Have you ever quit a game you love because it was too overwhelming?

[NEB.feelsdevil]

I haven't played Kingdome Come: Deliverance II in 3 months because I found it too mentally draining with the huge map and all the side quests. I've played for about 40 hours and I loved it, but I simply stopped one day because it was too overwhelming.

Now I am stressed and angry at myself for not playing. I've opened it today, but after not playing for 3 months, I don't remember the gameplay and story details.

 

[Julius1]

I always feel the urge to do all the side quests and collect all collectables before finishing the main story which demotivates me from playing even

 

[NEB.feelsdevil]

I am so tired mentally... I want complex, huge RPG games, but I am too tired to play them and I find them overwhelming.

 

[pixy.]

No not really

 

[NEB.feelsdevil]

I always feel the urge to do all the side quests and collect all collectables before finishing the main story which demotivates me from playing even

I am not the same, I MUST complete all side quests before moving on with the main quest.

For some games in the past, I never felt the need to restart because I had missed some side quests.

Is this autism trait?

 

[Anarcho Nihilist]

I haven't played Kingdome Come: Deliverance II in 3 months because I found it too mentally draining with the huge map and all the side quests. I've played for about 40 hours and I loved it, but I simply stopped one day because it was too overwhelming.

Now I am stressed and angry at myself for not playing. I've opened it today, but after not playing for 3 months, I don't remember the gameplay and story details.

Shining in Darkness.
It was just hard for me to go through all these mazes, because the monsters respawn endlessly.

 

[Scrangillious Q.]

It happened to me with Factorio, I love that game, but it's too much for me.

 

[zd60]

I always feel the urge to do all the side quests and collect all collectables before finishing the main story which demotivates me from playing even

I do the exact same, never figured out why I do but it makes actually finishing game stories difficult

 

[Julius1]

I do the exact same, never figured out why I do but it makes actually finishing game stories difficult

And I never would do side missions if I finished story if I finished the game's story I was finished with the game itself

 

[Dr. Butane]

Yeah, I couldn't complete SCP CB for quite some time after the intro because it was that scary.

 

[lnceI]

 

[poorenglishcel]

Yes i can relate to it. Happens to me cause i get so obessed with a game that i burnout. Happened when i played doom eternal. Happened when i played sekiro. Happened when i played the spiderman ps4 game(on pc). I start to feel like i need to play the game perfectly, learning all the mechanics and mastering them. But this sentiment then clashes with my lack of motivation in life leading to the abandonment of certain sections or the entire game itself.

 

[PolarIce20]

Chess probably

 

[TooSomething]

Overwhelming for my feels, yeah. :/

 

[zd60]

And I never would do side missions if I finished story if I finished the game's story I was finished with the game itself

exactly how I play games, if i do the main story than the game in finished to me and I don't touch it again, but if i do the side objectives first I almost never make it to the main story such a awful loop

 

[Kamanbert]

Not really in that sense cause KCD isn't a stressful game to me. You have the whole time to take it easy, explore slowly and become familiar with the world.

Last game that overwhelmed me was Attila Total War because i neglected diplomacy and being unfamiliar with the horde system i didnt know that the IA was going to chase me around the whole world with a lot of stacks. I still wanted to continue but then precisely because i felt overhelmed i lost Attila in a stupid and practically unlosable siege to some generic AI catapult. I was kinda tired, stressed and bored of having to fend off never ending waves of ennemies.

It was not game over but i ragequitted as i wanted to have Attila as a leader, began a new game in a more sensible way, even split the hordes... and this time i got my shit pushed in by some traitorous vassal in the early game, despite having faced forces 10 times more powerful in the prior run. Fuck this shit mang. I could have continued this one too, but i felt too humiliated losing 2 stacks to the computer.

I'm on my 3rd run now i'm sure it's gonna be the good one, enough of that tomfoolery.

 

[Kamanbert]

I am not the same, I MUST complete all side quests before moving on with the main quest.

In games like KCD it's nice to do the side content simultaneously to the main quest with some free roaming in between. I always go with my instinct to find some harmony in the progression/exploration. But tbh that's why i got kinda taken by surprise in the first episode - cause of the Vranik shit. So at some point i was focusing on the side quests a lot. Felt kinda weird but had no choice.

 

[lnceI]

The evil within

 

[ordinaryotaku]

Sort of/kind of related -- I played Vampire Survivors for 8 hours straight on an overnight flight, which made me extremely worn out, and I haven't touched it since. This was also a week or two after I played the game for 7 hours straight on one of my days off without eating or drinking water and didn't realize it. That game is like crack. This was almost two years ago. Love the game and still think about it, but I felt like complete shit after that and haven't touched it since.

 

[spudcel]

Dragon's Dogma 2. I didn't want to see the world reset, and I didn't want to see my pawn die for good again

 

[Autist]

WoW

 

[Garbage Life]

Sometimes I'll uninstall a game I like in a fit of rage

 

[underballer]

i really liked runescape back in like 2005? 2006? but it went to shit when they removed the wilderness that was the gayest shit ever by fagex

 

[Diddlium]

Fallout 2 I've played that game since I was a kid and have played it like... 600 times. But never actually finished it

 

[Defetivecuckachu]

I once quit playing Skyrim for like a year, because I installed the Serana Dialogue Overhaul mod, and having a sexy female NPC suddenly come on to me and want to fuck me was just too confronting. Like.... I guess this must be what most people have in real life?

And that thought just killed it for me, it wasn't my happy escapism place any more.

 

[NEB.feelsdevil]

Fallout 2 I've played that game since I was a kid and have played it like... 600 times. But never actually finished it

It's an excellent RPG, you should really try to finish it some day

I once quit playing Skyrim for like a year, because I installed the Serana Dialogue Overhaul mod, and having a sexy female NPC suddenly come on to me and want to fuck me was just too confronting. Like.... I guess this must be what most people have in real life?

And just like that, it wasn't my happy escapism place any more...

Brutal

 

[Diddlium]

It's an excellent RPG, you should really try to finish it some day


Brutal

It's my favorite Fallout game, though I mostly just fuck around in it for months and months before playing something else

 

[soft]

I guess I could say that about Final Fantasy 7. I liked it so much that I started putting it off until I was in the right mood to truly enjoy it. I didn't want to spoil it by playing tired after work, I wanted to be fully rested to properly immerse in it. So I played other, less important games in the mean time, put it off even more, and now it's hard to get back into it.