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it feels like i have no games to play
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ive been posting alot here asking for game suggestions, but most of them are just games i already heard of or just games that dont fully interest me.
the other day i tried mafia definitive edition again, it was fun, so i went to play the next day, and realised its boring, then today i tried it again and ended up uninstalling it.
and then i start mindlessly downloading random games then end up making my storage full then i wonder what to delete to install even more games
idk whats going on
im sure there are some fun games out there but idk what ones
does anyone else feel like this? and how can i fix this?
Top Comment: Do you play indie games? I play a good mix of genres and a pretty even split between indie and AAA games, and I have so many games to play that I will always be behind, even as someone who probably averages like 30 hours a week on games. I have around 30 games that I already own and haven't gotten to yet and really want to, and another 100+ on my wishlist and at least like 15 games releasing this year I'm already excited for. Lemme ask you this, why do you like playing video games? What's your motivation for playing them?
I've made it 6 days with no games
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And I feel great. I've been spending time doing the things I want and need to do, I've been going out and hanging out with my girlfriend, and not worrying about getting home to play video games the whole time. I get to bed at a decent hour and I feel a lot better about how I've spent my days. Never thought I'd get this far to be honest. I'm even thinking about selling my game consoles and trading my gaming laptop for an apple laptop or just selling it and buying an apple laptop for my music. I'm excited I've gotten away from them and looking forward to more changes in my life.
Top Comment: Well done! So happy for you and your girlfriend. Yes make it happen, these changes.
PayPal is no longer an option for Steam except for 6 currencies : Games
Main Post: PayPal is no longer an option for Steam except for 6 currencies : Games
Does anyone feel like there hasn't been many good games coming out in a long time?
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I feel like this year has been really bad, I know that covid would have some effect but damn, so many dissapointing games lately. Anyone feeling the same way?
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I don't think this year is as strong as last year but it's been great for me all things considered. I'm close to finishing up psychonauts 2 and loving it. I still need to check out 12 minutes, the Ascent and a few others that I've missed recently
"It has no games" is a bad argument, and indicates a growing problem.
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I own a PS Vita, and I keep hearing this line spat out alongside a pointed finger. "Don't get a vita, get a 3DS, it has more games!" People say, and I find that stupid.
But let's back up. Let's start by looking at what a console should be doing.
A gaming console should, at its core level, play games. To be of any use, it needs to somehow do this better than a PC. Why PC? Because most people will own a PC for everything else they do, and there needs to be a reason why they would buy another device capable of gaming when they already have one. So consoles need to directly compete with PCs, and there are multiple ways of doing this:
Price is a common response. "I could spend $1800 on a gaming computer, or $500 on a console!". While this varies a lot, it tends to assume the user won't have a computer, or at least not one that can reliably play games for a while. That's becoming less common, but it's still a completely valid situation.
Ease of access is a less mentioned advantage consoles have, whereby a game is almost guaranteed to work on your machine with little to no setup. Starting a game does not require the dedication of sitting at your PC, turning it on, and finding the games. Local multiplayer is also much easier to get going straight away. That's definitely a decent benefit.
Then there's Games, the big one. Consoles get exclusive games only available on that platform, meaning you buy the console, or you miss out. Everybody will advocate buying an Xbox for Halo, or a Playstation for The Last Of Us. But this is cheap. This means developers arbitrarily limiting themselves to a single platform for the sole purpose of making that platform more attractive. It benefits only the platform owner. Don't tell me you're better off only being able to play Uncharted on PS3.
The biggest problem is that I rarely see anyone talk about the most important aspect of a console: A unique experience. And often the console that gives you something you can't get on a PC is brushed aside as "gimmicky" or "casual". Case in point: The WiiU. The WiiU has a really awesome idea and instead of looking and saying "This looks like it could open up heaps of possibilities", people complain "Ugh there's only Monster Hunter 3 and ZombiU". It's so startlingly short-sighted.
I'm personally a PlayStation fan, with no grudge against Xbox (any more, but that's another story). I am excited to get a PS4. I'm a student living off the minimum, so understand the impact when I say I'm buying a WiiU before I buy a PS4. I'm excited for Ratchet and Clank, Killzone, and a variety of other games on the system but I find the WiiU has so many more possibilities than a locked computer with a touch pad on a controller. I'm excited for what the WiiU will have if anyone actually picks it up and buys games. It's the same reason I bought a Vita; It's a great portable gaming system with good specs that offers a unique experience.
