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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: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Monday January 07 2019, @08:22PM
>real life is ultimately more engaging?
I tend to binge on a game for a while, but ultimately something in real life distracts me and I'll usually put the "game" down cold turkey to give more time to the new distraction. When real life lacks any adequately compelling distractions, I find another game to play.
"Games" I have played include: Seven Cities of Gold, New House, Starcraft, Modifying my car, Diablo, Writing my own algorithmic world (Conway's Life++), Developing raw forest land for recreational use, Sim City and similar (Cities Skylines), Children, 3d Printing, etc. etc.
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