Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is coming! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
Videogames are boring once you embrace RPG?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Jago" data-source="post: 6911013" data-attributes="member: 6855130"><p>I've been experiencing this a lot lately. I'll sit in front of my laptop and literally just stare at my Steam Library for an hour going "I have no clue what I want to play", all while thinking about characters/settings/storylines for Tabletop. </p><p></p><p>The biggest thing for me that highlighted this was when I got the entire Witcher trilogy on Steam sale. Awesome, I've never played a single one, was excited to check this out.</p><p></p><p>I literally played the first one about an hour or two into the first town and then haven't touched it since. I have no drive or motivation to want to continue it, and it has very little with me not liking the game. I enjoyed the plot, the characters were decent, even for an older game it looks good. Gameplay was interesting, but ... I don't know, it just doesn't grip me like sitting down to play a 6 Hour+ Tabletop session would. </p><p></p><p>For me, I find myself more looking at video game trailers and upcoming releases and such as "But what would that look like as a Tabletop game?" I was immediately smitten with the aesthetic and idea behind <em>We Happy Few</em>: a freaking dystopian psychedelic romp through 60s Britain where the core story element centers around "Is it okay to have feelings?", a game that doesn't glorify or even expect violence and makes you just a frail person trying to survive in a nightmare scenario, all under the wash of Mod Culture Clothing and the mystery of a "Very Bad Thing" that <em>nobody</em> wants to even remember? Consider me Snug as a Bug on a Drug!</p><p></p><p>... And then I immediately began thinking "Imagine this in World or Darkness. Or take the psychedelic drug-aspect and make it something off the wall like Don't Rest Your Head." I was thinking less about the gameplay and the interesting mechanics and visuals and more on how they could be interpreted in ways to explore other stories, explore other characters and concepts. </p><p></p><p>I'm not sure if Tabletop is related to this, but I do know that I enjoy discussing and thinking on Tabletop gaming far more than I do sitting down in front of my computer or console nowadays. I haven't even purchased a new console since the original PS3, and my library is quite small there, and I don't really feel the drive to go buy a new console either. </p><p></p><p></p><p>The only things I'll say that really capture me a bit more are things that are harder to replicate in Tabletop games, games like the Total War series, or Endless Legend/Space. Sure, you can have empire building and mass combat in Tabletop, but let's be honest, most systems are not good at representing this smoothly and easily without needing literally hours for just one battle, whereas Rome 2 let's me conquer most of Italy in about a few hours and then gives me the motivation of "But there's still more to do". </p><p></p><p></p><p>It also comes down to MMOs too. I don't really play them, I'm probably the last person on the planet that hasn't even so much as <em>tried</em> WoW, but I did play TOR for a long time, and I definitely enjoyed it. But it was the same feeling as always: Beat 2 storylines, tried a handful of others just to see, I did the Guild Play and the Endgame stuff and I just ... got bored. Now granted, I have friends telling me that the latest expansions breathed new life into this, and I am a <em>huuuuuuge</em> Star Wars fan so that was already a massive draw to me ...</p><p></p><p>But do I really want to go back to TOR when I can instead play Edge of The Empire and make my own characters, my own stories, my own sagas? Nine times out of Ten, I want to make my own, I get much greater satisfaction from just coming up with concepts than I do with video-game style progress. </p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm not sure if this is an actual phenomena, or if it's just that I'm well into my mid 20s and I'm losing the time I had when I was younger to dedicate hours to video games a day (I get maybe about 30 minutes to an hour of time a day for stuff like that), but whereas I couldn't <em>wait</em> to plow through Fallout 3 and New Vegas, again, I haven't even so much as looked at Fallout 4, a setting I'm <em>incredibly</em> fascinated by ... but have no drive to actually purchase and play through.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jago, post: 6911013, member: 6855130"] I've been experiencing this a lot lately. I'll sit in front of my laptop and literally just stare at my Steam Library for an hour going "I have no clue what I want to play", all while thinking about characters/settings/storylines for Tabletop. The biggest thing for me that highlighted this was when I got the entire Witcher trilogy on Steam sale. Awesome, I've never played a single one, was excited to check this out. I literally played the first one about an hour or two into the first town and then haven't touched it since. I have no drive or motivation to want to continue it, and it has very little with me not liking the game. I enjoyed the plot, the characters were decent, even for an older game it looks good. Gameplay was interesting, but ... I don't know, it just doesn't grip me like sitting down to play a 6 Hour+ Tabletop session would. For me, I find myself more looking at video game trailers and upcoming releases and such as "But what would that look like as a Tabletop game?" I was immediately smitten with the aesthetic and idea behind [I]We Happy Few[/I]: a freaking dystopian psychedelic romp through 60s Britain where the core story element centers around "Is it okay to have feelings?", a game that doesn't glorify or even expect violence and makes you just a frail person trying to survive in a nightmare scenario, all under the wash of Mod Culture Clothing and the mystery of a "Very Bad Thing" that [I]nobody[/I] wants to even remember? Consider me Snug as a Bug on a Drug! ... And then I immediately began thinking "Imagine this in World or Darkness. Or take the psychedelic drug-aspect and make it something off the wall like Don't Rest Your Head." I was thinking less about the gameplay and the interesting mechanics and visuals and more on how they could be interpreted in ways to explore other stories, explore other characters and concepts. I'm not sure if Tabletop is related to this, but I do know that I enjoy discussing and thinking on Tabletop gaming far more than I do sitting down in front of my computer or console nowadays. I haven't even purchased a new console since the original PS3, and my library is quite small there, and I don't really feel the drive to go buy a new console either. The only things I'll say that really capture me a bit more are things that are harder to replicate in Tabletop games, games like the Total War series, or Endless Legend/Space. Sure, you can have empire building and mass combat in Tabletop, but let's be honest, most systems are not good at representing this smoothly and easily without needing literally hours for just one battle, whereas Rome 2 let's me conquer most of Italy in about a few hours and then gives me the motivation of "But there's still more to do". It also comes down to MMOs too. I don't really play them, I'm probably the last person on the planet that hasn't even so much as [I]tried[/I] WoW, but I did play TOR for a long time, and I definitely enjoyed it. But it was the same feeling as always: Beat 2 storylines, tried a handful of others just to see, I did the Guild Play and the Endgame stuff and I just ... got bored. Now granted, I have friends telling me that the latest expansions breathed new life into this, and I am a [I]huuuuuuge[/I] Star Wars fan so that was already a massive draw to me ... But do I really want to go back to TOR when I can instead play Edge of The Empire and make my own characters, my own stories, my own sagas? Nine times out of Ten, I want to make my own, I get much greater satisfaction from just coming up with concepts than I do with video-game style progress. I'm not sure if this is an actual phenomena, or if it's just that I'm well into my mid 20s and I'm losing the time I had when I was younger to dedicate hours to video games a day (I get maybe about 30 minutes to an hour of time a day for stuff like that), but whereas I couldn't [I]wait[/I] to plow through Fallout 3 and New Vegas, again, I haven't even so much as looked at Fallout 4, a setting I'm [I]incredibly[/I] fascinated by ... but have no drive to actually purchase and play through. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
Videogames are boring once you embrace RPG?
Top