I agree with this entirely. I remember once I hid my switch under my bed so I could play a game at 1 AM. Now this is incredibly unhealthy and might have been a sign of addiction. I never felt it 3-4 years later, I stopped being hyped about games. I just stopped looking stuff up. I was like "I don't really wanna buy any games right now" and I thought it was good but really my system was numb
I'm exactly in the same situation as yours, and I suspect depression of having made me feel this way about media overall. I used to be really addicted to video games and somehow completely lost interest in them, which is absolutely awesome since I don't have to worry about being addicted, but saddening because I cannot seem to feel joy in a form of media that quite literally built my personality. It became a problem because I started to have nothing to share with my friends, which ended up with them leaving me on the side because I had no interest in gaming.
Algorithm must hide it bcz he speaking facts and conscious teenagers which are the most affective part in the society and if this kind of contents gets viral then creators will start doing the same and then consciousness about how porn can mess up your life will increase and with that porn industry will fall 🤔 Makes sense ? Idk but i know he's doing something very illegal against porn industry
This really makes a lot of sense. My life is fun again. I actually enjoy videogames and music again, even sepereatly. The nofap thing got me out of my years long daze. The world is a new place again. I can actually enjoy an hour long bisycle ride again.
The Fun is real, but the reward, the actual accomplishment is simulated.. and in time you realize that your time is being wasted on something that does not have an actual accomplishment.. You achieve nothing. And when you finally realize this, You lose interest in playing games.
I couldn’t agree more I realized that when I heard a quote from Andrew Tate when he was talking about playing GTA when he can just do everything in the game in real life and I felt like I’ve wasted so many years building a character when I could’ve been building myself and ever since then I’ve never been able to play video games again like that
To be fair, you can't (and shouldn't) be hyperproductive with your time ALL of the time. You need time to do things just for the sake of doing them. Whether it's reading fiction, watching that one show, and/or playing video games.
For me there's some kind of blockage in my brain. Any time I look at my games this blockage is in my brain stopping all circuitry to play games. I don't know what the hell is going on. Ever since I unlocked super intelligence and logic, my brain completely shuts me down on playing games as a means to tell me this is the most ineffective use of your time. I've gotten too smart and ever since my trauma and emotions have been well too regulated somehow my brain stops me from playing video games. It's as if video games were all set up based on my trauma but without them I can't play no more. Almost like my trauma was my fuel/battery pack that got me playing. I'm scared and I can't feel happiness no more. Now I just lay in bed looking up at the ceiling wondering what to do now.
@@jimx45You're not alone. I've tried bypassing the blockage and forcing myself to play. But the entire time I'm trying to enjoy the game my brain just keeps telling me "you could be using your time more wisely". And this is coming from someone who works 40 hours a week, exercises reguarly and no kids/wife. So I DO perform the necessary responsibilities that need to be done but still that blockage tells me "no".
Thanks for the reflection. I believe if you are watching this it is because you felt it as well. The need of forcing yourself to not use the phone for a while or just do different stuff. And the rise in mental disease that is happening right now, after the pandemic, is probably related to people coming back to the real world after being completely mesmerized by stuff you do on a screen, nonstop. Stay healthy dudes and dudettes.
it’s modern game that’s the problem. Modern games are lazy and boring. I got my passion back for gaming by playing older games. games that were made in a time where companies cared a little more.
Yep it is, I just tried playimg the last 4 years of some highly rated Switch and pc games and they all suck. They all have game related mechanics that ruin the game to be fun such as the game world ma being made like a corn maze so it takes ages to figure out where to go and many games telling you where to go but you still get lost due to it being made not properly or Quick time events being forced or devolving a game and making fall damage compared to the laat game not having it and jump height minimual and traversal taking ages and saveing game data bding limited to one save slot or a certain area bsing the only way to save the game or making your ability to dodge only 3 times in quick succesion and if you hit it 3 times too quickly that 3rd dodge opens you up to being killed in thr game, or almost all opem sorld games just feeling tedious blamd and boring, or forcing you to find some items or forcing you to use a certain stupid mechanic to continue the story.
100s of games and not one of them where as good as the older games I play and they somehow had more gameplay issues than older games and yet they cost around 60-120 for the games I played, what a joke and a complete blow to my money, now I use my money to drive my car if I get bored and other stuff, life is so dull nowadays and corporations can be thamked for that as they are ruining everything slowly and successfully and yet the people with no brain cells left are the omes whp enjoy the garbage that is worse than the older stuff, even my older manag collection and anime collection and movies such as spiderman 1 movie and band of brothers and tons of 100s of other movies and tv shows were way better than nowadays, everything is a complete joke and most fhings are remales or the same story told again and again and I am beyond sick of it.
Honestly i needed to hear all this thankyou for this video lately ive been feeling passionless especially with all the changes that are being added to diablo 4 a game ive waited literal years for just to see preditory micro transactions and a fucking battle pass basically fomo bs stuff from diablo immortal and everyone just rationalized it and told me dont worry thats just a mobile game it wont have any impact on d4 a low and behold and ive started to just become jaded with everything this video really made me reflect and i just want to say thankyou this was immensely helpful for me in particular everything you said was clear and concise and at a certain point you pointing out the attention spend i was looking at the comments and i was like oh fuck hes right its been a long time since a video had a point and proved it in such a apparent and personal way for me thankyou so much for this experience
Thanks man I was just standing around in my base (ingame) and was like „why do I still play this game, it isn’t even fun anymore“ and just turned of my console. You made me understand why that is. Great video ❤
This is very eye opening! I was wondering why for years why I lost my passion and desire overall to keep playing video games in my mid twenties. I thought it was just because I was getting older. It was no longer fun hardly. Up until recently I started playing again and now I'm having fun again, It's different, and also my perspective It's a little different. I'm 32 now. I took a break for years, and then I would play once in awhile maybe a month, and then a few months would go by and I would play it again, maybe for an hour or two. And I couldn't enjoy it as much. Then I almost took over a year off of playing games completely just because I wasn't having fun anymore. And now I'm actually having fun again! Crazy. I feel like a kid again 90% of the time.
I generally only enjoy older ones these days back when Devs had a passion for the games they made. I don't play modern games very much, but replaying games can get stale after a while so my brain is in a stalemate with games.
@@ntrg3248 Yeah also most thimgs are stale nowadays even streaming is a joke now and as bad if not worse than cable as cable had set times for ads and had a limited amount but now streaming can have them every five minutes on popular shows and I can't even remember what I juat watched when it returned so I stopped paying for streaming a couple years ago not to mention almost all shows suck and have limited episodez arojnd 6-12, I barely get started enjpying something and then it ends.
Personally, I lost my passion for streaming. It started ruining playing the game for me. I ended up not playing video games for months because I didn’t enjoy it anymore. I’m starting to enjoy it again by not feeling pressured to play every day.
I'm 32 right now. I started off with the Philips CD-I in the early 90s. Gameboy color/advance, ps1 to 5, xbox & 360, Nintendo 64 i had all of em. I enjoyed playing games up until the early 2010s. In my early 20s I was still getting excited for new releases, but the fun only lasted for a few hours for the most games, while the industry was way more developed. I have played games that are considered to be old trash today for years bacl then and I had way more fun than I have today. As a Assassins Creed fan, i got bored from playing Odyssey, Origins and Valhalla after a few hours. They just felt boring. Same thing with God of War, Ghost Recon, Shadow of War, RDR2 and many more AAA titles. Now I still get hypes for future releases like Hogwarts Legacy or AC Mirage for example but I know I will never have fun playing it after the first few hours. Its been a while since I have completed a AAA game.
