/v/ - Video Games

>>14854054

That only happens when the game is no longer fun. If a game can't even keep it together long enough for the player to complete a single playthrough, drop it permanently and move on to the next title in your backlog.

>>14854054

I've probably only completed 5% of the games I've ever started so yes.

Ideally when the game stops introducing new mechanics it should bump up the challenge so you need mastery of those mechanics in order to progress which keeps it interesting. Older games like Contra are infinitely replayable to me because of their challenge.

This happens to me in ever single Total War game. Medieval 2 is literally my favorite video game of all time and I can count on one hand the number of times I've actually completed a campaign. I get to the point where my empire is large and powerful, and then call it a day. Completing the victory objectives feels like busywork at that point.

Only time this happened to me was Nioh. I put all my points into ninjitsu and became an unkillable god that could destroy groups of enemies in an instant from across the room and could lose all my health dozens of times without technically dying.

I just got bored and stopped playing because there was no challenge and the game was starting to get grindy.

>>14854054

FF12 after 40 hours in after reading this Full Completion Guide, and realizing I haven't made back up saves in every point of the game, and so I missed several things, and said, fuck it.

>>14854157

Also depression doesn't exist.

>>14854142

This has been my experience with most JRPG's.

The "copy pasted fuckhuge boring dungeon with a million encounters blocking your path to the magical mcguffin" seems to be a beloved tactic of developers across time to make content when you've run out of money.

>>14854167

The bosses were fucking great, dude. I loved the giant skeleton because I didn't realize it was a gimmick boss and just fought it one on one and it was actually hard. It was the everything else that wore me down. I was fighting the same human enemies with the same movesets the whole goddamn game, plus those weird farmer things and oni, and basically almost nothing else, and just got sick of how rote killing the same shit over and over was.

>>14854225

Go install something fun, like doom or quake. Or emulate sonic/mario games. It will wear off eventually.

>>14854225

Almost time to kill yourself. Are you excited?

>>14854243

Not a bad suggestion, but I play these games for an hour before getting bored and going back to the same half a dozen games I usally play. It's a bad habit, caused me to not finish alot of games. Never even beat Doom.

>>14854260

Beating every Doom level isn't the best of ideas anyway. Many of them are much worse than the others. However I had infinite fun using the Doom95 launcher to choose levels when I was a kid.

>>14854277

Well generally I'll enjoy the game then at some point it stops being fun and becomes a slog, but I'd feel like I'd wasted my time if I didn't finish it. I mean yeah I got 20ish fun hours out of it but unless I see the credits roll it just doesn't feel "right".

>>14854342

I'll look into it, thanks anon.

>>14854290

This how I was with Resident Evil 4, I loved the style as well as story, so I'd NG+ over and over. Granted, other games where things change (or have hidden/extra stuff) are great, even if the gameplay isn't 100% for me.

>>14854377

>I feel like shit

<play "game"!

>okay

>(plays game)

>I still feel like shit, and If that's the case, I cannot enjoy anything anymore

Don't you love that feeling?

>>14854377

Depression is an entirely normal reaction to an accurate assessment of your own worthlessness and/or your own inability to control the outcome of what happens in your life.

It's not some mystical force that the docs try to spin it as, it's your brain telling you to get your shit in order.

>>14854266

That's the spirit.

>>14854439

Your brain only cares that you're working towards a mating strategy, be that accruing wealth or otherwise. Can only trick your brain with vidya for so long.

>>14854157

Is it even depression anymore when you've felt like this for longer in your life than you didn't feel like this?

I think there's a difference between depression and growing up and realising "oh…being alive is pretty fucking shit" and then continuing like that until you die.

>>14854163

I made it about 20 hours in, the bit where you meet the prince twink and just gave up as I wasn't having fun.

>>14854479

Nah, it's still depression. There are plenty of people who manage to enjoy life, and don't break down when everything goes wrong. They have faith that things will get better somehow, rather than despair at the knowledge that no matter how much they work to fix everything, it's all just going to fuck off again, but even worse, the next time.

It's really annoying when you feel like shit, for no reason. You have enough money to make ends meet, and some savings just in case. The car is fine, the bills are paid, you have time off from work, but that goddamn dread just won't go away.

And then you feel like a normal person for a couple hours, for no reason, and you're not able to do anything with that manic episode because you're at work or something.

>>14854479

No, that's what depression actually is. Congratulations on being one of the lucky few to understand it. Now all you gotta do is figure out a plan to make life not shit and start executing it to cure it.

