I have realised that if i dont quit all forms of video games, i will never truily make it

I used to game like a bastard, eventually just got bored of all of them, newest games come out I buy it, play 10 minutes, shut it off forever.

Now I just sit and watch TV shows that I literally couldn't remember one detail about while I browse 4chins. Thinking I need to sell my computers and TV, take up reading in my spare time, and force myself to go outside more even just to walk around aimlessly.

Aye, I was addicted to it all of my childhood through teens. I realized that it kind of fucked me up and that if I don't stop I will be a depressed lonely loser forever. Went cold turkey for a few months so far and shits been great. Getting my life back on track and on my way to gains.

Do you guys not have jobs?

I have time to play games maybe an hour per day tops, couple hours on off days. Only literal children have the time to waste entire days on games.

I own no consoles and play no online games, it really isnt hard to live life without playing vidya

if you want to quit, just throw out all your rare loot or some shit and then you'll completely lose motivation to play

Video games are as easy as they are going to be to give up. They are generic as fuck and really haven't innovated for 10 years. Also the pricing model and all the shitty politics in games these days is disgusting and a turn off. A good Indy game comes out once every 6 months at best but most of them are really niche and don't suit everybody

Yooka layle, the only game Ive been hyped for in like 2 years has turned out to be a disappointment. It's just so easy to give it up, so just do it.

Go find something else, I'd recommend getting a book of your favourite bodybuilder/strongman/lifter as reading that shit really gets me pumped up and inspired as they usually have good life stories.

Bro I used to play dark souls everyday. I played the whole series from demons souls to bloodbourne at least 500+ hours in the series. I loved it, it was the only video game i could play, it helped my hand eye coordination but gave me a short fucking temper.

I wanted to stop being angry all the time so i sold my ps4 and all my games (it was easy since next gen was a cluster fuck) now i can save money and use that repressed anger for lifts and instead of creating a character, I became the character.

If you still need a fix just get an old Xbox (mine was modded) and by some old classic video games NFL street fifa street, battlefront, etc and just play them when you have guests over, get drunk or high and run some tournaments. Thats what i do once a week with my buddies, and since its an old system you wont want to play it recreationally since the games all handle like piss.
>TL:DR
>GET SOME CLASSIC COUCH CO OP GAMES AND ONLY PLAY THEM WITH COMPANY AND AN 3LEVATED BLOOD ALCOHOL CONTENT

It's about self discipline user. I got borderlands 2 when it was free on gold a few months back. Only game I've played since I downloaded it, and I'm only level 12.

not everyone is a worthless addict. how is quitting a fun hobby, that i maybe spend a couple hours a week on, going to improve my quality of life? Quality of life is about enjoying your fucking life.

Literally the only way to enjoy video games anymore. FIFA 06, Tekken/Street Fighter, a racer or two, even Guitar Hero if you're autistic to keep a couple of those guitars laying around. Also just arcadey games. Doritos Crash Course on 360 was fun as fuck.

Also does anyone remember SOCOM II?

>They are generic as fuck and really haven't innovated for 10 years
>Hyped for a kickstarter game that's cashing in on the nostalgia for a game that came out almost 20 years ago
I don't understand.

im on day 6 of a 90 day noporn/novidya

ive had to wrestle with several bouts of severe temptation but im getting in so many discipline gains so far. Also feels like my reward (dopamine) system is getting healthier

>street fighter
if you play anything newer than 2 you run the risk of getting gud and blowing hundreds of hours practicing

>10 years ago
shooters all day every day, basically garbage
>now
same shit + mobas

>15-20 years ago
great games that were a bit risky but fun as fuck, also 3d platformer collectathons that they stopped making for some reason. i dont remember any big ones flopping ever

so when they remake one of these games that was amazing 20 years ago everyone gets hyped

man, even thinking about playing 8-10 hours of games at one time sounds so comfy right now

you will be rewarded for your sacrifice

and so it shall be

I always find the idle time so I'd rather play videogames than piss away that time on Veeky Forums.

The thing that worked for me (not OP) is just to stop doing it and seeing how (or if) it changes anything. For me it made me see how unimportant videogames really are, so I lost interest in them. If you go a month or two without videogames and don't see/feel any difference, there might be a bigger problem at hand.

bruhhhhh the worst is MMOs I went through a wow addiction. That shit was straight crack. Now I look back and i'm like... What a fucking silly waste of time.

It doesn't matter, when it is time to quit video games, you will quit video games.

I have forced myself many times to quit games, and I just fill the void by shitposting more here or on /pol/, and realize how futile it is and just go back to the games.

The actual key is to have so many activities in your life, work, lifting, hobbies, gf/friends, that you just don't have time for video games for more than like an hour a day and always have something better or more important to do.

I think the the success it's had for you is great enough that you've misconceived it to be universal.

Basically, we're all glad you figured out what works for you, but you can't assume everyone else has the same problems or will find the same solution.

>I mainly play competitive games
>(loving Overwatch atm)

Hahaha thanks for the laugh kid I was having a rough day, this really cheered me up.

Yooka layle is a fresh idea because it's not really been done for 20 years. I was hoping that they would of tried something new or different with it but the game is just so bland with big open spaces with nothing in them

All the 3d platformers (it's pretty much only Mario) aren't open and have a bit of exploring to do, they hold your hand a lot these days.

Overwatch is fun as fuck and refreshing as hell after hate fucking csgo for two years

FIFA Street 2, NFS most wanted, Battlefield 2, and NFL street are by far the best games I have. I have bad habit of buying games, copying them to my harddrive and returning them.

>WoW
i think wow fucked up an entire generation

it was fun as hell though

The only popular shooters in recent memory have been Titanfall 2, Rainbow Six Siege, and Battlefield 1. Early access survival open world games are the new thing now. I don't think mobas are as big of an issue as you'd think either. I'm not a fan, but they have their own little self contained world. Good games are out there, it just takes a bit more effort to look now.

