Yep. Been wondering if other people have been feeling like this too.
I get an itch to play something, play it for an hour, then close it out and look at my steam library or my Playstation library and then I can't decide on anything and go see what's on Youtube. Then I want to play something with Youtube playing in the background (I really like playing games with verbal background noise, but Podcasts never do it for me for some reason) but I don't know what to play.
This has been my life for the last few years and it's fucking terrible. I used to find so much quality and wonder in games. Every new game I wanted had a unique storyline, or was just fun to play outright along with the story. But recently every game has just been shit and predictable as hell. There have been no UNIQUE MMORPGs, no unique RPGs, RTS games, etc. I can only go back to Dawn of War so many fucking times before it gets stale as fuck.
Even recently my buddy bought me Borderlands 3 (the 100 dollar package too, which I didn't really need but he wants to play DLC with me) and throughout the whole time we played I was just bored. The dialogue was shit, the gameplay was THE SAME. "Huehuehu gun that shoots guns tho!" Yeah they added some fancy new graphics but the story was shit, again. The whole Borderlands franchise is crap.
The real thing that brought me back a while ago was playing Monster Hunter World, solo. Fucking hell that game is tough, but absolutely fair. I got addicted af to that and I would recommend it on PC as well if you've already played it on PS4, just for the mods lol.
The other game that I played over this last weekend was Death Stranding. I'm at work right now and I'm just JONESING to play more of that shit dude. It's almost scary how much I feel like I NEED TO PLAY IT right now.
It's just fetch quests and delivery quests but goddamn the story behind the game as well as a post-apoc but futuristic society using another dimension to add to our own is fucking mind blowing, and never have I seen that done so well in a game. I think I might actually platinum this game and I hope after finishing it the game lets you continue with your gameplay and not load an old save. It's UNIQUE. It's what I've been looking for a game to give me a feeling of: accomplishment and moving forward as well as being FUN to play. I can't remember the last time I had as much fun playing a game as Death Stranding is. I literally spent 5 hours or more yesterday and 2 hours this morning slogging through snow and over fucking mountains to deliver some friggin fossils and medicine and shit. It was SO SLOW. But the meticulous route planning (or just going as the crow flies I guess which is what I was doing for a lot of the game) and following that path and encountering PTs in the rain and having to fix your packages and shit, there's just so many UNIQUE things here and it taps every piece of my brain just right every time I play it. I probably put 36 hours into it over the course of the last 3 days.
I miss gaming. I miss looking forward to the next cool release. I miss unique games that had charm all their own, and they're so few and far in-between that I basically have no purpose in life now, and it's been extracting a heavy toll on me lately. I really hope the game industry bounces back.
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