I relate hard. Multiple times before, I’ve spent hours and hours scouring the internet for a download link to a game, or even a tool or library needed to make it work. I’ll open the folder at 99%, ready to install 0.05 seconds after it’s downloaded. I’ll launch the game just to make sure it runs okay on my system, then give it a little whirl, and even then, it’s rare I’ll ever see beyond the tutorial, if that.
I hear you. Still love gaming but relationship with it has evolved as I got older. Too many responsibilities to have all day game days anymore. When I have an hour or two I feel like it’s not enough to really enjoy my time and half the time I don’t even bother to start. Plus all the games I think I really want to play are either unreleased or unfinished messes when they are, so I don’t even buy them.
Am i getting old if i feel the same way, i get really excited to have some time off to finally game only to then realize its really exhausting and i’d rather just watch some series or stream
Nah, I think that starts happening when you first get a job. Jobs take longer than school and generally are more labor intensive, and there’s also the commute, and when you get home you have to do chores and either make healthy food or eat something garbage for your body, and that’s just as a single person or a couple. It’s no wonder everyone’s tired, the 9-5 grind can be really exhausting, and when you’re tired anything that takes effort feels like a grind.
Just to be clear, I don’t mean to sound hopeless. There are things you can do that make life feel meaningful and to allow you to enjoy your time, I just mean that life can be tiring.
Not really that deep, just tired at the end of the day it’s normal stuff really. I can’t game when I get home I need to give my self breather before any of that plus gaming tried is never a fun experience
I can’t game when I get home because I have a partner to emotionally take care of by spending time with her and strengthing our bond. Sure I bitch about it sometimes, but I’m also not 14 anymore and have different priorities.
EDIT: That’s not to say I don’t game, but I have to be a lot more selective and realistic with when and for how long I do it, and that’s fine by me. Relationships are more important than videogaming dopamine hits.
Good to hear but it is a bitch you can’t do everything at once so you have to pick an choose. Lucky I’m not in a relationship so more me time is good time
In the last couple of years I feel like that. Games that require a lot of time to get into, or to complete, feel like not accessible anymore.
I play either those games I used to for I already know them, or something with a very short route to dopamine. I’ve found playing Burnout series not causing me this burnout, kek. Just racing, no long-time investments, just crushing cars and see them fly. A good way to rest after a day of complicated tasks and decisions.
Yeah instead of playing an RTS game I started my own business. Grinding out some turns harvesting puts real gold in your pockets. But the angry villagers can be a problem sometimes.
Idk about you but I’m a dev, and when you have a job tbag keeps your brain ON a lot of the time, I feel like it’s more common to want to turn it off in your down time
I relate hard. Multiple times before, I’ve spent hours and hours scouring the internet for a download link to a game, or even a tool or library needed to make it work. I’ll open the folder at 99%, ready to install 0.05 seconds after it’s downloaded. I’ll launch the game just to make sure it runs okay on my system, then give it a little whirl, and even then, it’s rare I’ll ever see beyond the tutorial, if that.
Nah, life’s exhausting and the older you get the more exhausting it becomes. Work requirements and responsibilities typically increase as you age, children are a black hole of time (as fun as they are), your body just starts to say “fuck this” and give up in creative ways and you just generally have less energy than you did the day before.
Yea there seems to be so much to do that I spend all my time wondering what to do next, only to find that its not that fun and then spending more time traveling to somewhere else
I’m having a lot less fun with totk than I did with botw 😞. It’s like combination of too many quests, too many caves and being forced to build stuff all the time. I just want to climb mountains, glide, find cool weapons and do shrines. I also hate not having the shrine radar like in botw. I feel like I’m roaming blindly and getting 1 shot by enemies all the time
I believe I would have had a better time with Botw if there was a god mode. I just want to explore the world and climb stuff, not having to fight super strong enemies.
