Recently for my mental health I decided to stop playing competitive games. You know, your Battlefields, your Call of Duty’s, your War Thunders, etc. I found myself angry more than I was having fun. For the past ten years… I don’t think I ever ended a session of a player vs player match - “happy.” Now I’m playing mostly singleplayer games with some MMORPGs. I am much happier. I actually look forward to gaming when I can. There is enough to get mad at in the world, I don’t want my entertainment medium of choice to be anger inducing as well. I feel like the worst part about the vast majority of player vs player games is that someone basically has to not be having fun for the other person to have fun. Not universal, and probably more a matter of personal mindset but it’s how I feel. I was just wondering how many if any comrades here have done the same and how it has effected you? I can confidentally say my life is better for it.
I’ve been playing House Flipper 2 a lot, which is a good detox from high stress games. Getting back into EU4 as well, beating up Europe at every chance I can get. Trying to learn Kremlingames games, mostly China: Mao’s Legacy. Flying the MiG-19 in DCS, my favorite plane. It’s been fun, and better. I do not miss War Thunder too much.
I’m not knocking people who like high action player vs player enviroments, it’s just something I have grown to not enjoy anymore personally.
lmao i never managed to get into these kinds of games. too anxiety-inducing and stressful.
i tried in the past because i was so fucking lonely and thought it would’ve been a good way to make friends. oh well.
i’ve always been a singleplayer/co-op girl and that’s not going to change anytime soon.
This is like me. I would like to play them but they are way too stressful, especially if there’s voice/text. I sometimes do coop stuff - Remant 2, World War Z, Destiny 2 but if I pick up that someone’s getting annoyed with me I get stressed and start playing badly. I wish games were better at putting you with similarly ranked people but I think they just want short queues so they chuck everyone in together - newbs and the not-so-good get slaughtered and either get good quickly or leave (mostly leave I think). For me, at least, the best thing is to try to find a small, friendly Discord community and just play the games when you know you are going to be with friendly, supportive people. I’d love to play games like Rust, CoD, but toxic players keep me away. Then there’s the homophobia and ageism… but that’s a whole other post or two. 😅