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

I have played a ton of Persona 5 but my health issues have really dragged down my life. I use to game so much more but now I feel zapped after I work. I work 84 hours a week as well and have since 2009.Non-stop , I really need a vacation but I can't take the time off without my financial situation going to hell..

I miss being a kid sometimes. My kid self would have loved the games I have access to now.
 
This thread, summed up in one picture.

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Yup that's me and I still can't bring myself to accept this new reality. I work retail from 6:30 am to 2:30 pm and go hard on my weightlifting 5X a week when I finally get home I still have to meal prep etc. When I'm finally free I just feel drained and sometimes I fall asleep around 8.30 or 9 pm max lol. First world problems...
 
clarknova156 said:
I have played a ton of Persona 5 but my health issues have really dragged down my life. I use to game so much more but now I feel zapped after I work. I work 84 hours a week as well and have since 2009.Non-stop , I really need a vacation but I can't take the time off without my financial situation going to hell..

I miss being a kid sometimes. My kid self would have loved the games I have access to now.
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You're working that hard and don't even get some PTO? Forgive me if I come across as naive but that sounds like a situation I'd do anything to get out of. Working 80 hours biweekly is more than enough.
 
No way! It's the games which let me escape from the busy and tiring day :) I love it, I get annoyed when I don't get much time to play after a long day.
 
Especially true after having a kid. I usually wait until after putting him to bed so I can play, but most of the times the silence and calm is so overwhelming that I fall asleep about 15 minutes later.
 
Wife in nursing school. Two kids (1 & 3). Typical 40 hours a week. By the time I get the time, it's 9pm and I want something easy.

Plus, far easier to watch some good NBA playoffs, then pick up my sticks and concentrate.
 
As echoed throughout the thread, yes. This is normal.

But a good tip I've learned recently and am trying to implement vigorously myself: delete your backlog. This year specifically was front loaded with so much stuff that it was impossible for me to keep up.

I still have like 5 titles this year I haven't touched. But the 10+ games of the last few year have been removed from my lists, sold off, or given away.

I don't know if its just me but that backlog would stress me out. Not so much that it would affect my daily life but to the point where it became a chore of a to do list. And that doesn't sound like much fun. Which was the aim of gaming in the first place.

So now I'm playing what I want, whenever I want, when I have pockets of large or small time. It's tough to be part of this community to have to miss out on discussions and avoid spoilers for certain things but the freedom of not worrying about the dreaded backlog makes it worth it IMO.
 
I'm 41, father of 2 young kids, never feel too tired to game unless its time for bed (10:30-11pm ish). Work/life balance is good though.
 
The past month has been this ad-nauseum. I wake up at 6:30 a.m., write for two hours, take a drive that ranges anywhere between 1-3 hours, have meetings until 6 p.m, drive home, spend time with my fiancé and then it's time for bed. That's my Monday through Thursday gamut.

Friday and Saturday are usually wholly dedicated to spending time with friends of ours, visiting family, etc. It means Sunday is the best shot I get at sitting down and playing but by then, I'm just too tired to bother much. I can usually get three hours into a game until I'm spent.

Once the project I'm working on is finished, things will iron out but it's going to be another month at least before I get my time and energy back.
 
I'll echo a lot of what other said. I think a lot of has to do with how much time I spend 'immersed' in gaming with GAF multiple times a day and a couple different podcasts. I still love games don't get me wrong, but when I get home from a long day it's hard to load up something I'm not super into. Even if I am really into the after awhile I feel laggy. It is all cyclical though. I'll be out of playing games for a couple months than just run through games the next couple months.
 
Most weeknights, after work, dinner, chores, and caring for my pets, I just can't get into the proper headspace to sit down and focus for a long enough chunk of time to make progress in a game.

Recently, the Switch has helped me get more gaming time in. Specifically with BotW, I could play for almost any length of time and feel like I accomplished a little something. I'm strongly considering picking up MK8 Deluxe despite telling myself I didn't need a port of a Wii U game I already own.
 
Yeah, work, family with raising two little ones its tough. keeping a marriage on track is tough juggling all of this and also trying to treat myself when i can. game time becomes a quick 10-20 minute session most times.
 
When I was in College, Working 2 jobs, and had a girlfriend I would occasionally slip into a slump like this.

Now that I'm single, have 1 full time job, and have graduated I feel the exact opposite.
 
