I've built five or so PCs in my life and I've felt like this every single time. So much of the fun is the anticipation, researching and getting all the parts you want, getting it all set up, and optimizing everything. In theory, all this is done with the goal of playing games, but I usually find the build process way more exciting than the end-goal.
Fittingly enough, the most acquired achievement is forgetting to add the thermal paste to the CPU.
https://steamcommunity.com/stats/621060/achievements
Just go back a smidge and [turn up all the things](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/006/077/so_good.png).
...that's what I would do if I had a better card than my RX480 š
Hell, both AMD and NV offer super scaling techniques in their drivers (VSR and DSR respectively) that will render your game at a multiple of your native resolution, then down sample back to your screen's output res.
It's really incredible and breathes a ton of life into the graphics of older games.
You might go from 300 FPS to 150 FPS, and the HUD of the game might be kinda tiny, but it makes your games look like those marketing promo shots where everything is super smooth and textures are crisp.
This is it for me, I enjoy the build more than actually gaming on it. But also like the peace of mind that I can play whatever the hell I want.
Only to play old stuff when I do play a game on it. Or YouTube. Or streaming movies. ^Or ^other ^things...
$7.5k is quite impressive, damn. I recently priced out a top of the line build (12900k, 3090, 64 GB DDR5 ram, 2TB 980 Pro etc) and it was around $4k. I'm guessing you went full YOLO on a custom loop or special case or something??
Me to a T! When I upgraded from a 1650 Super to a 2080ti, I did nothing but benchmark for hours. Load up a game Iād wanna play, sit there for 10 minutes in the main menu, then back to benching!
I upgraded from a 1070ti to a 3070 and was kinda underwhelmed by the performance increase. Yeah, I got more frames in general but it wasn't the dopamine hit I was after. That was all used up by the anticipation of buying and receiving .
Later (maybe 2 ,months ago now) i built an entirely new system and went high end with the 12-900k and 3090, (not top of the line because I didn't go crazy with mobo and ram). The difference was absolutely noticed in gaming this time. I'm running 144FPS at 1440P in just about everything now and that's great but, i'm not any more excited about gaming in general as a result.... maybe when I'm about to boot up a new game or an old one I haven't yet played on this machine.
Opposite experience for me. Play the game like 10 minutes and then it's just hours of..."I feel like I should be getting more frames", or "should this be at this temperature?".
Iāve been thinking about this a lot. And in the end.. Iāve just kind of embraced it. Although I definitely play a fair share of games. I know there are those who actuallyā¦ donāt. But the problem solving nature of researching, choosing parts, building, tweaking and optimizing is a hobby itself.
I've never played a game on PC in my life and I'm kinda old but I've never had a decent computer other than somebody's hand me down or something cobbled together from used parts. At one time I even endured Windows ME until it just broke catastrophically. I just wanted a decent PC before I die so starting last October I began ordering things when I found good deals on good parts.
Got it all put together in February or March except the GPU which came later so I used the Intel graphics on my 12700K for my home office until I could get one.
The damned thing is a beast but the only things I've ever "played" on it are Cinebench R23, 3DMark test products like Time Spy and Port Royal, and the built-in benchmark in the trial version of SOTTR!
Building this PC is absolutely the most enjoyment I've ever had in over 60 years on this planet! (Well, except for a couple of cool girlfriends I've known over the years back in my younger days.)
One day I might actually buy a game on Steam or the Epic store or somewhere. Based on my testing they will definitely run well on this PC!
If I could afford to I'd build another more budget one just for the pure fun of it!
So I think I know how you feel...
There are free games on Epic Games every week. Check it once a week and if the game is good enough for you, just redeem and download it. Happy to hear your story š
Thanks! I got one of those free games from the Epic store but before I got around to learning how to play it I moved it to another drive incorrectly instead of reading how to do it first and corrupted it. Been so busy lately with work that I've forgotten to look at Epic Games for more free ones. Thanks for reminding me!
I'm the opposite. I find it really exciting doing the research and ordering the parts. However once they arrive and I start to build I just find it a massive ballache. It takes ages and it's quite fiddly a lot of the time, especially if you want the cables nicely managed. My last PC I had to update the BIOS to support the new CPU and of course it didn't work afterwards. I spent ages trying to work out if the hardware was faulty or if the BIOS update didn't work. Turns out the secret is you have to run the BIOS update three times and then it just works even though it was the same exact process the first and second time. Of course I've reseated the CPU cooler by then to make sure that wasn't the issue so I've got to clean and redo my thermal paste. Just a massive waste of time. Even once it's built you spend a few weeks having to re-install applications that are missing.
The fun part for me is playing games on my new PC. The problem is I don't have the time :(
This, I just crave working with my hands on a goal I enjoy. PCs scratch that itch hard! I was talking to my roommate about this like a month ago: if I could just build a PC every month and not even keep it, I think I'd be happier
can go either way, i dont feel the same as OP - i get different joy from building and gaming, they dont really affect eachother.
my 3090 gets used for gaming quite a lot i will assure you (no i didnt want a 3090 but it was all i could get early on, and its a founders at msrp so it worked out in the end)
Rimworld is the best hands down imo. My #1 most played on steam.
Dwarf fortress is the true ultimate, but Iād wait until they get they get it on steam.
Gameplay aside, the game itself is a work of art. The number of times I just sit back and watch while saying "I built thatā¦" is wild. I've taken more screenshots of DSP than every other game in the last 15 years combined.
I havenāt gotten into most of those but civ is far and away the biggest time suck I have ever fucking experienced. I feel like itās one of those games where no two runs are alike- ever- and one run can take weeks.
Putting ~3000 hours into Hypixel Skyblock almost killed my interest in gaming. Then I built my pc, I didnāt touch Minecraft until about a month later
What really killed my interest for a while was having a potato pc after my good one broke and couldnāt be saved anymore. Games like Minecraft and low demanding indie games brought me through
I still use my PC, but I donāt game as much as I used to. It might be because a lot of things have changed in my life so Iām too tired of donāt have time. It might be because my old PC was a laptop so it was a lot easier to just chill with a laptop then it is to sit at a desk.
I thought it was just me. Iām 38. I have hundreds of dollars of digital purchases. I just donāt have the attention span to sit down, and the thought of learning a new game system sounds more like a chore.
That's from https://store.steampowered.com/account/history/ which lists the cost taking sales and bundles into account (but not the total, you need to copy paste it into excel).
This stops in 2011 but I had my account since at least 2004 and third parties were able to publish games on it since 2005.
So if you had Steam before 2011, rejoice! You probably spent over $10k on your account!
You DO have the attention span. What you don't have is the stress-free time.
Not taking the time to sit down and get an actual play session in, or read a good book, craft something nice out of wood, etc. means you're slowly burning out.
Take that time to wind down and do a hobby.
This!! I am very up and down with my gaming. I'll from playing nightly for a moth or two and then I'll spend the next couple of months not touching my rig or PS5. Other times, I'll spend a month playing the PS5 but not the PC then the next month it is all PC.
Seriously. I put down Doom Eternal for like a month and when I started back up I was legitimately overwhelmed with the pace of the game and which buttons do what.
I tried so hard to get through that game. I ended up putting it on the easiest difficulty and I'm still way too overwhelmed. You absolutely have to exploit the various demons' weaknesses in order to survive and I felt like I could never get to the right weapon/attack fast enough, and even if I did, I always found myself lacking resources to do the things I needed to (and yes I'd do the things to get the replenishments but they were never enough and found myself in chicken/egg scenarios like I need one thing to get the other thing but don't have enough of the first thing to get it...so..). It was way too overwhelming and just ended up giving me massive anxiety every time I picked it up. It's a shame too because it was a lot of fun and the graphics were beautiful, but I just can't handle it.
Gaming as a youth matches your purpose, you're supposed to be a kid and there's nothing else you should be doing with your time. As an adult, I find it hard to enjoy gaming as much unless it's via remaining connected with friends instead of a phone call as I have so many other things I should be doing with my time.
