How long do I have to refrain from video games before it becomes fun again? Or is the joy from video games lost forever?
>>83075463King, just do what you enjoy. Bonus points, if you piss off foid in the process.
>>83075675I guess I'm never enjoying video games ever again.
>>83075463I spent years devoting my life to World of Warcrack and I understand why they called it that. I'll never get a high like that again, not from the same drug or any other one.
>>83076865I believe its possible to grow out of video games
>>83076898I played lineage 2 instead of wow
>>83076898i never saw what the appeal of wow was. it looks super fucking boring
>>83075463Just stop playing them. Eventually you'll miss them and come back and have fun again.
>>83075463You just need to play older (pre-2010) video games again, preferably not on the easiest difficulty. Unironically get good at fighting games (other than Smash), too.
>>83076945well at first there's a whole world to explore. I wasn't even out of the starting zone and I was all "Holy fucking shit, I can make copper chain pants!". Once you learn the game and all it's about who you play it with. That's a big part of it, that was the last time I had frens. And we'd waltz into raids and kick some ass together. But they all left and the internet has changed now.Though desu even the boring parts I kinda liked. I could zone out and grind for hours at a time. (optionally, watch some old movie or something on your other monitor) Yeah, technically you can do that in any game, but it only feels good in something where cumulative progress like that does something.
>>83075463post fave genres
>>83077267>frensThis is the key to a successful vidya addiction. Singleplayer games just can't hit the same crack-like itch that playing with other addict bros can, it just isn't the same. Maybe in the future if we ever get smart singleplayer AI
>>83075463I took like 6 years off and then tried battlefield 6 when it came outIt was fun for like 2 weeks and then I got bored againI think it's just over anonI look back on my gamer days really fondly, but I think I just don't have that part of my brain anymore
>>83077907To be fair BF6 just isn't nearly as good as even BF3 was at the time, this goes for most modern slop. It's been over for a while, I found myself thinking the same as you until I started playing some indie shit that kinda activated the old dopamine receptors that were still present. But the golden age of vidya is over for now at least, I think we had it too good.
>>83075463take break from story and rpg games and play something fun and arcadey
>>83077867>tfw i have no frens
>>83075463You've lost the magic, no amount of tolerance break will fix this
>>83075463>How long do I have to refrain from video games before it becomes fun again?You misunderstand. At one time you were spiritually healthy and experienced joy. You entangled yourself with stimulus which began to lock that joy away behind gaming. Over time your spiritual health has deteriorated. The reason you do not feel the heights of joy from gaming is because gaming never had anything to do with it other than arbitrarily limiting your joy. Over time other things have limited your joy and so when provided with the stimulus of the game you don't notice anything. You may have cravings, you may have pains, you may have despairs or anxieities or rages, or some other vice, and these are the things that limit your capacity to feel joy. You've misunderstood, the game never gave you the joy, you already had it, you locked it behind games for a while, and now it has been locked further behind other things.
>>83077267>cumulative progress>sense of newness and exploration ("wonder")>community and friendsSo basically, everything that was good about real life before it became an atomized cybernetic nightmare where everything in your life is completely known, all of your work just goes into a black hole because 99% of jobs are meaningless, and you have no real connections with anyone. Real mystery how it was so easy to fall hopelessly into it. Too bad it sucks now and only has cumulative progress, the wonder and the community spirit are long gone. I hold out hope something can bring it back and I can be like the 45 year old boomer alcoholics in my guild from back in the day.
>>83078180I don't know, I've very skeptical that real life ever had the same kind of appeal. >like the 45 year old boomer alcoholics in my guild from back in the day.We had one of those, he was the priest in our Kara group. Used to run 40-mans back in Vanilla, never once showed up sober. Great healer, but at least once a run the MT would fuck up and facepull a five-pack or something and the DPS would have to go grab something and save his ass. He'd spamheal a rogue or a DPS warrior while they "offtanked" whatever was about to kill him and never seemed the least bit fazed by it. Guess half a bottle of bourbon does that to you.
>>83075463>How long do I have to refrain from video games before it becomes fun again? Or is the joy from video games lost forever?A long break can help. In recent months, I got back into Gran Turismo 4 after 15 years away from playing it.
>>83075463Personally not finding games fun always sounded to me like no longer finding movies fun. Any long-term exposure to media makes you numb to overarching and repeated themes in the popular games so you need to become more and more niche. So far I'm still not tired.
>>83077938>But the golden age of vidya is over for now at least, I think we had it too good.sucks ass but yeah it really seems like it.I remember cod ghosts flopping and then it was like a switch flipped and every game after that was shitI'm just glad I grew up on 2000s kino