>>14854502

>The car is fine, the bills are paid, you have time off from work, but that goddamn dread just won't go away

Because you're failing from a biological perspective. Our only purpose is to constantly be out spreading our genes or pursuing high quality mates to spread said genes.

Note that intelligence has an inverse correlation with birth rates. Now note that depression also has an inverse correlation with birth rates. Do you not find it odd how the whites and east asians are depressed and not having kids, while the low IQ mud races are happy as pigs in shit and churning out little monsters faster than they can even keep them fed?

>>14854515

Can't be arsed tbh, as I don't think it's even possible to not have life be dull, monotonous and boring as all fuck.

I'm lucky enough to be able to hide from the world and enjoy video games, movies and anime in peace and interact with others as little as possible.

>>14854546

I used to feel the same, then I moved to a crime-ridden third world shithole where the cops don't give a fuck about anything unless it makes them look bad. With a bit of careful maneuvering, I've made it so that nearly all of my problems can be solved with violence or strength, both of which I excel at.

Never been happier. Some people would find having to beat up a nog every few weeks miserable, but god damn I finally feel alive.

I am having the same problems. I beat Cuphead but it took me a long time, because playing it was dreadful, after I beat the game and saw the ending I honestly didn't feel anything. I think this stems from mastering the game too much too quick and thus gets boring. This is currently happening with Nioh, I think it's an alright game, but I'm blazing through it and reached a stop. Now it's just sitting there taking space, same goes for Witcher 3, Dragon's Dogma and so on. Dark Souls, amazing, everything I wanted in a game and I think game design should follow suit and make it even better. Yet I cannot find myself playing it longer than 5 minutes. And yes other games I have no problem, I beat Turok just fine, there is just something about some games that makes me not finish them.

Same with life, I feel like I'm gonna blow my head off any of these days

>>14854054

Rarely. Usually only happens with games that are long as fuck.

I drop most game about 20% in when I feel I've already seen everything the game has to offer, yet still aren't having fun.

OP take alcohol

>>14854054

> play one game at a time and can only move on when I beat or abandon the current game I'm playing,

You need to play more then one game at a time in order to avoid burnout.

eh, part of it has to do with shit like dungeons/maps/chapters/whatever getting longer towards the end, along with frustrating shit to deal with cropping up

But I understand the feeling OP. I always make sure to finish the games no matter what though

>>14854803

You know what would be cool? A 4AM board where people can only access it between the hours of 3AM and 5AM within their respective time zone.

If a game doesn't make me want to finish it, it's not a good game. I've learned to just drop them if I lose interest, there's a ton of games out there I haven't played yet. No reason to keep wasting time on something I'm half-heartedly trying to finish.

>>14854439

>t. armchair doctor

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>>14854927

What did he mean by this?

Right now I'm slogging through the ape Escape series. The first game I absolutely love, but the second game is so terribly dumbed down. It's almost completely linear and even the hub is a lot more cramped than I rememeber. I don't know when but it honestly feels like at some point back when I was a kid some Devs or publishers felt everything had to be dumbed down for games aimed at young kids. Maybe it was a combination of mocking devs who actually put effort at making a game challenging, maybe it was just the focus group Era where if kids couldn't figure out a game in 10 seconds it was considered a massive problem, rather than just kids and people just having to get better at it. My only question now is Is Ape Escape 3 a lot better? If not, I'll just call it on the series, still enjoy the first game, and find something new to emulate. Maybe finish up Dark Cloud 1 and move onto its sequel

>>14854960

Shit I might be analyzing a bot.

>Answer to your bones.

Bones are what the body uses to stand up, its the deepest part of your body. Look deep inside yourself when finding a hobby.

>You don't like to have ever liked video games.

The fact that you may have gotten joy out of video games is irrelevant, what matters is that you are not happy with them now.

>What you must not do is pretend this is some mall store

A mall store offers a wide selection of products but only in once specific category of product.

>skinwalking yourself

>In Navajo (Navajo: Diné) culture, a skin-walker (yee naaldlooshii) is a type of harmful witch who has the ability to turn into, possess, or disguise themselves as an animal.

Putting on the skin of a hobby. Putting on the skin of a video game enthusiasts and walking around

>like a kike

Opportunistically or ingenuously, I believe.

> into mine hobby.

A mine field. Going into a hobby like its a mine field, its hard to get into and also hard to get out of once you are in a mine field.

Taken as a single statement.

>What you must not do is pretend this is some mall store, skinwalking yourself like a kike into mine hobby.

