I am the lew at the start and the lewkn at 5:22 , can confirm playing TF2 was one of the best nights of my life. And playing The Forest through with you, tom and thom, single handedly made The Forest my favourite game of all time. It is truly sad to see everyone grow up and the games we loved fade into memories but it is nice to look back, my one hope is that a game comes out and brings us all back together one day. Love you man.

glad to know im not alone in this

I’m now starting to think the reason I play is to keep my self busy rather then play a game for fun

This hit really hard. i lost a friend i use to play games with all the time. i try replaying those games to feel like he's still there, but it won't ever be the same

I think many of us need to have a sense of being "busy" or "self actualised" before we can start to enjoy video games again. I think I found playing video games so fun when I was younger because I had been at school all day or busy all week playing sports or doing some kind of activity. Now that I've finished school and am working I find that I am not capable of enjoying a video game until I feel truly busy or productive. I'm not saying that I'm not busy, but I feel like most of the time I need to be doing something greater before I can earn the reward of enjoying a video game again.

Thought i was the only one who sat there at the home screen for hours kinda lost lol

When my friends moved on from games, I realized something that day. I wasn’t having fun playing the game, I was having fun sharing the experience with my friends.

“Every game is fun you just need a friend to play it with” - Me

For me the biggest thing that stops me from playing is not having someone to game with, gaming with friends will ALWAYS be fun to me

To be honest I used to have this problem till I balanced out my interest in games with other hobbies to prevent burnout. Ive found if you consume them in moderation they can become special again

Spent my whole childhood dreaming of having a nice PC that could run things on ultra. Now i have it and i feel so guilty because i can't even find motivation to play anything, and when i do it is not fun

Well, I'm glad it's not just me. I'm 55 and everything you described is happening to me. I've got tons of games in my library that I bought and never played. I also don't finish many games anymore even if I'm still having fun. I mainly spend my time trying to find that next game to get excited about or watching youtube. It's depressing because I'm divorced and my kids have moved out to start their own lives. Without gaming, I have nothing

This video is relatable af. Its almost like I find videogames as a chore now. I think its because I'm an adult now and always have the thought of doing something productive in the back of my mind instead of just being in the moment and enjoying the game like I used to when I was a kid. Take me back to those simpler days :/

The problem is that nostalgia only looks at the general good in the past, while leaving out the bad parts. I’m sure in 10 years I’ll have nostalgia for my life now, but I just won’t realize it until then

"Staring at PC for hours, not launching any games" Yeah, I actualy have that. Though when I do launch a game, I love it. I often worry about how I won't like it before I launch, but then well, it turns out to be fun.

I think we just want to get away from reality through games we we're able to as kids, yet now when you grow older it's getting impossible to achieve that same 'state' so i can totally relate to this video.

