do you feel forced to play games

[SoslanVanWieren]

You don't have to play them but i feel like i'm missing out if i don't but they do make me feel stressful because i feel like i have to spend a ton of time on games.

 

[The Catboy]

There have been some games I started playing because everyone else was playing it. Most of the time I still end up not really enjoying the game, but often happy that I was able to experience it and explain why I didn't enjoy the game with clarity.

 

[SoslanVanWieren]

It Happens when i play a game and i have no idea what to do or get myself into a situation that is annoying to get out of like having no weapons in a game and having trouble finding them.

 

[Xzi]

Nah, no more than I feel forced to find any activity to fill empty time.

 

[SG854]

If I play games for too long I feel like crap. I feel like what a waste. I could've spent my time on something else, something more useful, but instead I wasted too much time on a game. This is only if I play too long.

I always feel like i'm missing out. If I play one game I feel like i'm missing out on another. I play a different game I feel like i'm missing out again. A big problem for me is the bombardment of games and management. I want to replay my old favorites like Chrono Trigger or Ocarina of Time. But if I replay these old games I already played, I could instead use that time to play a new game. I'm limited in time. Soon I'll die. So what should I do? Should I only play games once and never play them again? To make room for time for new games.

Many people put lots of effort to make great games. If I replay old games then i'll miss out on these great new games. But the old games also had lots of work put in them. Developers put their heart and soul into making these games. It feels a shame to only play them once and ditch them, never to see them again. I want to replay them over and over to appreciate what they made. But then new games wont be played. So what to do? Theres also movies, books, and other works of art. What about spending time with people? I don't know how to manage all this. And i'm still trying to figure this out. It really feels overwhelming.

This is only a few decades of game making. Imagine 200 or 400 years worth of games. 200 years from now how would anybody try and enjoy the classics? Theres too much too play. And the list keeps building and building.

 

[johnbus]

This is a complicated subject for me. When I was younger, I was compelled by my childish need to experience everything the world had to offer. When I grew up, I still played video games, but no longer felt any need to do so. It was, and is, a defining characteristic that I use to describe myself. I am a gamer. I play video games. It's what I do. I don't play them because I need to find out how the world works. I play them because that is how the world works. It's how everything makes sense.

In particular, I feel that I am drawn towards games that are either unique or popular. It's part of the gaming culture to know what these games are like through play and study. I plan to play Fortnite soon because of this. I have no interest in playing the game, but I feel compelled to understand it. Not by any sort of peer pressure, but by my own definition for myself. I am someone who plays video games. If I don't play them, who am I? What am I? Perhaps I use them as a means of escapism so that I don't feel the need, or have the time, to ask myself such introspective questions. I don't need to. I'll just play video games. That makes sense.

I don't feel forced to play video games, but I don't enjoy playing them anymore either.

 

[Taleweaver]

No. "Never" is a bit of an overstatement, but I honestly only had it once in well over two decades of playing video games. And honestly, the one time was more a conflict situation than anything else (read: it was pressure to play, but I wanted to play as well).

I was in a UT2004 clan back then. We didn't play much matches together (about once a week), but we hung out mostly. So this one match comes up and we all get together in the lobby. IIRC, it was someone of the other team that was a bit late, so we were all idling a bit (say...fifteen minutes). Then, just a couple minutes into the game, my dad pops in (IRL of course...not in the match). He needs help with unloading a truck for...I don't remember. But the thing was illegally parked just outside, and it had to be done quickly because of that. So everyone had to chime in. I'm normally very helpful and pleasing, and as such, my "not now...can it be later?" obviously turned in a hefty argument. Because of the earlier delay we couldn't stop the match, and because of the argument I was worthless in the game as well. So I forfeited.
As you can imagine, this ended up in TWO arguments. My parents obviously had no clue that "these stupid games" were just as interactive as actual team sports, and even though I've ALWAYS put real life before video games on other occasions (I played lots of single player games back then as well...part of the reason they couldn't understand why I simply didn't pause the game then) I had to endure the entire "video games are bad" thing for months.
On the clan, they somewhat understood, but were a bit sour that I couldn't have planned things better.