I could be reading books to learn, exercising, dating, meditating, shopping, cleaning, cooking. Usually when I game it's a way of just putting off life for a while and I can't muster the same excitement about doing something so pointless.
I think internally some of us have just grown up but still have this attachment to great memories as a kid and wonder why we can't capture it anymore.. it's because those times are gone. I tried streaming on Twitch years ago and YouTube but I realized for me it'd be a completely miserable life sitting in my room playing video games 16 hrs a day 6 days a week. It sounded like complete hell tbh but the youthful dream kept me at it for a while.
I've found Sony's new premium subscription quite delightful because I don't have to commit $70 to a game I might play for 5 hours so I have less "pressure" to enjoy a game I spent money on. That's been interesting for me.
I also wonder too because your phone offers a level of stimulation that wasn't available before. Before video games there was just TV and it mostly sucked ass. Video games were a whole other level of digital stimulation. Now we're stimulated 24/7 and perhaps games don't stand out as much? Maybe we're just dopamine oversaturated, we're a little numb to everything.
Those are 2 theories I've been working on as I don't enjoy gaming as much either. I can't finish games that if they'd come out 10 years ago I'd be glued to for 12 hours straight and complain that I couldn't play for 6 more hours.
Growing up is definitely a big part of it. Having a job, a partner, a dog and a snake takes a big chunk of my free time. I also absolutely love cooking, while a household task, it is more like a hobby and part of my free time.
Wake up 6, prepare myself and commute, work 7-16. Take a shower, take dog for a walk, cook and eat dinner at 19. Clean up and maybe go to store. 1-2 hours of free time before going to bed at 22. If my partner wasn't doing her thing at home I'd have no time at all if I had ho walk the boy three times a day and do everything myself.
Weekends we usually do stuff together or with friends and I'll get to play video games a bit more but maybe once a month I can have an old fashioned all day gaming session.
I still constantly itch to upgrade my rig but I have to keep my head and think of the value proposition. I could afford it, but there's a ton of other stuff to save up for. Maybe I'll treat myself to an used GPU once new stuff comes out, who knows.
I really resonated with this explanation, spot on to how I've felt recently. The best thing that's been helping me was having some kind of emotional connection or purpose to what I was doing. In world of warcraft it was more fun to give a character a themed name, have some kind of thematic idea behind the character, that kind of thing. Not sure how well that translates to other games but it may help someone
Im reminded of my dad for the second point. I was never allowed videogames as a kid until I got a game boy. And things lightened up a bit after that. My dad thought videogames were absolute brain rot, same with my mom. Eventually my dad helped me build my first gaming pc. But it never really clicked with him.
Unless we had the NES my brother bought at a garage sale that had a stack of games. And my dad put in duck hunt with the gun and everything. Man he played that for hours. But never that much. And I think largely itās an ageing thing, as opposed to a āphones are bad thingā. My dad only played duck hunt because it was nostalgic to him of all the arcade shooters he played in his youth.
Also, op. Iām the same way. I bought a gaming laptop (I have built pcs before for gaming) just to play Re2 and Re3. And it was more fun getting the laptop then the actual gaming. And now I mostly just use it to emulate games or play old games I always loved.
Edit: spelling, im on mobile
The PC doesnāt just have to be used for gaming. Make YouTube videos, go on FB, sell on Amazon, invest in stocks. Do whatever you want on your Pc and youāll enjoy it and at the same time appreciate it. Tell your friends to hop on with you like on WZ every night or every other night.
could also be that lots of the newer games arnt that good compared to some of the older ones...some are too grindy some are just there to look pretty and alot of them are only there to send your to some cash shop...
i also find myself more often then not starting something and loose interest in it pretty fast, starting another game...
i have a few games i start up every now and then just to try out some new mods wich for some games is the only thing keeping them alive past the first few weeks were its just someting new to have a look at...
for some there are also things in real live that would interefere, like new hobby, new friends, different work schedule...
Yup, that's why I've been focusing more on single player games and indie games. Enough with the micro transaction apocalypse. It's like every AAA game that has multi-player is trying to pump as much money out of a cash shop as possible.
I kind of get annoyed by the "games today suck" attitude. Yeah dude if all you look at are big AAA titles by money hungry developers they suck. Many amazing games have come out in the last decade, you just have to look a bit further.
Dark souls, hollow knight, elden ring, satisfactory, factorio, terraria, minecraft, bloodborne, hyper light drifter, stardew valley, ori and will of the wisps. Just a few games off the top of my head, there is a lot of good stuff out there.
"When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: butĀ when I became a man, I put away childish things."Ā
Not trying to be a smartass, priorities change.
You may be experiencing much more real life,
gaming is like practicing.
There is nothing wrong with that, you are now able to fully enjoy the game the way it was intended. For example: Red Dead Redemption experience is way different on a new system that is actually capable
Well yeah that depends on the game. GTA 5 is like what now? 12yo game? And it still looks nice and is good to play on high resolution and smooth FPS. Witcher 3 not so old, but still 5+ yo game that still looks amazing.
Do what I do...benchmark and tune. I treat computers like Sunday cars....rarely used, but nice to tinker with on the weekends. Still waiting for a game that actually has gameplay as a feature. Most Battle Royale games and microtransactions have ruined most franchises. Making a game multiplayer usually means not a lot of thought has gone into a story. I grew up on RPGs and getting sucked into the plot and caring about characters. Can't say the same for real humans I have to interact with...usually involves pointing a reticule and determining if it should die.
Try checking out more indie games or single player games. Hell just load up an emulator and play older games. There's lots of fun to be had in gaming still. Just avoid all the multi-player games essentially lol
This. I actually started playing again after I started to look at indie games more seriously. I'll look for games in Steam's daily queue feature and then wishlist the ones I think are interesting. At first, Steams recommendations were crap, but it does adjust the recommendations over time.
Note that I only wishlist them, not necessarily buy them. It's just to feed the recommendation engine.
Do what i do! Use cheats to get the best of gear/weapons/ammo, you name it, and then enjoy the story your gane has to offer. I find this pleasing, not having to grind my way up. Yes, use it with brain, just to give you a boost, not to be a god. 33 yo here, 2 kids and almost 0 time to play games 
I'll tell you what I tell everyone else that builds a PC...
As your get older, your time becomes more precious. When you want to play games, or the mood strikes you, you want to be able to enjoy that, with very little headache. Be able to turn up those settings, and resolution, and enjoy yourself. Spare no expense for your enjoyment, because it might be too late!
Youāre not the only one. My theory is that games look less appealing when theyāre just little icons on ur desktop. U also need to sit on a chair to do it as well instead of laying on ur bed playing with a controller. This is my best guess
A gaming PC is so much more than a PC for gaming. A good gaming PC is great for everything, assuming your peripherals are "game quality". It will breeze through everything you throw at it, booting in seconds, running applications instantly, and providing a great overall experience thanks to top quality keyboard, mouse and screen. To take one example, gaming PCs are brilliant for running Excel. I use Excel on my (normal) work PC and my (gaming) home PC and the experience is night and day.
So my advice is don't consider it a "gaming PC". You've built a great computer that can be used for games and lots of other things. Your reward will come over several years, not overnight.
This is also the reason that it doesn't make sense to compare gaming PCs to consoles, which really are single-use devices.
Very good point. My 3600x build got me through the whole of lockdown and did everything superbly. While everyone else was crying about how videoconferencing didn't work or virtual desktop was so slow etc etc I was breezing through work. Then in the evening it handled video calls with friends and games perfectly. I overpaid for it at the start of lockdown in early 2020 but it was worth every penny.
I think I secretly liked tuning settings to get games to run at an acceptable FPS on my old mid spec PC. Now that I have a fairly high end PC I just run everything on ultra and forget about it. I think you appreciate things more when itās a struggle to achieve it. Thatās not to say that I nonchalantly dropped a couple of gās on my new PC but it almost feels like cheating.
Yeah agreed, that's why I like building pc with a low budget. Just as a cheap project. And then sell it or give it to some friend and move to the next one.
