Why Gaming Doesn't Feel Fun Anymore - and how to fix it

[@nottoday9182]

This was all really well thought out and written! I'll be 33 this year and I feel very similar to 99% of your points. It never gets better, you just get better at it I suppose

[@ZillennialRosa]

Yeah, you just get better at figuring out how to cope with the way things have changed. That same magic can never be recaptured, but you can still find the fun no matter what stage you're at in your life.

[@DanDrambles]

God this video is so good. It feels like the video I've wanted to make for a while but could never quite articulate. Thanks for putting words to my confusing thoughts.

[@ZillennialRosa]

Thank you very much! I'm happy to know that this topic is resonating with people.

[@xPXGx]

So much of what you say in this video hits VERY close to home. I appreciate that you took so much time and effort to articulate these feelings and to share thoughts that are often incredibly difficult to illustrate. Thank you.

[@ZillennialRosa]

I'm happy that my words could help!

[@MrSlendyMannn]

I can relate a lot to part 5. As I’ve gotten older, my mental health has for sure took a dive. It really does make it hard to even open my favourite games anymore, let alone complete new ones. I’ll always love gaming and I do still game a lot with friends but it doesn’t FEEL the same. I don’t think it ever will for a lot of us. I feel like I’m forcing myself to game a lot of the time (especially considering I’m unemployed at the moment and only studying on a course for further education) and that is never a good sign.

[@ZillennialRosa]

I relate very much to what you said here. Thank you for sharing.

[@benmalsky9834]

26:26 This is a big reason why I love Nintendo games, and games that are aimed at kids and family audiences. They’re not only accessible and easy to get into, but they have their own flavor and style that makes them tons of fun.

[@ZillennialRosa]

Nintendo games are generally pretty easy to jump back into whenever I go a while without playing any games.

[@steveorsomthing7600]

Another thing I would highly recommend is fiddling around the options menu for a more customized and personal experience experience! It’s often one of the first things I do in a game and it’s nice when the devs put in the option to toggle some stuff you may not necessarily like. Really great video looking forward to watching more of your content!

[@ZillennialRosa]

Also very true! Accessibility and graphical control settings are always nice when devs implement them. I'm hoping it continues to become more of a trend, especially with Nintendo games since they seem to fall behind in that department.

[@CannibalDethBear]

I hate how i feel EXACTLY like this and couldnt express it to myself before. Thank you lol

[@ZillennialRosa]

I'm glad I could put those thoughts to words and help out. Thank you for watching!

[@RetroTaylor94]

Really good video. It's something I haven't really thought of much, why I tend to gravitate playing the same games instead of going out and getting something AAA. I always had a hard time coming to terms with just "liking what I like".

[@ZillennialRosa]

Thanks for watching! I'm happy other people have been able to relate.

[@shimsham6]

This is a very well edited and honest opinion that is deeply relatable for those of us who also had similar experiences as a gamer.

[@Toby_Kat]

Dude, you’re a dang delight! Very insightful and well-spoken, and with a chill voice too :3 Good work here!

[@punishedblowstein1111]

I just avoid AAA "movie games" for the most part. Best decision in my recent memory

[@ZillennialRosa]

It's the genre I like to call "Uncharted" games, which try to be more like film. They're still well made, but I'd agree that they're typically pretty mindless.

[@HighLifeProds17]

I'd just watch them on KZbin. They're practically movies, anyhow.

[@ZillennialRosa]

@@HighLifeProds17 Telltale games are basically movies.

[@SpeedStar-cq5qy]

Great video. Many of the tips you outline near the end are things I have been doing for years and still hold up well to this day.

[@ZillennialRosa]

Thank you. I'm happy to know that what I'm putting out there is practical and helpful.

[@freezingwind3967]

3:29 oh my god, you unlocked a memory I forgot I had from the monster house game

[@ZillennialRosa]

I like to drop unsuspecting nostalgia bombs here on the channel.