Don't act like gaming is the only hobby you can have, if you don't like it then don't get deep into and don't act like its a mine field, you can stop gaming if you want to.

>I know how too many figments are shaped.

This line is a bit difficult. I think the gist of it is that he is saying he has done this before and has gained and enhanced understanding as a result.

>Find what makes you breathe.

You live by breathing air, find what makes you feel alive.

>>14855012

You need to experience AE3 IMO.

>>14855070

>need to experience AE3

Thats a lot better than I was expecting to be honest. I'll take it.

>>14855082

AE3 was mediocre at best, but as an Ape Escape fan I feel that everyone who is a fan of the series should play it to see the series off.

>>14855138

you seem to be a weird markov chain generator

>>14854377

While I acknowledge the validity of that anon's experiences, I think the screenshot itself has been taken with questionable intent.

>>14854537

while I do not take offense to you personally, anon, I do believe your beliefs which you haven't explicitly expressed mirror those of an evil heart without love for anyone but itself.

>>14854614

Why is this a bad thing at all?

>>14855381

worst post this year

>>14855386

this

>>14855386

it's a bad hack-n-slash that revolves around hitting circle (quicktimes *cough*) at the exact moment. Once you figure out this mystical forumlae you can now beat BB

And then you can farm chalice dungeons for gemstones because miyazaki is such a wacky gook hahahaha

With fun games? Never

Try playing Wild Guns instead of any of the current shit.

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>>14854486

I typically get tired of JRPGs ~80% in or so, but FF12 was actually one I remember enjoying completely the whole way through. It was quite refreshing actually. Tales of Berseria was another recent one I didn't really get tired of.

>>14854100

I plan my playthrough to be able to crush the mongol and timurids and then jump to the new world and crush them.

But same here, I only finished it maybe 3 or 4 times.

>>14854880

this should happen. and fuck the tor/proxy fags who would try to ruin it.

>>14855394

nigga that's literally every souls game

>>14855115

I think I can do that. I honestly felt it was the least I could do, as dumb as that probably sounds.

>>14855603

>DeS / DS 1 and 3

>you can play as a fast character that relies on dodging and parrying, evasive rolling

>or you can play as a tanky beefcake that shields hits, is a patient player that waits for the right moment to strike

>you can combine both playstyles for a middle ground "fighter" that most new plays opt for

>a pure mage caster

>or a spellsword that relies on melee or magic

>OR a a caster with a BIG weapon

etc

ok, lets check out Bloodborne now

>your only viable build is always the same. dodge rolling.

>magic/str/dex stats simply determine what kind of weapon you will be using

nice, so we went from a multitude of different ways to play…to one single one.

>>14856086

>hmm this game is all about exploring this specific build type because it encourages fast combat and offensive play resulting in a lot of depth in how it works, some great boss fights which are built around it, and really frenetic PVP

>wtf why can't I be a slow heavily armored mage in this game designed in this one specific way

kys

>>14856086

>DS3

>Build variety

That's a hilarious joke friend. Why don't you tell me how successful all those miracle builds are, or how simplifying equipment load and removing armor upgrades really improved the game.

>>14856092

>hmm this game is all about exploring this specific build type

okay, glad we can agree that BB was Miyazaki's little experiment, can we allocate resources to another proper Dark Souls game now, please?

>>14856086

I agree with you, BB gets way too much praise. It's damn near a one and done kind of game with how little variety it has. The flaws seem to just get ignored most of the time. It's still fun for a playthrough though.

>>14856106

>have 4 games of highly variable quality where one is fantastic, another is great but very flawed, another is extremely bad, and the last is extremely middling while doing almost nothing and just revealing how shallow everything is

I'd rather see something new by From again. They have a lot of creativity and it would be a shame to waste it on more games of the same kind.

>>14854054

I used to but now I just fucking power through it, I don't say die, I keep playing it until I fucking die.

>>14856184

> implying poise builds aren't viable

Nigger they are one of the best builds for pvp. Ds3 pvp already favors reactive trading and poise is the king of trading. You just suck.

i was playing G.O.D on a snes emulator, some hours in and the game makes best girl pregnant and then kills her, then she gets replaced by some old monk guy

cannot give a fuck about finishing the game

I haven't been able to enjoy much of anything in the last 2 years, if this keeps up I might just an hero.

sage for off-topic blogpost

>>14854537

Niggers and other shitskins aren't happy at all, they're constantly consuming drugs and committee violent acts, and most of them do nothing but seek handouts.