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Consoles should be bought based on the unique experience they can give, but people are too focussed on what they have available right now. Rather than buy a console on its merits, they buy it because of unfriendly business practises that limit a game's distribution to one platform.
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I understand that the DS is also a unique experience. I'm glad it's been successful. I just think the Vita deserves success too.
Exclusives aren't inherently bad, just when they're the main/only reason to buy the console. I'm hoping for exclusives on the WiiU just so people will actually give it a damn chance.
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Just want to share why I would buy a console. I've been a PC gamer for a long time. I previously owned a PS2 but I sold it. I recently bought a PS3. The reason being I want to play the exclusive Japanese game.
I could careless if it's xbox, PS, Wii, Dreamcast, or even ouya. If there is a game that I want to play and it's on that platform, that is going to make me want to buy a console. After I purchased that console, then I will look around and see if there are any other worthwhile games to get.
Frankly I can't help but not give a shit about all the hardwares, kinect, and extra features. Console is just the bridge between me and the game. I am playing the game, not the console. Why is there even a need to talk about which console is better?
No games are seeming to grab my attention, help.
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Title says it all, I can't seem to play anything for more than an hour before I get bored with it. What do you do during these lulls?
Edit: thank you all for these awesome responses! Did not expect much back. I am going to take some sage advice offered here and take a break for a while. While gaming is my primary hobby, I think it has become more of an unhealthy addiction as of late. Something I do more and more of but get less and less from. Really again thank you for the feedback.
Top Comment: As echoed by several others in this thread, this is likely an issue beyond just boredom. I came to the same point recently (not sure why I'm still subscribed to /pcgaming), felt depressed for weeks, then deleted all games from my computer, and started pursuing other interests (music, reading, etc.). I feel a lot better, and I'm going to wait to play any games whatsoever until something that really catches my attention comes out (likely Fallout 4 or No Man's Sky). Games can be fun and wonderfully crafted distractions, but they're distractions nonetheless. If you're looking for fulfillment in them, you'll likely feel empty. tl;dr if you're bored with games, find a new passion.
Anyone else feel like there are no games to play? They are all becoming the same and dry and nothing urges me to play anything
Main Post: Anyone else feel like there are no games to play? They are all becoming the same and dry and nothing urges me to play anything
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No
Is anyone else finding there's a lack of new games to play at the moment?
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Is it just me or is there kind of a drought at the moment for videogames? I can barely remember a single exciting release in the last six months... I'm wondering if perhaps the pandemic is to blame or whether it's because we're coming to an end of a console generation.
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Why is everyone saying that Xbox has no games in 2022?🤨some of these are even going to be on Game Pass
Main Post: Why is everyone saying that Xbox has no games in 2022?🤨some of these are even going to be on Game Pass
Top Comment: When someone says either “Xbox has no games” or “PlayStation has no games” they are referring to first party lol. Of course there are 3rd party games coming
Does anyone else feel like there are no games that interest you?
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I feel like Stan in that South Park episode where he becomes ultra cynical and thinks everything is shit.
I'm looking for a new game to play and it feels like there's nothing i really want, and definitely couldn't compare to some of my favourite gaming experiences like BF3 online.
Top Comment: Never once. And I've been gaming daily for thirty years. These days I work full time, have a large family of my own, and a range of other passions and hobbies and I still game at least an hour daily. Game it up on the weekends. My backlog is diverse and obscene. Decades worth of amazing titles I'm dying to experience and complete to the fullest. Just sounds like you need to try something else for a while, if it's no longer enjoyable.
Can someone help me understand what life is like without games?
