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I started liking games again by going back to long open world games

Yup. That’s me. I have to have games where it doesn’t rely on you logging on for a few hours a night, every night…. yeah sorry not gonna happen with a wife who doesn’t like video games and a 2 year old to entertain.

To be honest with you, I think a lot of it is just a factor of adulthood.

Between work and life, I don't have the energy to start a new game, even though I daydream about playing video games all the time.

Yes but that chore stuff used to be fun for me.

I’d play morrowind for hours and hours in college. Now if I try to play an RPG, I don’t have the patience and it’s a boring chore like you said.

Getting old is strange. I keep trying to go to house or techno shows in the basement of restaurants or other weird places, convinced it'll be a great time because I used to enjoy it. My knees hurt and I'd rather be home most of the time. It's okay for things to have a beginning, middle, and end. Also, not to be nitpicky but just because I think it's a fun word: it's "baubles"

What is zoomer bait crap?

One of the worst most infuriating games I played the last 2 years is one of the biggest hits of that period : elden ring.

What a total pile of horse shit that is. Nothing is explained, it's just a pile of numbers called stats. What they do? Fuck you. Where do I have to go? Fuck you. How do I win from this and that boss? Fuck you. Total unplayable garbage.

Untill you give in and open one of the fan made guides. Then it all comes together. Then it makes sense. But the game doesn't explain shit. From software couldn't be bothered.

With a guide it's one of the most fun games. Left on its own, without any sort of explanation it's garbage.

And don't get me started on diablo 4, what a load of house crap is that. It's so very boring. Again nothing is explained because fuck you, blizzivision just wants your money. But here it doesn't matter because you're so very overpowered on level 1/2 you can win anything and everything. Want it less easy? Fuck you, first complete the campaign. Then you can do it again and again.

From my pov old school Zoomer shit is where its at. This modern bullshit is just that: bullshit.

There is Something about a simple two hour game about a guy and his girlfriend getting stuck in the woods fending off the mothman.

Recently been just playing cozy games I used to scoff at. So much I've not only played more games this summer than the last few year but felt great joy actually finishing a game. Sometimes short and sweet is best.

Honestly I've always hated any online coop / multiplayer game unless it had a significant single player aspect to it.

Multiplayer games are more like work, they aren't just for enjoyment.

I stopped playing online competitive games a while back, the last ones were overwatch (1) and dota. Now I almost only play solo games and I have a lot of fun. Currently 110+ hours in TOTK and I'm far from done with it. It's a category that's far from dead and there are any flavor that could fit your tastes.

The only online game I keep playing is MK8D because frustration never last long and there's no ELO ranking to be obsessed with. Also Splatoon once in a while.

I play val exclusively socially. Grab a couple friends and play a couple spike rushes or swift plays. Just hope on to chat to strangers in VC basically.

This is why I play mostly single player and games that have private servers that you can self host

Games haven't been truly good for a long time

Meanwhile, here I am loving gaming and thinking we're in a golden age of gaming compared to my youth...

Or just engage in moderation like every other medium, it's weird to me that playing videogames is automatically supposed to be a "hobby" but the same doesn't apply to watching movies or reading books or whatever.

Couldn't agree more. And even thought I hardly play games anymore, that actually makes them all the more special when I'm excited about a game and play it. It's rare nowadays, but games like celeste or a short hike were really wonderful. Other than gems that really speak to you though, you really should find another hobby.

Okay, now try again with alcohol.

My time is currently split between Battlebit and Baldurs Gate 3. I've been having a blast with both!

Yup, same. I just need like a 3-12 month break every once in a while.

Its not your age, it's the games you're playing. There's a ton of great games out right now, but if you're playing the same kinds of games you've always played, maybe you've outgrown them. You could be frustrated with their mechanics, or think their progression isn't as good as the old games, maybe you cant see as well or grind as hard as these twelve year olds on adderall, whatever it may be.

Try playing games you enjoyed before. You'll probably still like them. Branch out into different genres, even if it's something you don't know if you'll like or not. I don't care for top down games, but gave Hades a try and absolutely loved it. Maybe try to play remakes/remasters/new takes on old games. The REmakes for Resident Evil (particularly 2&4, I liked 3 but it gets a lot of deserved hate), and even the continuation of the RE franchise in Biohazard and Village are fun and scary. Just some recommendations. :)

You're getting older unfortunately. I've been watching this happen among my friends for a long while now. They all slowly grow up and leave gaming behind replacing it with other hobbies or interests. Your free time becomes more limited the older you get and the more responsibilities you aquire in life (career, spouse, children, etc.). I'm one of the last hold outs from my childhood friend group, and even I'm slowly starting to lose interest in gaming. I don't think I'll ever give it up entirely, but it definitely doesn't hold the same appeal for me that it once had.

