Man, that intro hit me hard... Went to uni, got a job, I keep starting games on weekends/holidays, then dropping them after a few days due to lack of time. Studying, working, socializing, gym, and then when I do find time to play, the voices in the head scream about laziness and not being productive...
What I like to do is as soon as a come back from work, or wake up during weekends, i focus on chores first, and then I can play with a not-so-loud voice in my head haha. It's hard to strike a balance, I guess we all have to become entrepreneurs and earn passive income to have more time to play haha. Or maybe we simply grow out of it like many people. Keep your chin up and even if you continuously start and drop new games, as long as you're having fun, that's what matters.
@@AcousticBlu3 And I'm not even mentioning the fact that my PC is outdated at this point, barely covering recommended specs for Helldivers 2 (given that it's old probs won't run it at all). So at this point can't even get the latest games....
So i work hard enough when i want to game I game with 0 fudges given. Girl can wait so can dishes! What i do find though is games are not growing like they used to so just dont expect significant improvements because yeah the younglings prefer visuals 🙄 over actual gameplay (The shock when you cope something like need for speed or WWE to find its even worse then the games 20 years ago is out of this world. Abit of graphics and a lack of everything. 😂 Gotta weight for the good ones and buy these retardedly priced turds to go on significant discount so you don't feel conned. But if you down to play and excited everyone else can get lost live youre life. And focus on the fun more then the grind because like another legend thats become a whole new entity with fragments of the original Assasins creed they add a loot system to trick you to play it more instead of focusing how shallow its become Huuge maps with the same 10 quests spammed 500 times across the map no meaning just filler even the story line 🥱 That completionist is perilous in these times of money grabs and taking advantage of the poor kids who have never known much more then being served fecal matter and acting like its fine dining😂
"not to mention we also have to develop and maintain friendships and romantic relationships" aha you see, that's what I like to call life's optional content! *cries in introvertese
I am 70-yo, My wife is with me for oh.. 30 years, pretty sure she wont leave me if i game a little late at night. My best friends name is Varric, and my sister's name is Bethany. They wont leave me either. And if i get a little cranky, i kiss my wife and beat the crap out of Louis.... I think i am safe.
As a functional adult, time is essence. If a game is not clinking, you're not having fun or you have to force yourself, it's time to drop that game. Also, moder games are 90% of the time bs so you're not missing much most of the time.
Older games respected your time to a much higher degree. I don't play modern games unless it's like a simulator or something that I can quickly jump into and have fun. Older games were designed to be fun the moment you started the game. The trend of open world games and putting in as much filler content as possible to brag about the lenght of the game is the worst trend in the industry the past 10 years. It was a long time ago I had any interest for those types of games.
I've changed how I think. I only play a game if I'm having fun. I don't have to beat a game. Some games will be too long. Sometimes I'll stop playing a game and come back to it later.
I really like this approach. The only "problem" I have with it is that the more time passes after abandoning a game, the harder it is to come back to it. Lost Judgement still sitting on my ps5 ssd and waiting for me 😭
@AcousticBlu3 I will delete a game and only go back to it if I have a really strong feeling to play it. I mainly find myself trying free to play games.
@@Gamergodgric there are always some gems among f2p games, but not too many are single player, or I'm just too focused on the multi-player end of f2p spectrum 😁
I have a motto; "The day you stop playing, is the day you start dying.." My first real game was Sanxion on the Commodore 64. loading time: 20 minutes from a cassette. An odd 40 years ago. I am now almost 70-yo, and still playing games... I don't start many games... i am very selective, but the one's i do start, i finish.
@@Aimad_99 if the question is for me, then yes, I currently am, but since I started it on my Switch, I play it not so often and every time it is hard to get back to it. I need to sit down and warm my chair up haha
@@Aimad_99No, I am known to play very diverse types of games. Competitive RTCW , Left4Dead1, Dragon Age, Horizon, Sims3, Fifa, Football Manager, Startrek Online, Baldurs Gate, Cyberpunk... the list is long.. but i haven't even heard of Hollow knight, let alone played it. Maybe thats a hiatus in my upbringing, or maybe its just not something i play. Why ?... Should i ?...
I had a similar experience with Valhalla. But once I was burnt out on it, I'd put it down and play other things and then I'd return to Valhalla when I felt like playing it again. I've now finished the main game but burnout is setting in again so I'm thinking about playing something else and then coming back to Valhalla one last time to do the Paris and Ragnarok expansions. Best advice I can give is don't try to get every artifact, wealth and mystery. Just grab them as you naturally move around the map. You're not going to get all of them unless you spend a lot of extra time going out of your way to get them. It's not worth it. I'm at 145 hours and there's still a lot of them that I haven't collected.
I purposefully turned off markers on the map and used the pathfinder mode so I don't get burnt out quickly. But seeing the lvl recommendations for the zones at higher difficulties I felt like I had to find everything
@@BobBobOnTH-cam surely u played on the most difficult setting where zones are 100-300lvls above you and you could get by only by playing the story. If so, you sir are a genius, and I salute you
For open world games I don't seek out side content, I go for the main quest and if I stumble upon it I might check it out. Doing this made me enjoy open world games way more, otherwise it feels like a list of chores I gotta tick.
Haha thats what happen to me on my first playthrough, its okay for you to drop as souls game is not for everyone. but i really glad that i beat the game and it become one of my best game of all time
Great video. I have a kid, wife, full time job and a huge pile of blu rays, games and books I want to read. Never enough time and while I don't do as much I focus on completing what I start and don't take on multiple things at the same time.
The honeymoon phase thing with AC Valhalla is spot on with pretty much every single Ubisoft game that comes out. It’s exciting for the first like 5-10 hours and then the game continues for another 50 hours and you realize how shallow poorly written the whole thing is.
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When you're consistently not enjoying it anymore. Then you move on to something else. Not necessarily another videogame. If you oblige yourself to stay because you need to complete everything despite mainly stressing out about it, or if you feel like you are playing it for hours and hours just out of boredom or procrastination and you're afraid something else will be even less rewarding, then you should deal with the emotional conflicts underneath all that. You deserve a more satisfactory life.
@@AcousticBlu3I added "procrastination" to the comment, if you could like it again. I think it's actually very important that the gamer community understand that emotional regulation is the thing directly tied to their ability to engage healthily with their favorite hobby
Pro Tip. If you are an adult with lots of money, and no time, And have a huge backlog, just change the goal from beating everything to playing everything. Make a list of all the Unplayed games, play each for 2 hours, and give the game a rating with how much you like it. Then afterwards, you can start beating the games, starting with your favorite.
I had the same feeling playing Origins.. but I pushed and completed the story. And you know what? I f***ing hate myself. Should've dropped that PoS straight away. 30 hours that I could've actually enjoyed. Have to make a big mistake sometimes to understand what you truly find fun.
Yes!!! This has been my exact thought for a long time and it is nice to see that others think the same. There are plenty of games out there that DON'T EVER feel like a grind, that will keep you from the start of the game to the end. Playing the "grind" games keeps you away from these "non-grind" games because of the time you spend. You may not get to all of your "non-grind" games if you feel like you need to beat every game you start! You have a limited amount of free time and a limited amount of time on this earth. I feel the same way about this topic in regard to TV series and books. Or really any hobby.
FINALLY, someone who puts the stock video of someone playing league of legends with a controller and is aware of the absurdity. I've seen this stock video in like 6/7 videos
@@AcousticBlu3 I just finished the video and I loved it. All the points you talk about are right and you explain it great + no distracting video edit, just the essential. Also, I just noticed that your channel has few subscribers and I'm surprised lol. Now you have one more, and I think you will have many more!
Gave up gaming at 12yrs old, had an Atari. Got my education and career retired at 44 in 2019 and only due to Scampanic started gaming again. Had a blast until chaos was over and went back to enjoying my retirement hobbies. Family, Dogs, Harley and Horses and game on weekends. It's all about discipline. Even now if a game feels a chore I put it down.
I have a habit of quitting games right after to dying to the final boss once. I play games to value the art and design aspects like a museum, so when ive seen everything, i lose purpose to keep going
That is a very interesting spin on the topic, and I can definitely see it. Not everyone seeks a ruthless challenge disguised as boss battles. Nothing wrong there
@AcousticBlu3 thanks for the thoughtful reply. I like the ruthless challenge too, but the reward is "unlocking" more stuff to experience. When it's the final boss, all I win is a credits roll lol
As a 30something gamer, is it just me, or are games getting a little _too_ big? I'll always enjoy indefinite games like GTA and Skyrim, but that's because that's exactly what they are. I get on for a couple hours and craft my own experience. But with games that have a linear advancement, it's like "wow, when is this gonna be over...?" FFVII Rebirth... yeah, great that they gave us their modern-day interpretation of worldbuilding post-Midgar, but hooolllly cow it's huge, and not in a captivating way. It's the FFVII world we know, just.... way bigger.
I would say, at the same time games are getting bigger, and we also have less time and patience for games as we age. To be honest I appreciate 20-30 hours games a lot more right now, when I was younger I would be like "that's it?"
I have both ADHD and a completion OCD, I feel this massive dilemma all the time. I also feel the sunk cost regret when I don't finish a game's story after many hours. Hence, as of now I'm still very indecisive about dropping games.