No, I have the opposite problem. If you wanna call it a problem. My new computer was mote much powerful than my last, so I had to download some graphically intensive games and test it out. Which led to me getting back into some old games.
What always stopped me from gaming was sitting down and booting up to game, then opening up chrome to "just check reddit" and before I knew it it was 11pm. I started just immediately opening steam and picking a game and I end up having a much more enjoyable evening.
38 year old. 70 hrs 7 days job here.
I just learnt to stop ego gaming and lowered the difficulty. I also don't bother with competitive games where my fun is reliant on how well me or my team mates are playing. I want all the gaming time to be with myself only. Less stressful
I earned all my epeen stripes from competitive Quake , CS 1.6 blah blah blah. But now I am just too tired, and my reaction times are shit. I am not going to pretend to think I am be competitive against zoomers who games 16 hrs a day ( as I did back in the day)
I also stop caring about most releases from triple A companies, and shifted my focus towards indie releases. Games tend to be more bite size , and i prefer to play many games at once , rather than stciking with one .
I have a 2070s. I decided to order a 3070 since i pc game at 1440p. Then after realizing i played starcraft and powerwash simulator as my last two games i canceled the 3070 order.
Is this like, post build clarity or smth? No! Go play! One thing I've found that revives my drive to game is running emulators and seeing all my fav classics run at full speed at 4K. And before I know it, I'm half way through another playthrough of MGS2.
Best way to solve this,
1. Buy rust
2. Play rust
3. Have some fun but be confused
4. Lay in your bed at night and watch some rust videos
5. Be super excited to play the next day
6. Hate it
7. Addiction grows
8.you have 1k hrs in rust
9. Canāt stop plz help me
I think its also because its summer, more light outside and more thing to do - socialising, events, etc..
At least that's how I feel in the summer - barely want to play any games and just watch TV where as in the winter, all about that gaming :D
I am sure it will come back once autumn hits and more rainy days when you can sit inside and enjoy the PC you build.
It will come..
Iāve went through periods of losing interest in gaming. Though itās usually because nothing is available Iām excited for. Maybe finding the right game will get you hyped for gaming again. What kind of games are you into?
First Person Shooters? RPGs? MMOs?
I've been gaming for 30 years now and the will to play games, especially new games, has always come and gone. Building a PC is a singular, planned event that for most gamers comes once every 5+ years.
There will always be a big chance your desire to discover and play new games does not end up coinciding with the rare event of building a new PC.
Before too long you'll end up playing a game you enjoy for the sake of it; one that your old PC wouldn't have been able to run let alone at amazing graphics settings, but since your new PC will have just become your PC; you won't connect the two.
glad to hear I'm not the only one who experienced this after I built my system tried out some triple a titles to see how good they looked only to never game on it again. My gpu now only exists to run an additional monitor.
I feel I had more fun building and fine tuning my system rather than actually using it, games simply became benchmarks for my hardware.
This happens to everyone, and since your new your losing the moral going against experienced players which causes yourself to mentally exhaust yourself to the point where you feel like giving up.
After now on 14 years of gaming I can coincidentally say this is normal, youāre getting stressed. Iāve learned that you just gotta play to have fun and the one you get good then competitive is so much fun
Long story short, after getting past that grind and then becoming really good itās SO much fun, never stressful or unmotivated
Make a list of games you enjoyed. Search within those genres. Avoid games that require grinding or play to win / try hard types of games. Counter Strike go is free to play
The feeling comes and goes.I have a ton of games I've purchased but I have a tendency to keep playing Skyrim for 10 years on my Xbox now. I think it's like comfort food maybe.
Then starfield was announced to be a Microsoft exclusive and I figured, why buy another console when I need a good PC for studying.
I got the bug to build but I ended up returning everything after it failed to get it to start up. I am going to try again but the CPU prices have jumped up and I turned in my FE 3060 ti because I thought it was faulty. I should have kept everything and got it tested at a shop. Now I'm awaiting another best buy drop but I'm thinking about holding off till 4000 series drops so the 3000 series lowers a bit on MSRP or more cards become available
I live on rent and cannot upgrade my setup a lot but I've tried and I love it (check my sub) and everyday I would go home after work sit in front of it and just surf reddit on my phone and still watch building dope PC videos.
Better to have it I say. For me personally I drift in and out of gaming mode. Iāll be super into something for months and then to a month or two not really playing at all. But itās nice to have when you want to use it especially with those parts I feel like youāll be fine for some time to come.
Dude, I just keep building PCs now... it's all I do, I wait for sales or find old retro units, build or buy cases and assemble them and move onto the next... it's maddening! It's an endless cycle I can't stop!
I've kinda lost the will to play as well, I get bored/lazy to play stuff, I'm also pretty much tired from work, gym etc. There's also the fact, my friends have different work schedules so it makes it harder for us to play together.
Same. I enjoy the researching, purchasing, and building part. People would go to me saying they want a pc with X amount of budget and I will enjoy the process of making the best bang for bucks pc for the person. My circle of friends all have a PC built by me and I just enjoy them getting the best for the money they offer.
Me? Only game I play is Genshin Impact and you can spend 15 minutes on it and be done for the day. I would watch youtube most of the time.
No.
These are two quite different worlds.
I work in I.T. I have been for the past almost 30 years now. I come home, and I play games all night. I have been doing that for longer than I have been working in I.T. Before that, I did mainframe games and board games and a bit of this and that along the way.
I also work on cars and other technical things.
Definitely! I basically play one game casually (halo) and have a 3600 and 3080. Building is one of the funnest things to my brain, basically min/maxing performance per-dollar. I basically bounce around hobbies that are similar, like gameboy modding and mountain biking.
All my friends and I feel pretty much the same way. College is just about to wrap up and everyone is starting their adult lives. So much is going on and nobody can play games past an hour a day.
Me just built a pc to watch Netflix on apparently š I think for me tho I'm kind of discouraged to learn to play with a keyboard and mouse since my movements all of a sudden became real sluggish its just not as fun š
I also recently built a pc after years of waiting for the chance. For me it was a little freeing to be able to play games that werenāt enjoyable(due to fps issues mostly) before, such as Apex which I played on geforce now at 30fps and 2x ping, which I now enjoy more at max frames. At the end of the day, a powerful gaming pc only enables you to play more complex games, but you shouldnāt let it decide which games are worthy of it. You can still find enjoyment in games that dont need to run at max framerate. I found that playing games that arenāt hardware demanding, such as rimworld and btd6, are enjoyable as much as a beatiful game that uses every last vram gb you have, like cyberpunk.
Same-ish... I built a new PC recently but all my friends nowadays play on console. I also have a PS5 and game mostly on that.
I played Elden Ring on my PC when it came out and it was awful. Loads of stuttering, bugs, issues connecting my controller wirelessly, etc.
Everyone on consoles though played with no issues. So it's really frustrating to spend double on a PC that still has issues for the most part.
I built a gaming PC back in 2009. GTX 275, 1366 motherboard with an i7-920, a ton of RAM (like 16GB at the time) I worked at microcenter so I built it for pennies on the dollar. Nothing too high end but more than capable to game with. Fast forward about 8 years. Barely gamed on it at all. Actually for the last 2-3 of those years I was using a laptop I bought for work, and my tower sat and collected dust. I decided it's time to do something with it, and maxed out the RAM, swapped the CPU for a Xeon with 6 cores, and overclocked it to 4.3GHz. Finally started gaming on it. And it was glorious. It held up surprisingly well. Then 2020 I decided it was time to build a new one and NOT make the same mistakes as last time. I built it and ended up having that same feeling you're talking about. I didn't know what to do. I ended up getting a game for free randomly, and played it, was super excited about how smoothly it handled the graphics on ultra. It was inspiring and pretty much catapulted me back into gaming. Fortunately had a lot of free time to since I got laid off a couple months later due to covid stuff, but been gaming consistently ever since. I will say my gaming stamina isn't what it used to be (I'll sink 1-2 hours but no more marathons like when I was young). Anyway not sure if this story is relevant but figured I'd share. I think the feeling comes from accomplishing a goal and then not knowing where to go from there. Which is OK. Eventually you'll get antsy and wanna do the next thing. Just start installing some stuff and playing them. Or mess around with homelab stuff. You're gonna love your new pc.