Same, man. Swong around in the new Spide-Man game, I got on Steam for a few hours and tuned off my computer from boredom. Yet the old Spider-Man the Movie came back in the early 2000s when I was a kid had me hooked for weeks. And that game was ass.
Great video man! Normally while watching a video I already look for a new one to watch, but here I didn’t. I did a detox once for like 2 weeks and it helped for a while. You inspired me to maybe do it again. I already don’t enjoy videogames anymore, but still I notice I do it instead of what I should be doing. So yes, again thanks for this
When I got back from a week long camp - I felt so fantastic and excited to be using technology again. Not sure what I can do in my spare time though to generally get those experiences.
Oh man I know that feeling so well. Especially in the past, when there were no smartphones yet, and a vacation or a camp would be a full dopamine reset. When I got back home, everything was so fun that I was even entertained by watching the commercials on tv. I think you really need to learn to entertain yourself and stop being reliant on external stimuli. So for example, learn to enjoy going for a walk. Learn to enjoy eating your dinner, while just focusing on eating your dinner, without having to watch tv, etc.
@@robmulder Is listening to music while I'm going on a walk? Because on one hand its fun to listen to music and feel the beat while walking but on the other hand i don't enjoy just walked without anything
@@maximpruger8426 crazy I use run every morning without HEADPHONES!😱 😂 Now in the gym if I do cardio I need something LIKE NO MUTHAFUCKIN WAY! Every time I’m outside I’m in my own thoughts . Try it, just down look crazy talkin to yourself!
I never liked video games to begin with, but as a person with autism and adhd who loses focus very easily but is able to hyperfocus when doing these activities, I feel I am qualified to speak on this. First and foremost- I enjoy reading. I spend 4+ hours a day just reading anything. This has given me a very large vocabulary, and as a result my proficiency in English language skills is within the top 1-2% of British children my age. I also recently got into pottery, which is incredibly fun and rewarding, and through my friends, I have started watching anime.
Once the game companies brought on psychologists to make games more addictive and extract more money, it killed what artistic value the mainstream of the medium had. You still get some gems, mostly coming out of Japan and the indie scene.
I am 26 years old I have been feeling this for quite a couple of months now. I finally search for the some answers on TH-cam. I and thankful for your guidance. I like when you said "you get trapped in this vicious circle." I truly felt that way and want to not loop anymore. Again Thankyou.
This is so true, but the only problem is that it actually happens with everything, for example I was enjoying my new job a lot I would actually wake up excited to go to work etc and when I finished work I would be bored and just want to go to work, then after a while I got sick of that too, it’s almost like you can’t enjoy anything sometimes, anything enjoyable will eventually become un enjoyable, maybe a new girl you meet, eventually you’ll get tired of her or more tired of her, it’s a strange thing how our brains work, it’s almost like we are too smart for our own selves. We’ve created a world where we have everything we want and yet we all hate it basically.
@@Havealocalife probably depression pls fix your self as fast possible i have depression and now i take 3weeks drugs and im better than before when covid happen...
Part 2 is so true tho. I feel like that's what is demotivating me most of the time. I know that I have college stuff to do and everytime I play games (or even go to the gym) I feel guilty for not doing college stuff. It's as if they manipulated me into thinking, that college is the one and only thing that should ever exist in my life and everything else in life is a waste of time. You know it's bad when you can't even enjoy the GYM. Something, that's contributing to your health.
@@Adeyum64 Facts sir, as much as I hate to say this, this is what society and the educational system wants you to think and do. Your homework, and only your homework, because work is the only thing that matters.
I find video games aren't really as fun anymore and trying to study is very difficult 😕. I need my computer for school so staying away from technology is not easy
the thing that you said about dopamine is true . I just got trapped and I wanted a way out I searched and found your channel very much interesting and you are true about one thing the long vids I used to watch long and interesting vids like this video of yours but after getting a laptop it all changed I wasn't same . But with this vid I have a hope that i can recover from the dopamine addiction . thanks for making vids for all of us like me help escape this shit rabbit hole.
I would say the biggest factors are we are getting older, some of us are just burned out on video games, and some of us feel insulted by having the game hold my hand as I play the game. Do I play games? Yes I do, but with my responsibilities there is only so much time I can spend on gameplay per day, so I really am not in the MMORPG market at this point because I just can’t afford to be part of that. I mostly just play the old games that I already own as a “puzzle solving” kind of enjoyment.
That dopamine example is so true. I can apply that to pretty much everything I've done too much. When I was young I enjoyed video games, dating, drinking, smoking, driving, etc. And I ended up doing them all the time. Because of that now as an adult they do not give the same euphoria. It's unfortunate.
This is exactly what is happening to me atm I am 26yrs old and about 4 to 5 years ago I played video games religiously and playing video games now is a more of a chore than something i once loved doing but I just can’t stop it’s like I am constantly Chasing nostalgia and hope one day I like video games again I switch from game to game and nothing is fun or satisfying no more what do I do ?
It happens to me too.. Iam a TH-camr so.. Heres the suggestion i do.. Do spend time in something else more or sports or if u work its okk.. And play games only when u are relaxed by that work or workout ..like i started having fun after many years when i started joining a job..after a hard time video games feels good again .. Its life if u keep doing continuesly something again and again ull feel boring thats naturall.. Like in kids we use keep studying and homework we are bore of it.. And after many times studing holiday use to feel precious..
Woah, someone actually explains this phenomenon, glad I found you on tiktok. I'm definitely gonna take a break from games and social media. Does studying add to the dopamine? Cause I would really do that, grades, fun, sounds good! I could make a schedule do exercise, run for some hours, I think I can do this! But just to make sure I can do this, is there any app I can use to guide myself 😅
Some of the issue is the sunk cost of video games. If I'm paying $500+ for a video game system, and $60-80 per game. I tell myself I am damn well going to play even if I'm not having fun. I feel for the amount of money I spent then I need to turn it on a few times a week.
Yeah biggest issue right now is AAA gaming all about graphics and not fixing game bugs and making huge empty open world games bland and boring. I would rather go into a medow in real life and traverse it.
I thought me not enjoying games anymore was was to do with my age, but after watching your video I think it may in fact be my brain being numb. It's interesting to find this video now, a week after I decided to stop using X (Twitter) and other social media for a while. I do still watch TH-cam obviously, but I am picky about what I watch. I never got myself a TikTok account, and I don't think I'll ever will. I intend to continue doing this and use your tips. Thanks
This is what I've thought about as well on the topic of dopamine detox... Like if you do it just 1 day? That's it? and jump right back to indulge in hyper dopamine again... Thank you that you keep it real and said that we need to make a whole lifestyle change not just take a quick fix this channel is gem you gain sub 💯
This man makes sense, receptors over stimulated & go numb, you see the latest PS5 game & the graphics look very pretty, but then you cannot comprehend what will come out next, they cannot improve on anything anymore, because theres no sense of direction anymore. I still have passion for retro games though because I'm in my happy nostalgia vibes 😊❤
This is a great video, and it gave me a lot of new ideas. That said though... I haven't played videogames for 3 years. And whenever I try to get back into it.... I can't really find a game that looks fun anymore. Lot's of games feel the same nowadays. And it's like there's way more of a template going on with entertainment than it was before. While I'm convinced the dopamine story plays a great role in this. I also believe maybe things are a bit different with how entertainment is made nowadays... That said, I am a multimedia designer, and I do a lot of creative projects in my free time. So far being creative in visuals, storywriting, music, and creating experiences...still I've me a lot of satisfaction. Even if you're not artistic, I can recommend it to everyone. Because it will also change your way on how you experience a boring trainride. All of a sudden you make connections with what you see, and what you want to create. :D
The absolute biggest problem with all these new games is the fact that the mechanics are the exact freaking same... God forbid you change up how gameplay actually works and/or what the player does...
