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What can I do to continue gaming now that I am employed? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am sitting on a desk PC the whole day at work, which I believe has caused my ability to play games on my PC to diminish. I have found the following solutions, so I am asking to see if any of you has done something like that:

Buy a console (the easiest)
Connect the PC and the TV to a router to form an Ethernet LAN, and stream from the PC to the console using Steam Link
Connect the GPU's HDMI output to the TV's and the computer screen's inputs using a 1x2 HDMI switch

With solutions (2) and (3) converting the PC to a console so I can sit on the couch and relax.

Also, have you found your tastes change after starting work? I used to be into games with complex stories and/or challenging gameplay but now I feel to tired for that.

Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Could you just play on the PC using a controller? Or is the screen size the issue?

I will say, being older and employed and burdened with household/family duties, it’s not so much that I gravitate towards simple games, more that I have low tolerance for games that require me to learn a bunch of Byzantine subsystems before I can get to the gameplay itself. I want a game that I can dig into immediately, where the complexity is something that grows as I progress through the game.

Good example, I downloaded the demo for the last Disgaea game a bit back, sort of game I used to get really into when I was younger and not full time employed. But now, there were just too many front-loaded mechanics and associated tutorials. I could tell it was going to feel like a chore having to keep track of all of them, spending forever fussing with party build mechanics before even doing a fight, so I deleted it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

The issue is sitting on a desk instead of a couch for even more of the day. I already had a low tolerance for such game systems (dunno if it's the ADHD), so now it's absolutely demolished and I feel you