I don't play games with dark patterns anymore. And seems like almost all of them went deep into that territory which severely limits what I can play.
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Anyone else having a hard time after beating zelda totk?
Try the Risen or even the old Gothic games. They're definitely old and janky but there's a ton of exploration and discovery packed in with the old and the jank. Dark Souls and company are also worth looking in to if you haven't played them. Get Prepare to Die edition instead of Dark Souls remastered. Read some guides for the first Dark Souls - It has some mechanics that can really fuck you over. But the second and third one, plus Elden Ring, you can mostly just fuck around there's nothing particularly high stakes.
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But the flames has died
Never!
Going through this right now. Don't enjoy playing single player games much. Only usually enjoy multi-player games if I'm playing with my wife. I'm just letting it happen tbh.
Getting into tabletop games and collecting instead. Unlike video games, tabletop games come with all sorts of cool knickknacks, especially war games, and I'm finding getting to collect them and then play with the cool new things holds my interest better nowadays. Feels like it scratches the same itch as installing a thousand new mods into video games then playing for a few hours before loading it up with even more mods, but instead of mods it's new little dudes and I get to assemble and paint them.
Perhaps your tastes have changed. I'm sure there must still be a game out there for you.
This happened to me the other day. I've had FarCry4 on my Xbox for years. Never played it. Well the other day, started playing it. Died A LOT. But was still having a blast, visuals are a little dated, but the atmosphere and game mechanics are still very fun overall.
Haven't dived deep yet into the FarCry4 story/lore, but hoping it picks up more. But as I was dying a lot. I wasn't having any fun. So I stopped playing it for a couple days, and came back to it, fully refreshed and fully restored to tackle the mission. Spoiler: the fun stayed :)
thanks for sharing!really appreciate it,since finishing blood dragon,recently.and now deciding,which to go on with:Riders Republic,uncharted2,fc4,tlou:part2...
does the4,mentioned by you,provide enugh long.term.motivation for staying hooked and going onwith it,over the others?