Interesting. Though how would you explain when I was younger, I was consuming far more video games at a greater frequency than today (as an adult with a job, etc.), and yet my dopamine system was not overloaded/desensitised back then (compared to say, today).
Because of something called the dopamine baseline. Each time you played videogames or any other activities that release dopamine your dopamine baseline slightly increased. You barely noticed it. It takes years to feel worn out. Videogames don’t release as much dopamine as drugs.
I would aruge younger people are generally much more easily amused and entertained than older. This video is very good but there are also other factors that comes into play, games have changed alot compared to when I was younger, and the structure in them is similarly designed to the social media platforms whose main purpose is to be as addictive as possible. As vincentvalentine4580 said, the primary focus of video games have shifted from being fun to being addictive, and there is a distinction between the two. Also as you get older, you generally get more experienced and smarter, which is why simple video games loses their appeal.
I've been playing gta V and gta online for over 5 years but recently a the enjoyment was drained away cos of my fears of becoming a "loser" but i think video games shouldn't make you feel that way, that's an unhealthy way to play them, i've seen so many people playing Games and having fun with their friends and never ever thought of the games being something that destroys their life. The issue o had is that i replaced my life with games when i was a kid and now i want to replace the games with my life.
I feel similar, I'm one of the kids that would put on headphones and game while my parents were fighting and screaming and whatnot, I can still fear that fear and helplessness these days even though it's like 10 years ago
Great Video It Helped Me Understand Why Most Things Dont Give An Amount Of Dopamine That Makes It Fun And Helps Me Understand Why I Have To Take Some Breaks
Yes, this is exactly the problem. There's other videos on this topic but some will just say to play a different type of game to make things feel fresh again.
Seeing pretty smiling faces while they are doing spread eagle, the smile you had a memory of being innocent & beautiful, only for it to be corrupted, then you find that you're losing respect for women, I never wanted that, so I keep my brain clear of smut. Too much porn can mess with people's minds & I watched a documentary about a man who went crazy watching too much porn & he got himself admitted because he grew a great hatred for women, & he confessed that he wanted them all to die!
I remember when i was a kid i would play video games from 3pm to 12am everyday after school with my sister i had a blast and every summer it was usually non-stop gaming but now a days i dont really have much fun with games. However there is a few games i really actually legit enjoyed like Re4 Remake being the hightlight of the year
Still remember how ps1 and ps2 and old pc game 2010-2015 made me enthusiastic at buying many of video games... The joy feeling stop when i hit 16 years old.. I don't feel joy anymore.. Even many video game with great graphic in advance tech console don't make me enthusiastic anymore toward video game.. I hope i can feel that feeling again
Part of the problem is that most new big game titles are just repackaged versions of what's been being made for the past 20 years and have been designed specifically to give dopemine boosts as often as possible. You aren't pretending to be something you aren't for an hour or following a story, your snorting a line every five minutes with the next bit of loot or XP. Real life isn't as rewarding as it used to be. At least in my country, you can't just get a job out of highschool, or even college, where it's possible move up a company ladder and feel accomplished in life, and forget about raising a family. I agree with you that too much of anything is a bad thing and there's just a lot of everything all at once over the past decade. I'm not really a hardcore gamer per say, but I think video game/social media addiction is a symptom of our society, not the cause of the illness.
For everyone still troubled by why playing games isn't fun anymore, here's a short tip: It's ok to stop liking something. Put down the game pad and go enjoy something else. No regrets. You don't need to think about it too much. Yes it used to be SO MUCH fun that it's hard to believe it isn't anymore but that's OK too! Just be happy.
I blame myself. It feels like a small cloud of depression has been following me and I've got to take care of it. I'm not going to blame video games at all. Some of the best moments with friends
This is great video. Thank you very much. More people need to watch this. P.S. watched whole video without interruption. :) I came to the same conclusions from my own experience. Self discipline and daily routine is very important.
Hmm it’s odd for me bc i am cool playing the game but I have trouble deciding to play over other things like chores and youtube which can be done simultaneously
When I was younger I got bored with video games really fast cause I would’ve rather been outside. I hadn’t had a console since I was 19 so now that I’m in goddamn 30’s I just got an Xbox and I like it a lot more than I remember. Although I didn’t smoke weed back then so maybe that’s why lol
So grateful I found this channel! I watched all the way through and realised my mistakes, from now on I have to limit my gaming time and social media. And after realising how dopamine system works, this will help me sooner or later in my life Thanks a lot!
I take a break, and I am more busy than just my school days. When I get back home , I try to play a game. Unfortunately, I don't feel it. I lost interest in about 20 minutes or less. Total bummer. In the end, I am just chilling after taking my dogs out and having quality time with them before bedtime.
There comes a time when people stop having fun playing games when they are 20 years old and above, and they will think that the fun can only be obtained from how they enjoy the game with others without thinking of competing and hating. agree? (I'm honestly really bored and want to be more productive at work.)
That's why I'd prefer to play older games instead when we have the time to do so. It was our only way of escapism like drinking alcohol and forget problems for now.
I will say the predatory modern day practices of gaming like implementing battle / season passes in all mutliplayer games make the game feel like working a 2nd job and suck all the fun out of it :/
This might be a weird comparison to the latest parts of the video, but you can look at the How much time you use as fun as the amount of money in a country. If the country does not limit itself and prints money everyday it makes the currency or money itself a lot Worse and less valuable, when you have fun all day everyday that makes your dopamin not as valuable
The fact that dopamine reacts from video games or social media is like from drug, make me think that corps just think about money, make us mindless consumer. Start to be person that normal people do, do the natural habits, living the life. Back again, things that too much is always bad, balance is so important for this modern day.
It definitely has less to do with the games and more to do with the individual. 9 times out of 10 when I hear this statement....its either the person is playing the same thing over and over and doesn't diversify their games they play or they are the type of person who doesn't do anything for long...the guy who cant watch more than 1 or 2 seasons of a show or jumps on something for the hype and puts it down etc. All my life I've been the opposite and I dont know why....anytime I get my hands on something I'm always one of the last to put it down and usually not until I completely scrape the bottom of the barrel. For instance any game I get I still have to 100% complete it and I've been doing this for 30 years and don't see it stopping.
@@jjk5693 That I couldn't tell ya....lol I'm sure it varies person to person. Some it might just be that they are too used to instant gratification or maybe it just truly isn't their hobby and something else out there is better or some other reason idk. Wish I could help you but I don't even know where my deep interest comes from. But yeah absolutely I have fun finishing every game! I wouldn't even have picked the game up in the first place if I didn't know I would enjoy it.