I feel you, games are expensive asf. The only way to slightly alleviate this anxiety is to not buy games at launch but rather later when it's heavily discounted. Our backlogs are huge anyways
@@AcousticBlu3 very true. I don't buy games at release these days anyway, other than a few competitive ones like Tekken. When I said "sunk cost" I mostly meant the time already sunk into it, I kinda tend to feel that all of it gone without the catharsis of seeing the final boss fight or a fulfilling dramatic ending, yknow. This happens especially when the story is engaging but the gameplay isn't, you tend to feel like all your slogging is going in vain. The art of letting go is a learning curve afterall🤣
@@rorschach9969 oh yeah I understood you the first time no worries! Not every game hits you right away but takes some time, and knowing that it's hard to judge whether you are missing out if you drop the game too early, or wasting time if you drop it too late
Dude THANK YOU SO MUCH for saying you dropped Metroid Prime Remastered. I loved Metroid Dread so I thought I would love this game but they are VERY different. Prime is a lot more slow, lot of outdated mechanics and concepts compared to Dread but I felt really bad for dropping this game because everyone seems to love it so much. Anyways, thank you for the sincerity.
Anytime dude! I very much understand the feeling of not liking something that many like, and then feeling guilty as if something is wrong with me haha.
Man i feel that. I really realized this with Elden Ring! I dropped AC valhally and odyssey(tbf i completed at least main story there). And then i finally got my ass up and continued playing ER. Maaaan that game hit me.. i sunk 100h into it in like 3 weeks.. What a game man. I really came to the same conclusion. If a game is worth it (for me personal), i can feel it. If not, just drop it. I will play it to see and then just do how it feels. Nothing bad in dropping a game which does not click with oneself! BUT also it sometimes depends on the mood. For some games you kinda have to get in the right mood. Giving it the chance to click ;)
Thank you for sharing ur experience man! Indeed there are many factors involved and while some games might have clicked for us before, they might not now and vice versa
I haven't really enjoyed games for the past 2 years. I just play them when I'm fed up with my daily tasks and want to procrastinate, only to realize I've wasted my day away...
Pretty much my whole life i've been "blessed" if you will, with being so picky and knowing myself so well that about 90% of games i pick up, i do so because i find it interesting and do end up finishing it because well i simply made the right call? I certainly have plenty of games i picked up when they were free or got convinced by someone to try it but never found much appeal in it and dropped just a couple hours into it. But those are rare and usually impulsive decisions. My fairly small steam library is a decent indication that i only really play and finish what i think i'll enjoy before even buying it.
This is good to hear. As I mentioned we already have a somewhat established taste, and we already know which games we will most definitely like and which ones are a maybe. I also finish most games that I play, but since making this video and coming to conclusions, I told myself to drop games that I don't enjoy as much.
One of the reasons I never seem to make a dent in my huge backlog is that - for some weird reason - I fear ending up not being able to decide whether or not to continue a game if it doesn't excite me that much. It's obviously impossible to know if a game will be good or not before I've actually tried it, but that feeling of uncertainty before I start playing a new game can sometimes make me lose interest in playing at all. I don't know why it's so hard to decide that enough is enough if a game fails to entertain, but more often than not it just is. I'm currently experiencing exactly this with the game I started a few days ago, but thankfully it's not a very good game so I think that, for once, I'll be able to just stop and move on to something better. 😄
If u don't enjoy it, hopefully you drop it and never look back. There are games u look forward to more for sure. Thanks for taking the time to comment!
this video has a much broader scope, it relates not to games, or media but to any hobby or human activity. me - trying to dev a story game for years here and there by bits but many things are looking that i should have dropped it long ago because it all started because of small inspirational and emotional effect and became a thing that i told myself for a long time "i have to do it no matter what" and i was always in conflicting state of doubts about the game and how it all had to be reworked and people wouldn't appreciate it at all. maybe i'm doing the right thing because i'm getting more experience and knowledge, maybe one day i'll come back and finish the job or will start from scratch. story element of media is tough though, people praise the kojima type and dislike something well-thought as twelve minutes. discouraging
I hope u find it within yourself what is it you really want to do with your game. And if you do finish it, to send it to me haha. Also I think the feedback on the video is rather positive so I am very encouraged
Nice video, great stuff! I have been in the same situation and this really resonated with me. Keep up the great work and this channel will be going places 😊
I did not have a backlog until I upgraded my internet. Before my internet was too slow so I would only play one game for months or even years. Mostly mobile games. But now my internet is faster I got so many games lately from the sales and bundles. I am just playing the games for 30 minutes and then takes a break and maybe play another game. I want to just experience lots of games right now I can try beating them later.
Weird this popped up in my recommended given I recently dropped Halo Infinite. Also weird because I dropped Pokémon Legends Arceus years ago shortly after it came out but have been debating giving that game a second chance. This video however does make me feel validated. Thanks homie
Hey. I just wanted to let you know that your videos are very enjoyable and entertaining. Keep making more. You definitely have the potential to become a bigger content creator. Have a good day!
I really feel bad for not finishing a game. So if im not having much fun, feel, burnout, or the game doesn't have that pull ill leave it and come back later. I did that with many game The Witcher 3 Skyrim and RDR2 and those games are my top 3 of all time. But sometimes i belive like you said you have to drop a game if youre not having fun
For me personally, leaving the game for a long time feels even harder because coming back to it is hard, you don't know what to do, most often I have forgotten the story etc etc. I appreciate when games have a "story thus far" recap setting kinda thing
Until fairly recently, dropping a game wasn't final for me. Rather like your early examples, I'd play it badly early on and not want to backtrack, or get stale from overplaying it, or hit a level I can't beat. The game then goes onto a "restart" list, and in maybe a year or 3 I'll come back and play it from the beginning as if it were new. Rise of the Tomb Raider is in that category for me. So are Frost Punk and NFS Heat. Games I was enjoying, but not quite enough. But lately I've come to the realisation that there will ALWAYS be good games I haven't played yet, so some games need to be decisively expunged. Deleted from my Steam library and hidden. Some, I've chewed on for a while, got my money's worth, and they've lost their flavour. The Witcher, perhaps controversially, so I can start Witcher 2 as if it didn't exist, even though I'm over half-way through. The House of Da Vinci. Assetto Corsa. Some, I just never enjoyed at all. Hard Rain. Syberia 3. It takes a lot for me to admit I'll NEVER like a game and it was a total waste of money, but there's no point wasting time too. And I think when you hit a dead loss, you know it.
my biggest problem with gaming is I'm a jack of all trades, I like just abotu every genre, a few I don't play like 4x as while I enjoy them, just not good enough to play them heh. but rpgs, fps, action, idle games, racing, puzzle, you name it I've played hehe and usually enjoy.
I feel like that's even worse, I am kind of in a similar boat and I feel compelled to start so many different games, and you know variety is sometimes a curse
@@AcousticBlu3 yea, least my most recent aquisition idle/incremental games tend to be something I can run in the background :> so I can play them with other games as long as I have the resources.
I believe any adult gamer will relate to this video, and your points are really straight on to the point. I shall be dropping Dragon's Dogma too, can't stand that rock hard UI which hopefully will be upgraded in the sequel with better graphics. Time saved, and i will now have time for my 9th modded Skyrim playthrough.
Thank you for your kind comment. I have yet to play Skyrim seriously, I had a single playthrough of it , just 120 hours of playing side content and exploring, and haven't touched the story haha
I havn't changed my playing, but I've changed my buying. Unless I plan to play it within the next week or two after launch I wait till it's on sale, like I got like a dragon infinite wealth and ff7 rebirth because I knew I would enjoy and beat, but holding off on so many more till sales. I still have a backlog, but most of them were christmas sales, or games I got 3-4 years ago and older.
I was tempted to get infinite wealth on release, knowing it was going to be a banger for sure, but given how long it is and that I planned to play some other games beforehand, I've put off my purchase until some point in the future (hopefully a sale haha)
@@AcousticBlu3 for me I wanted to know the story of Kiryu, same with rebith wanted to know what happened with Arieth, more so the latter are the kind of thing that is hard to avoid spoilers from even if careful. Plus I wanted to play the game :> I have used covid though to go through my backlog :> Still have hundreds of games but I've gone through all the tripple A games and most of the double tripple rest are collections, indies and such.
I finished 12 games in 2023, but I dropped 52. If I not having fun with a game, I drop it. If a game is too big and stops being fun at some point, I drop it too. Recently I dropped Alan Wake 2 because is more a movie than a game. And I dropped the remaster of Onimusha: Warlords; it was a great game at release but nowadays is far to outdated.
