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ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's why I always say I don't like "Frustration Gaming" (ie, games like Dark Souls), where you fail 99 times so that the 1 time you succeed is a much stronger rush. I no longer have the time or patience for gameplay like that - I'd rather get the lesser rush from succeeding 99 times out of 100 in a game that is interesting in other ways (which is why I tend to play story-heavy games on the most casual difficulty - I get far more out of them that way).

If something doesn't grab you immediately, there are a thousand other things screaming for your attention at all times. And the older you get, the less free time you have to devote to any of it. There's no time to indulge mediocrity.

Yeah, I get that and agree to a point. Dark souls though for me isn't (usually) frustration gaming, as I was always good enough to beat most fights after a few times (thank god) and that was without summoning help. I never actually had to summon help in order to beat a fight before getting frustrated with it (so far...but I think Elder ring is going to be actually over all easier combat wise).

But there are games like that which I just don't play, I have no patience for frustration gaming at this point and wouldn't be able to play many games in the past where you had to do a whole level over again if you died etc...forget that lol.

I do think your right and it has to do with having so much entertainment/media, so many shows to watch, games to play, if something starts to get old, you just move on to something else fresh and never finish it.

Technically Kingdom Hearts 3 isn't REALLY worse then KH1 (at least not massively), but I replayed KH1 many times and loved it, but I have not yet finished KH3 even once. I'm a different person then I was then, and it takes alot more to grab my attention and keep it.

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