Little story time, don't read if you don't care. I started playing video games when I turned 3, it became my main hobby. I played through a lot of console generations, games and overall became a huge gamer along the years. My favorite side hobby in gaming was following news about gaming overall, knowing devs, what they did, how do they contribute to a video game and to which extent a game can sell based on various factors. Until recently, I came across that trend in modern gaming in which most AAA games are rushed, unfinished, under the crunch culture and forcefully feeding you with trends you haven't really grew up with such as loot boxes, toxicity, unnatural and forced inclusion and overall negative traits in our hobby and lifestyle. I feel like gaming has evolved in a bad way and that devs and investors alike, don't care about the consumers anymore and keeps making sure every player that has a modern game and an internet connection to endure multiple-year long FOMOs to grab even more money out of your bank account. I'm looking at you, BR games. Anyway, I came to my 24th birthday recently and with my 21th consecutive year of gaming, I assure you that I quit playing for a few weeks by now and that I will keep my consoles off (except for TH-cam and Spotify) until an actual miracle in gaming happens. We can't let all that shit be normalized, most of us grew up with a more positive way of gaming. We can't let our favorite game series be ruined by SJW or money hungry publishers only relying on keeping games on life support thanks to DLCs and battle passes anymore.
I just kind of gave up on games past the 2010s. The reason being because it felt like less demand on me to think or strategize in the games. I know the AAA aren’t the only ones, but the expensive modern ones were just too much. Plus old games like worms and Super Smash Brothers? I can play those with my children. I can’t play a lot of those modern games with my children because they are too young for the violence and sex anyways. I gave up on the modern games, but still bother with the retro games because something like Super Mario brothers is way more kid friendly than most modern violent games. The games hold your hand too much for a lot of AAA games anyways. It feels better for me now just editing videos and making them as opposed to playing games sometimes.
I don't use social media. I don't have a smartphone. I cycle to and from work everyday. I just got a ps2 and im going to an old tv to play it on. I still read books on occasion. And sometimes videoes are just too long and people just waffle on and on, repeating the same point over and over.
the trouble with games, when you have to many! you no longer want to play them! i have 25,000 roms on my PC and the thing is i don't want to play any games! the virility is the trouble! when you get to much you don't goto the watering hole as much! i am sick of video games, something like music i have nearly 300,000 mp3s on my PC and i don't listen to any of them! i have nearly 1,000 movies and i don't have an interest in any of them! the thing is when you only had 2 video games! you would play the hell out of them and you always crave more! but when you reach every quality of what ever! its like eating ice cream tell you are sick of it! you will never crave another bowl of ice cream again! i am glad i don't like video games anymore now i focus on learning new things.
Yep, even at this point I am not even buying new games, I’m just finishing games which I already have. I stopped getting any new games years ago. I simply can only spend so much time on games per day, and that’s part of it too.
@@AdrianFahrenheitTepes honestly the most i do with games is work on this w3oZpfEEuoI look up that video on youtube and you will see my project i am downloading the last bit of roms to get my 25,000 i am looking for and than after all said and done i will be building an arcade machine for this thing the most games i play now is balloon TD 6 while i listen to an hour long podcast and i tried out some doom 2016 to try out my 4k monitor, i was interested in finding out how many FPS my rx580 was giving me and it was 40fps i was impressed i thought it was going to be around 15, i played for 5 minutes got to zero health and quit. i honestly think there are sooo many more interesting things in life than video games they are simply no longer appealing to me
I used to game super hard, collect video games, and even buy in to the whole micro transactions every here and there. Now I just feel numb to playing games, I don’t really enjoy them, I hate the companies that make consoles and video games, and I honestly don’t like the whole culture around video games. I’m only 22 but I think I’m over gaming, been way more into reading though oddly enough!
I bet it all on weed, video games and anime to stay out of my head. Corporatization has ruined all 3 😢 I started revisiting what used to make me happy. OG early 000s adult swim blocks and og pokemon games on the DS when im not chasing the puppy I rescued lol.
I agree amd don't when it comes to games today.I like the idea of being mindful of what you do every day and trying to unpressurize your dopamine system so you seek less simulated goals and seek ones in real life. I vhallenge the idea that as we age thats all that is at play. I think games have changed and we become wise with our time as we age. Many games have pursued monitozation and grinding to the point where there is no story or anything to take aeay when you shut the off. I cam think of many past game experiences that would still see me play today (example: Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3) I gave me something that says with me. Call of Duty Warzone.... Not so much. I can see with my older eyes that if I play warzone for 1000 hours I get nothing for it, so I choose, music or akiing, or the next james SA corey book. Those give me something. As well, shared screen multiplayer has died amd that was a worthwhile bonding experience. Bring that back and Id play with my old friends. I dont see much difference between that and a board game. Great thought provoking video!
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I agree with this entirely. I remember once I hid my switch under my bed so I could play a game at 1 AM. Now this is incredibly unhealthy and might have been a sign of addiction. I never felt it 3-4 years later, I stopped being hyped about games. I just stopped looking stuff up. I was like "I don't really wanna buy any games right now" and I thought it was good but really my system was numb
I wonder if it is a mental thing for me to not enjoy games right now. Im 16 btw
I'm exactly in the same situation as yours, and I suspect depression of having made me feel this way about media overall. I used to be really addicted to video games and somehow completely lost interest in them, which is absolutely awesome since I don't have to worry about being addicted, but saddening because I cannot seem to feel joy in a form of media that quite literally built my personality. It became a problem because I started to have nothing to share with my friends, which ended up with them leaving me on the side because I had no interest in gaming.
@@jjk5693 I think it is mostly, though none of your comments specify how you feel.
24, still fucking love video games. they're a huge portion of my life, and that's coming from someone with depression, lol
@@aceanime8634 I don't have any responsibilities other than trying to keep my damaged psyche intact. That's the only responsibility I have.
This channel is a hidden gem
Thanks!
Totally!
i found the gem first. can i have it?
Algorithm must hide it bcz he speaking facts and conscious teenagers which are the most affective part in the society and if this kind of contents gets viral then creators will start doing the same and then consciousness about how porn can mess up your life will increase and with that porn industry will fall 🤔 Makes sense ? Idk but i know he's doing something very illegal against porn industry
@@oceanparts4980 sure, just listen up 👂
This really makes a lot of sense. My life is fun again. I actually enjoy videogames and music again, even sepereatly. The nofap thing got me out of my years long daze. The world is a new place again. I can actually enjoy an hour long bisycle ride again.
Love to hear you've been able to make the change, man. Life is so much better when you aren't a dopamine addict.
@@robmulder I agree. And treasuring life gives it more meaning. I can never go back now Thanks for the regards. :)
Nofap?..Like..no fapping at all?? OMG! What kind of a life is that?! What am I suppose to do with those 4 spare hours each day?!😐
nofap did nothing for me sadly, it just made my dick slightly more sensitive after not fapping for a while.
@@jeanbobbblmao clean your room or house, exercise.
It feels like a chore now. Impossibly hard games are the worst also.
Try playing ghosts n goblins or r type. Now, those games were really hard.
DCS World is impossible! It's an absolutely IMPOSSIBLE game to get half decent at :)
The Fun is real, but the reward, the actual accomplishment is simulated.. and in time you realize that your time is being wasted on something that does not have an actual accomplishment.. You achieve nothing. And when you finally realize this, You lose interest in playing games.
