Video Games don't make me happy anymore. Anyone else experience

The solution is move on to more mature adult hobbies and stop wasting your life playing with children's toys

>>383451569

>You bought too many games
>You have 1000 game backlog
>You literally played one game for 2 minutes and then installed another

shut up fag, go play your backlog.

>>383451703
Then why the fuck are you still here?

>>383451569
Play Dark Soulszszz

>>383451569
Stop playing for a while. Find a new hobby then come back after a year or so. If games still suck, then you've probably outgrown the medium.

>>383451798
I'm only 19, m8, I'm still young enough that playing video games still isn't that big of problem.

I'm dropping this shit for good after I graduate college.

>>383451961
It's like... I go through phases. One day I'm into Halo other days I'm into Metal Gear solid... but now I'm starting to realize this pattern it's been going on for years. I have full time job to so I get out enough but still

>>383451569
do something else. /a/, /tv/, /co/, whatever. too much of a good thing will tire you out in the long run. you could be a bacon lover having bacon every day for every meal, but shit's gonna get real old in weeks, you'd be craving plain salad soon enough.

immerse yourself in something other then game. eventually, you'll miss it, go back & may enjoy whatever it was you missed while you were away.

>>383451961
This. Once I started working full-time and played vidya for only an hour or so a week, I was able to enjoy pretty much any game I play. Whether some AAA game or an indie I really don't give a fuck anymore since I don't nitpick little shit like typical /v/.

>>383451569
Yes. My bf makes 150k a year playing in an orchestra and is only one year older than me. I asked him to play NHL with me and he laughed because he doesn't do videogames. Makes me wonder if I would've been less of a piece of shit if I didn't waste my childhood playing videogames

>>383452020
I'm 20, I'll still play vidya, & watching animu when I'm fucken 80

>>383451569
>Halo.

There's your problem.

Shooters are basically dead atm. Go pick up an RPG or a platformer.

try getting /fit/

>>383455272
>my bf is 1 of 27 soloist musicians in the 3 world's prestigious orchestras

uh huh sure

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>>383451703
When I read shit like this I cant help but to laugh, these speds.
OP, games are just absolute shit now, these corporate suits only care about money, so they'll throw everything like Graphics, Gameplay, whatever's trending and give it to you, their problem is that half these idiots dont know how to make a good game.

>>383451569
Stop playing shitty games.

>>383456272
Not kidding, anon. It's within the top ten orchestras in the country. He gets some kind of bonus on top of his base pay for playing for another orchestra here and there as well

>>383456414

Why are musicians 99.99% likely to be homosexual.

What the actual fuck do you guys do at band camp

>>383456684
I'm not a musician but idk fags tend to be artsy, right brained folk.

>>383455272
fucking niggers having their life in order

fuck you

my life is shit and i can't imagine it being not shit, fuck your happiness

>>383451569
Here's something from experience: you're probably blocked out of feeling. Bad diet, superstitions (which take subtlety to unveil), any other kind of persistent sickness or nightmare-belief can gradually create a wall that blocks you out of feeling. This can happen over time and never be recognized.

so, wat do?

Edit your diet down to something simple, try fasting and a low/no carb intake diet. People will have different solutions to this, I had to get rid of coffee, dairy and wheat (it turned out that all three put a horrible feeling in my guts). If your diet makes you sick all of the time, that clouds the emotional space that a game (or a piece of music) is supposed to be manipulating. This was huge change #1 for me, it's like I was dead until I did this.

Stop thinking like an idiot, and learn to stop thinking for huge stretches. You perceive and act on reality through a template in your imagination. If you're familliar with that pop-psychology junk about "imagine abundance", there's truth in it as far as people are imagining meaninglessness everywhere instead. Thinking about something the "wrong" way can make it boring, you won't even have an emotional response. See the fear and superstition. Even the idea that you can "think" something is a popular superstition (all you can do is model its sensory appearances). Use thoughts to make things more mysterious, don't throw a blanket over everything with low level homogenizing ideas.