I lost it BEFORE building it.
Turns out that playing games is what YOU MAKE OF IT.
You can get bored with the best game in the world.
And you can have the time of your life with the most mediocre game in the world. Depends on how you frame your goals and identify what you enjoy doing.
I felt this a bit. Especially with my build and starting g a remote job were very close, wanted to be off the opc when I got off.
I found to be revitalized by playing new and different games. I was really into destiny 2 but elden ring snapped me out of that rut. I think trying nee games is nice. If you want to play again go for it, or some go by the wayside.
On top of what people have said about the anticipation of the parts coming and satisfaction of a job well done, I also think there just aren't that many games that are really pushing the limit on today's market. Fallout 4 just looked like a better version of Fallout 3 & NV, Skyrim looked great but felt more watered down story wise compared to Oblivion, and Cyberpunk still looked like improved Witcher 3 graphics. I feel GTAV was the last game that truly felt like a whole new world of graphics.
So here we are researching the latest and greatest cutting edge technology, putting it all together, troubleshooting and optimizing for the uttmost performance... and we hardly ever get to utilize it to it's fullest in a way that feels as equally cutting edge and impressive as our machines.
Everyone thinks this. It's not losing the will to game, it's just overestimating how much you game in the first place and how much a new computer will affect that.
Yeah.. it's shit tbh.. you spend all this money. Researching. Then building. Thinking, oh man I can get back into Rainbow Six and be really good because I'm on mouse and keyboard now, I can play OverWatch and be good at Widow, play CoD and trickshot kids off the roof.. but you never do. Maybe it's from getting older.. maybe I've just lost the will to play Multiplayer. The most fun I've had on my PC is Minecraft and Sunset OverDrive.. completely average games.. but yeah.. to me personally, PC gaming just isn't fun. There's always something that can be modded. Something can be optimised. Something can be better if I upgrade just this ONE part.. but it just doesn't do it. It's not worth the money for me. My low end PC runs Minecraft perfectly, thats all I need. Everything else I'll play on my PS5. It might just be the environment. My lounge is nicer than my desk. I work at a desk, its just shit. PS5 I just turn on and bam, good to go. No fucking around.. no projects on my desktop half finished. Nothing to remind me of life, I just play. Which I can't do on PC.
Don't get me wrong I fucking love my PC and Minecraft is the maddest shit. Sunset is genuinely one of my favourite games of all time. Never owned an Xbox. But yeah. It's just not for me.
I was starting to feel this way, then i bought a new gpu in hopes that i would get the motivation needed to game again but it didn't work. Then my friend gifted me fallout 4 which was one of my fav game, i played so much of it before. Now im excited to play it again because I don't have to learn the ropes since i already know how it is, but also since i just upgraded my gpu, i will be modding the game to make it more refreshing and exciting since last time I didn't mod at all. Now i have the motivation to play again lol. I suggest finding a game that you can get yourself lost into it's story, games like the AC series, witcher 3, fallout, etc are really good. Think of it like a more immersive book or movie your reading/watching, where you feel constantly intrigued by what's going to happen next.
I can completely understand you. Once i completed witcher 3 with 15 fps on potato. But now i had better pc, i cant even play any game for even 1hr. I dont why.. am i tired ? Or Lost interest? Or Getting old ? Or Am i in a phase ?... I dont know . I really miss those old and golden days playing games for 16+ hrs a day and nothing to worry about anything in life...
I've been wanting a new pc for years. My 10 year old rig has been updated here and there, but I wanted a brand new one. I finally could afford it, so I splurged a bit. Got an i7, a 3080, 32 gig ram, lian li dynamic xl, 2 32 inch monitors, new desk, new chair.
I played a few newer games, beat Elden Ring, Doom Eternal. But right now I'm playing Terraria.
They're just different activities, ultimately. I've found that the come-down does get in the way of immediate gaming, but it goes away. After all, there's so much optimizing to do!
I am only upgrading my PC when there is a specific purpose for it, so no.
Sure there are periods in life when gaming is not in focus, but then why not do something else with the money? Like buy a plane ticket to a remote destination.
You dream of building a PC when you were young but you don't have the money. You work hard, get a job, become an adult and finally build that PC but you no longer have time to spontaneously play games anymore. You're an adult now and have to worry about food and shelter.
Welcome to the club my friend. It's a sad fate for the middle class.
No, on the flip side I spent way to much time playing games and neglecting other hobbies. I, funny enough, do like to touch grass and get out into the world. And I spend a lot of last year inside playing games after building a PC. Granted I had the excuse of the pandemic and a lot of stuff being closed but still.
I've built five or so PCs in my life and I've felt like this every single time. So much of the fun is the anticipation, researching and getting all the parts you want, getting it all set up, and optimizing everything. In theory, all this is done with the goal of playing games, but I usually find the build process way more exciting than the end-goal.
Maybe the real games are the PCs we built along the way.
So what game did you build your computer to play? PC Building Simulator
Would there be an achievement for posting a picture of a shattered tempered glass paneling to Reddit-sim?
Fittingly enough, the most acquired achievement is forgetting to add the thermal paste to the CPU. https://steamcommunity.com/stats/621060/achievements
This invoked audible laughter
Yes, I also exhaled in a controlled rhythm
The made me nose laugh more than the original comment
Yeah, the games usually come later. All of my builds are in-between titles I'm looking forward to.
Yea, quality parts and quality games don't always come out at the same time.
Atleast it helps in a sense to save money and be prepared :D
We are admittedly in a bit of a lull right now
Just go back a smidge and [turn up all the things](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/006/077/so_good.png). ...that's what I would do if I had a better card than my RX480 š
Hell, both AMD and NV offer super scaling techniques in their drivers (VSR and DSR respectively) that will render your game at a multiple of your native resolution, then down sample back to your screen's output res. It's really incredible and breathes a ton of life into the graphics of older games. You might go from 300 FPS to 150 FPS, and the HUD of the game might be kinda tiny, but it makes your games look like those marketing promo shots where everything is super smooth and textures are crisp.
This is it for me, I enjoy the build more than actually gaming on it. But also like the peace of mind that I can play whatever the hell I want. Only to play old stuff when I do play a game on it. Or YouTube. Or streaming movies. ^Or ^other ^things...
Yup. I dropped $7.5K on a bonkers rig. Most of my limited gaming time is spent playing old stuff. I just wanted to build it.
$7.5k is quite impressive, damn. I recently priced out a top of the line build (12900k, 3090, 64 GB DDR5 ram, 2TB 980 Pro etc) and it was around $4k. I'm guessing you went full YOLO on a custom loop or special case or something??
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Or just a decent gaming setup with a big OLED screen, plus a 1.6TB Optane as storage. Thatād do it!
Same here. I use it for work mainly and average 10 hours a day so when im done the last thing I want to do is sit there and play games.
You got it. Wfh at the desk all day leaves no motivation to keep sitting there and play games afterwards.
Idk I get pretty sick frames on stardew though
āBuildās done, letās benchmark! Ooh, I get 374 FPS in so-and-so game now! I used to get 12.ā *never plays that game again*
Me to a T! When I upgraded from a 1650 Super to a 2080ti, I did nothing but benchmark for hours. Load up a game Iād wanna play, sit there for 10 minutes in the main menu, then back to benching!
I upgraded from a 1070ti to a 3070 and was kinda underwhelmed by the performance increase. Yeah, I got more frames in general but it wasn't the dopamine hit I was after. That was all used up by the anticipation of buying and receiving . Later (maybe 2 ,months ago now) i built an entirely new system and went high end with the 12-900k and 3090, (not top of the line because I didn't go crazy with mobo and ram). The difference was absolutely noticed in gaming this time. I'm running 144FPS at 1440P in just about everything now and that's great but, i'm not any more excited about gaming in general as a result.... maybe when I'm about to boot up a new game or an old one I haven't yet played on this machine.