Dang, 12 per year is still pretty good, I think I beat a game per month on average as well. I agree that Alan Wake is not the most exciting one gameplay wise, but at least it's fairly short haha. I didn't even know onimusha games still exist
@@AcousticBlu3 Thank you! I dropped Alan Wake but I will watch the 'movie' on youtube. The story is interesting, I just didn't enjoy the gameplay. Onimusha still exist but is the same game from release, what means we stuck with the same goddamn camera and simple mechanics from that bygone age.
me and a bunch of friends got together to play League as 5 mans, but once we started getting into ranked we stopped playing together for fun and only for a make believe number. now quite literally the only person sitting in discord playing league, everyone else quit gaming completely bc it just poisoned their view on games
@@phantazem9381 i am in a similar boat, once in a while I play 5 man league and ranked or not, somebody always gets mad and flames, then playing becomes more toxic rather than fun. As for the discord I can also relate to this, I am the only one in my circle of friends who plays as much as I do, others are usually revisiting old stuff, or casually playing 1 game for months, or don't have the attention spans to "keep up with me" even tho they don't really need to. But hey, we got single player games right? 😁
@AcousticBlu3 sad to say I'm just now realizing the last new single-player game I played was RDR2, and my first playthrough was only 2 years ago. Other than that, I'm on LoL or Tarkov. I tell myself l need a PS2 so I can go through my nostalgic backlog of games that i have on discs. But if I really wanted to do that, I could just download the ROMs onto the emulator I already have. Like you have said in one of your videos, full time job + two kids at late twenties = one 40 minute of trying my hardest in a ranked game after I get home from my night shift or will I play Jak II for 40 minutes.... let's be real
@@phantazem9381 i hope eventually when kids grow up, you will have some time and desire for some more gaming, for now go with what's most fun and relaxes you. I can only try to imagine how agitating league or tarkov can be after a full day of being an adult
@@AcousticBlu3 maybe im a basket case but since my friends quit playing games and I've been soloing League, I treat it a lot differently than I did the first seven years I played it. I listen to a 'Broken By Concept' podcast while at work/commute and it focuses on changing people perspective on solo queue to be more about self improving. It sounds dumb but I treat League like it's mental gymnastics, so I'm not focusing on what my teammates are doing, I'm only focused on improvement. It changed me from being the typical toxic league player into a tolerable teammate at worse
@@phantazem9381 I've never heard of such podcast! For me personally I did watch some videos to improve my gameplay and just as you say, it made me focus a lot more on what I do right and wrong, not others, so I'm less likely to flame and be toxic unless someone is 0/15 . That being said, I am not a huge fan of learning such a complex game with so many variables
@@AcousticBlu3 Though I feel the day I get stuck in a retirement home will be the time to finally catch up on all the games I've been meaning to get around too. Ha ha. I'll probably just be there playing Super Nintendo games over and over.
@@Oldmanorange Sadly I wasn't fortunate enough to own any consoles until I was like 14, and my first actual console was ps2 while ps3 era was reaching its' peak. So sadly I can hardly play older games
@@AcousticBlu3 That's a bummer. My first console experience was an Atari 2600. So, I literally can play every era of video games no problem whatsoever. Nowadays there's just so many games out there that there is no way to keep up.
You only need one mission or level to find out if the game is good or not. If you're not engaged, just refund it. It's what I do and it always works for me personally, try this method and you will always make the right choice for your tastes
Sadly for some games, intro sequence can get longer than the 2hrs you have on Steam before you refund the game. Also I do believe some games get better as you play them, if the progression feels balanced and natural.
@@AcousticBlu3 For most games that have 2 hour long intros, you'd still have time to see whether the game is worth playing or not since gameplay is usually part of the intro and shows you the core gameplay regardless. The good ones I played immediately showed me the stuff I could do immediately, the bad ones try to bait you into thinking you'll get anything else with substance but don't show you anything at the start. For Story games, you already got the game for the story so you can simply decide if you get hooked enough to see the rest of it. I do agree that games do get better as you play them, that's the whole point of playing them but the flaws of said game will always reveal itself early even if you don't see it right away and it can give you a chance to decide if you want to keep playing or refund the game. Even if you just don't think the game was worth the money, you can simply refund it and wait for a sale
Something different from the ordinary game review. Very good video. Made me think about the last game I dropped.. Guild Wars 2.. feels bad for the moni, but the fun is gone..
The fact you had some fun before you dropped the game means it was still worth some money. Value is a spectrum and we all see it differently. Some AAA games cost 70$ and give you 20hrs of fun, while some games cost 10$ and give you hundreds
I'm struggling right now with FFXVI but I have already invested 50+ hours in it and I do want to see it through the end but I'm not too excited about the combat or doing any of the side quests... But I can't find myself dropping it 😂😂😂 I'll just finish the main story and call it a day
I dropped Horizon Forbidden West about half way through because it got boring and repetitive. On the other hand, I've beaten Valhalla twice and will probably play again at some point.
Yeah I try not to obsess about that anymore. First it's only games, only entertainement, it should never be taken that seriously. It's supposed to do something good for you outside of obligations. If it becomes the obligation, as you said, when are we letting lose? It is your time, no one has to judge you, you should be able to do whatever you want. Restricting yourself without benefits during that time is the worst prison. Also nowadays there are so many games releasing that if you have to give all your time to only one, while ignoring all the rest that's interesting to you, it has to be very good not to get into fomo! I like to try out a lot of stuff, and then once in a while I stumble upon one that captivates me. Sometimes until the end, sometimes for a while and then the interest drops and I quit it. A game can be cool and fun and entertaining, but once it's over, what does it really amount to? Nothing. It gets you nowhere, it's just pleasure while it lasts but nothing in the long run, like a lot of types of entertainment, that we do over and over again to recreate that pleasure in a pursuit that never ends, because it never leads anywhere.
Yeah valhalla is way worse than its predecessor Odyssey. There are far less side quests/world events and while they may feel more unique they are mostly pointless and unrewarding. You were also right when you said that valhalla felt empty after a while which is true unlike odyssey where there is an active war going on and you can always infiltrate a fort burn the supplies of the spartans or kill an athenian leader to destablize a state and open even more oppertunities and content. Generally I just prefer Odyssey over Valhalla although I prefer valhallas more medieval setting.
Oof man, these days I can't stop thinking about it. What made it worse is that I finally decided to finish Nier Anime.. I had the game and Sifu in my head for the longest time, and I'm afraid to replay Nier because it might ruin the magic for me.
IMO for multiplayer, whenever you have far more frustration that isn't understandable (AKA not while learning the ropes) than fun For single player, it's when you stop caring about what happens in the story. That could be when the story is not there, not good, or when the gameplay is not enjoyable to you to the point you cannot persevere I would warn people off quitting single player games too quickly though. I've played so many where the best parts were the third act or last parts of a game.
For me personally, story is the not nearly as important as gameplay itself. If the gameplay is great and engaging, story is not that relevant. Thanks for commenting!
@@AcousticBlu3 But it can go both ways. I think something needs to draw you in regardless. Plus, I think no matter how good the gameplay is, it becomes a masterpiece if it also has a great story.
Literally going through this with valhalla but I bought the Xp boost and some gear, flying through the game I enjoy the combat but I am starting to feel burnt out, I usually use the rule or 3 when gaming play 3 beat 3. But val is soooo long I feel like I need to give it a break and come back it eventually
Don’t have kids. Not particularly interested in being productive. I’m good at what I do this it often gives the illusion I’m working hard and in reality I’m gliding through life. Thus I’ve got lots of time still for games. Not as much as when I was a kid but games back in my childhood weren’t all that and a bag of chips…
In the past 2-3 years I dropped forever: Valhala, Odyssey, Witcher 3. Pretty good games, enjoyed it for some time, but at some point tired of them, dropped for a months, returned played couple hours and understood that I don’t want to spend another 50 hours playing it. Game devs should understand that 100hours games are unnecessarily long and aren’t for most adults. I would prefer interesting story with good gameplay for 15 hours. However there are games that I returned too and finished: Hogwarts, Cyberpunk.
Uuu I played Cyberpunk at launch and dropped it because it was broken and a mess, definitely coming back to it. The problem with modern gaming is that people don't want to pay 70 bucks for a 15hour game so devs oversaturate open worlds with markers on the map and make it 100 hours long, as it's low effort for devs and then they can justify the full price
@@AcousticBlu3 i might disagree about Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher 3. in this game open world offer you to explore through interesting side quest. i have 300 hours in The Witcher 3 and 220 hours Cyberpunk 2077. i love this world , very immersive . do not seem 100+ hours gameplay was something wrong. i lived in this world and wanna to forget and play it again . ( sorry about my English)
@@fantikms no worries about the English, I did finish Witcher 3 with dlcs and loved it, Cyberpunk was a broken mess at launch. When I mentioned open world marker bloat I didn't necessarily think about these two games haha. I will definitely play cyberpunk someday now that it is in a great state
@@fantikms also wanted to ask, in Cyberpunk how early should someone go to play side stuff? I usually go for all the sides as soon as they show up on the map, but some might be a lot more fun once you unlock additional abilities later in the story
I would recommend AC: Odyssey. Its better and much more fun that Valhalla. I 100% completed Valhalla. I collected every item, complete every mission, every side quest, I even 100% the DLC. I took me 2 years but it was a game I enjoyed coming back to every few months. Its an easy game that doesn't punish me where I lose hours of progress, I felt I was always progressing. I'm an adult now and I dont always have time. Other games I will play 40 hours and never play them again but I enjoy my time with them, sometimes that's enough
Sadly I can't get into old doom games but I've beaten both Doom 2016 and Eternal a couple times, on Nightmare difficulty setting. I will replay them again at some point for sure, my favorite shooters
You're making a wrong choice to start Assassins Creed RPG from Valhalla. I have completed all assassins creed games, and Valhalla is the most tedious game from all of them, the story took too long to progresss and you shouldn't force yourself to finish this game before play others on your backlog. You should start from Origin as it have the best story presentation and the shortest time to beat from three of them. You didnt have to beat all of them tough but i recommend you at least try to play Origin
I almost dropped AC Valhalla & after reaching the end I honestly wish I did. I dropped AC Odyssey. But man AC Origins was perfect to me: Likeable characters, Good plot that didn't drag on, New combat relative to the older one's.
