That's the thing, I've got 5yrs on you but my career is fine I'm as stable as one can get and just gotta keep on developing and working. I've been just debating on getting another job because gaming is that boring. I took the woman out and had a nice dinner, took care of her and she's off doing her things she needs to take care of and this is an off work out day because I went yesterday and I'm recovering.

Just...nothing is interesting me....

Building off this answer, any of the Gullwings in FFX-2 because dresspheres

Have one of these, they were awesome.

Oh good to know

Hi-Fi Rush is not a AAA game though

And hype is real. Remember, CP2077, even in its broken aaa buggy release sold like hotcakes.

It's available at launch on game pass if you only want to drop $10

I have a hard time playing a girl character. Like if I have to because the class had a predetermined gender, like the sorceress in D2R, it doesn't bother me as much but like I don't think I could get behind a girl pokémon trainer as my character as it is I want to age them, or like not going to be a girl monster hunter or tarnished. I like to make and play characters that look like me, well a version I can make in game.

Play what makes it fun. I find more enjoyment if I can immerse myself in the game.

I actually got a lot insults for playing females in games (from both genders). It actually upset me back then because I was the only one who had to deal with it. So I've always been stuck playing males for years. I think it's affected me to the point of seeing women as "superior" and I feel like I'm not good enough to play them?. I don't know if I should try and play them now because honestly I am afraid the reaction I'll get.

Take time off, or time to revisit some of your favorite games of the past. I often find myself blown out, but revisit the Dreamcast pretty often. A lot of times the simpler gameplay/story lines are a nice reset.

I beat it today! I unlocked paintball and DK mode on the way. It felt good to beat it so quickly compared to my younger self. I still had some muscle memory of some of the levels.

same. mine lasted 3 months before only working for tv controls and then not working at all.

Definitely varies by genre, but I'd say generally the Steam controller

Once I had a tank who insisted on pulling all the mobs into the Locksmith area and then wondering that I run out of MP.

Bruh...

My dad's thing as a kid was basketball. Into his teens, into early adulthood with the neighborhood dads. I only know this from conjecture - I've never seen him pick up a basketball in my life. My uncle owns over 40 musical instruments, but I've never once seen him play.

These things happen all the time as people age, life changes, and interests evolve. No one would think twice about my dad not playing ball anymore - not even him. I bet a couple of decades ago, he would have called it a "slump".

These days I see a lot of people trying to cling to their interest in gaming, when it's a hobby just like anything else. The takeaway is that if you aren't enjoying it, do something you do enjoy.

Beeeecause marketing= sales and sales= money? Nahhhh that can’t be it. Surely none of these companies want to run a proper business…

I've never played Earthbound, but this thing is nightmare fuel.

The soundtrack alone is beyond unsettling. Idk what it is about older games with more midi/lowfi music, but it's so much creepier than anything modern. I guess it just sounds more alien and distorted compared to recognizable instruments.

Plus the very concept of the guy, no physical form, and during the final phase he's the entire background with no foreground sprite like all other enemies, and it forms the outline of fetuses to symbolize how he's regressed mentally in his insanity.

Same sentiments

Always game dependent for me

When i was leveling WHM i made it a mental rule

I dont go at the tank's pace, they go at mine.

If they want to rush far ahead out of my range and aggro the entirety of Aurum Vale

Then thats their funeral

It's been dead for pretty much everyone except E3 themselves at this point. It was pretty obvious after last year's cancelation that it was never going to come back.

I went through a slump and dialed it down by stepping away from long story-driven games to more roguelites and arcade games.

The key here is that I selected games that were more casual and easier to pick up/set down.

It depends what you look for in a game.

I completed FF7 on the PS2 way back when (it was pirated on CD's as it was before DVDR's!)

and I couldn't get into the remake at all..

I like a good story with good characters and have enjoyed so many games it is hard to list them all.

Don't give up, there are loads of great games that are now almost free (Epic & CDKeys), Games beat any other enertainment hands down, I have a rule that £1 per hour is good value less than this is better and more is worse, movies fail this test big time!

Get Epic games, you don't need to get Fortnite (I would ithough as I started in Oct 2022 and have been having a blast!) as they give one or two free games away weekly (daily over Xmas!), I have played 50 or more games like this and it cost £0! (GTA V included!),you are literally nothing out for trying (you can add them to your library to dowload later!)

I have really enjoyed- Detroit Become Human, Watchdogs 1 & 2, Dead Space 1-3 (not remakes), Bioshock trilogy, Assasins Creed's, Cyberpunk 2077 (bought for £10 a year after release! - 375 hours!), Days Gone,Death Stranding, RDR2, GTA V, Borderlands inc Tiny Tina & Tales from but not the original!

Sorry I forgot Control and the best game ever in my opion Prey (don't look it up just play it, it is way too easily spoilt (My daughter suggested it)

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