I been getting into older games. They’re usually janky and have bad graphics, but the games have so much character and soul. Genuinly love these games!
been playing ps3 era games like portal 2, bioshock, arkham city, new vegas and dead space. Boy these games felt unique in terms of atmosphere and had soul compared to AAAA games
@@docvoygx3788I really think the developers had far more passion at the time and truly wanted to mske something they wanted to play. Watch old "making of" documentaries and you can see it.
heavy on this. Was on deployment in 2020 (hooyah Navy) and could watch all the anime/tv shows/movies I wanted. Play all my games for hours on end. Mainly because I had nothing better else to do. Once I got home, I realized that I could be doing a lot more and feeling/being "productive". So much that I find it difficult to start new games and tv shows. It sucks. Been getting better tho! Almost done with Sekiro!
@@jakobebrown7248I just got out of the Army and I'm feeling the same way. Granted I do have a mental health issue which probably contributes to this the most, but I can't focus on anything wether it be entertainment (games, anime, books) or being productive.
Also, the access, especially your phone and apps, gets you bombarded with all kinds of negative news day in and day out. Thats why I, for example, unsubscribed all accounts on IG(etc) that are political or news.
I was getting so bored with modern games that i went back to playing DONKEY KONG 64. It was my very first open world game as a kid. All of a sudden ive started playing all my games again an hour at a time.
This is exactly what it is. The newer games aren’t special, and the scum that run these companies have killed the hobby. I did something similar to what you did, but I played a PS1 game I’d never played that absolutely blew me away: Twisted Metal: Small Brawl. That game was so much more fun than anything I’ve played released in the last five years lmao. I was howling with laughter in my living room, and even my wife was having a good time watching, even though she doesn’t play games. Turns-out, most fans of the series never had much of a thrill with that game, to begin with, and if that doesn’t show how even the mediocre games from back in the day are better than anything getting released now, I don’t know what would.
@@michaelkikle3018 twisted metal was one of my favorite games back in the day and it's so true about the older games. Less was more and absolutely more fun.
@@blakev2365 Yeah, TM: SB is a wonderful example of less is more. It’s barely two hours long, and you’re literally just playing as RC cars shooting at other RC cars lmao. So simplistic, and so amazing, for my first TM game.
@@michaelkikle3018 gaming was made by geeks played by geeks. Then they went mainstream and some games became not geeky enough anymore. But still many enjoyed them. Then people saw you can make a lot of money and that combined effect laid to the shitty phone games. Those mobile games. Due to the money lots of companies started with the dlc stuff and often that was still great but over time they put less effort in. After that the people at companies saw the mobile games and took microtransactions and stuff like a battle pass from them. Fortnite (in my opinion fortshite they promised advanced minecraft but delivered something less) brought these things into the mainstream and it got copied. And around the same time they started pumping this woke stuff into video games. Not actually helping people just straight propaganda like they have been doing in movies aswell. Its fucked up , games were there for the story and for the gameplay. Nowadays its there for the aesthetic, the money and a fucked up political ideology. And what i will say will sound wrong but they are also CHANGING our favorite franchises to be INCLUSIVe while they are just destroying the narratives in them. Some of the games have been inclusive af before they even came. Sorry but i don't need a new york with woke flags in spider man. I don't give a fuck how somebody identifies they just live their lifes but i don't need a black samurai that didn't existed but rather was a stable boy in assassins creed because its blatantly done for the inclusivity instead of for actual diversity , actual respect and actual historical truth. Its fucked up, its heresy of the highest order. Heresy is taking something and corrupting it into something that doesn't represent the og thing anymore and since the cursed union of dogmatic ideological useful idiots and the money grabbing management/ companies we end up with most of our games and game experiences turned upside down in this heresy. We should combat it. Its wrong
I can infinitely replay the games I grew up with, but I struggle to understand if it's because they're truly better, or if its just nostalgia for me, you know? Basically like comfort food. I know exactly what I'm going to get.
I really don't think age is as big of a factor to enjoying games as some people think it is. Back in the day there were plenty of 30 and 40 year olds that played world of warcraft, call of duty, and other games and they loved them. Instead of age, I think it's a combination of other things. If you aren't doing well in life its hard to enjoy anything, especially a video game. Another reason, games aren't as new of a thing anymore so it gets harder and harder to feel like youre playing a fresh new idea/game. Many other reasons, but again, I dont think age alone is a significant factor
the point around age is more about what comes with age which is responsibilities and more stress. I don’t think getting older in itself makes you not enjoy games it’s just what comes with it. like I said in the video, I expect to enjoy games when I’m older once I’ve got more of my life in order (fingers crossed).
@@malachor5ve it’s not age, I’m older, when I was 20s and 30s job kids all that, gaming was still awesome. The games were still good, things were being tried and what we had was ever refined by passionate nerds. Gaming started sucking for everyone around the same time.
I'm 38 and I can't stand modern AAA western games, just last year I finished ocarina of time (3DS) for the first time ever, all the hype is real, simple story and dialogs, no 30 minute tutorials, barely any hand holding or yellow paint (navi is not bad at all as people say), what a fantastic game, since then been going through my psx backlog, legend of legaia, legend of dragoon, parasite eve, fear effect (this one is a bit scuffed not gonna lie), been having a ton of fun and not a single $70 game in sight. Also indies, just finished Ender Lilies, fantastic.
@@Exiled7 Stop buying AAA slop. Stop playing the same damned game over and over and again and again. Buy some indie games. Play older games you didn't get to play back then. There you go, problem solved.
This video essay was horrible. It has nothing at all to do with your mental health. Older games were varied, fast paced, diverse, and you went at your own pace. Modern games are bland, samey, slow, repetitive, grindy, and unimaginative. you torture yourself through this game, that stopped being good after 20 hours just to see the rest of the story.
Easy to tell whether it's a mental health issue vs. specific to modern gaming (or your current choice of games). Just ask whether you are losing interest in other things that normally give you pleasure/enjoyment, too. If so - if you're losing interest and enjoyment in many different things that used to interest you or give you pleasure - then it's probably a mental health issue, specifically depression. If not - if your loss of interest/enjoyment primarily relates to videogames, not to other activities - then it's not a mental health issue. It's a you-and-videogames issue.
I enjoy buying the game cuz I know it's a good story mode... yet, don't play it. I do have depression but try to find a game other in co op with a friend and the task can be shared and you enjoy the story.
@@NanceLvr me too. I bought CP2077 recently cause the discount, and i know the game story will be great. But after at certain point before final mission i stop it. Afraid that if i finish the game i am not playing the game anymore. So i choose to play different game. Recently RDR2. It's not i don't enjoy playing it. But cause the stress from the job i have, effecting my playthrough.
Modern games are so graphically advanced filled with detail that sometimes overwhelms me visually to the point my brain is not absorbing or engaging in anything. Older games or graphically limited games are easier to digest so you naturally find it easier to just switch off an game.
I quite feel like this too lol older game have stronger symbolic dimensions in graphics and are more obvious in how to interact with them, with 4k games too much useless details its tiring
It takes all kinds. I never engaged with gaming as a kid in the 3d era because my mind couldn't process what was going on. Now that graphics are better I don't have that problem anymore and gaming has never been better.
@@jiggerypokery2962 I am partially wrong as one of the most immersive games I have ever played was RDR2 an that game is heavily detailed with graphics that are on par with some modern games released today. I know it isn't the sole reason I can't get immersed but that's how I've just been feeling lately, I realised this when I booted up some old PS2/PS3 games recently an was able to get just sunk in, I boot up a modern game an I just get overwhelmed, could be the game, could be me.
Take your time and enjoy the scenery, just because your character can run forever without getting tired doesn't mean you have to run past everything. You could also play a game with more stylized graphics (they still make plenty of those).
I just started playing Ghostwire:Tokyo yesterday and found this little gas station with tons of detail on the interior and even the products on the shelves. I’m so glad I kept my expectations low bc the smallest things are bringing me joy again, little by little
As someone who hasn't gamed since the days of the Sega Genesis and Nintendo, I recently decided to embrace nostalgia and bought a PlayStation 5. I even picked up over 20 games, but I’m struggling to enjoy them. Many of the games feel overly complex and challenging, and I find myself longing for something simpler-just a fun, relaxing experience.
YES FINALLY SOMEONE TALKS ABOUT OUTSIDE INFLUENCES FOR WANTING TO PLAY SPECIFIC GAMES. I've been watching boardwalk empire this summer and it's made me wanna play Mafia 2
Then simply play games where you can hop in anytime, without anyone forcing you to do anything. Don't play the multiplayer shooters with battle pass garbage
@@justahuman8373Agreed. But what games do you suggest? I get stuck in single player rpg. But then those are literal chores games, so I go to rocket league where I get destroyed and don't feel any immersion or care. I'm stuck
Sounds like a problem your having there’s plenty of games that are great and if a games feels like a chore to play it’s definitely not for you forcing yourself to play something will just make you hate gaming more
It took a while for me to realize what kept me hooked as a kid was the ability to easily allow myself to be immersed in what I was playing. I lost a lot of that as an adult whether it was from having a phone next to me while gaming as a constant immersion breaker and also just that feeling of constantly thinking about what I would be doing after gaming. I try to make a conscious effort now to have whatever game I’m playing be the only focus at that time. It helps to do errands or clean the house, reply to texts and exercise, and plan for the work week ahead before sitting down to enjoy something too. I also watch a lot of gaming content, but I will actively avoid any opinions or video content related to a game I want to play to avoid normalizing that games experience to myself before I even play it.
Pah, immersion? sure immerse yourself in whatever that grinder is you're playing. Meanwhile i choose games that are varied, innovative, and respect my time. I'd rather play through the same game again and again, than have my time wasted by stupid meaningless grinds.
@@justsomeuser5123yea I know exactly what “respect my time means” lol players like you want hand held the entire way and for shit to come as easy and fast as possible.
I'm playing older games, emulating PS2 and PSP games, and they are made to be fun, not like modern games that have algorithms designed to make players spend as much as possible.
@@vadoskotakbuzz5319 40 of the "exclusives" like god of war, Assassin's creed, dead to rights, Daxter, monster hunter, Jeanne D Arc. With graphics settings at max and the Sharpen effect at 1-1.5 games looks pretty good(at least for My liking) and many games have HD textures you can find online.
Black Myth Wukong has me absolutely hooked and has been giving me that old feeling I had as a kid of just sinking hours into a game without a care in the world, it’s such a beautifully made game and most importantly it’s just FUN. I don’t have a clue what’s going on in the story and I don’t need to for that exact reason. This is the main thing the large majority of games lack these days imo. Just give me a magic monkey with a staff and let me loose, really reminds me of some of those old hidden gem ps2 games in that regard. Amazing game, highly recommend.
Another game currently on the shelf and I have no idea why, i've played 10 hours or so it and its amazing, sorta stuck on the sage. Put it down 2 weeks ago and haven't touched it since.. so many games like this for me just can't bring myself to do it
@Jmelly99 the witcher 3 was phenomenal. I highly reccomend the DLCs. They could have been standalone games by themselves. Incredible game with lots of emotion. Don't forget to do side quests. They are great as well.
It's almost like the game is varied, allows for different playstyles, doesn't waste your time with stupid grinding, and you get a speed boost the more you develop your gaming-skill.
your opening section about how you’re struggling to even get past the opening screen, watching youtube about games and never playing them, and simply not wanting to engage is the most relatable way i’ve ever heard someone else articulate it
All these, "I have to study" "I have to work tomorrow" "I have to wake up early" "i must have to sleep early" "I need to sleep 8 hours", All these reasons are the trigger for me.
I have this video in my watch later for weeks now and for some reason I decided to watch it today. I’m experiencing the same thing, not in gaming, but in my current life. This video inspired me to take a step back and try to fix things in my life. I guess it’s the right video at the right time. Thank you for this great video.
At first I thought it was an age thing, being in mid 30s and all, but several recent titles I enjoyed proved me wrong. It's not about age. It's about industry being taken over by freaks who hate gamers. There is hope though.