I couldn’t agree more I realized that when I heard a quote from Andrew Tate when he was talking about playing GTA when he can just do everything in the game in real life and I felt like I’ve wasted so many years building a character when I could’ve been building myself and ever since then I’ve never been able to play video games again like that
To be fair, you can't (and shouldn't) be hyperproductive with your time ALL of the time. You need time to do things just for the sake of doing them. Whether it's reading fiction, watching that one show, and/or playing video games.
10000000%
For me there's some kind of blockage in my brain. Any time I look at my games this blockage is in my brain stopping all circuitry to play games. I don't know what the hell is going on. Ever since I unlocked super intelligence and logic, my brain completely shuts me down on playing games as a means to tell me this is the most ineffective use of your time. I've gotten too smart and ever since my trauma and emotions have been well too regulated somehow my brain stops me from playing video games. It's as if video games were all set up based on my trauma but without them I can't play no more. Almost like my trauma was my fuel/battery pack that got me playing.
I'm scared and I can't feel happiness no more. Now I just lay in bed looking up at the ceiling wondering what to do now.
@@jimx45You're not alone. I've tried bypassing the blockage and forcing myself to play. But the entire time I'm trying to enjoy the game my brain just keeps telling me "you could be using your time more wisely".
And this is coming from someone who works 40 hours a week, exercises reguarly and no kids/wife. So I DO perform the necessary responsibilities that need to be done but still that blockage tells me "no".
Thanks for the reflection. I believe if you are watching this it is because you felt it as well. The need of forcing yourself to not use the phone for a while or just do different stuff. And the rise in mental disease that is happening right now, after the pandemic, is probably related to people coming back to the real world after being completely mesmerized by stuff you do on a screen, nonstop. Stay healthy dudes and dudettes.
it’s modern game that’s the problem. Modern games are lazy and boring. I got my passion back for gaming by playing older games. games that were made in a time where companies cared a little more.
Yep it is, I just tried playimg the last 4 years of some highly rated Switch and pc games and they all suck. They all have game related mechanics that ruin the game to be fun such as the game world ma being made like a corn maze so it takes ages to figure out where to go and many games telling you where to go but you still get lost due to it being made not properly or Quick time events being forced or devolving a game and making fall damage compared to the laat game not having it and jump height minimual and traversal taking ages and saveing game data bding limited to one save slot or a certain area bsing the only way to save the game or making your ability to dodge only 3 times in quick succesion and if you hit it 3 times too quickly that 3rd dodge opens you up to being killed in thr game, or almost all opem sorld games just feeling tedious blamd and boring, or forcing you to find some items or forcing you to use a certain stupid mechanic to continue the story.
100s of games and not one of them where as good as the older games I play and they somehow had more gameplay issues than older games and yet they cost around 60-120 for the games I played, what a joke and a complete blow to my money, now I use my money to drive my car if I get bored and other stuff, life is so dull nowadays and corporations can be thamked for that as they are ruining everything slowly and successfully and yet the people with no brain cells left are the omes whp enjoy the garbage that is worse than the older stuff, even my older manag collection and anime collection and movies such as spiderman 1 movie and band of brothers and tons of 100s of other movies and tv shows were way better than nowadays, everything is a complete joke and most fhings are remales or the same story told again and again and I am beyond sick of it.
Amen to that. @@StarAce2-n1p
so why did you stop watching porn?
me: to play video games
Honestly i needed to hear all this thankyou for this video lately ive been feeling passionless especially with all the changes that are being added to diablo 4 a game ive waited literal years for just to see preditory micro transactions and a fucking battle pass basically fomo bs stuff from diablo immortal and everyone just rationalized it and told me dont worry thats just a mobile game it wont have any impact on d4 a low and behold and ive started to just become jaded with everything this video really made me reflect and i just want to say thankyou this was immensely helpful for me in particular everything you said was clear and concise and at a certain point you pointing out the attention spend i was looking at the comments and i was like oh fuck hes right its been a long time since a video had a point and proved it in such a apparent and personal way for me thankyou so much for this experience
Thanks man I was just standing around in my base (ingame) and was like „why do I still play this game, it isn’t even fun anymore“ and just turned of my console. You made me understand why that is. Great video ❤
This is very eye opening!
I was wondering why for years why I lost my passion and desire overall to keep playing video games in my mid twenties. I thought it was just because I was getting older. It was no longer fun hardly. Up until recently I started playing again and now I'm having fun again, It's different, and also my perspective It's a little different. I'm 32 now.
I took a break for years, and then I would play once in awhile maybe a month, and then a few months would go by and I would play it again, maybe for an hour or two. And I couldn't enjoy it as much. Then I almost took over a year off of playing games completely just because I wasn't having fun anymore. And now I'm actually having fun again! Crazy. I feel like a kid again 90% of the time.
I still enjoy video games immensely. From replaying old classics to those few new ones I shell out for.
I generally only enjoy older ones these days back when Devs had a passion for the games they made. I don't play modern games very much, but replaying games can get stale after a while so my brain is in a stalemate with games.
@@ntrg3248 Yeah also most thimgs are stale nowadays even streaming is a joke now and as bad if not worse than cable as cable had set times for ads and had a limited amount but now streaming can have them every five minutes on popular shows and I can't even remember what I juat watched when it returned so I stopped paying for streaming a couple years ago not to mention almost all shows suck and have limited episodez arojnd 6-12, I barely get started enjpying something and then it ends.
Personally, I lost my passion for streaming. It started ruining playing the game for me. I ended up not playing video games for months because I didn’t enjoy it anymore.
I’m starting to enjoy it again by not feeling pressured to play every day.
You gave me the reason to change my lifestyle. other people just says not to do as it is bad but i need a reason to believe in it
The only games I really even play anymore are older games that I enjoyed as a kid and single player games. I still have a ton of fun with those
I'm 32 right now. I started off with the Philips CD-I in the early 90s. Gameboy color/advance, ps1 to 5, xbox & 360, Nintendo 64 i had all of em. I enjoyed playing games up until the early 2010s. In my early 20s I was still getting excited for new releases, but the fun only lasted for a few hours for the most games, while the industry was way more developed. I have played games that are considered to be old trash today for years bacl then and I had way more fun than I have today. As a Assassins Creed fan, i got bored from playing Odyssey, Origins and Valhalla after a few hours. They just felt boring. Same thing with God of War, Ghost Recon, Shadow of War, RDR2 and many more AAA titles. Now I still get hypes for future releases like Hogwarts Legacy or AC Mirage for example but I know I will never have fun playing it after the first few hours. Its been a while since I have completed a AAA game.
Same, man. Swong around in the new Spide-Man game, I got on Steam for a few hours and tuned off my computer from boredom.
Yet the old Spider-Man the Movie came back in the early 2000s when I was a kid had me hooked for weeks. And that game was ass.
Great video man! Normally while watching a video I already look for a new one to watch, but here I didn’t. I did a detox once for like 2 weeks and it helped for a while. You inspired me to maybe do it again. I already don’t enjoy videogames anymore, but still I notice I do it instead of what I should be doing. So yes, again thanks for this
Video games became boring many years ago, but now I numbed myself so much that I can't even listen to music anymore. Thank you for the video.
We can learn so much from you!
That's why I'm totally subscribed already!
