{"id":15029,"date":"2024-07-04T19:37:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T17:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/04\/my-secret-to-making-time-for-video-games\/"},"modified":"2024-07-04T19:37:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T17:37:50","slug":"my-secret-to-making-time-for-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/04\/my-secret-to-making-time-for-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"My secret to making time for video games"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this week\u2019s newsletter: Work, life and parenting mean I can\u2019t dive into massive games like I used to, but then I found a hack to making the time I need<\/p>\n

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I miss very few things about being a teenager, but I do miss all the time I had back then to play video games. I got great joy out of binge-playing into the small hours, an opportunity I almost never get now as a busy adult. Aside from covering games for work it feels as if I barely get time to play at all, which explains my affection for games that can be polished off in a couple of evenings, rather than the gigantic, absorbing role-playing games I used to crave. I have pretty much made peace with this. My days of 100-hour epics and\/or live-service online games are behind me. They\u2019ll be back eventually, when my kids are bigger.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s been more than two years since Elden Ring came out<\/a> \u2013 a game in my favourite genre, by my favourite director \u2013 and I suddenly got very fed up about the fact that I\u2019d barely played it. I\u2019ve picked away at the game on PS5, but never got out of the (admittedly vast) starting area of Limgrave. I kept hoping that my partner might take the kids away for a weekend, or that I might manage to take a week\u2019s holiday during term time, so that I could return to my teenage habits and play it by myself for hours on end. But it\u2019s been two years<\/em>. If I want to play this game \u2013 or any massive game \u2013 I\u2019ve got to try to fit it into the life that I actually have, with the job and the two small kids and every other responsibility that gets in the way.<\/p>\n

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\nIn this week\u2019s newsletter: Work, life and parenting mean I can\u2019t dive into massive games like I used to, but then I found a hack to making the time I need
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\nI miss very few things about being a teenager, but I do miss all the time I had back then to play video games. I got great joy out of binge-playing into the small hours, an opportunity I almost never get now as a busy adult. Aside from covering games for work it feels as if I barely get time to play at all, which explains my affection for games that can be polished off in a couple of evenings, rather than the gigantic, absorbing role-playing games I used to crave. I have pretty much made peace with this. My days of 100-hour epics and\/or live-service online games are behind me. They\u2019ll be back eventually, when my kids are bigger.
\nBut it\u2019s been more than two years since Elden Ring came out \u2013 a game in my favourite genre, by my favourite director \u2013 and I suddenly got very fed up about the fact that I\u2019d barely played it. I\u2019ve picked away at the game on PS5, but never got out of the (admittedly vast) starting area of Limgrave. I kept hoping that my partner might take the kids away for a weekend, or that I might manage to take a week\u2019s holiday during term time, so that I could return to my teenage habits and play it by myself for hours on end. But it\u2019s been two years. If I want to play this game \u2013 or any massive game \u2013 I\u2019ve got to try to fit it into the life that I actually have, with the job and the two small kids and every other responsibility that gets in the way. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this week\u2019s newsletter: Work, life and parenting mean I can\u2019t dive into massive games like I used to, but then I found a hack to making the time I need \u2022 Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here I miss very few things about being a teenager, but I do …<\/p>\n

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