I’ve been an avid gamer since childhood. I’ve been playing games when I was single, when I got married, when I had my child and as he is growing up. It’s the one hobby that I kept with me while adulting.
As I have progressively less and less free time to play, I realised I found myself enjoying buying games more than playing. It’s almost like gaming has become less playing and more ‘buying the games I want to play (that I may or may not have time for) at the cheapest price’ lol
I stopped playing multiplayer games and moved to single player solely.
I also stopped buying games unless its something i wanted on release but couldn’t afford and is now on sale
At first it was hard, but now my daughter plays DRG with me, so it’s fine.
Games that waste your time annoy me way way more. I love a tightly paced 15 hour game.
Made the beginning of the last of us pretty fucking brutal
Became a dad this august. If it wasn’t for my Nintendo Switch and my Steam Deck, I would have zero time for gaming. Now however, I’m able to squeeze in 15-20min here and there and I love it. The fact that they are just: pick up, turn on, play, turn off and put down is amazing. No time booting up, no time needed to load a save, no time to get back into it. Also no need to ‘quickly finish this’ and have to save the game etc before I put it away. I can put it away instantly when parenting duties are needed.