one to stop me and only close it once I'm bored. I now understand that the more you force yourself to end things early, when they are "just starting to get good" helps in valuing the thing/ activity more, thus resulting in you having more fun and find it more satisfying once you've actually started to do it. That would be my tip.
My issue was depression. I had no idea why, but I couldn't enjoy games anymore. I spent hundreds of dollars on games looking for anything to enjoy. And found nothing. I took a break. I was in my late 20s and very unhappy with myself and life. I focused on my health, appearance, career and overall self reflecting. I'm way happier now. Although I'm extremely busy now (in my 30s currently), I definitely have that spark back. Whenever I have time, I get super excited about playing video games either by myself or with my wife. A lot of times, I've come to find out, it's not that video games aren't fun necessarily, but that there's a much deeper issue that's preventing you from enjoying them.
in my experience, i found that as a teenager i couldnt buy any game i wanted, just one every so often when my mom could spare the money. so when i got that game i would play it to death and 100%. now as an adult, i can afford the games myself and buy a bunch that interest me, but the desire to play them diminishes because i have a surplus of games. The sad part is i too always dreamed of being able to buy any game when i was younger, now when i can finally do it, just isnt the same
One really big thing for me is when I'm playing games, making sure I'm completely present with that game. No other music or UA-cam video going on in the background. No food fore to munch on and get distracted bad. Just immersing myself completely in a game and giving it my full attention.
This video only just now hit my recommended section, and I would say I'm on the tail end of this feeling and this is all great advice that I ended up having to come up with myself before coming across this video. Undiagnosed depression turned out to be a key thing that needed diagnosis and treatment and for me to really put the elbow grease in with a therapist to figure out the various ways I'm not content in other areas of my life. Having a better understanding of myself and what I need helped me approach games from a different perspective. Surprisingly, the streaming tip was something I came up with on my own about a year or ago and it helped me grind through games in my back-catalogue that I've never touched, and it also helped me replay some of my favorite games and reignite that joy I have for games. The real trick is that-- because we've all grown up-- we need to reconsider the role games play in our lives. It's okay to step back from them and find a better balance between your life and the things you like to do, and actually finding that balance helps you enjoy those things because you're not saddled with the guilt of procrastination / inactivity.
In short tips are :
It’s both very sad but also very comforting knowing that there are a lot of people out there who feel this way. I have recently been trying to find that love for games I had when I was a kid and this video was just the thing I needed!
I’ve wondered why I drifted to basically only playing competitive multiplayer games and not single player games that dominated my childhood. I think tip 1 is really helpful to me. The challenge of constant improvement is what makes me want to grind these multiplayer games. Achievement hunting has helped me get back into single player games. Currently trying to get all of skyrims achievements.
I had this problem so I started to upload to UA-cam, I play horror games mostly and Its so fun. When you record your gameplay you end up interacting with the game on a deeper level since you have an “audience” it’s given video games a new perspective for me that’s really helped reignite my enthusiasm
Wow. UA-cam actually recommending small channels with stellar editing?
1. Make it a challenge
Good Tip: Don’t rely on AAA games to reignite your passion for gaming. Sometimes it’s the cheapest games that bring you that feeling you’ve been searching for
the last one is so real. this summer i started playing video games again after a three-years break, and now i've never been THIS excited to play a game my whole life.
something that could be interesting to explore is the nostalgia/childhood factor, spending all day and night playing minecraft bc you have no other real responsibilities, transforming into adulthood where we're all stressed all the time, always on a time limit, often having to choose between which of the equally important things (playing games, relaxing vs housework vs college work vs social commitments etc) we can do in our limited time
Thing is as a kid, you're worry free... No rent, no work, no major chores and you play video games with a relaxed mind. So yes, playing video games as an adult with responsibilities can be in fact, tiring and can be stressful. I think we associate fun with games, and that's why after we're done working, we would like to think the video game is STILL the escape that we grew up on. But in reality, when we're not working.. we actually just want to rest our minds.
When I started Amnesia: The Dark Descent for the first time, it opened with a very interesting note.