They don't have the same punch but there are games that will bring that excitement back.

I would argue it's a side effect of getting older.

Not that you're growing out of games, but moreso that you're spending more time working, and doing other life related things that gaming no longer feels productive of fun.

I'm working full time and take online classes, but I really love gaming still, I've just had to find games that respect my time, since my time is so precious to me right now.

I've grown to loath multiplayer match-based games because it's the same thing over and over again with nothing to show for it, while things like DOOM, Skyrim, Dishonored, older assassins creed games, and various indie titles are all quick, fun, to the point and offer good stories that I enjoy.

I just can't deal with round after round after round of the same thing. Or an MMO where it's just "Do this for hours and hours to grind out this skill and that skill"

Like I want to play the game, not click 30,000 times.

I'm over 40 and finding wands in Noita fills me with joy.

"So, this one homes on enemies, has triple cast and delayed explosions... Hmmm, but what does orbital and bouncy do together?"

shoots near beehive*

Entire screen explodes

And I just restart the game with a grin. I feel like that game made what actual magic would be. Starting the game by silently teaching us about the dangers of fire was a stroke of genius. It's always fire with magic, just weirder, bigger and wilder types of fire, and both me and my enemies don't command it, we simply live in a world with it. Nothing but a video game could make me experience this. Nothing but a video game could generate near endless amounts of endlessly unlearnable amounts of raging wildfires to be amused by.

Definetly the second one.

The classics are the best. 🕹️

There's nothing really "new" anymore, at least not mechanics-wise. Sure, graphics have become pretty good looking. But it's all still the same RPGs, first person shooters, and other shit from the 90s. When I see modern FPSs, I'm still seeing Wolfenstein 3D from 1992. Not a damn thing has changed.

Microtransactions are killing, or have killed if you're cynical, modern gaming. Whether you have disposable income or not, it is viscerally tedius to try to escape into a game just to be pestered to use real money. I play games to avoid our capitalist exploitation dystopia, not further engage with it.

I've largely abandoned live games for this reason. I used to be good at online FPS, but it just isn't worth the "buy this skin or you suck" every single login bullshit. I've been modding the Bethesda games and there's really no getting bored of those world's with constant new enthusiast content.

Probably both. A lot of games really do suck ass. CoD is just comically bad in so many ways.

There's some cool stuff out there, though. battlebit is aces, better than any CoD or Battlefield in years. Hunt Showdown is unqiue and cool. Darktide is an awesome horde shooter. Warframe... is warframe. Deep Rock Galactic is fun spacedorf action. Splitgate mixes up old school HALO:CE gameplay with portals that let you pull off cool kills or radically change the movement rountes across the map. There's ARMA3 and Reforger if you like milsim, with varyiung levels of milsimminess from "Sir yes sir" tryhards to people who just try to use basic infantry tactics and cooperate. There's apparently a huge star wars mod scene right now.

It's both. The 90s are never coming back, and you'll never be however-old-you-were-during-the-90s.

I think I've been feeling this lately. I've always been a huge fan of semi-RPGs and open world games, but there really haven't been many great ones in a long time (tried Elden Ring, needs difficulty slider).

I'm realizing I should probably branch out into something new, but I don't even know where to start. I don't tend to care for turn-based games, and fighting games aren't my thing because of how long it can take to get decent at them.

Anyone have any recommendations for games that you don't have to invest too much time into to really enjoy? I just don't have the time in my life for a crazy investment and focus in a game.

Between the worsening monetization and the endless reboot bullshit (where older games are sort of erased by directly reusing their names) I am no longer interested in TRIPLE AYYYY games.

Take a break, try something different.

Playing on easy instead of challenging yourself just go get through it is making the games worse for you in my opinion. Edit: This was a bit heavy handed, easy mode is fine I just meant to suggest harder difficulties

Weirdly I enjoy playing most games on hard or higher despite not having a ton of time. A level a day, of even every other day is fine. The game can wait for me especially in single player.