Thanks for sharing man, initially Valhalla felt fresh to me since I haven't played Origins and Odyssey but then the honeymoon phase was over after some time. Guess I need to add Origins back to my backlog haha
I dropped Valhala after 17-20 hours and I don’t regret it. I have some respect to my time. 😂 But I don’t regret playing it, it was an interesting game to some point
35 years old, work from home, make 6 figures, own all the consoles and a 4090 equipped pc, married, and never ran out of time to play games. Outliers exist!
Work from home changed my life, it's SO MUCH BETTER, I have more energy, more time and even more money as I'm not spending eating out and commuting. I still gotta go to the office sometimes and that's fine but never again do I want a job that requires me to go in
Or just buy a game in promotion, and never plan to play it, or directly start playing it (Horizon Zero Dawn) and enjoying it so much. I now think: why didn't Zero Down play it before, instead of trying other games which weren't my thing after all? Now I'm eager to play Forbidden West too, but gonna wait till the pc port is reviewed, and meanwhile keep enjoying Zero Dawn. Hope the Forbidden West pc port will be a success aswell.
I stopped playing Far Cry games too. UbiSoft needs to refine what open world games are for them because they all look the same gameplay wise@@AcousticBlu3
"Don't like to backtrack"!? So how can you play open world games? 🤔😆 It's like playing Hitman and ditching it only because you had to enter the same room twice. 🤣
@@alexanderhugestrand I don't think I can explain it very well. I haven't played Hitman games since Blood money, but my memory tells me Hitman is all about repetition, and practicing, to see what works and what doesn't, to find different ways to kill and get away with it. Which is really FINE with me. Backtracking in Hitman is vastly different than backtracking in Metroidvanias, especially if you have to backtrack for 20-30 min through the same enemies/traps/etc. As for the open world games, I mention in my videos that I'm kind of burnt out of open world games unless the side content is engaging and fullfiling. Things are not so black and white, "if you don't like x, then how can you do y". Games can be very similar and yet quite different in how they approach some aspects of games. By your logic I am not capable of playing any game. Thanks for the comment! I appreciate the discussion
@@AcousticBlu3 Well, I exaggerated for the fun of it. But also, to me a Metroidvania is like a semi-open world game. So I don't think of it as backtracking, but rather likely exploration similar to "real" open world games. But I'm not here to defend Metroidvanias, because I've grown tired of that formula too (I think, but maybe it's the specific games I've tried that I don't enjoy).
I'm always confused hearing takes like that. I mean, why would you feel that you need to 100% a game? Especially open world etc.? I didn't even finish some short narrative games. I am intentionally not finishing the main quest in TW3 either. On the other hand I finished Portal 2 but still play the maps and mods, every now and then.
I had so many bugs and crashes while playing valhalla on PC. I invested (wasted) 70 hours to finally finish and uninstall this mess for good. I was so excited for mirage but wont be buying it
I think it's hard to judge whether it's bloated at the very beginning, because the initial map is not so big. But as soon as you step foot onto England, and you have the markers activated in Exploration mode settings, then it hits you right away. I used the Pathfinder mode, so markers appeared on the compass and on the map only if I am somewhat close to those points of interests.
Buying games is like kinder surprise, you never know what you might get. The reviews for a game might be great and the genre might be right up your valley, you spend your hard earned $$$ and you still might not enjoy the game the way you wanted :( such is life
Man, that intro hit me hard... Went to uni, got a job, I keep starting games on weekends/holidays, then dropping them after a few days due to lack of time. Studying, working, socializing, gym, and then when I do find time to play, the voices in the head scream about laziness and not being productive...
What I like to do is as soon as a come back from work, or wake up during weekends, i focus on chores first, and then I can play with a not-so-loud voice in my head haha. It's hard to strike a balance, I guess we all have to become entrepreneurs and earn passive income to have more time to play haha. Or maybe we simply grow out of it like many people. Keep your chin up and even if you continuously start and drop new games, as long as you're having fun, that's what matters.
@@AcousticBlu3 And I'm not even mentioning the fact that my PC is outdated at this point, barely covering recommended specs for Helldivers 2 (given that it's old probs won't run it at all). So at this point can't even get the latest games....
@@DimitrijeZdrale Time to grind to have money to build a monster PC, and then have 0 time and energy to play :)
So i work hard enough when i want to game I game with 0 fudges given. Girl can wait so can dishes!
What i do find though is games are not growing like they used to so just dont expect significant improvements because yeah the younglings prefer visuals 🙄 over actual gameplay (The shock when you cope something like need for speed or WWE to find its even worse then the games 20 years ago is out of this world.
Abit of graphics and a lack of everything. 😂
Gotta weight for the good ones and buy these retardedly priced turds to go on significant discount so you don't feel conned.
But if you down to play and excited everyone else can get lost live youre life. And focus on the fun more then the grind because like another legend thats become a whole new entity with fragments of the original Assasins creed they add a loot system to trick you to play it more instead of focusing how shallow its become Huuge maps with the same 10 quests spammed 500 times across the map no meaning just filler even the story line 🥱
That completionist is perilous in these times of money grabs and taking advantage of the poor kids who have never known much more then being served fecal matter and acting like its fine dining😂
@@kapnkrunch6833 bro actually wrote a script for my next video haha
"not to mention we also have to develop and maintain friendships and romantic relationships" aha you see, that's what I like to call life's optional content! *cries in introvertese
Hahahaha, gotta do them side quests for some exp am I right? 😁
@@Whocareslol420 More time for games then haha
I am 70-yo, My wife is with me for oh.. 30 years, pretty sure she wont leave me if i game a little late at night. My best friends name is Varric, and my sister's name is Bethany. They wont leave me either. And if i get a little cranky, i kiss my wife and beat the crap out of Louis.... I think i am safe.
Aww dude you cant be saying such relatable stuff like that :(
holy shit i just died from cringe
I appreciate your thought process & explanation.👍
Thank you very much!
As a functional adult, time is essence. If a game is not clinking, you're not having fun or you have to force yourself, it's time to drop that game. Also, moder games are 90% of the time bs so you're not missing much most of the time.
Older games respected your time to a much higher degree. I don't play modern games unless it's like a simulator or something that I can quickly jump into and have fun.
Older games were designed to be fun the moment you started the game. The trend of open world games and putting in as much filler content as possible to brag about the lenght of the game is the worst trend in the industry the past 10 years. It was a long time ago I had any interest for those types of games.
@@Skumtomten1 i don't know how I missed this comment. It's spot on!
I've changed how I think. I only play a game if I'm having fun. I don't have to beat a game. Some games will be too long. Sometimes I'll stop playing a game and come back to it later.
I really like this approach. The only "problem" I have with it is that the more time passes after abandoning a game, the harder it is to come back to it. Lost Judgement still sitting on my ps5 ssd and waiting for me 😭
@AcousticBlu3 I will delete a game and only go back to it if I have a really strong feeling to play it.
I mainly find myself trying free to play games.
@@Gamergodgric there are always some gems among f2p games, but not too many are single player, or I'm just too focused on the multi-player end of f2p spectrum 😁
@AcousticBlu3 ya I'm not huge into multiplayer. But I like to at least try free to play multiplayer games.
I have a motto; "The day you stop playing, is the day you start dying.."
My first real game was Sanxion on the Commodore 64. loading time: 20 minutes from a cassette. An odd 40 years ago.
I am now almost 70-yo, and still playing games... I don't start many games... i am very selective, but the one's i do start, i finish.
You are definitely what I want to be someday. We should all listen to children inside of us. Thank you for the comment sir!
did you play hollow knight
@@Aimad_99 if the question is for me, then yes, I currently am, but since I started it on my Switch, I play it not so often and every time it is hard to get back to it. I need to sit down and warm my chair up haha
@@Aimad_99No, I am known to play very diverse types of games. Competitive RTCW , Left4Dead1, Dragon Age, Horizon, Sims3, Fifa, Football Manager, Startrek Online, Baldurs Gate, Cyberpunk... the list is long.. but i haven't even heard of Hollow knight, let alone played it. Maybe thats a hiatus in my upbringing, or maybe its just not something i play. Why ?... Should i ?...
@@RFA_The-DuDe Star Trek Online is great, way underrated. I've played off-and-on for years and have clocked well over 2,000 hours in it.
