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Gaming was like breathing. It was the biggest part of my life as a teenager, one of my priorities as a college student, and eventually one of my most expensive “hobbies” as a young professional.
Then all of a sudden, after thousands of hours spent playing across genres and platforms, boredom hit me hard for the very first time in my early thirties. Some of my favorite games soon gave me the impression of being terribly long. I couldn’t help but notice all the repeating tropes and similarities in game design between franchises.
I figured it was just a matter of time before I found the right game to stimulate my interest again, but time continued to go by and nothing changed.
Is it that games have failed to innovate, or that real life is ultimately more engaging?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 08 2019, @12:29AM
Yours is a good perspective, but "The world is vast and varried. And the more you discover, the more things you do, the less and less spendings hours sitting on your ass in front of a screen seems like an interesting way of spending your time" is not quite as true as you would think.
If you have TONS of disposable income then yes, traveling the world and doing things IRL is quite entertaining. Without tons of cash your options are VERY quickly limited, traveling the world gets boring as well once you realize humans are pretty much the same everywhere, and group activities are usually a bit infrequent once you're out of school.
Local and cheap hobbies will work for some people, but not everyone has the resources to do so. Don't judge how other people spend their own time, in the end we all turn to dust and even the most grand human works break down over time.
I would say the bigger problem is a lack of public space and transportation. It simply costs too much and takes too long to go do things more than a mile from home, perhaps as we get older we get enough resources to expand our interests but I still see nothing wrong with gaming as long as it isn't causing the person unhappiness or other life problems.