Story of my life, recently. I'm 45 years old. I'm desperately trying to experience passion and fun again in my life like it used to be. Attempting to do this through video games - like it used to be. Had a $6K 3090 gaming computer custom built by Origin. Bought everything needed for VR, in addition to a G9 ultrawide screen and separate 32" triple screens. Bought the haptic Woojer Vest. Bought lots of games on Steam. I rarely play them. I start playing, and within 20 minutes, I realize I'm not having any fun, and I return to KZfaq. I'm constantly searching KZfaq for "best PC games" yet not finding much. I have been experiencing depression since COVID took out my brother. I seem to be coming out of it, albiet slowly. I'm wondering if my inability to enjoy video games might have something to do with depression? It is encouraging to learn that I am not the only one experiencing this debacle with video games. Maybe we're all depressed? Or there might be more to this... All of the money I have spent recently on this video game journey came from an insurance payoff from my brother's death. He had a life insurance plan in my name. I had no idea. I have been feeling guilty that I spent all this money on something I'm not enjoying and not utilizing. I'm hoping the new generation of Unreal Engine 5 games will break new ground and capture my heart like it used to be captured. In addition to the computer and other gaming hardware, I spent $30K on a 6DOF servo actuator controlled motion platform for sim racing. This sim rig is still in boxes. I'm holding out hope that when I finally build it and start a KZfaq channel, I will somehow find enjoyment again, yet I'm not all that motivated because when I play the sim racing titles using a game pad, my opinion is that these racing titles are lacking. They are not good enough. There's no sense of speed. The exception being rally games. I'm just not having any fun with them, and I love auto racing. These sim racing titles lack everything that makes auto racing so awesome. The sound sucks. The feeling of speed sucks and the graphics are too perfect. Auto racing is fast, brutal and messy. Sim racing is reserved, clean and slow. I have a glimmer of hope when I play rally games. The rally games do a much more accurate job of capturing the essence of auto racing. I'm wondering if alcohol might be the solution. If I could manage alcohol consumption in a controlled setting and not allow it to destroy me, it might just be the thing to make video games fun again? I have a theory. It's possible that fun is absent from games as of late, as the profit-driven gaming industry has become more and more commodified, where short cuts are taken and true innovation is avoided. Rehashing old game tech is the status quo.. more accurately, rehashing old game tech while increasing resolution is the status quo. It's the cheap and easy way out. All FPS games are basically, fundamentally the same game, just with different narratives and different eye candy. The same could be said with racing titles. Rehashing the old, worked for a while, yet it has run its course. The human brain adjusts. What was once amazing is no longer amazing. Now we are like sheep blindly chasing a brain state that once was, but can only be achieved again through new innovation. Yet there is no new innovation. What we need are radically new rendering models and new coding philosophies, and new business models within the industry. It's going to require risk-taking, time, and investment; devs who are willing to risk putting profit second in line to new innovation. A new generation of video games that captures the essence of the human experience. More detail, yet this does not mean more resolution. Smarter coding. Tiled rendering. More randomization and imperfection. Incorporate photogrammetry and other techniques that break from the status quo. This takes work, yet we have devolved into a society where cell phone games are more profitable than all else. There is no motivation for major devs to invest in new innovation when we keep chasing after and eating up the same old stuff they are feeding us. This plateau we hit stopped being fun 5-10 years ago.

Games are still fun. We just can't recreate the "first" experiences we got from exploring the medium as kids. Those of us who have been playing games for a long time basically know how each genre we care about functions at a basic level, so even NEW games don't feel as new as they did when we first tried them when we were, you know, 10. But that applies to literally everything in life. You can't get stuck chasing that dragon, because it's unobtainable, in any context, not just gaming.

The part of video games that I love is playing with friends. It doesn't matter the game, just the moments and the friends.

The thing about videogames is that they USED to be designed in such a way where the act of playing it itself was directly fun and engaging. Certain games still hold up to that; Doom Eternal, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Super Mario Sunshine, etc. However, I personally noticed games shifted away from this design philosophy. Maybe not intentionally, but they focused way, way more on keeping the Player preoccupied rather than actively engaged. Your attention is held, but you aren't necessarily having "fun". This is what a lot of open world games do and I call it the Minecraft affect; you're not really having "fun", but you ARE immersed. Doesn't have to be a bad thing, a lot of games engage you at this level like Red Dead Redemption and Deep Rock Galactic. They don't make themselves challenging and demanding so much as work you into the groove of playing the game like a well oiled machine and you're still getting some reward out of the experience. But there ARE certain devs that took this too far. The ones who went "Games as a service" and molded their entire market practice around keeping people's attention and building brand loyalty through predatory means. You know these games; games you play that aren't even enjoyable, but you are distracted and you bought this pretty skin for your character that you get to show off when you play, but oh no! Then new skins come out and other people are showing off their clout as well and YOU need to keep up and keep playing and get the items out of the Battle Pass and so on and so forth. "F.O.M.O." Fear of missing out. This is the philosophy EVERY game on the market is trying to hook you with these days. And it is sad because not only are these games not fun, they are actively manipulative. It is the same as being a little kid in a group of other kids and you are all doing what the group leader wants to do because he thinks it's "fun" and no one wants to speak up otherwise because then you're the odd man out and don't get to play with the group.

