Do you ever just feel too tired from every day life to play games?

I play multiple games at a time, so for example this week I've been playing Graceful Explosion Machine and Monster Boy in the mornings before work (generally arcade or platform games, Titanfall 2 for a while), Overwatch on the nights I go into work later, and Persona 5 on days off.

Not trying to shill, but Switch probably got me another 10 hours a week in just by being able to play in bed, on breaks, and in bursts and I highly recommend it for people trying to find time or using thier gaming rig to be an ordeal of any magnitude. Not habing to further divide my gaming between handheld and console games is a huge boon, and like another poster said, 5 minutes can become an extended session when the hooks dig in.
 
I have two boys, and I just don't have the time to play anymore. The only time that I have an hour of playing is when I drop my son at his karate class at the Y, and instead of working out, I would play BoTW in the lobby. I then jump on the treadmill, sprint for 15 min to get a good sweat so my wife thinks I've been working out, pick my kid up, and go home.

I used to spend a lot of time playing Elite Dangerous, and I've accumulated many gears for this game. Warthog, trackir5, slaw pedal, ultrawide monitor, rift CV1. I barely have the energy to play it now. Every night I would look at my gaming corner, and I just don't have the energy to plug things in, and play.
 
That's me, for the last 6 months, and probably the next few years.

I wish I could stop buying games too.
 
Yes, all the time. I find I get most of my gaming time in the morning before work - I get my daughter ready for her day and have about 30 - 45 minutes where it's just me in the house.


I still sometimes waste that too :(


Edit: Member status, woohoo!
 
K.Jack said:
That's me, for the last 6 months, and probably the next few years.

I wish I could stop buying games too.
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This is so me. I never pay full retail but I find gaming to be a chore sometimes and it's more fun to hang around on neogaf esp in Off-Topic. Yet I can't stop buying games and adding to my already expensive and long backlog. My PS4 Pro and Xbox One 2TB drives are nearly full and I just bought a 4TB drive to cache more games. I need a shrink and self control.
 
Only recently graduated college and started a job, but yeeeep. I get up at 6 and get back home between 5 and 5:30. Especially after the commute I just feel dead, not to mention nights where I'm unlucky and get called up in the middle of the evening/night for work-related reasons.

Sometimes working out a little or eating a nice meal helps give me the energy to do something more than lie down and watch stuff (read, write, play games, etc). Generally I'm disciplined enough to take advantage of the time I've got - at the end of the day just lying around doesn't help me unwind any more than something more productive or engaging would.
 
Yep. Work and family life can drain me on some days I don't even want to expend the mental power to watch TV, much less something interactive like gaming
 
The Switch has really been a gamechanger for me when it comes to this subject. I'm a Metal Worker and do pretty physical labor during the day. Over the last couple of years I've spent less and less time playing games because I usually just can't muster up the energy to play or I want to watch Sports or Cable News and I just wind up not playing anything at all.

I've logged over 85 hours on Zelda since it came out. That's the most time I've spent playing one single game in almost a decade (in my 30s) . Not having to sit in front of my TV when I want to play a quality game has played a big part in that.
 
Yep. Like someone else said, the thing is to just get started and then I'm good.

I've also been going to sleep earlier, waking up earlier, and playing a bit before work.

It could just be because Zelda is so damn good though.
 
Yes.

I keep buying games, but when I finally get time, I only play the same ones I always play (like, Overwatch for instance.)
Its not good.
 
Yep. I'm in grad school, and since the semester is almost over, I've been far too swamped to play anything. Bitter sweet, though. When this semester's finally over, I'll finally get to bask in Persona 5, which I haven't even fired up yet.
 
It's why I hate most of these open world games. Too many fetch​ quests and mechanics meant to increase player play time. Give me a proper linear game any day, I don't have the energy to travel 10 minutes in a game for someone to tell me go to point B pick up X then return to point A only to be rewarded with one line of dialogue.
 
Oh yeah, all the time. A lot of the time I just don't even know what to play so I'll end up leaving my PS4 on for a while and then turning it off. Haven't had that problem as much recently but yeah, it sucks.
 
Yeah, my main time to game is at night but I usually end up feeling too tired and just watch Netflix instead.

It's a mode I gotta get into. Witcher 3 kept me playing every night. Zelda's been addicting but it's losing me a little.
 
Yep, well, I feel too tired to play games that I would actually like to play. Work gets me really exhausted and I get home by 11 pm so that leaves me an hour and I still have to get some things done in the house.

I play mobile games, yes, but it's for work and they don't really count.
 
The hours at my job ruin my experience. Because I'm always home after dark, I just watch TV until I clonk out and the following morning, I'm preparing for the work day ahead. It took a whole month to just finish Zelda (although, it was a long game so...). Every night I've been trying to start up Nier Automata but a game like that requires too much of you and my eyes are shutting. I suppose I could manage my time better... or quit sleeping.
 
Yep, all the time. Kids are exhausting. By the time I get my son to bed at night, I usually don't have the energy to do much except lie in bed and watch TV. And we just had our 2nd kid a few weeks ago, so now I'm really screwed.
 
Yep. It's been a week since I've actually played a video game. Summer is almost here and I can properly shut myself away from society and enjoy some gaming.
 
The Switch (or any handheld really) has been great for this since it's so easy to pick up and play for 20-40 minutes while my wife is watching tv or having the baseball game on. I can just click the power into sleep mode and stop once I feel like it's too much.

It's just a psychological thing but it feels like a lot less investment than firing up the PS4. Especially to play a game like Persona or Horizon which I feel like need attention and time.
 
Yup happens to me. On those days I just take it easy and maybe go to bed early. Heck even when I'm on the bus heading home I try to play my Vita and I just start dozing off 5~10 minutes in, just gotta take the nap man!
 
In the same boat OP...facing the dilemma of life, when I had free time, had no money to buy games, now have money but no time :(
As other have mentioned, for the games that are tense or need lot of focus like Alien: Isolation, Bloodborne, I keep them for the weekend, when i'm comparatively more relaxed, for the weekdays I play games like Firewatch, Life Is Strange, Unravel etc for an hour or so...games which are good but not that exhausting.
 
It's been killing me lately, but I think it's mostly a lack of sleep.

After work I'd love to play P5, but I end up knocking out after dinner and then I waking up way too late.
 
Kind of. I've had P5 sitting there for a couple of weeks because I've been so busy with the Easter period that I haven't had any time to sit down and concentrate on it.
 
Oh absolutely- getting back late, getting caught up with just resting... I find myself spacing out to old Call of Duty games a lot just to load up something quick and fun. I also usually will just roam around in Liberty City.

And never making progress on everything I want to be playing.
 
When Nioh hit, I did nothing but play and work/uni, but my save clocked barely 100hs.

Since the patch hit, I haven't had time to go back on it.

I spend too much time on Netflix tho...
 
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