Do you force yourself to play video games?

Do you force yourself to play video games?

yeah this is me, except with anime

Yeah. If I didn't I'd have a huge backlog

>no urge to play vidya
>have to literally force myself to start a game
>start a game
>play for hours on end and can't put it down

Teach me

>Do you force yourself to play video games?
yes. only for an hour.

god, this is me.

any good coop games to play besides re5/6?

nah, i do force myself not to browse Sup Forums sometimes though and that often leads me to gaming

I have to force myself to start them, but usually I can put at least 50 hours into something before moving on, unless it has amazing replay value.

Never.
I can go for months without playing anything, then I get some idea to try something out or I remember something I want to play so I install it and play it.

>I have to force myself to start them, but usually I can put at least 50 hours into something before moving on, unless it has amazing replay value.
This. loading up the game and actually playing it is the hardest part of all

I'll sit and play a game for hours once I'm going, but for some reason the drive to actually click it and play never seems to overpower the drive to shitpost on Sup Forums

>buy game
>"I'm totally gonna play it this time and not shelve it like my other backlog games"
>play 5-10 hours
>never play it again
>come back to same game months later
>start over my save because it
It's been so long
>repeat cycle
I can't even remember the last time I actually finished a game, it's been years.

I'm so damn picky with games too. If a game reveals lack of polish in areas and the gameplay just isn't making up for it, then I just want to stop playing. Can't just turn off my brain and play a fuckin' game, not like I have anything better to do.

DROP YOUR ENTIRE FUCKING BACKLOG
>B-B-BUT THERE ARE SOME GOOD GAMES H-
SHUT THE FUCK UP, DROP THAT SHIT
IF YOU ARE FORCING YOURSELF TO PLAY THEM, IT'S NOT WORTH IT, EVEN IF YOU WOULD HAVE ENDED LOVING THE GAME
JUST PLAY WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU FEEL LIKE PLAYING AT THE MOMENT
IF YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE PLAYING ANYTHING, DO SOMETHING ELSE
FUCK

100% this

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But Sup Forums said I should absolutely play ZoE1 before 2 or the story won't make sense and I won't appreciate the improvements in gameplay (ZoE1 is absolute trash, sorry Hideous)

Yes. I have a bunch of shit in my backlog, as well as in-progress, that I don't have much interest in. Fucking Steam sales don't help.

It's true though. ZoE2 is a perfect sequel, since it fixes pretty much everything wrong with ZoE1. But you shouldn't force to beat it, just get a grasp on how basic the mechanics were, and watch the cutscenes on youtube or some shit you fucking casual

>no urge to play vidya
>have to force myself to start a singleplayer game
>start a singleplayer game
>quit and go back to mmo
i have to be on a spectrum or something cause i can't enjoy stuff when i know there's stuff i can enjoy with other people even if the stuff i could do on my own might be more enjoyable as it's own thing the fact that other people are involved is more fulfilling to me

>don't know what to play
>feel urge to play shitty mobile games again
helpppp

If you have fun playing those "shitty mobile games" why would you even care?

I don't that's the problem

Sometimes it's hard to play older games. Got a lot of stuff from my childhood I never beat but it's difficult for me to put forth the energy to plug in my old CRT and sega rather than just double click something on my computer.

Play games that are immersive and don't suck.

Because fun is a buzzword.
Obey
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Then I guess you just want something to waste your time. Maybe try some Diablolikes? You can play them while listening to some podcast or something.

that's me except with every form of entertainment
shitposting is too entertaining

it's not even that entertaining, I spend way too much time simply waiting for responses to bait when i could be doing something else

>get two weeks off for Christmas holiday because I work at a university
>oh man I can't wait to do productive shit like working out, finding a girlfriend, enrolling in school again and finishing games off my backlog!
>spend most of my time so far shitposting, watching youtube vids and a little bit of anime, and fapping atleast 2-3 times a day
I hope reddit is right and NN kills the internet because this shit is slowly killing me inside.

you're me
but stronger

>Only stop playing games halfway through NG+.
>Have 10 games in the middle or end of NG+ I have to get back to and finish.
I love every single one of them but sometimes I just jerk off several times instead.

