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Anyone else bounce around from game to game with no clue what to play? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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Used to spend most of my days playing live service games that required a huge amount of time, or big AAA titles that are critically acclaimed. For example, Fallout 4/76, Battlefield 2042, rainbow six, World of Warcraft, RuneScape, Skyrim, Destiny 2, OverWatch.... Basically any really big game that you would find on the top 20 of steam or by player count, I would spend a huge amount of time playing that. But I got pretty bored of all these really big games having overplayed them so much, and now I have no idea what to play anymore...

So I'll spend a few hours playing something, and then jump to another game and then another game and none of them give me any Joy. For example, playing 3 hours of 7 Days to Die, 10 hours of No Man's Sky, 5 hours of stardew Valley, play fortnite with a friend for 2 hours, login to World of Warcraft and get bored Within a day or two. Tried going back to Battlefield 2042 because it saw a small uptick of players....

Honestly have no idea what to play anymore. So I just bounce around trying to look for something that'll bring me some joy and don't get much luck

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The bouncing around isn't a bad thing.

In fact, if anything, I try to be sensitive to when I start to burn out on a game, and when that happens I avoid playing until the desire is really strong again.

Sometimes looking for something to play means having a LARGE number of false starts before I find the thing, but I make a note of not trying a bunch of similar games whenever something isn't scratching the itch. I make each attempt with something very different.

And coming back to a game can take years.

That's kind why you need a TON of games if you don't want to take breaks from gaming entirely, because otherwise the medium just doesn't have enough variety to keep the human brain engaged.

You should try shorter games, and completely ignore whether something is "big" enough to be worth your time. The big stuff is what's boring you right now, so don't waste time on trying to force the enjoyment.

Plus, if you're restricting yourself to stuff that achieves critical acclaim, you're limiting yourself to games everyone likes. That means you're probably missing some stuff only you and people like you would like.

Not all good things are enjoyed by everyone universally, some things are just for a subset of people.