Don't know what to say that hasn't already been covered in five pages of comments, but don't date people who denigrate your hobbies. There's no "age cutoff" for enjoying the things you enjoy. You don't just stop enjoying things after a certain arbitrary age threshold.
The old view of adulthood as being a time of constant misery, struggle, and hardship, in which every moment of enjoyment you manage to claw from it is a moment stolen from the future, which will be replaced by further misery, is fucking stupid. Do what makes you happy, and ditch the Karens.
I mean, it's not the rest of the world's fault that Japan produced enough Final Fantasy clones to create a whole genre. But I guess we can try to call them something else. FFRPG? Linear RPG? Grindy-RPG? Not-Really-RP-RPG? Semi-Open-World Turn-Based Narrative? What would be preferable?
I think this video showcases an interesting aspect of gaming that I never really thought about before. In their case, they play more games for a shorter amount of time vs spending a large portion of their time in few games....
Judging from my Elder Scrolls Online experience, it takes me about 175-200 days played to burn out on something I'm really into. But nothing else has really come close to that since I quit about a year ago. I've been kind of bouncing from game to game, got a couple hundred hours into Guild Wars 2, a hundred hours or so each on Grim Dawn and Diablo 3, a little less than a hundred on Vermintide 2. Basically, when I find a game that scratches an itch, I will play it until I've squeezed every drop of content from the bottle. And it looks like I'll give a new game about a hundred hours to hook me, if I can get past the first hour or so.
I kind of want to go back to ESO, but it's 75% less fun for me without the subscription (the Craft Bag is BAE, and the DLCs are where I'd be spending my time), but I'm hesitating on the question of "Is it responsible of me to be spending $15/mo on a game I've already quit playing once?" And yet, nothing else has come close to hitting that mark for me. GW2 is really amazing, it's got a lot of things I'd definitely miss if I went back to ESO, but... it's not the same, somehow.
Based review from a Ubisoft Developer's alt account (lemmy.world)
New elder scrolls still 5 years away (www.ign.com)
What's the age cut off for socially acceptable gaming
So, hear me out....
The ‘JRPG’ label has always been othering (www.polygon.com)
interesting article for consideration from Polygon writer Kazuma Hashimoto. here's the opening:...
How many hours do you put into games? (www.youtube.com)
I think this video showcases an interesting aspect of gaming that I never really thought about before. In their case, they play more games for a shorter amount of time vs spending a large portion of their time in few games....