Same here. Time is just more valuable now. Hopping into a few quick rounds just feels easier than starting something up and getting halfway through the beginning tutorial, before being interrupted by the kids or wife, and then feeling like you just wasted the hour or so you had to spare, because you didn't even start playing the actual game yet.
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The older I get, I find that I tend to default to two things:
- Games that I've played before that help me turn my brain off. Kind of like a form of meditation.
- Games that have a mechanic or a story that is genuinely new or engaging.
For me, I'd like to add "games that let you set your own pace and objective and let you achieve things your own way" (obviously something like Minecraft, but I also enjoyed Tears Of The Kingdom because of that)
Or, if multi-player: Be co-op, make me do some crazy shit and make me laugh (e.g. Human Fall Flat)
For me the reason is ... Decision fatigue!
I often stared blankly at my staggeringly huge game library and lost all interest to play. And instead ended up playing something not too heavy on the brain that I have known for decades and perhaps even watch Netflix on the side. (Like Diablo.)
While researching online I stumbled upon the phenomenon of decision fatigue and it changed my gaming habits and even other parts of my life. I probably understand the concept incorrectly but for me, I apparently tend to avoid decisions all together when there are too many options which leads to heavy procrastination. Doesn't matter if it's too many tasks on my list, too many letters on my desk or too many games to choose from.
I Marie Kondoed my gaming library and now it's a fun activity again!
- btw I am a gamer for over 30 years and my library, including all gaming platforms and consoles, has about 2000 (two thousand) titles
Yeah. I have lots of games in my steam library but I only play tf2 lol
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