I’ve recently found that big (mostly open world) games tend to overwhelm or even intimidate me. I’m a big fan of the Rockstar games and absolutely adored Breath of the Wild, but my playthrough of Tears of the Kingdom has been a bit rocky from the get-go.

As soon as the game let me explore all of its content and released me from the tutorial island, I was able to roam the lands of Hyrule freely as I once did in Breath of the Wild, but I’ve come to a sort of paralysis. I feel like there’s such an enormous amount of content to see that I’m constantly anxious to unintentionally skip content or to not make the most of my experience. I did not feel like this back in Breath of the Wild, and I’m not really sure why. I did, however, have this same sense of FOMO when I first played Skyrim. That game also made me feel like I was constantly missing stuff which left me kind of unsatisfied.

This is not a big problem and all of the games I listed are great games. I’m posting this because I unconciously took a two week break from ToTK in order to alleviate that feeling but when I came back to the game today and still felt the same, I thought of posting here and maybe hearing your opinions on this thing.

Have you ever felt the same in big open world games? Do you feel like this in more linear games with multiple endings? (I do) Do you think I’m an overthinker and should just rock on? Looking forward to your comments!

  • LostCause@kbin.social
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    For me since I quit smoking weed something in my mindset changed and it just seems like too much effort overall to play most games, especially bad with open world with hundreds of quests. The quest log tends to remind me of my ticket backlog at work.

    I mainly play some small and quick to pick up and put down games with tight gameplay loops atm.

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      The quest log tends to remind me of my ticket backlog at work.

      Yes, absolutely this. New quests/tickets just keep coming faster than you can complete them…

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        That’s funny, I find ticking off objectives a helpful source of dopamine when feeling down, whereas I’d despise that in the context of work.

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      I mainly play some small and quick to pick up and put down games with tight gameplay loops atm.

      What are some you are playing? If you dont mind me askin. I dont have the time for these large grinds. 30-60 minutes a night and Im good.