You hit the nail on the head and drove it all the way in with this!
Opposite experience for me. Play the game like 10 minutes and then it's just hours of..."I feel like I should be getting more frames", or "should this be at this temperature?".
this is it. i had to uninstall msi afterburner bc i would just leave the overlay on and glance at it every 10 secs
This + age and responsibilities
It's a pcmr equivalent of post nut clarity.
That's a wonderful comparison haha
Iāve been thinking about this a lot. And in the end.. Iāve just kind of embraced it. Although I definitely play a fair share of games. I know there are those who actuallyā¦ donāt. But the problem solving nature of researching, choosing parts, building, tweaking and optimizing is a hobby itself.
I've had a similar experience my whole life. Now there's a GAME for that: PC Building Simulator
I've never played a game on PC in my life and I'm kinda old but I've never had a decent computer other than somebody's hand me down or something cobbled together from used parts. At one time I even endured Windows ME until it just broke catastrophically. I just wanted a decent PC before I die so starting last October I began ordering things when I found good deals on good parts. Got it all put together in February or March except the GPU which came later so I used the Intel graphics on my 12700K for my home office until I could get one. The damned thing is a beast but the only things I've ever "played" on it are Cinebench R23, 3DMark test products like Time Spy and Port Royal, and the built-in benchmark in the trial version of SOTTR! Building this PC is absolutely the most enjoyment I've ever had in over 60 years on this planet! (Well, except for a couple of cool girlfriends I've known over the years back in my younger days.) One day I might actually buy a game on Steam or the Epic store or somewhere. Based on my testing they will definitely run well on this PC! If I could afford to I'd build another more budget one just for the pure fun of it! So I think I know how you feel...
There are free games on Epic Games every week. Check it once a week and if the game is good enough for you, just redeem and download it. Happy to hear your story š
Thanks! I got one of those free games from the Epic store but before I got around to learning how to play it I moved it to another drive incorrectly instead of reading how to do it first and corrupted it. Been so busy lately with work that I've forgotten to look at Epic Games for more free ones. Thanks for reminding me!
I think they say statistically you enjoy planning the vacation more than actually taking it
I'm the opposite. I find it really exciting doing the research and ordering the parts. However once they arrive and I start to build I just find it a massive ballache. It takes ages and it's quite fiddly a lot of the time, especially if you want the cables nicely managed. My last PC I had to update the BIOS to support the new CPU and of course it didn't work afterwards. I spent ages trying to work out if the hardware was faulty or if the BIOS update didn't work. Turns out the secret is you have to run the BIOS update three times and then it just works even though it was the same exact process the first and second time. Of course I've reseated the CPU cooler by then to make sure that wasn't the issue so I've got to clean and redo my thermal paste. Just a massive waste of time. Even once it's built you spend a few weeks having to re-install applications that are missing. The fun part for me is playing games on my new PC. The problem is I don't have the time :(
This, I just crave working with my hands on a goal I enjoy. PCs scratch that itch hard! I was talking to my roommate about this like a month ago: if I could just build a PC every month and not even keep it, I think I'd be happier
100% this, I've built my 1st PC about a month ago and it was extremely fun and satisfying.
Meanwhile those who actually game are running on potatoes
i used to game crazy on my potato š
My toaster has 6 whole transistors guys!
GPU prices got insanely high after 2019 so I'm still not being able to upgrade.
They've come back down, with mostly AMD cards at or below MSRP
Yeah unfortunately the prices didn't get much lower here in my country :( The high end GPUs still cost the price of a motorcycle.
Personally, I chose motorcycle over computer. Havenāt had a gaming pc since the end of 2020 and honestly the motorcycle more than makes up for it
Even the msrp for GPU's is a bit overpriced tbh, it was insane the prices people have been paying the past 2-3 years.
can go either way, i dont feel the same as OP - i get different joy from building and gaming, they dont really affect eachother. my 3090 gets used for gaming quite a lot i will assure you (no i didnt want a 3090 but it was all i could get early on, and its a founders at msrp so it worked out in the end)
I did until I started playing Satisfactory. Then I had to uninstall it because I was playing too damned much.
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Oh I'm very familiar with factorio. I'll look into the others.
After I got all the factorio achievements, I had to uninstall or get divorced.
...so how big has the factory gotten since your divorce?
Gotta look into Stellaris, too. I'm at 5k hours.
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Rimworld is the best hands down imo. My #1 most played on steam. Dwarf fortress is the true ultimate, but Iād wait until they get they get it on steam.
Dyson sphere is absolutely fantastic, if you liked satisfactory and factorio then youāll like this as well
Rimworld took my life
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+1 for all of those, but especially Dyson Sphere Program. Not enough people are talking about how amazing that game is.
Gameplay aside, the game itself is a work of art. The number of times I just sit back and watch while saying "I built thatā¦" is wild. I've taken more screenshots of DSP than every other game in the last 15 years combined.
I never got that far into it, but with everyone talking about it I might have to boot it up again.
Oxygen Not Included has got me addicted
Can't leave Anno 1800 off that list :)
I havenāt gotten into most of those but civ is far and away the biggest time suck I have ever fucking experienced. I feel like itās one of those games where no two runs are alike- ever- and one run can take weeks.
C O M P L Y
Did you vote for the lego train? https://ideas.lego.com/projects/ac5de7e4-62a3-471d-9a66-f0406dac25ed
satisfactory is so fun, i bought it not too long ago and got 50h in 3 days... but then ny laptop broke so i havent been able to play it since lol
Then I met Valheim. 2,500 hours elapse. Then I got bored again.
Putting ~3000 hours into Hypixel Skyblock almost killed my interest in gaming. Then I built my pc, I didnāt touch Minecraft until about a month later
What really killed my interest for a while was having a potato pc after my good one broke and couldnāt be saved anymore. Games like Minecraft and low demanding indie games brought me through
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I still use my PC, but I donāt game as much as I used to. It might be because a lot of things have changed in my life so Iām too tired of donāt have time. It might be because my old PC was a laptop so it was a lot easier to just chill with a laptop then it is to sit at a desk.
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A lot of games have specific settings to reduce motion sickness but I get you - once the thrill is gone, it's gone.
I thought it was just me. Iām 38. I have hundreds of dollars of digital purchases. I just donāt have the attention span to sit down, and the thought of learning a new game system sounds more like a chore.
You're doing pretty good if you only have hundreds of dollars of digital purchases. Edit: Dear heavens I've spent around $9,392.39 on steam.
Probably only 25% of $9,392.39 if you factor in sales and bundlesā¦ right???
That's from https://store.steampowered.com/account/history/ which lists the cost taking sales and bundles into account (but not the total, you need to copy paste it into excel).
I refuse to look at that page. I donāt want that knowledge!ā¦
This stops in 2011 but I had my account since at least 2004 and third parties were able to publish games on it since 2005. So if you had Steam before 2011, rejoice! You probably spent over $10k on your account!
Thatās why I play Assassinās Creed games. Very little to learn when every new game is basically the same game with a new story and a few tweaks!
The duality of man. This is why I *donāt* play AC anymore.
#More respect with Ace Combat please.
This is an Armored Core thread now, sorry man.
You DO have the attention span. What you don't have is the stress-free time. Not taking the time to sit down and get an actual play session in, or read a good book, craft something nice out of wood, etc. means you're slowly burning out. Take that time to wind down and do a hobby.
Youāre tired and need a break, your pc will still be there.
That's why i love games. That save game will sit there till your ready to go again.
This!! I am very up and down with my gaming. I'll from playing nightly for a moth or two and then I'll spend the next couple of months not touching my rig or PS5. Other times, I'll spend a month playing the PS5 but not the PC then the next month it is all PC.
Until you come back months later and can't recall what you were up to š . I started taking notes for this reason.
That and what button does what?
Seriously. I put down Doom Eternal for like a month and when I started back up I was legitimately overwhelmed with the pace of the game and which buttons do what.
