How do you overcome choice paralysis when it comes to playing games

I hurt myself to see if I still feel. I just uninstall without finishing it. Cyberpunk, Elden Ring, Lies of P, were all like that lol

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>>712873691 (OP)
Orc nazis

i pick a game that looks interesting and that's generally in the genre i'm in the mood for
then play it

Marijuana drugs

I go on genre binges

>>712873868
It was Orc black people, but same difference.

>>712873691 (OP)
If I have choice paralysis when it comes to picking out a game, I realise that I simply don't want to play any games at the moment, so I go do something else. Don't treat it like a chore.

>>712873691 (OP)
>choice paralysis
There is no such thing when it comes to games simply because there are barely any worth playing.

>>712873691 (OP)
>Choice paralysis
I have the opposite problem. There aren't enough games to choose from and there's weeks where I don't have anything I want to play at all. Then I find something, finish it and feel completely empty again.

>>712873691 (OP)
I'm in my 30s so I just cycle between 3 franchises.

>>712873691 (OP)
Idk I usually have an idea what I'm in the mood for and there's hundreds of games in my backlog so I just pick one of those.
The real issue is finding games with a play length that matches my mood

I realize no game could ever live up to Dark Souls 2 and go play that instead.

>>712875484
Right, there’s a lot I’m sitting on because they’re 30+ hours

Holy shit I havent thought about these gays forever.

I remember I bought Call of Juarez just to spite this faggot back in the day. Had to get my nigger killing achievement pump up that gamerscore.

It's still up lol

https://youtu.be/W0ci6rYOleM?si=SQgoGIimw6FM4u4q

>open up steam
>take all my backlog games
>put their names in a spinner
>play what the spinner picked
Idk guys doesn't seem that hard.

>>712875643
I've leveled with myself and decided that La Mulana is the first thing I play if my employment gets terminated. If I take so much as a day's break I feel like I'll forget everything even if I journal

>>712875845
I get to the part where I see what the spinner picked and think "That doesn't look like something I'd enjoy right now" then I go back to doomscrolling

>>712873691 (OP)
>browse through the EAsloppa section on steam to see what else is coming out
>go back to what I know and mod that if possible
I don't know how you would make your game stand out in a literal sea of shit like that. One that never seems to run out even before the advent of AI assisted slapdash productions. There aren't enough years in the average human lifespan to sift through all of it beyond a quick glance at the product descriptions themselves.

>>712873691 (OP)
i just play pre 2010's games, there is a few worth playing original games after 2010, almost everything is a copy of something made before

>>712875959
That's your problem, you follow what your depressed brain is thinking like an animal. You have to push yourself to take that next step and then you'll finally start having fun with the game.
>t. cleared out half of my steam backlog like this in under a year after realizing i should just play video games than browse /v/ for 7 hours a day

>b-but the game's still not fun
It's okay to drop games because they're not your type or you realize it's dogshit. Don't force yourself to suffer, just force yourself out of your comfort zone every once in a while.

>>712873691 (OP)
By wanting to play games. Option paralysis is an excuse for someone who doesn't actually want to play said games at all.

>>712873803
I have to finish what I start it still bugs me that I never finished bloodrayne 2 on ps2 because the disc stopped working or dq7 because i had to sell said ps2

>>712876402
Honestly, kind of needed to hear that right now. I'm gonna go check out something from my backlog.

>>712876505
That happened with me on the PSX with MoH. Eventually I just watched it on YouTube. Many such cases

Nah, I spent a few minutes debating what to play before firing up Butterlords or Starsector or some roguelike for the umpteenth time.

>>712873691 (OP)
My impulses just take me where I need to go, and I don't feel weighed down by opportunity cost because I will be playing video games until the day I die.

But god, do I hate choice paralysis in other niggas. You offer them as few as, say, 20 games, and they'll already be acting like they can't possibly make a choice or that it's too much to think about or what have you. I sit on a massive pile of multiplayer vidya I'll never get to because I wanna weigh all possible options at any given time but the rest of the world can only get on board if you commit to a specific one to push right then and there.