When I got back from a week long camp - I felt so fantastic and excited to be using technology again.
Not sure what I can do in my spare time though to generally get those experiences.
Oh man I know that feeling so well. Especially in the past, when there were no smartphones yet, and a vacation or a camp would be a full dopamine reset. When I got back home, everything was so fun that I was even entertained by watching the commercials on tv.
I think you really need to learn to entertain yourself and stop being reliant on external stimuli. So for example, learn to enjoy going for a walk. Learn to enjoy eating your dinner, while just focusing on eating your dinner, without having to watch tv, etc.
@@robmulder Is listening to music while I'm going on a walk? Because on one hand its fun to listen to music and feel the beat while walking but on the other hand i don't enjoy just walked without anything
@@maximpruger8426 crazy I use run every morning without HEADPHONES!😱 😂
Now in the gym if I do cardio I need something LIKE NO MUTHAFUCKIN WAY! Every time I’m outside I’m in my own thoughts . Try it, just down look crazy talkin to yourself!
I never liked video games to begin with, but as a person with autism and adhd who loses focus very easily but is able to hyperfocus when doing these activities, I feel I am qualified to speak on this. First and foremost- I enjoy reading. I spend 4+ hours a day just reading anything. This has given me a very large vocabulary, and as a result my proficiency in English language skills is within the top 1-2% of British children my age. I also recently got into pottery, which is incredibly fun and rewarding, and through my friends, I have started watching anime.
Video games just aren’t what they use to be
And this is all there was to it 😩
Once the game companies brought on psychologists to make games more addictive and extract more money, it killed what artistic value the mainstream of the medium had.
You still get some gems, mostly coming out of Japan and the indie scene.
@@deriznohappehquite Are we talking about Nintendo games? The Switch hardware is very bad btw
@@jjk5693 Not specifically, but even with the crappy hardware Nintendo still makes some games that are actually fun.
@@deriznohappehquite Should I buy one Switch?
I am 26 years old I have been feeling this for quite a couple of months now. I finally search for the some answers on TH-cam. I and thankful for your guidance. I like when you said "you get trapped in this vicious circle." I truly felt that way and want to not loop anymore. Again Thankyou.
This is so true, but the only problem is that it actually happens with everything, for example I was enjoying my new job a lot I would actually wake up excited to go to work etc and when I finished work I would be bored and just want to go to work, then after a while I got sick of that too, it’s almost like you can’t enjoy anything sometimes, anything enjoyable will eventually become un enjoyable, maybe a new girl you meet, eventually you’ll get tired of her or more tired of her, it’s a strange thing how our brains work, it’s almost like we are too smart for our own selves. We’ve created a world where we have everything we want and yet we all hate it basically.
I agree, I get bored of everything eventually, it feels like a never ending chase of fun, no matter what it is.
@@Havealocalife probably depression pls fix your self as fast possible i have depression and now i take 3weeks drugs and im better than before when covid happen...
I just found this video cause I've been feeling tempted to get back to playing games or buying a new game. This helped overcome that feeling.
1. Uninstall Warzone / Fifa
2. Do all your Homework
3. Go to the gym
4. Enjoy your life 😃
Most important of all nofap
That sounds exhausting
Part 2 is so true tho. I feel like that's what is demotivating me most of the time. I know that I have college stuff to do and everytime I play games (or even go to the gym) I feel guilty for not doing college stuff. It's as if they manipulated me into thinking, that college is the one and only thing that should ever exist in my life and everything else in life is a waste of time.
You know it's bad when you can't even enjoy the GYM. Something, that's contributing to your health.
@@Adeyum64 Facts sir, as much as I hate to say this, this is what society and the educational system wants you to think and do. Your homework, and only your homework, because work is the only thing that matters.
I find video games aren't really as fun anymore and trying to study is very difficult 😕. I need my computer for school so staying away from technology is not easy
the thing that you said about dopamine is true . I just got trapped and I wanted a way out I searched and found your channel very much interesting and you are true about one thing the long vids I used to watch long and interesting vids like this video of yours but after getting a laptop it all changed I wasn't same . But with this vid I have a hope that i can recover from the dopamine addiction . thanks for making vids for all of us like me help escape this shit rabbit hole.
This video helps me to reflect myself a lot, thanks!
you're a fucking champ, rob! Just posting for the algoritm
Thanks Max!
I would say the biggest factors are we are getting older, some of us are just burned out on video games, and some of us feel insulted by having the game hold my hand as I play the game. Do I play games? Yes I do, but with my responsibilities there is only so much time I can spend on gameplay per day, so I really am not in the MMORPG market at this point because I just can’t afford to be part of that. I mostly just play the old games that I already own as a “puzzle solving” kind of enjoyment.
That dopamine example is so true. I can apply that to pretty much everything I've done too much. When I was young I enjoyed video games, dating, drinking, smoking, driving, etc. And I ended up doing them all the time. Because of that now as an adult they do not give the same euphoria. It's unfortunate.
This is exactly what is happening to me atm I am 26yrs old and about 4 to 5 years ago I played video games religiously and playing video games now is a more of a chore than something i once loved doing but I just can’t stop it’s like I am constantly Chasing nostalgia and hope one day I like video games again I switch from game to game and nothing is fun or satisfying no more what do I do ?
It happens to me too.. Iam a TH-camr so.. Heres the suggestion i do.. Do spend time in something else more or sports or if u work its okk.. And play games only when u are relaxed by that work or workout ..like i started having fun after many years when i started joining a job..after a hard time video games feels good again .. Its life if u keep doing continuesly something again and again ull feel boring thats naturall.. Like in kids we use keep studying and homework we are bore of it.. And after many times studing holiday use to feel precious..
27 feeling the same. Think
We’re just older
Best video I've ever seen in my entire 26 years of life (trash life)
Love you so much . Plz more
Woah, someone actually explains this phenomenon, glad I found you on tiktok. I'm definitely gonna take a break from games and social media. Does studying add to the dopamine? Cause I would really do that, grades, fun, sounds good! I could make a schedule do exercise, run for some hours, I think I can do this! But just to make sure I can do this, is there any app I can use to guide myself 😅
Thank god for your tiktok being on my fyp I really took note and I’m gonna try this thank you 🙏🏽
Some of the issue is the sunk cost of video games. If I'm paying $500+ for a video game system, and $60-80 per game. I tell myself I am damn well going to play even if I'm not having fun. I feel for the amount of money I spent then I need to turn it on a few times a week.
Yeah biggest issue right now is AAA gaming all about graphics and not fixing game bugs and making huge empty open world games bland and boring. I would rather go into a medow in real life and traverse it.
I thought me not enjoying games anymore was was to do with my age, but after watching your video I think it may in fact be my brain being numb. It's interesting to find this video now, a week after I decided to stop using X (Twitter) and other social media for a while. I do still watch TH-cam obviously, but I am picky about what I watch. I never got myself a TikTok account, and I don't think I'll ever will. I intend to continue doing this and use your tips. Thanks
how did it go?
This is what I've thought about as well on the topic of dopamine detox... Like if you do it just 1 day? That's it? and jump right back to indulge in hyper dopamine again... Thank you that you keep it real and said that we need to make a whole lifestyle change not just take a quick fix this channel is gem you gain sub 💯
This man makes sense, receptors over stimulated & go numb, you see the latest PS5 game & the graphics look very pretty, but then you cannot comprehend what will come out next, they cannot improve on anything anymore, because theres no sense of direction anymore.