There are games which were hits back in the day, but I did not play them back then. In more recent years when I did play them they immediately stand out from more recent games. There are also more recent games which are big hits juts like in the old days (not as many though). My personal take for why I dont enjoy as many games as I did before is that game design stagnated. Back then each game felt diferent, game design evolved at an incredible pace and each sequel of a game was greatly improved on the previous one. Today we see every game with the same elements of game design (compass, mini map, inumerous but simple side quests, skill tree, open world). The addiction on a game started to lean more to little but multiple dopamine rushes that when in game keeps our attention for a while, but with no long run fulfillment. I would rather play a game that has a forest that I like to be in without the busyness of chores (excuse me "side quests"), than a game full of superficial side quests that feel like house chores. Game design needs to start evolving again, we have been chopping health bars since videogames are a thing. We need more game genres. Souls games were the (last?) game genre to appear and it was back in 2011 (even earlier if we count deamon souls). This will be accomplished with indie teams that get enough funds with one good game which allows them to catapult to a massive sequel
@@pauloandre7806 Oh, I definitely agree with your points. Without innovations the games just don't hit the same anymore. I can fire up original Deus Ex from the 2000, and it gives me more enjoyment and more options for how to play than freaking Cyberpunk 2077. No wonder most people think that game developers hate the gamers. Even some insignificant new stuff is welcomed(like nature guiding you instead of the map in Ghost of Tsushima), but we don't even get those things often. It's pathetic. Even graphically games are stagnating for a decade now. Batman Arkham Knight looks better than most games coming out today, both graphically and stylistically. And I don't know... Seems to me that the gaming industry wants something from us(other than money), instead of offering us what we want and need. It's weird.
Something I would've expected you to bring up that you didn't was the simple tip of setting your own in-game goals. Grab a game you want to play, that you often lose interest in fast, and set up a list of long term and short term goals. The point is to make yourself experience progress. This brought my joy of gaming back when I sat down with Skyrim and had the goal of achieving a ridiculous "one tap" build. I wrote down all the steps I needed to take and items I had to get and got to work. That's the first time I've ever enjoyed the grind, because I constantly saw myself getting closer to the goal. I ended up completing the game for the first time and brought the same concept into Minecraft, and rediscovered that as well. It doesn't have to be a pretty list, it doesn't have to be long or short. Just write down a couple of goals, maybe a cutscene you've never seen or an item you've never found, and get to work!
For me VR revived my love for games. It gave me something new to experience, eventhough there are only a few games that could be considered AAA in VR (more are coming in the next 3 months though : Batman, metro, Alien, and Behemoth. All these right before Christmas). A change of format can be the answer to escape the boredom of flat games today.
If it’s mental health than we all entered mass psychosis together. I started gaming in the 80s, mind was blown by doom. Was there for the glory years of the late nineties, watched the ps2 rise like a kaiju, watched crysis cook my pc, and then….i experienced the seemingly final generation of greatness with your guys formative childhood titles. And after that…it all went flat. Samey, nothing new, remake remake remake. It’s when business people took control of the gaming business, it wasn’t rockstar nerds calling the shots inside their company. And here we are. I really do blame the companies.
at first i was "hey, this dude makes some pretty good points, this is quite insighful" but then i was "dont ask questions, just consume product and get excited about next product!"
This might be a slight trauma dump but i heavily agree with the outside world taking impact on the enjoyment of playing videogames. If you look at it, playing videogames as a child, you had no "real" worries, you were so focused on just enjoying the moment. My life got busier, harder and more depressing the older I got so whenever I try to unwind on a game and i have to force myself to enjoy it, my head is just filled with other stuff, making me unable to relax and focus on the game i'm trying to play. This is also the point so many people make when talking about their childhoods playing videogames, stuff like "life was so easy back then". Almost every comment section of videos of older games or edits of older games is filled with comments like that. We are just always distracted in today's world and too busy to take care of ourselves and too busy to enjoy the moment.
I had an issue of playing games and finding joy in them. I agree with a lot of stuff you said here. This is how I fixed my issue. 1. I acknowledged I have some mental health issues and addressed those 2. I stopped thinking of my games as a backlog, but instead of a library. I mean think about walking into your local library and saying to yourself "I NEED to read all these books before (x,y,z)." That is so much pressure you're putting on yourself. I think a lot of people feel this way because they pay money for games, but I've come to terms my gaming collection is my library and I may never play all of the games in it. That's okay. 3. I gave up social media. Part of the major distractions we have is the constant update of posts, and comments, and reactions, and likes. If I do get on social media, like I am now. I mute everything. I don't need a constant bombardment. I only get on UA-cam and it's only for a short amount of time. I also avoid shorts like the plague and stick to long form content. 4. I've relearned how to be bored. I think this is something as a society we don't suffer with so it puts us off of games. I always used to have background sound, be it a TV or music or UA-cam, and I've always had to be doing something. Browsing my phone, messing around with a toy, playing a gameboy, something. I've learned that it's okay to not always have stuff going on. 5. I limit my dopamine fixes to the evenings. I do as little as I can throughout the day to bombard myself with dopamine and leave any music listening, movie watching, tv binging, game playing until the end of the day. 6. I limit the amount of hours I spend playing a game. As they say, absence makes the heart grow fonder. I've realized the more I play a game, the more I am bored of games. If gaming is just a couple hour treat a day. I look forward to it. I make the most of it. 7. I do what needs to be done before I do other things. This is actually a tip I learned from a mental health guy, but if you put off chores for the pleasure of playing a game, the chores always sit in the back of your mind nagging you. You're free from that if you just do them. You may not want to do them, but it frees you from the burden. 8. I make it a point to be happy. I think a lot of people expect happiness to happen to them because they do fun stuff, but being happy is a decision. It really is. You can choose to enjoy the game and make the most of it, or you can go in with a bad attitude thinking it's going to be lame and you'll have a miserable time. I used to think this kind of advice was nonsense, but I've learned stuff is truly what you make of it. There was a moment this clicked in my life and boy did I enjoy stuff a WHOLE lot more. 9. I don't suffer through bad games. If I find a game hard to play and it's just not that much fun. I leave it. Suffering for the sake of finishing a game will just grind me down and wear me out, happy or not. Bad games can drain you. So I just move on from them. 10. I just do what I want to do. I think for me this was the biggest one. I put so many expectations and rules and regulations on myself when playing games. For what purpose? If I think it'll be more fun to use cheat codes, then I'll do it. If I think it'll be more fun to cheese a boss, then I'll do it. This kinda goes with point 9, but I do what is fun for me. There's no reason to regulate my play.
I really enjoyed this. Subscribed! Im almost 50, have a wife and 2 children and Ive been a gamer my whole life. I went through a lot of the same things as you described, though I dealt with them differently. I dropped out of college out of depression, and I ended up in the military out of sheer wanderlust. Not saying people should do that, but for me it was a good decision. During those days, I still played through the N64, PS and PS 2 eras. Ive been around a long time, and I think what people call "capitalism!" Or "woke games!" Is really just game media, which in recent years has hit an unbelievable public level. More than ever people are pushed to play, be on and participate for no real reason at all. Its not just "buy this game!" Its even "you shouidnt be doing anything else"...a mixture of forces I call corporate communism where you serve the needs of a greedy profiteer and the needs of social engineers trying to save the world by recruiting you into a cause. None of that is healthy for the individual. Its important to not let games get in the way of life...and I dont blame the gamers, but the industry for the depression level among gamers. Games should enhance life and make it enjoyable. Ive been caught a lot of times forcing myself to play what isnt enjoyable...and sometimes thats worth the effort as you say...but I think this has been mostly leveraged against the player to keep his attention fixed to his own detriment. Even for you, you seem to have wide tastes, but from my eyes, you seem to play and enjoy a very particular set of games...i think you should branch out even further. Real capitalism is actually great...theres never been so many games of different genres and styles that I play nowadays...roguelikes, puzzles, farming, etc...and the upset people seem to be playing....well...what you play...except sea of stars. The Palworld guy is right. Theres a lot to do and play and its actually a good thing for games to die. I argue, a necessity... both publically and personally. I warned the kids about games and they are pretty happy...ironically enough, they don't play as much as I do. My wife doesn't game at all and we met in the normal life. Ive enjoyed games even more with them around, when I thought having a family and career would end games for me. Sorry for the length, old people talk too much.
man i appreciate your views. thank you. you kept them honest, decent, and poignant. i just turned 43 with a family and career as well. just now getting back to gaming and loving it.
I understand that your worldview comes into your response, but your political terminology used here hurts my soul as a politics student lmao. Pls change some of these definitions, they don't make sense. "Corporate communism" is an oxymoron and you surely could name it something better?
Great points and im glad you are still gaming into your 50s Lol I am a 39yr old ranting gamer myself . I get it buddy . I wish you and your family nothing but the best. These young kids blame everything capitalism as if that's bad thing .most of them weren't born during the cold war or old enough to remember the horrors of 9/11 to appreciate the country we live in . Lol like "let's give that communist thing a try again " yeah I'll pass
The most beautiful thing about videos like this is to just see that we are all humans and we experience the same emotions and phases in life. Gamers will always be my crowd.
Since it's re-rerelease, I've been playing more Doom 1 + 2 than any modern video game in the past couple of years. It's just fun. That's what I want out of a video game. Fun.
Let us face the facts: Old games are optimized for fun. they are varied, convenient, no stupid grinds, no repetitive slog. Modern games are psychological nightmares meant to lure you in with a couple hours of excitement and then drop you off, making you repeat the same lame task for another 90 times to get that endgame weapon/secret/cutscene. The main character is stagnant for the remaining 90% of the game.
I love this topic! I honestly feel so alone and felt like I was the only one that felt like I would just boot up my Xbox and stare at my game library. Games don’t feel the same anymore. No games are made with passion and they fail to be simplistic and fun
I'm already 21 but don't have much responsibility aside from some chores for some reasons. I do have other hobbies. I don't think i need to be productive at every time of the day ANYMORE. But i still struggle with this problem. One big contributer for that is my mental health. Currently, I'm playing back old titles that i missed especially from PS2 era and it's working pretty well for me. Another big thing you missed is Self Awareness. Knowing more of yourself will help you understand more on what you're looking for in gaming which translate to you picking games that suit you better. As an example, i used to play lots of moba games and felt frustrated with gaming. After becoming more self aware and knowing more about myself, i found out that i was never into competitions in the first place. I avoided every competitive multiplayer games since then and it significantly improved my enjoyment in this hobbie. You need a level of self awareness to know are you really enjoying the experience or not in the first place. Another thing that working for me in getting back to gaming is trying new games and genres that i don't familiar with. As a person who like new stuff, it help me a ton. No offense but i have a problem with you that i have with most self improvement UA-camrs. It's that you guys are completely ignoring the fact that humans can be so different from one another and what work for you may not work for others. As an example, connecting with people in real life helped you enjoy games better but it has opposite effect on me. I'm not only a very introverted person but also have serious trauma with human connections. I'm suspecting it's a PTSD but i don't have access to therapy so i have to deal with it myself. Socializing with people is one of the most draining tasks for me. I saw enough of people talking about how they forced their selves to connect with other people just to end up feeling exhausted and frustrated to know that I'm not the only one in that. I understand you can only share the things that worked for you. I just love to see some disclaimer so some people like me watching this video not gonna feel there's something wrong with them or it is bad to feel the way they do. Your videos are helpful man. I think it will be a lot better if you acknowledge that.
As someone who has sizable backlogs of games, books and films/tv series in my possession right now your brief point about finding inspiration to play certain games through other forms of media of similar 'genre' or setting I've recently found to be surprisingly effective even though actually it's quite obvious. A nephew of mine lent me 'Assassin's Creed Syndicate' recently which I found quite easy to get into and quite enjoyable for nostalgic reasons as it reminded me of all the older AC titles I hadn't played in nearly 10 years. An unintended side effect as well, the Victorian setting of the game piqued my interest and led me to finally read through the graphic novel 'From Hell' of all things. A book I'd had sitting on my bookshelf for a long while but struggled to find the enthusiasm to actually crack it open, ultimately finding that enthusiasm entirely thanks to one of the more forgettable AC titles was a strange realisation indeed.
Thanks! I think the point about negative content is a big one, it literally and unconsciously reprograms your brain. Seen so many videos about why gaming was better in the old days (like 80s and 90s and early 2000s) and back then, there was no social media. You just played a game, if you enjoyed it you continued, if not you moved on. Trying to do the same now again.
I think why I’ve stopped playing games a lot is because life is just insane and going at a break neck pace that I don’t really have time to enjoy what I once used to. That being paired with working a full time job, just deposited a down payment on a house and other things just make it so hard to find the time to do things. I do still enjoy some of the older games. In recent years I have replayed the original Bayonetta and dmc 3 a lot in hopes to get better and because I was a bit bored. I wasn’t expecting much, but when I did find I was really enjoying the combat and story I was like huh that’s weird, I haven’t had this feeling in a while. I guess it’s why that I think if people make a job out of what they love like gaming, then it’s gonna get a bit stale eventually. Like look at Spider-Man 2 on the ps5, a massive leap in the swinging and story aspect while staying true to Spider-Man, yet people are still like “oh well it’s not as impressive as the first game.” The first games swinging feels like you just hold r2 and have no momentum.
