Anybody else get burnt out while gaming?

abx

abx

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I bought the Game Pass hoping to try out the amazing single-player games there but I get burnt out so quick and everything feels like a chore.
Not sure what changed - I loved Witcher 3 and the Mass Effect trilogy which had fairly grindy mechanics.
Side effect of staying inside the house for 2 years?
 
abx said:
I bought the Game Pass hoping to try out the amazing single-player games there but I get burnt out so quick and everything feels like a chore.
Not sure what changed - I loved Witcher 3 and the Mass Effect trilogy which had fairly grindy mechanics.
Side effect of staying inside the house for 2 years?
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The thing is the new games are way too much repeating in quests and such. Go to point A, do a fetch quest at B and return to the user. You get something something which marginally better than what you have. Farcy, Assassin's creed are the prime example of this recipe and we have more than few dozen copy cats of the same formula. Neither their story not gameplay is worth remembering.

Both Witcher 3 and Mass effect had great side quests. And some of them were the best till date. Especially witcher 3 had some quests where there was no right choice and one was compelled to choose lesser evil. Plus the choices that we made actually had some serious consequences, which means our choices mattered.

One thing you can do is try some whole different kind of game. You might like it. Like say ALIENATION. it's a twin stick shooter with a lame story but the gameplay is different. Or you can also try THE ASCENT. Again the story is garbage but the gameplay is superb.
 
abx said:
I bought the Game Pass hoping to try out the amazing single-player games there but I get burnt out so quick and everything feels like a chore.
Not sure what changed - I loved Witcher 3 and the Mass Effect trilogy which had fairly grindy mechanics.
Side effect of staying inside the house for 2 years?
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try read dead redemption 2, great game in single player mode great story.Infact for a lot of people the story was very emotional.
 
fastapifastdisks said:
try read dead redemption 2, great game in single player mode great story.Infact for a lot of people the story was very emotional.
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The gameplay is super slow. I mean checking for items inside cupboard, carrying something here and there. I started the game twice but quit after some time due to that. But I have heard rave reviews of the game. Might start it again after Horizon Forbidden west. :)
 
Happened with Just Cause 3. The game and storyline are great, along with stunning visuals + destruction and chaos you can create. After spending 100+hrs side quests were too repetitive in order to progress the game. Unfortunately, I had bought JC4 too. So far managed about 15 hrs and quit.
 
I found just cause such a repetitive mission and boring story line game..glad to never played it while my bro used to play and I watch it..
BF/COD etc. are the real deals!
 
Most games are measured in terms of engagement in hours, so even the ones with the best of stories have too much to grind.

I finished the original story arc of Yakuza (0-6) over nearly 1.5 years and would have never completed it were it not for trainers. Using trainers to skip through repetitive fights did make it more enjoyable. Ended up doing the same for Witcher 3.

Some people like the grind and even find it therapeutic, but it is near impossible for me to get into it. Also, never end up replaying a game, so finishing through a story is enough for me.
 
nRiTeCh said:
I found just cause such a repetitive mission and boring story line game..glad to never played it while my bro used to play and I watch it..
BF/COD etc. are the real deals!
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The new COD (Vanguard) had severe graphical glitches on the PS4 platform. Did anyone else face that issue?

The glitch was so bad. First the faces of all character were simple polygon. I ignored it for first 30 mins or so. Then there were missing textures on the the house , grass, furnitures etc etc. It was kind of funny. Everything else are super high resolution but faces were like in 80. (like the first tomb raider, or tomb raider 2, not the reboot but early games )

By the end of the first chapter , where the guys are captured, the graphics were utter horrible and huge chunks were missing from every where. I was not even able to find cover or any road or building. Ultimately deleted the game. 100+ Gb data went down the gutter.
 
There are too many distractions now compared to 10 years back, social media smartphones, i get bored of games, tv series everything.
I loved playing games on my PS2 , now we have really great games , great graphics, stories but low attention span.
 
