Why did you stop playing video games?

Went broke and lost everything.

Honestly vidya isn't doing it for me anymore. I've been a NEET for over a year now and I'm sick of looking at screens, I get no joy from this anymore. It's pure avoidance, because every second I'm not distracted I'm forced to face my empty life. I need to cancel my home internet and downgrade to a dumbphone so I can't distract myself from things anymore.
But I won't.

cause they suck

When I found Zig Forums

this image makes me believe that games like Planescape, Oddworld, Monkey Island, LOOM inherently had soul due to technical limitations, pixel and limited graphics
if there was a 2020 version of that gif it would be a characterless black flatscreen, sleek mouse and keyboard, perfectly rendered graphics
soulless times

It's a known fact that having limitations to work around enhances creativity. Without them art becomes decadent and self-indulgent.

I dont enjoy anything anymore

why are you still here then?

my screen keeps flickering when i open a game

>I got addicted to cooming while high

Discovered this trick a few months back. I hate everything else about being high though. Wish I could just be "high" for 20 minutes with the strength of an edible and then be back to perfect sobriety. Fuck being that way for hours.

I've been a NEET for over 10 years and the computer in itself is something I'm just completely done with. I want to be free from the internet and social media. I dislike games because I've seen it all and nothing is new or exciting anymore. I've been ready to start my real life for a long time now but everyone is just NOW getting into cyberspace, about to go through the same cycle I did while I'm just now leaving it. I can't escape it, it seems. All these people just now complaining about how awful the internet is while I've found this out a near decade ago.

I no longer have the mental energy to spend getting invested in a new game or fictional setting, so when I do manage to make myself play a game, its one I've already played dozens of times

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/diy/ and /out/ took over. Also an /an/ companion for it.

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I haven't. If anything, I'm playing video games now more than ever because of my current situation. Gotta make the most of it.

I didn't you retard. these types of threads are so fucking stupid and so are you.

youtube.com/watch?v=K6XQ9-wJ9no
Cheetahs are so pretty

iktf

Did the guy forget the password?

I'm 31, living with parents and have no job.

>got back into college at 28.
>got a shitty but stable part time job
>33 now and about to graduate
>getting fit too
>feel like i can game without guilt for a change. feels good

not too late user.

No immersion at all anymore. Not sure if that's the game's fault though, I think something broke within me after years of being a NEET. Actually, I believe being a NEET itself may be a consequence of something else.

I think I just realized there's nothing for me in this world. It will be years of wage slaving before I'm remotely allowed to think of doing anything enjoyable and that may feel like some "purpose" to my life. The entire way paved with suffering and abuse. All that effort so I can start building my small empire of dirt with like the one person I care about on this planet so that then I may just die anyways one day.

When I was a kid everything was new and interesting, the world was full of wonder and possibility. There was so much to video games, to technology, to the future of our world. Now it feels like I got enough of everything and I'm about ready for the next thing. Except there is no next thing, just slow decay and then death. And then when faced with all this, I guess I'm supposed to sit down, forget it all and just have fun doing the same things over and over while my wallet is slowly milked out?

Fuck that. Sorry if this is a bit too dark for this thread, but while I do not wish to commit suicide (life will take care of that anyways and I have no choice), I sure wish I had never been born.

>tl;dr

I don't think video games, not even VR are enough of a distraction of the real world at this point. I guess this is where people graduate to drugs and sit on the sidewalk rambling?

>be 32
>lost job
>have to move back to my parents' house
>no IT jobs in my city (I'm an IT guy)
>no money to move to another city
>can't even land a job in burger king
I fucking hate this

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I can't play games anymore after I started making games.

Don't ask me why

Good to hear, fully intend to do something like that. Yeah sure I had the prime opportunity to finish college by age 23 had I played my cards right, but hopefully I still got another 40 years ahead of me after graduation and a decent job to find something fun to do.

I'm playing Animal Crossing right now. And to be fair most are shit or E-sports garbage. I do play single player games mostly, and divide up the time with breaks by doing other things such as working out or coding.

