The Director's Cut Method Saved My Hobby

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  @omelfilip · 4 months ago

  I think people gotta ask themselves "if nobody told me this game is great would I still find it interesting?" I think many people get interested in playing a game not because the game itself is appealing, but because it seems everyone around them says the game is amazing.

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  @hsnbrky · 4 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlXaaa6FefE&amp;t=40">0:40</a> &quot;I gotta play that one.&quot; Games get boring if they become a checklist instead of a hobby, it is that easy.

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  @feastedWAfflES · 4 months ago

  I am guilty of searching for every little thing and it definitely does ruin games, it feels like a chore instead of an experience

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  @hollownarcissus · 4 months ago

  back when i was younger, the only way i could get games was through my birthday &amp; christmas. back then, every game i got was a specific, intentional choice; i couldn&apos;t just get a game, decide i didn&apos;t like it, and drop it. when i discovered how to obtain games without paying for them, i went on a spree of trying everything, and in the haze of it all, i didn&apos;t have fun with any of them. that&apos;s why i refuse to get any game subscriptions---i CAN&apos;T just download a game and enjoy it, i need to put actual time and effort into the decision-making process, and through that, i&apos;ve been able to enjoy games much more thoroughly.

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  @p0pimp2004 · 4 months ago

  Some games are so dang hard to get back into bc u have to remember where u left off and relearn the mechanics. It can be daunting

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  @fronandough7 · 4 months ago

  I enjoyed this take. It&apos;s almost like a &quot;yes and&quot; to the idea that a backlog is something you continually curate. Feels intentional!

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  @Nocny_Informator · 4 months ago

  Yeah subscription are the bane of fun, especially with looming threat of them suddenly pulling anything you&apos;re interested in off the library

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  @hallak65 · 4 months ago

  Here is my backlog fight list that nobody will read<br>1. Know yourself. Being a gamer doesn&apos;t mean you should play every hyped game out there. There are hyped games from genres that you don&apos;t like. They&apos;re never going to be that good that they make you fall in love with that genre.<br>2. Curate your wishlist. &nbsp;Check out games, mostly through real gameplay and not reviews, before you add them to your wishlist. If you can&apos;t spend 5 min to watch a short section of the game, you will never play it anyway<br>3. Learn to let go of games. You don&apos;t need to finish games that you don&apos;t like. If you are jumping games, like play this, then this, then back to this, you don&apos;t enjoy at least one of them. So just leave. Write a steam review as a finish for your future self to know why you don&apos;t have the will to finish it.<br>4. Don&apos;t do game passes. They are the embodiment of choice paralysis and suck just a waste of money<br>5. Don&apos;t collect games. Buy only if you have the will to play it in the next 3 months. Games in time will be cheaper anyway.

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  @Snake_Holiday · 4 months ago

  Video games have more in common with books than they do movies in the sense of how we (ought to) engage with them. A movie is over and done in two hours, with little effort required by the viewer. Books, on the other hand, take time to sink into and enjoy. You <b>could</b> binge a book in a day or a week but rushing through a book usually leaves you with a superficial understanding of the plot, and people who enjoy reading usually enjoy pacing themselves as well. A well written novel will reward you for taking the time to understand it. <br><br>I think most people approach video games like they&apos;re movies to be passively consumed, but they should think of them more like interactive novels. The act of playing a game is intentional in a way the watching a movie isn&apos;t, but reading a book is.

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  @handtattoos6901 · 4 months ago

  What you&apos;ve described reminds me so much of people who go on vacations and spend all their time rushing from place to place just to snap a photo and immediately move on to what is next on their itinerary. They go and don&apos;t even allow themselves to relax and take the experience in for what it is. They never even allow these places in the world to leave an impression on them (good or bad).

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  @junechevalier · 4 months ago (edited)

  When I was younger I played games for the immersion. I wanted to be swept away to another world. And then I grew older and I started to be that min-maxing dude. It was fun for a while, but now that I’ve grown even older, I started to return to the roleplaying and immersion aspect of gaming. I realized that after so many years thinking that min-maxing and cheesing the game is the ultimate form of fun, I thought that it really doesn’t do anything for me as a person. It feels like reading but instead of taking in the meaning, I focus on how many words I could read in one day for the sake of reading. Min-maxing is great when you play a multiplayer game, but single player games demand another kind of attention. Even souls-like whose entire idea is to defeat enemies, the moment i start slowing down to explore, finding hidden items, appreciating the design choice, etc. will get me more out of the game than just rushing to the end thinking only in numbers.

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  @Indra_gaming007 · 4 months ago (edited)

  I started a new play-through of cyberpunk and this time I’m intentionally not clicking on every blue dialogue option just to see what the character says. I kinda wish I did this the first time to really immerse myself into the world. It’s funny how”missing out” on some of the game would actually make the game a better experience for me.

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