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
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.
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
I feel like the older people get, the more they tend to prefer to watch others do things rather than do them themselves.
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.
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 feel like my steam library is just an ode to all the game streams I’ve watched.
My manager talked me into buying Diablo IV since I was into DnD.
I don’t know why people play games that require grinding when there are so many better options.
Diablo is cancer tbh. Mindless grinding, zero skill. The only challenge is creating a nice build but that requires grinding and anyone can copy it from a YouTuber and learn to use it in a few minutes.
I remember when grinding diablo was something you did because you liked killing endless hordes of monsters. It wasn’t because the game told you to do it.
Also crazy being a fan of 1 and 2 when they were new and having fans of 3 and 4 telling you this and that were always part of the series, clearly showing they have only ever played Diablo 3 and 4 because they’re always things that were first introduced in 3 and were the things that fans prior to 3 criticized when it came out.
Why? KINGMAKER AND BALDURS GATE ARE RIGHT THERE DUDE
I enjoy Diablo. What are some better alternatives? Diablo 4 is my first rpg
@Pavr @nandeEbisu, a nice alternative of Diablo is Eternium, free to play (not pay to win, only options to buy cosmetic parts in the game menu, not needed for advantages in the game), for PC (mouse and keyboard) and optimized also for mobile and tablets with Touchscreen (gestics). Advances are synced between PC and Mobile. Singleplayer.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/981600/Eternium/
And also in the Appstore in Android
https://www.eterniumgame.comGrim dawn is worth checking out.
I highly recommend Last Epoch!
I feel you, fellow player. That, plus kids…
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
Finally get home from work and get a chance to play Zelda TotK! —Start falling asleep while playing…
Then try to figure out wtf I was doing the next time I start up the game
watching gaming streams is a good solution
I’m like this with League. I can’t stand playing sometimes but I still enjoy watching
Y’all are allowed to only do things you enjoy. You know that right? …right?
Spotted the trust fund baby.
I relate to this too much … I’ll play through my library eventually
Right??
I hope steam’s still going strong when I retire.
Yeha sure… Why not.
Me when a game is longer than 30 hours or not a FromSoft title
Can we have antiwork back
I fired up Dragon Age: Origins today to scratch the itch (I swore I had it somewhere but couldn’t find it) and in a blink of an eye I had already played for four hours straight
And that was enough for me lol I got shit to do and the gaming experience feels different these days. Still enjoyable, though, and god what a throwback
I am replaying Dragon Age: Origins right now also! Same experience for me. I’m trying to watch all dialogue scenes also and let them play out without skipping.
I turn around and a few hours has passed without me even knowing…
Damn. I loved that game so much. I miss old BioWare RPGs.
Finally successful enough to buy systems, buy every system, never play anything.
Im on lunch with my deck sitting next to me in it’s bag. I just don’t have the energy anymore after work. Hell part of it is every time I get into a game I have to stop to let my dogs out or in and then that steals enjoyment as now I’m watching and waiting for them instead of being immersed. It sucks.
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.
Accepting that basic bitch games are actually great helped me a lot. They’re fun and have shitloads of people playing them for a reason. Looking at you Fortnite and Diablo 4.
Also line up your installed game icons in the order they should be played in on the desktop helped a lot. If I’m not sure what to play I load whatever is furthest on the left. First row is single player games. Second row is multiplayer games.
It’s currently Dave the Diver, Diablo 4, and Osu! is permainstalled these days.
Hardspace Shipbreaker is hella relaxing if you play it on untimed mode, btw.
