tp you understand me.
I've been trying to explain to people why games like Witcher 3, Shadow of Mordor, Last of Us, etc. just don't hook me. I mean they look amazing and I can appreciate them, but I just don't feel like sitting down and playing those games for 8 hours straight (not that I feel like this very often any more...).
I think part of the addiction for me is that the game has to have a ladder or ranking system I can see myself improving in. Now that I think about it, every game I've ever been hooked on has had a ladder (Starcraft, LoL, Hearthstone, Rocket League). Open world just leaves too many options so I don't know if I'm playing the game "optimally" or not - which is another problem. Whenever I decide to play a game I want to know everything about it, that I'm making the right decisions (no matter how small), and that I'm executing those decisions properly. Those big single player campaign games have great stories and all, but I keep questioning whether or not I skilled the right thing, held on to the right items, etc. I wish I could just sit myself down in one and play it out, but I almost feel like restarting the game all over again if I think I've done something sub-optimally. Skyrim was a nightmare for me
) I wonder if maybe I'm just a little too competitive though....
One things that solved this though was speedrunning games like the Ocarina of Time. I don't have the patience to normally playthrough the game - but I can spend hours upon hours trying to get a certain glitch/skip.