I remember when minecraft first released on Xbox 360 and the amount of fun I had playing worlds with friends. Gave me chills

Nothing will ever top my first time playing Minecraft at 10 or 11, the sense of wonder and danger knowing no mechanics and their operation. I used to block out cave entrances as I thought monsters came from there.

There have been studies completed about this topic. It’s not that games aren’t fun nowadays, it’s just that other activities such as scrolling through your phone on Tiktok provide significantly more dopamine. As such we lack motivation to play video games, when our brains receive a higher reward for less effort elsewhere. It’s quite remarkable, but If you quit your phone and Netflix for a couple of days, you’ll notice yourself be much more inclined to play video games or even be more willing to actually complete some study/homework or something. Btw, I’m not saying this is entirely to blame, just that it definitely plays a significant role. Other factors would include facts that we are getting older, and perhaps games nowadays genuinely just aren’t as good or revolutionary

I think it’s because of how society re-wires us as we age. It changes us to constantly want an end goal and know how to get there and to stay busy. I used to play games like Minecraft just, to play them. If I did happen to have an end goal who knew how I would do it? I just played along and had fun. Now, everytime I play Minecraft I can’t just relax and go with it, I have to think of what to do first, how to make these farms and do things efficiently, what my base must look like, the resources, and how I will get food. Video games don’t feel the same because we aren’t the same anymore.

The good ol days are simply just gone. The time where we all had free time out the ass and nothing to spend it on except the 360 are behind us. The childhood wonder is done and over. Minecraft is the worst now. Used to be full of my friends and endless creations to work on and now it is empty, left for me to merely wander and reminisce to the music. Chasing the dragon, never to find it.

“Don’t think about the past too much, you would get caught up in it that you wouldn’t be able to experience a new memory today” - someone from a comment section

I think what soils a game is knowing too much about it

This is a wonderfully made video, keep it up! This honestly hit so close to home :')

Nostalgia is all of the good memories you wish you could relive, all the bad memories you want to fix, and all of the memories that you wish you could have had. Thinking of the good old days, Minecraft, Zelda, Halo. All of the originals. All of these games have a special place in our heart and we all wish we could relive all of them. Even the memories that hurt.

Variety is what keeps things interesting. When you've played everything nothing has that NEW EXPERIENCE feeling anymore. Supplementing videogames with another hobby can help keep things fresh and not "Samey". All videogames share a similar experience, you are just sitting there infront of a screen doing the same motions over and over. I've recently started doing something else in my spare time, and now I find myself more engaged in the videogames I do play.

When we were kids we had nothing to worry about but as an adult responsibility comes in and it becomes stressful and we start to think video games is a waste of time :(

I'll remember those good old days forever when I use to stay up all night with my friends playing games til sun rise but now I'm just looking forward to something new and different where do the years go man

Short version: you grew up and for some reason you're fighting it instead of being happy and moving onto more fulfilling things.

I just feel like I can’t find a game good enough to be dedicated to/enriched into. I miss staying up all night grinding out a game

bring me back

broooo i love you, well your channel i just found it and i cant stop smiling

This really hit close to home for me. About 15 years ago, I played with several people a day, every day, on many co-op games on Steam. People have changed careers, had health issues, relocated, etc. Those were some really good times for all of us and I have many good memories that I wouldn't trade for anything. Now, only a few people in my friends list are actively gaming and it's kinda sad. Many friends haven't been online for many months or even years in some cases. These days I struggle to even find a game to play in my vast list of games, usually opting for random browsing or watching a movie or doing some coding. Maybe the new year will bring some games that interest me.

This video was a slap of reality. Recently I have just been sitting and watching KZfaq, tempted to play the bunch of games I have, but I just don't feel like launching them. And when I do, like you said, I only play for an hour then go back to watch videos. I hate just staring at my computer bored, tired, and feeling unfulfilled. I really do hope a game comes one day that I sit and play for hours, where I lose track of time and go to bed 3 hours late.

