I'm just so tired after work

At some point you recognize the game is just giving you another to-do list.

Nah, I think that starts happening when you first get a job. Jobs take longer than school and generally are more labor intensive, and there's also the commute, and when you get home you have to do chores and either make healthy food or eat something garbage for your body, and that's just as a single person or a couple. It's no wonder everyone's tired, the 9-5 grind can be really exhausting, and when you're tired anything that takes effort feels like a grind.

In the last couple of years I feel like that. Games that require a lot of time to get into, or to complete, feel like not accessible anymore.

I play either those games I used to for I already know them, or something with a very short route to dopamine. I've found playing Burnout series not causing me this burnout, kek. Just racing, no long-time investments, just crushing cars and see them fly. A good way to rest after a day of complicated tasks and decisions.

Idk about you but I'm a dev, and when you have a job tbag keeps your brain ON a lot of the time, I feel like it's more common to want to turn it off in your down time

Nah, life's exhausting and the older you get the more exhausting it becomes. Work requirements and responsibilities typically increase as you age, children are a black hole of time (as fun as they are), your body just starts to say "fuck this" and give up in creative ways and you just generally have less energy than you did the day before.

I feel like the older people get, the more they tend to prefer to watch others do things rather than do them themselves.

I relate hard. Multiple times before, I've spent hours and hours scouring the internet for a download link to a game, or even a tool or library needed to make it work. I'll open the folder at 99%, ready to install 0.05 seconds after it's downloaded. I'll launch the game just to make sure it runs okay on my system, then give it a little whirl, and even then, it's rare I'll ever see beyond the tutorial, if that.

I have fallen asleep multiple times playing that game. The stable music is perfect if you're trying to drift off to sleep. Something about that flute...

Yea there seems to be so much to do that I spend all my time wondering what to do next, only to find that its not that fun and then spending more time traveling to somewhere else

Diablo is cancer tbh. Mindless grinding, zero skill. The only challenge is creating a nice build but that requires grinding and anyone can copy it from a YouTuber and learn to use it in a few minutes.

Why? KINGMAKER AND BALDURS GATE ARE RIGHT THERE DUDE

I remember when grinding diablo was something you did because you liked killing endless hordes of monsters. It wasn't because the game told you to do it.

Also crazy being a fan of 1 and 2 when they were new and having fans of 3 and 4 telling you this and that were always part of the series, clearly showing they have only ever played Diablo 3 and 4 because they're always things that were first introduced in 3 and were the things that fans prior to 3 criticized when it came out.

Like playing game, grinding isn't that bad if you don't like the base of the game grinding is going to look like a pain.

I enjoy Diablo. What are some better alternatives? Diablo 4 is my first rpg

Haha I agree! Fromsoftware games are among the few that are addictive for me even if I'm tried.

Now I'm stuck in TOTK. I want to complete it so I can move on with other games. (I hate leaving single player games unfinished).

I am still too tired after a day of WFH

True, I run both PC and mac all weekdays, some times I game and work simultaneously lol

It's even worse as PC gamer.

My Gaming rig literally sat there 4 years unused because of two kids.

Now I feel the urge to game again, everything in this rig is outdated. Spent couple hundred bucks to get it ready again and it was amazing getting back to building a PC.

Now do I have time for playing? Hell na, see you in three years upgrading again.

A Steam Deck mostly fixes that issue, but not always. Assuming that a heck ton of pictures of dads in r/steamdeck went in.

I also played new games more likely because of the Steam Deck.

I am replaying Dragon Age: Origins right now also! Same experience for me. I'm trying to watch all dialogue scenes also and let them play out without skipping.

I turn around and a few hours has passed without me even knowing...

Damn. I loved that game so much. I miss old BioWare RPGs.

I'm like this with League. I can't stand playing sometimes but I still enjoy watching

Want to play game, to tired to play

See the problem?

Spotted the trust fund baby.

I hope steam's still going strong when I retire.

Lol no

Yeha sure.... Why not.

Im on lunch with my deck sitting next to me in it's bag. I just don't have the energy anymore after work. Hell part of it is every time I get into a game I have to stop to let my dogs out or in and then that steals enjoyment as now I'm watching and waiting for them instead of being immersed. It sucks.

Got into making games as a hobby a few years back and it basically made it impossible to play games like I used to. Took a while to separate those parts of my brain.

Hardspace Shipbreaker is hella relaxing if you play it on untimed mode, btw.

Weirdly same here! I used to abhor long cutscenes and now I can't wait until the next one!

This does help. The bois and I played through Terraria recently and had a blast. Gaming on my own can really drag if it's not the right title.

Battlebit is a lot of fun, and absolute chaos. But it's the kinda thing you'll probably want to switch off of after a few rounds so having minecraft to switch back to is a great balance.

Weirdly it's the other way for me. I love Cyberpunk and am trying to replay it, and my favourite games have always been long and story driven, I love turning over the rocks and seeing how deep it all goes, playing KOTOR as a kid was just fascinating.

But, they're a slow burn that take some engagement to really enjoy. When I'm tired I miss all the details and nuance, find I've not been listening to dialogue and stuff.

But I can fire up something like Overwatch and can play well effortlessly almost instinctually. I often don't get much time to game, so the fact its full-on actually helps, whereas in an RPG, you can easily burn half an hour on what's basically just dialogue and travel. It's hard to take your time to enjoy it when you don't have time.

But it's fine, it's something to look forward to occasionally. You don't watch a movie every night, and ultimately I could find time, but I feel better spending that time on other things usually, or just letting off steam on a less thinky game.