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nRiTeCh said:
Not burnout but weird feeling esp. when playing fps games like quake, doom etc. The world used to go inside head and used to feel nauseous.
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I can relate to this. Half life and doom or any low light fps used to make me nauseous. I used to play only Unreal tournament and Quake 3 in shooters. Rest of the time it was all city builders, management tycoons and RTS games to burn time. Now its just League, TFT and Total War Warhammer 2/3.
 
nRiTeCh said:
Not burnout but weird feeling esp. when playing fps games like quake, doom etc. The world used to go inside head and used to feel nauseous.
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I think this is more of getting over general craze for playing games in general (not related to your favorite ones) and a little of age catching up (not for everyone). I used to game a lot 2006 - 2012 but post 2015 I enjoy only CS/FIFA and dont enjoy playing other games as much. I get a very similar feeling you mentioned and thought was quiet specific to me :)
 
fLUX said:
I think this is more of getting over general craze for playing games in general (not related to your favorite ones) and a little of age catching up (not for everyone). I used to game a lot 2006 - 2012 but post 2015 I enjoy only CS/FIFA and dont enjoy playing other games as much. I get a very similar feeling you mentioned and thought was quiet specific to me :)
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Aging? I'm talking about during 20s... Its just that I used to get so much immersed in the game it used to get into my head. Couldn't even have food for few hours after that. And then left playing such unreal/fake world games completely.
 
Indie games that do not bore -
Check out
  • Heat Signature - great gameplay
  • The Binding of Isaac - Twin stick shooter
  • FTL - great Roguelite in space.
  • Both the Ori games
  • Noita
  • Grim Dawn - Great RPG in the lines of the old Diablo 1 and 2 games
  • Pathway
 
fLUX said:
I think this is more of getting over general craze for playing games in general (not related to your favorite ones) and a little of age catching up (not for everyone). I used to game a lot 2006 - 2012 but post 2015 I enjoy only CS/FIFA and dont enjoy playing other games as much. I get a very similar feeling you mentioned and thought was quiet specific to me :)
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Its natural to get inside a game but post finishing the weird feeling of nauseousness is what I was referring to. Again my personal opinion hence mentioned not might be a reason for everyone, it started happening for me in the 2nd half of 20s itself :)
 
I thing it's becoming an adult + mediocre SP games + GPU market BS + GaaS games + BR fad + incompetent destruction of older IPs that's burnt a lot of people like myself out.
Top notch SP games like GoW, TLOU2, TW3, Nier: Automata are few and far between nowadays since publishers play it safe and are just interested in extracting as much money out of the customer as possible by including in-game currencies and MTs.
I mean it's 2022 and people are still playing GTA V ffs. Even the 2022 lineup looks weak to me, none of the games that are coming out are interesting with the exception of few indie titles on my radar (Stray for e.g.,). Out of the big names I'm mildly interested in Starfield but I have no faith in Bethesda after FO76 so I've got my expectations dialed down. Also looking forward to MW2 after the last 2 garbage CoDs.
I mostly enjoy playing with friends now for the same reason, I played a ton of Warzone during 2020 to early 2021 and it was a blast until it turned into a joke, if you have a friend to play with I highly recommend playing 'A Way Out' and 'It Takes Two' on Gamepass.
BTW 'Guardians of the Galaxy' comes out on GamePass today I think, it's a decently polished linear SP experience worth checking out so give it a try.
 
psyph3r said:
I thing it's becoming an adult + mediocre SP games + GPU market BS + GaaS games + BR fad + incompetent destruction of older IPs that's burnt a lot of people like myself out.
Top notch SP games like GoW, TLOU2, TW3, Nier: Automata are few and far between nowadays since publishers play it safe and are just interested in extracting as much money out of the customer as possible by including in-game currencies and MTs.
I mean it's 2022 and people are still playing GTA V ffs. Even the 2022 lineup looks weak to me, none of the games that are coming out are interesting with the exception of few indie titles on my radar (Stray for e.g.,). Out of the big names I'm mildly interested in Starfield but I have no faith in Bethesda after FO76 so I've got my expectations dialed down. Also looking forward to MW2 after the last 2 garbage CoDs.
I mostly enjoy playing with friends now for the same reason, I played a ton of Warzone during 2020 to early 2021 and it was a blast until it turned into a joke, if you have a friend to play with I highly recommend playing 'A Way Out' and 'It Takes Two' on Gamepass.
BTW 'Guardians of the Galaxy' comes out on GamePass today I think, it's a decently polished linear SP experience worth checking out so give it a try.
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I still play FarCry 2004 and MOHA 2007. Did not like most of the new ones :(
 
I recently finished God of War and enjoyed it a lot. Debating whether to get it for PS4 because my brother doesn't like to play on my PC but prefers PS4.

I just started playing psychonauts (yeah the first one) and it's a blast. Reminded me of my childhood when we would play Tomb Raider (Of Lara croft with triangular chest). Fun times.
 
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