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I've racked up over 900 hours on Team Fortress 2 and I'm still terrible at it. I also wonder what I would have learned or built in the time that I've played th
by iamwil 3y ago
I've racked up over 900 hours on Team Fortress 2 and I'm still terrible at it.
I also wonder what I would have learned or built in the time that I've played that game.
- golergka 3y agoWere those really high-energy hours of your life that you really could have put in building something instead? Or have you actually gotten 900 recovery, low energy, brain dead hours out of it?
- eficek 3y agoI have played over 4000 hours of Team Fortress 2, and I can say with complete certainty that you have no idea what you are talking about.
- pests 3y agoWhat? So were those hours you could have worked or do you think they were better spent relaxing and low-energy? What does you having more hours have to do with it?
- appplication 3y agoI think you’re telling this as a negative but I think the above poster meant it as a positive. Low energy = relaxing, even if mentally stimulating.
- dylan604 3y agowhat video game is low energy brain dead? they are designed to do exactly the opposite. sure, you may be sitting stationary in a chair/couch, but the endorphin rush from the game play is exhausting.
- RHSeeger 3y agoLots of video games are low energy. Idles and incrementals, certainly. But I find things like Diablo to be pretty relaxing (or at least I play it that way), and tons of others. I can't really get into the FPS games anymore just because they _do_ require so much energy and attention.
- dylan604 3y agoi guess it's different for different people. for me, regardless of the game play type, it's exhausting. I can watch TV without issue, but playing games strains my eyes much much more than TV viewing. after an hour playing, i have to stop
- deafpolygon 3y agoI have the opposite problem; watching TV tires me out and makes me lethargic. I can't really get into TV watching unless it's a really solid show. Otherwise, I'm all about playing a solid game.
- jpsouth 3y agoAs a sibling has said, I get the opposite effect! Watching a movie or TV drains me, I feel like I need to highly focus to really take in the story and be present so I don’t have to constantly rewind 20-30 seconds here or there. I’ve been playing Assassins Creed: Black Flag recently and find it incredibly relaxing, I hardly need to focus, I just cruise around, find anything I fancy from the minimap, battle other ships and explore cool locations. I’d say the same mostly goes for NMS, but I get more invested in that as upgrades require specific components, which are available on certain planets etc, it takes a little more thought, but there’s no requirement to rush these upgrades, I might need some rare resource, I might jump 30 times exploring different planets as I go because it’s not something I _really_ need to get right now, it will arrive when it arrives and the journey and ‘choose your own pace’ type exploration mean the most to me.
- somenameforme 3y agoIndeed! Think of all the old men on their death beds reminiscing with regret, 'I sure wish I spent less of my life doing the things I love.' The obsession with productivity is weird. The entire point of earning money is to be able do the things you love. The biggest reasonable concern I can see in life is people spending immense amounts of times doing things they don't really enjoy, but somehow feel compelled towards nonetheless - like social media. I've put something like 2000 hours into Crusader Kings 2, and if I knew beforehand what I was getting into, I'd still do it again every single time. Just such an enjoyable and rewarding experience.
- Arrath 3y agoWell put
- troll_v_bridge 3y agoMost of us write crud apps and aren’t hackers, we just used to be.
- nextaccountic 3y ago900 hours might be begineer level in EU4
- deafpolygon 3y agoThere are only three games approaching 1k hours or even exceeding it: - Unreal Tournament (instagib) - Stardew Valley - Age of Empires 2 They all have one thing in common; they're extremely relaxing to play. Yes, even UT - I just turn my brain off and I stop thinking about life.
- junon 3y agoFactorio for me.
- deterministic 3y agoAgree 100% I keep going back and starting again. Learning new things all the time. My #1 best game ever.
- mgarstecki 3y agoThis. Best game to repeatedly burn out on. For all its complexity, it's actually pretty much relaxing and autopilot once you've crossed a few hundred hours.
- junon 3y agoAnd the replayability is off the charts. The burnout is real, and then one day you really wanna pick it up again. Rinse and repeat.
- InvOfSmallC 3y agoBrain off in AoE2?? (not MP right?)
- deafpolygon 3y agoNo not MP.. haha.. that's funny.
- sonicanatidae 3y ago1400 hours in TF2 here and I'm still a W+M1 Pyro. :)
- ionwake 3y agoSorry haven’t played in a while what is a W+M1?
- fragmede 3y agow = keyboard button to go forwards m1 = Mouse button 1, "fire", in case of the pyro, the flamethrower
- sonicanatidae 3y agoThis is exactly it. 1000 years ago, in the original TF, I was a conc jumping medic, but pyro suits me better now that Medic conc grenades are gone. End of an era, imo.