Remember To Have Fun...
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- Опубликовано: 17 июн 2024
- How to have fun with games again is a topic I think a lot of players need to think about. For years, so many players are locked into a live service game that they may not even enjoy anymore. In this video I will talk about how to have fun with games again, and the ways you can really revitalize the hobby of gaming and enjoy the time you spend while playing games. Thanks for watching. #gaming #gamingvideos
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Such an important thing to do. Adding variety will help appreciate games more.
Thank you bro!
Variety is the spice of life
All the more reason why I have a Series X, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and original Xbox hooked up to my TV.
I've noticed myself slowly hating any live service game I put some decent amount of time into. Got some other depression stuff getting in the way, but when I do get a chance to play something genuinely fun again, it's just fantastic.
Keep up the good fight, and always keep trying new things, you got this!
So true. Fallout 4 has been a nice break from the usual online multiplayer games.
I think I'm going to start a playthrough today, excited to see if the new update on PC is decent, I know it just adds ultrawide and a bunch of stuff mods do, but I'm curious to find out how it feels
Great reminder. That's how I felt about the Fallout show. Wasn't so concerned about the lore or anything, but was just genuinely entertained. When it comes to gaming, if the industry doesn't course correct, I think we'll see even more hostility toward game preservation and backward compatibility. Having a huge back catalog of games to go to when the industry is pumping out garbage is a direct threat to the live service business model. It's gonna be interesting.
I actually am starting to see some hope, with games like Battlebit, Helldivers 2, anything From Soft touches, etc, there are SO many good games right now, they just aren't always hitting the numbers that the Fortnites do. Indies and the double A games are where it is at right now. The big publishers are going to continue to sacrifice their core audience to go after the algorithmic trend junk, but the core gamers, we will rally behind what's good.
@@BBKDRAGOON yeah I definitely agree with you. I’m hopeful for the day that an indie company release the next “Halo.” A game with a great, compelling story in an engaging campaign coupled with a fun and exciting multiplayer that isn’t based solely around monetizing every asset and feature in the game.
I would love to make friends to play with though my Autism and anxiety makes that very difficult, really sucks that i have to struggle 200% more than others do when making friends since that's such a major part of life is friends, pretty chill video BBK!
Thanks for sharing Nader, and I hope you do find a solid community. Thankfully with discord there are so many cool options now, but it can still be really tough. Again thanks for sharing and for the support
@@BBKDRAGOON no problem! thanks for the kind message 😎
You are one of the first RUclipsrs, I ever subscribed. You always make awesome content.
My goodness, thank you, that means a ton, cheers and have a great weekend, thanks for the encouragement and support
This is such a a great reminder bro! "You don't grow in the comfort zone" is such a good phrase to remember. I had a pastor of mine tell me a few months ago and it's stuck with me since.
When I’m not playing Halo, my favorite games are Sekiro, Elden Ring, Borderlands 2, Armored Core 6, Death Stranding, Warhammer 40K: Darktide.
If you haven’t played Elden Ring before, it’s highly recommended for you to play.
I used to play only Sci-Fi games, but Elden Ring helped me discover a whole new world. And now, Halo, Sekiro, Elden Ring are my Top3 favorite games of all time.
Bbkd always keeping it real. I have been adding variety to what I play and have been setting aside time that I’ll get on and off of games, I’ve noticed I have been grinding less and my enjoyment has been better
I love to hear this, thank you!
Thanks for the video! Been grinding on halo ranked and honestly it’s addicting and exhausting at the same time. Great suggestion to try something else, love the Skyrim pick. That got me back into gaming during the pandemic.
Bro, this video was so wholesome ❤ thankyou
Another amazing video. I love this sentiment! Your videos always give me a few minutes of relaxation. i appreciate what you do and your attitude towards everything. Keep having fun!
Thank you for this, that type of encouragement helps so much. Have a great weekend!
Love a good cozy commentary, I came back to Skyrim a week back and and loving it
Yo let's go!!! It must be in the air. How is Skyrim still so freaking good, I'm loving it
Arbiter! Been running Infinite since launch, but have recently rediscovered my love for Fallout after watching the show. Been running Fallout 3 on PC for the first time since I played on 360 and man is it amazing. Enjoy your content. Keep at it bro!
Words of wisdom. Great stuff bbkd!