Do you have any recommendations of good engineering games ?

but eventually pick it back up again when the right thing comes along.

And when the time is right in your life; which is what people really don't understand until they experience it.

Yeah, same. I'll go months without reading and then consume 40 books in a month before taking another break. Same with video games. #adhd is real for me, always.

Get Disco Elysium if you haven't already.

I try not to think of having a “thing” to show others when judging how I’ve spent my time.

If it makes your life more enjoyable, it is generally a good use of your time IMO.

If you can't justify having something you enjoy by saying "it's not anything I can physically show some achievement for" are you sure you're doing it/quitting it for the right reasons?

I read for pleasure sometimes, it's usually not anything I can talk to anyone about since it's usually older scifi, but I wouldn't consider that a "waste of time."

Also, if you tell anyone in the age bracket of 25-35 that you beat Halo 2: LASO they'll know youve been in the trenches, it's not necessarily all for nothing if you have people that share the hobby.

We all die alone. Doesn't really matter how you get there. If you can amuse yourself while you wait for death that's usually preferable to the alternative.

I know every surface texture and midi file of Majora's Mask.

That's the old 3D Zelda with the blurry textures, right?

I'm currently stressing myself out taking time to test mods for skyrim since enabling them all crashes the game so I have to slowly enable them, test, enable some more and repeat

Like a steam deck?

Sorry, I have ADHD. You can keep your cardboard agony simulators, just don't ask me to play them.

I just take a few minutes testing the different buttons.

Same for me! I love chess, have been playing for 10 years. Now, not just casually. Good luck!

I gravitated toward pen & paper rpgs. I don't get to play as much as I'd like to, but when I do it feels great to play whoever I want and to do whatever I can come up with, with my friends.

And after listening to the "Sounds Like Crowes"-podcast, even RDR2 feels shallow and limited to me. So if I play something on my computer, it's some quick 15 minutes of Brutal Doom or some arcadish indie fun.

It sucks that quake only lives through QC, QC is such a garbage game. The client is half assed. The entire game is still in early access. The movement and shooting mechanics are fine but I hate champions and abilities 0/10

They suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck I love stunting on people with the stupidest loadouts in CoD, Going 20:1 in CoD by just holding a hallway with stabilized machine gun never stops being funny. Eventually the SBMM will boot me up to sweatlord territory but until then just using basic infantry tactics and pieing corners for kills while people flop around like neurotoxin poisoned trouts trying to be cool movement shooter dudes is hilarious. When I learned you could cook grenades with extreme precision I did nothing but airburst grenades in people's faces for like two days.

Try Hunt Showdown if you want something really different. It's all old school cowboy guns, and two hits to the upper chest kills with any weapon within it's effective range except bows, shotguns, and the elephant gun. It gives fights a very different pacing. It's PvPvE with twelve players in teams of 1-3 competing to track down a boss monster, kill it, then extract with the bounty before someone else guns them down> The game is brilliantly constructed so that players organically move towards each other as they progress through each hunt. Instead of a big death circle forcing people together players want to do things that lead them towards one another, and hte result is that you know peolple are coming, but you never quite know from where. It has the best positional audio in gaming - You can hear every gunshot from anywhere in the 1kmx1km maps, you can tell roughly what kind of gun it was, whether it was inside or outside, and almost precisely what direction it was from. Which means every time you want to shoot you're telling the whole map where you are. Managing how much noise you make is a huge aspect of the game that is one of the first skill floors new players have to climb to.

Nearly an empty nester, I got back into it with diablo and am surprised it's not affected my marriage. She'll just sit next to me and do her thing on phone/tablet.

I've jumped on the switch train lately coming from PC & Ps4, play PC every once in a while but it's been switch since my Ps4 yearly sub expired. Playing newer games was getting a little expensive so just dropped back to playing games I can only get on discount except for big games like Zelda.

Jsut give me your address and I'll personally attack you (nothing personal tho)

BTD6?

That game is so addicting...

AAA titles are mostly re-optomized towards selling you more of the game, by withholding that game's content and reselling it for more than they would've gotten.

This is partly a side effect of game value being mostly stagnant for years but also just greed in general.

Indie games have been a huge boon for me due to that, no bullshit, just a game; a fun game.

Literally, indie titles and games made by smaller companies (AA titles like Dishonored) have been the most fun for me to date.