| TheRealSamusAran said: Why do we feel the need the listen to new music and watch new movies? Just keep listening to Black Sabbath and watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy and nothing else for the rest of your life! |
Cause it was new and everyone said it was great. Lol. Yeah, indeed I'm way over thinking this, lmao. As they say variety is the spice of life. As much as I would like to have the inclination to do what some do and stick to speed running the same games and save money it really would not be the same whatsoever, I have to leave weeks invetween sessions of Sekiro cause I get burned out, I will one day get a no hit run or an only parry run the full length of the game but it's years off. I could probably do it in a year and save the money for a few months, it would just be so exhausting, I spent 32 hours doing another run of Khazan for the platinum over the last two weeks and I hope I never see that game again in my life.
New things are just better, not knowing how something works and the learning process is exactly what Svennoj's article says, it's anticipation and I think that article is wrong about thinking of playing games is better, there is much of that anticipation dopamine reward system happening with a good mysterious story and anticipation of the next boss or so. That said, the article is scary accurate to my purchasing habits and what I see from most gamers. Physical buyers for example live for buying the games and less so playing them, trophy data also says massive percentages of players only dip their toes into a game, two hours or so, 50% are usually gone before the half way point even in great games, 10% usually don't even pop the first trophy so boot it and drop it. Dopamine from the anticipation of the new games out must pull them away as to why everyone you ask has a backlog.
Last edited by LegitHyperbole - on 29 May 2025