I can tell you're a post-election /pol/ tryhard because you're spouting boomer-tier garbage while ignoring the most basic statistical knowledge on races. Retards like you killed the board with your pure ignorance, rants on muh degeneracy, and nofap garbage. You got what you wanted because last I checked the BO went full retard with his wordfilters and "shill" chasing.

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>>14855450

fairly certain a 4am board already exists

>>14854054

i can feel ya OP. perhaps my reasons are a little different, but theres been several games i really enjoyed that ive never beat. my problem is, when i know im getting really close to the end, unless i know theres an awesome postgame, ill sometimes stop playing it. its this feeling that your adventure is gonna come to a close. that it will all be over. all those people that you met along the way cease to exist, and the next time you meet them (ie play it again), theyll have no memory of you. its kinda weird to think this way, ill admit, but when im playing a game that i absolutely love, sometimes ill stop RIGHT before the place/level that i know is the "point of no return", just so that i can stretch out the game for a LITTLE longer. sometimes this "little longer' turns out to be me simply stopping the game outright. though more often than not, ill come back and beat it at a MUCH later date when i remember how much i liked/want to play the game again.

>>14854277

>If a game feels like it's wasted 25 hours of your life, then drop it. Doesn't matter if it may have a decent ending or endgame, if a game feels like a fucking slog for hours on end, then that's a genuine fault on the devs for running out of ideas or not knowing how to pace their game well.

if its the beginning of the game, and it hasnt captured my attention in the first 25hrs of playing it, ill generally stop playing it. but there have been some notable exceptions. namely persona 5 (as i knew its just persona, and after the beginning itll open up a lot), and also TiTS:FC (as id been told time and time again that while the "intro" is WELL over half of the

first game, its fucking worth it. imo, it was. very much so).

>>14858800

Are you implying depression isn't real?

I mean, pill-pushing for every minor thing is certainly a problem, but c'mon.

>>14854666

>OP take alcohol

strongly disagree. i find alcohol to be a more "social drug" (something i HATE). its effects are much less enjoyable when done alone, as theres no one to talk to or be less inhibited around (which is supposedly the fun part?). ive found that when drinking alone i will not realize how wasted i am. it also makes me TERRIBLE at vidya, it makes me even lazier than when sober. since i become unaware of my limits since im just sitting on the couch, ill drink to the point where ill feel FUCK AWFUL the whole next day.

if were suggesting OP to self-medicate, i would suggest that he takes one or maybe two hits of pot. ive met plenty of shithead cowadoody faggots that 420blazeit, and smoke like 4 blunts while theyre playing. the results are what youd expect. it makes them even worse at the shitty game (which they now think is FANTASTIC becuz theyre on drugs), and then after smoking that much and sitting down for too long, they pass out.

what id recommend though, if this is even somewhat of a thing that youd consider/have the connections to get, is as little pot as is possible for you to feel the effects. try that after youve loaded up a game that you feel a little disillusioned with. take one or two puffs at most (and ideally dont make it a habit. no fun ONLY being able to play when youre stoned out of your gourd). hopefully it will help you get around this little pitfall. normally all i need is a shove in the right direction, and ill start having fun with a game. pot gives me just a lil bit of the childlike wonder back, for maybe an hour or two, and by the end of that, if im STILL not feeling it, ill just go listen to some music or read a book.

just dont go full degen with this stuff either. dont listen to hippy faggots. you dont wanna smoke that shit all the time, and you dont wanna attach an addiction (however slight) to your favorite hobby. that can be dangerous, and is perhaps a scenario where i fully believe and agree in the idea of pot being a "gateway" to worse things.

>>14858853

>recommending drugs for vidya

wtf is wrong with you?

>>14858822

Oy vei! Dubs don't lie do they?

>>14854054

It happened to me when I played Halo 2. Around half-way though I felt like if the game was way too long for what it was supposed to be so the only thing I wanted was to skip combat and get to the end.

>>14858906

To make you suffer.

Do you find yourself gaining motivation to blogpost?

>>14854054

Usually with me it's about a matter of time. I can sink month into a game and not get bored of it but I rarely touch anything NG+ because I've already hit the end and I don't wanna play 30 hours again against harder monsters.