I still have passion for retro games though because I'm in my happy nostalgia vibes 😊❤
how are you not popular this is some good content
I watch your videos 2 times ! ♥️
This is a great video, and it gave me a lot of new ideas. That said though... I haven't played videogames for 3 years. And whenever I try to get back into it.... I can't really find a game that looks fun anymore. Lot's of games feel the same nowadays. And it's like there's way more of a template going on with entertainment than it was before. While I'm convinced the dopamine story plays a great role in this. I also believe maybe things are a bit different with how entertainment is made nowadays...
That said, I am a multimedia designer, and I do a lot of creative projects in my free time. So far being creative in visuals, storywriting, music, and creating experiences...still I've me a lot of satisfaction. Even if you're not artistic, I can recommend it to everyone. Because it will also change your way on how you experience a boring trainride. All of a sudden you make connections with what you see, and what you want to create. :D
I was addicted to video games in 2000, it was a lost year.
Most impactful video I’ve watched in the last 5 years. Thank you.
The absolute biggest problem with all these new games is the fact that the mechanics are the exact freaking same...
God forbid you change up how gameplay actually works and/or what the player does...
Interesting. Though how would you explain when I was younger, I was consuming far more video games at a greater frequency than today (as an adult with a job, etc.), and yet my dopamine system was not overloaded/desensitised back then (compared to say, today).
Because of something called the dopamine baseline. Each time you played videogames or any other activities that release dopamine your dopamine baseline slightly increased. You barely noticed it. It takes years to feel worn out. Videogames don’t release as much dopamine as drugs.
I would aruge younger people are generally much more easily amused and entertained than older. This video is very good but there are also other factors that comes into play, games have changed alot compared to when I was younger, and the structure in them is similarly designed to the social media platforms whose main purpose is to be as addictive as possible. As vincentvalentine4580 said, the primary focus of video games have shifted from being fun to being addictive, and there is a distinction between the two. Also as you get older, you generally get more experienced and smarter, which is why simple video games loses their appeal.
All the messages are true! Although I attempt to combat it by finding longer videos that are somewhat slow.
Thanks so much for trying to help! I really appreciate it!
Thank you for the advice, I will implement them for sure.
Im soo glad i found this channel!
I've been playing gta V and gta online for over 5 years but recently a the enjoyment was drained away cos of my fears of becoming a "loser" but i think video games shouldn't make you feel that way, that's an unhealthy way to play them, i've seen so many people playing Games and having fun with their friends and never ever thought of the games being something that destroys their life. The issue o had is that i replaced my life with games when i was a kid and now i want to replace the games with my life.
I feel similar, I'm one of the kids that would put on headphones and game while my parents were fighting and screaming and whatnot, I can still fear that fear and helplessness these days even though it's like 10 years ago
Great Video It Helped Me Understand Why Most Things Dont Give An Amount Of Dopamine That Makes It Fun And Helps Me Understand Why I Have To Take Some Breaks
Yes, this is exactly the problem. There's other videos on this topic but some will just say to play a different type of game to make things feel fresh again.
I'd say don't watch porn ever. That stuff is evil as hell.
Seeing pretty smiling faces while they are doing spread eagle, the smile you had a memory of being innocent & beautiful, only for it to be corrupted, then you find that you're losing respect for women, I never wanted that, so I keep my brain clear of smut. Too much porn can mess with people's minds & I watched a documentary about a man who went crazy watching too much porn & he got himself admitted because he grew a great hatred for women, & he confessed that he wanted them all to die!
If you don't watch any porn then you just use your own dirty mind. Same thing, different method :)
Good video man I really need to give this a go I'm starting tomorrow
I remember when i was a kid i would play video games from 3pm to 12am everyday after school with my sister i had a blast and every summer it was usually non-stop gaming but now a days i dont really have much fun with games. However there is a few games i really actually legit enjoyed like Re4 Remake being the hightlight of the year
maybe You have just outgrew them?
Still remember how ps1 and ps2 and old pc game 2010-2015 made me enthusiastic at buying many of video games... The joy feeling stop when i hit 16 years old.. I don't feel joy anymore.. Even many video game with great graphic in advance tech console don't make me enthusiastic anymore toward video game.. I hope i can feel that feeling again
Part of the problem is that most new big game titles are just repackaged versions of what's been being made for the past 20 years and have been designed specifically to give dopemine boosts as often as possible. You aren't pretending to be something you aren't for an hour or following a story, your snorting a line every five minutes with the next bit of loot or XP. Real life isn't as rewarding as it used to be. At least in my country, you can't just get a job out of highschool, or even college, where it's possible move up a company ladder and feel accomplished in life, and forget about raising a family. I agree with you that too much of anything is a bad thing and there's just a lot of everything all at once over the past decade. I'm not really a hardcore gamer per say, but I think video game/social media addiction is a symptom of our society, not the cause of the illness.
Very good stuff brother, you are on the right level.
Really Informative Video Thanks That's particularly What I need to know and and also us
Great take on this and the first video that I've really felt make sense!
lol you nailed a lot of points. including 10:47 i left the video, or rather switched to a different tab, 3 times before getting to this point.😅
Great, I agree with a dopamine detox.
What about then a life purpose?
How to discover it?
Great channel, fantastic work.
THX
For everyone still troubled by why playing games isn't fun anymore, here's a short tip: It's ok to stop liking something. Put down the game pad and go enjoy something else. No regrets. You don't need to think about it too much. Yes it used to be SO MUCH fun that it's hard to believe it isn't anymore but that's OK too! Just be happy.
I blame myself. It feels like a small cloud of depression has been following me and I've got to take care of it. I'm not going to blame video games at all. Some of the best moments with friends
This is great video. Thank you very much. More people need to watch this.
P.S. watched whole video without interruption. :) I came to the same conclusions from my own experience. Self discipline and daily routine is very important.
Hmm it’s odd for me bc i am cool playing the game but I have trouble deciding to play over other things like chores and youtube which can be done simultaneously
When I was younger I got bored with video games really fast cause I would’ve rather been outside. I hadn’t had a console since I was 19 so now that I’m in goddamn 30’s I just got an Xbox and I like it a lot more than I remember. Although I didn’t smoke weed back then so maybe that’s why lol
Of course... we outgrow because we grew up! We became adults and found there is more in life than games! Simple!
So grateful I found this channel!
I watched all the way through and realised my mistakes, from now on I have to limit my gaming time and social media.
And after realising how dopamine system works, this will help me sooner or later in my life
Thanks a lot!
I take a break, and I am more busy than just my school days. When I get back home , I try to play a game. Unfortunately, I don't feel it. I lost interest in about 20 minutes or less. Total bummer. In the end, I am just chilling after taking my dogs out and having quality time with them before bedtime.
There comes a time when people stop having fun playing games when they are 20 years old and above, and they will think that the fun can only be obtained from how they enjoy the game with others without thinking of competing and hating. agree? (I'm honestly really bored and want to be more productive at work.)
I just want to thank you for this interesting video, I learned a lot.
I'm so old I watched the whole thing : )
This video is on par with those from channels with millions of subs.
strange how you don't have as many.
That's why I'd prefer to play older games instead when we have the time to do so. It was our only way of escapism like drinking alcohol and forget problems for now.