I used to feel like this, and then Elden ring came out, I have been going back to play all the souls games, and then played some older games which were highly acclaimed. This made me realize that I am not the problem, its the current develepers of AAA games who are the problem.
Yeah I get it, Elden Ring has a great story, but its placed to the side so it does not hamper the Gameplay. The beauty of the story tho is that you have to dig into item descriptions, analyze places and listen exhaust the dialogues of all npc's you encounter to slowly piece together the tragedy of the world, making you the player somewhat more connected to the story since you put the effort to dig it out and it wasn't handed to you on a silver platter. But the gamplay and bosses are the focus of the game, so if you don't really care much for that you would find it boring, I get it. Still it was my favorite game ever in my 20 years of gaming, since it hits everything I personally want from a game.
@@officialtbhoops you’re ignorant then, Elden Ring has a very complex story, even George RR Martin helped with writing and he’s a famous story writer lol
This is gold. I'm currently home with stress and thought I'd enjoy some gaming time. I've played Alan Wake 2 and enjoyed it, but after that I've just booted up games and clicked around random stuff on my PC. Today I decided to not play anything. I usually work out, but today I went out for a run. I then put my phone away when my family came home and in the evening I watched a few episodes of Arcane (I usually barely watch an entire episode in one go). It gave me tears to my eyes, because it's very well made. Tomorrow I won't play anything either. Hoping to find my enjoyment of gaming once again. Thanks for further encouragement.
I had this a few years ago, just got bored and never wanted to play anything, gave gaming a break for roughly 3 years, now Finally bought a new Xbox and I’m having a blast! Over stimulation is a real thing and games easily cause this. My advice would be to take breaks and do something practical or challenging in real life
Thank you for the video! I think as someone with major depression, this may help me not just with gaming but other hobbies I love like reading that I've been struggling to pick up again.
Wow.. I checked the comments and I am not alone, you got yourself a unique community going! I use "unique" because of the point you made about toxic content creators. I saw myself watching creators talking about how "something is wrong with something". What exactly is wrong doesn't matter, the narrative does. That's why I wanted to write this comment. I love your narrative. You don't take a contrarian approach, which probably yields less views in the short term. I saw a few videos ago that there were some changes planned to your main channel, which I assume ( I do not know for sure, that viewership is not as big as you would like it) but your narrative and topics are a breath of fresh air that combines gaming with real life, as well as putting your opinions not in a way to please people, but to share your own experience, which is really refreshing. Thank you for that! My ultimate point is please continue putting out your content and see thecommunity grow! You got yourself a fan here, and I'm happy to say that if I ever met you, I would be starstruck, I am very happy that you achieved this :)
Hey, thank you! I'm wanting to build a community of people who aren't constantly doomer about anything and everything. I also don't want to just be someone hyping up gaming. I like to incorporate a few areas of my life into these videos so it's more than just a standard gaming video. I'm happy to see you really enjoyed it.
Phenomenal video. This perfectly synthesizes the same thoughts I’ve had about my own gaming experience since 2020. It never occurred to me that I had “inspired” myself to play certain games. I too felt an itch to play Skyrim and Witcher 3 after watching GOT., as well as feeling the urge to play Silent Hill 2 when I began working on my mental health.
Q. How to enjoy games again ? A. By Not buying them just because someone recommended you, do your own research on the particular game you are interested in and then only buy them. (P.S. - Don't look for critic scores rather look at user scores) 🕊️
You made so many good points, not always in an order that makes sense, but they were all good points. Think this'll surely help a lot of people - it definitely helped me!
Overstimulation and stress are the reasons why many people can't enjoy games anymore. I mean back in the day we used to get 1 or 2 games max and only focus on them for a while until every bit of entertainment is squeezed. Now people are bombarded with games every single day and they get the urge to play everything but that's not possible. I suggest picking up only the games that genuinely interest you, sit down, turn off ur phone or any other source of distraction and fire up your game and pretend it's 2006.
For me even on days off and have plenty of time I watch youtube too much then when I've like 2 hours left before having to go somewhere or do something I tell myself I don't have enough time and either watch youtube more or clean up and waste time that could have been spent gaming but the days I do start gaming I normally get into it and the day disappears. Watching short videos no matter the platform in my personal opinion works our brains that we want to play and want to finish games quick and move onto the next one like the short videos for a quick fix. Sometimes the big games like red dead 2, hogwarts legacy, the new zeldas etc can be over whelming and don't start them cause they'll take too long to complete but I think that's a mental thing. I make a list every year of every game I complete and is very satisfying.
I am 50, and I am not in a good place when it comes to gaming. The 80s, 90s, and first decade of the 2000s was great for me when it comes to video games. Without naming every single title I have loved, I will just mention the key titles that had the most impact on my passion. Pitfall for the Atari, early 80s. Supermario Brothers for the NES, mid to late 80s. Crash Bandicoot, PS1, mid 90s. Fable, Xbox, mid 2000s. And then the biggest impact of all, Demon's Souls for the PS3, 2009. After that, I really only played From Software titles as they came out, spending a truly disgusting amount of time devoted to From. Thousands upon thousands of hours, right up to Elden Ring. I own other titles, for years, such as GTA 5, Red Dead 2, Batman Arkem City, and many, many more, and I haven't beaten any of them. I play them for a few hours or days, get bored or distracted, and don't go back to them for months, or a year. Then, I have to start over, as I forget the story and game mechanics. The same cycle over and over. Now, I spend more time searching the PS Store than actually playing anything. I don't want to loose that part of myself that got so excited to jump into a new game. Gaming is great at keeping the mind sharp, even some studies showing it may help in preventing diseases like dementia. Still, I spend more time watching others play on UA-cam. Will I ever get my passion back? I hope so.
your video popped in my feed and im in a somewhat simillar situation. got me thinking about it in a bit of a different light thanks for making this video it was genuinly great!
For a while I have been kinda burned out on gaming as a whole, just not finding enjoyment in the games I used to spend half a day on (mainly a competitive gamer) but now being busy more often, living in a house with my girlfriend, I ended up just stopping gaming for about 2 months. Once I came back I decided I’d give The Witcher 3 a shot since I’ve always eyed it on sales but never understood why everybody praises it so hard. I tried the game and now I’m addicted, almost at 30 hours already and loving the world and feel of the gameplay. I’ve grown to discover that I miss playing single player games. I was always on Dead by Daylight, Apex, OW, but felt like I was just ruining my day after I was done with them. If you’re ever feeling hard burnout, it really is a good idea to just throw yourself into a new genre and give it 2 hours to capture your enjoyment. You’ll never know what your next favorite game is going to be
I’ve just done this with persona 5, anime is something I always thought was cringey, now I’m like 20 hours in already n haven’t been this hooked on a game in a long time haha
I’ve been so tapped out, no more clans, no more friends, everything I complain about on multiplayer games is solved by one thing and that’s having more people to play with, and that’s something I can’t control most of the time. Found myself going back to all of the old single player games trying to find that feeling again
Your analogy about music is accurate. Music always brings me down - always. I never understood why. I watched some videos about whether or not you have an ear for pitch and I learned that I can't tell the difference between a major and minor chord. They all sound minor (sad) to me. So all music makes me sad. So, I don't listen to music anymore unless it's actively part of what I'm doing (music from a game, for example)
Working dad turning 30 doing 60 hour weeks, only having an hour or two a night to game with no idea what to invest my time into I sit staring so long at my games that I don’t end up playing anything at all I often wonder if it’s just me as a person, I struggle to finish games I start them play them for a few hours then don’t play them for 6 months at that point I’ve forgotten what it was even about and this puts me off picking it back up, maybe I’m just addicted to buying games as I have 162 on my ps5 and have completed 0 of them I think I need help 😅
Honestly playing elden ring really helped my mental health I was at a low point and it rekindled my love for souls like games I found listening to dungeons and dragons podcast a really cathartic way to relax
Im 15, sure there’s plenty of AAA slop fests of games, but if y’all want something good I highly recommend looking at the indie side of gaming because there are so many indie titles that have me hooked rn (alongside dark souls 3 and doom eternal, 2 amazing AAA games)
@@NamelessCrusad3rI’m 44 too. In my case, being a parent killed the joy of gaming. My two small kids have acute speech delay, I live in a small apartment where my gaming PC is in the living room, and I just can’t zone out anymore. The baggage of life is too heavy to enjoy spare time like I did in my 20s.
How old are you now? Whenever I try to play some video games, there's always seem to be some nagging voice in my head that says, "I should be doing something else that's productive and move my real life forward". This voice thing started when I hit 24-25, and it has not stopped since, it's only getting stronger. Probably something to do with my prefrontal cortex finally fully developing. Before then, I could play games for 4-12 hours per day without any worry in the world.
That's capitalism and the inner insecurity it has planted in you. There's practically no such thing as "a waste of time". Rationally speaking, nothing in life has a purpose, and your goal should be to do things that fulfill you, not what brings in the most money.
I'm 22 now, but this has been a feeling I've dealt with for years now. I don't think it's solely down to capitalism as a fellow commenter says. Mine was more from an over consumption of self improvement and productivity content since I was 15. Not that you can't argue they are both parts of things to do with capitalism however I would probably assume that the natural way of our mind is to try and figure out what is worth pursuing and what isn't and with that how we can do those things in the most efficient way.
"Something to do with my prefrontal cortex finally developing" . Okay you go ahead and call people who enjoy "wasting" their time with different hobbies like gaming whatever you like, and use fancy words to try and sound smarter all you want. I don't envy or want to be like you one bit. I'd absolutely fucking hate being so shallow that I spend every fucking second of my life thinking of nothing but how to stuff my pockets with more money. You don't need much to live comfortably and the rest you ain't taking to the grave regardless. I sure as hell ain't gonna work my ass off and sacrifice my life away to some higher up, cocky punk who wants to develop his business further and add to his stash of billions.
Dude, this has been happening to me recently. I have so many games in my library, but I don't feel like playing them anymore. I am downloading old games and playing them again
Installed and uninstalled all classic assassins creed games yesterday 💔🇮🇳🙏. I was utterly frustrated, almost sad seeing and realising just how the series has shaped up. Why cant we have both the new tech / visuals AND epic stories, legendary characters, excellent dialogues????
I mean, the earlier games were great for the time, but they don't really hold up well, for the most part. Choppy story bits, waxy character models, bad lip syncing, incredibly repetitive gameplay with the usual ubisoft collectibles map.
44 year old here; very insightful video sir! Glad the algorithm suggested it, and I look forward to watching more of your content. If I can weigh in as an old man, I agree that (new) games stopped being fun for me once I was about to finish college and was looking down the barrel of adult life. This was 2003. I wouldn't truly get back into gaming until Christmas 2015, when I was gifted a PS4. It's good to be back! That said, I have NEVER played online and suggest others do the same. I know this sounds weird, but it will help you be in control of when/how you play and will help regulate your enjoyment.
Randomly saw this is my feed today. Very healing in a way! Thank you so much! I simply just needed a reminder on all of these things is all. I hope you all have a lovely day if you haven't already
Thank you for this video. I am at 04:45, and I am thankful for you. Thank you being honest, clear and disciplined to tell these things, which I do resonate with. You are talking from the bottom of my heart! ☺️🙏
I think one thing is that games are not what we thought they would be by now when we were children. Graphics have became the main focus in AAA games. Instead of a totally immersive sim.
30 secs in and I already got goosebumps from hearing Destiny. This is too relatable. That game has brought so many priceless memories and countless hours of fun but it's undoubtedly become like a medication with some serious side effects. That's the thing about many games nowadays, especially the live service ones. Games are no longer an experience to complement your life, like any other hobby. They are now being designed to BE your life.
If someone is looking for a new fresh game series to play, I always recommend them Yakuza/Like A Dragon games. Those are extremely fun and immersive beat em up/turn based games with lots of fun side content, I've been in love with Yakuza around a year now with no sign of burnout
Only dipped my feet once. I love sword&board hack 'n slash mainly, but I could see the appeal. I knew if I allowed myself to get immersed I would be playing Yakuza games for a month (there are so many!) I'll probably have an uncontrollable urge to play them the second they leave Game Pass. I keep wondering if continuity is important with the series, or can I just jump in any game and not be lost?
