You sound like somebody who just plays online multiplayer games and gets immediately bored at anything that tries to tell an actual story. You sound like your just in it for fast quick paced gameplay and nothing else
This ask almost directly follows me talking about JRPGs I've played, where I state I put more than 100 hours in to the original Final Fantasy 7. I have lots and lots and lots of posts on this blog also stating how much I don't like Final Fantasy becoming more of an action game and less of a turn-based RPG. Just saying.
Also let it be known that while at TSSZ, I reviewed Grand Theft Auto 4, Grand Theft Auto 5, Phantasy Star Zero, Sands of Destruction, Breath of the Wild, Judgment, and was in the process of also reviewing Final Fantasy 7 Remake when Tristan shut the site down*. A lot of those games, I put 30-50+ hours in to. For Breath of the Wild, I put THREE HUNDRED hours in to it, by the time I got everything I wanted out of it.
Steam lists my playtime in Skyrim at 138 hours, and I'm probably not even halfway done with the main questline. I think I'm over 50 hours in to FF7 Remake, finally nearing the end of the game.
But here's the deal: I do like, and even tend to prefer, shorter, more simple games as I get older. I've taken to multi-tasking a lot, so splitting my attention between a game and Youtube (or Twitch) has become how I relax.
When I'm splitting my attention like that, I don't like playing story-heavy games, because I think the narrative deserves my undivided attention.
And often it's just... way easier to... not do that. To fall back on replaying Spelunky, or Burnout Paradise, or a narrative-driven game I've already finished so that I don't have to pay attention to the cutscenes the second time through. To chill out and vegetate to something I don't have to devote my full attention to.
Is there anything wrong with that? Only a little. I could, and try to, push myself to play bigger and more narrative driven games. It's why I ended up playing through Uncharted 1 and 2 a couple years ago, but I got lost on whether or not I should bother with Uncharted 3 or just move on to The Last Of Us.
But also: I'm allowed to play what I want to play, and this ask feels ever so slightly like an attack. And to be honest, I don't understand why.
* I probably reviewed more long games, but those are the names that jump out at me, and most of my TSSZ reviews have not yet been archived on Last Minute Continue.
