We f*cked our brains up so much that now we need discipline to play games

It's not just burnout. It's also my tendency to overthink. I'd be sitting doing nothing, then the need to play a game arises. When I look at the games I have, I'd overthink like "Is this enough for this session? Am I going to be able to stick to this game a bit longer? Where am I at this game again?" And such

This feels like a self-improvement video disguised as a gaming video.

This man litirally gave a guide to how to grind but changed it for games

The stimulation thing is it 100%. Get off social media and trash like reddit and your ability to enjoy things skyrockets.

The problem is social media addiction. Social media has screwed up our reward center and depletes our dopamine without regard for your well being. Therefore, games that don't offer instant gratification and positive feedback within the same time frame as a TikTok video or Twitter swipe can't hold our attention long enough to enjoy the experience. However, if you quit social media and detox from it, your reward center can be recalibrated. You'll find that not only can you enjoy games again, but a whole host of other hobbies and past times that you probably don't have the attention span for anymore.

14 hours of laying around wondering why I don’t feel like playing games anymore lol 😂😂

I came here to understand why tf I wasn’t having fun and bro just gave me the key to life right there. Thanks man, we appreciate you so much.

For me it’s the curse of choice. The accessibility, there s so much to choose from and after starting one game, i’m already thinking about 2-3 other games and this makes it very difficult to stay focused and just play game until the end. Back in the day we used to have only a few games at a time so it was easy to focus on one game, finish it and pick another

Reminds of a really wholsome converation between Mei Ling and Snake in MGS1 "Snake , you should be happy that you have free time to play a game"

I recently had one of the best gaming experiences I've had in a while: Found my old PS2 while spring cleaning and I bought a copy of Maximo: Ghosts to Glory on eBay the next day. I never could beat it as a kid because we'd only have it over the weekend as a rental but I sat down and finally beat the game with the good ending after all these years. Not only did I beat a challenging game, but I fulfilled a childhood dream.

Guys, delete social media. I know it sounds hard, and pointless but seriously. Give it a month and you will feel so much better, it’s all designed to rot your brain.

I compare it to reading books. Most of our generation doesn't have the attention span for books but since the rise of social media we slowly have lost even more of our attention span even for games. Games require you to engage with it a bit where as social media is a passive engagement. I went through a period of playing single player games with a video playing in the background and really fell out of pc gaming for a bit, probably because on a console its a bit harder to multitask depending on your setup. Really scared for the next generation for when they say that they can't play video games because they dont have the attention span for it.

Engaging with games like an adult also helps, if you engage with a game mindlessly like you did like a kid only waiting for flow and dopamine rush to kick in your adult brain won't pick up. If you engage by noticing the model work, the texture work, the music, the cool program and design trick, you'll get far more from a game than you ever did when you were a kid. Learning how games are made and gaming history will make a better critique of you and make the medium more fun.

The discipline part really hit me. I have so many games put on hold: Ni No Kuni, Red Dead Redemption 2, Lisa: The Painful, Nier Autómata, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World The Video Game, and much more. I’ve resorted to just playing Fortnite in the end due to the matches, as it’s easy to either have a short game or a really long good one. And I tell myself I’m done with playing a game. I really want to get back to the love of gaming since I used to play a lot back as a kid. I’m glad this video was on my recommended!

Damn! Why is ( almost ) every good youtube channel this underrated?!

Simple: Find the game you enjoy, whether they're old or new. Don't waste your money on hyped new video games. And get rid of FOMO. Try and avoid sh!tty games.

Been struggling with this for years. Too many videos about this topic boil the issue down to just "burnout" without going into what that means. For me it's a mixture of overstimulation, overthinking and maybe some general depression. I'll have an hour to kill and feel the urge to play a game and work on my backlog. I'll spend 10 minutes debating whether I should, 15 minutes actually picking a game and by the time I start it I have no attention span to learn new mechanics or pay attention to the story. I think about how it would take 20-50 hours to beat this game and just quit being overwhelmed with the thought that I wont even make any progress. I'll end up playing a few matches of Battlefield or a few races in Gran Turismo. But most likely I'll just crawl into bed and doomscroll. I also think the new advent of the gamepass model and free games have eroded the special feeling of having/playing games.

