Tfw you have 143 games stored on your hard drive

Actually I have a theory.
Ever noticed how dogs aren't as playful once they're not puppies anymore?
I'm sure the same applies here, once you grow up you kind of lose the desire for play. It doesn't mean you can't do anything or that you can't enjoy it but it doesn't happen as much, and all video games being shit these past few years isn't any help.

Good for you, I guess.

I noticed when I got to about early 20's late teens I started to think everything was shit, started to hate most games, shows, films etc ways of life, pissed of with the government and just in general being unmotivated and unenthusiastic about everything. That faded away and got kind of tiring then I slowly learned to love things again and form a bit more of an acquired taste. Eventually I think you just have to realise nothing is perfect and we are a lot easier to amuse and excite when we are younger. I see people get pathological and literally rationalise themselves out of enjoying anything. Like "Oh I love that game I should totally go through it again - nah because actually there is one level that is boring as fuck and I can't be bothered with one minor mechanic - guess I'll just continue browsing my 164 games that I "like" and repeat."

Heres a piece of advice, go get into something else for a while, reading, music, some weird existential hobby, build something up with those and see what kind of person you really are and by the time you come back to games you might get a bit more enjoyment and refreshment from them.

I have a feeling it's more that we lose our childhood wonder where everything feels new and interesting. Video games used to amaze the shit out of me as a kid.

Video games now mostly don't "wow" me anymore as a result of getting older.

Why do you have so many pictures saved of a vietnamese gay porn star?

The latest generations are so easily numbed because they have grown up in a world of hyperconsumerism mixed with extravagant sex and violence involved in nearly everything. I mean stuff like hacking people up into little pieces should take us aback but we don't give a fuck thats typical shit. Someone used to die in a film or a story and it was a big deal, someone just got stabbed or shot - oh shit! But now its just like meh okay, combine this with the internet and all the depraved fucked up shit we grew up with on that and its easy to see how we would be especially numbed to excitement.

This is pretty on point user. Best thing is to try your luck with another hobby or maybe even spent a bit of time doing nothing.

>tfw always wondered what "taking the train going anywhere was about"
wish I could un-know that feel, just wanna go somewhere

I don't know user my dog was a jumpy excitable pupper for his 17 year existence. I personally still find vidya fun but in recent years I've changed my usual playstyle & play the game as a goofy suicidal mad man rather than the cautious playstyle of my earlier years. It's more fun that way to be honest.

What kind of self-respecting user doesn't have a collection Gatchi.

I think it's more of a how much you have to invest in a video game
You see with piracy, i see it possible that people might overconsume vidya, not in the time spent in a game mind you, but in the sense of how much titles they could play and blitz them through 1 sitting or more. Back in the ol' day you pretty much have to be a good boi to yer parents (eg. having top grades, saving money, etc) or hope that your parents get something for you at Smissmass. Now, games are dime a dozen and you can get em at an instant for free as well. But, if you buy a game, you'd be sure to play the thing for as long as you can bear it until you felt that you finally that 20-60 bucks was worth the fun you got or you'd just refund it immediately. Same goes with grindan games, but this time you gotta put time and effort to get some 'fun' out of it. You could also apply the same thing so skill-based games eg. Team Fortress, where you have to git gud or you'll be pubstomp'd, so you invest time into it improving your skill inhopes of gitting gud and therefore have more fun
Of course the quality of the game itself has to do it with it, but the 'investment' you gotta put into the game makes you stay a little longer since you want to have some fun out of it or to make said investment worth it.
i think that's it, sorry for the poor wording, i'm not a native speaker

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user, one world - N O V E L T Y
NOVELTY

Those 143 games do not provide you with the same exciting new experience that one game bought by your parents provided. Search games you actually like, find some taste, delete those 143 games you don't even want to touch anymore.
Sometimes its just new exciting experience that you want. Not something you completed in your life that you got bored off.

When you turned on your console for a new game back when you was a kid you didn't know what to expect, so you was amazed by gameplay and audio-visual representation of those games. Now you perfectly know you have to put on with some mediocre shit that doesn't strike you as anything new or revolving. You know it will be just a waste of time and you will get bored eventually anyway. The psychological trick you can do with yourself is try find new unique things you never tried before, to judge new things from new perspective. Or actually change your hobby and open up other possibilities of life for yourself.

I can't play vidya, nor watch movies anymore. Everything is just too stupid and predictable. Books have the problem of being pozzed to the core however, I need literature that's untouched by filthy marxists.

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Ai Cho Aniki and kinnikuman games are pretty good.