Experiment with creative visualization and how your body's feeling transforms from what you're thinking. Some people have absolutely incredible emotional depth and don't know it (because they're the most easily blocked out of feeling). Meditate (i.e. lay down and think very little) and become hypersensitive to your body, which is the one meaningful thing in your life (it's where feelings are).

>>383457446
you've gone hollow m8

>>383456297
>graphics, gameplay
Nigga what else is there?

Play older games you'd heard about but never got around to. I've found this hugely satisfying.

>>383457673
i have no goal in life anymore, i spend my nights in front of my computer, i sleep all day long, people never call me, i see nobody, and i never leave my appartment except for when i have to buy food, and i eat nothing but cereals

ok, some kids starve in africa but my life is shit nonetheless

>>383451569
because theyve been stagnant for over a decade

>>383458013
>I choose to do nothing and nothing changes
>wow why is my life so shitty?!

lmao

Go outside. Bang chicks.

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>>383452020
>I'm dropping this shit for good after I graduate college.

>>383458349
Doing something always backfires for me

>>383458349
>why is my life so shitty ?

did i give you the impression that i was asking myself that ? It's no mystery really

>>383451569
I just play 2D Metroid and FPS Halo staring the Master Chief and I'm fine.

>>383451569
Maybe do something else instead of bitching? Take up heroin, I don't care.

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>>383451569
I fix this by playing good video games

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>>383451569
pic related

>>383458013
Not only is your life miserable, but you can't even be certain that you won't live this one life alone on repeat for all eternity. The universe does whatever it "likes" and humans are just a byproduct on of some specific fringe, so why not?

>>383458959
>I'll bitch about it on an indo-china recipe exchange website instead of doing something productive and making a change.

>>383459576
What is "productive"?

Just lay off the gaming as a whole for awhile. Do some other shit that has nothing to do with your computer or your consoles and move on to things outside your apartment. Get together with some friends, party, get hammered, go to the gym, etc. Life is great outside the virtual world anon. If you still crave playing games, try something outside the genre that's putting you in a rut. Discovered Hotline Miami during steam sales and I'm definitely hooked and staying away from the steaming pile of shit that is LoL

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>tfw 33 and still love video games

>Played this year

Nier: Automata
Yakuza Zero
Persona 5
Gravity Rush 2
Ni-oh
Tales of Berseria
Horizon: ZD
Prey
Resident Evil 7
Zelda BoTW
Mario Kart 8
Tekken 7

>Coming soon


Ashen
A Way Out
Metro Exodus
Dragonball FighterZ
The Last Night
Code Vein
Cuphead
Sea of Thieves
Ori and The Will of The Wisps
Anthem
Yakuza Kiwami
Yakuza 6
Call of Cthulhu
Dissidia Final Fantasy NT
Nino Kuni 2
South Park: The Fractured But Whole
The Evil Within 2
Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus
Ace Combat 7
Shadow of The Colossus
Super Mario Odyssey
Kirby
Metroid

>>383452020
>I'm dropping this shit for good after I graduate college

lel

>>383451569
>experienced
Yes, me while playing modern games, and the solution I found was playing old games. Some modern ones are still fun, like terraria or alien swarm, but fuck most of the garbage nowadays really isn't worth your time.

>>383457794
don't pretend you're not aware of the fact that 90% of this board is full of "muh story" so.nyggers and nintenbabbies

>>383451569
Make a genuinely good friend. Play co-op with them on a harder difficulty.

>>383451569
supplement with drugs and alcohol like a normal person

>>383451569
Yeah I started playing guitar instead and the fact that I'm progressing in a skill instead of sitting on my ass is cool. I still like to hear news about games and there's some I can really get into but I'm not going to be able to beat Sly Cooper 2 in 2 days like when I was a kid.

>>383451569
Stop playing games just because they're popular. Play the game that you find fun.

>>383451569
Literally nothing makes me happy.
I am completely and totally dead inside.

Not that I constantly whine about it or anything. That makes one a fag.

Like OP.

>>383459998
Imagine being this weeaboo.