@@ThaGrimbler You can play any Yakuza game and not get lost for the most part but some of the games are connected to each other more than others. You can play games like Yakuza 0, Kiwami, Kiwami 2 (remakes of the ps2 Yakuza games, hence "Kiwami") and 3 (althought I don't recommend starting with 3 because it has some issues) without playing other games but Yakuza 4 for example is connected to the first game's ending and 5, 6 and Gaiden are heavily connected to each other. I don't know what you think about turn based games but Yakuza: Like A Dragon is also a very good starting point because it introduces a new protagonist. Shortly, 0, Kiwami, Kiwami 2, 3 and Yakuza: Like A Dragon are for the most part standalone experiences with some connections to each other but 4, 5, 6, Gaiden and Infinite Wealth are better if you play previous games first
As a seasoned Destiny player with a decade of experience, I was pleased to see your reference to the game. I discovered your video while searching for engaging games to play and to complete some of my backlog. Given the recent negative sentiment surrounding Destiny 2, and as a content creator myself, I have been contemplating whether to continue producing Destiny-related content when I find it challenging to even launch the game. This led me to question my overall enjoyment of gaming and how I managed to play Destiny religiously for 10 years without exploring other titles. I am considering expanding my horizons to other games, potentially finding a niche and becoming a versatile gaming content creator. While I have numerous questions on my mind, I am grateful that content creation is not my primary source of income and livelihood. I am delighted to have come across your video, as the points you raised are truly valuable. I recognize that working from home requires a conscious effort to step outside and engage in diverse hobbies, such as joining a gym. These are activities that I have considered pursuing. Additionally, I have a strong affinity for traveling, sunshine, and tropical beaches. Your video profoundly resonates with me, and it feels as though you were addressing me directly as a friend. I express my gratitude for creating this video and have both liked and subscribed to your channel.
Games dont wow me anymore. They dont transport me into a different world anymore. I dont have that feeling when I couldnt wait to get home to play a specific game. Im 32 now with a wife and two children. I think its just due to age.
I'm 35 and have been bitching like this since 30. It's a bit of age, for sure, but it's also that games became about agendas as opposed to being fun. They purposefully make things take longer so there's a longer clock on the content. They constantly release unfinished games and then fix them 2 years later, CP2077, etc etc. It's become less about a small community of gamers making fun games, and more about conglomerate companies making massively expensive project cash-cow games. I'm certain some programmers take pride still, but lots just can't because it's a job/project. They're there for the pay cheque, not passion.
Im 35 now, and i got a feeling like the conversations between characters in modern games is simple, inmature or childish. hard to enjoy for me. Now I enjoy a different kind of media than i used when i was a child. Thats my experience.
The minute it's not fun, just do something else. visit a museum, take a nap, solve some math problems, study history. There are so many other things you could do when you're not feeling like playing a game. it's normal.
Thank you for the video 😊. I find that my involvement and engagement in games are great when I've been proactive in my life, whether that's tidying my house, working out, having a walk. It makes gaming feel enjoyable.
*Generic advice, lol. Maybe it doesn't relate to me since I don't have kids and I don't have a normal 9 to 5 job, I work 2-3 days a week so I'm able to game almost every day. I guess I'm blessed 🤷♂️*
Of course the advice isn’t gonna seem useful to you your situation is clearly very different from most of the people who actually took something away from the video, most being people who DO have other obligations like family, significant others, and work life. Even if it may not relate to you now doesn’t mean you’ll always be in the same spot to be able to enjoy such luxuries. And if this is all just generic advice and not useful to you then why did you even watch the video? It’s clearly not meant for you
Another dimension that is not talked about enough is the very real chance of reflexes simply getting slower as we get older. This is especially true for people really into sports (football, boxing, hockey) and other high-impact hobbies and activities (skiing, racing) and high-impact career paths (military, law enforcement, pro sports) which can lead to minor or significant changes in brain function - even just simple concussions or repeated impacts can cause some logistical changes in brain activity that can simply change the aptitude for certain types of games. Speaking of my own experience, I was a very top-tier FPS shooter for years in high-school and after a random sledding accident in my senior year and subsequent consequences of severe concussion- my gaming reflexes really slowed down instantly - and never fully recovered even after my recovery from the concussion itself. My reflexes have never been the same in fps competitive games since that one incident. Most folks may not have a severe injury from a momentous incident but over time may have very minor concussions and head impacts which simply slow down net reflexes over time. The effects of this can be reversed to a significant degree by sheer practice and retraining your brain to heal or adapt. Eventually though- loss of reflexes is likely to happen to everyone eventually - but don't quit gaming entirely - but refocus on trying new types of games to play. I have since become a huge fan of turn-based games, deckbuilders, 4x strategy, and absolutely love these games now. High-school me would have considered turn-based games somewhat boring compared to my FPS favorites- but my mind has compensated some of my lost reflexes with increased strategy aptitude and that is equally satisfying if not more than being #1 on the Counterstrike team. If YOU change as a person, try some new kinds of games that maybe you dismissed or assumed you might not be good at. Thinky games might just have the complexity your mind is craving that simply isn't there in most FPS games.
Unpopular opinion: if you’re a grown adult and video games don’t “feel the same” anymore, it’s probably time to find the alternate hobbies to spend time in
there’s a reason that’s an unpopular opinion and it has something to do with for the most part age doesn’t inherently affect a hobby that you find interesting or enjoy.
@@Exiled7 the thing is when you grow older, like in many societies, naturally you're going to have more responsibilities, not less, especially with kids and a family to take care of like many do; so organically, games is going to mean something a lot different to your older self versus your younger self (for example, as you gotten older perhaps you might enjoyed more playing games with friends or your kids than playing by yourself, etc.). Your reasoning presupposed that playing video games meant/feels the same for all people across time, that's simply not true. If you've personally got the time and had found a way to spark that exciting feeling for a video game again like you were as a kid, that's fine. But not everybody should feel the need to rekindle that passion for video games like they were as kids, there are depths to life. Good video though 👍thanks for that, and thanks for your input
Trophy hunting reignited my passion for gaming, I've platinum'd 16 titles in the past 7 months and I gotta say, doin this made me realize how much I was missing out on, even on games I've already beat. It's also helped me find more games to play so I don't think I'll be stopping anytime soon. Turns out my favorite genre is survival horror, who fucking knew
You are absolutely correct about the excess amount of negative gaming content on UA-cam, it really kills your mood and some people are WAY too negative about everything
get a wife, get a a kid, g to work, give attention to wife, kid after work, then, clean the house, pay the bills, and after all that, believe me, you will enjoy almost any game that is ahead of you and in any game system (PC, consoles, retro gaming devices, rpg books...). That is all there is to it. Have a rich life.
It's just not fulfilling. It's not real. It's a screen. Sure it can be fun for a bit and even nostalgic. But after a bit you'll feel the same way again. You'll value human experiences and relationships more.
Love this. Thoughtful and relatable. I took up running to balance out my hours of screen time i so enjoy. Progressed to ultramarathons. Point is, you might find a new passion (or even obsession) when you "touch grass"! And games will always be there when you get back
I'll tell you how! Games need to stop being woke and shoving political correctness and all that other crap down the geek's face! That's how we'll start enjoying games again.
I can't go one video without you mfs saying this goofy stuff. Stop shoving your agenda here. There are tons of different games out there which have been "woke" since years ago. And give examples. Also you're subbed to a channel called "Alpha Male". Chill.
I can't go one video without you mfs saying this goofy stuff. Stop shoving your agenda. There are tons of different games out there which have been "woke" since years ago. Give me some examples. Also you're subbed to a channel called "Alpha Male". Chill out.
I can't go one video without you mfs saying this goofy stuff. Stop shoving your agenda. There are tons of different games out there which have been "woke" since years ago. Give me some examples of pc. Also you're subbed to a channel called "Alpha Male". Chill out.
I can't go one video without you mfs saying this goofy stuff. Stop shoving your agenda. There are tons of different games out there which have been "woke" since years ago. Give me some examples of pc. Also you're subbed to a channel called "Alpha Male". Chill out.
thank you for this video. i was literarily feeling the "contemplation" and decided to go on yt and here we are haha. i think the advice is great. its kind of advice that everyone knows of, but forgets. sometimes helpful reminders in things like this is perfect!
I’ve had the exact same feeling, it’s brought me to games like metal gear rising revengance and asuras wrath, theyre making me remember why I loved playing games again
I did a lot of things that you recommended. A month ago I came back from my year abroad where I travelled, met lots of people, went to the gym and never really played games until I couldn't wait any longer. All of this didn't help and I am convinced that for me gaming is a way better experience than all of the real life activities you mentioned. I am having so much fun with gaming that I am considering to quit sport. Maybe the long break made gaming more enjoyable but I think the main problem is that many modern games aren't as fun as the older ones. Right now I am having the time of my life with games.
if it works for you then it works for you. However I don't think you're the person this is aimed towards. If you're already enjoying games then it makes the video redundant for you.
Excellent video. For me, there are two other reasons I want to mention: - not getting over the last game you've played because of its deep impact (emotionally mostly) and how good it was. In my case, The Last of Us Part I - consuming too much video game content. For example, I make exercise videos at home and I listen in the background videos about games. It makes me feel overwhelmed.
For me the ignorance is bliss card is what helped me. I came off social media X and that and went blind in. To a title or genre having no idea about who made it and reviews and just that element of oh that was fun or didn’t expect that. Rather than hearing reviews and stuff. For me it’s the element of surprise like it did as a kid that element of surprise and immersion feeling like it’s your journey or your exclusive experience kinda thing.
Jeeze I had no idea other people had this issue too! I recently got a PS5, absolutely smashed Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart… Since then I’ve been trying to find new games to play, some I’ve dumped 30h into and then wake up one day not having any motivation to even open it!
I been getting into older games. They’re usually janky and have bad graphics, but the games have so much character and soul. Genuinly love these games!
that is the charm, currently trying to speedrun Half-life 1
Fallout New Vegas did this for me
@kjanlap2002 best fallout out there. love doing the hotkey ammo glitch, imagine firing the ammo for the anti material rifle out of your shotgun.
been playing ps3 era games like portal 2, bioshock, arkham city, new vegas and dead space. Boy these games felt unique in terms of atmosphere and had soul compared to AAAA games
@@docvoygx3788I really think the developers had far more passion at the time and truly wanted to mske something they wanted to play. Watch old "making of" documentaries and you can see it.
I think it's the distractions we have in todays world... we have too much access to lots of things we can't even focus on completing one thing
heavy on this. Was on deployment in 2020 (hooyah Navy) and could watch all the anime/tv shows/movies I wanted. Play all my games for hours on end. Mainly because I had nothing better else to do. Once I got home, I realized that I could be doing a lot more and feeling/being "productive". So much that I find it difficult to start new games and tv shows. It sucks. Been getting better tho! Almost done with Sekiro!
@@jakobebrown7248I just got out of the Army and I'm feeling the same way. Granted I do have a mental health issue which probably contributes to this the most, but I can't focus on anything wether it be entertainment (games, anime, books) or being productive.
@@spekt113 that could be something to do with adhd maybe?
Also, the access, especially your phone and apps, gets you bombarded with all kinds of negative news day in and day out. Thats why I, for example, unsubscribed all accounts on IG(etc) that are political or news.
@@tortepasti2 And I have no doubt you are happier for it - Great choice.
I was getting so bored with modern games that i went back to playing DONKEY KONG 64. It was my very first open world game as a kid. All of a sudden ive started playing all my games again an hour at a time.
This is exactly what it is. The newer games aren’t special, and the scum that run these companies have killed the hobby.
I did something similar to what you did, but I played a PS1 game I’d never played that absolutely blew me away: Twisted Metal: Small Brawl. That game was so much more fun than anything I’ve played released in the last five years lmao. I was howling with laughter in my living room, and even my wife was having a good time watching, even though she doesn’t play games.
Turns-out, most fans of the series never had much of a thrill with that game, to begin with, and if that doesn’t show how even the mediocre games from back in the day are better than anything getting released now, I don’t know what would.
@@michaelkikle3018 twisted metal was one of my favorite games back in the day and it's so true about the older games. Less was more and absolutely more fun.
@@blakev2365 Yeah, TM: SB is a wonderful example of less is more. It’s barely two hours long, and you’re literally just playing as RC cars shooting at other RC cars lmao. So simplistic, and so amazing, for my first TM game.