I had a similar experience with Valhalla. But once I was burnt out on it, I'd put it down and play other things and then I'd return to Valhalla when I felt like playing it again. I've now finished the main game but burnout is setting in again so I'm thinking about playing something else and then coming back to Valhalla one last time to do the Paris and Ragnarok expansions. Best advice I can give is don't try to get every artifact, wealth and mystery. Just grab them as you naturally move around the map. You're not going to get all of them unless you spend a lot of extra time going out of your way to get them. It's not worth it. I'm at 145 hours and there's still a lot of them that I haven't collected.
I purposefully turned off markers on the map and used the pathfinder mode so I don't get burnt out quickly. But seeing the lvl recommendations for the zones at higher difficulties I felt like I had to find everything
@@AcousticBlu3 You don't. I didn't do everything and I never had issues with being under levelled.
@@BobBobOnTH-cam surely u played on the most difficult setting where zones are 100-300lvls above you and you could get by only by playing the story. If so, you sir are a genius, and I salute you
@@AcousticBlu3 No. I just did the quests in order from lowest level to highest, you passive aggressive jerk.
@@AcousticBlu3 Whatever dude.
perfect opportunity to mention the sunken cost fallacy LOL
Wasn't familiar with the term until now haha . Perfectly describes my experience with some games.
A deeply mature and thoughtful video, well done.
Username checks out haha! Thank you so much 😀
For open world games I don't seek out side content, I go for the main quest and if I stumble upon it I might check it out. Doing this made me enjoy open world games way more, otherwise it feels like a list of chores I gotta tick.
This is a great idea unless side content rewards you with experience, additional game mechanics etc
Upon defeating Morgott. That’s the right moment.
I stopped playing elden Ring after 60ish hours but I will start it again before the dlc drops for sure
Haha thats what happen to me on my first playthrough, its okay for you to drop as souls game is not for everyone. but i really glad that i beat the game and it become one of my best game of all time
I’m about to give up after the queen of the full moon whatever her name is, the games amazing but just too stressful
@@smokeydesperado170 i struggled with her a bit too, keep trying 😁
Change G and M positions and...
Here I go, ready or Gormotti!
Great video. I have a kid, wife, full time job and a huge pile of blu rays, games and books I want to read. Never enough time and while I don't do as much I focus on completing what I start and don't take on multiple things at the same time.
Taking things one at a time is a great approach for sure! Thanks for sharing man!
The honeymoon phase thing with AC Valhalla is spot on with pretty much every single Ubisoft game that comes out. It’s exciting for the first like 5-10 hours and then the game continues for another 50 hours and you realize how shallow poorly written the whole thing is.
That's why I deleted AC odyssey and Far Cry 6 from my backlog, will still try FC5 and AC Unity someday
Your TH-cam channel is absolutely amazing! The content you create is both entertaining and informative,The production quality, creativity, and passion you put into your videos are evident in every frame. keeping me hooked with every video. Keep up the fantastic work, you're doing a fantastic job! 😊👍
This made my day! Thank you so much, I will try my best in the future as well 😊😁
When you're consistently not enjoying it anymore. Then you move on to something else. Not necessarily another videogame. If you oblige yourself to stay because you need to complete everything despite mainly stressing out about it, or if you feel like you are playing it for hours and hours just out of boredom or procrastination and you're afraid something else will be even less rewarding, then you should deal with the emotional conflicts underneath all that. You deserve a more satisfactory life.
This
@@AcousticBlu3I added "procrastination" to the comment, if you could like it again. I think it's actually very important that the gamer community understand that emotional regulation is the thing directly tied to their ability to engage healthily with their favorite hobby
@@maurimaj yeah, hobby primarily needs to be fun, otherwise it wouldn't be a hobby
Pro Tip. If you are an adult with lots of money, and no time, And have a huge backlog, just change the goal from beating everything to playing everything.
Make a list of all the Unplayed games, play each for 2 hours, and give the game a rating with how much you like it. Then afterwards, you can start beating the games, starting with your favorite.
Literally!
I had the same feeling playing Origins.. but I pushed and completed the story. And you know what? I f***ing hate myself. Should've dropped that PoS straight away. 30 hours that I could've actually enjoyed.
Have to make a big mistake sometimes to understand what you truly find fun.
We all learn from our mistakes bro, it's okay
Yes!!! This has been my exact thought for a long time and it is nice to see that others think the same. There are plenty of games out there that DON'T EVER feel like a grind, that will keep you from the start of the game to the end. Playing the "grind" games keeps you away from these "non-grind" games because of the time you spend.
You may not get to all of your "non-grind" games if you feel like you need to beat every game you start! You have a limited amount of free time and a limited amount of time on this earth.
I feel the same way about this topic in regard to TV series and books. Or really any hobby.
Yes sir
life changing video. just earned yourself a sub 🙏
@@peter_aie579 aww thank you so much, your comment made my morning! 💙
FINALLY, someone who puts the stock video of someone playing league of legends with a controller and is aware of the absurdity. I've seen this stock video in like 6/7 videos
Haha I was about to use a generic vid of someone gaming and I was like hol up
@@AcousticBlu3 I just finished the video and I loved it. All the points you talk about are right and you explain it great + no distracting video edit, just the essential.
Also, I just noticed that your channel has few subscribers and I'm surprised lol. Now you have one more, and I think you will have many more!
@@arinwald this comment made my day! Thank you so much!
Aite bro i wasnt expecting you to perfectly describe my situation in the intro😅😅
I think this is something many people can relate too, and knowing the struggle is shared definitely makes it a bit easier haha
thats why I often focus on single player games, I have too many single player games as it is, without focusing on multiplayer hehe.
I thought this was going to be a video on when it's profitable to release a game.
I still watched and enjoyed!
Haha I know title might have been confusing, thanks for the comment!
Some of that stuff you mentioned was optional. Vanguard was a side plot that I never even did and I still finished the story
I found out later sadly, but I'm pretty sure it was labeled as main quest, especially to give context to Odin stuff
@AcousticBlu3 that’s true. I think it did force you to do the first couple missions now that you mention it
@@logansmart5281 it was a while ago now, so no worries about it haha
Gave up gaming at 12yrs old, had an Atari. Got my education and career retired at 44 in 2019 and only due to Scampanic started gaming again. Had a blast until chaos was over and went back to enjoying my retirement hobbies. Family, Dogs, Harley and Horses and game on weekends. It's all about discipline. Even now if a game feels a chore I put it down.
Good stuff, glad you find different kinds of high outside of a tv/computer screen. It's important to not be addicted to games
I have a habit of quitting games right after to dying to the final boss once. I play games to value the art and design aspects like a museum, so when ive seen everything, i lose purpose to keep going
That is a very interesting spin on the topic, and I can definitely see it. Not everyone seeks a ruthless challenge disguised as boss battles. Nothing wrong there
@AcousticBlu3 thanks for the thoughtful reply. I like the ruthless challenge too, but the reward is "unlocking" more stuff to experience. When it's the final boss, all I win is a credits roll lol
@@QuantumTelephone literally, one TH-cam search away from finding out what happens there
Awesome video! Keep it up
Thank youuu! 😎
As a 30something gamer, is it just me, or are games getting a little _too_ big? I'll always enjoy indefinite games like GTA and Skyrim, but that's because that's exactly what they are. I get on for a couple hours and craft my own experience. But with games that have a linear advancement, it's like "wow, when is this gonna be over...?" FFVII Rebirth... yeah, great that they gave us their modern-day interpretation of worldbuilding post-Midgar, but hooolllly cow it's huge, and not in a captivating way. It's the FFVII world we know, just.... way bigger.
I would say, at the same time games are getting bigger, and we also have less time and patience for games as we age. To be honest I appreciate 20-30 hours games a lot more right now, when I was younger I would be like "that's it?"
I have both ADHD and a completion OCD, I feel this massive dilemma all the time.
I also feel the sunk cost regret when I don't finish a game's story after many hours. Hence, as of now I'm still very indecisive about dropping games.
I feel you, games are expensive asf. The only way to slightly alleviate this anxiety is to not buy games at launch but rather later when it's heavily discounted. Our backlogs are huge anyways
@@AcousticBlu3 very true. I don't buy games at release these days anyway, other than a few competitive ones like Tekken.
When I said "sunk cost" I mostly meant the time already sunk into it, I kinda tend to feel that all of it gone without the catharsis of seeing the final boss fight or a fulfilling dramatic ending, yknow. This happens especially when the story is engaging but the gameplay isn't, you tend to feel like all your slogging is going in vain. The art of letting go is a learning curve afterall🤣
@@rorschach9969 oh yeah I understood you the first time no worries! Not every game hits you right away but takes some time, and knowing that it's hard to judge whether you are missing out if you drop the game too early, or wasting time if you drop it too late
If you're not having fun, stop. Perfectly sums this dilemma up and it's a sentiment I share whenever I play something new.
*when I load up a game and then turn it off 3 minutes later, that's usually the sign* 👌
*cries in red dead redemption 2 and gta V*
Dude THANK YOU SO MUCH for saying you dropped Metroid Prime Remastered. I loved Metroid Dread so I thought I would love this game but they are VERY different. Prime is a lot more slow, lot of outdated mechanics and concepts compared to Dread but I felt really bad for dropping this game because everyone seems to love it so much. Anyways, thank you for the sincerity.