>>383452020
How about you drop this shit now and save us the grief of seeing your trash. Find a different hobby or get some taste, fuckface.

>>383451569
The solution is to get a hobby that will help you feel productive/switch up your routine. Doing the same shit all day every day will get on your nerves. Take a break from playing vidya for a little bit as you find this new hobby and come back to it when you feel like you want to.

>>383451569
You're just bitter.

>>383459998
It's easy to take life so lightly when you're 33 and still mentally a child.

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>>383452020

>>383451703

>move on to more adult hobbies

Listen here (you) salty cunt, video games have only been around in the mainstream for the past 30 years. The kids who grew up with them 30 years ago are now adults; video games are an adult hobby you fuckhead. It's like saying adults shouldn't watch movies or read books, because reading books and watching movies is what children do. It's a shit argument.

Op is likely just burnt out. It happens when you gorge on shit games like ASSFAGGOTS and AAA garbage. The remedy is simple: take a break. Wait until the release of something that you actually want to play, rather than forcing yourself to play garbage because there's nothing which interests you at the moment.

>>383451569
Stop playing games with a built in cashshop.

>>383451961
>finish college and get a job
>stressed and tired out, games feel like a chore to play after work.
>quit for 4 years.
>come back with a PS3 because fucking whores overseas didn't feel exciting anymore
>feel like a fresh newborn kid who just played games for the first time.

I stop every few months and move on to other stuff when i start feeling the drag. what this anon says is true.

>>383451569
Have kids. Hardest difficulty curve.

Also travelling is nice, I'm talking the backpacking in third world shithole variety. Closest thing to vidya desu, you'll even get into car chases and gunfight, just like in your favorite visual recreational experiences.

Still, the entire video game industry has gone to shit. It's not so much that we've grown up, it's more like our hobby was ruined. My kids ain't old enough to play vidya yet, but my brother's are, and they certainly love to play all these obscure NES, SNES, GB and MSX2 games even though they don't understand shit because they're mostly in English and it's not their native language, than the latest CoD they used to love and play all day long, which since gathers dust along with the Xbone and PS4. Like some people still listen to classical music, or rock bands from the 70s, because it's so much better than all the garbage that plays today on the internet radio, it seems the next generation will appreciate old games just as much as we did, if given the choice.

Stockpile ROMs and make sure your kids will have quality vidya to play.

>>383451569
>growing up
>adults tell me I'll grow out of video games some day. they also laugh about it.
>become incensed, swear I will NEVER grow out of video games because I don't want to give them the satisfaction of them thinking they were right
>ruin life

You've got to be careful when you talk to young people. If you're a cunt to them they will do stupid shit to prove you wrong. And you're a cunt if you never sit down and have an honest conversation with them about they really do need to develop adult interests.

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>>383451569
>Video Games don't make me happy anymore.

Anon, how many years have you been playing video games? 10 years? 20 years? Longer?

There is nothing on this planet that won't become boring after you've been doing it for 20 years straight. Playing other video games won't help the matter. You're still playing video games, which is what you're actually tired of. Even though we see many differences in genres, they are all still the same basic activity: playing a video game.

It's not supposed to be your whole life.

>>383452020
>'98 babies can officially browse 4chan

i dunno how to feel about this desu senpai...

real talk though, why does this website attract more children than any other forum or message board out there?

30 was the average of this forum i used to go to when i was younger

I check video game news on an hourly basis.

I tried to stop once for 3 days but I just went insane. Video game news are what makes up most of my life.

Fucking shoot me.

>>383452020
ebin bait, looks like you fooled some people

>>383451569
>Anyone else experience this and or have solution?
join a cult

>>383451569
There is none.
If you ate pizza everyday for five years besides getting fat you would end up despising pizza. Same with vidya or anything else for that matter

>>383466875
gaming became mainstream

Can depends on how you play games? Like I used to be a completionist, needing to collect every single object on the map and such. This was often a fucking chore, and resorting to online guide to avoid missables certainly didn't help.