@@michaelkikle3018 gaming was made by geeks played by geeks. Then they went mainstream and some games became not geeky enough anymore. But still many enjoyed them. Then people saw you can make a lot of money and that combined effect laid to the shitty phone games. Those mobile games. Due to the money lots of companies started with the dlc stuff and often that was still great but over time they put less effort in. After that the people at companies saw the mobile games and took microtransactions and stuff like a battle pass from them. Fortnite (in my opinion fortshite they promised advanced minecraft but delivered something less) brought these things into the mainstream and it got copied. And around the same time they started pumping this woke stuff into video games. Not actually helping people just straight propaganda like they have been doing in movies aswell. Its fucked up , games were there for the story and for the gameplay. Nowadays its there for the aesthetic, the money and a fucked up political ideology. And what i will say will sound wrong but they are also CHANGING our favorite franchises to be INCLUSIVe while they are just destroying the narratives in them. Some of the games have been inclusive af before they even came. Sorry but i don't need a new york with woke flags in spider man. I don't give a fuck how somebody identifies they just live their lifes but i don't need a black samurai that didn't existed but rather was a stable boy in assassins creed because its blatantly done for the inclusivity instead of for actual diversity , actual respect and actual historical truth. Its fucked up, its heresy of the highest order. Heresy is taking something and corrupting it into something that doesn't represent the og thing anymore and since the cursed union of dogmatic ideological useful idiots and the money grabbing management/ companies we end up with most of our games and game experiences turned upside down in this heresy. We should combat it. Its wrong
I can infinitely replay the games I grew up with, but I struggle to understand if it's because they're truly better, or if its just nostalgia for me, you know? Basically like comfort food. I know exactly what I'm going to get.
I really don't think age is as big of a factor to enjoying games as some people think it is. Back in the day there were plenty of 30 and 40 year olds that played world of warcraft, call of duty, and other games and they loved them. Instead of age, I think it's a combination of other things.
If you aren't doing well in life its hard to enjoy anything, especially a video game. Another reason, games aren't as new of a thing anymore so it gets harder and harder to feel like youre playing a fresh new idea/game. Many other reasons, but again, I dont think age alone is a significant factor
the point around age is more about what comes with age which is responsibilities and more stress. I don’t think getting older in itself makes you not enjoy games it’s just what comes with it. like I said in the video, I expect to enjoy games when I’m older once I’ve got more of my life in order (fingers crossed).
@@malachor5ve it’s not age, I’m older, when I was 20s and 30s job kids all that, gaming was still awesome. The games were still good, things were being tried and what we had was ever refined by passionate nerds. Gaming started sucking for everyone around the same time.
I'm 38 and I can't stand modern AAA western games, just last year I finished ocarina of time (3DS) for the first time ever, all the hype is real, simple story and dialogs, no 30 minute tutorials, barely any hand holding or yellow paint (navi is not bad at all as people say), what a fantastic game, since then been going through my psx backlog, legend of legaia, legend of dragoon, parasite eve, fear effect (this one is a bit scuffed not gonna lie), been having a ton of fun and not a single $70 game in sight. Also indies, just finished Ender Lilies, fantastic.
Your spot on dude…
@@Exiled7 Stop buying AAA slop. Stop playing the same damned game over and over and again and again. Buy some indie games. Play older games you didn't get to play back then. There you go, problem solved.
Single player game are the one which truly makes me smile and happy again. Witcher 3 is one of them
damn dude. you really managed to put into words what I couldn't in the last 10 years
Lol then you have bigger issues.
@@Sagegabs that's what your mom said when she found out she was preggo with you my spicy period user.
This video essay was horrible.
It has nothing at all to do with your mental health.
Older games were varied, fast paced, diverse, and you went at your own pace.
Modern games are bland, samey, slow, repetitive, grindy, and unimaginative. you torture yourself through this game, that stopped being good after 20 hours just to see the rest of the story.
@@Sagegabswhy?
@@justsomeuser5123 old games were the exact same. You're crazy if you think otherwise - or you're simply not playing the right games.
Easy to tell whether it's a mental health issue vs. specific to modern gaming (or your current choice of games). Just ask whether you are losing interest in other things that normally give you pleasure/enjoyment, too. If so - if you're losing interest and enjoyment in many different things that used to interest you or give you pleasure - then it's probably a mental health issue, specifically depression. If not - if your loss of interest/enjoyment primarily relates to videogames, not to other activities - then it's not a mental health issue. It's a you-and-videogames issue.
good observation man. very true.
I have mental health issue i guess💀.
I enjoy buying the game cuz I know it's a good story mode... yet, don't play it. I do have depression but try to find a game other in co op with a friend and the task can be shared and you enjoy the story.
@@NanceLvr me too. I bought CP2077 recently cause the discount, and i know the game story will be great. But after at certain point before final mission i stop it. Afraid that if i finish the game i am not playing the game anymore. So i choose to play different game. Recently RDR2.
It's not i don't enjoy playing it. But cause the stress from the job i have, effecting my playthrough.
@KingwolfLotts1 Yes! Work stress is a killer to joy, it's hard to have a work-life balance.
For me a lot of it is burnout. I find that bouncing to other hobbies for a few months allows me to come back and appreciate games again.
What hobbies do you get into that’s not gaming? I’m struggling myself right now.
great video! this is a great conversation to have and you made great points. Coming at it from a personal angle was really refreshing.
Thank you! Really apprieate it especially coming from someone who's been around in the gaming scene for so long!
Modern games are so graphically advanced filled with detail that sometimes overwhelms me visually to the point my brain is not absorbing or engaging in anything. Older games or graphically limited games are easier to digest so you naturally find it easier to just switch off an game.
I quite feel like this too lol older game have stronger symbolic dimensions in graphics and are more obvious in how to interact with them, with 4k games too much useless details its tiring
Best example of this is horizon games for me..god i just cant get into it
It takes all kinds. I never engaged with gaming as a kid in the 3d era because my mind couldn't process what was going on. Now that graphics are better I don't have that problem anymore and gaming has never been better.
@@jiggerypokery2962 I am partially wrong as one of the most immersive games I have ever played was RDR2 an that game is heavily detailed with graphics that are on par with some modern games released today. I know it isn't the sole reason I can't get immersed but that's how I've just been feeling lately, I realised this when I booted up some old PS2/PS3 games recently an was able to get just sunk in, I boot up a modern game an I just get overwhelmed, could be the game, could be me.
Take your time and enjoy the scenery, just because your character can run forever without getting tired doesn't mean you have to run past everything.
You could also play a game with more stylized graphics (they still make plenty of those).
I just started playing Ghostwire:Tokyo yesterday and found this little gas station with tons of detail on the interior and even the products on the shelves. I’m so glad I kept my expectations low bc the smallest things are bringing me joy again, little by little
As someone who hasn't gamed since the days of the Sega Genesis and Nintendo, I recently decided to embrace nostalgia and bought a PlayStation 5. I even picked up over 20 games, but I’m struggling to enjoy them. Many of the games feel overly complex and challenging, and I find myself longing for something simpler-just a fun, relaxing experience.
Try out the ps1 and ps2 games on the ps plus service
YES FINALLY SOMEONE TALKS ABOUT OUTSIDE INFLUENCES FOR WANTING TO PLAY SPECIFIC GAMES. I've been watching boardwalk empire this summer and it's made me wanna play Mafia 2
I do this, too. Sometimes, I'll have a western kick where I'm reading westerns, playing red dead 1 and 2, etc.
I think the biggest issue is that most games feel like a chore to play.
Yesss
Then simply play games where you can hop in anytime, without anyone forcing you to do anything. Don't play the multiplayer shooters with battle pass garbage
@@justahuman8373Agreed. But what games do you suggest? I get stuck in single player rpg. But then those are literal chores games, so I go to rocket league where I get destroyed and don't feel any immersion or care. I'm stuck
Bruv. I ain’t gonna lie. A game should be fun. If it’s feeling like work, take a break or try a different genre or game. Don’t torture yourself man.
Sounds like a problem your having there’s plenty of games that are great and if a games feels like a chore to play it’s definitely not for you forcing yourself to play something will just make you hate gaming more
It took a while for me to realize what kept me hooked as a kid was the ability to easily allow myself to be immersed in what I was playing. I lost a lot of that as an adult whether it was from having a phone next to me while gaming as a constant immersion breaker and also just that feeling of constantly thinking about what I would be doing after gaming. I try to make a conscious effort now to have whatever game I’m playing be the only focus at that time. It helps to do errands or clean the house, reply to texts and exercise, and plan for the work week ahead before sitting down to enjoy something too. I also watch a lot of gaming content, but I will actively avoid any opinions or video content related to a game I want to play to avoid normalizing that games experience to myself before I even play it.
Pah, immersion? sure immerse yourself in whatever that grinder is you're playing. Meanwhile i choose games that are varied, innovative, and respect my time. I'd rather play through the same game again and again, than have my time wasted by stupid meaningless grinds.
You totally missed the point of his argument
@@justsomeuser5123yea I know exactly what “respect my time means” lol players like you want hand held the entire way and for shit to come as easy and fast as possible.
I'm playing older games, emulating PS2 and PSP games, and they are made to be fun, not like modern games that have algorithms designed to make players spend as much as possible.
Help me
What games from psp do you play? Just curious, im a big psp fan too
@@vadoskotakbuzz5319 40 of the "exclusives" like god of war, Assassin's creed, dead to rights, Daxter, monster hunter, Jeanne D Arc.
With graphics settings at max and the Sharpen effect at 1-1.5 games looks pretty good(at least for My liking) and many games have HD textures you can find online.
Black Myth Wukong has me absolutely hooked and has been giving me that old feeling I had as a kid of just sinking hours into a game without a care in the world, it’s such a beautifully made game and most importantly it’s just FUN. I don’t have a clue what’s going on in the story and I don’t need to for that exact reason. This is the main thing the large majority of games lack these days imo. Just give me a magic monkey with a staff and let me loose, really reminds me of some of those old hidden gem ps2 games in that regard. Amazing game, highly recommend.
Another game currently on the shelf and I have no idea why, i've played 10 hours or so it and its amazing, sorta stuck on the sage. Put it down 2 weeks ago and haven't touched it since.. so many games like this for me just can't bring myself to do it
Played sekiro then wukong and now on the witcher. I’m finally enjoying games again
@Jmelly99 the witcher 3 was phenomenal. I highly reccomend the DLCs. They could have been standalone games by themselves. Incredible game with lots of emotion. Don't forget to do side quests. They are great as well.
@Jmelly99
I've got those exact games to play properly still and give more time
It's almost like the game is varied, allows for different playstyles, doesn't waste your time with stupid grinding, and you get a speed boost the more you develop your gaming-skill.
your opening section about how you’re struggling to even get past the opening screen, watching youtube about games and never playing them, and simply not wanting to engage is the most relatable way i’ve ever heard someone else articulate it
All these, "I have to study" "I have to work tomorrow" "I have to wake up early" "i must have to sleep early" "I need to sleep 8 hours", All these reasons are the trigger for me.
"there isn't much reason to play for just 2h I have left before bed, rather watch this video or go back to my daily game"
@@Asakedia every 23 year old right now
@@Stenddo literally
@@Stenddome rn
I have this video in my watch later for weeks now and for some reason I decided to watch it today. I’m experiencing the same thing, not in gaming, but in my current life. This video inspired me to take a step back and try to fix things in my life. I guess it’s the right video at the right time. Thank you for this great video.
I hope you come back to this comment when you've made those changes and let us know how it went!
At first I thought it was an age thing, being in mid 30s and all, but several recent titles I enjoyed proved me wrong.
It's not about age. It's about industry being taken over by freaks who hate gamers. There is hope though.
its not because i was a toddler when halo:ce came out and i had a blast playing it this year
@@Feniksds Yeah. Fun games are fun whenever, regardless of looks.
Yeah me too, until i started playing stalker anomaly and got like 500 hours into it
There are games which were hits back in the day, but I did not play them back then. In more recent years when I did play them they immediately stand out from more recent games. There are also more recent games which are big hits juts like in the old days (not as many though). My personal take for why I dont enjoy as many games as I did before is that game design stagnated. Back then each game felt diferent, game design evolved at an incredible pace and each sequel of a game was greatly improved on the previous one. Today we see every game with the same elements of game design (compass, mini map, inumerous but simple side quests, skill tree, open world). The addiction on a game started to lean more to little but multiple dopamine rushes that when in game keeps our attention for a while, but with no long run fulfillment. I would rather play a game that has a forest that I like to be in without the busyness of chores (excuse me "side quests"), than a game full of superficial side quests that feel like house chores. Game design needs to start evolving again, we have been chopping health bars since videogames are a thing. We need more game genres. Souls games were the (last?) game genre to appear and it was back in 2011 (even earlier if we count deamon souls). This will be accomplished with indie teams that get enough funds with one good game which allows them to catapult to a massive sequel
@@pauloandre7806 Oh, I definitely agree with your points.
Without innovations the games just don't hit the same anymore.
I can fire up original Deus Ex from the 2000, and it gives me more enjoyment and more options for how to play than freaking Cyberpunk 2077.