I have enough trouble as it is staying awake when watching movies, so, yeah, it can be hard sometimes to muster enough energy to play games as well - lol.
 
I get a window of like 9pm-11pm after the kids go to bed, and Bought Mass Effect but haven't even bothered leaving the first planet.

Plenty of money, no time for games.
 
Yeah lately been a big problem since I started my new job. I'm just too tired once I get home to do anything.
 
VGdrumCovers said:
Heads up:

You should all try getting to bed before 11pm, 12pm at the latest where possible. It really helps with tiredness.
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I head to bed at midnight, but the main problem is falling asleep. Most of the time I'm tossing and turning for a few hours before I eventually fall asleep.
 
I felt that a lot with the Wii.

Shit like Red Steel 2 and No More Heroes were amazing games but required you to move.
 
Damn looks like I am part of an epidemic. I just had newborn twins and since they came it would be 11 pm by the time everything is done and i just end up watching netflix. As much as I don't like Iron fist I keep watching it. Lately I've pulled away to play Horizon though.
 
My problem is three fold:

1) I don't like playing video games (or doing anything enjoyable in general) if I have other stuff hanging over my head like homework or whatever.
2) There's actually an incredibly limited and specific time frame that I can even remotely enjoy myself when I'm playing which is Friday-Sunday, and even by Sunday I start to lose interest. This is a weird quirk of mine that I've had since I was a kid. Weekdays just never seemed like a good time to play games cause of school and even Sundays would become kinda meh due to the fact that school started the next day. This mentality carried over all the way into adulthood, even when I'm not going to school.
3) With the exception of a few select games, I've come to realize I get bored really easily. Once I finally sit down to play a game, I find myself not really enjoying it as much as I thought I would have and so easily get sidetracked into doing some other activity.
 
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Yeah.. as a father of a baby and a toddler my energy is more akin to gramps.

Like others have already said though, Switch had been an amazing godsend. The main difference is that I don't have to get over the big hurdle to start playing a game at 10pm. Rather, I start playing during my morning commute and I just fire up the console at 10pm to quickly finish my play session.

It's pretty amazing what that does psychologically.
 
Sometimes.

But for the other 99% of the time it really helps me relax and unwind, even stressful games like the souls series work. Whereas watching tv is what will likely put me to sleep.
 
Aomber said:
Do you ever just feel too tired from every day life to play games?
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Today is such a day. I'm too tired from work and am just listening to some music and browsing the web instead. I'm not even motivated enough to watch an Anime or TV Show right now. That said, I've finished Persona 5 after 120 hours and within 2 weeks the other day, so there isn't really anything that would drive me to play at the moment, maybe I'm also feeling a bit of fatique of all those hours or perhaps it's that feeling that nothing I will play or watch can compare? I still have Quantum Break, Resident Evil 7 and Deus Ex MD waiting but I can't be bothered to finish them it seems, they don't have quite the same pull for me that Persona 5 had.

Judging from the newer releases I only see myself playing Nier for hours straight but I don't think I would be able to enjoy it on a daily basis like with Persona 5, it feels a bit like most modern games don't seem to be made for me anymore, tailored to a younger, more focused audience perhaps. P5, Nier and Breath of the Wild are most likely the exceptions to that rule for me...
 
I hate it when I'm too drunk to play but don't get too tired that it stops me from gaming if I wanted to. Drunkenness however is a full stop for me because I end up passing out. LOL
 
Yeah its been getting to me lately. I'm trying to play Persona 5 and when I can sit down and get into it its nothing but reading and social link stuff then I fall asleep. I haven't done a dungeon in almost a week now
 
This happens all the time. Going to work, sorting stuff out at home, spending time with my daughter, partner and dog i find that i am usually way too wrecked to play games. I usually find time but lately with the large open world games that have released they feel daunting with the limited time i have to play.
 
Married with kid.

Daily before bed : 1 or 2 rounds of battleground (Its pretty good for dad with short game duration. Each round takes fastest 10 mins or longest 30 mins est)
 
Thread is too real. With a high stress job and two children I tend to neglect sleep to play, typically running on 4 hours a night. As the years go by I am noticing how my body is getting less and less capable as the months roll by.

My body feels constantly wrecked and yet my backlog still gets bigger. :D
 
Yep. I can only manage 2 hours a day weekdays. When I was working 12 hour shifts I barely gamed for days on end. Well, this weekend will be catchup time!
 
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