05:35 "short form content in social media is visual junk food" That's the best description I ever heard about short form content in my life

Game devs were trend-setters before investors took over the industry. Now they're trend-chasers.

I thought that I just couldn't enjoy games because of my social media fried brain until I started to obsess over my 3DS and DS again. I found so many hidden gems, I've never played before but it still feels nostalgic

I love how the youtube algorithm decides to pop out this small channels with really interesting videos with the realests takes in random topics

I think part of the issue is simplicity, or some case the perception of simplicity. When we were kids we didn't overthink things. We got a game, we sat down, we played it, we had fun. And that was it. We didn't try to nitpick the hell out of it, we didn't try to analyze it, most people weren't trying to optimize the living hell out of the experience. We just knew how to sit down and have fun. But now everybody is a critic and so many people spend so much time not just playing games but obsessing, theory crafting, or scrutinizing them. Which leads to path of least resistance. Do we sit down to a new game and open our mind to having to learn the new mechanics, analyze, and overthink about everything involved? Or do we go back to those old classics we already know and love or that comfort game we play regularly. I think this is where the problem is. People have gotten so accustomed to overthinking that it permeates the hobby and then any new game becomes like work because there is all sorts of new things to have to learn and fixate over compared to the simplicity of just playing those old games we already know by heart. Even in cases where those old games might have similar or potentially more complexity than the new game we are trying to play we already know that old game so it's a much easier and less stressful barrier to entry. So I would say discipline is good but more in having the discipline to just force yourself to stop overthinking and just play the game. Don't worry about if your build is perfect, if you are doing things in the most optimal way, or worrying about all the things you don't understand yet. Just play the game you want to play and take it one step at a time and it becomes a lot easier to enjoy.

Man this is so real. I haven’t seen anyone touch on this subject this way, it just put so much in perspective for myself. I noticed because sometimes I get on instagram during a cutscene and cutscenes used to be my favorite parts of games. Man thanks good video, I need time away from so much stimulation

Here I am. Left my comfort zone by going to a foreign country. I travel here, went to the gym for the first time and made some noticeable progress regarding my body, read books, study the language, go out and meet new people from time to time. I do everything but playing games and man... Never in my life have I missed playing video games more than ever. I don't play video games here because I only stay abroad for a year and I told myself to use that time to experience this new country, so I left my console at home. Nothing that I did here gave me the same joy like video games

This is more like a self-improvement video diguised as gaming video.. Love every second of it.. ❤ Had a rough time during 2 years of high school and ended up trying to fit in with people and indulge in overstimulation content in social media due to fomo.. I have ended my school life recently and decided to pick up my old habits back.. And it turns out my overstimulation habits is what holds me back to actually enjoy games

I think that I tend to overthink a lot of things. Thinking about playing optimally to save time, how much playing will satisfy my dopamine, is playing just like working? Do I play to gain achievements or play to enjoy the story? Having games go on sale, hearing them sound like a good investment from someone else is really pressuring since you have money and time that you want to invest but if you play and don't enjoy it or play it long enough to the point that it doesn’t give you anything then you are at a loss of time and enjoyment. As a kid, there are big games that I used to drench hundreds of hours in because of how little money I had so I would take time to learn a game, tolerate it and after enough time say "look how far I got and how much I did to get here". Minecraft, Yakuza Like a Dragon, Persona 5, Pokémon, Xenoverse, Infamous, .Hack// and even Final Fantasy 7 Remake are good games that kept my attention and made me feel complete for taking my time and spending hundreds of hours. In the end, it's not about achievements, being number 1 or appealing to others, it's about the journey to get to that destination. Was that journey one that got you something?