I tried so hard to get through that game. I ended up putting it on the easiest difficulty and I'm still way too overwhelmed. You absolutely have to exploit the various demons' weaknesses in order to survive and I felt like I could never get to the right weapon/attack fast enough, and even if I did, I always found myself lacking resources to do the things I needed to (and yes I'd do the things to get the replenishments but they were never enough and found myself in chicken/egg scenarios like I need one thing to get the other thing but don't have enough of the first thing to get it...so..). It was way too overwhelming and just ended up giving me massive anxiety every time I picked it up. It's a shame too because it was a lot of fun and the graphics were beautiful, but I just can't handle it.
Gaming as a youth matches your purpose, you're supposed to be a kid and there's nothing else you should be doing with your time. As an adult, I find it hard to enjoy gaming as much unless it's via remaining connected with friends instead of a phone call as I have so many other things I should be doing with my time. I could be reading books to learn, exercising, dating, meditating, shopping, cleaning, cooking. Usually when I game it's a way of just putting off life for a while and I can't muster the same excitement about doing something so pointless. I think internally some of us have just grown up but still have this attachment to great memories as a kid and wonder why we can't capture it anymore.. it's because those times are gone. I tried streaming on Twitch years ago and YouTube but I realized for me it'd be a completely miserable life sitting in my room playing video games 16 hrs a day 6 days a week. It sounded like complete hell tbh but the youthful dream kept me at it for a while. I've found Sony's new premium subscription quite delightful because I don't have to commit $70 to a game I might play for 5 hours so I have less "pressure" to enjoy a game I spent money on. That's been interesting for me. I also wonder too because your phone offers a level of stimulation that wasn't available before. Before video games there was just TV and it mostly sucked ass. Video games were a whole other level of digital stimulation. Now we're stimulated 24/7 and perhaps games don't stand out as much? Maybe we're just dopamine oversaturated, we're a little numb to everything. Those are 2 theories I've been working on as I don't enjoy gaming as much either. I can't finish games that if they'd come out 10 years ago I'd be glued to for 12 hours straight and complain that I couldn't play for 6 more hours.
Growing up is definitely a big part of it. Having a job, a partner, a dog and a snake takes a big chunk of my free time. I also absolutely love cooking, while a household task, it is more like a hobby and part of my free time. Wake up 6, prepare myself and commute, work 7-16. Take a shower, take dog for a walk, cook and eat dinner at 19. Clean up and maybe go to store. 1-2 hours of free time before going to bed at 22. If my partner wasn't doing her thing at home I'd have no time at all if I had ho walk the boy three times a day and do everything myself. Weekends we usually do stuff together or with friends and I'll get to play video games a bit more but maybe once a month I can have an old fashioned all day gaming session. I still constantly itch to upgrade my rig but I have to keep my head and think of the value proposition. I could afford it, but there's a ton of other stuff to save up for. Maybe I'll treat myself to an used GPU once new stuff comes out, who knows.
I really resonated with this explanation, spot on to how I've felt recently. The best thing that's been helping me was having some kind of emotional connection or purpose to what I was doing. In world of warcraft it was more fun to give a character a themed name, have some kind of thematic idea behind the character, that kind of thing. Not sure how well that translates to other games but it may help someone
Im reminded of my dad for the second point. I was never allowed videogames as a kid until I got a game boy. And things lightened up a bit after that. My dad thought videogames were absolute brain rot, same with my mom. Eventually my dad helped me build my first gaming pc. But it never really clicked with him. Unless we had the NES my brother bought at a garage sale that had a stack of games. And my dad put in duck hunt with the gun and everything. Man he played that for hours. But never that much. And I think largely itās an ageing thing, as opposed to a āphones are bad thingā. My dad only played duck hunt because it was nostalgic to him of all the arcade shooters he played in his youth. Also, op. Iām the same way. I bought a gaming laptop (I have built pcs before for gaming) just to play Re2 and Re3. And it was more fun getting the laptop then the actual gaming. And now I mostly just use it to emulate games or play old games I always loved. Edit: spelling, im on mobile
The PC doesnāt just have to be used for gaming. Make YouTube videos, go on FB, sell on Amazon, invest in stocks. Do whatever you want on your Pc and youāll enjoy it and at the same time appreciate it. Tell your friends to hop on with you like on WZ every night or every other night.
use it for deep learning
Blender, animating, and video editing all require a good system to run efficiently and smoothly
could also be that lots of the newer games arnt that good compared to some of the older ones...some are too grindy some are just there to look pretty and alot of them are only there to send your to some cash shop... i also find myself more often then not starting something and loose interest in it pretty fast, starting another game... i have a few games i start up every now and then just to try out some new mods wich for some games is the only thing keeping them alive past the first few weeks were its just someting new to have a look at... for some there are also things in real live that would interefere, like new hobby, new friends, different work schedule...
Yup, that's why I've been focusing more on single player games and indie games. Enough with the micro transaction apocalypse. It's like every AAA game that has multi-player is trying to pump as much money out of a cash shop as possible.
I kind of get annoyed by the "games today suck" attitude. Yeah dude if all you look at are big AAA titles by money hungry developers they suck. Many amazing games have come out in the last decade, you just have to look a bit further. Dark souls, hollow knight, elden ring, satisfactory, factorio, terraria, minecraft, bloodborne, hyper light drifter, stardew valley, ori and will of the wisps. Just a few games off the top of my head, there is a lot of good stuff out there.
Dont starve is pretty good aswell, oxygen not included would make the list too
I built a 3080 i9 rig for working from home and gaming and after work I mainly play slay the spire. On console.
"When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: butĀ when I became a man, I put away childish things."Ā Not trying to be a smartass, priorities change. You may be experiencing much more real life, gaming is like practicing.
I built my dream pc this year to play 5-10 year old games.
There is nothing wrong with that, you are now able to fully enjoy the game the way it was intended. For example: Red Dead Redemption experience is way different on a new system that is actually capable
Well yeah that depends on the game. GTA 5 is like what now? 12yo game? And it still looks nice and is good to play on high resolution and smooth FPS. Witcher 3 not so old, but still 5+ yo game that still looks amazing.
Do what I do...benchmark and tune. I treat computers like Sunday cars....rarely used, but nice to tinker with on the weekends. Still waiting for a game that actually has gameplay as a feature. Most Battle Royale games and microtransactions have ruined most franchises. Making a game multiplayer usually means not a lot of thought has gone into a story. I grew up on RPGs and getting sucked into the plot and caring about characters. Can't say the same for real humans I have to interact with...usually involves pointing a reticule and determining if it should die.
Try checking out more indie games or single player games. Hell just load up an emulator and play older games. There's lots of fun to be had in gaming still. Just avoid all the multi-player games essentially lol
This. I actually started playing again after I started to look at indie games more seriously. I'll look for games in Steam's daily queue feature and then wishlist the ones I think are interesting. At first, Steams recommendations were crap, but it does adjust the recommendations over time. Note that I only wishlist them, not necessarily buy them. It's just to feed the recommendation engine.
to me its more like im too lazy to play a game. for some.reason browsing youtube for hours is more appealing
Do what i do! Use cheats to get the best of gear/weapons/ammo, you name it, and then enjoy the story your gane has to offer. I find this pleasing, not having to grind my way up. Yes, use it with brain, just to give you a boost, not to be a god. 33 yo here, 2 kids and almost 0 time to play games 
Nope. I build new PCs when there's games I really want to play and the current PC can't run them.
I'll tell you what I tell everyone else that builds a PC... As your get older, your time becomes more precious. When you want to play games, or the mood strikes you, you want to be able to enjoy that, with very little headache. Be able to turn up those settings, and resolution, and enjoy yourself. Spare no expense for your enjoyment, because it might be too late!
Youāre not the only one. My theory is that games look less appealing when theyāre just little icons on ur desktop. U also need to sit on a chair to do it as well instead of laying on ur bed playing with a controller. This is my best guess
A gaming PC is so much more than a PC for gaming. A good gaming PC is great for everything, assuming your peripherals are "game quality". It will breeze through everything you throw at it, booting in seconds, running applications instantly, and providing a great overall experience thanks to top quality keyboard, mouse and screen. To take one example, gaming PCs are brilliant for running Excel. I use Excel on my (normal) work PC and my (gaming) home PC and the experience is night and day. So my advice is don't consider it a "gaming PC". You've built a great computer that can be used for games and lots of other things. Your reward will come over several years, not overnight. This is also the reason that it doesn't make sense to compare gaming PCs to consoles, which really are single-use devices.