I actually do have a set list of stuff that I want to do before beating the game, and getting all the Shrines is on that list. That’s partially why it’s taking so long.
Playing multiplayer games with the bros solved this for me.
Currently we’re playing through a Minecraft modpack and after that we might start playing Battlebit.
Battlebit is a lot of fun, and absolute chaos. But it’s the kinda thing you’ll probably want to switch off of after a few rounds so having minecraft to switch back to is a great balance.
I worked in games for a number of years, so on top of being exhausted coming home, it was near impossible to not fall into work mode when I tried playing games for fun.
Got into making games as a hobby a few years back and it basically made it impossible to play games like I used to. Took a while to separate those parts of my brain.
It definitely takes an active effort to enjoy games when it’s also your work. What worked for me was finding the weird niche stuff that didn’t resemble the stuff I worked on at all. I imagine if you’re a developer that it could also help get the creative juices flowing too.
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I relate hard. Multiple times before, I’ve spent hours and hours scouring the internet for a download link to a game, or even a tool or library needed to make it work. I’ll open the folder at 99%, ready to install 0.05 seconds after it’s downloaded. I’ll launch the game just to make sure it runs okay on my system, then give it a little whirl, and even then, it’s rare I’ll ever see beyond the tutorial, if that.
Me when a game is longer than 30 hours or not a FromSoft title
Haha I agree! Fromsoftware games are among the few that are addictive for me even if I’m tried.
Now I’m stuck in TOTK. I want to complete it so I can move on with other games. (I hate leaving single player games unfinished).
I hear you. Still love gaming but relationship with it has evolved as I got older. Too many responsibilities to have all day game days anymore. When I have an hour or two I feel like it’s not enough to really enjoy my time and half the time I don’t even bother to start. Plus all the games I think I really want to play are either unreleased or unfinished messes when they are, so I don’t even buy them.
Y’all are allowed to only do things you enjoy. You know that right? …right?
Spotted the trust fund baby.
Want to play game, to tired to play
See the problem?
There are games that are suited for being tired and there are games that are not. It’s entirely up to you which one you choose to play
If you’re tried there isn’t any game to play while being tried. Play exhausted isn’t fun or good way to play
I’ve realised there are games I just want to watch cut scenes and know the story now.
Weirdly same here! I used to abhor long cutscenes and now I can’t wait until the next one!
Am i getting old if i feel the same way, i get really excited to have some time off to finally game only to then realize its really exhausting and i’d rather just watch some series or stream
Nah, I think that starts happening when you first get a job. Jobs take longer than school and generally are more labor intensive, and there’s also the commute, and when you get home you have to do chores and either make healthy food or eat something garbage for your body, and that’s just as a single person or a couple. It’s no wonder everyone’s tired, the 9-5 grind can be really exhausting, and when you’re tired anything that takes effort feels like a grind.
Just to be clear, I don’t mean to sound hopeless. There are things you can do that make life feel meaningful and to allow you to enjoy your time, I just mean that life can be tiring.
If you’re completely exhausted after your day it’s possible something deeper is going on
Not really that deep, just tired at the end of the day it’s normal stuff really. I can’t game when I get home I need to give my self breather before any of that plus gaming tried is never a fun experience
I can’t game when I get home because I have a partner to emotionally take care of by spending time with her and strengthing our bond. Sure I bitch about it sometimes, but I’m also not 14 anymore and have different priorities.
EDIT: That’s not to say I don’t game, but I have to be a lot more selective and realistic with when and for how long I do it, and that’s fine by me. Relationships are more important than videogaming dopamine hits.
Good to hear but it is a bitch you can’t do everything at once so you have to pick an choose. Lucky I’m not in a relationship so more me time is good time
In the last couple of years I feel like that. Games that require a lot of time to get into, or to complete, feel like not accessible anymore.
I play either those games I used to for I already know them, or something with a very short route to dopamine. I’ve found playing Burnout series not causing me this burnout, kek. Just racing, no long-time investments, just crushing cars and see them fly. A good way to rest after a day of complicated tasks and decisions.