I think the big issue with a lot of modern releases is that they are either designed to be overstimulating on purpose (See Fortnite), or the is designed to eat all of your time by overloading you with things to do (see Farcry 6). I had an absolute BLAST with Armored Core 6 because the game gave its content out one mission at a time, and ended exactly when it needed to. Do I wish I had more? Sure. Do I think the game should have been 100 hours long instead of 30? No, never.

This came at the perfect time. Ive been in a rut for years and this made me enjoy my game session for once. THANK YOU. Modern habits have really messed our brains up.

I’ve been slowly lowering my screen time on social media for months now after developing a really bad addiction to it during the pandemic. I now have 45 minutes divided between all my main social media apps a day, minus messaging platforms like discord. It really has helped a lot. I started gardening and enjoying slower things more.

thanks for telling me not to go on the megathread you saved me i wouldve been chased by the cops 100% if i had done that. great job king

Dragon quest music! Amazing! I love it when I'm watching a video and suddenly realize there's dragon quest music playing in the background

From my pov, if you want to have fun in games. Play different games with friends. With different i mean. Genre's of (multiplayer)games you don't play normally. Go play chess, or a bitgame. Mario galaxy instead of call of duty. Bro idk. Just play different genres. People think because their childhood game is call of duty it is their main game forever. But no your taste just changes.You just don't want to accept it. I used to play call of duty my whole childhood. Until my 18th birthday. When i didn't have much friends to play with anymore. I switched over to a soul game because i thought it would be nice to play a single player game for ones. And boy gaming got fun lol. I played for hours. After a couple of days playing singleplayer games i started call of duty. left after 2 games...

I've been playing all of my childhood games lately and I'm having a blast. It really made gaming fun for me again.

Thank you very much for this advice, I really want to play any game I want but social media kinda makes me play less and have a hard time playing again. I’m so glad I found this video.

step 1: don't the starfield

Never thought I randomly come across a video that covered all my exact points and opinions from the last few years. Well said lol and keep it up!

I’ve been looking into 100% games i love to finally get that dopamine again, that rush of completion. That’s what we needed.

Excellent video, got me out of a funk I was feeling recently, not just towards video games but also in finding more discipline and being stricter with my habits. Thank you.

I'm 19 years old. I don't really play any new games. I just replay the games I played 10 years ago for the 10th time and I enjoy it. I also pass my gaming knowledge to my brothers.

I got some of the fun back when I bought the metal gear collection and started from the very first new one. More fun than I've had in any of my other 800+ steam games in a while. And I can see and appreciate how there was much more efforts put in game back then than now as I've only previously played the ps1 game as a kid

Thank you so much! i felt like i was wasting my life, unable to fix it until you came along and graced me with these marvelous tips!

These are some actual high quality tips not just in gaming but also in life. Props to you man!

Man, your videos are great. Please keep them coming.

Just take breaks from gaming and you wont burn out. Go outside. Do something other than video games. Walk, drive. Get excited to back home and game some more.

Weed yourself off social media, yet here we are watching this on social media and not playing games. You, my friend, are an enabler.

Great advice on habits, I've been playing older games from "top games ever made" lists and it's been regrowing my love for games. Also paying attention ONLY to the game, full volume, immersed without a Twitch stream or a phone distracting me has been bliss.

TAK AND THE POWER OF JUJU MENTIONED!! Omg I never see this game played in the wild lol. Favorite game as a kid and SO many vibes

This one is a ymmv, but I'd also add... Stop spoiling yourself on games before you play them. My best playthroughs of new Pokemon games were preceded by me knowing literally nothing going in, while my worst were after me knowing every new pokemon and their types, deciding my team in advance. Let your childlike sense of wonder bring the stimulation to you.

As someone who uses gaming and streaming content daily to keeo sober (4 years plus now) what an accurate video and topic! Im very appreciative that i am able to do hobbies and self improvement as a busy dad with crazy hours but overstimulation is for real. Sometimes it is necessary to just sit on the porch and relax with the dog.

so glad someone made a video on this issue. society as a whole really should be more aware of how social media affects you and your ability to enjoy other things that might take longer mental focus to even enjoy.