Thanks for listening and for the support, cheers
Oh hell yeah! One of the most chill RUclipsrs playing one of the most chill games of all time is what I needed on my Friday morning!
Edit: Also after watching the vid in full, there is some great insight here. I have also have been trying to step away from the live service grind, and just really get immersed in other games and single player experiences recently. I can confidently say it’s just been outstanding! Starting up Jedi survivor tomorrow 🫡
Thank you very much, also let me know how Survivor is, I loved outcast and haven't tried survivor yet. Cheers and have a fun weekend
Been playing some modded Halo on my steam deck recently, and I also started a playthrough of MGS 1 on my PS1.
Thank you for this video
I needed this fam 👌
Thank you for sharing!
Gotta be honest, your voice makes me nostalgic for the good old days of D1. Used to Religiously follow your channel back in the day, so cool this ended up in my feed. Memories.
Thank you very much and thanks for the support over the years. I hope life is treating you well!
Honestly, I only play Infinite now whenever the weekly item isn't an emblem or a charm. Besides that, I've done what you've done & have gone back to single player games. I've even gone back to H5 a few times because I remembered how much I enjoyed Warzone. Currently replaying Elden Ring, NMH 3, Metroid Prime, & Cyberpunk!
My dude, this is a great topic to cover. I'm glad to hear you're doing what's good for you and what feels right, without feeling the need to play like it's your job, because for most of us it's not. It's supposed to be fun and I find it very easy to forget that fact.
I myself felt the "live service" fatigue some time in late 2022. so I tried some games and genres I don't usually play and it is such a breath of fresh air that I still can't stop.
Started 2023 by diving into the BG3 Early Access and instantly felt it becoming GOTY. It was clear even in the EA period.
Spent the summer discovering a franchise I never played: StarCraft.
Finished the first game and did a 100% achievement run in all campaigns for StarCraft 2. Those games are tough, especially SC1 because it doesn't have difficulty options. With every chapter it just ramps up significantly. Took me all summer because I had to learn how to play that game from scratch, but it was worth it. I fell head over heels in love with that game. I had NO IDEA what I was missing all these years. And the achievements, my god. They are so well designed to squeeze every inch out of the campaign experience without being tedious and boring. And they turn you into a true campaign master by the end.
During that time I also discovered Mass Recall; the SC1 remake in the SC2 engine.
And I ended 2023. by getting Elden Ring and I'm still playing that game, 400 hours later; on my 3rd character and doing no hit no hud boss runs.
I'm at the point where I don't even miss the live service games I used to play. I still cherish all the memories and the moments, but there's a whole world of amazing single player games to enjoy and get good at. PVP is not the only challenge available, for those who look for something to sink their teeth in.
I'm not sure if I'm even gonna get "Final Shape". Maybe, but right now it's not on my radar.
What IS on my radar is "Shadow of the Erdtee" in the summer and STALER 2 in September. Good times are ahead.
Absolutely amazing comment, thank you for taking the time to share masko. Bro... the StarCraft love, oh my gosh. Other than Halo there is no game I love more. In 2011 I got Wings of Liberty and my life literally was changed. I spent the next 3 years playing ladder every single day, and finally got to Diamond 1v1 in Heart of the Swarm. I adore StarCraft, and if I had more time I would still ladder and play. I respect that game more than any competitive multiplayer title, and it taught me so much, genuine real life lessons that really did impact the course of my life positively.
I feel you also on Final Shape... I don't know, I just don't know if I want to go back anymore. Stalker 2... OMG YES! When you were playing SC did you ever play multiplayer? Cheers and thank you
@@BBKDRAGOON Yeah, I remember you tweeting something a few years ago about how much you love SC2 and how you used to play ladder way back when.
As far as MP, no. I never went into that. I don't want to fall into the hole of "I need to be good at this" because I'm susceptible to that kind of thinking and it just leads me to frustration.
But I did start watching SC2 eSports regularly. Some of the stuff those guys do is insane.
I'm a fan of Serral and Raynor, btw 😁
Another great vid great message Dragoon 🤝
Thanks Patrick, seriously much appreciated and I hope you have an awesome weekend.
i have been putting down the apex legends (with 4000+ hours) and picking up hell divers every night, so much more fun
YO Helldivers hype, lets go!!!
New Video let's go!!
