I find it depends on the game. The Witness was truly challenging and interesting. It really made me think "how do I solve this". I want to play it more. Things

I find it depends on the game. The Witness was truly challenging and interesting. It really made me think "how do I solve this". I want to play it more. Things like TF2 and OW are really just re-enforcing muscle memory, and an exercise in "how long can I last all this chaotic audio/visual vomit" (both from the game and juvenile player base). Pushing near 40, I can understand why people saw them as just noisy distractions when I was a kid: more often than not a video-game is a noisy distraction. Re-hashes of CoD and other FPS shooters really aren't teaching anything new. It's exercising muscle memory built up 15 years ago playing the first one.