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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: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday January 07 2019, @08:33PM
My brother and I used to both play Need For Speed independently, but when we started competing with one another we both pushed to much more extreme levels of performance - stuff that would have been too boring to bother with trying to get right alone was suddenly worth the effort just to "beat" the other sibling.
Lots of (the better) games have a wide margin between casual good feeling play and ultimate high scoring. If the Nephews have been trying to outdo each other, it's no wonder that a casual newbie would get creamed by them.
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