Weekend Question: Has the pandemic changed your relationship with games?

[PCG Jody]

I ask the PCG staff a regular Weekend Question and post the answers on the site. If you'd like to throw in an answer here, I'll squeeze the best into the finished article!

This week's question is: Has the pandemic changed your relationship with games?

Has spending more time at home changed the way you play games, or the way you feel about them? Maybe they've become a vital escape, but maybe you're getting burned out thanks to not having enough other things to do. Maybe you've finally got into something huge and time-intensive, or tried a new series or genre. Maybe you just can't look at Plague Inc. the same way any more.

 

[badman]

I think I'm getting back to my 90's self. Last couple of years, like a lot of other gamers, I found myself having little patience understanding and learning games. Numerous times I started a random Battlefield game: you can hop in and out, it's quick and simple. But now, because of the pandemic, I have more time. More time means more patience, so here I am learning how to fly the F18 in DCS. It's back to the roots and I love it. Never knew I missed these kind of games.

 

[bh3bh3]

Nah. I have more time now than going outside on a trip since it is better to stay at home rather than going outside and have a chance of getting this COVID.

 

[TEULU]

NO

 

[mainer]

Not really, although this past year (2020) I found myself re-playing a lot of older games. I replayed all 3 Dragon Age games, the ME1-3 Trilogy as well as ME Andromeda, modded another run for Skyrim, started (and still going) a playthrough of both Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, and am also modding for another run at Fallout 4. Part of this is being at home more, part of it is being a bit more nostalgic & having more time to think and reminisce, and part of it is that nothing new really caught my interest. There's BG3, but I'm not quite ready to jump into early access there, and CP2077 which clearly isn't a finished game, so that's about a year away.

 

[DXCHASE]

No. Gamers will game whether theres a pandemic or a world wide apocalypse. The only thing ive found myself doing differently is finding more time to play, but lets not kid ourselves, i would have found almost the same amount of time to play if nothing like the pandemic happened.

 

[Frindis]

A wee couple of more hours in a game or two I have to admit. Maybe a little grinding in Valheim and Rust..if you know what I mean I have also been a little angrier with game companies that do not keep what they promise, liiiiiiiiike CDPR.

 

[Pifanjr]

I've been able to sneak in a bit of Crying Suns, but I barely have more free time now than before the pandemic. I actually had a bunch less during the part where daycares were closed, but luckily they're open again.

 

[Colif]

Well, maybe. Before last year I didn't have a PC good enough to play games, now I have one that can play any thing I want (if I could think of any I wanted to play). That wouldn't have happened had it not been for last year, reasons are complicated

 

[OsaX Nymloth]

*gets out of his cave*
Pandemic? What pandemic?

Yeah for me it only means the same as always, business as usual.
Unless we count me coming back to FM... then yeah it's a plague and it's too late to save my soul.

 

[Mazer]

Indirectly, yes. More time at home led to more offers of babysitting from my mother in law, which led to more alone time with my partner, which led to pregnancy, which led to my second child being born about a month ago.

Send help. Or a Nintendo Switch, either one.

 

[Zloth]

Congrats @Mazer!

 

[Mazer]

Thanks @Zloth, can I interest you in a three year old? Slightly used.

 

[Zloth]

That's just the demolished circadian rhythms talking, @Mazer!

 

[jeyrick]

I'm new here and because I'm here it means I have more time with this pandemic to play.