Making a game, yes, means
you gotta try
I'm doing this for years but
don't ask me why

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Video games are just a distraction at this point. I'm 26, have only held 3 jobs, lost family this year, and have to see my peers passing me by almost every day. I'd rather put my spare energy into escaping this personal hell, and I do, but every time I manage to escape I somehow end up back here. I just dislike people I guess. Individually they can be cool, but the moment they start getting into groups they turn awful. And that's my experience with jobs. They start out great but eventually you're ostracized and given so little hours you're forced to quit, because you don't like to socialize and would rather just do your job, do it well, and then leave. So I'm caught in this cycle of trying to leave this cycle, leaving, then ending back where I started. Used to play video games in these lulls to pass the time, but like I said, they just become a waste of time and not something I'd want to waste my energy on.

I want to move out, live alone with the means to get by. I don't care about getting rich nor do I care about being successful. I only want my own space to do what I want with only enough monetary gain to live a comfortable and quiet life. I can eat a bologna sandwich a day, I've done it before, and it's how I live. Just enough to get by. But even that seems too much to ask.

Grew up and now life keeps me too busy to play games on a regular schedule.

Even during the quarantine I don't really play games for longer than 1-2 hours a day.

WHY
H
Y

The first game I think I played was Batman for the original Game Boy. My dad bought it and took it to work to play where he was a chemist. I didn't like it too much really. One time when I was about four years old I was at my grandparents' house in the next town over and I looked in the cabinets at the bottom of the entertainment center and saw this grey box. I asked what it was and my grandpa said it was one of my step-cousin's old games. So we hooked it up and played the one game I remember with it which was the original Super Mario Bros. My grandpa and I would compete over the years (I always played Mario and he played Luigi). Eventually we upgraded to an SNES with All-Stars. Then I was at my uncle's house with my mom and he had a Nintendo 64 which had just come out. He had Super Mario 64 and I clearly remember being fascinated by the camera making "fart sounds" whenever it refused to be adjusted. That Christmas I got my own Nintendo 64 and got scared as fuck of Dire Dire Docks with the eel. So much so it felt like I was facing real fear whenever I forced myself to go into that level. How horrifying. Then Banjo Kazooie was available to play at a nearby Sears and I saw how quality it was and wanted it. Harvest Moon 64 was awesome also. Then I got a GameCube and a PS2 - my mom who lived with my stepdad got an Xbox where I shit myself over Halo.

Then RuneScape took over my middle school and high school life and everything went downhill. RuneScape destroys children's lives.

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>be a kid
>can sit for 12+ hours beating a game in a single sitting
>be an adult
>can't play a game for more than 1 hour

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29, living alone but got absolutely nothing going on.
Been looking for a job for the past 2 years, but i'm too much of a piece of shit to function in civilization, apparently. Feels like if i even get my shit together it'll be too late to bother with a girlfriend and all that shit.

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congrats my dude

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>I'm an IT guy
Anyone who unironically calls himself an IT guy works in a call center reading from a script.

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what?
I can't understand your post user.

>parents letting their kid sit for 12 hours straight playing videogames
bad parenting, your life must be awful right now

>actually playing vidya in 2020
not gonna make it

whatever makes you feel better memester

>Drop off one application every other day for months if not years
>Never get hired

One day i decided to spent like 8 hours sending in applications after a girl wanted to go out and i was broke. Got called like the next day

where is your game?

I don't want to be associated with Zig Forums

t. tier 1 help desk specialist

Feel you, bro.

I'm literally playing a video game right now user, and I have a rich and fulfilling life outside of video games too. If video games are your only source of fulfillment and they become stale, perhaps you should look for other hobbies to go alongside them.

chemotherapy made it so hard to focus for long periods of time and thus i cant play video games as much as before
thankfully i can watch movies and youtube videos still

It just seems like a big waste of time these days.

Suddenly my problems seem much smaller. Hang tough user.