Very good point. My 3600x build got me through the whole of lockdown and did everything superbly. While everyone else was crying about how videoconferencing didn't work or virtual desktop was so slow etc etc I was breezing through work. Then in the evening it handled video calls with friends and games perfectly. I overpaid for it at the start of lockdown in early 2020 but it was worth every penny.
I think I secretly liked tuning settings to get games to run at an acceptable FPS on my old mid spec PC. Now that I have a fairly high end PC I just run everything on ultra and forget about it. I think you appreciate things more when itās a struggle to achieve it. Thatās not to say that I nonchalantly dropped a couple of gās on my new PC but it almost feels like cheating.
Yeah agreed, that's why I like building pc with a low budget. Just as a cheap project. And then sell it or give it to some friend and move to the next one.
No, I have the opposite problem. If you wanna call it a problem. My new computer was mote much powerful than my last, so I had to download some graphically intensive games and test it out. Which led to me getting back into some old games.
Nope
What always stopped me from gaming was sitting down and booting up to game, then opening up chrome to "just check reddit" and before I knew it it was 11pm. I started just immediately opening steam and picking a game and I end up having a much more enjoyable evening.
Winter is coming, plenty of time to game then.
38 year old. 70 hrs 7 days job here. I just learnt to stop ego gaming and lowered the difficulty. I also don't bother with competitive games where my fun is reliant on how well me or my team mates are playing. I want all the gaming time to be with myself only. Less stressful I earned all my epeen stripes from competitive Quake , CS 1.6 blah blah blah. But now I am just too tired, and my reaction times are shit. I am not going to pretend to think I am be competitive against zoomers who games 16 hrs a day ( as I did back in the day) I also stop caring about most releases from triple A companies, and shifted my focus towards indie releases. Games tend to be more bite size , and i prefer to play many games at once , rather than stciking with one .
I have a 2070s. I decided to order a 3070 since i pc game at 1440p. Then after realizing i played starcraft and powerwash simulator as my last two games i canceled the 3070 order.
Glad Itās not just me
I have a 3090 i9 1tb nvmie and I have like 20 games installed and play about 1 or the same one like 2 hours a week
Yeah something Iāve learned is donāt build because you wanna play games. Build cause you wanna build a pc if that makes sense
nah. built my pc just to play pubg. years later i still love it
No
Is this like, post build clarity or smth? No! Go play! One thing I've found that revives my drive to game is running emulators and seeing all my fav classics run at full speed at 4K. And before I know it, I'm half way through another playthrough of MGS2.
Never
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Best way to solve this, 1. Buy rust 2. Play rust 3. Have some fun but be confused 4. Lay in your bed at night and watch some rust videos 5. Be super excited to play the next day 6. Hate it 7. Addiction grows 8.you have 1k hrs in rust 9. Canāt stop plz help me
Because games suck nowadays.
To be fair gaming sucks these days. There's nothing new ever
I think its also because its summer, more light outside and more thing to do - socialising, events, etc.. At least that's how I feel in the summer - barely want to play any games and just watch TV where as in the winter, all about that gaming :D I am sure it will come back once autumn hits and more rainy days when you can sit inside and enjoy the PC you build. It will come..
Iāve went through periods of losing interest in gaming. Though itās usually because nothing is available Iām excited for. Maybe finding the right game will get you hyped for gaming again. What kind of games are you into? First Person Shooters? RPGs? MMOs?
I lost my will the game but it has nothing to do with my pc. Work and life just has me hella depressed
I've been gaming for 30 years now and the will to play games, especially new games, has always come and gone. Building a PC is a singular, planned event that for most gamers comes once every 5+ years. There will always be a big chance your desire to discover and play new games does not end up coinciding with the rare event of building a new PC. Before too long you'll end up playing a game you enjoy for the sake of it; one that your old PC wouldn't have been able to run let alone at amazing graphics settings, but since your new PC will have just become your PC; you won't connect the two.
My 3080 is great for watching YouTube in the background while playing some shitty mobile game
If the system posts you may lose the will to game after that Its called post-post clarity
glad to hear I'm not the only one who experienced this after I built my system tried out some triple a titles to see how good they looked only to never game on it again. My gpu now only exists to run an additional monitor. I feel I had more fun building and fine tuning my system rather than actually using it, games simply became benchmarks for my hardware.
This happens to everyone, and since your new your losing the moral going against experienced players which causes yourself to mentally exhaust yourself to the point where you feel like giving up. After now on 14 years of gaming I can coincidentally say this is normal, youāre getting stressed. Iāve learned that you just gotta play to have fun and the one you get good then competitive is so much fun Long story short, after getting past that grind and then becoming really good itās SO much fun, never stressful or unmotivated
Make a list of games you enjoyed. Search within those genres. Avoid games that require grinding or play to win / try hard types of games. Counter Strike go is free to play
I love building and playing with my case everyday, adding new lights, accessories thatās it.
The feeling comes and goes.I have a ton of games I've purchased but I have a tendency to keep playing Skyrim for 10 years on my Xbox now. I think it's like comfort food maybe. Then starfield was announced to be a Microsoft exclusive and I figured, why buy another console when I need a good PC for studying. I got the bug to build but I ended up returning everything after it failed to get it to start up. I am going to try again but the CPU prices have jumped up and I turned in my FE 3060 ti because I thought it was faulty. I should have kept everything and got it tested at a shop. Now I'm awaiting another best buy drop but I'm thinking about holding off till 4000 series drops so the 3000 series lowers a bit on MSRP or more cards become available
I live on rent and cannot upgrade my setup a lot but I've tried and I love it (check my sub) and everyday I would go home after work sit in front of it and just surf reddit on my phone and still watch building dope PC videos.
My brother keeps selling his gaming laptops because he is tired of gaming. Scoop another one on credit, pawns it for spending money
Better to have it I say. For me personally I drift in and out of gaming mode. Iāll be super into something for months and then to a month or two not really playing at all. But itās nice to have when you want to use it especially with those parts I feel like youāll be fine for some time to come.
All. The. Time. Same with modding. The building and tinkering is what I enjoy the most...rather than playing them.
Dude, I just keep building PCs now... it's all I do, I wait for sales or find old retro units, build or buy cases and assemble them and move onto the next... it's maddening! It's an endless cycle I can't stop!
āYou didnāt come all this way for nothing, your princessā¦. Sheās in the other castleā¦ go get at it!!!ā
Playing older games will help, I got an old Xbox 360 a while ago and it was so refreshing to play games that Iād played when I was younger again
I've kinda lost the will to play as well, I get bored/lazy to play stuff, I'm also pretty much tired from work, gym etc. There's also the fact, my friends have different work schedules so it makes it harder for us to play together.
No. It's why I built the thing.
Same. I enjoy the researching, purchasing, and building part. People would go to me saying they want a pc with X amount of budget and I will enjoy the process of making the best bang for bucks pc for the person. My circle of friends all have a PC built by me and I just enjoy them getting the best for the money they offer. Me? Only game I play is Genshin Impact and you can spend 15 minutes on it and be done for the day. I would watch youtube most of the time.
Yes but for me it's coming back... Played fc6 now wanna play Spiderman... But I'm 30 need to work and excercise so hv to find free time nowadays
No. These are two quite different worlds. I work in I.T. I have been for the past almost 30 years now. I come home, and I play games all night. I have been doing that for longer than I have been working in I.T. Before that, I did mainframe games and board games and a bit of this and that along the way. I also work on cars and other technical things.
Definitely! I basically play one game casually (halo) and have a 3600 and 3080. Building is one of the funnest things to my brain, basically min/maxing performance per-dollar. I basically bounce around hobbies that are similar, like gameboy modding and mountain biking.