[@killerbouquet3220]

Part 1: Christ, you're right. I used to spend hours playing Megaman X8 as a kid, only to grow up and find out most people either didn't buy it or didn't like it... Part 2: it's like George Carlin once said: "Too many choices America, it's not healthy!" You raised some spine-chilling points here my friend. I recently felt that sense of childlike Wonder though. It happened because I used to watch caddicarus a lot and he discussed a game called Condemned: Criminal Origins. I was always a huge horror fan so I decided to pick it up and give it a shot. I ended up absolutely loving the game. There was no obligation, just a huge wave of fun. Even though my time was limited, I still found lots of joy in it because I wanted to play it, not because I felt I had to. Please keep up the great work. Love your videos 👍👍

[@ZillennialRosa]

Thank you! I'm really proud of this one and I'm happy to hear that people are enjoying it.

[@AnythingisBetterThanStarfield]

You know, this an extremely difficult, but very true discussion. I really haven't enjoyed gaming as much as i once used too, I was born in 95, My very first game was Street Fighter II on the Sega Genesis when i was 4-5 years old, apparently i watched my dad hook up the Genesis so many times i just hooked it up myself and started playing the game, my dad got home pissed but he was impressed because he thought my mom hooked it up for me, the gaming that i truly remember the best was my time while i was in elementary school, i played on OG Xbox, played games like Dead or Alive 3, Rainbow Six 3, Doom 3, 007 Everything or Nothing, and XIII. I even played games online with my dad and a bunch of his friends he met over gaming. So many grand memories, But nowadays it is hard to even really appreciate and enjoy gaming, I enjoy coop gaming still, My most played game at the moment is Back 4 Blood, i play that with my brother, my sister, and her friend. Something about coop gaming is very fun still to me, but i remember being able to turn the world off, go on these crazy adventures in gaming, forgetting the world kinda sucks right now, and just being able to enjoy a game single player style. I even try to keep on streaming but i always just have a voice in my head saying "Hey, no one is watching, you are wasting your time streaming the game, go to sleep instead." It is such a weird thing that its kinda just fizzling out. Like i said the last single player game i remember beating was DAYS GONE. Gaming is something that can be enjoyed by me sometimes, but i feel overall it is just kinda here and there for me now. But another excellent video Zillennial, i am glad i got recommended to the channel.

[@ZillennialRosa]

I'm glad you found the channel. Thank you for the compliment, and I'm happy I could make something you could relate to.

[@stefcannon2580]

This is relatable! Great video! I used to play and finish games a lot, but I had a lot fewer games than I do now. Now I can pretty much get any game I want, but it’s very rare I’ll try a new game and it’s very very rare I’ll play and finish any game at all now. I just bounce from game to game and play them for a little bit before going onto something else. It feels bad that I’m not putting the same time and commitment into any one game like I used to…

[@ZillennialRosa]

Thank you! I'm happy I could make something you could relate to.

[@lanceducusin4696]

Part 5 was right even if my parents are supportive I was often ridiculed for liking video games and anime it was often viewed as "immature" and "childish" it didn't affect me (cause I'm a baddie💅) but I understand your point! In the end enjoying what you like is very important!😍

[@ZillennialRosa]

I'm slowly proving to my family how useful video games are for me by growing my YT channel where I talk about video games and movies & stuff. But yeah, doing the things you enjoy is extremely important.

[@lanceducusin4696]

@@ZillennialRosa that's great! Even if my whole family is supportive of my passion for playing video games I can understand the feeling of being ridiculed for enjoying what you like😍

[@cjware316]