Now a days I just ignore that gnawing OCD and are mostly much happier

>>383451569
Yes, but in my case, it's part of the severe depression that makes it so *nothing* makes me happy and I don't believe anything ever will again.

>>383451569
my solution. leave this place i'm serious after I left for a while I didn't feel lethargic as muchbut I came back because I have no where else to go

>>383451569
I just stopped playing shitty games, that helped. Started in 2011 when that SJW shit started to gain traction.

>>383458349
This, basically you gotta go out and engage with these assholes. 20 years later you'll still hate the game but at least you're playing.

>>383451569
Books don't make /lit/ happy anymore.

Comics and cartoons don't make /co/ happy anymore.

Board games don't make /tg/ happy any more.

It's because you're 18-30 and there's always something else you should be doing, so you can never immerse yourself in something to the degree you previously could.

It's because you've cemented a sense of identity and ideas about where you are in life and where you want to go, and on some level you're thinking about those things every second of every day, so you can't just forget yourself like you're used to.

It's because you've lost the certainty of knowing what for sure what you'll be doing next year and that distracts you.

It's because the human brain isn't primed to enjoy anything if you don't socialise and exercise and regularly go outside.

It's because all these enjoyable things are essentially masturbation and you know they're not going to dig you out of the hole you've made for yourself.

Alcohol is popular entirely because stops all that. It's like you're in a dark room all the time, and alcohol tears open the curtains and it's the brightest day of the year.

>>383451703
I went from enjoying games to enjoying forming communities within games. After my huge tribe betrayal in ARK I'm stuck looking for another game to form a community in.
>Betrayed by my own officers and close friends
>"Tehehe nothing personal kiddo" found in notes in my personal vault
>Proceed to merge with alliance member and wipe them then quit

I like communities. Still why I come here because its similar to socializing to me. Waiting for Albion or Legend of Aria for my next game.

>>383451569
Take a break and come back later. I had this situation three times now and it helps every time. Just do something else for a while and after that, play something you really like or something you looked forward to playing.

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>>383472052
>It's because the human brain isn't primed to enjoy anything if you don't socialise and exercise and regularly go outside.

>>383451569
Stop playing so frequently.

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>>383451703

>Replace all friends and family with media and internet.
>Hobbies with incredible depth, detail, and lifetime growth potential replaced with videogames.
>Pursuing women replaced with jerking off to cartoon tiddies.
Gee I wonder why you're not happy.

>>383473614
As if you can't do both.

>>383473390
Foolish goy, the jew wants you to waste your time and shekels on pointless entertainment like vidya.

>>383472052
Not the OP, but this is wrong. I tried to get interested in the outside world, exercise, whatever. It didn't work. For a while I thought "Fuck, I should do something with my life before I die," but then I realized that it would be pointless. Accomplishing shit won't stop me from dying, and I'd probably end up regretting it, because all that time I spent working could have been spent entertaining myself. I realized I'd only be trying to do shit because I felt like I was on a clock, but I'd never really care about it.

The real problems are aging and death.

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>>383451569
Go camping for a week, or weekend. Whatever time you can afford to spare. Only bring reading material, and only use your phone for music.

>>383474069
look at any anti-gaming article or legislation

the names that wrote them are always the same

>>383475831
>thinks "camping" is something worth doing ever under any circumstances

y'know how I can tell you're white?

>>383451569
Same.

I killed myself because of it and it turned out to be a solid solution.

>>383451569
Stop relying on games for happiness and you'll enjoy them more.

Happiness isn't a necessity. I just need vidya to kill the tyrant boredom

>>383459998
Kill yourself, pathetic manchild.

>>383476879
>how someone dares to say that they enjoy vidya in a video game board

>>383451703
Hello Leafyishere

>>383451703
>>383452020
This desu, people are just in denial. Games are the most useless and selfish hobby.

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>>383476879
>>383477431

>>383477205
See >>383477431, vidya is something that you're supposed to drop for good when you reach your 20's. It's unbelievably sad if someone who's older than 30 still wastes time with games.

>>383451569
first i'd recommend no longer playing halo games.