>>14858869

first of all, i was suggesting that he does NOT drink alcohol, and since there were several anons that had suggested some sort of self medding (even a faggot talking about fucking anti depressants) i offered up an idea, that in moderation (as i suggested with one or two hits TOPS) could possibly help him get over this feeling of disillusionment with his vidya. hell, i even went on to post a couple paragraphs explaining why he SHOULDNT do this all the time, and when he does, to do it with extreme moderation. one or two hits of the stuff (far less than even most recreational users have in a sitting) is about as harmless as taking a couple fucking aspirin, and if he follows my advice, and doesnt make a habit out of it, it could possibly allow him to overcome this burn-out factor on vidya that i see frequently discussed here.

so

>wtf is wrong with you?

judging by my post, not too terribly much, as i gave him about the safest advice in terms of how to use the stuff and not get addicted to taking drugs and playing vidya (which i even admitted is a possible slippery slope). also, you have to remember that there are a number of places in the states, and other countries, where it isnt even illegal anymore. i dont know where he is, so cant give him further advice on this, so i left it open ended for him to use the information/suggestion as he was comfortable with it. if he doesnt wanna do it, im not gonna sit here and tell him "oh anon, you gotta smoke a blunt when you gayme bruh, shits so cash". im merely offering up something that has helped me to overcome that initial slump feeling i get occasionally when i boot up a game.

if thats too degenerate for your fucking ass, then im not sorry in the slightest.

>>14858822

well shit its more of the effect of heavy demoralization. been threw the ringer a few times myself and 90% of the people there were just having a shit year, decade or more. weather it be someones husband dyingvia killing himself leading to some feeling of inadequacy and personal failure for not helping him one getting fucked over by cheap credit during the 2008 crash , another that was crippled as a baby(shaking) by her mothers bf… everyone there was there because they had a shit happen/shit life and rather than just grieving over it they decided to get drugged up. Except for some sheboon who was there to get ambien.

>Do you find yourself losing motivation to keep playing a game when you get 50%-75% into it?

not frequently, but I got Okami HD as a christmas gift and got about that far into it and haven't gone back to finish it. It's not a bad game but it takes so long to get from area to area I haven't felt like popping it back in

>>14855394

>he thinks that dodging enemy attacks is the same as QTEs because you have to hit a button at the right time

>>14854054

When I was younger I used to 100% every game I played but now I can't be fucked to even play more than a few hours before dropping it (if even that). Probably a combination of getting old and the fact everything seems way to reiterative now days. I really feel like I'm playing the same game over and over again with most AAAs.

>>14854054

The fact that you can still play through games without them being a slog proves that it's not because you are burnt out and it's because the games you are playing are bad, boring or repetitive games.

That's what games are nowadays, with some exceptions.

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Formatting

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>>14854152

I really want to play nioh but I can tell already I'll never beat it, something tells me it gets so hard it's no longer fun the further in you get

It happens to me around at 10-25%, I start getting bored of the game and quit. If I make it to 50-75% I start rushing through the rest of the game just for the sake of finishing it.

Any game that lacks difficulty.

There are many singing praises for SRW V but let me assure you this far from a game. You can 1v20 every single map + bonus objective only using the MC mech you obtain right from the get go. That's not what I had imagined when I load up a tactical rpg.

>>14854054

I find myself losing motivation to keep living every morning I wake up. Have I lived 75% of my life? Will I finally die soon?

I complete all my games 100% though.

Jesus Christ, everyone in this thread is a whiny "depressed" loser. I hope that's not representative of the entire board or I'm a loser too just for being here.

>>14864967

Don't worry, anon, you are normal, fullchan is the imageboard of the succesful people who are always happy, never give up and have a gf.

Those unhappy shitposting faggots ITT are just moody cuckchan refugees.

>>14865685

> In FFIII, I stopped when reaching Crystal Tower

I beat FFIII when I was 14 and the only reason is I was poor as shit and had literally nothing else to do all day. Never again, I probably couldn't do it now even if I wanted to, my brain can't take it anymore. I remember it fondly as a game from my youth but the article I read that made me buy the game was right, "it's a baptism of fire for those new to JRPGs" and not in a good way. It's a good game but there's a million better uses of your time.

This primarily happens because developers on a restricted schedule/budget end up putting the most polish on the beginning stages of the game and the finale. Thus the 50%-75% regime is often a big slog

>>14865772

I played it on DS too, I remember grinding out 10 or 15 levels in ancients maze and a dozen attempts until I got luky with RNG and beat the final boss. I was so fucking stressed out and adrenalined up I couldn't enjoy the ending cutscenes. I kept thinking "THERE'S ANOTHER FORM DON'T RELAX" even while the credits rolled.

I think I ended up with a team of 4 Ninja's and just outdamaged the boss by throwing every thing I had at it, even rare late game weapons. Eventually it worked. I still get the stress sweats whenever I see it in a game store.