WashedOver,
@WashedOver@lemmy.ca avatar

Yup. Haven’t really gamed much since my 20s which was half a lifetime ago now.

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

I still play games frequently, but in MUCH shorter sessions. I’m also gravitating more toward slower strategic/tactical games that can be paused at any time.

noride,

Agreed, it’s easier to jump back into those games, too. One thing I hate is picking a game back up after a week and spending the first 20mins figuring out what I was doing last time.

elephantium,
@elephantium@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve started taking notes. “Next time, I want to start out by doing this or that.”

Then my only problem is starting the next time and going “Oooh, what about this other thing?” :D

WashedOver,
@WashedOver@lemmy.ca avatar

I did install a Sega Genesis emulator on a old laptop during the Xmas break to play some NHL94 and 95 with modern rosters.

That was a lot of fun. I also installed Pirates! Gold after a day and it was fun to revisit these games from my youth.

I loved the ability to save stats.

However after a couple of days I’ve not really played them again since. It only cost $14 for the Sega controller so it was worth the price. I don’t think I could buy 2 beers at a bar locally for that.

pearsaltchocolatebar,

Same, but I keep upgrading my gaming rig and buying games on sale.

son_named_bort,

No wonder Homer couldn’t beat Bart at video boxing.

Gormadt,
@Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

For me it’s less the attention span thing and more the lack of time

There’s a million things I gave to worry about all pulling me in every direction at the same time

Plus now that my ADHD is actually being addressed it’s way easier to find time for things

GrammatonCleric,
@GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world avatar

I’m 46 and I do 4-6 hour seshes. Step yo game up, foo

Rai,

I’m in my 30s and I do 2-3 hour seshes unless I munch an Adderall. Adderall takes it to 10+.

UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT,

I can do that on vacation maybe, otherwise too many other things vying for attention

SouravSatvaya,
@SouravSatvaya@lemmy.world avatar

Then the Gamer spirit must have died.

BlueLineBae,
@BlueLineBae@midwest.social avatar

Bruh, I’m 33 and I started playing Subnautica for the first time a few weeks ago only to realize that in the first day I accidentally played for 10 hours. You just need to find the right game for you to revitalize your interest in gaming. Whatever that game may be!

eya,
@eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Subnautica just does that to you. I completed an entire hardcore playthrough in a single session once (Mostly because I already knew what I was doing but it was still like 14-15 hours straight).

GluWu,

Is VR in subnautica an actual way to play or just a once in a while gimmick. I’ve had it in my library since back when it was beta and have never played more than a few minutes. Installed it since it does VR through steamlink but haven’t played yet.

BlueLineBae,
@BlueLineBae@midwest.social avatar

I honestly couldn’t say as I startled playing the normal version. But as spooky as that game can get, I don’t think I’d even want to try VR version lol.

GluWu,

The real horrors in our reality are just depressing, so I’d prefer to distract myself with spooky scary subnautica monsters.

Leon,

The vanilla VR implementation in Subnautica is very old and kind of tacked onto the game as an afterthought. You have to play with a regular controller and I found the menus to be in the most eye-strain spot possible.

I know there is at least one VR mod to fix it and bring in motion controls but I’ve never tried it.

Rai,

I love VR and Subnautica but Subnautica is not a good game to play in VR. You can make it kinda work with mods, but it does feel very janky.

GluWu,

Dang. I thought maybe since it gained so much support and got so big since from when I got it in a $15 indie humble bundle that it might actually be a good one. I’ll finally try it tonight.

Have you tried the VR mod for Firewatch? I just got it on a random steam sale for $2, played a bit on my steamdeck, and was thinking the entire time I wish this was VR.

Rai,

I haven’t! I beat it in flat mode and loved it though!

GluWu,

I haven’t gotten too far in, so I want to get the VR mod installed and restart. It’s so good so far, though the intro really does suck, like emotionally. I think it’s a perfect format for VR with the walking/ basic interaction format, nothing too complex, and great comfy visuals. I hope it works.

