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I used to love this genre but the older I get the more it feels like....work. Am I the only one?
by jnsie 3y ago
I used to love this genre but the older I get the more it feels like....work. Am I the only one?
- brink 3y agoNah, there's probably a dozen or so people like you.
- paxys 3y agoWelcome to old age. Back in the day games that I could sink hundreds of hours into were a steal. Today I won't even touch them, because who the hell has the time?
- zokier 3y agoSame kind of people that pour endless hours to scale models and model trains etc? Hobbies take time, and many people make them a priority in life.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoIf I were to theorize, it's because you try to min / max it and build the most efficient city. I'm guilty of that too, building everything in neat grids and then I got bored. But look up some designs; people build chaos, people build things that look good or quirky instead of what works the best. The style you play at determines how much fun you have with it. For some, that's doing it organized and efficient, for others, it's whatever makes them the happiest.
- slothtrop 3y agoEven if you don't min/max, I can see it feeling too much like work. There's also more overhead to get into the game, a fair amount of information to absorb at the outset to get the most out of it. After which there's the sandbox potential, but I never understood sandbox games. The closest thing that appeals is the simulated chaos of dwarf fortress.
- Encrypt-Keeper 3y agoYeah city builders are kinda designed to be like work. Same goes for simulators. Some people WANT to do work that’s different from the actual work they do every day.
- colechristensen 3y agoThe older you get the more you… turn them into work. If you approach it like work it’ll feel like work and it’s hard to not have that mindset.
- slothtrop 3y agoThe conceit being that people approach some games "like work", but not others. I don't think that's true. No matter "the mindset" some games will feel more like work than others, in the eye of the beholder.
- jnsie 3y agoFunny you mention that. A few years back I tried one of the Far Cry games (no idea which one) on recommendation from an in-law. Almost immediately I was sent on a side quest to gather some items to craft some other item and it was hugely off-putting. Nothing like finishing a days work, sitting in front of a video game to unwind, then being given a honey-do list. Isolated incident and completely anecdotal, needless to say...