Nah, I don't even bother anymore.

No I don't, If a game gets to frustrating and boring then I'll clam down and play a different game. I'll play what I find either fun, interesting or engaging. Forcing your self to play a game is a complete waste of valuable time at that point.

You can't kill the internet, but you can kill yourself

>always get mad when rpgs don't have ng+
>beat rpg that has ng+
>never replay it

What was the point of this post?

Why are we like this?

it's depression.
I don't want to see a shrink, though. I dunno why, I just don't.

No. I took a week off of work, installed a bunch of games, but I haven't played shit.

depression

kinda. i'm stuck on the second digger minigame puzzle in Okami and i'm very close to lookin at a walkthrough so i know what to do. its either force myself to learn it, look at a guide, or just stop playing for awhile

And yet I keep buying games.

biking from jewyork to LA would be incredibly boring though.

Yes. Sadly, I play the old games because no new games compare. I keep playing hoping to recapture what the old games once gave me, but I crave something more. An advancement that never happened. I crave an alternate reality where 2D games kept advancing past the classics like Super Metroid, Super Mario World and Castlevania series. I crave FPS games that took in the footsteps of Goldeneye and Perfect Dark instead of Call of Duty and Halo. I crave 3D games that kept expanding immensely at gameplay mechanics and interesting plots instead of shoehorned multiplayer and DLC/MTs. But that isn't the reality, thus I continue playing older games... waiting.

>GF got me an SNES classic for christmas
>spend the first few days scrolling through different games visiting each one
>end up getting bored of one and going to the next
>get to earthbound
>force myself to play it for around 10 minutes
>didn't stop playing for 3 hours, enjoying literally every second of it
Feels good my dude
Also theres no ness costanza reaction pic which really surprises me. If anyone has something like that then I would appreciate it

ahh I've seen at least a couple in my time, so they're definitely out there.

challenge accepted

If you like shooters, Dead Space 3 and Inversion. Might try Dead island too

I await the your return from your spiritual journey.

>it takes 63 hours to read the bible
truly?

Not really, I've become absolutely addicted to porn games over the last decade.

What is the site

>used to be WoW addict
>would buy other video games, play for an hour and go back to WoW
I know i'm not alone here. This happened with DotA 2 and Overwatch as well. I have probably bought 40 or so games in the past 4 years and have only played these.
I bought the new Call of Duty, played a game of zombies then went back to OW. Fuck.

Achievements unironically get me to play games I otherwise would not play these days. If I see a game on steam and it's an old one, doesn't have achievements, I'm less motivated to buy it, but if it's a remaster and has them, I'll scoop it up and try to earn every single one to completion if possible.
For example, working through Turok remastered right now, and really enjoying it, I probably wouldn't have ever bought it if it didn't have steam achievements, I know it sounds dumb but it's the truth. Fez too, another game I never played but it was only $1.00 and I finished it yesterday and got all achievements in it, was pretty satisfying getting all the anticubes and whatnot even though some of those puzzles were complete bullshit and impossible to solve w/o a guide.

sucks to be me cuz i jist get this itch for certain niche stuff and ill play it for hours ln end. then i dont wanna play shit for like a week

Yeah I do. Sucks too

Give me one good reason why I shouldn't just end it thus.

That's like a 4 hour game dude.

ANOTHER BACKLOG REJECTED

Anyone else too lazy to change discs?