Damm man thank you for opening my eyes
I will say the predatory modern day practices of gaming like implementing battle / season passes in all mutliplayer games make the game feel like working a 2nd job and suck all the fun out of it :/
This might be a weird comparison to the latest parts of the video, but you can look at the How much time you use as fun as the amount of money in a country. If the country does not limit itself and prints money everyday it makes the currency or money itself a lot Worse and less valuable, when you have fun all day everyday that makes your dopamin not as valuable
Man, when a new GTA came out, I wouldnt get outside for weeks. These days I couldnt care less.
11:28 nah ive watched the whole video 😂, this was very Informative, thanks bro
The fact that dopamine reacts from video games or social media is like from drug, make me think that corps just think about money, make us mindless consumer.
Start to be person that normal people do, do the natural habits, living the life.
Back again, things that too much is always bad, balance is so important for this modern day.
Great video Rob! Explains a lot!
Myself 5 years ago would have a blast with the games i play today, but for me rn it’s just not that entertaining, i miss that so much
Thank you. Great words
You nailed it bro thank you!
Thank you, sir, for this.
Eating the same food everyday for the rest of your life despite it even being the most delicous and your favorite eventually you'll be sick of it.
It definitely has less to do with the games and more to do with the individual. 9 times out of 10 when I hear this statement....its either the person is playing the same thing over and over and doesn't diversify their games they play or they are the type of person who doesn't do anything for long...the guy who cant watch more than 1 or 2 seasons of a show or jumps on something for the hype and puts it down etc. All my life I've been the opposite and I dont know why....anytime I get my hands on something I'm always one of the last to put it down and usually not until I completely scrape the bottom of the barrel. For instance any game I get I still have to 100% complete it and I've been doing this for 30 years and don't see it stopping.
How can I change my brain to actually get very very immersed in games?
Yeah but do you actually have fun finishing every game?
@@jjk5693 That I couldn't tell ya....lol I'm sure it varies person to person. Some it might just be that they are too used to instant gratification or maybe it just truly isn't their hobby and something else out there is better or some other reason idk. Wish I could help you but I don't even know where my deep interest comes from.
But yeah absolutely I have fun finishing every game! I wouldn't even have picked the game up in the first place if I didn't know I would enjoy it.
@@nicholaserwin988 I probably need to have a lot of free time for me to get immersed or something but Idk
Little story time, don't read if you don't care.
I started playing video games when I turned 3, it became my main hobby. I played through a lot of console generations, games and overall became a huge gamer along the years.
My favorite side hobby in gaming was following news about gaming overall, knowing devs, what they did, how do they contribute to a video game and to which extent a game can sell based on various factors.
Until recently, I came across that trend in modern gaming in which most AAA games are rushed, unfinished, under the crunch culture and forcefully feeding you with trends you haven't really grew up with such as loot boxes, toxicity, unnatural and forced inclusion and overall negative traits in our hobby and lifestyle.
I feel like gaming has evolved in a bad way and that devs and investors alike, don't care about the consumers anymore and keeps making sure every player that has a modern game and an internet connection to endure multiple-year long FOMOs to grab even more money out of your bank account. I'm looking at you, BR games.
Anyway, I came to my 24th birthday recently and with my 21th consecutive year of gaming, I assure you that I quit playing for a few weeks by now and that I will keep my consoles off (except for TH-cam and Spotify) until an actual miracle in gaming happens. We can't let all that shit be normalized, most of us grew up with a more positive way of gaming. We can't let our favorite game series be ruined by SJW or money hungry publishers only relying on keeping games on life support thanks to DLCs and battle passes anymore.
I just kind of gave up on games past the 2010s. The reason being because it felt like less demand on me to think or strategize in the games. I know the AAA aren’t the only ones, but the expensive modern ones were just too much. Plus old games like worms and Super Smash Brothers? I can play those with my children. I can’t play a lot of those modern games with my children because they are too young for the violence and sex anyways. I gave up on the modern games, but still bother with the retro games because something like Super Mario brothers is way more kid friendly than most modern violent games. The games hold your hand too much for a lot of AAA games anyways. It feels better for me now just editing videos and making them as opposed to playing games sometimes.
I don't use social media.
I don't have a smartphone.
I cycle to and from work everyday.
I just got a ps2 and im going to an old tv to play it on.
I still read books on occasion.
And sometimes videoes are just too long and people just waffle on and on, repeating the same point over and over.
Best video I ever watched on TH-cam 😀😀😄❤
I agree with everything, no porn at all however. Not just regularly. Completely cut it out! Great video!
the trouble with games, when you have to many! you no longer want to play them!
i have 25,000 roms on my PC and the thing is i don't want to play any games!
the virility is the trouble! when you get to much you don't goto the watering hole as much!
i am sick of video games, something like music i have nearly 300,000 mp3s on my PC and i don't listen to any of them!
i have nearly 1,000 movies and i don't have an interest in any of them!
the thing is when you only had 2 video games! you would play the hell out of them and you always crave more!
but when you reach every quality of what ever! its like eating ice cream tell you are sick of it! you will never crave another bowl of ice cream again!
i am glad i don't like video games anymore now i focus on learning new things.
Yep, even at this point I am not even buying new games, I’m just finishing games which I already have. I stopped getting any new games years ago. I simply can only spend so much time on games per day, and that’s part of it too.
@@AdrianFahrenheitTepes honestly the most i do with games is work on this
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look up that video on youtube and you will see my project
i am downloading the last bit of roms to get my 25,000 i am looking for and than after all said and done i will be building an arcade machine for this thing
the most games i play now is balloon TD 6 while i listen to an hour long podcast
and i tried out some doom 2016 to try out my 4k monitor, i was interested in finding out how many FPS my rx580 was giving me and it was 40fps i was impressed i thought it was going to be around 15, i played for 5 minutes got to zero health and quit.
i honestly think there are sooo many more interesting things in life than video games they are simply no longer appealing to me
I don’t enjoy video games that much nowadays and only play once in a while.
I used to game super hard, collect video games, and even buy in to the whole micro transactions every here and there. Now I just feel numb to playing games, I don’t really enjoy them, I hate the companies that make consoles and video games, and I honestly don’t like the whole culture around video games. I’m only 22 but I think I’m over gaming, been way more into reading though oddly enough!
I bet it all on weed, video games and anime to stay out of my head. Corporatization has ruined all 3 😢 I started revisiting what used to make me happy. OG early 000s adult swim blocks and og pokemon games on the DS when im not chasing the puppy I rescued lol.
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I agree amd don't when it comes to games today.I like the idea of being mindful of what you do every day and trying to unpressurize your dopamine system so you seek less simulated goals and seek ones in real life. I vhallenge the idea that as we age thats all that is at play. I think games have changed and we become wise with our time as we age. Many games have pursued monitozation and grinding to the point where there is no story or anything to take aeay when you shut the off. I cam think of many past game experiences that would still see me play today (example: Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3) I gave me something that says with me. Call of Duty Warzone.... Not so much. I can see with my older eyes that if I play warzone for 1000 hours I get nothing for it, so I choose, music or akiing, or the next james SA corey book. Those give me something. As well, shared screen multiplayer has died amd that was a worthwhile bonding experience. Bring that back and Id play with my old friends. I dont see much difference between that and a board game. Great thought provoking video!
Honestly games need to focus more on gameplay and an engaging story than visuals and money