I play most genres of game
My favorite games however are third person action games preferably open world and/or RPG’s
I don’t mind a good shooter but I’m one of the rare people that prefers the single player campaigns of say a call of duty then the multiplayer.
As a teen are used to prefer multiplayer but being older now, I don’t have a friend group that wants to play most of those games very often and playing with random kids that have 10 times the amount of free time to master them, let alone the fact I’m sure scientifically your reflexes go down in your 30s, I just prefer to avoid online.
I’ll still occasionally play a round here or there when I’ve got a few minutes to kill kind of thing because they are so noncommittal.
I used to really like simulation games like the Sims and simCity, roller coaster tycoon etc. but I find because my gaming time is limited I play those less than less and lean more towards my favorite genres.
Every once in a while I do love to mix it up with a RTS though
In the last couple months I’ve been on a CRPG kick so I did a play through of wasteland 2 & & 3 and now I am onto Divinity original sin 2 because I never played that before.
i’m finishing up AC origins because I started playing it got most of the way through the main game, and then put it down because I was waiting for the DLC‘s and then just never picked it back up again.
Similar thing with AC odyssey, but since it’s a improved mechanic version of origins I don’t want to finish it and it’s DLC‘s and then go back to origins so this summer I hope to finish both of them so I can move on Valhalla.
Started playing watch dogs legion but haven’t made very much progress.
while I love these games, on top of being an adult and not having a lot of time my depression and anxiety trigger and when I have free time I tend to obsess about how little free time I have and waste more than I could have if I just dove into the game.
so considering how many games I do end up playing a lot of my free time I actually avoid games because the mental stress of relaxing as weird as that sounds is less if I’m doing something not gaming like watching anime or other things that are more passive and or overall slightly less enjoyable , that’s when I’m not too depressed to just sleep which unfortunately do more and more, Little space helps with depression though, but I’m to afraid of the stigma to go seek help and due to Covid, doctors in my part of BC haven’t really wanted to do anything unless it’s an emergency so... not sure how to take that
I don’t know how to explain it, maybe my brain is broken.
It’s the same sort of thing for example if I go on vacation for two weeks for example it’s great for the first week and then for most of the second week all I’m doing is stressing about the vacation and then it ruins the last half of the vacation.
Sometimes I wish I was better at turning my brain off, but the fear of ending triggers my anxiety also funny enough so does FOMO, yet technically my logical brain can say that I’m probably missing out more because of the anxiety then if I could turn my brain off.
but I digress sorry for the second half of this being kind of a rambling rant that’s only tangentially
related to my lack of gameplaying, I just started typing and it just kind of poured out.