>read wiki
>feels like finished the game
>shitpost on Sup Forums

There's nothing to teach. If you're not in the mood for vidya, then you shouldn't force yourself to play. I play maybe 2-3 video games a year now which is much less than I used to. I could easily force myself to play a lot more, but I've found that it's not worth it. So I'm patient. I try a lot of games and I don't sweat it when I get bored with a game and decide to stop playing it. It's not a big deal. I just keep trying new games until one sticks. Sometimes it takes months to find one of those games. But it's worth the wait.

fuck you jean-pierre. I'll never listen to your bullshit advice. not after you fucked me over the last time, you fucking paisano.

A gentle reminder that suicide is painless and 100% effective at eliminating your problems.

What was the point of this post?

...

>have a fuck ton of games and a PS3 debug unit where I can pirate every ps1-3 game
>always end up playing new vegas with the weird ass crash when you exit goodsprings or nipton

But Nocturne, featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series, is in my backlog.

Idk

just kidding jean, you know I love you, I'd take a bullet for you, bro.. fuvk iyd jus tsoi hard to ho on uou knw? i ove you brio

>Remember Sup Forums saying this too
>Said fuck it and stopped playing it and went to ZoE 2 because the first sucked as a vidya
>Nothing of value lost, just watched the story online

>not really into JRPGs
>pirate Persona 5
>play for 10 hours straight as I had the day off
My eyes were actually wicked fucking sore and I had to make myself sleep.
Felt great.

HEY ANONS LISTEN TO

If you're not having fun then stop paying attention to your backlog.

Honestly if you can get yourself to play it without having to force yourself then play a genre you may not think you like or are unfamilar with like Going into new territory might relight the spark for vidya

that's the opposite of being on the spectrum user. you instinctively know that you should socialize with other people but you suck at it so you play video games.
leave before it really is too late.

Meh

Thus sounds so obvious. Why did i need some stranger on the internet to scream at me before doing it?

Then wait until you get that jrpg itch, then you play it

I do

>start game
>have fun
>feels like I've seen everything it has to offer after 1 hour or so
>stop playing game
>start another one
>rinse and repeat

That's me. Minus playing the video games of course. 400 games on steam, Probably have played 20.

It's almost as if most games had a really basic game loop that doesn't get better over time.

>start game
>cutscene plays
>skip
>loading...
>another cutscene
>skip
>etc
>finally get to play
>already bored
>force myself to play until I can save the game
>save
>close game

Conditions for me to actually finish a game
>it has to be portable so i can play it in my bed
>give me a ranking system, this activates autism as i need 100 s rank in every level to be happy
>add some reward for 100% completion don't forget to give me a percentage bar to check my progress

This is why i completed devil survivor 2, the mega man zero collection, mega man zx and zx advent to 100% on expert mode

Thank god for the switch because now everything is portable, im currently having fun with mighty gunvolt burst

Imagine having the attention span of a gnat and the mental resolve of a wet sheet of toilet paper.

Gen Zers are so fucked.

>enjoy socializing
>think i'm "alright" at it, considering i was forced to make friends basically yearly during my childhood
>all of my friends are either busy, travelling, or too poor to do anything
>attempt to organize playing something with a friend but his shit broke recently so we can't do anything
>mfw i realize i've spent basically the last month doing nothing other than working and playing mmos with internet friends
Release me from this eternal hell

Thanks for reading my blog.

Sometimes but more often I have to force myself to finish a game, it's such a fucking chore. Its like a roller coaster but the first 2/3 of a game are always the high point.

Some genres I don't even bother playing anymore because I know I won't even get a quarter through, like RPG's or any game thats more than 40+ hours.

No, but I do force myself to get out of bed every day.

I need to do that

FTFY

I want it already

me too me too me too

>been playing the same mmo the past two years
>not tired of it but don't want to have to keep dedicating so much time to staying relevant
>can't because I'm our raid leader and don't want to force responsibility onto someone else or cause the group to fall apart
>could be spending this time playing other games I'd enjoy more
send help

Only if I've stuck with the same genre for months, usually I switch it up and start to actually enjoy vidya again.