Single player board games. Sounds lame but look up hunt a killer stand alone..
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I had stopped gaming for about 5 years to focus on my career and starting a family. I'm now turning 40 this year and have been dabbling with games again but nothing really stuck until I started the Trails in the Sky trilogy. I ended up playing it a few hours every other night. Something about it was so refreshing that I'm now about to wrap up the 3rd game.
Like others have mentioned, perhaps your mood or perspective changes as you get older and it's just about finding the right game to play.
Nearly an empty nester, I got back into it with diablo and am surprised it's not affected my marriage. She'll just sit next to me and do her thing on phone/tablet.
Don’t optimize the shit out of the game, just play them for as long as they are fun and ditch them afterwards.
One thing I’ve noticed is that I’ll take a long break from a game I enjoy and later I want to go back to it and pick up where I left off, but I know I’ll have to re-learn it all over again before I can start having fun. I don’t want to have to expend the mental energy learning it again when I just want to have fun, so I instead end up watching YouTube or tv shows and not really enjoying my free time.
Now, whenever I start a new game I make a folder where I keep any spreadsheets or information I collect while playing, and most importantly keep extensive notes, including keybinds and UI to refresh my memory. This saves me from a lot of those squinty eye moments saying “ooohh how tf do I do that again…” and having to research something online.
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I have recently gone back to Fallout New Vegas and I have been sinking tons of time into it exploring. It has reignited my love for single player games :)
Getting into Quake Champions helped cure this after realizing how bad most competitive fps games are now
Quake 3 arena and quake live are also good. And of course Titanfall 2.
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It sucks that quake only lives through QC, QC is such a garbage game. The client is half assed. The entire game is still in early access. The movement and shooting mechanics are fine but I hate champions and abilities 0/10
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I feel personally attacked
Jsut give me your address and I'll personally attack you (nothing personal tho)
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When I feel like this is just crack open
Red Alert 2: Yuri's revenge
Master of Olympus Zeus
Anno
Games were better in my day.
But tbh my love of gaming has died since you had to pay for online consoles and your can't have bants on COD anymore.
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan this hit hard
Comes and goes in waves for me. I find games wbere me and my friends are just having fun still brings that feeling.
A lot of modern games just adhere to a basic formula and as such, I tend to get bored of them after a while. First Horizon? Nice. Second Horizon? More of the same. Horizon DLC? Even more of the same. It gradually got a bit more boring with every new entry.
So what I did was...I got an Xbox 360. Loaded it up with 5TB of games. And then I just picked something random to play. It made me discover Catherine, such a weird and awesome game.
I think, getting out of your comfort zone can refresh your enjoyment of gaming.
Let's see what else I can find on that thing...
I love chess and card games
Me for the back 98.5% of Tears of the Kingdom