Anytime dude! I very much understand the feeling of not liking something that many like, and then feeling guilty as if something is wrong with me haha.
Man i feel that.
I really realized this with Elden Ring!
I dropped AC valhally and odyssey(tbf i completed at least main story there).
And then i finally got my ass up and continued playing ER.
Maaaan that game hit me..
i sunk 100h into it in like 3 weeks..
What a game man.
I really came to the same conclusion. If a game is worth it (for me personal), i can feel it.
If not, just drop it.
I will play it to see and then just do how it feels.
Nothing bad in dropping a game which does not click with oneself!
BUT also it sometimes depends on the mood. For some games you kinda have to get in the right mood. Giving it the chance to click ;)
Thank you for sharing ur experience man! Indeed there are many factors involved and while some games might have clicked for us before, they might not now and vice versa
I haven't really enjoyed games for the past 2 years. I just play them when I'm fed up with my daily tasks and want to procrastinate, only to realize I've wasted my day away...
I am sorry to hear that, I hope you can find something that you will find meaning in, that will also be fun for you
Pretty much my whole life i've been "blessed" if you will, with being so picky and knowing myself so well that about 90% of games i pick up, i do so because i find it interesting and do end up finishing it because well i simply made the right call?
I certainly have plenty of games i picked up when they were free or got convinced by someone to try it but never found much appeal in it and dropped just a couple hours into it.
But those are rare and usually impulsive decisions. My fairly small steam library is a decent indication that i only really play and finish what i think i'll enjoy before even buying it.
This is good to hear. As I mentioned we already have a somewhat established taste, and we already know which games we will most definitely like and which ones are a maybe. I also finish most games that I play, but since making this video and coming to conclusions, I told myself to drop games that I don't enjoy as much.
Sekiro, Ghost of Tsushima, and a recent Yakuza / Judgment game are the only games you'll ever need.
Needless to say, based
One of the reasons I never seem to make a dent in my huge backlog is that - for some weird reason - I fear ending up not being able to decide whether or not to continue a game if it doesn't excite me that much. It's obviously impossible to know if a game will be good or not before I've actually tried it, but that feeling of uncertainty before I start playing a new game can sometimes make me lose interest in playing at all. I don't know why it's so hard to decide that enough is enough if a game fails to entertain, but more often than not it just is. I'm currently experiencing exactly this with the game I started a few days ago, but thankfully it's not a very good game so I think that, for once, I'll be able to just stop and move on to something better. 😄
If u don't enjoy it, hopefully you drop it and never look back. There are games u look forward to more for sure. Thanks for taking the time to comment!
@@AcousticBlu3 Yes, that is true. Life's too short to hang on to bad games. I guess I have to remind myself of that more often. 😄
If the cover says
-EA
-Ubishit
-Bioware
-Bethesda
-343i
I bypass this entire process and drop the game before even touching it.
mEAd
Lulbisoft
Cryoware
Methesda
this video has a much broader scope, it relates not to games, or media but to any hobby or human activity.
me - trying to dev a story game for years here and there by bits but many things are looking that i should have dropped it long ago because it all started because of small inspirational and emotional effect and became a thing that i told myself for a long time "i have to do it no matter what" and i was always in conflicting state of doubts about the game and how it all had to be reworked and people wouldn't appreciate it at all. maybe i'm doing the right thing because i'm getting more experience and knowledge, maybe one day i'll come back and finish the job or will start from scratch.
story element of media is tough though, people praise the kojima type and dislike something well-thought as twelve minutes. discouraging
I hope u find it within yourself what is it you really want to do with your game. And if you do finish it, to send it to me haha.
Also I think the feedback on the video is rather positive so I am very encouraged
Amazing video, thanks !
No, thank you for support! It is much appreciated
Nice video, great stuff! I have been in the same situation and this really resonated with me. Keep up the great work and this channel will be going places 😊
Thank you man! Your super nice comment is much appreciated! 😊
This is how I felt about xenoblade 3 i pushed myself to the last boss and left feeling bitter about it
Xenoblade 1 gave me such feeling because last boss made me go back and grind a few more levels because it was stupid strong :(
@@AcousticBlu3 yeah I had my fun during the middle chapters but the end was just dragging on
I've fallen in love with Elden Ring. It'll never be dropped. Hidetaka Miyazaki will receive love letters, I'll learn japanese for this.
Tldr- when its not fun, which is the whole point of playing a game
I did not have a backlog until I upgraded my internet. Before my internet was too slow so I would only play one game for months or even years. Mostly mobile games. But now my internet is faster I got so many games lately from the sales and bundles. I am just playing the games for 30 minutes and then takes a break and maybe play another game. I want to just experience lots of games right now I can try beating them later.
This is a very nice approach. I bet U also enjoyed games more before when u did not have a better choice
@@AcousticBlu3 yes before i had no choice and now i got like decades of games to catch up on
@@ziljin hahaha I know the feeling
Weird this popped up in my recommended given I recently dropped Halo Infinite. Also weird because I dropped Pokémon Legends Arceus years ago shortly after it came out but have been debating giving that game a second chance. This video however does make me feel validated. Thanks homie
Anytime home haha
Nice video! Pozdrav iz Novih Kozaraca!
Thank you bratic
Hey. I just wanted to let you know that your videos are very enjoyable and entertaining. Keep making more. You definitely have the potential to become a bigger content creator.
Have a good day!
Thank you for your lovely words, it means a lot! Have a great one too!
I really feel bad for not finishing a game. So if im not having much fun, feel, burnout, or the game doesn't have that pull ill leave it and come back later. I did that with many game The Witcher 3 Skyrim and RDR2 and those games are my top 3 of all time. But sometimes i belive like you said you have to drop a game if youre not having fun
For me personally, leaving the game for a long time feels even harder because coming back to it is hard, you don't know what to do, most often I have forgotten the story etc etc. I appreciate when games have a "story thus far" recap setting kinda thing
What were the games you dropped and why? Let me know!
I just feel like i could be doing something more “productive” and that sucks because nowadays if you relax you end up being too hard yourself smh
Well I turned it into productivity by making yt videos haha
@@AcousticBlu3 haha I just have my laptop open and in front of me while i game now 😂
@@omn8612 bro just listen to courses while focusing on 5d chess plot twists in games haha
Until fairly recently, dropping a game wasn't final for me. Rather like your early examples, I'd play it badly early on and not want to backtrack, or get stale from overplaying it, or hit a level I can't beat. The game then goes onto a "restart" list, and in maybe a year or 3 I'll come back and play it from the beginning as if it were new. Rise of the Tomb Raider is in that category for me. So are Frost Punk and NFS Heat. Games I was enjoying, but not quite enough.
But lately I've come to the realisation that there will ALWAYS be good games I haven't played yet, so some games need to be decisively expunged. Deleted from my Steam library and hidden. Some, I've chewed on for a while, got my money's worth, and they've lost their flavour. The Witcher, perhaps controversially, so I can start Witcher 2 as if it didn't exist, even though I'm over half-way through. The House of Da Vinci. Assetto Corsa. Some, I just never enjoyed at all. Hard Rain. Syberia 3.
It takes a lot for me to admit I'll NEVER like a game and it was a total waste of money, but there's no point wasting time too. And I think when you hit a dead loss, you know it.
This hits too close to home, thanks!
my biggest problem with gaming is I'm a jack of all trades, I like just abotu every genre, a few I don't play like 4x as while I enjoy them, just not good enough to play them heh. but rpgs, fps, action, idle games, racing, puzzle, you name it I've played hehe and usually enjoy.
I feel like that's even worse, I am kind of in a similar boat and I feel compelled to start so many different games, and you know variety is sometimes a curse
@@AcousticBlu3 yea, least my most recent aquisition idle/incremental games tend to be something I can run in the background :> so I can play them with other games as long as I have the resources.
@@wolfwing1 good shit man
I believe any adult gamer will relate to this video, and your points are really straight on to the point. I shall be dropping Dragon's Dogma too, can't stand that rock hard UI which hopefully will be upgraded in the sequel with better graphics. Time saved, and i will now have time for my 9th modded Skyrim playthrough.
Thank you for your kind comment. I have yet to play Skyrim seriously, I had a single playthrough of it , just 120 hours of playing side content and exploring, and haven't touched the story haha
I havn't changed my playing, but I've changed my buying. Unless I plan to play it within the next week or two after launch I wait till it's on sale, like I got like a dragon infinite wealth and ff7 rebirth because I knew I would enjoy and beat, but holding off on so many more till sales. I still have a backlog, but most of them were christmas sales, or games I got 3-4 years ago and older.
I was tempted to get infinite wealth on release, knowing it was going to be a banger for sure, but given how long it is and that I planned to play some other games beforehand, I've put off my purchase until some point in the future (hopefully a sale haha)
@@AcousticBlu3 for me I wanted to know the story of Kiryu, same with rebith wanted to know what happened with Arieth, more so the latter are the kind of thing that is hard to avoid spoilers from even if careful. Plus I wanted to play the game :> I have used covid though to go through my backlog :> Still have hundreds of games but I've gone through all the tripple A games and most of the double tripple rest are collections, indies and such.
