When i was a kid i used to love video games, specifically flash games, mobile games and retro games like Mario, Sonic, Mega Man, Zelda, Kirby, Pokemon and Undertale. They were simple but they felt so much fun whenever i got back home from school.But then i became a teen and started playing mature and/or hard games like Devil May Cry, Half Life, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Cuphead, Hollow Knight, Metal Gear Solid and Shin Megami Tensei/Persona. At this point i got so used to video games they didn't feel magical anymore but rather productive. There are often times where a section of a video game i play is so hard i spend so much time trying to get past through it while watching a playthrough. There are also rare times where i ragequit on a section of a video game other consider easy with enough practice it makes me feel embarrassed.Video games feel like homework those days. I want to quit them and switch to a more relaxing hobby like anime and manga but i don't want to be seen as a coward for not wanting to beat a challenging game. Even worse is that i get often sick once per month due to a weaker immune system yet i still force myself to play video games to feel a sense of productivity.
>>33877278>Should I quit videogamesYes
>>33877278I didn't read the rest of your text btw.
I think it is a good sign that you are asking yourself this question. I have a couple of suggestions.Check out habitica.com, it makes your life into an rpg so you can customize it to get points and level up by doing things you want to accomplish in life. Last time I was using it there was no cost and no ads. Also you can join parties if you want, so you get social support if that is your thing. If you quit gaming this can be a good thing to scratch that itch.My other suggestion is to look up the stages of change. Right now you are in the comtemplation stage. The advice for someone in the contemplation stage is to do a cost benefit analysis. 1. Benefits of quitting vidya 2. Drawbacks of quitting vidya 3. Benefits of not quitting vidya 4. Drawbacks of not quitting vidyaAfter you have made your list you put an L or an S for whether it is short term or long term. Sometimes it is amazing to see that all the long term benefits favor one side and all the short term dopamine hits favor the other side.Vidya can hijack your brain and make you feel like you are accomplishing something real, when you are really just stagnating. I don't know if it's the case for you, maybe not, but they are dangerous for some people. I suspect vidya is part of the reason this generation's testosterone is so low. IQ's are dropping too, but I doubt vidya contributes to that, I think there are good things about vidya if you can keep it under control.Remember that change can feel weird and wrong only because we are going against old habits, not because the change is actually wrong.Anyway, good luck on whatever you decide to do, I believe you can handle this issue one way or another.
>want to be seen as a coward for not wanting to beat a challenging gameYou are not a coward for thisQuitting video games and learning something more practical is probably takes more courage
>>33877278I would, personally. And I say this as somebody who's logged thousands of hours in games over the years, anything from Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, to Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, to GTA, to Hitman, to TF2, to Papers Please, to Change: Homeless Survival. Video games are fun as a kid, they can increase one's abilities to imagine abstract things, read and extract information from text, solve problems and think critically, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Pokemon Red literally taught me how to read, so I get it. But once you get older and experience the shift in priorities, you realize video games are literally nothing but a time-sink. For me, quitting video games was not a matter of deciding to quit, but not wanting to spend what little free time I had left on that hobby, after making sure all my objectives were met. Learn a new language, cook delicious recipes, travel the world, read books that shape a more informed worldview, try to get a better job and advance your career, undertake the goal of becoming financially secure, learn to fix your own car. These are just examples.You can still turn this around, but at the same time? You're not getting any younger, OP. At the end of the day, we are all running out of time.
>>33877278you should, but you won't
>>33877278video games aren't even good anymore. i used to be addicted but it was easy to quit since every new game was garbage. go one week without them and see how easy it is to never pick up the controller again.
>>33877387>Check out habiticaI saw the app on Google Play before and i never bothered installing it. It feels really unfair using this app because you are the one making the rules, you can set irl tasks, how difficult they can be, how much EXP and money they can give you. You can very easily cheat in the app by not actually doing the tasks and mark them as done while receiving EXP/money. It feels exactly like pic related. The reason i kept playing video games is because they already give you a challenge. Just like a teacher giving their student a school assignment. It's like starting up a video game with debug mode on.The reason i kept playing video games is because there are still popular video games (including trendy and very old ones) i've never played and i feel like i'm gonna be seen as a fake gamer for not playing them. (especially from /v/, where some 30-year old boomer asshole wrote an entire ragebait essay against me for not playing over 1000+ games in my life while i'm still 18.)I'm not saying i have anything better to do since i plan to go to art school in the future and spend plenty of my days drawing, but i play more video games not just to feel more welcome, but to appreciate gaming more.