I'm 26. A self admitted, Veteran "no life", lel. Everything from late night games of Infection - Halo 3 Half-Life 2..nuff said.. (gmod tho) All nighters on COD (4/WaW/MW2/Bo1/Bo2) The journey through Assassin's Creed. The wait n' anticipation for AC3 was insane. The whole 2012 plotline was top. etc. etc.. I'm 100% sure there are many, many, more countless amounts of nostalgic moments and memories in the labyrinthian vault that is my gaming "career". I'm so damn glad to have been born when I was and to have been there for a true golden age of video games.. If not "THE" "golden age" .. My advice to younger gamers is to expand your gaming catalog. Diversify what kind of games you play and make sure to play the classics. The very same video games that bore the many fruits that we still enjoy in our modern games. I would list some, but this comment is already running long. Some games may look dated or you might even hesitate to play them because you lack the proper hardware to play. Well, my answer is BUY STUFF!! Buy an old PS2. PS3. Play MGS4. Spyro, Syphon Filter or Jak n' Daxter. Buy an old Xbox. Play Brute Force, or the Fable series (play 2 if you only ever try one) Fable being a MUST play if you call yourself a fan of RPG games. I forget that the younger gamers among us.... Fuck why would I say that... Anyways.. the younger gamers...uhh around us.. (lmao) haven't played these games, that to me were just awesome games. But looking back now have slowly earned "classic" status. At least in my eyes... Oblivion. Fallout 3. Freedom Fighters. the original PC and PS2 era, Call of Duty games.. Holy crap. I've rambled and ranted faar too long.. one last thing for any hardcore Halo fans.. "i r gUy.. wH0 gUn T33ch U L3SSoN"

[@dis_inferno9173]

Metroid laughing at game industry right now. Metroid is a king.

[@ZillennialRosa]

Samus is Queen

[@HazasDump]

Lately, I get really excited for a new game and expect it for a long time, just for me to finally try it out and say "Wow, this is cool. I'm going to keep playing later". That's when I forget about it forever, it happens the same with any media I try to consume. Me convertí en lo que odiaba de chiquito, ayuda.

[@ZillennialRosa]

Yeah, I'm right there with you.

[@dreambreakerremixfactoryof6160]

"the one obsessed with video games" ...yup I've heardly played videogames for a while and my parents still tell me this sometimes they go so far as to call me an addict and it throws you off

[@ZillennialRosa]

Yeah, it's pretty annoying, and it especially shows how little they understand. I saw it as my family trying to alienate me in some way.

[@tobiyoarcangel]

15:18 woah, did you say "my tío" ?

[@ZillennialRosa]

Yep. I'm not shying away from my Mexican side on this channel.

[@tobiyoarcangel]

Yeah that's very chido. I was asking cause I wasn't sure if I misheard it, or if it was something like "D-O", and I was trying to remember if there was any relative that's addressed as that in English.

[@hakkin_d]

Awesome vid, VERY relatable.

[@aldocabellomarin1]

man you really need to talk about vampire night

[@ZillennialRosa]

I've never played it personally, but from what I've seen I'm definitely very interested.

[@aldocabellomarin1]

@@ZillennialRosa you should give it a try even in a emulator is worth playing it. Btw really looking forward your content, big fan

[@ZillennialRosa]

@@aldocabellomarin1 I'll definitely look into it at some point. I don't know if I'll make a video on it, but I'm definitely at least interested in playing it. Also thank you, I'm happy you enjoy my videos.

[@seanrogers212]

The Stage Complete Music is so awesome, It only lasts like 14 seconds and I wish it was longer because it is quite beautiful

[@RIan-vk6dh]

This is probably one of the most useful and relatable video I've watched til now. Growing up in an asian country, the values are the same to a crazy extent.

[@ZillennialRosa]

I grew up in the US but I myself am Mexican and have family in Mexico. While things are very different between the two cultures, a lot of things are still very similar. I imagine the experience I had with my parents is something most people around the world have experienced.

[@RIan-vk6dh]

@@ZillennialRosa You're a treasure mine of relatable content, i hope you continue this! Your hour long videos are like therapy to me now at this point!

[@ZillennialRosa]

@@RIan-vk6dh I do plan on making more very lengthy videos, including one I'm working on right now, but they take longer to make, so I'll make some smaller ones in between. Thank you for watching!

