WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...
why can't I just play a game and not care if I miss shit like I did back in the day?
One half of it is game companies explicitly exploiting psychology and addiction to keep you in the game longer. The other half of it is you just not valuing your own time.
I'm kind of the opposite of you, where I used to try to complete everything 100%. Then I realized that I was missing out on a lot of really good games because I was spending all my time grinding in mediocre ones, so I started to compare playing games to buy a movie ticket. As long as I got more value out of the game that I would have going to the movie, I can comfortably move on from the game and say I got my money's worth. If a game is incredible, I keep playing. If I get 5 or 10 hours in and realize I'm not having fun, I drop it.
Now, for some people that could get expensive, but I've offset that by mostly playing indie games on steam that I wait for when they go 50% off. So rather than trying to 100% something like gears of War 5, instead I end up playing three really well crafted indie titles for the a smaller dollar amount and end up getting way more out of it.