I’m curious if this is a common thing. For me there are many such games. I hardly play games at all anymore, and when I do it’s mostly singleplayer indie titles. Yet for some reason I can’t stop myself from engaging with a lot of games I used to play.
CS:GO for example. I haven’t played it for years and have no real intention of coming back, yet I still find myself watching youtube videos, following the patch notes and engaging in online discussions. And it’s far from the only example for me.
Any weirdos out there that do the same?
I spend a lot of time thinking and talking about DnD, but the closest I get to playing is a Group chat where every week people post “Sorry, Can’t this week”.
Damn I felt that one lol. Trying to get multiple adults who all have full time jobs and kids schedules to line up is literally impossible. I have straight up given up on it
Wait, everyone bailing at the last moment is not how one plays DnD?
and if we don’t bail, we argue.
Check out Solasta. It’s the closest a video game has come to giving me the D&D feels.
pbd my man. oh and change to pathfinder.
I play Minecraft very rarely, but I still watch my favourite childhood YouTubers, e.g., EthosLab.
This is pretty much exactly my experience with Minecraft. Always enjoy watching Etho.
I’m still in a dozen anarchy Minecraft discords. I’m inactive and haven’t played consistently for a couple years but I like the occasional ping.
I love the community of Minetest (basically open-source Minecraft), but very rarely do I have the creativity in me to actually play it.
I’ve considered making mods for it instead, or just straight up contributing to the game engine itself.
I keep trying to replay Minecraft and it just can’t hold my attention for long. I still follow the updates to it closely however. Maybe I should intentionally distance myself from it for a while instead, make it feel fresh again. Same thing applies to Terraria as well.
Yeah, for me personally, like once a year, I get the urge to start a new map and build a tiny village and then I’m good for a while. I usually play in creative mode, too, so I can get anything done in that time…
Same here, I’ve been taking a hard break from it though. I’ve also played so much modded that the base game isn’t that enjoyable unless on a big smp where I can flex my combat and redstone skills, even then I find a modded server with friends more fun.
Also if you haven’t played modded, check it out. Id recommend getting the Forge launcher (although there has been some drama with Forge recently, might wait until that clears up) and look through some modpacks. I especially recommend Create: Above and Beyond
Where is the Minetest community active?
The most active place is the forum: https://forum.minetest.net
Some of the devs also have Fediverse accounts…
And of course, you can just join onto a multiplayer server, too.
Destiny 2. I just can’t do the grind all the time anymore. I usually play the first few weeks of the season until the story is done and then wait for the next one. I’m kind of burned out at the moment though so I’m just going to wait for final shape to drop.
Me and my friends played Destiny since 2014, but for the past two years, our play time has dropped to 0. It’s just not a game we enjoy getting on everyday anymore. I hope it gets back to the game I loved playing one day, so I still keep up with all the news and updates. I also love the lore, so I’ll watch lore videos or read the books.
Magic the gathering. Stopped playing a long time ago, but still follow the meta and discuss on social media
This is the one for me too. Wasn’t ever a dedicated player but got into following the scene because a classmate was competitive on the pro circuit way back.
I haven’t played a game myself in ten years probably but still enjoy listening to the Limited Resources set review podcasts for some reason, and will watch an LSV draft video now and then.
Most FromSoftware games.
Absolutely love the lore and writing, love the environments and character designs and atmosphere. It’s a shame that I mostly find the games to be a boring slog to actually play.
So I watch Let’s Players and while they do the fighting, I can take the time to really enjoy how well-polished everything is and throw open the wiki and read through item flavor text or other bits of info.
I can somewhat relate to this, for me it’s with Hollow Knight. While I wouldn’t say I find it boring, I’ve just played through it all and have little interest in replaying. Yet the world and story is so interesting to me that I still love to watch others play and talk about it.
Foxhole. Because even if I’m not at the front, I can still make propaganda for Callahan.
Yup.
The competitive games ive played extensively at some point, dota and csgo mostly. path of exile isnt competitive but that too.
And the games/franchises/studios that ive really enjoyed and ocasionally go back to/keep up with news/possible sequels or dlc/etc.
Fallout, God of War, Elden Ring/FromSoft in general tbh, Slay the Spire, anything from Supergiant, etc.
For me, it’s dead or dying live services I suppose. Like Spacelords, and Paladins. They are “games” that frankly treat their players like pay pigs and I’m not interested in all that. I still happily discuss the world and characters though.
For whatever reason I love the Deep Rock Galactic community. I very rarely play the game, but I always love me a good ROCK AND STONE!
I still keep up with my old FC/Guild from Final Fantasy XIV via Discord even though I haven’t played the game in ages.
League of legends. Esports is really enjoyable but I can’t bring myself to waste anymore time on the game. I get the itch and then it ends up fading quickly
Absolutely! I haven’t played any Fallout or Borderlands for years, but I still subscribe to those subs (oh wait, used to, I’m not on Reddit anymore)
EVE online! Following along with the space drama and shit posting on
redditLemmy(?) is like 3/4 of actually playing the game itself so you can really get the feels without the embarrassment of having everyone laugh at you lossmail when you inevitably get dunked upon.