Cheers and thanks
I've recently replayed Red Dead Redemption 2, five years after I first played it on release. It's truly the best game I've ever played. Before that, I replayed the Batman Arkham games. They are both amazing series. I am sick of playing toxic PvP games like Counter-Strike, Dead by Daylight, and Escape from Tarkov. They are all either rammed full of cheaters or have devs who are out-of-touch and do not play their own games. I fully agree with you that you can get stuck in a rut playing these awful live-service games and not playing genuinely fun games which you enjoy. For me, that cycle is broken. I purchased Helldivers 2 and it’s been a blast!
I just want to play good games. That’s all I want.
I needed this, I find myself forgetting about the core reason of why I fell in love with gaming and found myself chasing the "best graphics and most FPS" out of games and don't get me wrong there are amazing 'new' new games but the 2000's and 2010's really was the golden era.
Anyway, thank you Arbiter
Thanks standby and wow thank you for the Arbiter as well. Much love
Just started playing Skyrim again and really enjoying it.
That New Vegas mod is intriguing where you have the Fallout 4 inventory mechanics
Right after the release of the Lightfall expansion for Destiny 2 it also hit me like that: I was used to playing online with my friends since the late 90s/early 2000s but still managed to get the odd offline (campaign) game in here and there. But those days were loooong ago. As my love for D2 was at an all-time low, I fired up all those single-player games I had bought, but never really played. And man, you can really see the time sink of (online) multiplayer (live service) games, when you use that time to play single-player games and plow through them like butter now. 😂
There are also so many great AA or indie games on the marked, that really are a lot more worth their time, compared to a lot of "AAA open world bloatware" games that are only there to keep you playing and keep you in the game to eventually spent your hard-earned $$$ on an in-game outfit, you will never really see (I am looking at you, Dying Light 2....). Always worth to find a new favourite game or even a new video game genre. 😁
ARBITER,
I would also like to add that if you're struggling to find friends for the game you like that most games have an official discord, I'd say to just hop in there and join a lfg chat or something, as I play a lot of unpopular games but finding discord like these still allows to find people to play with and make friends.
agreed man. i know from being in the r6, valorant, and overwatch communities that there's always an inside 'joke' that these players hate their own games. And I really don't think its *entirely* a joke for some of those people since the main appeal of the games are to compete. While being competitive can be fun, it almost feels like a superficial draw to the game since your skill level seems to be the focal point of those games, not necessarily having a fun time - which is probably what invites a lot of toxicity into those communities.
Also thanks for the reminder. I just picked up New Vegas for $10 after watching the show :^)
Are we gaming for the right reasons any more? Every live service feels like a job in itself.
Exactly, and a lot of companies are doing it intentionally, they have literal economists and psychologists on staff for consulting about systems for investment. The developer of the title matters, some handle it really really well and manage to create a game that delivers on the huge positives of live service like frequent support and updates, while others dip into the dark side and abuse it to milk everything possible from their audience.
I played sonic frontiers, and it was really fun! But when I got to the end, it felt really overwhelming because everything was insanely difficult, and there was so much stuff going on all at once! As I got further and farther, I felt exhausted, and it felt more like a job, and running a marathon! At one point I got a headache because of how much I had to think about my way through! I got really far, and a bug stopped me from progressing! I had months worth of playtime, and I feel like I was robbed of my time! I’m selling the game, and it’s going to be a long time before I touch another sonic game!
I randomly decided to dust off my old consoles and it was great. Playing an N64, a Gamecube, or an OG Xbox with some friends on the actual couch? That is what got me into gaming in the first place. Now my summer project is to sort of fix up my old consoles with some modding just for the fun of breathing new life into them. Dont let that flame die out people.
Needed to see this trying something new Hi-fi Rush
Yo I need to finish it, that game was SOOOO fun and original
Playing a single game to much is like listening to a great song to many times, ya still love but it loses its wonder
Oh man you should really try downloading the nolvus mod it's super easy to install and it's a practically a next gen upgrade of Skyrim. Nolvus 6.0 is coming sometime this year, but it's such a great mod to at least try before 6.0 releases.