My main problem is the lack of friends to play with. I've lost so many friends over years and the more people I lose, the less interest I have in playing video games

“Something is fun when you want to relive the moment again” That quote hits different…

This…… genuinely filled that gap in my soul that has been missing for years. I miss having as much fun and not caring about the world around me, but I am at the age where I can get a job now. I am really happy with this video. I feel whole. I was smiling through almost all of this video. You have just unlocked many core mementoes for me, or at the very least many good memories. I hope you have a fantastic life. Have a good time.

This hits home. I had a group of online friends and we all met from this one game. Our friendship built from there and we played lots of other games together like minecraft, overwatch, dead by daylight, ark survival evolved, ect. There was a time when we played jackbox games together. We would still up until 3am to play but since my friends were from Europe and the USA, it was probably afternoon or the evening for them. And we weren't kids either. Our friend group ranged from ages 17 - 23. I still remember calling them on discord and the feeling of being around them made me so happy. It made me believe that I didn't need anyone else in the world except them. They were my life, all of them were my best friends, I love all of them. We all been friends for 4 years or even more than that. But a year ago, suddenly because of drama and all, the group separated and one of them pushed all of us away. Not trying to sound depressed or anything but it hurts, and I feel constantly lonely. I wished we could have moments like that again where we played games together and laugh. What I had in the past with them was so rare and the group in general was so rare and unique and I know I can't go back to it. It makes me feel sad.

I think almost everything in life loses its luster over time. As a musical artist, I constantly find myself experimenting with different genres of music during the creation process to stay interested in music making. While working on a particular song and hearing it at least a hundred times til it's completion, I'm then ready to move onto the next music project. Sometimes I can't even listen to my finished song for a few days until after I step away from it and come back to it with fresh ears.

I would guess (for me personally) it is the pressure to live this awesome life and the anxiety that grows with getting older of not living up to those expectations. And that’s where i sometimes can’t enjoy moments because of this thought of time running out

I've watched this video a year ago for the first time, i had to watch it many times before I could organise my thoughts. I rarely comment a video, but here I am. You destroyed me and I must thank you. This is the answer I was looking for. Now I kind of feel better in my sadness, maybe because I just felt that feeling of sharing a moment with someone special, a feeling that had been lost for a long while. Love ya bros

Knowing that you’re “wasting” your time or you got “little time left before you need to sleep and go to college or work” is actually things that subconsciously kill the fun of “wasting all your time playing video games”.

We don't miss games being fun, we miss having the free time, psychological space and social context to enjoy them. edit - many people have pointed out that they have free time, but don't enjoy games any more. I agree, and would place the emphasis on the social context. In school and early 20s most of us had a tight-knit group of friends to play games with, and this gradually changes over the years as they move away, change interests or acquire additional responsibilities. Games die for us when all our friends are too busy to play with us any more, in my experience.

fun isn't subjective. it is a feeling. what causes that feeling may differ between people. but the feeling itself isn't subjective.

"The definition of insanity is doing the exact same thing.. Over and over agian"

"We didn't realize we were in the good old days until we weren't in the good old days" - a good friend I miss playing minecraft and other games with my friends hours on end non stop laughing, having fun, and just enjoying life without a worry.

I feel like this is less of a problem with modern video games and more of the tragedy of growing older. I'm sure the current generation is building amazing memories playing Fortnite with their friends until the sun comes up. Our days of playing TF2 are in the past, but they aren't forgotten. We move on but we won't ever lose those long wonderful nights with our friends, always in our hearts. Beautiful video!

You had me at "my opinion is the only one that matters"

Amazing video you couldn’t have explained it any better keep up the good work

Boiled down, my take is that the games aren't "less fun"(for the most part), but rather the weight of adult life and responsibilities makes it harder to really buckle down, get engrossed and sink our claws into them compared to when we were younger. You're trying to relax and enjoy it, but it's just harder to do that when there's more going on in your mind outside of the game.