@@wolfwing1 Cant wait to play both someday, thanks for sharing your experience!
I finished 12 games in 2023, but I dropped 52.
If I not having fun with a game, I drop it. If a game is too big and stops being fun at some point, I drop it too.
Recently I dropped Alan Wake 2 because is more a movie than a game. And I dropped the remaster of Onimusha: Warlords; it was a great game at release but nowadays is far to outdated.
Dang, 12 per year is still pretty good, I think I beat a game per month on average as well. I agree that Alan Wake is not the most exciting one gameplay wise, but at least it's fairly short haha. I didn't even know onimusha games still exist
@@AcousticBlu3 Thank you!
I dropped Alan Wake but I will watch the 'movie' on youtube. The story is interesting, I just didn't enjoy the gameplay.
Onimusha still exist but is the same game from release, what means we stuck with the same goddamn camera and simple mechanics from that bygone age.
@@YannMetalhead it sucks when your childhood favorites don't age that well and nostalgia is the only reason for playing :(
I did not expect for this video to only have 500 views wow
Give it time. Quality will always surface.
How much time?
Thank you for this.
i find it hard to believe you only have 200 subs and make such excellent content! really enjoyed this video
Comments like this make my day and motivate me to make more. Thank you so much!
me and a bunch of friends got together to play League as 5 mans, but once we started getting into ranked we stopped playing together for fun and only for a make believe number. now quite literally the only person sitting in discord playing league, everyone else quit gaming completely bc it just poisoned their view on games
@@phantazem9381 i am in a similar boat, once in a while I play 5 man league and ranked or not, somebody always gets mad and flames, then playing becomes more toxic rather than fun. As for the discord I can also relate to this, I am the only one in my circle of friends who plays as much as I do, others are usually revisiting old stuff, or casually playing 1 game for months, or don't have the attention spans to "keep up with me" even tho they don't really need to. But hey, we got single player games right? 😁
@AcousticBlu3 sad to say I'm just now realizing the last new single-player game I played was RDR2, and my first playthrough was only 2 years ago. Other than that, I'm on LoL or Tarkov. I tell myself l need a PS2 so I can go through my nostalgic backlog of games that i have on discs. But if I really wanted to do that, I could just download the ROMs onto the emulator I already have. Like you have said in one of your videos, full time job + two kids at late twenties = one 40 minute of trying my hardest in a ranked game after I get home from my night shift or will I play Jak II for 40 minutes.... let's be real
@@phantazem9381 i hope eventually when kids grow up, you will have some time and desire for some more gaming, for now go with what's most fun and relaxes you. I can only try to imagine how agitating league or tarkov can be after a full day of being an adult
@@AcousticBlu3 maybe im a basket case but since my friends quit playing games and I've been soloing League, I treat it a lot differently than I did the first seven years I played it. I listen to a 'Broken By Concept' podcast while at work/commute and it focuses on changing people perspective on solo queue to be more about self improving. It sounds dumb but I treat League like it's mental gymnastics, so I'm not focusing on what my teammates are doing, I'm only focused on improvement. It changed me from being the typical toxic league player into a tolerable teammate at worse
@@phantazem9381 I've never heard of such podcast! For me personally I did watch some videos to improve my gameplay and just as you say, it made me focus a lot more on what I do right and wrong, not others, so I'm less likely to flame and be toxic unless someone is 0/15 . That being said, I am not a huge fan of learning such a complex game with so many variables
Just wait as you get even older.
Can't wait
@@AcousticBlu3 Though I feel the day I get stuck in a retirement home will be the time to finally catch up on all the games I've been meaning to get around too. Ha ha. I'll probably just be there playing Super Nintendo games over and over.
@@Oldmanorange Sadly I wasn't fortunate enough to own any consoles until I was like 14, and my first actual console was ps2 while ps3 era was reaching its' peak. So sadly I can hardly play older games
@@AcousticBlu3 That's a bummer. My first console experience was an Atari 2600. So, I literally can play every era of video games no problem whatsoever. Nowadays there's just so many games out there that there is no way to keep up.
@@Oldmanorange exactly, hard to go back and try to catch up
You only need one mission or level to find out if the game is good or not. If you're not engaged, just refund it. It's what I do and it always works for me personally, try this method and you will always make the right choice for your tastes
Sadly for some games, intro sequence can get longer than the 2hrs you have on Steam before you refund the game. Also I do believe some games get better as you play them, if the progression feels balanced and natural.
@@AcousticBlu3 For most games that have 2 hour long intros, you'd still have time to see whether the game is worth playing or not since gameplay is usually part of the intro and shows you the core gameplay regardless. The good ones I played immediately showed me the stuff I could do immediately, the bad ones try to bait you into thinking you'll get anything else with substance but don't show you anything at the start. For Story games, you already got the game for the story so you can simply decide if you get hooked enough to see the rest of it. I do agree that games do get better as you play them, that's the whole point of playing them but the flaws of said game will always reveal itself early even if you don't see it right away and it can give you a chance to decide if you want to keep playing or refund the game. Even if you just don't think the game was worth the money, you can simply refund it and wait for a sale
@@IfritBoi i also game on Playstation and switch, so no refunding there haha
@@AcousticBlu3 R.I.P
that is such a brainrot take, there is hardly any game where the "first mission" or first hour in general makes you instantly engaged.
had the same thing. after while it felt empty
Something different from the ordinary game review. Very good video. Made me think about the last game I dropped.. Guild Wars 2.. feels bad for the moni, but the fun is gone..
The fact you had some fun before you dropped the game means it was still worth some money. Value is a spectrum and we all see it differently. Some AAA games cost 70$ and give you 20hrs of fun, while some games cost 10$ and give you hundreds
when you get the platinum . no achievement means no goal . no goal means a waste and not fun . hope that's help
Visit how long to beat and if the game is to long avoid it and play only shorter games.
I'm struggling right now with FFXVI but I have already invested 50+ hours in it and I do want to see it through the end but I'm not too excited about the combat or doing any of the side quests... But I can't find myself dropping it 😂😂😂 I'll just finish the main story and call it a day
The classic case of Go Next
I start game when it feels like fun power rangers escapism fantasy, I stop when I find a game that feels more like it
Monkey branching from a game to another. I like how that sounds haha
I dropped Horizon Forbidden West about half way through because it got boring and repetitive. On the other hand, I've beaten Valhalla twice and will probably play again at some point.
Understandable, different games scratch different itches
Yeah I try not to obsess about that anymore.
First it's only games, only entertainement, it should never be taken that seriously. It's supposed to do something good for you outside of obligations. If it becomes the obligation, as you said, when are we letting lose?
It is your time, no one has to judge you, you should be able to do whatever you want. Restricting yourself without benefits during that time is the worst prison.
Also nowadays there are so many games releasing that if you have to give all your time to only one, while ignoring all the rest that's interesting to you, it has to be very good not to get into fomo! I like to try out a lot of stuff, and then once in a while I stumble upon one that captivates me. Sometimes until the end, sometimes for a while and then the interest drops and I quit it.
A game can be cool and fun and entertaining, but once it's over, what does it really amount to? Nothing. It gets you nowhere, it's just pleasure while it lasts but nothing in the long run, like a lot of types of entertainment, that we do over and over again to recreate that pleasure in a pursuit that never ends, because it never leads anywhere.
Damn I wouldn't be able to put it any better... Thank you for your insightful comment. Fomo is crazyy
Yeah valhalla is way worse than its predecessor Odyssey. There are far less side quests/world events and while they may feel more unique they are mostly pointless and unrewarding. You were also right when you said that valhalla felt empty after a while which is true unlike odyssey where there is an active war going on and you can always infiltrate a fort burn the supplies of the spartans or kill an athenian leader to destablize a state and open even more oppertunities and content. Generally I just prefer Odyssey over Valhalla although I prefer valhallas more medieval setting.
2:48 insta heard the Nier OST oh my godd its still stuck in my HEAD!!!!
Oof man, these days I can't stop thinking about it. What made it worse is that I finally decided to finish Nier Anime.. I had the game and Sifu in my head for the longest time, and I'm afraid to replay Nier because it might ruin the magic for me.
I dropped TOTK not even halfway thru, but ill probably get back to it eventually
I can understand it is very hard to get back to a long ass open world game. Good luck haha
IMO for multiplayer, whenever you have far more frustration that isn't understandable (AKA not while learning the ropes) than fun
For single player, it's when you stop caring about what happens in the story. That could be when the story is not there, not good, or when the gameplay is not enjoyable to you to the point you cannot persevere
I would warn people off quitting single player games too quickly though. I've played so many where the best parts were the third act or last parts of a game.
For me personally, story is the not nearly as important as gameplay itself. If the gameplay is great and engaging, story is not that relevant. Thanks for commenting!
@@AcousticBlu3 But it can go both ways. I think something needs to draw you in regardless. Plus, I think no matter how good the gameplay is, it becomes a masterpiece if it also has a great story.
@@HugoStiglitz88 defo!
i've never dropped a game faster than i did starfield.
Same, new Atlantis ran like a PowerPoint presentation
heyman just curious what game is that in the thumbnail, it looks amazing, and is it good?
