Do you guys even enjoy videogames anymore?

do you guys even enjoy videogames anymore?
the last videogame i found engaging was minecraft, and only because i wanted to kill the ender dragon with a full diamond set without cheating
besides that, every other videogame has felt like a chore. what am i supposed to do with my life if even escapism feels like a chore?
feel free to share your own experiences

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Been like that a few years user, every now and then a game pops up, but in between... I feel nothing.

Just use those moment to better yourself user, go outside, take a walk, or learn a new skill

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No not really. I'm basically just waiting for Elden Ring and after than I think I'm gonna be done with video games. I hit the point in my life where I've started to resent myself for staying locked in my room so much and I want to get out and do things but I'm not sure what to do.

I was kind of like that for awhile but I'm slowly getting back into playing games.

I know what you mean, especially with single player games. When you only have time to play vidya a few hours at a time, especially MMOs and single-player sandbox/metroidvania etc, it just feels like a chore, even if the game is good. It doesn't help that we're getting older and the games are getting shittier. What I've found helps is going back and playing games from the early 2000s (Stronghold, Arcanum, RuneScape) and just letting the nostalgia take over to keep me invested. There are also a handful of indie games every year that are worthwhile (recently tried Ender Lilies and liked it). I think we're just getting old, OP. Time to find something new.

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i have tried to fight the boredom by taking walks and eating out (on my own). but i still feel that these activities are not what im looking for, that there is something else that i want to do, but i dont know what it is
do you have any recommendations

There has to be something you're interested in other than vidya and nightwalks. If you watch a lot of history videos, maybe get into HEMA/larp/historical reenactment, for example, or if you like watching cooking videos, git gud at cooking. The only limit is your imagination, unless you're absolutely piss broke.

I don't pay attention to modern vidya. I'm mainly into Tetris, Super Mario Bros. and Street Fighter

There's almost no games with vision like there used to be they're starting to become like movies where all the decisions are made by executives in a board room instead of a group of nerds living their passion to create a game. Arcanum came with like a 200 page instruction book and it's basically an entire world that they created for you to play in.

Gaming has entered the capeshit phase where everything is just a copy of a copy and men with vision are removed from the decision making process.

But this is the cycle of art. Classic art gives way to imitation, then to parody and then deconstruction. Gaming has to go through the cycle of life and die before it can be reborn.

42y here.
I just literally had to stop myself from playing today to stay on a proper sleep schedule. I've even been replaying a few old games while waiting for some releases I have on my list in the next few months.

If you can't have fun playing video games then you clearly have other issues.
>everything is such a chore!
You also sound like an emo teenager, no offense.

Iktf.
I am a bit picky with games these days. I still love playing coop campaign type of games with a friend, mostly as a background thing we can banter endlessly about, or strategy games like Europa Universalis, Company of heroes. Also it's amazing watching a friend play some dumb game like LA noire and together make fun of the face capture and racist dialogues, any singleplayer interestingly enough might work for this. I am currently "playing" Higurashi and it has been a lot of fun. The problem with games for me nowadays is that I got completely burned out of raging and trying hard to get good at competitive games, so I mostly avoid them (I have some serious fun joining games to shit up the match and rile up people who care too much about the game tho).

I've been enjoying csgo on and off for the past few years or so now. Found a few people to play faceit with and is enjoyable. In terms of single player games it's always me replaying something I've finished over and over, Fallout NV, GTA series, Saints Row, Stardew Valley. No new games stand out to me anymore and they all look genuinely shit. I miss gaming but honestly I want to grow out of it and find another hobby more fulfilling in life. 21 btw.

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i guess i would like to start playing an instrument. surely it will help with my brain fog if i get to develop decent skills for it
>everything is such a chore!
>You also sound like an emo teenager
i guess its true, but imo i am burnt out after so many years of my lonely and repetitive routine. i got to a point where i am not productive in my productive time, and where i feel guilty for not being productive in my free time.