Still...only one occasion in so many years isn't much. But I'm a rather atypical gamer. Gaming news interests me, but not to a degree that I ever want to actually buy a game on launch day. I have friends who game, but not enough to want to hang around with them in a video game (aside couch games...but that doesn't happen often). As such, gaming is strictly something that fills up my free time.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Only the ones that give daily rewards.

 

[8BitWonder]

The only game I've felt forced to play recently is Monster Hunter World, and if I'm being honest it's really taken the fun out of it for me.

I came late to the party and wanted to get a bunch of the limited-time event armor and weapons, and ended up rushing through the main game, and grinding monsters I didn't want to before time ran out in order to do so.
Haven't played it in a solid week or two after I finished the last event I cared for at the time, but I might have to go again for another new armor piece.

 

[DarthDub]

When I feel "forced", it's because I'm depressed.

 

[Ryccardo]

Not too much, now if the question was "do you feel forced to buy under 5 bux games when you visit ebay or an used media store"...

 

[Brigand]

Two words: Animal Crossing.

I always feel pressured to play that at least one a week, just because of the thought of those pieces of computer data disguised as cute animals demanding my constant attention. I remember I used to have no problem playing that every day and even spoke to the animals to the point of them getting sick of me but I haven't played AC in ages. On one hand I want to go back and play it, but on the other hand I don't want to face my wrecked town and angry citizens. I suppose in that sense yes, I do feel forced to play a game, but this is the only instance I can really think of where I do feel forced.

I have forced myself to pick up a Pokemon game and finish it on more than one occasion, especially now that I'm actually making an effort to complete the Pokedex, but I usually end up enjoying it, so it's not really that bad.

I play games because I enjoy them. If I don't want to play a game, I won't play it. It's only when a game becomes a commitment that it becomes tiresome and I feel forced to play it. I need my real-world time.

 

[AdamFX990]

Yes. Undertale

 

[SoslanVanWieren]

If I play games for too long I feel like crap. I feel like what a waste. I could've spent my time on something else, something more useful, but instead I wasted too much time on a game. This is only if I play too long.

I always feel like i'm missing out. If I play one game I feel like i'm missing out on another. I play a different game I feel like i'm missing out again. A big problem for me is the bombardment of games and management. I want to replay my old favorites like Chrono Trigger or Ocarina of Time. But if I replay these old games I already played, I could instead use that time to play a new game. I'm limited in time. Soon I'll die. So what should I do? Should I only play games once and never play them again? To make room for time for new games.

Many people put lots of effort to make great games. If I replay old games then i'll miss out on these great new games. But the old games also had lots of work put in them. Developers put their heart and soul into making these games. It feels a shame to only play them once and ditch them, never to see them again. I want to replay them over and over to appreciate what they made. But then new games wont be played. So what to do? Theres also movies, books, and other works of art. What about spending time with people? I don't know how to manage all this. And i'm still trying to figure this out. It really feels overwhelming.

This is only a few decades of game making. Imagine 200 or 400 years worth of games. 200 years from now how would anybody try and enjoy the classics? Theres too much too play. And the list keeps building and building.

what else is there to do in life but watch movies tv draw read code and go to places. I don't really play sport anymore. This is why i don't think games are a waste of time i don't have money nor do my parents to go on holidays at all so i'm in the house mostly anyways.

 

[BORTZ]

Don't people play games for fun? lol

 

[SoslanVanWieren]

Don't people play games for fun? lol

Its hard to think a game is fun when you get stuck. Games don't have unlimited content so they can't be really easy.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Sometimes I do, when a friend keeps bugging me to try a game but it's not really something I'm interested in. But I don't mind, since I might end up liking the game and continuing playing it, and if I don't that's only a couple hours of my time spent figuring out whether I like it or not.

 

[BORTZ]

Its hard to think a game is fun when you get stuck. Games don't have unlimited content so they can't be really easy.

I have less time than I used to when I game anymore. So I find myself playing with a GameFAQs walkthrough more often than not. And I find no shame in it. I played Persona 4 (complete social links) with a guide the complete way though and I had a blast. And many many others.

 

[SoslanVanWieren]

You can't say video games are a waste of time they exist for the same purpose as books and movies and tv shows what else would you do at home with out them? with out entertainment your life is just really boring.

 

[DinohScene]

I'm not playing games cus people tell me to play them.
I play them cause I want it.
Or achievements.. w/e take your pick.