For me personally, I believe as we grow older, the games we used to call fun are overshadowed by the responsibility of being an adult. We are no longer having fun for fear of it being a waste of time, even though we waste our time anyway, like you said, staring at our desktops or scrolling through KZfaq. Deep down we believe there is better, more productive things to spend our time on, however, we haven't really found out what those more productive things are.

This is one of those questions that would keep me up at night; if you could lose all your memories about a game, but also forget all the friends you made playing that game, would you? Until a couple weeks ago, all I did was play Minecraft, but all of a sudden, something clicked, and the game just wasn't fun anymore, I felt as if I had done everything. Fast forward a couple days, my friend said he was feeling the same way, and said, "If I could lose all of my memories of Minecraft, I wouldn't hesitate, could you imagine reliving Minecraft, and getting to experience it all over again?!" I considered it, but after thinking about it for hours, I realized how many friends I talk to daily, without realizing that I met them through Minecraft, it's just routine to spam them on discord and wait for them to respond so we can spend 30 minutes looking for a game.

I used to have fun being glued to the TV playing video games when I was younger. The fact that GAMES themselves have changed is what stalled my interest in them. In games today, you have to have solve a riddle, go through a tutorial, go looking for stuff, sit through some text or cutscenes, you have to read a bunch of stuff BEFORE you get to the action vs. back then in the 8 bit/16 bit era with games like TMNT the ORIGINAL arcade game (not the NES version) or Double Dragon where there's plenty of action AS SOON AS you play and you don't have to go looking for action. So, this is MY reason for not wanting to play games today. My other reason??? Well, this reason might be super different. But, I'm a bit of an Indie game developer too. And I find it WAYYY more fun MAKING games instead of playing them. So, my time making games has replaced my time of playing them. I hope this makes sense.

This video is exactly why I think it’s an amazing idea to actually take long breaks away from video games like I do. Like a week long break and you get back into it it just feels a lot better. This is also why I cherish new games so much; because they’re the only ones that give me the sense of fun I’ve been looking for all this time.

I thought this was going to be a deep dive into how game design has changed over the years but no it brings up the existential dread of how getting older means accepting that you’re not going to be as happy of a person as you change as a person. Damn

most of the times i play videogames alone they arent that fun and cool, but when im with my friends nothing looks boring and its more fun

When you want to relive a moment again, it might be either nostalgia or addiction. Fun is an active term. Fun is supposed to be, not was. Fun is exhilaration from stimulation. The after effect is longing.

I’m glad I ain’t the only one that is starting to feel like this! Games that I used to play 24/7 a few years ago I just don’t find fun anymore.. I can’t even go half an hour on some games without getting tired and bored. It’s sad because games have always been an escape from reality for me, but where they’ve started to get boring and repetitive it’s just not been working. Thanks for making this video, I’m happy to know that there’s other people out there that feel the very same way that I do!

There’s something so pure about playing video games, it’s like everytime you play you feel like your taken back to times where you had no responsibility or burdens, but now it’s like we’ve played the games so much in our current lives with responsibility and burdens, that it doesn’t take us back anymore, just reminds us of what we don’t have

Hopping online to play with strangers doesn’t feel the same as back in 2007. I remember meeting people playing modern warfare, GTA4 and TF2. Now when I hop on, it seems like everybody is in tight clicks, and if you don’t have people to play with you get your ass handed to you

As an 18 y/o i understand that feeling of why video games arent fun anymore but actually sometimes i pick up one the games from my childhood and i get into playing it again and it would last a few weeks and then id move onto the next game i used to play all the time, im from a big family so we all used to play the same games together and we are still just as close today so sometimes we replay those games and its like we are kids again enjoying those memories once more

that's exactly the reason why I've always preferred games with a story, you might not have fun with the gameplay itself, but the experience of making the story is like a movie.

Man, the more we get, the more desensitized we are. That’s why we gotta appreciate what we got now, in every moment

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” - Mark Twain

Thanks for sharing. I miss those days too.