FACTS.
ever since around December October ish time I did just that never have u really got into JRPGS before I was just playing whatever live service games my friends where a the time but back then I decided to try and play Chrono Trigger a game that peaked my interested and it was on steam for quite cheap an ever since then i found out i absolutely love JRPGS and the turn based combat it just so nice to play at your own pace but with amazing stories one let to another and I played FF16 then FF7 and even tried dragon quest and its been an absolute joy to find this whole area of gaming that single player in my own time but I never thought I would like. played Fallout New Vegas as well because i had never done before and it was an amazing experience "once you get the right mods to make it work on pc lol" and yeah it not all about what's current and "live service" its about what's fun to you.
Yo this comment hits so hard. Outside of FPS games, RPGs and JRPGS are my favorite. FFX is my favorite game of all time and ff7 is a close second. And Chrono Trigger my gosh, what an amazing set of games. Have you tried ff8 or ff9 just yet?
@@BBKDRAGOON now trying FF9 seeing that for me playing them on PlayStation a lot of the FF games leave the PS plus subscription soon so I was going through and seeing what is there, but yeah most recently FF9 I'm really enjoying it the music is amazing as usual and the visuals of the game have grown on me and they are now super cute and I want to see where and what happens to these characters. and I did try FF8 a while ago cause I downloaded them all to try them out see what they are like and that's got some heavy vibes with its as well the Balamb Garden theme is one that's already stuck in my head from that game, but yeah currently its ff9 I'm playing
Variety and nostalgia are the spice and comfort in both life and in games.
Live-services and short-form content you may like it at first but it will rot your brain with time.
I'm Thinkin' Arby's.
good
replaying games is probably my all-time favorite way to recharge my batteries. games are just not will the east to be
So so so good
I recently started playing stardew valley with the wife, she is not a gamer. Very different from panked ranked street fighter or halo. Taken a big step back from halo as I was not enjoying. Now when I play halo for 1-2 hours a week I enjoy
A few single player games i'd recommend checking out are Caves of qud, Noita, and Tales of maj'eyal. None of them have amazing graphics but they all have alot of content to explore. Especially if you're into rogue likes.
Yo thank you, I will have to look into them!
Recently ive completely stopped playing multiplayer games (aside from fighting games)
Yo which fighting games!? I love street fighter and have been playing since 3rd strike. I picked up a leverless about 2 months ago for SF6.
@@BBKDRAGOON mainly guilty gear strive, but im also frequently playing other games like cvs2 and other games on fightcade
Being hyper-focused on wanting to finish, or trying to beat games is what burnt me out on gaming in my mid-20's. Made me feel like I was wasting time, when in the past, I could binge 12 straight hours in Elder Scrolls doing sweet F.A. and feel genuinely content and fulfilled; happy as hell. It took a while to break this habit of trying to 'beat' the game, especially with the live service/battle pass model.
It sounds stupid but just... playing the damn game for the sake of playing it is such an obvious but simple return to "fun" in gaming and really any hobby in general. Really is the journey, not the destination. If the journey isn't fun, putting it down and trying something else is the way to go even if I return to it at a later date for another go
VERY well said! Exactly! I'm finding that just sitting down to game, or try something new, not look up guides or optimize the fun out of it, just to truly discover and have fun has been SO refreshing
Bethesda games will always be my favorite RPGs no matter how buggy they are 😊
I stopped playing Infinite over a year ago.
In the last few years, I've come to the realisation that I basically want all of my pastimes to be involved around experiencing stories. It honestly doesn't even matter to me if they are good or bad stories, but that's all I want to consume in my free time. For example, I just watched Rebel Moon 2 with some friends (AWFUL) and I'm halfway through reading Gorky Park (excellent). I think I had the same realisation as you in regards to time, but for me it was realising that just doing the same thing over and over (like in competitive gameplay) ended up making me feel like I was wasting that time. I didn't feel like I was "progressing" in something unless there was some narrative attached to it. Once 343 let the campaign team go for Infinite, I was pretty much solidly done with the game. Uninstalled it, see you later.
Having said that, I started playing through Halo's campaigns again recently, in chronological order, starting with Halo Wars and up to where I am right now with Halo 3. And it's been a blast.
I've been checking out custom campaigns and modded overhauls for Halo for the first time, too, including stuff like Lumoria and the Mythic Overhauls. If you want my advice, the modding community is a great source of extra content for Halo, and if you look at the upcoming projects people are making for even Combat Evolved, it's only going to get better and more diverse.