No wonder most people think that game developers hate the gamers.
Even some insignificant new stuff is welcomed(like nature guiding you instead of the map in Ghost of Tsushima), but we don't even get those things often. It's pathetic.
Even graphically games are stagnating for a decade now.
Batman Arkham Knight looks better than most games coming out today, both graphically and stylistically.
And I don't know...
Seems to me that the gaming industry wants something from us(other than money), instead of offering us what we want and need. It's weird.
Something I would've expected you to bring up that you didn't was the simple tip of setting your own in-game goals. Grab a game you want to play, that you often lose interest in fast, and set up a list of long term and short term goals. The point is to make yourself experience progress.
This brought my joy of gaming back when I sat down with Skyrim and had the goal of achieving a ridiculous "one tap" build. I wrote down all the steps I needed to take and items I had to get and got to work. That's the first time I've ever enjoyed the grind, because I constantly saw myself getting closer to the goal. I ended up completing the game for the first time and brought the same concept into Minecraft, and rediscovered that as well.
It doesn't have to be a pretty list, it doesn't have to be long or short. Just write down a couple of goals, maybe a cutscene you've never seen or an item you've never found, and get to work!
The reason I wouldn't put this in the video personally is because I feel you'll end up playing a game to just check of boxes instead of enjoying it.
that one time i decided to play world of warcraft with the pacifist challange
For me VR revived my love for games. It gave me something new to experience, eventhough there are only a few games that could be considered AAA in VR (more are coming in the next 3 months though : Batman, metro, Alien, and Behemoth. All these right before Christmas). A change of format can be the answer to escape the boredom of flat games today.
Same here!
And you can add Hitman to that list 👍
If it’s mental health than we all entered mass psychosis together. I started gaming in the 80s, mind was blown by doom. Was there for the glory years of the late nineties, watched the ps2 rise like a kaiju, watched crysis cook my pc, and then….i experienced the seemingly final generation of greatness with your guys formative childhood titles. And after that…it all went flat. Samey, nothing new, remake remake remake. It’s when business people took control of the gaming business, it wasn’t rockstar nerds calling the shots inside their company. And here we are. I really do blame the companies.
You only mention 2 games do you even really play games?
@@QuiteJohnny you got me man, I’ve only played crysis and doom yea.
@@sealboy1211 🤣
Amen
@@sealboy1211well said. As an 80’s baby myself I absolutely agree.
at first i was "hey, this dude makes some pretty good points, this is quite insighful" but then i was "dont ask questions, just consume product and get excited about next product!"
This might be a slight trauma dump but i heavily agree with the outside world taking impact on the enjoyment of playing videogames. If you look at it, playing videogames as a child, you had no "real" worries, you were so focused on just enjoying the moment. My life got busier, harder and more depressing the older I got so whenever I try to unwind on a game and i have to force myself to enjoy it, my head is just filled with other stuff, making me unable to relax and focus on the game i'm trying to play. This is also the point so many people make when talking about their childhoods playing videogames, stuff like "life was so easy back then". Almost every comment section of videos of older games or edits of older games is filled with comments like that. We are just always distracted in today's world and too busy to take care of ourselves and too busy to enjoy the moment.
I had an issue of playing games and finding joy in them. I agree with a lot of stuff you said here. This is how I fixed my issue.
1. I acknowledged I have some mental health issues and addressed those
2. I stopped thinking of my games as a backlog, but instead of a library. I mean think about walking into your local library and saying to yourself "I NEED to read all these books before (x,y,z)." That is so much pressure you're putting on yourself. I think a lot of people feel this way because they pay money for games, but I've come to terms my gaming collection is my library and I may never play all of the games in it. That's okay.
3. I gave up social media. Part of the major distractions we have is the constant update of posts, and comments, and reactions, and likes. If I do get on social media, like I am now. I mute everything. I don't need a constant bombardment. I only get on UA-cam and it's only for a short amount of time. I also avoid shorts like the plague and stick to long form content.
4. I've relearned how to be bored. I think this is something as a society we don't suffer with so it puts us off of games. I always used to have background sound, be it a TV or music or UA-cam, and I've always had to be doing something. Browsing my phone, messing around with a toy, playing a gameboy, something. I've learned that it's okay to not always have stuff going on.
5. I limit my dopamine fixes to the evenings. I do as little as I can throughout the day to bombard myself with dopamine and leave any music listening, movie watching, tv binging, game playing until the end of the day.
6. I limit the amount of hours I spend playing a game. As they say, absence makes the heart grow fonder. I've realized the more I play a game, the more I am bored of games. If gaming is just a couple hour treat a day. I look forward to it. I make the most of it.
7. I do what needs to be done before I do other things. This is actually a tip I learned from a mental health guy, but if you put off chores for the pleasure of playing a game, the chores always sit in the back of your mind nagging you. You're free from that if you just do them. You may not want to do them, but it frees you from the burden.
8. I make it a point to be happy. I think a lot of people expect happiness to happen to them because they do fun stuff, but being happy is a decision. It really is. You can choose to enjoy the game and make the most of it, or you can go in with a bad attitude thinking it's going to be lame and you'll have a miserable time. I used to think this kind of advice was nonsense, but I've learned stuff is truly what you make of it. There was a moment this clicked in my life and boy did I enjoy stuff a WHOLE lot more.
9. I don't suffer through bad games. If I find a game hard to play and it's just not that much fun. I leave it. Suffering for the sake of finishing a game will just grind me down and wear me out, happy or not. Bad games can drain you. So I just move on from them.
10. I just do what I want to do. I think for me this was the biggest one. I put so many expectations and rules and regulations on myself when playing games. For what purpose? If I think it'll be more fun to use cheat codes, then I'll do it. If I think it'll be more fun to cheese a boss, then I'll do it. This kinda goes with point 9, but I do what is fun for me. There's no reason to regulate my play.
I really enjoyed this. Subscribed!
Im almost 50, have a wife and 2 children and Ive been a gamer my whole life. I went through a lot of the same things as you described, though I dealt with them differently. I dropped out of college out of depression, and I ended up in the military out of sheer wanderlust. Not saying people should do that, but for me it was a good decision. During those days, I still played through the N64, PS and PS 2 eras.
Ive been around a long time, and I think what people call "capitalism!" Or "woke games!" Is really just game media, which in recent years has hit an unbelievable public level. More than ever people are pushed to play, be on and participate for no real reason at all. Its not just "buy this game!" Its even "you shouidnt be doing anything else"...a mixture of forces I call corporate communism where you serve the needs of a greedy profiteer and the needs of social engineers trying to save the world by recruiting you into a cause. None of that is healthy for the individual. Its important to not let games get in the way of life...and I dont blame the gamers, but the industry for the depression level among gamers.
Games should enhance life and make it enjoyable. Ive been caught a lot of times forcing myself to play what isnt enjoyable...and sometimes thats worth the effort as you say...but I think this has been mostly leveraged against the player to keep his attention fixed to his own detriment. Even for you, you seem to have wide tastes, but from my eyes, you seem to play and enjoy a very particular set of games...i think you should branch out even further. Real capitalism is actually great...theres never been so many games of different genres and styles that I play nowadays...roguelikes, puzzles, farming, etc...and the upset people seem to be playing....well...what you play...except sea of stars. The Palworld guy is right. Theres a lot to do and play and its actually a good thing for games to die. I argue, a necessity... both publically and personally.
I warned the kids about games and they are pretty happy...ironically enough, they don't play as much as I do. My wife doesn't game at all and we met in the normal life. Ive enjoyed games even more with them around, when I thought having a family and career would end games for me.
Sorry for the length, old people talk too much.
man i appreciate your views. thank you. you kept them honest, decent, and poignant. i just turned 43 with a family and career as well. just now getting back to gaming and loving it.
I understand that your worldview comes into your response, but your political terminology used here hurts my soul as a politics student lmao. Pls change some of these definitions, they don't make sense.
"Corporate communism" is an oxymoron and you surely could name it something better?
@@nytesla_punk3327 Very US centric political talk indeed.
Great points and im glad you are still gaming into your 50s Lol I am a 39yr old ranting gamer myself . I get it buddy . I wish you and your family nothing but the best. These young kids blame everything capitalism as if that's bad thing .most of them weren't born during the cold war or old enough to remember the horrors of 9/11 to appreciate the country we live in . Lol like "let's give that communist thing a try again " yeah I'll pass
@@nytesla_punk3327 Isn't corporate communism the third way? The result of the hegelian dialectic?
The most beautiful thing about videos like this is to just see that we are all humans and we experience the same emotions and phases in life. Gamers will always be my crowd.
Since it's re-rerelease, I've been playing more Doom 1 + 2 than any modern video game in the past couple of years. It's just fun. That's what I want out of a video game. Fun.
New doom is just as fun in my opinion!
Let us face the facts: Old games are optimized for fun. they are varied, convenient, no stupid grinds, no repetitive slog.
Modern games are psychological nightmares meant to lure you in with a couple hours of excitement and then drop you off, making you repeat the same lame task for another 90 times to get that endgame weapon/secret/cutscene. The main character is stagnant for the remaining 90% of the game.
This is to get you into microtransactions btw.
I love this topic! I honestly feel so alone and felt like I was the only one that felt like I would just boot up my Xbox and stare at my game library. Games don’t feel the same anymore. No games are made with passion and they fail to be simplistic and fun
I'm already 21 but don't have much responsibility aside from some chores for some reasons. I do have other hobbies. I don't think i need to be productive at every time of the day ANYMORE. But i still struggle with this problem. One big contributer for that is my mental health.
Currently, I'm playing back old titles that i missed especially from PS2 era and it's working pretty well for me. Another big thing you missed is Self Awareness. Knowing more of yourself will help you understand more on what you're looking for in gaming which translate to you picking games that suit you better. As an example, i used to play lots of moba games and felt frustrated with gaming. After becoming more self aware and knowing more about myself, i found out that i was never into competitions in the first place. I avoided every competitive multiplayer games since then and it significantly improved my enjoyment in this hobbie. You need a level of self awareness to know are you really enjoying the experience or not in the first place.
Another thing that working for me in getting back to gaming is trying new games and genres that i don't familiar with. As a person who like new stuff, it help me a ton.
No offense but i have a problem with you that i have with most self improvement UA-camrs. It's that you guys are completely ignoring the fact that humans can be so different from one another and what work for you may not work for others. As an example, connecting with people in real life helped you enjoy games better but it has opposite effect on me. I'm not only a very introverted person but also have serious trauma with human connections. I'm suspecting it's a PTSD but i don't have access to therapy so i have to deal with it myself. Socializing with people is one of the most draining tasks for me. I saw enough of people talking about how they forced their selves to connect with other people just to end up feeling exhausted and frustrated to know that I'm not the only one in that. I understand you can only share the things that worked for you. I just love to see some disclaimer so some people like me watching this video not gonna feel there's something wrong with them or it is bad to feel the way they do. Your videos are helpful man. I think it will be a lot better if you acknowledge that.
I love you man. You saved me i so needed this video.
As someone who has sizable backlogs of games, books and films/tv series in my possession right now your brief point about finding inspiration to play certain games through other forms of media of similar 'genre' or setting I've recently found to be surprisingly effective even though actually it's quite obvious.
A nephew of mine lent me 'Assassin's Creed Syndicate' recently which I found quite easy to get into and quite enjoyable for nostalgic reasons as it reminded me of all the older AC titles I hadn't played in nearly 10 years. An unintended side effect as well, the Victorian setting of the game piqued my interest and led me to finally read through the graphic novel 'From Hell' of all things. A book I'd had sitting on my bookshelf for a long while but struggled to find the enthusiasm to actually crack it open, ultimately finding that enthusiasm entirely thanks to one of the more forgettable AC titles was a strange realisation indeed.
Thanks! I think the point about negative content is a big one, it literally and unconsciously reprograms your brain. Seen so many videos about why gaming was better in the old days (like 80s and 90s and early 2000s) and back then, there was no social media. You just played a game, if you enjoyed it you continued, if not you moved on. Trying to do the same now again.
I think why I’ve stopped playing games a lot is because life is just insane and going at a break neck pace that I don’t really have time to enjoy what I once used to. That being paired with working a full time job, just deposited a down payment on a house and other things just make it so hard to find the time to do things. I do still enjoy some of the older games. In recent years I have replayed the original Bayonetta and dmc 3 a lot in hopes to get better and because I was a bit bored. I wasn’t expecting much, but when I did find I was really enjoying the combat and story I was like huh that’s weird, I haven’t had this feeling in a while. I guess it’s why that I think if people make a job out of what they love like gaming, then it’s gonna get a bit stale eventually. Like look at Spider-Man 2 on the ps5, a massive leap in the swinging and story aspect while staying true to Spider-Man, yet people are still like “oh well it’s not as impressive as the first game.” The first games swinging feels like you just hold r2 and have no momentum.