At some point you recognize the game is just giving you another to-do list.
Yeah instead of playing an RTS game I started my own business. Grinding out some turns harvesting puts real gold in your pockets. But the angry villagers can be a problem sometimes.
Those damn children. Get them their grains!
Idk about you but I’m a dev, and when you have a job tbag keeps your brain ON a lot of the time, I feel like it’s more common to want to turn it off in your down time
Same, there’s no gas in the tank at the end of the day. I problem solve for a living, it’s hard to get into that after work
I feel like the older people get, the more they tend to prefer to watch others do things rather than do them themselves.
I relate hard. Multiple times before, I’ve spent hours and hours scouring the internet for a download link to a game, or even a tool or library needed to make it work. I’ll open the folder at 99%, ready to install 0.05 seconds after it’s downloaded. I’ll launch the game just to make sure it runs okay on my system, then give it a little whirl, and even then, it’s rare I’ll ever see beyond the tutorial, if that.
Nah, life’s exhausting and the older you get the more exhausting it becomes. Work requirements and responsibilities typically increase as you age, children are a black hole of time (as fun as they are), your body just starts to say “fuck this” and give up in creative ways and you just generally have less energy than you did the day before.
This is me trying to finish Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
I have fallen asleep multiple times playing that game. The stable music is perfect if you’re trying to drift off to sleep. Something about that flute…
Yea there seems to be so much to do that I spend all my time wondering what to do next, only to find that its not that fun and then spending more time traveling to somewhere else
I’m having a lot less fun with totk than I did with botw 😞. It’s like combination of too many quests, too many caves and being forced to build stuff all the time. I just want to climb mountains, glide, find cool weapons and do shrines. I also hate not having the shrine radar like in botw. I feel like I’m roaming blindly and getting 1 shot by enemies all the time
I believe I would have had a better time with Botw if there was a god mode. I just want to explore the world and climb stuff, not having to fight super strong enemies.
You can get the shrine radar in TotK
Continue with Robbie’s questline. You get the shrine sensor and more. I loved the purah pad upgrades in totk.
I actually do have a set list of stuff that I want to do before beating the game, and getting all the Shrines is on that list. That’s partially why it’s taking so long.
Playing multiplayer games with the bros solved this for me. Currently we’re playing through a Minecraft modpack and after that we might start playing Battlebit.
Battlebit is a lot of fun, and absolute chaos. But it’s the kinda thing you’ll probably want to switch off of after a few rounds so having minecraft to switch back to is a great balance.
This does help. The bois and I played through Terraria recently and had a blast. Gaming on my own can really drag if it’s not the right title.
watching gaming streams is a good solution
I’m like this with League. I can’t stand playing sometimes but I still enjoy watching
I feel like my steam library is just an ode to all the game streams I’ve watched.
That’s why I’m so glad to WFH, it saves both time and energy.
True, I run both PC and mac all weekdays, some times I game and work simultaneously lol
I am still too tired after a day of WFH
Me too…but at least now I sleep a bit more because I don’t have to commute between home and office…
Ouch
I feel you, fellow player. That, plus kids…
Can’t play tired I need a coffee and a nap to be In good shape to game and even then it’s always mind shut off games no story stuff.
4hour limit is effecting the way I play but oh well I’m still playing the stuff I love and not forcing my self to play so all is good
I worked in games for a number of years, so on top of being exhausted coming home, it was near impossible to not fall into work mode when I tried playing games for fun.
Got into making games as a hobby a few years back and it basically made it impossible to play games like I used to. Took a while to separate those parts of my brain.
It definitely takes an active effort to enjoy games when it’s also your work. What worked for me was finding the weird niche stuff that didn’t resemble the stuff I worked on at all. I imagine if you’re a developer that it could also help get the creative juices flowing too.