It's called having a backlog and finishing the games you want to play.

>>712876402
Also a thing to note is that if you're going to start a long game, it's not going to hold you hostage until you finish it, it's not going to grow legs and run away if you don't touch it for long periods of time and it's okay if you don't beat it under a week.
Playing Dragon Warrior 7 for the first time, it took me about half a year until it was finished. Most of the time I only chipped away at it for maybe 30 minutes-an hour a day, occasionally I went hard with a 3 hour play, a few times I didn't touch it at all for a couple days just to let it simmer. Regardless, I was able to play other video games on the side and it made reaching the credits feel that much better, like finishing a big project.

Sorry for blogposting, but I feel like people are generally losing interest in games because they're treating it like a checklist rather than an actual hobby. It's okay if it takes you 2 years to beat Mario 64. It's okay if Castlevania constantly kicks your ass and you can't beat it on the first, second, fifth, or tenth try. It's okay if Persona 5 is a 100 hour game that you can't finish in a weekend on a whim.
It's OKAY that YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO PLAY EVERYTHING IN YOUR LIFETIME.
It's OKAY that NOT EVERY VIDEO GAME IS CATERED TO YOUR TASTES OR NEEDS.
Throwing a fit that most games don't bend to your will and hand you every trophy for just trying is how you grow miserable and bitter.

I pick ONE and play ONLY that till i complete it.

then i pick ANOTHER preferaby with different tone till i complete it.

damn, these poor kids.. tricked.

>>712876402
>>712877798
Based, lot of people need to hear this, especially here. It's sound advice.

I wouldn't say it's issue. Sometimes judging your choices can prevent you from losing hundreds of thousands of subscribers from what you choose to do. You never know...

>>712873691 (OP)
you don't

>>712873691 (OP)
Stop buying and start playing.

I never experienced this in a game until I started playing Nioh 2 recently. I was not expecting how many fucking skill trees there are and how each skill has like nearly a paragraph of explanation. Ton of skills and modifiers in an action game is fucking nuts. Dark Souls doesn't even go into this much depth. When I have to read this much I expect an RPG or even a TRPG or RTS game, but not an action game. Somehow my brain locked up and said "screw this". I ended up picking random shit on the skill tree, sticking to one weapon, and messed around playing through the game with a friend. We got to the end, beat it, and I have no desire to pick it up again despite having so many weapon types to try. I hope Nioh 3 cuts down on the bloat but this was so fucking unnecessary.

>>712873691 (OP)
Make a numbered list of games, force yourself to play and finish each stsrting from number 1. Only ever play one game at a time. How to make yourself do this? Pure willpower. There are no tricks. If you don't have the will, you will be forever be a procrastinator.

I don't play multiplayer games or games without an ending.

I used to never finish games but a switch flipped last year now I only finish games. I started cataloging my completed games and they just have been piling up. I think I'm addicted to adding a new game to my completed list. I worked all year last year but have been neeting this year and I already have more finished on 2025 than 2024
Ive finished 60 games since the start of 2024, and I play long ass games for the most part. the only games I've dropped in that timeframe are visions of mana and AC6. visions was because i didn't like it, AC6 was for some new release I can't remember which but I got distracted and if I don't play a game for a while I struggle to get back into it

>>712885995
picrel. i've been going hard

>>712885995
>>712886310
wrong image, though i will NOT apologize for posting Eve.

>>712873691 (OP)
By playing the same game over and over again. They don't like this because it means you have no desire to buy new games. That's why the internet tries to condition you into thinking it's a bad thing to play the same game for a long time.

>>712885705
If you need to "force yourself" to play games then why not force yourself to do something useful like cleaning, cooking or learning a skill instead? IMO, if playing games doesn't feel like something pleasant that doesn't take any effort, you just shouldn't do it and start listening to music or watching something in your leisure time instead. Adulthood is realizing that just because something is difficult it doesn't mean it's worth doing or succeeding at if there's no real-life reward.

>>712887649
>learning a skill instead?
Juggling