Is it really fresh if its retreading old ground though? That new mario odyssey looked pretty open, but I understand that something completely new would be more interesting.

Never even played it. The million dollar teasers and /3DCG/ in game graphics triggered the fuck out of me everytime i saw a cutscene and compared it with the in game graphics.

I didnt buy a PC to look at shit, nigger tier, who killed the captain alex, animation

>good games are out there
they're not anywhere nigga games suck these days bro fuck outta here

>comparing cutscenes to in game graphics in an mmo

the games from 2004 man
games pretty much used cgi cutscenes up until 7th gen. maybe even later.

WoW needed to run on toasters and have hundreds of things on screen at times in an age where 1GB vram was overkill

I use to do that when Blockbuster was around. Here in Australia for a while we had a vidya retail franchise called GAME that had really lenient return/trade-in policies. For months I treated them like a rental store except it was a free swap every week lmao. They went out of business a bit after that.

Aaand everyone I knew who played wow was a greasy, stinky, mountain dew chugging, primordial NEET.
>willingly playing a game from 2004 on a PC
ISHGGGY
Thats probably why it went out of business lmaoing@ that CEO's life.

>everyone I knew who played wow was a greasy, stinky, mountain dew chugging, primordial NEET.

by the time wrath came out you had the most normal people playing that game. I think you your case mightve been the fact that you were like 8 at the time.
everybody knows everyone on mmos is old as fuck with kids and they have to go "brb, kid crying" at least 5 times a day

It's hard to say about Mario. They've only done one open Mario which was 64
Everything since has been a bit more closed in terms of 3d environments.

>tfw started seriously lifting around 2 months ago after doing cardio and cutting semi regularly for a year and a half
>tfw at the same time get into vinyl
>tfw at the same time still be into vidya
>tfw at the same time be very good at IT and computer hardware
>tfw at the same time be into movies and shows
>tfw all of these hobbies plus school

I'm gonna have to cut probably 3/4 of those if I want to even have a chance at making it aren't I?

I have the same problem but with YouTube. I use it to cut out the silence and numb some of the anxiety I have from boredom and thinking of the future. I try to do other things, but they're not nearly as stimulating as the videos. It also helps ease lonliness, as I work nights right now and it's dead quiet on my days off (I only work three nights a week).

I think this addiction has made me mentally lazy and has destroyed my attention span. I want to get rid of it, but not sntirely abandon it. I am experimenting with different methods at the moment, but I don't want a
something that requires a program/extention.

If you can manage all that while not being an introverted socialtard you'll be right. But I'd also recommend picking up an interesting hobby (aside from lifting) that doesn't involve sitting on your ass.

I forgot to mention I longboard. Just haven't done so in a while due to all the rain and snow the areas been getting. Typically, I try to focus on work/school/gym during the day then watch/listen/play something the hour before bed.

I'm addicted to the internet not video games. I can get into a video game but I only have a Wii and a PC with no graphics card. I don't care about fiction...but I feel like I'm addicted to information. Searching for that one thread that will make me have an epiphany. Fear of never realizing something that would've changed my life if I just clicked. Video games don't give me that feel because they're pure fantasy.

Ironically if you spend enough time on the internet reality becomes fantasy and vice versa.

I basically flunked a straight year of community collage in my teens because I prioritized vidya over homework and studying. I wasn't into school, but family pressure had me going, regardless of my desires.

I can't say for sure if I'd take it back or not, but after working for a few years, I'm looking to go to school and the dozen withdrawls/Fs basically ruined my transcript. Would say gaming has been a destructive factor in my life, absolutely.

DOTA2 really got me into the whole matchmaking games thing when I was about 16, and I haven't been able to really drop them since.

This is going to sound retarded as shit but switching from PC to Ps4 has really helped. It has turned gaming for me from an addiction to a harmless hobby.

I believe it has to do with quitting all those fucking free games/MOBAS/sales shit that constitutes much of the PC market atm. I legitimately felt stressed when I saw my backlog on Steam. Yes, I was that fucking pathetic.

I now maybe drop 70 euros for a game at a time and maybe spend 2-3 hours a day (or twice a day) if I have nothing else to do. That keeps my satisfied gaming-wise for 1-2months or so. Currently playing Nier: Automata and loving it.

Uninstal Steam, user. You can do it.

Worked for me... kinda...

might have relapsed with gba roms recently. :c

Sorry, meant to say 2-3 hours a day or two days.

all you guys gotta do is spend more time outside and take up your time doing other shit. with school, my job, working on my car and trying to maintain a social life i really have no time for playing video games

New games are easy and none of them are competitive. New generation of gamers is a bunch of pussies. I used to be addicted but game industry and the generation pussy made it easy for me to give up my life long addiction.

Godspeed op

this is true.. for any of you still playing games, if you really want to be successful you need to quit video games.

im 23 and im ready to quit now, ive seen through all the hype and a good game only comes once a year maybe.. an unreal game only comes every few years.

>quitting videa when they are finally pppular enough to make you seem cool if you are buff enough and not like an autistic manchild
The fuck dude

Wizard 32m, spent about a year of my waking life playing wow plus more time on other games and letting myself go. These days I don't care anymore about games, it's been more than 2 years and I probably won't return even if I'm bored, because lifting and other gains are more important. Yes I wasted a lot of opportunities in my life, making more friends when I was younger, maybe have a relationship, but that's the price you have to pay for being an adddict. These days I'm hoping that when I reach a certain amount of plates, I might be redeemed, I could be lying to myself, but I will find out. You guys are still young, if you moderate your gaming you can make it, good speed.