Old is gold, give em a try every now and then as a shakeup.
I used to feel like this, and then Elden ring came out, I have been going back to play all the souls games, and then played some older games which were highly acclaimed. This made me realize that I am not the problem, its the current develepers of AAA games who are the problem.
Exactly, modern AAA games are mostly garbage
not all of them, mostly western games, eastern AAA titles have been incredibly good lately, like black myth wukong, and final fantasy 16.
I can’t get into Elden Ring. It feels like an aimless journey. What happened to cohesive stories with great writing?
Yeah I get it, Elden Ring has a great story, but its placed to the side so it does not hamper the Gameplay. The beauty of the story tho is that you have to dig into item descriptions, analyze places and listen exhaust the dialogues of all npc's you encounter to slowly piece together the tragedy of the world, making you the player somewhat more connected to the story since you put the effort to dig it out and it wasn't handed to you on a silver platter. But the gamplay and bosses are the focus of the game, so if you don't really care much for that you would find it boring, I get it. Still it was my favorite game ever in my 20 years of gaming, since it hits everything I personally want from a game.
@@officialtbhoops you’re ignorant then, Elden Ring has a very complex story, even George RR Martin helped with writing and he’s a famous story writer lol
This is gold.
I'm currently home with stress and thought I'd enjoy some gaming time.
I've played Alan Wake 2 and enjoyed it, but after that I've just booted up games and clicked around random stuff on my PC.
Today I decided to not play anything. I usually work out, but today I went out for a run.
I then put my phone away when my family came home and in the evening I watched a few episodes of Arcane (I usually barely watch an entire episode in one go).
It gave me tears to my eyes, because it's very well made.
Tomorrow I won't play anything either. Hoping to find my enjoyment of gaming once again.
Thanks for further encouragement.
I had this a few years ago, just got bored and never wanted to play anything, gave gaming a break for roughly 3 years, now Finally bought a new Xbox and I’m having a blast! Over stimulation is a real thing and games easily cause this. My advice would be to take breaks and do something practical or challenging in real life
Yup it has something to do with dopamine
Thank you for the video! I think as someone with major depression, this may help me not just with gaming but other hobbies I love like reading that I've been struggling to pick up again.
Wow.. I checked the comments and I am not alone, you got yourself a unique community going!
I use "unique" because of the point you made about toxic content creators. I saw myself watching creators talking about how "something is wrong with something". What exactly is wrong doesn't matter, the narrative does. That's why I wanted to write this comment. I love your narrative. You don't take a contrarian approach, which probably yields less views in the short term. I saw a few videos ago that there were some changes planned to your main channel, which I assume ( I do not know for sure, that viewership is not as big as you would like it) but your narrative and topics are a breath of fresh air that combines gaming with real life, as well as putting your opinions not in a way to please people, but to share your own experience, which is really refreshing. Thank you for that! My ultimate point is please continue putting out your content and see thecommunity grow! You got yourself a fan here, and I'm happy to say that if I ever met you, I would be starstruck, I am very happy that you achieved this :)
Hey, thank you! I'm wanting to build a community of people who aren't constantly doomer about anything and everything. I also don't want to just be someone hyping up gaming. I like to incorporate a few areas of my life into these videos so it's more than just a standard gaming video. I'm happy to see you really enjoyed it.
Phenomenal video. This perfectly synthesizes the same thoughts I’ve had about my own gaming experience since 2020. It never occurred to me that I had “inspired” myself to play certain games. I too felt an itch to play Skyrim and Witcher 3 after watching GOT., as well as feeling the urge to play Silent Hill 2 when I began working on my mental health.
Q. How to enjoy games again ?
A. By Not buying them just because someone recommended you, do your own research on the particular game you are interested in and then only buy them. (P.S. - Don't look for critic scores rather look at user scores) 🕊️
if that is your q then fair, the title is more of a statement than a question.
Also would 100% agree with that a
You made so many good points, not always in an order that makes sense, but they were all good points. Think this'll surely help a lot of people - it definitely helped me!
Overstimulation and stress are the reasons why many people can't enjoy games anymore. I mean back in the day we used to get 1 or 2 games max and only focus on them for a while until every bit of entertainment is squeezed. Now people are bombarded with games every single day and they get the urge to play everything but that's not possible.
I suggest picking up only the games that genuinely interest you, sit down, turn off ur phone or any other source of distraction and fire up your game and pretend it's 2006.
The Punisher for PS2 made me alive again.
For me even on days off and have plenty of time I watch youtube too much then when I've like 2 hours left before having to go somewhere or do something I tell myself I don't have enough time and either watch youtube more or clean up and waste time that could have been spent gaming but the days I do start gaming I normally get into it and the day disappears. Watching short videos no matter the platform in my personal opinion works our brains that we want to play and want to finish games quick and move onto the next one like the short videos for a quick fix. Sometimes the big games like red dead 2, hogwarts legacy, the new zeldas etc can be over whelming and don't start them cause they'll take too long to complete but I think that's a mental thing. I make a list every year of every game I complete and is very satisfying.
I love how you touched on the mental health aspect. It’s honestly the reason why I haven’t been able to enjoy video games for a few years now
I am 50, and I am not in a good place when it comes to gaming. The 80s, 90s, and first decade of the 2000s was great for me when it comes to video games. Without naming every single title I have loved, I will just mention the key titles that had the most impact on my passion.
Pitfall for the Atari, early 80s.
Supermario Brothers for the NES, mid to late 80s.
Crash Bandicoot, PS1, mid 90s.
Fable, Xbox, mid 2000s.
And then the biggest impact of all, Demon's Souls for the PS3, 2009. After that, I really only played From Software titles as they came out, spending a truly disgusting amount of time devoted to From. Thousands upon thousands of hours, right up to Elden Ring.
I own other titles, for years, such as GTA 5, Red Dead 2, Batman Arkem City, and many, many more, and I haven't beaten any of them. I play them for a few hours or days, get bored or distracted, and don't go back to them for months, or a year. Then, I have to start over, as I forget the story and game mechanics. The same cycle over and over. Now, I spend more time searching the PS Store than actually playing anything. I don't want to loose that part of myself that got so excited to jump into a new game. Gaming is great at keeping the mind sharp, even some studies showing it may help in preventing diseases like dementia. Still, I spend more time watching others play on UA-cam. Will I ever get my passion back? I hope so.
your video popped in my feed and im in a somewhat simillar situation.
got me thinking about it in a bit of a different light
thanks for making this video it was genuinly great!
For a while I have been kinda burned out on gaming as a whole, just not finding enjoyment in the games I used to spend half a day on (mainly a competitive gamer) but now being busy more often, living in a house with my girlfriend, I ended up just stopping gaming for about 2 months. Once I came back I decided I’d give The Witcher 3 a shot since I’ve always eyed it on sales but never understood why everybody praises it so hard. I tried the game and now I’m addicted, almost at 30 hours already and loving the world and feel of the gameplay. I’ve grown to discover that I miss playing single player games. I was always on Dead by Daylight, Apex, OW, but felt like I was just ruining my day after I was done with them. If you’re ever feeling hard burnout, it really is a good idea to just throw yourself into a new genre and give it 2 hours to capture your enjoyment. You’ll never know what your next favorite game is going to be
I’ve just done this with persona 5, anime is something I always thought was cringey, now I’m like 20 hours in already n haven’t been this hooked on a game in a long time haha
I’ve been so tapped out, no more clans, no more friends, everything I complain about on multiplayer games is solved by one thing and that’s having more people to play with, and that’s something I can’t control most of the time. Found myself going back to all of the old single player games trying to find that feeling again
Your analogy about music is accurate. Music always brings me down - always. I never understood why. I watched some videos about whether or not you have an ear for pitch and I learned that I can't tell the difference between a major and minor chord. They all sound minor (sad) to me. So all music makes me sad.
So, I don't listen to music anymore unless it's actively part of what I'm doing (music from a game, for example)
I first played Cyberpunk when the DLC dropped last year and it unlocked pure joy in me when I was doubting games could be fun again.
Working dad turning 30 doing 60 hour weeks, only having an hour or two a night to game with no idea what to invest my time into I sit staring so long at my games that I don’t end up playing anything at all I often wonder if it’s just me as a person, I struggle to finish games I start them play them for a few hours then don’t play them for 6 months at that point I’ve forgotten what it was even about and this puts me off picking it back up, maybe I’m just addicted to buying games as I have 162 on my ps5 and have completed 0 of them I think I need help 😅
Honestly playing elden ring really helped my mental health I was at a low point and it rekindled my love for souls like games I found listening to dungeons and dragons podcast a really cathartic way to relax
Bro, I’m almost 44 and can point to my early 30s becoming a working dad when I started experiencing this.
i just turned 43. yup i know what you mean. im there too.
I’m 20 and games are starting to get boring for me
bro my dad is gonna be 44 in December, seems like y’all are the same age
Im 15, sure there’s plenty of AAA slop fests of games, but if y’all want something good I highly recommend looking at the indie side of gaming because there are so many indie titles that have me hooked rn (alongside dark souls 3 and doom eternal, 2 amazing AAA games)
@@NamelessCrusad3rI’m 44 too. In my case, being a parent killed the joy of gaming. My two small kids have acute speech delay, I live in a small apartment where my gaming PC is in the living room, and I just can’t zone out anymore. The baggage of life is too heavy to enjoy spare time like I did in my 20s.
Great video man. Not even 5 min in and I’m loving it
How old are you now? Whenever I try to play some video games, there's always seem to be some nagging voice in my head that says, "I should be doing something else that's productive and move my real life forward". This voice thing started when I hit 24-25, and it has not stopped since, it's only getting stronger. Probably something to do with my prefrontal cortex finally fully developing. Before then, I could play games for 4-12 hours per day without any worry in the world.
That's capitalism and the inner insecurity it has planted in you. There's practically no such thing as "a waste of time". Rationally speaking, nothing in life has a purpose, and your goal should be to do things that fulfill you, not what brings in the most money.
@@Odust That and societal pressures that tell you you're wasting your time if you're doing anything other than making money. Ridiculous.
I'm 22 now, but this has been a feeling I've dealt with for years now. I don't think it's solely down to capitalism as a fellow commenter says. Mine was more from an over consumption of self improvement and productivity content since I was 15. Not that you can't argue they are both parts of things to do with capitalism however I would probably assume that the natural way of our mind is to try and figure out what is worth pursuing and what isn't and with that how we can do those things in the most efficient way.
Honestly same I’m 29 and I feel like a pos when I play games
"Something to do with my prefrontal cortex finally developing" . Okay you go ahead and call people who enjoy "wasting" their time with different hobbies like gaming whatever you like, and use fancy words to try and sound smarter all you want. I don't envy or want to be like you one bit. I'd absolutely fucking hate being so shallow that I spend every fucking second of my life thinking of nothing but how to stuff my pockets with more money. You don't need much to live comfortably and the rest you ain't taking to the grave regardless. I sure as hell ain't gonna work my ass off and sacrifice my life away to some higher up, cocky punk who wants to develop his business further and add to his stash of billions.
Dude, this has been happening to me recently. I have so many games in my library, but I don't feel like playing them anymore. I am downloading old games and playing them again
Installed and uninstalled all classic assassins creed games yesterday 💔🇮🇳🙏. I was utterly frustrated, almost sad seeing and realising just how the series has shaped up. Why cant we have both the new tech / visuals AND epic stories, legendary characters, excellent dialogues????
I mean, the earlier games were great for the time, but they don't really hold up well, for the most part. Choppy story bits, waxy character models, bad lip syncing, incredibly repetitive gameplay with the usual ubisoft collectibles map.
Black Myth Wukong is giving me that feeling of old games. Just a fun game at its core, and brings you back wanting more everyday
44 year old here; very insightful video sir! Glad the algorithm suggested it, and I look forward to watching more of your content.
If I can weigh in as an old man, I agree that (new) games stopped being fun for me once I was about to finish college and was looking down the barrel of adult life. This was 2003. I wouldn't truly get back into gaming until Christmas 2015, when I was gifted a PS4. It's good to be back!
That said, I have NEVER played online and suggest others do the same. I know this sounds weird, but it will help you be in control of when/how you play and will help regulate your enjoyment.