[@alo7712]

I feel the same in some ways, thankfully i have found a way to not feel that way. I just play fighting games lol (funciona bien it worky)

[@r3tr0_r3dux_2]

This was an excellent video. I've noticed that I get game burnout more often now because I'm at an impase in my life and get periods of depression or boredom where I just can't find something to fill my time. While I've been going to therapy for years, those appointments can only cover so much and gaming isn't really one of them; so those suggestions of deleting games from your library or subsidising games into folders is a great idea. I'm also one to only really play single player games because I don't like to branch out and try multiplayer games (mainly because of the stigma that everyone on the other end of the mic has apparently banged your mom and some point) but games that I can play with friends or can make new ones is something that can definitely rekindle my love for games. Sorry for the long rant, but I had to get those thoughts out.

[@ZillennialRosa]

I'm happy my suggestions were able to help. Hopefully you can rekindle your love of gaming.

[@red8bird652]

I'm having problems with the discord

[@ZillennialRosa]

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I've gone in and fixed the link. Here it is discord.gg/FP5g65YfYS

[@wilsonweiseng6485]

I agree with part 2, back as a kid if i get my hands on a ps2 i go ape. Nowadays i look at the ps5 and suddenly my insomia is cured

[@peterfairchild258]

God bless you 🙏 I'm glad you're better love your work 🤟

[@ZillennialRosa]

Thank you! Your kind words are appreciated!

[@C-F]

For some time the problem with choice was taken care of for me by the fact that I prefer to use Linux as my OS. Just a few years back this meant that any game not specifically designed for Linux would be at least a little painful to get up and running, especially if you didn't have top of the line hardware, let alone the aging hardware I had. The tendency with games to receive native Linux ports was and still is that they're likely to be an indicator of developers who don't rush things and care about those they are making these games for (not to say that the other devs always rush and never care). In the recent years however, Valve started *really* caring about gaming on Linux, first porting Steam and their own games to Linux, throwing money and developers towards Wine, the compatibility layer for Windows applications and most recently released a Linux based gaming handheld, to name just a few of their efforts. All in all, nowadays if you have a rig that is somewhat close to being released in this past decade and you run Linux on it, you can buy pretty much any game and so long as it does not use some very invasive DRM or anti-cheat software, it'll most likely work out of the box, with very comparable performance, sometimes even better than on Windows. Ironically though, by doing all that, they also brought over the problems mentioned in this well crafted video as well (and frankly fixing them would mean less money for Valve, so why would they?). Thanks for the suggestions at the end btw. Am curious to see who or what comes out of that cracking egg :)

[@ZillennialRosa]

Thank you very much. I'm glad I could help. It's gonna be a while before anyone finds the answer to that last question, but I'm excited for the day when it can finally hatch.

[@C-F]

@@ZillennialRosa Well it wasn't a question strictly speaking. I know for a fact that it's gonna be a beautiful butterfly, spreading its wings as much as joy and happiness, loved by everyone but a blind few.

[@wilsonweiseng6485]

It's hard to find a game that felt like it worth ths dedcation. One day you bought a game that was supposedly well recommended and next thing you're 24/7 hours on stardew valley because you don't have anything good to play

[@ZillennialRosa]

That's exactly the kind of feeling that made me really want to make this video.

[@115spt2]

NINTEEENDO SIXTY FOOOOOOOUUUURRRR!!!! OHHHHH MAAAAHHH GAWWWDDD!!! RWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRR!

[@ZillennialRosa]

Always a classic clip

[@Sepúlveda_Boulevard]

Tremendo video, 1hr de video de buena calidad, saludos desde Arg.

[@ZillennialRosa]

Muchísimas gracias. Estaba despierto hasta las cinco de la mañana.

[@Sepúlveda_Boulevard]

@@ZillennialRosa pensás hacer algún video en español algún día?

[@ZillennialRosa]

@@Sepúlveda_Boulevard Mi español no es tan bueno. Pero trataré de usar más en mis videos para que la gente no olvide que soy mexicana.

[@Sepúlveda_Boulevard]

@@ZillennialRosa no hay que olvidar de dónde venimos, buenísima idea ✨💯🤙

[@Bondan830]

cone tall

[@XELACRAFTS]

Just stop

[@ZillennialRosa]

I guess that's one way to do it.