/vr/ - Retro Games

> Anyway, do you experience this?
No, I play the games for fun. I've stopped playing a bunch of games just because I lost the save game or replaying it became boring

Not that kind of feel.
I just like beginnings (they're very often the better or more fun part of the game), and also if I haven't played something for a long time, I might just start a new game to remind how to play again. But that's only for games "in the middle", if the game is open-ended and I have a "game complete" save, I'll play it without issues even after years.

>>10865316
You have a mental illness.

>>10865367
Yes I do and I am heavily medicated for it. But that doesn't change the reality of the question.

Do you have death anxiety

>>10865369
No I don't because I am saved by the atoning blood of Jesus Christ. I'm more afraid to be stuck in a state of prolonged alivedness

>>10865316
I don't use Steam but otherwise I know what you're taking about.

>>10865316
>But now on Steam you see it says "Last played: eleven months ago", so you think, "hey what the hell let's go check it out."
>overwrite save and start again
I fixed your problem, anon, for free, stop taking meds

>>10865371
What is the afterlife but eternal alivedness?

>>10865316
I'll get a slight sense of "oh man what was I doing back then? i haven't accomplished what i wanted in life after all these years, haha oh well".

but i'm used to that and it just isn't video games that hits me with that

>>10865408
I should have been more clear: I fear being alive and stuck in my current body, the one that is connected to a nervous system that can experience pain, misery, envy, etc. The tremendous appeal of eternal life in the afterlife is that you're given a new body that is incapable of feeling the pangs of death, sin, agony, etc. I feel bad for people in vegetative states and people who end up disabled young and then have to live with chronic pain for 60, 70, 80 more years.
Thinking about death fills me with ease because I know that there is no sting in death when you're in Christ.

oh my hecking liminal spaces le creepypasta horrerinos le old save anxiety i'm gonna transfer my consciousness to the digital realm

>>10865316
Yes, I've felt like that having started a lot of lengthy, time-consuming games that I really wanted to play at the time, but become busy or distracted with other things in life. It tends to be with things like RPGs, or any games with any real story. Also has happened to me with GTA (I've started/played halfway through Vice City and San Andreas multiple times, but never finished them, and feel like I needed to start over each time).
But I also feel this way with revisiting save files of games that I did actually beat, because the time period from that save file feels removed from my current life, like it was a different person who beat it.
More recently if I intend to take on a longer game, I try to see it through so I won't have to feel like I need to go back and start it all over in order to finish it.

>>10865316
You don't get "a liminality of sorts", you fucking moron. It's simply you realizing that you put a lot of effort on something that, once you've disengaged yourself from it, looks just as ridiculous and as much of a waste of time as it always did. You're not confused NOW; you were confused before, when you thought putting time and effort into it was a good idea. It's like looking at porn after you just came and are disengaged with it: just disgusting and grotesque, and it always was.

>>10865316
Kind of, I get it with story. If I can't remember where I left off and how I got there with perfect clarity then I just can't get into the game without restarting. It only happens after a couple of years away from the game, but it's annoying when it does.

Yes but in a positive way. I leave those saves intact as a way to preserve "nostalgia"

>>10865492
That's some real specific reasoning anon

>>10865554
That's some real non-specific way of slipping "no u" as a valid argument anon

>>10865492
that's so ridiculously overthought and yet has a hint of truth to it. lol good job anon

>>10865316
No because I'm not autistic.

>>10865316
>liminality
Anon please, seek medical help. And go back to plebbit while you're at it