Clank & juju we grew up on the same shit. Had a friend over as kids, hid under the bed to surpirse my mom and saw tak + a gamecube under there for Christmas. Didnt have a memeory card and never left it on, so the first few levels are seared into my memory. Thanks for the nostalgia. Gave my ps2 and all ratchet games to a close friend who loves retro gaming

Everything's Competes for our Full Attention, so they optimize it to make it literally addicting. There are some Type of Media that gives a bigger Satisfaction than others, and we prioritize the one that gives the most Satisfaction for the lowest effort. It means that Gaming is rewarding but requires effort for it and this competes with the Social Medias Low Effort High Reward. As long as you Consume it responsible and in moderation you can gt enjoyment out of simple things in Life ;D

This is genuinely helpful advice. I hope everyone accomplishes their goals.

I can't believe I'm not the only one who had this such specifical concerns. Great video.

That Discipline thing for playing video games is so true mate! But I also want to add that if your'e in a phase of life where you are just pausing on things that need to be done, like say you've been preparing for SAT for the last 1 year...playing video games is going to give you " GUILT " instead of fun. So I'd recommend you to just do things in your life that need to be done and then at the end of the day or every week play video games...because of course life is so much more beautiful after your exams! cheers! P.S : I always keep a timer of 30-40 mins to play my games and after that session it really feels so rewarding and also the fact that you've respected your time is also fulfilling...For some of us can no longer even play video games for an hour straight...

It's nice that you put in ways to improve your life in a very manageable way. Instead of just talking about the negatives, your video goes into helping the viewer and in the very least some people will be able to get better. Talking about recording your actions in a day will really help some people and I think I'm going to try and do that as well, because video games actually help me to get out a lot of stress and I want to return to them as well as develop better habits.

I did that of playing older games, and it does makes me happier!

For me, I felt like I lost most of my passion for games due to seeing a lot of the same. Once I picked up VR gaming, it gave me a whole new experience that felt very refreshing. So even though VR is still pretty niche, I recommend people into picking it up, especially if you are looking for something new

Damm man really good video. Solid tips to. Thanks😁

I used to play games for escapism or to vent, but because of my stressful life over the last few years and my gravitation to competitive games became strong. Prioritising fun has to be deliberate. Hell, you might even have to outsmart yourself in a way.

I will just throw this out there because it did help me with my social media addiction. Having two devices mainly phones is really useful, a main that has your (e)sim that's is just has the apps you need for your day to day life and second device that's WiFi only for everything else, mainly social media or other apps that you can turn off without the fear of missing something important. Also don't be afraid to turn the brain rot device off, if something is big enough you'll see it on a news site.

thank you for making such a positive impact with your content!

This guy is a hidden gem

You deserve more subs. Your content is great

This was probably one of the greatest videos I ever watched

What an awesome video, wow! Sadly I have struggled a lot with tons of problems including these. I just can't finish games anymore & my PS Plus subscription keeps me extremely busy.

Honestly once a lot of yall branch out your comfort zone for a bit and try single player games you might start liking games again

For me, I find myself playing a game for hours and then feel like Ive spent hours on something "meaningless" and like I should have spent my time actually "doing something".

This video gets a thumbs up from me both for being a great video but also for the Dragon Quest Background Music. Always nice hearing such good game music in the background of random videos when I least expect it.

I’ve been replaying my old childhood Pokémon games and gotta say, you are right. I mean I’ve been playing for like 2 Maybe evem 5 hours or until my 3DS dies at a time. It’s nice.

Couldn't finish video, had to get off because youtube is one of my habits I need to reduce. Gave it a like though ❤.

Step 1: let someone else play the game Step 2: watch him/her play Within a few seconds you will get that urge to play

homie just gave you the talk your father never gave you!! even slipping by another sticky topic masterfully.

