My ND NT husband will just like, play a game every once in a while when he feels like it. He’ll just pick it up every so often, maybe play a few days in a week, and then leave it be again for a while to come back to later.
Meanwhile I will get into a game and spend every waking hour playing it. My sleep, diet, work, hygiene, all suffer to varying degrees. I give myself wrist pain and thumb calluses. I will not rest until I 100% it. And if I can’t, I’ll stop and most likely never pick it up again.
Anyway, anyone else playing Silksong?
When I play a game there is a 80% chance I almost never touch it again but a 20% chance I get every achievement and hundreds of hours within a month
Lol why is this so relatable. All or nothing
Same. And I haven’t stuck on a 20%er for a while which kinda bums me out!
My last one was Baldur’s Gate III so its been a while for me too 😔
This is me.
I can’t speak for everyone, but I absolutely do not play videogames like a normal person. I play videogames like a squirrel hoarding nuts for winter. I play videogames like the red-string-and-photos corkboard meme. I play videogames like I was assembling a sand mandala in the middle of a crowded lobby. I play videogames like the movie Memento. I play videogames like I was juggling ventriloquist dummies while chugging a liter of sparkling water and reciting Modern Major General at speed.
I can’t speak for everyone, but I absolutely do not play videogames like a normal person.
I feel so seen
I don’t even enjoy playing them but I keep doing it. I feel guilty or that I’m wasting my time. I get tired of being me.
You can be me for awhile if you want, but it would be a lateral move. At least the scenery would be different?
Real talk: consider talking to a therapist. This sounds like depression, possibly serious and chronic.
Source: waves at you while walking beside you on the road of life
Thanks, but I’ve been in therapy for 5 years now. Cptsd but depression comes along with it. I appreciate the concern though. I hope your walk is as easy and fulfilling as it can be.
Some similar circumstances myself. Keep your chin up, friend. ❤️
I don’t care to aim for 100% in games, but I’ll put it this way: I found wuthering waves 2ish months ago and already have 300 hours in it…
I made a rule where I can only play one game at a time. It helps keep me on track between times not playing games, which is fairly often. Makes it easy enough.
It’s either obsession or bust for me. But that’s with everything in life almost.
Currently obsessed with silk song too. But then it could end any second.
I didn’t game any video for almost two years prior. Like at all. Excitement suddenly gone.
I went into board games and trading cards instead. It’s really annoying sometimes to lose interest after so much investment of time and money and emotion.
Brain is weird man.
I don’t personally care about achievement hunting or 100%-ing games, but otherwise I am exactly the same yes. If a game piques my interest it becomes a hyperfixation that consumes every waking hour, and I will spend as much free time as possible either playing it, watching others play it, watching videos about it, or reading things about it.
I also don’t really understand people who are juggling multiple games at a time. “Oh, today I’ll play some X, tomorrow I’ll play some Y and over the weekend I’ll enjoy some Z!”. Sounds completely foreign and bizarre to me. I have my current game, and if I’m playing a game I’ll be playing my current game. Who has the bandwidth to keep track of multiple games at once?
I usually only play games becazse they are either fun or interesting.
I also don’t understand the playing of multiple games instead of focusing on one but playing it less frequently to avoid fatique.
What I do understand is playing a “brain-off” game and switching to a game that requires attention (e.g. due to a good story)
My NT husband switches between games. In one sitting. I look up from drawing evey once in a while and, wtf since when is Mario in Ass Creed? Not that he doesn’t like the game, he always comes back to it after a while and finishes most of what he plays. He just gets bored after a bit and loads up another one. And they tell me I have attention issues.
When I start a game, I either drop it after one sitting or I am 150% in (and sometimes I get so deep into a game that I stop playing shortly before the end because I don’t want it to end - fuck this brain (I need to finish Cyberpunk 2077)). I actively avoid certain games because I know they’ll eat me. Instead I’ll sit and draw for 37 hours a day without needing sustenance or the loo, which is much more healthy and socially accepted and even encouraged by my therapist.
and sometimes I get so deep into a game that I stop playing shortly before the end because I don’t want it to end
I stop at about ~80% completion on my favorite games for this reason EXACTLY. Like my logic brain says “finish” and my ADHD/attachment refuses outright.
This is why I avoid MMOs. Several years ago I picked up one again and ended up accumulating over 1000 hours over several months. And I didn’t even play the main story for the most part. I remember clan members’ reaction: “wtf, how have you not finished the story after so many hours played”. The only reason I stopped literally over night was because I had something traumatic happen to me the following morning that fucked my life up for good. It quite literally required a life-changing event to shake me out of it.
If I never had kids, I’d be right there with you.
I had to get in the habit of waiting for specified times (after bedtime/weekend mornings) to play games.
Oh, and it’s Borderlands this weekend for me.
Thank yo for the reminder I’m pumped all of the sudden lmao.
And a lot of the times at the end of the day I want to put my feet up, so I just play something casual on my phone
You are the one here playing games like a normal person
Your husband sounds like they are just more interested in other things usually.
This is why I love the sims, I get obsessed for x amount of time. I go to work if I have to, but then I’ll play sims every other second I can, I’ll even bring the laptop into the bathroom with me. Won’t sleep, won’t cook, won’t shower, etc. And then… all of a sudden, mid game even, I’m just… done. For months. Or years. And it’s a sandbox game, it’s literally digital barbies, so I can just stop and start over with a whole new game later. If im playing a more traditional game, I NEED to 100% it. I NEED a walk through to make sure I don’t make any wrong choices, it almost takes some of the fun out of it, so I don’t play those kinds that often (my roommate recently let me play Spiritfarer on her console, she had 40hrs and 98% and was like "its not important to the story and i cant find the last one… I got to 100% after 84 hours. We are not the same)
You should probably stay away from Rimworld then lol
Depends how much I like the game and how busy I am otherwise.
Factorio was the last game that truly grabbed me by the short-and-curlies. At my worst, I was playing for 8-10 hours a day (with a full time job taking another 9 hours) and started seeing conveyor belt designs in my dreams.
Yo I called in sick to work today after I posted this and put in an 8 hour shift on Silksong instead aaaah
Hah, the same here. That’s why recently I’m avoiding playing videogames at all.
Do I like the game: i’ll play the through main story
Do I really like the game: I’ll complete the side stories (assuming they arent tedious)I was never one to 100% a game and only did it for select games (one I did a bit of 100% hunt was ‘untitled goose game’).
My time is too much worth as to “waste” it on 100% a game. Nobody except for me will care about it.Instead I’ll invest my time into my homelab/home-network. That way get a higher sense of an achievement.
Regarding my play style:
I’ll usually play one story at a time and if it’s a multi part game I’ll research beforehand how important the story before was.
Is it unimportant or too expansiv, I’ll watch a summary or playthrough on Youtube. If it’s up my alley, I’ll play in chronological order.As for how often:
I have my phases. Either YT binge watching, watching something from my media library or I’m tinkering with my homelab. Playing went to a backseat for me since I starte an actual job full-time.
