>thousands of games on dozens of consoles and operating systems available on a single press of a button
>yet he spends all day on Zig Forums reading same threads posted every day being bored out of his mind
How y'all holding up?
Did pandemic and ""self-isolation"" changed this feel to something better or worse?
Tired gamer general
Achievements ruined me, I find that I check them on every boot-up of a game now to give myself a determined 'path' when playing the game. I want to go back when games were just fun, and you played 'just because'.
Just try playing a game without worrying about the achievements. I had the same issue and got over it, helped make games fun again for me.
Try replaying older games that you've already completed. There's nothing for you to achieve there so you'll have no choice but to have fun.
Honestly, the best game I've played recently is Trials of Mana. I actually loved the entire game, didn't even look at the achievements and enjoyed it thoroughly.
I think it might just be how AAA games have become the same thing. They're all over-advertised, and it feels like lesser known games are better because of it.
>regular games no longer fun
>have to play hyper competitive freeware trash like LoL or CSGO to get even the faintest hit of dopamine
>spend majority of time doing well, yet always salty. Wins mean nothing, losses leave me angry and frustrated.
>spend all day queuing games back to back to back for hours on end.
>always leave feeling unsatisfied
>Did pandemic and ""self-isolation"" changed this feel to something better or worse?
I thought it was going to be a great time to catch up on my backlog but all I've done is obliterate my sleep schedule and feel the hours crawl by.
I'm borderline depressed at the realization of just how much of my life was work.
>see shrink, get ur anti depressants and needed therapy
>get job
>feel purposeful, lose weight
>find gf
>be happy
>still be gaymin
>winner is u
i haven't played anything in 5 days
i was busy moving today and yesterday tho
I was like this until last week. Massive backlog of new games I never touched. But then I installed Yakuza 0 and goddamn I love that game and have lots more to go through now
>tfw no pixie to swallow alive
>feel purposeful
I have everything on that list, except this part. How do I get this part?
Lifelong piracy has steered me clear of this shit. Also, I can't enjoy ganes with other people. Tried GTAO last week with my mate after years of him telling me to buy it. Hated it, much prefer single player.
I'm about to play Hitman 2, I tried to start it last night but I was drunk and played sloppy, but this time I'm ready.
>always loved EBF and wanted to love the games that inspired it
>could never get into them
am I just too old for the magic to work
besides EBFs, Grandia II is literally the only JRPG I can recall genuinely enjoying
find a fun job that doesn't make you feel dead inside, I quit my bankshit in order to do electrician.
I would recommend picking one game and stick to it until you beat it.
failing that, just get a job that requires 0 effort and high pay and least amount of hours possible, meaning you have a lot of free time.
Also go to dance parties or social shit where u meet fun ppl, dont just game all day. The people that are heavily into gaming are almost always cancerous retards and not fun to hang out with. See: Zig Forums
I never do this on the first play through, sounds like a great way to ruin your fun.
I only try getting all achievements for games I really love and want a reason to play them again.
>I'm borderline depressed at the realization of just how much of my life was work.
I felt like that when I'd take my 2 week vacations at my previous job but I realized that at 22 and I'm 27 now. I'm attempting to learn music and possibly something else.
This, man. Thank God there is someone else out there. I cannot play games with achievements/trophies anymore. I hate it.
Haven’t really been motivated to play anything recently but decided to load up Euro Truck 2 the other day and it’s a comfy timesink
Souls really changed vidya for me. It's like it taught me how to play and enjoy video games. Even now, just remembering all the fun I had with those games makes me wanna load something up and approach it with the same mindset. it's hard to explain, but it kinda comes down to just playing the game and not caring about actually beating it.
I'm not that user but I used to be an achievement whore back when I was a teenager and played on 360. Fucking hated it. I started playing games without bothering with achievements and instead just had fun. Don't use achievements as an incentive to play video games. It's certainly fine to play video games that have achievements but just don't worry about them because they don't mean anything.
>only console i ever owned was the gc
>around 2005 get into pc games
>fast forward 15 years
>nothing is fun, nothing is good, im tired of playing the same old ''competitive games'' and everything else is just shit
>on the whim during this quarentine buy a switch and some random games
>finally enjoying video games again
Its been fun but i dont think ill ever return to pc gaming, i think the switch will be my last ever console, like some final hurrah
After watching the Astartes series I decided to reinstall Space Marine again.
However, there were a couple of mods I had to find like the "Golden Armor" for Titus and his boys and a couple of gun modifiers, but I'm enjoying the game immensely.
I'm not an achievement whore, nor do I even want them. But there's something about the fact that I'm locked to an account system that is tracking 50-100 stupid milestones throughout my first playthrough of every game, recording the exact order, time and date in which I did everything, that is hard for me to ignore. It carries this implication of significance, and I find it hard not to avoid getting certain trophies before or after others and other stupid crap like that. The fact that there's no way to opt out of it also just makes me angry and makes it even harder to ignore that they're there. It's such an unnecessary thing and only there to jew users in to buying and playing more games on their shitty system. I don't want all this extra fucking gay metadata associated with my entire game library that I can't get rid of on a whim without forfeiting all of my paid digital content along with it. This is why I prefer playing games on the Switch, where if I delete my save it's as if I never touched the game. There isn't this imposition of this overarching thought management that pretends to be a feature but is really just psychological usury.
playing gears tactics, the 19th wasteland 3 after that i still wanna finish lobotomy corp and it's newly release sequel and by then it's prolly time for either vtm:b2 or cyberpunk. i'm still very entertained
>tired gamer general
That's a whole lot of overthinking on things that don't matter. I've enjoyed the fuck out of games without getting all trophies/achievements. I've played the Soulsborne games for over 2000 hours easily without worry about getting all trophies/achievements. I've played Monster Hunter World without worrying about getting all the achievements. You're looking at it like you "have" to do when you don't. You're not inferior to other people if you don't go for all achievements. You're not less of a person. I couldn't give a shit what game a system is on, I'll play what I want to play without limiting myself based on something as minuscule and insignificant as achievements.
>TFW you're 8 inches long and will never get to fuck a fairy
why even live?
I'm tired of consooming because I have no personality of my own. Everything that defines me was created by someone else. I want to create, but I'm 31 and I've never put any effort into learning how. Every moment I spend playing vidya since this revelation makes me feel anxious and guilty, but it feels like if I try to better myself and become a creator instead of a consoomer, I'll be at a permanent disadvantage because I started so late, and nobody will ever care about anything I make.
achievements are a quick and easy way for developers to see how people are playing their games. autists just turned them into some obsessive-compulsive thing for themselves.
dunno if it counts but
>after work either play multiplayer games, browse the internet or fap
>think about all the singleplayer games I want to finish
>still end up playing multiplayer games
dunno if I should just give up the idea of finishing my backlog, and continue playing said MP games
>I'll be at a permanent disadvantage because I started so late, and nobody will ever care about anything I make.
I can't say it's never too late because I'm 27 and I feel pretty much the exact same way. However, I've been learning how to play guitar for the past month regardless. I'm not concerned whether or not people will care about what I end up making if I get that far even though it would be nice but I want to create something for myself. Creating for other people will probably never satisfy you anyways. People are always going to find some way to hate what you make.You just gotta make what you want for yourself and don't rely on others. You can certainly ask for help when you don't understand something since that's perfectly fine and you shouldn't try to carry everything on your shoulders but don't lean too heavily on others and try to find something that makes you you.
>TFW you trained hard and got stronger, but there is no adventure or antagonist to fight