I hate that feeling when you really want to play a video game but then you think about it for just a little too long and now it feels more like a chore than fun.
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This is how I feel when I think about playing Path of Exile. I really like it, but it feels like studying for college.
This is also how I feel about Guild Wars 2. It's my favorite MMORPG, but I think about having to deal with my inventory and... I just don't want to deal with it.
Any time I think about a game "oh, I have to do this quest step next, have to kill this boss"
No, I don't HAVE to. and if the game makes me feel like that I'll just go read a book.
(which then makes me feel that I "have to" catch up on these 4 prequels...)
"alright after I do all these things I will reward myself with this video game!" To "ugh now I have to play this video game *watches tv ...or YouTube videos about the video game*)
Satisfactory is in that group for sure. As you progress it feels more and more like going to work rather than enjoying a game! Even the true nerd in me screamed “ it’s not a game anymore”
No Man's Sky =/
I've never avoided a game that I think is SO COOL as much as NMS.
With open worlds like RDR2 or Cyberpunk there's a bit more motion to it, like, poppin' a deer on your way back to camp before a train robbery, catchin' a cyberpsycho headed to your apartment, but NMS feels... lonely...
there is absolutely nothing rewarding about that game. It’s fun in the very beginning but then you realize you’re just doing the same thing over and over and over again, and visiting basically the same 10 different planets over and over and over again.
Same, like, I'll get in the mood for a game, install it, play it for a few hours and the next day I just look at it and say "Why bother?" Like, fun isn't enough of a reason for my brain to enjoy things anymore.
It's what fucking gets me every time. I feel like I'm wasting my time, and yet, what do I end up doing instead? Just being sad or watching youtube. No energy. I'm hoping that being on here and meeting peers that also are creative can help inspire me to keep at what I love to do in life.
Man. I feel like this every day now! I used to play daily and now it seems like a lot😭 maybe I just need more gaming friends to encourage me and squad up 🤸🏽♀️
For me, it's a pang of guilt sometimes that I should be doing something more productive. Yet that never happens when watching hours of Netflix. Go figure.
no no no! your life isn’t meant to be wasted “being productive”
I know this feeling sooo well and took me a long time to get over.
one of my old therapists once said “who’s voice is saying that? cuz it isn’t yours. If it makes you happy and you enjoy doing it, then it isn’t a waste of time”
I thought this was my adhd lol it’s either that or I sit there thinking of playing five different games, finally pick one and then worry if I’m using my time “correctly”.
Yep, pretty much any open world game does that for me, need some linear crap that's fun and not overly repetitive but what I don't need is having to look hundreds of times at a map!
Never got the appeal to that either.. I'd rather do stuff in real life than simulate it and in games I do stuff that wouldn't be great to simulate in real life..
Yeah sure it's fun and innovative the first time, probably the next 9 times too until you get to a point where you have several open world games you kinda wanna start but you just don't want to invest hundreds of hours in something that's filled with repetitive quests and half your game time is that
I spend all day working and I really can't be bothered to spend hours in my evening gathering herbs for some random elf, who then tells me that the first 10 weren't enough and I need to find 10 more from half way across the world.
There's a lot of games that have that effect for me. Most recently was Mount&Blade: Bannerlord. As small a part as the plot is, it's enough to be frustrating and necessary, but so unappealing. Should be 100% optional and entirely for players who need it for something to do
Me when I’m halfway through a beautiful AAA PS4 game but I have to keep putting it off until I have a free night so I can look at it properly without natural sunlight ruining the image (it has been months but it has to go perfectly because I can’t replay parts without restarting the whole game)
Honestly, I've been staying up hours past when I should be going to bed playing PS2 football games. It's a problem. I'm taking a break tonight, and it's challenging.
I'm feeling that way about Stalker 2 right now and I hate it because I love the first one. No regrets on the purchase though, wanted to support the developer
I honestly this idea, cause some of my RPGs problems are "well I gotta figure where I am and what I'm doing, then gotta get somewhere" and fifteen minutes in I'm justalready exhausted
Pipe burst in my basement about ~3months ago... soaked a box of things from my childhood, including all of my base set Pokemon cards. I hadn't even thought about Pokemon in years – but now I'm fully back in it. Searching for my old Gameboy now.
sometimes, as sad as it is, an event like that is what you need to get back into the things that were once loved but now forgotten. Makes you really appreciate it, ya know?
Happened to me a few times with the Fallout games. Youtube or a mutual will pop in with a random mod they have that gets my interest and gets me to want to play and then like 5 minutes later I realize I have to reinstall the games and all the patches involved in making them run stable.
I love spend 8 hours at work doing the mundane thinking only about the game I super exited to play. I get home, sit on couch, and then decide nah it’s too much effort.
But still! Yeah I get rly into it when I’m playing but if I think about it too much before I start I’m like nah. I’d rather do anything else lmao (esp if i left my sim with a baby like yikes)
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i really couldn’t care any less about the story or the other characters stories and it feels like im forced to.
or go from passive-aggressive to straight aggressive and put em in a shallow grave
but yeah i'm in act 3 and i really like the game but man
also trapped?
This is also how I feel about Guild Wars 2. It's my favorite MMORPG, but I think about having to deal with my inventory and... I just don't want to deal with it.
No, I don't HAVE to. and if the game makes me feel like that I'll just go read a book.
(which then makes me feel that I "have to" catch up on these 4 prequels...)
my friend’s mom has no short term memory either so i feel you 🫶🏼
Nah. I’ll just explore outside the playable map instead.
nothing will make me log off faster lol
- downloading and installing updates
- controller out of power
I've never avoided a game that I think is SO COOL as much as NMS.
With open worlds like RDR2 or Cyberpunk there's a bit more motion to it, like, poppin' a deer on your way back to camp before a train robbery, catchin' a cyberpsycho headed to your apartment, but NMS feels... lonely...
there is absolutely nothing rewarding about that game. It’s fun in the very beginning but then you realize you’re just doing the same thing over and over and over again, and visiting basically the same 10 different planets over and over and over again.
hang in there! it’ll get better. ❤️🩹
so that tracks lol
I know this feeling sooo well and took me a long time to get over.
one of my old therapists once said “who’s voice is saying that? cuz it isn’t yours. If it makes you happy and you enjoy doing it, then it isn’t a waste of time”
I understand it, I just don't like it lmao
id rather wander around exploring than be spoon fed quests
I spend all day working and I really can't be bothered to spend hours in my evening gathering herbs for some random elf, who then tells me that the first 10 weren't enough and I need to find 10 more from half way across the world.
“Hmm, not really in the mood for any of these extremely well reviewed and high quality games”
After a few hours of watching my guy work out and learn an instrument in between cooking and work i was like “what am i doing rn?”
there’s always that “aw shit” moment when your character is out there living their hopes and dreams 😂