Randomly saw this is my feed today. Very healing in a way! Thank you so much! I simply just needed a reminder on all of these things is all. I hope you all have a lovely day if you haven't already
Thank you for this video. I am at 04:45, and I am thankful for you. Thank you being honest, clear and disciplined to tell these things, which I do resonate with. You are talking from the bottom of my heart! ☺️🙏
I think one thing is that games are not what we thought they would be by now when we were children. Graphics have became the main focus in AAA games. Instead of a totally immersive sim.
30 secs in and I already got goosebumps from hearing Destiny. This is too relatable. That game has brought so many priceless memories and countless hours of fun but it's undoubtedly become like a medication with some serious side effects. That's the thing about many games nowadays, especially the live service ones. Games are no longer an experience to complement your life, like any other hobby. They are now being designed to BE your life.
If someone is looking for a new fresh game series to play, I always recommend them Yakuza/Like A Dragon games. Those are extremely fun and immersive beat em up/turn based games with lots of fun side content, I've been in love with Yakuza around a year now with no sign of burnout
Ah Yakuza what a series
Only dipped my feet once. I love sword&board hack 'n slash mainly, but I could see the appeal. I knew if I allowed myself to get immersed I would be playing Yakuza games for a month (there are so many!) I'll probably have an uncontrollable urge to play them the second they leave Game Pass. I keep wondering if continuity is important with the series, or can I just jump in any game and not be lost?
@@ThaGrimbler You can play any Yakuza game and not get lost for the most part but some of the games are connected to each other more than others. You can play games like Yakuza 0, Kiwami, Kiwami 2 (remakes of the ps2 Yakuza games, hence "Kiwami") and 3 (althought I don't recommend starting with 3 because it has some issues) without playing other games but Yakuza 4 for example is connected to the first game's ending and 5, 6 and Gaiden are heavily connected to each other. I don't know what you think about turn based games but Yakuza: Like A Dragon is also a very good starting point because it introduces a new protagonist.
Shortly, 0, Kiwami, Kiwami 2, 3 and Yakuza: Like A Dragon are for the most part standalone experiences with some connections to each other but 4, 5, 6, Gaiden and Infinite Wealth are better if you play previous games first
@@literallysnake Thanks for the great response! In your honor, my next created character in an RPG will have a serpentine name.
As a seasoned Destiny player with a decade of experience, I was pleased to see your reference to the game. I discovered your video while searching for engaging games to play and to complete some of my backlog. Given the recent negative sentiment surrounding Destiny 2, and as a content creator myself, I have been contemplating whether to continue producing Destiny-related content when I find it challenging to even launch the game. This led me to question my overall enjoyment of gaming and how I managed to play Destiny religiously for 10 years without exploring other titles. I am considering expanding my horizons to other games, potentially finding a niche and becoming a versatile gaming content creator. While I have numerous questions on my mind, I am grateful that content creation is not my primary source of income and livelihood.
I am delighted to have come across your video, as the points you raised are truly valuable. I recognize that working from home requires a conscious effort to step outside and engage in diverse hobbies, such as joining a gym. These are activities that I have considered pursuing. Additionally, I have a strong affinity for traveling, sunshine, and tropical beaches. Your video profoundly resonates with me, and it feels as though you were addressing me directly as a friend. I express my gratitude for creating this video and have both liked and subscribed to your channel.
Games dont wow me anymore. They dont transport me into a different world anymore. I dont have that feeling when I couldnt wait to get home to play a specific game. Im 32 now with a wife and two children. I think its just due to age.
I'm 35 and have been bitching like this since 30. It's a bit of age, for sure, but it's also that games became about agendas as opposed to being fun. They purposefully make things take longer so there's a longer clock on the content. They constantly release unfinished games and then fix them 2 years later, CP2077, etc etc. It's become less about a small community of gamers making fun games, and more about conglomerate companies making massively expensive project cash-cow games. I'm certain some programmers take pride still, but lots just can't because it's a job/project. They're there for the pay cheque, not passion.
Yep...
This is exactly what is happening to me nowadays. Surprised that I am not alone who is going through this. This is spot on.
0:25 hit too hard💀
You just opend my eyes about this. Thank you!!!
Im 35 now, and i got a feeling like the conversations between characters in modern games is simple, inmature or childish. hard to enjoy for me. Now I enjoy a different kind of media than i used when i was a child. Thats my experience.
Big facts
The first 50 seconds of the video are exactly how i feel. Exactly. Glad i'm not the only one.
The minute it's not fun, just do something else. visit a museum, take a nap, solve some math problems, study history. There are so many other things you could do when you're not feeling like playing a game. it's normal.
For me starting a gaming channel has really helped, makes you play games in a way you didnt before
very true
HOW TO ENJOY GAMES AGAIN
1. Turn off Twitter completely
Thats literally all you need to do
Honestly, UA-cam too. I know I personally should do it, but just can't, haha.
@Miraihi I’ve been thinking about it more too. Its just nothing but negative video essays now about how everything sucks
Thank you for the video 😊. I find that my involvement and engagement in games are great when I've been proactive in my life, whether that's tidying my house, working out, having a walk. It makes gaming feel enjoyable.
*Generic advice, lol. Maybe it doesn't relate to me since I don't have kids and I don't have a normal 9 to 5 job, I work 2-3 days a week so I'm able to game almost every day. I guess I'm blessed 🤷♂️*
Well done I guess
How your able to only to work 2 to 3 days a week?
@@bozzbozz2800 *I'm a full time musician.*
Of course the advice isn’t gonna seem useful to you your situation is clearly very different from most of the people who actually took something away from the video, most being people who DO have other obligations like family, significant others, and work life. Even if it may not relate to you now doesn’t mean you’ll always be in the same spot to be able to enjoy such luxuries. And if this is all just generic advice and not useful to you then why did you even watch the video? It’s clearly not meant for you
@@bozzbozz2800 *Full time musician*
Another dimension that is not talked about enough is the very real chance of reflexes simply getting slower as we get older. This is especially true for people really into sports (football, boxing, hockey) and other high-impact hobbies and activities (skiing, racing) and high-impact career paths (military, law enforcement, pro sports) which can lead to minor or significant changes in brain function - even just simple concussions or repeated impacts can cause some logistical changes in brain activity that can simply change the aptitude for certain types of games. Speaking of my own experience, I was a very top-tier FPS shooter for years in high-school and after a random sledding accident in my senior year and subsequent consequences of severe concussion- my gaming reflexes really slowed down instantly - and never fully recovered even after my recovery from the concussion itself. My reflexes have never been the same in fps competitive games since that one incident. Most folks may not have a severe injury from a momentous incident but over time may have very minor concussions and head impacts which simply slow down net reflexes over time. The effects of this can be reversed to a significant degree by sheer practice and retraining your brain to heal or adapt. Eventually though- loss of reflexes is likely to happen to everyone eventually - but don't quit gaming entirely - but refocus on trying new types of games to play. I have since become a huge fan of turn-based games, deckbuilders, 4x strategy, and absolutely love these games now. High-school me would have considered turn-based games somewhat boring compared to my FPS favorites- but my mind has compensated some of my lost reflexes with increased strategy aptitude and that is equally satisfying if not more than being #1 on the Counterstrike team. If YOU change as a person, try some new kinds of games that maybe you dismissed or assumed you might not be good at. Thinky games might just have the complexity your mind is craving that simply isn't there in most FPS games.
Unpopular opinion: if you’re a grown adult and video games don’t “feel the same” anymore, it’s probably time to find the alternate hobbies to spend time in
there’s a reason that’s an unpopular opinion and it has something to do with for the most part age doesn’t inherently affect a hobby that you find interesting or enjoy.
@@Exiled7 the thing is when you grow older, like in many societies, naturally you're going to have more responsibilities, not less, especially with kids and a family to take care of like many do; so organically, games is going to mean something a lot different to your older self versus your younger self (for example, as you gotten older perhaps you might enjoyed more playing games with friends or your kids than playing by yourself, etc.). Your reasoning presupposed that playing video games meant/feels the same for all people across time, that's simply not true. If you've personally got the time and had found a way to spark that exciting feeling for a video game again like you were as a kid, that's fine. But not everybody should feel the need to rekindle that passion for video games like they were as kids, there are depths to life.
Good video though 👍thanks for that, and thanks for your input
Trophy hunting reignited my passion for gaming, I've platinum'd 16 titles in the past 7 months and I gotta say, doin this made me realize how much I was missing out on, even on games I've already beat. It's also helped me find more games to play so I don't think I'll be stopping anytime soon. Turns out my favorite genre is survival horror, who fucking knew
Instructions unclear…bright side is i go outside more, downside is i don’t get along with people in this new doomsday cult i joined.
You are absolutely correct about the excess amount of negative gaming content on UA-cam, it really kills your mood and some people are WAY too negative about everything
get a wife, get a a kid, g to work, give attention to wife, kid after work, then, clean the house, pay the bills, and after all that, believe me, you will enjoy almost any game that is ahead of you and in any game system (PC, consoles, retro gaming devices, rpg books...). That is all there is to it. Have a rich life.
yea that advice would work if you’re in your 30s/40s
that's a load of BS, at the end of the day I'm so tired all I can do is lay down, watch a movie and fall asleep, gaming seems like too much work...
This resonates 100% with me! My mind always goes to productivity mode and prevents me enjoying games. I'd rather watch a video about games.
It's just not fulfilling. It's not real. It's a screen. Sure it can be fun for a bit and even nostalgic. But after a bit you'll feel the same way again. You'll value human experiences and relationships more.
But Astro bot
Love this. Thoughtful and relatable. I took up running to balance out my hours of screen time i so enjoy. Progressed to ultramarathons. Point is, you might find a new passion (or even obsession) when you "touch grass"! And games will always be there when you get back
I'll tell you how! Games need to stop being woke and shoving political correctness and all that other crap down the geek's face! That's how we'll start enjoying games again.
negativity man, negativity man.
I can't go one video without you mfs saying this goofy stuff. Stop shoving your agenda here. There are tons of different games out there which have been "woke" since years ago. And give examples.
Also you're subbed to a channel called "Alpha Male". Chill.
I can't go one video without you mfs saying this goofy stuff. Stop shoving your agenda. There are tons of different games out there which have been "woke" since years ago. Give me some examples.
Also you're subbed to a channel called "Alpha Male". Chill out.
I can't go one video without you mfs saying this goofy stuff. Stop shoving your agenda. There are tons of different games out there which have been "woke" since years ago. Give me some examples of pc.
Also you're subbed to a channel called "Alpha Male". Chill out.
I can't go one video without you mfs saying this goofy stuff. Stop shoving your agenda. There are tons of different games out there which have been "woke" since years ago. Give me some examples of pc.
Also you're subbed to a channel called "Alpha Male". Chill out.
thank you for this video. i was literarily feeling the "contemplation" and decided to go on yt and here we are haha. i think the advice is great. its kind of advice that everyone knows of, but forgets. sometimes helpful reminders in things like this is perfect!
I’ve had the exact same feeling, it’s brought me to games like metal gear rising revengance and asuras wrath, theyre making me remember why I loved playing games again
Wow, this was such an amazing video, everything is spot on
I saw a lot of negativisme about dragon age the veilgard.. and gess what.. i am going to give it a chance, because of your video! Nice one bro
I did a lot of things that you recommended. A month ago I came back from my year abroad where I travelled, met lots of people, went to the gym and never really played games until I couldn't wait any longer. All of this didn't help and I am convinced that for me gaming is a way better experience than all of the real life activities you mentioned. I am having so much fun with gaming that I am considering to quit sport. Maybe the long break made gaming more enjoyable but I think the main problem is that many modern games aren't as fun as the older ones. Right now I am having the time of my life with games.
if it works for you then it works for you. However I don't think you're the person this is aimed towards. If you're already enjoying games then it makes the video redundant for you.
Excellent video.
For me, there are two other reasons I want to mention:
- not getting over the last game you've played because of its deep impact (emotionally mostly) and how good it was. In my case, The Last of Us Part I
- consuming too much video game content. For example, I make exercise videos at home and I listen in the background videos about games. It makes me feel overwhelmed.
Steam Deck made me fall in Love with Gaming again, can play my Steam Library and emulate older titles on the go.
For me the ignorance is bliss card is what helped me. I came off social media X and that and went blind in. To a title or genre having no idea about who made it and reviews and just that element of oh that was fun or didn’t expect that. Rather than hearing reviews and stuff. For me it’s the element of surprise like it did as a kid that element of surprise and immersion feeling like it’s your journey or your exclusive experience kinda thing.
Jeeze I had no idea other people had this issue too!
I recently got a PS5, absolutely smashed Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart…
Since then I’ve been trying to find new games to play, some I’ve dumped 30h into and then wake up one day not having any motivation to even open it!