I'm 32 and I still enjoy BF3 and 4, Halo Inifinite, Fortnite and LoL. It's not just playing the video game I enjoy, it's the experience of being at my battlestation, with the space heater or AC going depending on the time of year, while sipping on coffee, tea or redbull

I'm kind of in the same spot where I can think of a million things I could do by myself but what I really want is something social. I dunno, I've been considering taking up boxing or something active at least.

iktf bro
Have you tried STALKER?
It's more or less the only series I can still enjoy.

I still enjoy vidya. The latest game I honestly gone back to was Warframe (used to play on PS4, now on PC). I forgot how fun zipping through levels and killing things were in that game.

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no i havent but i remembered i havent played Deus Ex yet. it seems like a game that need a lot of hours and i dont really feel like starting it, but i will try to force myself to do it. whats STALKER about
same man. i wish i had someone to talk to irl. someone to eat and walk with. someone that i could invite to have dinner with me at my place or something. i am especially envy about group of friends that actually like each other.

I don't enjoy them either. It sucks because this used to be my hobby, i could spend 12-14 hours a day gaming and not even notice time go by. Now i just replay old games for nostalgia. Nothing else interests me, it's also winter so can't do much outside.
Maybe one day my love for gaming will come back.

No I stopped
No I stopped playing video games
I would never be a true gamer anyway
I was raised with some old games, and I played them for years
i was set up to be in my rutsI played them for years and years
finally when I was old enough I got the money or the courage to ask for other games as a gift and so I had new ruts to fall in but I was not a gamer
I didnt play the right way, the market wouldnt exist if everyone played like me. Same three games for 12+ years.
They are more like a manic binge. Every 6 or so months I return to the same games to quikly burnout and leave it
So I play morrowind, then I play mount and blade, then I play mass effect, then I play some long strategy game
but its just an odd rotation of fixation
less enjoyment and more of an itch

>video games
literally the only thing that makes me happy

I haven't played any game besides strategy games in years, and even they get tiresome as they are basically just spreadsheet simulators. So many genres are completely terrible.

>FPS
Press W and wait for revive simulator. Your reaction times peak before you stop being an underage B&

>RPG
Grinding simulator

>Platformer
same general concept with some mechanical twists for years.

>Fighting games, rhythm games
Grind muscle memory also your reaction times have already peaked

etc. etc.
As it turns out casual gamers were right all along and "hardcore gaming" is just going through the motions again and again for some jewish owned franchise to shut down the servers in 5 years and leave you with a lot of worthless practice at an irrelevant thing nobody under the age of 40 has heard of. You can do things like board gaymes which suffer from this less but your company will be marval loving basedboys with mental disorders.

Adults work because the challenge is not nessecarily any less complex or less competitive or more repetitive than any video games but the rewards are better. Billionaires are almost universally gaymars whose gayme is the global economic system who do a bunch of work they don't need to do because they're addicted to their gayme.

The truth is video games are a hobby for children with more time than money and limited opportunity to do anything else interesting.

I'm moving towards the opinion that video games are part of the "bread and circuses" used as a tool to control the lower classes. TV, pornography, drugs, and junk food all fill the role of providing temporary distraction for the lower classes for them to forget about how insignificant and hopeless they are.

There was a joke headline about people playing The Sims to try to live out the fantasy of home ownership that they would never experience but as time goes on it's not so much of a joke.

>do you guys even enjoy videogames anymore?
Yeah. Ever since I switched exclusively to single player games. There are a few different games I play for different reasons. I find a lot of games though I'm so experienced at that I end up having to crank the difficulty to max and sometimes it's just more stressful than fun. I'll maybe have 1 game I play on an extreme difficulty at a time and rotate between a couple games. Some of them I find pretty zen when you can build your own things and keep them functioning, like dwarf fortress. It's just kind of nifty to sort of shape a base and direct dwarfs to do stuff. You know it's like when you get a shit map that has a lot of copper and you can't find iron anywhere. Who cares if it's perfect or not? I find it kind of like a zen garden to sort of build a fort that you can shut off from the outside world and it'll run self sufficient on it's own. Sometimes you just dig out corridores to try and make it look like a cool hallway. I find it a lot like raking sand into a pattern. Maybe it doesn't work. A lot of the time it not working and failing is fun, feels like you learned something or want to set up a new way of doing things. Sort of like reading a book you already read before and kind of liked, except it's not exactly the same. Details change ect.

