I've been going through this for about a year now. I just bought a few games that were on sale recently but haven't played any of them. I am looking forward to RDR2 and hope Fallout 76 will be good, but I've barely played any games at all the past year or so.
For a while I kept buying them hoping that one would grab me like they used to. So far nothing has really kept my attention. Zelda was probably the last game to keep me wanting to play. Actually I got pretty into the most recent Deus ex also and actually played through it earlier this year. Just about an hour ago I was thinking about going back to The Last of us cause that game really engaged me.
To me it kinda feels like most games these days are so stuffed with things to keep track of and things to constantly manage that it just gets too easy to get fatigued by everything you've got to do. I end up putting the game down and when I think about picking it up again the thought of the management aspect makes me not want to, so I don't.
I'm looking for a game (I think) where I can get back to just being immersed in a world and explore without a ton of map icons, or being told to do this six times or that eight times. Or a game that just wants to take me through an engaging story.
Maybe I just need to step away from games for a few years and come back when things feel new again.
I hardly played any games from like 2000 to late 2008 when i got a 360, played Halo 3 and liked it a lot, Gears 2, liked it also, and Fallout 3 is what made me really Fall in love with games again. Maybe I just need another long break...
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