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Hello, I am Jordan and I have been playing games for about 10 years now. (I am 19) I got my first xbox at age 13, and that's when i started playing very seriously, I believe since I was 15ish and got homeschooled, I started playing 10 hours a day every single day. Now I still play on average from 8 to 14 hours a day. I have played games for more then half my life it feels, It's scary to say but I don't know how to live without video games, or what I would even do. I have recently learned about myself that I am what I call a 'Recovering perfectionist' (which if you know anything about perfectionism you know where I am coming from. And why that is just as damning). But I have mainly played Runescape more then anything, and I feel like i cant quit gaming until I finish my goal i started about 3 years ago, to max. I'm 81% there. I'm just so scared for my future at this point. 19 with only a permit, hardly any money saved up, no plan for my future, and gaming most of the day every day. The thing that hit me the most is that after i broke up with my girl friend (us having a 15 month relationship) I have now been single for a long time (9 months) and the loneliness is just getting to my head. I'm alone in my room for 10 hours a day. I never considered myself an unattractive guy, and take care of myself. I guess the realization that meeting people takes effort never even occurred to me... That's how disconnected I've been. I guess this is a cry for help. Thanks for reading guys...
Top Comment: (I will try to make this short and most likely fail because this is not a simple problem, and I too, just like you am in pain) Hi. I have been gaming for 19 years. I'm 35. I quit gaming on 20th of November 2017. Never before had I even tried to quit so I wanted to see if I can do it. Decided to quit for just one week. I have quit alcohol, caffeine, porn and masturbation, Magic the Gathering, and I have to say, quitting computer gaming was the hardest by far. I did it because I felt exactly like you do now. After a lot of reading and watching information about my problems I realized that my biggest problem with gaming is that it's a substitute for all that I need in life. And because it is substituting those things, I am not putting any effort into achieving them. Progress: Any time I would have an urge to get something done, I would not try to learn a new skill, or get a better or any job, I would go into a game and grid for 16 hours to get the items, levels and so on (Diablo 3 was my drug of choice but there were many, many others). Communication: Any time I would need to talk to a person, a real life human being, I would substitute that with online gaming, (Overwatch), and convince my self that I had human interactions and that because they were mostly terrible people, humans are just the worst and I should not even try to spend time with the real version of them. Going out side: I would get these urges, to see places in a video game, to explore unknown lands and universes. So I would start up Skyrim or Fallout and just spend days, moths in there. What my mind and body really wanted and needed was to outside. So what happened after I quit gaming. Well, any time I would get the urge to grind, to make some progress, instead of grinding ingame, I would read a book, not just fiction, but something that would make me smarter, for example, this book informed me of things I had not even thought about . Any time I would need to communicate, I would call up old friends, try to get them to get out and talk to them, honestly, about how badly I felt about my life, about all the things that were happening and much more importantly about all the things that were not happening in my life. Some came out with me for a cup of coffee or tea, some did not. Some helped, some were in even more pain then me. But just talking, was making me see that while I did have problems, talking about them made them not seem impossible, as long as I worked on them. And above all else, I started walking. Ever day, just leave the apartment and walk, first for minutes, then for hours. Just walk and look a trees, parks, roads, there is even a small mountain near me, I tried to walk on its trails, and I felt incredible! After the first week I did not want to go back to gaming. Every week after that I would have this panic attack "OH MY GOD HOW MUCH TIME OF MY LIFE DID I WASTE!? I HAVE NOTHING TO SHOW FOR MOST OF MY ADULT LIFE!!!!!". And then I would calm down, and remember, that no matter how much time I had wasted (and I did not see it as wasting time before I quit), it's better to start late then never. This is my advice to you, a saying that really helps "How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.". Never forget this, no matter how scary or impossible the problem might seam, just start, very very slow, every day, and don't stop. And one more thing, this TED talk changed my life for the better, it made me talk to my father, quit porn and finally quit gaming . Now I am a better, stronger, fitter, smarter, man then I was before watching this talk. Trying to understand and talk to my (very cold and distant) father, gave me peace, quitting porn and masturbation is the reason that I have a girlfriend of two year now (after being single for 7 years!) and finally, quitting gaming showed me that I am not a unmotivated, useless slob, I was just throwing all of my energy in something that is not real life. One more saying and I'm done "The wolf that you feed is the wolf that will win", If you spend your time gaming, you will be a better gamer, if you spend your time living, you will be a better human, which do you want to be? P.S. I know it's hard, it really is, but from my experience, it really is worth it. Best of luck and stay strong.