I switch between medias, games, books, movies, streams, music, comics, and then back to games, keeps it mostly fresh and makes time pass

>I'm moving towards the opinion that video games are part of the "bread and circuses" used as a tool to control the lower classes.
they are know being made by corporations, so yes, videogames went from innocent media produced by your next door computer guy to mind control systems moderated by trannies and sponsored by boomers

I bought Halo Infinite when it released. I beat it in three days and thought the story was shit, but something good did come from it. I started playing all of the old Halo games again. Right now I'm on my second legendary playthrough of Halo 2. This Prophet of Regret boss fight is kicking my ass.

Yeah you have to be pretty blind to not have noticed the globohomo propaganda and social engineering inserted into gaming in the last few years.

It's no longer a niche hobby that a person can use to escape because Klaus Schwab is in there telling you to get in the pod and eat the bugs.

Yeah it kinda sucks desu. All I play nowadays is titanfall 2.

I don't feel happy anymore not even from games. I do feel some sense of satisfation and once in a blue moon I enjoy what I'm doing. Soon 31 here.

Last games I purchased
>doom eternal
Shit
>fallout 76
Shit
>resident evil 7
Okay
>red dead redemption 2
Good
>the outer worlds
Good
It's been a mixed bag. After I finish them I pretty much stop playing video games altogether. Can't say there's anything I'm looking foward to at the moment. Might pick up the new resident evil because it looks better than the last one. What did you guys think about it?

I sunk several hundred hours into that game and then quit unceremoniously when it turned out that you couldn't change the email address used as your account name.

I downloaded some games, set-up emulators bought a PS4 controller and wanted to have a blast playing some games that I played as a kid but it just doesn't hit the same...

Now I get enjoyment from making people angry in Sea of Thieves (quite new to it) but I bet that spark will die out too.

I don't know if I ever enjoyed them actually, I believed for the longest time it was a huge part of my personality and my biggest hobby but in reality it never was? As I kid my parents never had money to buy me games or any consoles, most of the time I just watched media about it or watched people play, or go to a friends house and barely play. I built a computer for myself to finally play games and played at best 2 games fully since 2015. Now I have an even more powerful machine and never play any games. Maybe I hate video games and always have.

There are still niche games. Just avoid AAA if you're not interested in mainstream shit

I have fairly restrictive tastes in games, too many game purchases I regret over the years, but when I like one I really like it. Am having a lot of fun with legends arceus right now.

Gamin it up whenever I'm not at work fampai, videogames are the fuckin best.
Nice

I cycle through some boomer games like m2tw and skyrim a lot and after a few months I really do look forward to playing them and even think about the games when i'm not playing. I got into 4x paradox recently and put thousands of hours into ck2 and stellaris and really enjoyed both. I get gripped really easily I guess and even when i'm eating or working I look forward to being finished and getting time to play the games.
Sucks because video games and escapism in general is a very bad hobby but I cant deny that I really enjoy it.

Yes still, not modern trash though
I only like old niche stuff
I've been playing cal2 recently, it's pretty good

Been playing some crusader kings 2, modded

I just buy games but never play them at this point, the last game that I enjoyed and actually finished was nier automata like 5 years ago. Wish I had the will to play them like I used to.

I've veen getting sick of the stuff I've been playing and decided to dust off the switch I've had for 2 years and started getting more into the console. It's honestly the first time I've felt true joy about videogames in a while. I've been buying and playing more games and shit for it and enjoying every minute of it.

I'm only 20 and lost ALL interest in vidya. Feel like an old man, nothing interests me. I don't know how I'm supposed to make friends with other people my age.

The last game I truly enjoyed was TLOU2 because it actually feels like a NEW game. Yes, a sequel to an old game is more modern than any other game right now.

Might be a bad hobby but at least it's a hobby.
I'm 32 and have never enjoyed doing anything. I have pretended to be a gamer most of my life just to have something, but I never actually enjoyed gaming.

I could have written that myself pretty much.