>>33877528Eventually, everything is waste of time if you don’t like it and it doesn’s bring you any satisfaction&development in area you wish to succeed. There are no any “useful” or “practical” skills - fuck, you can make money out of sleeping in front of a camera. It’s just simple luck. So vidy are as good as learning a language or travelling around. You need just to find right proportion out of it. From my experience without years in multiplayer & single games I would never find any good friends I have now since I have been quite autistic (I didn’t have PC before my 11th birthday, so they are not reason for it). Even now when I have full time job it doesn’t stop me from being successful in what I WANT, not others.
If all you are going to do is watch anime then vidya is probably the better choice, because of the challenge. I, like others ITT, advise going for something with more real life rewards.In regards to your complaint about habitca, you would need to learn to set it so that it is challenging but achievable, just like worthwhile things in real life. You are your own master. It might not be for you thats fine, it helped me to accomplish one particular thing that I wasn't able to do before, but it's not for everyone.>and i feel like i'm gonna be seen as a fake gamer for not playing them.Seems like you care a lot about what "real gamers" think. 99% of the world doesn't.Is it also possible that in your own mind, you would call yourself a "fake gamer"? Or that you have your identity and self esteem tied up in gaming?
>>33877724>If all you are going to do is watch anime then vidya is probably the better choice, because of the challenge.Idk about you but anime seems like the better choice since it gives me more inspiration for art.>>33877724>Is it also possible that in your own mind, you would call yourself a "fake gamer"?I wouldn't call myself a fake gamer since i've beaten the harder/mature games i've just mentioned and they DID give me some sense of accomplishment. (especially the Persona trilogy that actually gave me the time of my life) It's just that /v/ just doesn't like it when people play video games that they like (especially the asshole i just mentioned) and by having the same interests as them i feel more welcome into 4chan as a whole and avoid getting called a fake gamer/newfag.>Or that you have your identity and self esteem tied up in gaming?I don't, i used to but then i realized having actual talent as an artist could make me someone worth caring about in society, yet i still play video games to avoid feeling oppressed
>>33877278As I got older I fully embraced Reggie's words of wisdom. If it's not fun, why bother? If the shits too hard just turn the fucking difficulty down, who do you have to prove yourself to? I use to rage at games and then I realized what a fucking faggot I was being. I work all God damn day, games should be relaxing or at least enjoyable.
>>33877678ok so instead of quitting altogether, what about a compromise? Only play when you are enjoying yourself and in the flow. If it feels like homework or it feels like you need to prove your worth as a human being in this game, then don't play.
>>33877784>more inspiration for artsince you do both, what video game you've played has the best "art", if you know what I mean? (not talking about graphics)
Play them a little less, play different genres, avoid all gaming discussion online, and for the love of god do NOT play story driven cutscene heavy games. That's literally all you have to do. No navel gazing, no YouTube clickbait with lofi in the background telling you their secrets to enjoy things again, no 10/10 masterpiece games recommended by a bunch of 3x3 spamming losers on /v/ for internet clout, no "I have to stop playing games now because I'm a grown up and instead go to the gym and do muh hiking and muh travel and muh side hustles and all those other things strangers on the internet tell me will make me happy", none of that nonsense. I really only play for 2-3 hours on weekends these days and I'm enjoying games more than ever. Not in that all-or-nothing passionate way of a child, but a general consistent sense of fun.
Draw a picture of yourself, what you would look like in 10 years if you quit video games. Then draw a picture of yourself if you didn't quit.
>>33877278Yes. I won't read a wall of text where the subject line says everything I need to know (thanks for that).
>>33877278you sound underage. I have more than 1 hobby at a time and switch around between shows, reading and games
>>33877831Ori and the Blind Forest/Will of the Wisps has one of the best gaming visuals i've ever seen
>>33877278I've been busy with school and haven't touched a video game in almost two months. Since then in my free time I've gone skateboarding, started playing guitar again, and picked up other hobbies. I really don't miss games.
>>33877278>When i was a kid i used toWhen I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
