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I have a nice new gaming PC (5000 series gpu even), yet all I've played in the last three weeks is a few playthroughs of Civilization V. With a bunch of mods it still feels new, plus there are a few civs I have never even tried. My challenge now is beating the game with civs of middling power on Immortal difficulty.
I really enjoyed my time in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 before that. Played it a bunch in the week after it launched. But I got ever so slightly put off by a sequence where you areforced to (temporarily) lose all your gear, do timed objectives and complete the mission in the one way the devs intended. I'd rather not be stuck with that Hans guy for much longer; him getting executed would have been more or less okay in my book, lol, but there you go.
Anyone else here ever get easily 'bumped out of' these very good but long games where you feel like you kinda have to invest a lot of time per session and immerse yourself? The kind where it's really fun but it's not the easiest thing to just jump back into if you've been away from them for a few weeks. I have a lot of games like that on my list. A lot. It's not that I didn't like them, some of them I loved but never finished, but I develop aversion to the thought of jumping back into their worlds after some time away.
Graphically simpler games, like isometric strategy, seems a lot easier to return to, on and off.
I've been driving my partner nuts with how much trouble I have sticking with Baldur's Gate. I don't quite understand myself here, honestly. I don't have an issue with point-and-click, I played Runescape for the better part of two decades. Long RPGs? No problem if it's a JRPG. Even if my go-to habit game (Warframe) wasn't a grindathon, I just don't get why I can't get myself to spend more than an hour at a time on BG3.
In that case, ask yourself why you should spend more time with BG3.
This is the way. At the the of the day it's a free time activity you do for fun, not a self-improvement project. If you aren't having fun, it's ok to put it down.
To be fair, I do play some games as self-improvement projects. Games I sucked at, that I decided I wanted to beat anyways, and then I went and did that. Usually multiplayer games. Yeah, I beat Hunt: Showdown and Nebulous: Fleet Command. Had one good run where I dominated everyone, exhaled in satisfaction, took a screenshot framed it and hung it over the fireplace, went to write my memoirs and a steam guide, and never played the game again.
Joke. But I really do sometimes play a difficult game just to figure it out and beat it. Not "difficult" soulslikes, where the required skill is memorizing enemy placements and telegraphs, and not multiplayer games that just come down to memorizing maps and doing the sickest 360 noscope, or such in which you win by doing 300 APM...but, you know, games where you can get a little creative. Where you can actually compete with others in planning, judgement and honest-to-god tactics, and with enough unpredictability and randomization that you can't just learn every possible move for every possible situation in advance.
But then, improving yourself in those ways until you can beat others at those games is fun. It's not mutually exclusive, is all I suppose I want to say.
And then there's a million singleplayer games that I started because I don't even know why and they weren't fun and I tried to get my money's worth out of them anyways but it didn't work and the only winning move ended up being to stop playing.
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