So yeah. Variety is the spice of life, but honestly if you can also narrow down specifically what you want from media and just go for that you'll be happy out. I rarely if ever play multiplayer stuff anymore; the closest has been Final Fantasy 14, which I started this year, but honestly I've just been really enjoying going through the story for that by myself and then hanging out with friends and chatting in-game.
The only live service game I really play anymore is fallout 76 other than that I just play a lot of older single player RPGs that came out a decade ago. Best gaming decision I made in a while.
After only 3 weeks ish now of 76 I'm so hooked. I'm really finding the community to be so nice, and even though it's live service, it doesn't have so many of the hamster wheel junk that a lot of the other current investment games do. Thank you!
I have a few friends that play the same game maybe every day, not much else, which sounds very limiting and stifling. Like some form of Halo, which i love, but only that? Uninspired.
Trying new things is so critical and I think people just get locked into a loop, which is fine if they enjoy it, but if they aren't having fun, it's time to refocus and recharge
lavitz slambert?
I mained Destiny since the D1 beta and put in thousands of hours, but since around the time Elden Ring came out and with Lightfall being the disappointment it was, I dropped it and have since completed 34 games.
I would not have had these experiences, which I genuinely value, had I not put Destiny aside.
Games like Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, Dark Souls Trilogy, Sekiro, Cyberpunk 2077 + PL, Ori, Celeste, Spiderman, God of War, The last of us, Mass Effect LE replays and so many more. There are so many great games to experience, but if you're stuck on a live service, you'll be missing out on them.
If the live service game you play isn't as enjoyable anymore, just drop it, you aren't a slave to it. As soon as you realise something isn't fun or frustrating - go do something else!
Yo that last sentence is absolute TRUTH!!! and that list of games is fantastic, my goshhhhhhh so much goodness there. I think what you said resonates very closely with me as from 2014-2019, Destiny was my main game. I LOVED Destiny 1, the friends and the time spent there I don't regret at all. But I've never once regretted putting Destiny 2 down after Forsaken. I came back for Beyond Light with my friend Ditty and we had a blast, but I just don't have any interest in getting back on that hamster wheel. There's just too much good out there to waste time on something that isn't fun and also something that is just designed to suck time from you. I don't harbor an ill will towards Destiny 2, I just miss what it was during Destiny 1. I think back then the devs were trying to balance more effectively the demands of the corporate expectations of live service and still deliver a game with strong meaning and creative power.
@@BBKDRAGOON "I just miss what it was during Destiny 1." Definitely agree. Destiny 1 just had a different vibe to how Destiny 2 is, and I honestly don't know how to describe it.
I play a game, World of Tanks, and it is a live service. Way back 2010 I'd be playing CoolMathGames, internet browser flash games (Raze, Plasma Burst etc. for anyone who might know em), and see the advertisements for Word of Tanks and man I love tanks. Couldn't run it until 2021, at which point I started to play the Free2Play style of things
I play this game and it'd shock you to oversee the conditions WoT players will put up with, to learn how deep the pay-to-win, micro-transactions FOMO goes for this piece of work. I play cause I love the tanks, and skill has its place beyond P2W. I get caught up in trying to earn all the extra stuff for the live service model but sometimes, its just good to give it a rest for a few weeks or months.
I dabble in destiny 2 every now and then because it can be good fun, but similarly it has this live service aura.
These are games which at a fundamental level are fun and enjoyable, marred in corporate manipulation taking away from what could be for these products, and I'd wager this goes for more than just these examples of live services.
Anyway I have to get working on the 3 battlepasses in WoT, if I do all 4 dailies for 3 months I may complete them.
Gets new computer hardware..
Plays 12 year old Skyrim..
Logic.
I know right haha, but now it's time to install like 900 visual mods lol
Does your name stand for Big Black Knob Dragoon?
Why exacly is he a knob for suggesting that people take games too seriously?
It does not lol it doesn't actually mean anything, my Halo friend back in the day had a bbk in his name (clan tag style) and I liked it, plus at the time Legend of Dragoon was my favorite game
haha it's all good, people meme the bbk all the time. I get all variants of it, bbq, burger king, and everything else ha
@@BBKDRAGOONwe love legend of dragoon lavance was a beast
Ive been watching someone play Simpsons Hit and Run! Its such a nice cozy nostalgia trip! Amazing game too!
That's awesome!