Sometimes, I feel like I should wait until things get better and fixed, but sometimes that leads to me missing things. I wish there were more open source, hacking, development, just community for VR. I’ve used it since Google cardboard and things really have never taken off. I think with steamlink now streaming to quest headsets, that really help.

candyman337,

I think you’ll come to realize that it isn’t your attention span but rather the amount of mental energy you have left after working a 9 to 5 for 5 days a week

TheGreenGolem,
@TheGreenGolem@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Yeah, sometimes I just want to mindlessly scroll. Like now.

Chriswild,

There’s games that do that like vampire survivors

MaxVoltage,
@MaxVoltage@lemmy.world avatar

Negative energy

johannesvanderwhales,

I know I’ve been playing BG3 recently and I’m struggling a bit with the mental energy required to play it after work. It’s something that really requires full attention for a long period of time and a lot of days I’d rather just do something simpler.

TranscendentalEmpire,

That’s definitely a large aspect for me. But, another large part is that the games just seem to be less fun. Online play has gotten so competitive that half the time people just rage quit, and single player games have just become grind machines with pay to skip options.

No, I’m not going to spend my limited free time getting a virtual job gathering wolf pelts. No, I’m not going to give you real money to avoid being virtually employed by an NPC.

I feel like game mechanics that were originally designed to immerse you into the game are now just being used to pad the game time. I won’t even buy a game anymore unless I can mod it. I refuse to spend extra hours of my time just because the only realistic aspect of the game is a limited inventory.

candyman337,

AAA games are trash agreed, I stick to indie games

M137,
@M137@lemmy.world avatar

Those kind of games exist, but so does every other kind. And you aren’t forced to play only new games. Literally every game ever is available for you to play. Every person that says stuff like you seem like you think the only games available are the most known and most recent AAA games. It’s like only going to the most recently opened restaurants in your area, especially chain brand ones, and complaining about you not liking the food and then deciding that all food is like that.

AbsurdityAccelerator,

You just gotta find the right game. I discovered Satisfactory last year and had to uninstall it after a few eeks because I was staying up till 2am playing. I am 40.

Kecessa,

I installed Civ 6, played one game on easy and uninstalled it because I knew what was going to happen if I went down this road.

Floodedwomb,

Try Civ Revolution. It’s an older game but it holds up and you can do an entire campaign in less then 2 hours.

Kecessa,

You’re like a pusher telling me “Don’t take heroin, here’s morphine instead” 😳

DadVolante,
@DadVolante@sh.itjust.works avatar

More like methadone? 😅

MaxVoltage,
@MaxVoltage@lemmy.world avatar

The right game can cure depression

pythonoob,

The right game can cause depression, because I have no impulse control and will shurk my responsibilities to play it.

Sigh. I do love me some satisfactory though.

CobblerScholar,

I feel the same way about Baldurs Gate 3, I’m only pushing 30 but after playing for less than 20 minutes I had a mini pre-intervention with myself like, “okay listen up you geek, remember staying up until 4am every night and surviving on popcorn chicken and coffee isn’t sustainable”

flambonkscious,

Thanks, that’s worth a look!

blanketswithsmallpox, (edited )

Isn’t it less fun and more preying on the addictive aspects of gaming?

It’s kinda like life Sims, ala Harvest Moon. Give just enough time to finish out your day. Extend the need to progress by fluffing out interactions. Make there be lots of little progression increments.

It’s less good game and more preying on dopamine routines. m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yb5CINrC5EI get games have similar feel good spikes. Like loot/number simulators which are mostly idle games with more effort for how easy they are. But min/Max Effiency games like many games that have day/night stamina cycles are just keying in on that dopamine rush on a filled day, which doesn’t feel different than loot box games in the end. My time at Sandrock was my last one that felt great for a bit then you realize so much is pointless fluff gated by time dumps for no reason than to increase their playtime metrics.

pewgar_seemsimandroid,

off topic kinda: op, what’s your favorite game platform (yes it can be arcade)

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

(disclaimer: I didn’t make this meme, but I do share the sentiment of rapidly losing focus/mental energy when gaming now.)

