New week ahead of us. What games are ya’ll playing?
I tried playing Horizon Zero Dawn, but found the story to be quite flat. Visuals were amazing but did not feel anything for the characters. Maybe it needed more than 2 hours, but I have so many in my library that I had to move on.
Started Uncharted 4 for the first time! Opening scene was badass.
Quick background - 30M, I've always been a gamer at heart ever since I was a kid. Never owned a console till Jan 2026, but had a little time with games in between (Borderlands 2 on my Mac, COD-M on my iPad and so on, cas). The reason primarily was since I had no restraint, I would game for hours at length, losing time. Also, consoles were pretty expensive for most people in my country growing up, so my parents could not afford one back in 2005. I would spend time watching walkthroughs on YT (TheRadBrad) in my early 20s.
By the time I was in my 20s and was earning enough to purchase a PS4, the thought of my lack of restraint and critical early careers years made me put off the purchase (looking back, glad I did that).
Jumping to right now, I'm married, doing decently well in life career wise so it felt like this was the right time to get a PS5 (wife also likes gaming). It was one of the best feelings in the world to be honest. I picked up GOW 2018 immediately, then GOT, then Spiderman, then GTA5, then Miles Morales then Ragnarok, and so on. All single player, always sticking to the main story only.
Then I realised that I always jump from one game to the other with this heavy feeling of the backlog. There are so many games that I have purchased and the PS+ library that I often feel overwhelmed, not by choice but just the wall of games that I need to finish to get there (get where? I don’t know).
This makes me feel like being on the edge while playing, I get frustrated if the story takes a weird turn, I got mad when I saw Atreus botch the entire plan because he's just a kid, and now I need to go fix it. I know its such a small thing, but I think it takes away the charm of gaming that I had as a kid. And this has happened more than once. I rush through the main story, only to finish and get to the next game and the cycle repeats itself.
Is this a common feeling? If yes, what do people do about it so they fall out of love with gaming. Sorry about talking about feelings in a sub for gaming.