>>724072547
games become disposable slop that get forgotten about in 2 weeks like donkey kong bazing and mario kart wilds and ghost of yeti and you're supposed to beat it and move on to the next thing and say you had a blast with them all even if you don't remember any of them

>>724072547
when reddit became the heart of the internet

>>724072769
thats a (You) problem
i play games for fun

>>724072547
I finish old thing and move onto other old things while watching lets plays of current things

>>724072872
It's an everyone else problem I'm observing.

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I got to a point where i would feel guilty for replaying a game i actually had fun with instead of working on my backlog.

This shit is a mental illness.

>want to play game
>want to play other game
>also other game as well
>and other game too
>etc
why are you triggered by people wanting to play different games

>>724072547
People realized they're buying 12+ full price games a year to keep up with social media trends, only to never play them past the intro. Or the people who have a Steam library of 500+ games purchased as part of various bundles, yet 15k hours in some F2P game or MMO.
Let them do what they want if it helps to cut down on those behaviors.

>>724073225
>buying 12+ full price games a year to keep up with social media trends
kek do goyim really do this? this is why i believe the housing market is just fine. the actual problem is millennials not knowing how to stop buying goyslop every time their favorite e-celeb mentions a game

>>724073225
Tbf, gaming really popped up hard from ~2015 and onwards, theres a huge batch of new 'gamers' that have no idea on what to try, so they go with the most famous games i.e nu GoW, Ghost of Tsushima, Elden Ring, BG3 and so on
So naturally when they see new games like Ghost of Yotei being released they will gobble it up fast

>>724072547
at the moment I have 8 games installed that I rotate between but I refuse to have a "backlog". Games aren't chores they're for having fun

>>724072547
I still play games to have fun. It's the non gamers trying to be gamers that have been fooled in to believeing they must beat every game in order to have street cred.

>>724072547
"Don't ask questions just consume product and then get excited for next product."

>>724072547

When Ubisoft checklist design became the norm

>>724072547
Unironically was this guy some years back. Bought a game and used to look at the playtime on it beforehand, so if a game was say 20 hours, and I was 10 hours in I would say "oh i only got 10 hours before im finished"
Then I realized I was a retard so i switched my ways

i'd rather play games like i read book, finish one, start another

beats doomscrolling at least

When we got good internet speeds.

Somewhere post 2008, thank the jews crashing the economy and making everyone do good digital discounts to sell or teaching people to pirate for entertainment.

>>724072547
It's crazy to think about when I didn't or couldn't finish probably half the games I played as a kid, and I didn't give a fuck

>be stupid kid with 0 concept of time or aging
>have fun running around GTA with cheats enabled blowing things up for dopamine for hours and hours and hours every day for months on end with no goal
>grow up
>realize time is precious as you slowly march towards death in a perpetual cycle of waging and stressing about money
>brain develops so you no longer get funny dopamine feelings from le randumb shit in games
>struggle to have fun running around pointlessly without a goal in the same game you've played for 200 hours
>goals feel better because it feels like an accomplishment, something you are sorely lacking in real life because reality is soul draining
This is why. Games didn't get worse at keeping people in them and playing for fun (I mean in some ways they did and some ways they didn't), kids still do that. You just got older. You realized your time is worth more than doing stupid bullshit and that turning on infinite ammo and low gravity in GTA isn't actually all that interesting.

>>724073225
yeah it's really not a problem with gaming at all but rather a problem with consooming.
just don't buy games if you're not going to immediately install+launch them

I keep a .txt file with a list of interesting-looking games to check out when I feel like playing something new, but the idea of a backlog being something you should strive to clear out is bizarre to me. Having options to choose between is a good thing.

>>724073225
I always thought I was weird for only having 80 games on steam, and like 12 of them are just free shit that randomly appeared in my library one day since I've never once visited their store pages.
I still don't understand why they are there
>barotrauma
>elsword
>deadly 30
>marbles
>out of space
>survivalist: invisible strain
>unturned
Why the hell are these here?

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>>724081112
Well it seems like the opposite for me. I don't cheat, but I also worry about "goals".

I used to poopsock Xbox 360 all day long to get those precious achievements and I look back like "goddamn that sucked" and now I just play the games I want, on whatever platform I want, on whatever difficulty I want.

>>724082546
Don't worry about goals, rather.

>>724072547
Probably when games exponentially grew to an unplayable numbers of hours that outpaced even the unemployed.

It's simple
You play a game
It's fun? You keep playing
It's not fun? Check it off your backlog and never touch it again

>>724072547
>>724073016
>decide to become a completionist
>after 3 games I want to kill myself
>after I get home from work I feel like I have to start my second job for a virtual medal
>play the games I actually WANT to
>feel good again
Never fall in this trap bros.

>>724073016
I am making an effort to explore modern games more and not be stuck in my 1993 to 2013 bubble. I think exploring more of this great medium is objectively a good thing.

I can't see any of these new games becoming a classic to me personally. I'm sure a large chunk of that is I'm not a kid anymore, but also the time commitment is crazy. I want to go back to an average PS2 or 360 title and it's a 10 hour commitment on the high end. But these modern games go for fucking ever.

>>724072547
this video was specifically about how much better it is when you just treat your backlog like a light suggestion of what to play next and to keep your gaming time organized

>>724082546
I was using cheats in GTA as just an example of "a time wasting 'fun' that serves no purpose and drives no story, just playing the game for fun"
And by goals I don't mean achivement chasing, but like the difference between turning on Tony Hawk's Pro skater and just running around the sandbox for 5 hours vs turning it on and going through the story and finishing the game.

I feel like as a kid, I was more open to just running around a video game doing side stuff or just wasting time having "fun" but as I grew older I could no longer justify just turning on a game to run around making no progress and now I feel compelled to either progress the game or just not play at all.

>>724073630
>Ghost of Tsushima, Elden Ring, BG3 and so on
these are solid games. i got back into gaming from those games. my first game back was starfield. if you havent played a game in 10 years starfield is amazing. but all i play now is hardcore retro shit like shmups and ninja gaiden and shit

>>724088078
playing for score is a happy medium between sandbox brain and progress brain. you still have the creative expression of the sandbox but you still have an objective sense of progress to work towards