Favorite of all time? The SNES. It felt like the peak of 2d graphics before the slate got wiped clean for 3d, so we saw a ton of great games from devs that had been playing/creating 2d games for decades.

Favorite currently? PC. I have a switch, steam deck, and PS5 as well, but 99% of my playtime is on PC.

Maven, (edited )

I was just saying this about the SNES to my SO last night, funny enough. GBA almost matches it, and for largely the same reason: experienced 2d devs, putting out their last hurrahs before the transition to ugly young 3d

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

Exactly! And don’t get me wrong, there are a ton of great indie 2d games out there now, but back in the SNES days, these were THE devs. You can tell the difference in polish from having been made by the biggest and best studios.

pewgar_seemsimandroid,

hmm 2 portable consoles and yet most time on pc. do you perhaps not go outside?

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

Are there more games out there or something?

pewgar_seemsimandroid,

well yes there’s gamestop and bestbuy

elephantium,
@elephantium@lemmy.world avatar

For…decades?

I had to go back and read up on the early history of video games. SNES came out in 1991, and yeah - looking at arcade games, Computer Space came out in 1971.

Video games are older than I realized.

The_Picard_Maneuver, (edited )
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

Oh yeah, it all started with the arcades. There was a whole culture attached to it, and they were very popular.

I think it’s fascinating to learn about how the developers figured out how to do things back then, the limitations, scaling/distribution, and then the rapid arms race between customers and devs to make games harder and harder to beat. There was an excellent documentary about this on Netflix a few years ago, but I can’t remember the name off the top of my head.

FatTony,
@FatTony@lemmy.world avatar

Five hours straight…

CultHero,

Fun fact. I was 2 years older than Bart when the Simpsons started on the Tracy Ulman show and now I’m over a decade older than Marge and Homer.

I need a nap.

Ultraviolet,

To be fair Homer is a rough 32.

CultHero,

The last time they mentioned his age it was 38/39. They keep changing it but keeping him and Marge in their 30s.

Honestly I wish they would age everyone up a year every decade. If they had done that we would be seeing the antics of a 13 year old Bart now and I think that could start with some really interesting character development instead of keeping him forever a 10 year old.

Bartsbigbugbag,

No…. That would mean I’m…. Oh god. It’s happened.

CultHero,

If you want your mind blown when Simpsons started Marge and Homer were boomers, then Gen X and now they’re millennials. Bart, Lisa and Maggie started out as Gen X (underachiever and proud of it) then millennials, then gen z, and now they’re Gen alpha.

But grampa is always a ww2 vet.

Gojimbo,

They changed what “it” was

intensely_human,

I’m 41 years old, and I can’t pay attention to video games for more than about half an hour.

Unless I’m smoking pot, in which case I can play video games all day.

Bakkoda,

Wake and bake then Path of Exile.

Bartsbigbugbag,

I find I focus even worse when I’m high, I just want to get up and do stuff, like stretch or exercise. I definitely didn’t do that when I was younger and smoked, so idk what’s changed.

licherally,

I’ve put over 400 hours into vanilla terraria and recently started the calamity mod, first day I put like 6 hours into it.

I don’t play every day, I just don’t have the time/energy. But when I do I try to make it count.

That being said, we used to play Edward forty hands and try to beat ocarina of time in a single evening, usually staying up until dawn despite the copious alcohol.

I’m not the stallion I used to be, but even an old horse has something to prove.

Floodedwomb,

The most realistic part is that you can’t afford name brand chips as an adult.

EnderMB,

Trying to learn how to play a Final Fantasy game in your late thirties is like trying to learn brain surgery on a worm. I don’t know how I had the patience for any of that shit back in the day.

ILikeBoobies,

Children/teens produce more dopamine than adults

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • memes@lemmy.world
  • localhost
  • All magazines
  • Loading…
    Loading the web debug toolbar…
    Attempt #