That was AC Valhalla bro, photo mode makes every game look better haha
thanks!@@AcousticBlu3
@@jackpepper4432 np!
Literally going through this with valhalla but I bought the Xp boost and some gear, flying through the game I enjoy the combat but I am starting to feel burnt out, I usually use the rule or 3 when gaming play 3 beat 3.
But val is soooo long I feel like I need to give it a break and come back it eventually
Indeed the game is insanely long
Don’t have kids. Not particularly interested in being productive. I’m good at what I do this it often gives the illusion I’m working hard and in reality I’m gliding through life. Thus I’ve got lots of time still for games. Not as much as when I was a kid but games back in my childhood weren’t all that and a bag of chips…
That's good too! Work hard, play hard!
My brain read drop as release...
Another comment was the same haha. Sorry for the confusion!
In the past 2-3 years I dropped forever: Valhala, Odyssey, Witcher 3. Pretty good games, enjoyed it for some time, but at some point tired of them, dropped for a months, returned played couple hours and understood that I don’t want to spend another 50 hours playing it. Game devs should understand that 100hours games are unnecessarily long and aren’t for most adults. I would prefer interesting story with good gameplay for 15 hours.
However there are games that I returned too and finished: Hogwarts, Cyberpunk.
Uuu I played Cyberpunk at launch and dropped it because it was broken and a mess, definitely coming back to it. The problem with modern gaming is that people don't want to pay 70 bucks for a 15hour game so devs oversaturate open worlds with markers on the map and make it 100 hours long, as it's low effort for devs and then they can justify the full price
@@AcousticBlu3 i might disagree about Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher 3. in this game open world offer you to explore through interesting side quest. i have 300 hours in The Witcher 3 and 220 hours Cyberpunk 2077. i love this world , very immersive . do not seem 100+ hours gameplay was something wrong. i lived in this world and wanna to forget and play it again . ( sorry about my English)
@@fantikms no worries about the English, I did finish Witcher 3 with dlcs and loved it, Cyberpunk was a broken mess at launch. When I mentioned open world marker bloat I didn't necessarily think about these two games haha. I will definitely play cyberpunk someday now that it is in a great state
@@fantikms also wanted to ask, in Cyberpunk how early should someone go to play side stuff? I usually go for all the sides as soon as they show up on the map, but some might be a lot more fun once you unlock additional abilities later in the story
@@fantikms Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher 3 are great games no doubt.
I would recommend AC: Odyssey. Its better and much more fun that Valhalla.
I 100% completed Valhalla. I collected every item, complete every mission, every side quest, I even 100% the DLC. I took me 2 years but it was a game I enjoyed coming back to every few months. Its an easy game that doesn't punish me where I lose hours of progress, I felt I was always progressing. I'm an adult now and I dont always have time.
Other games I will play 40 hours and never play them again but I enjoy my time with them, sometimes that's enough
Odyssey is still on my list, I will definitely give it a shot someday
Idk all of Ubi's modern day games are the same. Played one you played them all. Only thing different is the setting and characters.
@@abstr4cted496 franchises do be like that sometimes
what about....DooM
Sadly I can't get into old doom games but I've beaten both Doom 2016 and Eternal a couple times, on Nightmare difficulty setting. I will replay them again at some point for sure, my favorite shooters
@@AcousticBlu3 same here i the og doom has got some sick asf mods if you need to spice it up i know i do!
@@_MetaL thanks for sharing bruv, glad to know doom lovers are out there
When u xant stand it anymore
You're making a wrong choice to start Assassins Creed RPG from Valhalla. I have completed all assassins creed games, and Valhalla is the most tedious game from all of them, the story took too long to progresss and you shouldn't force yourself to finish this game before play others on your backlog. You should start from Origin as it have the best story presentation and the shortest time to beat from three of them. You didnt have to beat all of them tough but i recommend you at least try to play Origin
I almost dropped AC Valhalla & after reaching the end I honestly wish I did. I dropped AC Odyssey. But man AC Origins was perfect to me: Likeable characters, Good plot that didn't drag on, New combat relative to the older one's.
Thanks for sharing man, initially Valhalla felt fresh to me since I haven't played Origins and Odyssey but then the honeymoon phase was over after some time. Guess I need to add Origins back to my backlog haha
I dropped Valhala after 17-20 hours and I don’t regret it. I have some respect to my time. 😂 But I don’t regret playing it, it was an interesting game to some point
@@AcousticBlu3actually same story. Valhala was my first AC game, and honeymoon ended quickly 😂
@@daniil3815 glad to know I'm not the only one 😁
35 years old, work from home, make 6 figures, own all the consoles and a 4090 equipped pc, married, and never ran out of time to play games. Outliers exist!
Except if you live in a country where a 4090 is 4x average monthly salary haha. You are living the life man, kudos to you!
Work from home changed my life, it's SO MUCH BETTER, I have more energy, more time and even more money as I'm not spending eating out and commuting.
I still gotta go to the office sometimes and that's fine but never again do I want a job that requires me to go in
@@allandm Luckyyyy
Or just buy a game in promotion, and never plan to play it, or directly start playing it (Horizon Zero Dawn) and enjoying it so much. I now think: why didn't Zero Down play it before, instead of trying other games which weren't my thing after all? Now I'm eager to play Forbidden West too, but gonna wait till the pc port is reviewed, and meanwhile keep enjoying Zero Dawn. Hope the Forbidden West pc port will be a success aswell.
Pc port looks amazing, just saw the digital foundry vid
I'm glad Valhalla burned me out from Ubisoft so much. After 40 hours I was just like this is stupid. Wish I could ragequit other games so easily.
I removed some other ubisoft games from my backlog thanks to Valhalla. But I want to give Unity a shot someday
I stopped playing Far Cry games too. UbiSoft needs to refine what open world games are for them because they all look the same gameplay wise@@AcousticBlu3
When it's boring and you loathe it.
"Don't like to backtrack"!? So how can you play open world games? 🤔😆
It's like playing Hitman and ditching it only because you had to enter the same room twice. 🤣
@@alexanderhugestrand I don't think I can explain it very well. I haven't played Hitman games since Blood money, but my memory tells me Hitman is all about repetition, and practicing, to see what works and what doesn't, to find different ways to kill and get away with it. Which is really FINE with me. Backtracking in Hitman is vastly different than backtracking in Metroidvanias, especially if you have to backtrack for 20-30 min through the same enemies/traps/etc. As for the open world games, I mention in my videos that I'm kind of burnt out of open world games unless the side content is engaging and fullfiling. Things are not so black and white, "if you don't like x, then how can you do y". Games can be very similar and yet quite different in how they approach some aspects of games. By your logic I am not capable of playing any game. Thanks for the comment! I appreciate the discussion
@@AcousticBlu3 Well, I exaggerated for the fun of it. But also, to me a Metroidvania is like a semi-open world game. So I don't think of it as backtracking, but rather likely exploration similar to "real" open world games. But I'm not here to defend Metroidvanias, because I've grown tired of that formula too (I think, but maybe it's the specific games I've tried that I don't enjoy).
@@alexanderhugestrand I can agree with you, metroidvanias are in a way open world games as well
This video is majorly underrated, thank you.
Thank you for a lovely comment
Ubisoft games are bloated by design so you would spend real money on XP boost for levels. download a mod for proper level scaling
I know there is a huge modding community for any game, but I want the vanilla experience to be good, so I rarely use any mods besides graphic ones.
I'm always confused hearing takes like that. I mean, why would you feel that you need to 100% a game? Especially open world etc.? I didn't even finish some short narrative games. I am intentionally not finishing the main quest in TW3 either. On the other hand I finished Portal 2 but still play the maps and mods, every now and then.
Idk I guess everyone has a different idea of completing a game. Portal 2 is super fun, especially the community maps
What song 2:45
Nier Automata - City Ruins (rays of light)
I had so many bugs and crashes while playing valhalla on PC. I invested (wasted) 70 hours to finally finish and uninstall this mess for good. I was so excited for mirage but wont be buying it
I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy to play a game like this for 70 hours, I mean with bugs and crashes
@@AcousticBlu3 Wont be doing this to myself ever again lol 🤣
6:03 What the actual fuck???
What can I say, it had some interesting World Events haha
I dropped AC Odyssey at the very start i felt it was blotted
I think it's hard to judge whether it's bloated at the very beginning, because the initial map is not so big. But as soon as you step foot onto England, and you have the markers activated in Exploration mode settings, then it hits you right away. I used the Pathfinder mode, so markers appeared on the compass and on the map only if I am somewhat close to those points of interests.
bro you killed free palestine at 2:37 how do you feel?
Damn I thought nobody would notice it :(
@@AcousticBlu3 at least you feel bad, that's proof of the existence of your humanity and your soul
with all do respect anyone who drops prototype is d0g
Hahahah to each their own
The last game I wanted to finish was cyberpunk. Bought several games since and most suck.
AC origins is good valhalla is boring.
Buying games is like kinder surprise, you never know what you might get. The reviews for a game might be great and the genre might be right up your valley, you spend your hard earned $$$ and you still might not enjoy the game the way you wanted :( such is life
lately i just watch a walkthrough or go to the high seas. Its a real risk buying games these days.@@AcousticBlu3