I believe this also translates to real life. Often we tend to be in a situation that is less than ideal, and look back at our past with almost an envy of our past selves. I really needed to see this video, it made me feel less alone with my thoughts. Thank you

I’ve often thought about this. My best memories of games, probably 80% of the time, were with friends and family. You mentioned it in your video, talking about playing with friends. No shiny 4K 60fps game can match the memory-making of 4 kids crammed in a loft playing teenage mutant ninja turtles in the 1980’s. That game was crap. I’ve never beaten it. But darn it, I still have such fond memories of that and Pizza Hut (before it tasted like cardboard) and it was all we knew. We are really missing the human element and optimism of older games.

My older brother introduced me to L4d2, even over a decade after its release. I don't remember the last time I've enjoyed playing a game so damn much. I found i didn't play to make progress or to say that I've completed the game as I would normally would, but rather because I was genuinely having the time of my life bashing brains with frying pans with my brother sitting next to me, just like we used to. I didn't even care if we lost, I'd be too busy laughing. I wish every game would be like that for me, or even if I could just discover a game that would do that for me, even just for a little bit.

One other sad thing, was wanting to play so much games back then, but either not having money to buy them, or not having a good enough console or pc, and knowing that by the time i have the money or the console i will never touch that game, the feeling of missing out on so much, ruins me.

Like i can literally only play games for 30 min's before getting bored

"Okay bro gotta go to bed we will beat the boss tomorrow" Last online: 8 years ago

Exactly what I'm feeling right now. When I was a kid I thought having a good PC and console will be a very good life because you can play whatever games you want but now I don't know. It feels like something is missing. Sometimes I wish to be a kid again, I want to feel the excitement of playing games and finishing it. Man I miss those times.

Thanks for this. Times when I was still having fun were golden. Now, it's just not the same.

One big factor people often overlook is the social aspects of it. When you're a kid, most schools are on the same schedule. Your friend group likely even went to the same school. It was much easier to all hop on the same game and play together. As adults, schedules differ too much and life catches up too often. It's MUCH harder to "get the squad together" as an adult. Some games aren't different at all. The only difference is you're alone and making friends online isn't the same anymore. Especially without the friends you know in-person.

The reality is that when we were kids, playing video games was our ultimate idea of fulfillment. All we were trying to accomplish in life was getting through school and homework obligations to go play a great video game as long as we could. Some of my "perfect" days as a kid were the ones where I played games for 8+ hours straight. Not to say that we didn't like hanging out with friends too, because I certainly have great memories from time spent with friends and family. But it wasn't a need to hang out with them all the time back then. Honestly, how many times did you physically hang out with your friends outside of school in middle school? Probably once or twice a month for me. But I was happy with that! I was content to just play games most days. But now at age 22 there is so much more I need lined up to be happy. Am I going to be able to find a career that covers my enormous student debt? Will I like that job? And if I don't, can I even have a good life knowing that I'm just going to be slaving away at the same shitty job for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 365 days a year until I'm 70? What about girls? Why can't I get laid consistently when it seems so easy for other people? Am I ever going to find true love? And let's say by some miracle I find true love and have a great job that I find enjoyable and pays me so well that I don't have to worry about money. I still have aging and the slow decent towards death to think about. It's hard to ignore now. Time goes by quicker and quicker each year. I can't kid myself and act like I'm going to be 10 forever. We know percentages and statistics now; I might very well be more than a quarter of the way through my life? What will ultimately have been the point to all this once it's over? I guess the answer is to just enjoy life now? This is the best time of our lives, apparently. But we have so much to worry about, our futures are so uncertain, and, since we're all introverts, we don't go out to frat parties and hook up with girls on Tinder every week. We just sit at home and try to find something else to occupy our brains with, ultimately realizing that we can't. Video games can't fill the newfound holes in our hearts.

one of the best and most interesting video that i"ve been watching in last 2 years.Very simple one.

This is so much of problem in my life, when I was younger me and my friends would spend all day on roblox, minecraft, and other games for children (not the minecraft is a children’s game) but now we are older, never upgraded our computers, don’t have money for consoles and so on. It’s hard to look back at these moments and think “I want to do that again” but when you do you just dont have fun.