Man, thank you for this video. I recently have been thinking of all stimulation I give my brain daily and how much I am fatigued of my hobbies (not only video games) and your video appeared. At first I always tend to think that discipline our hobbies is a thing of late capitalism but when I started to look at my habits I started to understand that we destroyed our brains so much with dopamine shots that our cellphones gives us everything we spend on social media or whatever activity we do in front of the screen that in fact we have a addiction (or something in those lines), and addiction is ended with discipline. I always struggled with creating a strategy to beat this and your video presents one form of doing this, it seems hard but I know I'm a dedicated person. I just wanted to thank you for saying what most people don't in favor of living comfortable.

Man you’r so underrated

Overstimulation is making you hate everything.

I agree play games from a few years back it’s a trip.

Social media has ruined my attention span and self discipline. Catastrophizing, overthinking and comparing my life to that of those on the internet are traits fairly common amongst people who are struggling with social media addiction and poor dopamine systems. Not only has it destroyed my life for countless years, it also made my depression and anxiety worse, to the point where I couldn't enjoy games anymore. I'm just glad I'm not the only one who is dealing with this, because it's a genuine battle. We got this, great video!

i think i’m bored of games primarily bc all these new games aren’t new. they’re just reskins of a game formula that’s already been done, so it’s no wonder i’m bored. i’ve already played it all.

Two things: First - awesome video, and right where it feels, thank you man Second - what’s the background game? I have no idea what it is but for some reason I think I’ll like it

There's too much to chose from now, its overwhelming. My solution has been to not be a passive consumer, but consciously choosing to consume media that will benefit and enlighten me. Nearly two years ago, I was run over by an SUV and nearly died. It changed how I saw the world, I grew disinterested in social media, movies, and television. I hated simply spectating, I wanted control. That's when I discovered video games, I hadn't played them much since childhood. After the accident I played MGSV, Disco Elysium and BG3, each of them became a kind of spirit journey, each one imparted me with wisdom about myself and the feelings and experiences I was grappling with. So too do the books I choose serve a purpose bigger than passing time. I read about my own medical and psychological conditions, I broaden my perspective on the world. Try to choose things not simply for entertainment.

Great video and for anyone really serious about cultivating mental discipline I recommend taking up a meditation practice. If you can choose to sit down for 10, 15, or 20 mins with the intention to just observe the mind then you can certainly sit for half an hour or more with the intention of playing games and nothing else.

I’m gonna tell you something: Eat rationally anything you want Lift weight periodically Alternate it with GAMING It’s a simple and really enjoyable style of life if you love games

Millennials don't play video games? We're literally the generation that made gaming be a thing for the masses, lol. Before us it was for nerds, and newer generations don't really "game". We're the ones that grew up with N64s, PlayStations and xboxes before it became common to have one as your Fifa and Netflix box. We're obsessed with gaming beyond recovery :(

enjoyed the memes as well as the practical advice about habits. great video man keep it up

Dude, this is great. Thank you!

3:41 bro is sponsored😂😂

I really recommend be more picky about games you buy and not only games. If enjoy Monster Hunter and let’s say FromSoftware what is they point of buying Wild Hearts, I just replay Monster Hunter. As I have not much time after work I just play my favourite games from favourite genres and not buy every RPG just because I like RPGs.

Awesome tips dude, for changing habits. Not what I was expecting, but dope video none the less.

The theme at 2:05 brought me back to a simpler time, much appreciated

Instead of forcing ourselves to play okay game again and again in a row we could play awful games again and again so that way the good games become great and entertaining?

As you get older, just play games to enjoy them and stop trying to live off hype and being try hard.

Vr got me back into gaming again, no outside stimulations, just me being immersed in games

great video. totally captures my current struggle with games.

You sound like a person that should play Spec Ops The Line.

You know what? I'm subscribing just for using Tak footage at the beginning. You are a legend.

The KZfaq machine has taken all my attention the past 10+ years, gonna be tough to break the habit of daily watching. I can't focus on story based games and I usually skip the dialogues. I'm messed up bad. I'll try playing old games. But usually those I get bored of the most.

1:15, I enjoyed more videogames in the 32 bits era than in childhood. It was the best. 4:32, not just finishing them, but also just by playing them. Even the worse games are better than this chinese crap.

Step 1: smoke some Step 2: enjoy games again