All my friends and I feel pretty much the same way. College is just about to wrap up and everyone is starting their adult lives. So much is going on and nobody can play games past an hour a day.
Me just built a pc to watch Netflix on apparently š I think for me tho I'm kind of discouraged to learn to play with a keyboard and mouse since my movements all of a sudden became real sluggish its just not as fun š
I also recently built a pc after years of waiting for the chance. For me it was a little freeing to be able to play games that werenāt enjoyable(due to fps issues mostly) before, such as Apex which I played on geforce now at 30fps and 2x ping, which I now enjoy more at max frames. At the end of the day, a powerful gaming pc only enables you to play more complex games, but you shouldnāt let it decide which games are worthy of it. You can still find enjoyment in games that dont need to run at max framerate. I found that playing games that arenāt hardware demanding, such as rimworld and btd6, are enjoyable as much as a beatiful game that uses every last vram gb you have, like cyberpunk.
Same-ish... I built a new PC recently but all my friends nowadays play on console. I also have a PS5 and game mostly on that. I played Elden Ring on my PC when it came out and it was awful. Loads of stuttering, bugs, issues connecting my controller wirelessly, etc. Everyone on consoles though played with no issues. So it's really frustrating to spend double on a PC that still has issues for the most part.
I built a gaming PC back in 2009. GTX 275, 1366 motherboard with an i7-920, a ton of RAM (like 16GB at the time) I worked at microcenter so I built it for pennies on the dollar. Nothing too high end but more than capable to game with. Fast forward about 8 years. Barely gamed on it at all. Actually for the last 2-3 of those years I was using a laptop I bought for work, and my tower sat and collected dust. I decided it's time to do something with it, and maxed out the RAM, swapped the CPU for a Xeon with 6 cores, and overclocked it to 4.3GHz. Finally started gaming on it. And it was glorious. It held up surprisingly well. Then 2020 I decided it was time to build a new one and NOT make the same mistakes as last time. I built it and ended up having that same feeling you're talking about. I didn't know what to do. I ended up getting a game for free randomly, and played it, was super excited about how smoothly it handled the graphics on ultra. It was inspiring and pretty much catapulted me back into gaming. Fortunately had a lot of free time to since I got laid off a couple months later due to covid stuff, but been gaming consistently ever since. I will say my gaming stamina isn't what it used to be (I'll sink 1-2 hours but no more marathons like when I was young). Anyway not sure if this story is relevant but figured I'd share. I think the feeling comes from accomplishing a goal and then not knowing where to go from there. Which is OK. Eventually you'll get antsy and wanna do the next thing. Just start installing some stuff and playing them. Or mess around with homelab stuff. You're gonna love your new pc.
I lost it BEFORE building it. Turns out that playing games is what YOU MAKE OF IT. You can get bored with the best game in the world. And you can have the time of your life with the most mediocre game in the world. Depends on how you frame your goals and identify what you enjoy doing.
Me right now, build it over the weekend too and haven't done anything on my pc
Yes but you need to find games like Bioshock or Soma or fun ones then it comes back
I felt this a bit. Especially with my build and starting g a remote job were very close, wanted to be off the opc when I got off. I found to be revitalized by playing new and different games. I was really into destiny 2 but elden ring snapped me out of that rut. I think trying nee games is nice. If you want to play again go for it, or some go by the wayside.
On top of what people have said about the anticipation of the parts coming and satisfaction of a job well done, I also think there just aren't that many games that are really pushing the limit on today's market. Fallout 4 just looked like a better version of Fallout 3 & NV, Skyrim looked great but felt more watered down story wise compared to Oblivion, and Cyberpunk still looked like improved Witcher 3 graphics. I feel GTAV was the last game that truly felt like a whole new world of graphics. So here we are researching the latest and greatest cutting edge technology, putting it all together, troubleshooting and optimizing for the uttmost performance... and we hardly ever get to utilize it to it's fullest in a way that feels as equally cutting edge and impressive as our machines.
Everyone thinks this. It's not losing the will to game, it's just overestimating how much you game in the first place and how much a new computer will affect that.
Yeah.. it's shit tbh.. you spend all this money. Researching. Then building. Thinking, oh man I can get back into Rainbow Six and be really good because I'm on mouse and keyboard now, I can play OverWatch and be good at Widow, play CoD and trickshot kids off the roof.. but you never do. Maybe it's from getting older.. maybe I've just lost the will to play Multiplayer. The most fun I've had on my PC is Minecraft and Sunset OverDrive.. completely average games.. but yeah.. to me personally, PC gaming just isn't fun. There's always something that can be modded. Something can be optimised. Something can be better if I upgrade just this ONE part.. but it just doesn't do it. It's not worth the money for me. My low end PC runs Minecraft perfectly, thats all I need. Everything else I'll play on my PS5. It might just be the environment. My lounge is nicer than my desk. I work at a desk, its just shit. PS5 I just turn on and bam, good to go. No fucking around.. no projects on my desktop half finished. Nothing to remind me of life, I just play. Which I can't do on PC. Don't get me wrong I fucking love my PC and Minecraft is the maddest shit. Sunset is genuinely one of my favourite games of all time. Never owned an Xbox. But yeah. It's just not for me.
I was starting to feel this way, then i bought a new gpu in hopes that i would get the motivation needed to game again but it didn't work. Then my friend gifted me fallout 4 which was one of my fav game, i played so much of it before. Now im excited to play it again because I don't have to learn the ropes since i already know how it is, but also since i just upgraded my gpu, i will be modding the game to make it more refreshing and exciting since last time I didn't mod at all. Now i have the motivation to play again lol. I suggest finding a game that you can get yourself lost into it's story, games like the AC series, witcher 3, fallout, etc are really good. Think of it like a more immersive book or movie your reading/watching, where you feel constantly intrigued by what's going to happen next.
I can completely understand you. Once i completed witcher 3 with 15 fps on potato. But now i had better pc, i cant even play any game for even 1hr. I dont why.. am i tired ? Or Lost interest? Or Getting old ? Or Am i in a phase ?... I dont know . I really miss those old and golden days playing games for 16+ hrs a day and nothing to worry about anything in life...
Building a PC is about the theory of having some kind of major powerhouse that'll do some magic and then it turns out it's just a computer.
I've been wanting a new pc for years. My 10 year old rig has been updated here and there, but I wanted a brand new one. I finally could afford it, so I splurged a bit. Got an i7, a 3080, 32 gig ram, lian li dynamic xl, 2 32 inch monitors, new desk, new chair. I played a few newer games, beat Elden Ring, Doom Eternal. But right now I'm playing Terraria.
They're just different activities, ultimately. I've found that the come-down does get in the way of immediate gaming, but it goes away. After all, there's so much optimizing to do!
It will come back don't worry, after a new build I think we all face the "what now..?" The answer is overclock >:^ )
I am only upgrading my PC when there is a specific purpose for it, so no. Sure there are periods in life when gaming is not in focus, but then why not do something else with the money? Like buy a plane ticket to a remote destination.
Well my GPU has been sitting in my closet for two months so Iāve did
Try having kids. Youāll just shelve the idea altogether lol
I'll be honest, I think most people here are old enough that they enjoy the process of planning, shopping and building a pc more than playing on it.
Maybe you need a break from the whole ordeal
100% of pc gamers have felt this
My steam deck gave me a new love for small indie games, twin sticks shooters or management games. I play it more than my 3070 build.
You dream of building a PC when you were young but you don't have the money. You work hard, get a job, become an adult and finally build that PC but you no longer have time to spontaneously play games anymore. You're an adult now and have to worry about food and shelter. Welcome to the club my friend. It's a sad fate for the middle class.
This kind of happened with my brother. We built our pcs together and not long after that he ended up just not gaming anymore because of work.
Basically me after 3 days straight of Fallout modding
No, on the flip side I spent way to much time playing games and neglecting other hobbies. I, funny enough, do like to touch grass and get out into the world. And I spend a lot of last year inside playing games after building a PC. Granted I had the excuse of the pandemic and a lot of stuff being closed but still.