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At some point you recognize the game is just giving you another to-do list.

Nah, I think that starts happening when you first get a job. Jobs take longer than school and generally are more labor intensive, and there's also the commute, and when you get home you have to do chores and either make healthy food or eat something garbage for your body, and that's just as a single person or a couple. It's no wonder everyone's tired, the 9-5 grind can be really exhausting, and when you're tired anything that takes effort feels like a grind.

Idk about you but I'm a dev, and when you have a job tbag keeps your brain ON a lot of the time, I feel like it's more common to want to turn it off in your down time

In the last couple of years I feel like that. Games that require a lot of time to get into, or to complete, feel like not accessible anymore.

I play either those games I used to for I already know them, or something with a very short route to dopamine. I've found playing Burnout series not causing me this burnout, kek. Just racing, no long-time investments, just crushing cars and see them fly. A good way to rest after a day of complicated tasks and decisions.

Nah, life's exhausting and the older you get the more exhausting it becomes. Work requirements and responsibilities typically increase as you age, children are a black hole of time (as fun as they are), your body just starts to say "fuck this" and give up in creative ways and you just generally have less energy than you did the day before.

Diablo is cancer tbh. Mindless grinding, zero skill. The only challenge is creating a nice build but that requires grinding and anyone can copy it from a YouTuber and learn to use it in a few minutes.

Why? KINGMAKER AND BALDURS GATE ARE RIGHT THERE DUDE

I remember when grinding diablo was something you did because you liked killing endless hordes of monsters. It wasn't because the game told you to do it.

Also crazy being a fan of 1 and 2 when they were new and having fans of 3 and 4 telling you this and that were always part of the series, clearly showing they have only ever played Diablo 3 and 4 because they're always things that were first introduced in 3 and were the things that fans prior to 3 criticized when it came out.

I have fallen asleep multiple times playing that game. The stable music is perfect if you're trying to drift off to sleep. Something about that flute...

Yea there seems to be so much to do that I spend all my time wondering what to do next, only to find that its not that fun and then spending more time traveling to somewhere else

I am still too tired after a day of WFH

I hope steam's still going strong when I retire.

I am replaying Dragon Age: Origins right now also! Same experience for me. I'm trying to watch all dialogue scenes also and let them play out without skipping.

I turn around and a few hours has passed without me even knowing...

Damn. I loved that game so much. I miss old BioWare RPGs.

Im on lunch with my deck sitting next to me in it's bag. I just don't have the energy anymore after work. Hell part of it is every time I get into a game I have to stop to let my dogs out or in and then that steals enjoyment as now I'm watching and waiting for them instead of being immersed. It sucks.

Got into making games as a hobby a few years back and it basically made it impossible to play games like I used to. Took a while to separate those parts of my brain.

Weirdly it's the other way for me. I love Cyberpunk and am trying to replay it, and my favourite games have always been long and story driven, I love turning over the rocks and seeing how deep it all goes, playing KOTOR as a kid was just fascinating.

But, they're a slow burn that take some engagement to really enjoy. When I'm tired I miss all the details and nuance, find I've not been listening to dialogue and stuff.

But I can fire up something like Overwatch and can play well effortlessly almost instinctually. I often don't get much time to game, so the fact its full-on actually helps, whereas in an RPG, you can easily burn half an hour on what's basically just dialogue and travel. It's hard to take your time to enjoy it when you don't have time.

But it's fine, it's something to look forward to occasionally. You don't watch a movie every night, and ultimately I could find time, but I feel better spending that time on other things usually, or just letting off steam on a less thinky game.