RedWhiteBlue
Banned
Yeah, whenever I have done this myself (playing a game all day or all weekend) I do leave with a bit of a hollow feeling. Almost like regret.Me too, I love games, but staying in and sitting in all day, be it games, movies or books (assuming this is your main distraction)... It would make me feel depressed. Mind you, I have never been one to sit and play for a full day, ever, even as a kid, often half a day at a time, or morning, then evening, etc. but rarely a full day, certainly not two.
I find what makes me feel really good is going outside and see the world, especially mountains and large bodies of water for some reason, I can observe nature downtown too.
Like when I took a few days off when Ghost of Tsushima launched played through the game over 3 days and then kind of felt like that's a lot of money to spend on what was just an OK experience. Probably would have been better played over shorter installments.
Getting out and about will always provide healthy benefits. Sunlight, exercise, sense of belonging. Better than sitting cooped up in a room trying to work through your backlog.
Thats one of the seldom talked about issues in gaming for me. This thing where people build up a massive "backlog" of games. Possibly it just means most games are worth playing but not worth completing. Or it points to something a bit off within the community and the industry that we are all so willing to just have 1000s of bucks worth of uncompleted games lying around.