Could be that the physical act of gaming just isn't that engaging anymore- as you grown experienced, the challenge of each new game diminishes, the potential space of new perspectives to explore grows smaller and so it grows harder to find a game that is as truly engaging in the same way as when you were young and fresh. The good news is that the world itself is inexhaustible in terms of new things to experience, and there is always some new skill which can challenge you. For my own part, I've been getting much more into sports- fencing, parkour, hiking/camping, which provide the same thrill of adventure and discovery that games once did. I also am secure in the knowledge that so long as games are being produced, some of them will be fresh and exciting and respark my joy for them- for me, Hades such a game, which brought back the wonder and excitement I experienced with games like Zelda and the Elder Scrolls when I was a kid. It was a transient pleasure, but it was a real one. That's fine by me. I know that if I am patient and open, I will have more experiences like that in the future from things I can't even imagine now. One realization I had a while back that I think is very important is that chasing nostalgia is a dead end. You can't recreate the past, no matter how much you might want to. This seems sad at first, but remember that when you were creating your most cherished memories, you weren't thinking about how you would feel remembering it, you were just living your life. Now is the time that you create your future's nostalgia. Let go of what worked in the past and just live in the present. Cliche, I know, but it's a cliche because it works

my problem is that i have the whole day to play videogames but no friends so it quickly becomes repetitive.

Brother, this is life We get older and a lot of things around you become boring or you don't care about them anymore You will definitely become interested in other things such as working or starting a family, call it a new adventure Look at those who are younger than you and you will see that they have a lot of enthusiasm for games It's time to try other things in life

"Nostalgia is truly one of the great human weaknesses, second only to the neck" -Dwight K. Schrute

this was a punch in the face, but a much needed one. such an obvious topic that i've chosen to ignore out of fear of sadness... thanks, jackus.

I can only speak for myself, but I'm 37 years old now and games to me are not what they really used to be. As a kid and teenager, I just LOVED playing lots of games every day, even making my own personal games as well. And although I still love playing games, at this age, I get much more enjoyment by playing games, either really old ones or completely new ones once in a while to take a break from everything else. I find that very pleasurable at times when I'm otherwise so busy with everything else that goes on in this world. I especially love playing nostalgic games like Dune II, Red Alert, Golden Axe, Doom 2, Super Metroid, Prince of Persia etc. which I played a lot as a kid.

even with friends... it just feels empty.

Dude, this is so relatable. Sometimes I open games, stare at the menu, and close it because I'm not exited to play anymore.

Ironic. My whole life as a kid I dreamt of having a gaming PC. Now that I'm able to afford one, I... Barely use it. The power anyways.

I tottaly agree.I remember when i played MC and building bases,stealing,fighting just for fun until my dad would come in at 1 AM and turn off the internet.Good Old Nostalgia.

Man your voice makes me sleep, it's so relaxing

You grew up, you got a job, went to college, got a girlfriend, got kids, you don't have time to game anymore and you are focused on life. It's still okay to game but it lacks the childlike wonder it once had because you've lost some of that child in you with age.

This video hits so hard especially when the song of healing music from majoras mask started playing

Wonderful video essay, I find this very relatable

I miss the days when I'd be in college and my friends would all head home and we would meet up online and play games all night. Haven't done that in years. I miss those nights. Those were happy times.

I’ve found that I have to be in “the right mood” to play some games. It’s hard to just jump into something on a whim, and I have to wait for that spark of interest to pop up for a specific game

I think when your sitting staring at your monitor for hours that’s largely because games take a huge investment you can turn on a tv show and tune in or out as much as u like but with a game u actually have to be attentive all the time

Damn this hit home. I can't play anything anymore every time I try, I just get depressed. Especially minecraft and Rollercoaster tycoon

A lot of modern game devs have switched to making games about how good you are at games, now it’s about getting the SSSSS tier score instead of “I want to entertain the user” it’s “the user will entertain themselves, or lie that it is entertaining to themselves”