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I have sworn off of these. Destiny 2 was a soul sucking time sink. My entire life had to revolve around it or else I would miss content in the game. That's great for the people who enjoy that, but it's just not for me anymore. Like OP, I really just want games with concise stories that end when they should.
Yes. Also, I don't need a game to drive engagement. I don't need (or want) some tangible reward for playing every day. I don't want to compete with anyone - I mean I can enjoy pvp in some games, but I want success to be purely based on skill, not who has collected the most kills to buy specialized pvp gear without which someone can't even compete.
If I have to grind to earn "fun," I'm out. Some games can be fun to grind. I'll play Diablo just to watch destruction fill my screen. But for example around the time WoW added daily quests, I realized I had to be done with the game. I loved Team Fortress and every few years I'd reinstall it and play some more, but now there are rewards and stuff that changes the balance of the game making it "impure." If the game isn't fun to play without earning rewards that unbalance the game in your favor, is not worth playing at all.
I'm "in the middle" of Horizon: Forbidden West. Then Jedi Survivor (or whichever the new one is) came out and other responsibilities ate into my time and now I don't remember where I am, what I was doing, and I frankly barely remember how to even play.
I enjoy the games. There is so much to do and the worlds are so large. They are well written, the voice acting is great. But I just don't have time to engage with it all. And heck I don't have to experience every iota of content, but I have to grind all the systems to become capable of finishing the game and I just can't.
This is my biggest issue with long games. I feel like if it's getting too long and I want to try something else, I can't come back to it in the middle and pick up where I left off. I have to either consume the game in one chunk, or accept the fact that I'm never going to finish it... which makes me not even want to start it half the time.
Due to the way I approach a lot of media (eg. games, TV, comics, etc.), I almost never play more than one game at a time. The only exceptions are the occasional multiplayer game which is rare.
Shit, I often don't even mix media. I'll be in TV mood and ignore games and comics, then be in a comic mood and ignore TV and movies and games, then a game mood where everything else is on the back burner. But in each of those cases, I finish things up and almost never jump out in the middle.
This has the nice benefit of not forgetting where I am (well, not any more than usual, which can be a fair amount when it comes to my brain), but the disadvantage of potential burnout.
Totally agreed with everything you said. I'm currently towards the end of Jedi Survivor, and I have really enjoyed it, but I would probably recommend to people who aren't Star Wars fanatics like me to wait until it's less buggy, because it is quite distracting. At least it isn't crashing for me.
I would love to play Forbidden West, but it's not on PC. :(