I've stopped enjoying games lately but it's a symptom of my need for socialization than grinding the game. The weeks i've been more social i've wanted to olay a bit after
Oh jeez, I went through a phase of enjoying Snow Runner ... the base game has a nice difficulty progression, takes a long time to finish, but feels very satisfying.
So, when I got to the end I started buying expansion packs. And some of them have been lovely, but most of it just turned out to be some weird grindy slog-fest ... which I had a good go at, but then burned out on the game.
I just want peaceful chugging around in forrests with my little truck, looking for lost cargo to take home :-(
I play games in like pushes. I'll put in a lot of hours for like a week or two and then pause for a month to six months.
When battlefield 6 came out, the hour or two I could afford went a long way: we were in the trenches together figuring it out ABC having fun.
Now some players are level 2000+, rarely team work and I‘m dying when I spawn. Now it takes more than it gives.
On the plus side, that was the last game stopping me migrating to bazzite
I've seen some level 3000+ players as far back as months ago, but I think they glitched/exploited that level.
The highest legit levels I have seen are about 500 - 650 or so, 500 is when their icon turns gold.
It's a real slog at times, but I will sometimes just do the weekly challenges and stop. Timed challenges really make the game feel like a chore.
The game feels really unbalanced as well, so many rounds it's one team completely stomping the other and it's not even close. Often 900 tickets to 0.
My friends and I had an evening like that as well, 3 times our team won by holding all the objectives and the game ended early. That's no fun.
Side note, games like BF6 that cannot run in Linux are also what keep me from migrating to a Linux distro. I'd be off Windows in a second if all games ran on it no issues.
Now some players are level 2000+, rarely team work and I‘m dying when I spawn.
Every competitive multiplayer game in the world is ruined by sweat these days. You have to dedicate your entire life to the game just to not die immediately. Oh, you don't have every map completely memorized, including all spawn and bonus locations? To a point where you could play it blindfolded in single player? Filthy casual.
this is precisely why i gave up on multiplayer PvP games for the most part. the era of casual PvP pubs is long gone and now, if you don't have the "play for glory" mentality, you simply can't enjoy such games anymore. and even then, having that mentality already doesn't sound enjoyable to me.
on the flipside, i also find myself struggling with being interested in modern PvE/co-op games as well, especially since most of them adopt the 4-player format, pretty much necessitating having friends willing to play with you for a truly fun experience. the niche of big lobby PvE games is rarely tapped, unfortunately.
You can play unranked matches in games that have a ranked mode for the sweaters. Like arms race in counterstrike for example is pretty chill
this is precisely why i gave up on multiplayer PvP games for the most part. the era of casual PvP pubs is long go
And the rampant cheating. Every single game that has more than a few players will have cheaters. Rootkit-as-a-service or not, there will still be cheaters.
I'll just do all the sidequest and collectables I'm in act 2 of red dead 2 and it's been three years
What having an incurable competitionist mentality does to a MF. I can't stop myself from needing to 100% any game I play, and so many have at least a few things that are just too grindy or boring to complete so it ends like this instead.
I have that same mental disorder but I kind of reframed it and stopped burning out as much as I used to. It's not that I enjoy the grind, but multitasking, hanging with friends, and keeping short term goals make it more fun. I'm getting a lot more 100%s and chronicle the min/max I use to help others, too.
I don't enjoy games anymore because I have so little time and almost all the games I enjoy (apart from Space Cadet ofc) take up so much time that I just don't bother. Don't want to start another game of Medieval Total War 2 or Civ 4 if I have time to only play a few turns. And I know I'll be craving to play more the whole day
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