>>383478482
Yes, the jews want you to quit video games and work towards a goal in life, not the other way around. Keep pressing buttons and staring at the screen, that's a good goy.

>>383451703
>>383456297
>>383459091
>>383462794
>>383464159
>>383467752
>/v/ - Video Games

>>383458475
Nigger

>>383451569
>or have solution
I started learning 3d. went through basics. now doing assets for unreal 4 in spare time. shit's cool yo.

>>383477267
as someone who doesn't follow e-drama, and thinks it's probably the gayest result of the internet's popularization, I think this is the faggotest post I've seen.

>>383451569
>halo pics
Halo wars 2 was pretty good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hWPRDmFcWE

>>383458775
then lie down and rot.

I went through a similar funk. I realized what was happening was that I was trying to force myself to enjoy games that I didn't actually like for no reason whatsoever. So I replayed a couple games I liked and started seeking out older games that I had missed. Just like that, I can have fun playing games again.

>>383478832
Yup you're definitely the Leafy/Pewdiepie generation. Fuck off back to youtube and leave this imageboard made for hobbies.

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>>383451569
>try art
>exercise/getting fit
>other mediums
>making games myself
>drinking
>gambling
>throwing myself into work

>still nothing, just hollow all the time
I guess some of us just aren't happy people, anon.

It happens with any hobby, OP. Not just video games. The main problem your having is stagnation in life. This is life's way of telling you to make something of yourself. The instinctual need for progress hasn't completely faded in humans, so unfortunately we can't just be useless slugs strapped to VR machines 24/7. Some people can, but be grateful you can't.

>>383477431
This.
>but muh videogaymes r arrrrrt!!!!
if you spent your life staring at paintings and reading fantasy books, you still haven't accomplished or even created anything.

>>383479165
I think you've got it backwards. The fact that you brought up an e-celeb out of NOWHERE in a video games discussion is the gayest shit I've ever read. I have no idea why you people obsess over him, but I do remember months back when /v/ was flooded with tweens like you who reveled in the e-drama, covering the front page of /v/ for a straight month. Get any mention of that shit out of /v/.

>>383479257
>you need to create something
Nice brainwashing you got there. Do you also rant at chessplayers or athletes?

>>383479375
Quit trying to play ignorant and get out of here you fucking drone. You all say the same shit and you're predictable.

Fix your life. You cant enjoy your hobby if you are unhappy with your life. Work out, clean up, find a women, raise a kid and then you can enjoy games again

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>>383479169
All of those are just as empty as video games except getting fit and making them. Making them is creating something yourself, which is inherently good, but your mind realized it was a retarded thing to create. Getting fit is good to do but won't make you happy, it should be used for health reasons and to get your mind to the right state for other pursuits.

You need your own dream or goals. If you can't get those, sorry, some people feel hollow and empty because they actually are.

>>383479475
Stop bringing up e-celebs in video game discussions, please.

>>383451795

Story of my life

>>383479386
>hey guys you should go out and create something for yourself
>LOLOLOL NICE BRAINWASHING let people sit idle until death instead
lol jews out in full force today

>>383479539
Quit with you're emo shit you fucking faggot. This isn't a video game discussion this is a piece of shit circlejerk

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>>383479386
I also said accomplished. Top chessplayers and athletes have accomplished something. Have you, anon?

>>383479495
>You need your own dream or goals.
Yeah. Okay. Thanks for the pep talk, buddy.

>>383451569
Stop playing western trash and play jap and /vr/ games instead.

>>383459998
>>Played this year
9/10 list.

>>383459998
Pretty good shit, guy.

>>383479727
please have summer camp soon.

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>>383479803
No problem friend, I believe you, even if you're just mocking me.

>>383451569
not directly related but reading the Halo books again made me hate 343 ten times more.

>>383480070
>western trash and play jap and /vr/ games
Wow sound ever more depressing
even /vr/ meme on top of that

>>383480860
Reading Halo books made me like Halo 4 & Halo 5.

Sometimes you just need a few months off, happens for everyone with just about everything at one point or another.