Play a game for 5 minutes

This thread made me realize that I haven't finished the last three games I started. I was at least 80% done with two of them.

I feel ya, OP. My catalog is like, 25% finished, with everything else I own somewhere between very close to being finished and maybe 1 to 5 hours in.

I keep buying new shit and never finish anything. I just can't learn my lesson.

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For the past two years, the only games that've been able to hold my attention for more than half an hour or so have been from the sixth generation or earlier. Been playing the shit out of Twisted Metal Black lately.

yeah that's depression.

you might be depressed.
if you aren't careful, soon you won't be able to enjoy anything, so go back and play whatever you were playing and get into it as much as you can.

it's not too late to play a game

me too i think we might got 80HD

Fuck off faglord

>start playing new game
>get bored during the tutorial and go back to crazy taxi
what is wrong with me?

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this kind of problem is something that you should deal with early.
i only realized recently that i haven't been able to start or finish any games, shows, or books for the last few years.
i usually end up just killing my time with Yea Forums, random youtube nonsense, and just having dumb smalltalk on whatever messaging platform of your choice instead.
i've made an effort to finish more games nowadays.
they have to be new too, can't just play chrono trigger for the umpteenth time.

>might
>soon you won't be able to enjoy anything
haha yeah wouldn't it be awful if I had been like that for years
good thing it isn't
haha

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i'm sure you have some half-finished games sitting on your desktop or on steam, or maybe on a console.
do yourself a favor, close your browser, get rid of any other similar distractions, and just play the damn game.
kind of like quitting smoking, you have to will yourself to do it after years of being used to putting everything off.
good luck, please try and enjoy yourself more

but what about new stuff or even old stuff I haven't played/own that I want to buy?
I feel like both buying them anyway and putting them off to completely finish my backlog first would make me feel equally shitty

there's also a few non vidya things I have in a backlog too that all of this applies to

it can be new, doesn't just have to be backlog stuff.
but if you don't make a concentrated effort, you might never finish as much as you start, and you'll regret the killed time that added up in it's place.
i find that i have never regretted any of my time playing vidya, but all of that time i wasted can never be gotten back.

what if there's a game that's too frustrating or shitty that I just don't care to finish
it sounds like an easy exception to make but there's a lot of stuff I can't help coming back to eventually and I hate the feeling of giving up on something, it makes me really angry

It's means you're developing a small attention span, watching random videos on youtube and browsing Yea Forums require minimal attention while playing games and watching movies require long attention span. Same thing had happened to me and no it's not depression(don't listen to shills), I can enjoy watching video games on a stream just fine, it's just that I cant be arsed to play them anymore, which is saving me money.

Another thing I've noticed is you might be shifting your focus on more productive and important things and becoming more normal (normal fag), there has been a shift in conciousness as of past few months.

if it's bad and you aren't having fun or just aren't getting into it, drop it or put it away for a while and come back to it later.

play better games

Honestly get a second monitor and do both at the same time.

pff, as if
I just don't know where to draw the line
there's some games I've dropped because I couldn't fucking stand playing them and have no intention of coming back to but there's others where I got really frustrated and hated it because it was shit/wasn't having fun anymore but with those I keep feeling tempted to come back because I hate giving up even though the same thing keeps happening and I'm mostly just playing it out of spite at that point

That's what you get for trying to force down games you don't actually like just because they're currently popular.

that's not likely here.
pretty convinced that most people that make those kind of threads or posts haven't been here long or are from other sites.
or they are just shitposting.

>finally get into a game
>forced to put the game down because of no time with new life affairs
>lose the spark I had when I finally get time back

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that's kind of a bad habit
i'd just go for common sense and drop it, but maybe you should make yourself a rule to completely drop something after the second or third time you try and quit and just move onto another game.

>tfw you realize you haven't finished anything in the last 5 years

>tfw try to start a new game
>Really invested in the tutorial and cutscenes
>Drop it within 10 minutes of exploring the world
>Go back to overwatch/binding of Isaac/DBFZ/or smash

I really want to play wasteland 2 :( but reading all of the text makes me sleepy

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Honestly it's the opposite for me.
>browse Yea Forums all day
>feel like playing a game
>look through my list of games, browse steam new releases, search tags I like, spend like 4 hours on this
>I don't feel like starting any of these games
>If I finally start something I usually just play it for a few hours straight with 30 minute breaks, finish it in a few days
>Having great fun even if the game has flaws or if it's objectively mediocre
>spend the next week feeling like I have nothing to play because I can't mentally go over that first step of "I'm going to try playing this"
>Go back to browsing steam, find a game that looks amazing, has all the things i like in a game, almost get excited about playing something again
>Early access
>Go back to browsing, click on the same games I've clicked on 20 times in the past few months, either just can't get motivated or the games are still in EA/have some unfixed bugs that I'm waiting on, still no english version, or whatever
>Finally decide to just play through some old ultraniche game I've completed 4 times already
>The game isn't even that good, I just like the comforting familiarity

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You don't actually like the game. You just need to find things you like.

gunga

I'm starting to think this.
It seems so wrong that there isn't a single game that I like though out of all the games to play. That's why I browse steam so much.

Play Skyrim.

And when you finally find something you like it's been stuck in early access for 3 years.

imageboards (and the internet) ruined your attention span. you can't concentrate on longer tasks, you'd rather scroll to the bottom and wait for new posts to pop up. it's addiction to low-quality information. you can't quite get over the novelty of it..

>play a game for 5 minutes
>come back to browse Yea Forums because I'm that bad at said game

Fucking Robotron 2084

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>buy game
>play it for 5 minutes or not at all

>pirate game
>play it for 5 minutes to see if it works
>uninstall a few months later

internet screwing with your dopamine receptors.

If you play games for sex appeal, you play more than just five minutes.

strawpoll.me/18530146

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