I know that feel and you wanna know something I just go back to that game I obsessed over I probably have played through FFT 500+ times.

I did that sort of build once, god damn did I ever wreck shit come end game.

Handy guide to start enjoying vidya.
0. Check if you have important things you avoid tackling directly, like that 1 word essay by yesterday or the search for the job or whatever, because as long as there are things like that your brain will shit on your enjoyment trying to remind you that "You should do the shit, retard". So, do the shit, retard, give it all you have, until even your subconscious would agree that you did all you could.
Now, if you find yourself aimlessly wondering between distractions which have more attraction compared to the games that you feel reluctant returning to after a while, do several things:
1. Set a goal. You probably have a backlog of whatever - pick a few titles, the fewer the better. It can be anything as long as you can imagine yourself completing it given you invest enough time. Bonus points if it's something novel to you (but remember the previous sentence, that's the main point while this is secondary), so personally most of the times I wouldn't go for the games I've already started and didn't finish though ever17 and it's true ending was worth returning to.
2. Limit your distractions to a minimum, if it requires deleting games - do so, if it requires limiting your browsing habits - do so. Act according to your goal, don't let yourself slip into a mindless behavior. If you know yourself too well and you know for sure that you won't be able to hold yourself by sheer will, then create some circumstances that would force you into finishing your goal. Like locking your main device with a random password that you hand to a trusted relative or something, anything, you know yourself better than I do.
3. Finish the game/anime/vn/whatever, go back to 1. and keep the loop going for as long as you can.
4. ????
5. You enjoy videogames (or whatever you've picked)!

step up hoarder. admit you are addicted and seek treatment.
but i agree, finish games before starting new ones.

The internet didn't exist when most people were a kid.

This user gets it. At the very least switch your vidya up from time to time. I'm going through a few games that I would not have had patience for as a kid, as an adult. Shit's pretty awesome fam. I got a lot to go since I only played strategy games back then.

Not having the internet in the 90s(at least for most people) made games more mysterious. People would make up rumors, especially in magazines about secrets that couldn't be debunked at the time.

Now every game gets data mined and its to easy to look things up and get spoilers and guides.

funny story, eastern european here. in 2003 when i already had internet, but it was way too slow to download games. on sunday i used to go with my dad to elementary school, that on sunday was open for ppl to sell many diff things. and so few shady guys had display there and all they had were a4 printed sheet of papers with title of games and numbers next to them. all you had to say was a number of a game, and one of the guys went to his track to get cds, you paid and got your pirated copy.
hard to believe something illegal like this was possible just 14 years ago

I think some people get this worse than others. I tend to think methodically and break things down so what little novelty I manage to find doesn't last long under my attention. Games lost their luster for me over the past few years.

I sort of traded it for depth. Instead of being "wowed" by a game's features I now just let myself get lost in its mechanics. Getting sucked into Deus Ex or Dwarf Fort or something similarly autistic and immersive.

Also, difficulty creates a feeling of achievement so I gravitate towards it now. So I suppose I still enjoy games, but in a different way now. I'm rarely surprised by much, but I try to seek out things that do offer surprise and challenge.

absolute win-win

You can go north straight out of goodsprings, juke some cazadors, and kill some Vipers and get Love and Hate inside 10 minutes which will shit on everything and last until you can get a Ballistic Fist.

Unless you were playing really terrible vidya to begin with, and suddenly developed taste; you're just depressed.

You sound like an underage memecuck, but try reading Pynchon, if you're man enough.

Isn't this literally everyone who grows up from being a child who knows no better?

Depends when you grew up and what you were playing. If you grew up during the golden age of gaming, chances are you played lots of great games and developed good taste right off the bat, as you had solid groundwork for what a "good game" really is.

If you were instead born in the mid 90s or later, you probably grew up as the typical AAA shiteater, and eventually experienced a crisis as all of those games that you thought were good, were actually shit and you can't enjoy that type of game anymore.

This.

I think its easier with one game because thats just it. You had one game. So you play that shit non stop because you wont get another for some time.

Now i have a huge backlog i just blaze through everything.

you talking about in general or specifically to vidya?

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The only game that's made be feel the same way I did playing game as a kid was Dragon's Dogma. Are there any other games like that?

Skyrim

Stay buttblasted, like in every thread.

Jump off a mountain, Todd

Excellent games still wow me.

I don't think my standards have gone up. I think games have just gotten worse.

What about multiplayer games? They don't have an end so you can't finish them.

damn son

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If only we could go back in time…