You know, this is a funny one for me, and it actually made me register here just to answer the question and maybe become a more active member of the community.
It's really hard to make time to play games when you get on with your life. I'm married, work full time, and am a full time student - at best, I have 1 1/2 hours on a day I both work and deal with schoolwork, maybe 3 on my days off when I'm catching up.
I recently sold my PS4 to fund a few parts for my new PC partially because of this. Gaming on a console always feels like such a commitment - this whole TV is now dedicated just to playing a game. Your controller takes both hands, everything is live action unless paused, and this is all you're doing at the time.
I've always been an MMO fan, and while I don't raid or anything anymore, PS4 got me into FFXIV, which I'll be rebuying on PC. It's a great example of something you can have up in the background, talk to some people, get into a short PvP / dungeon for half an hour if you want, and not feel like it's your entire focus.
RTS games were always fun to me too, in that it was a 'new game' each time. An hour and a half time limited match in Age of Empires is like a game of chess in a way, and you can take as long of a break as you like without feeling like you have a game to 'finish.'
In short, I guess my answer is that you need to find games that have depth in different ways than saying "Hey, I've got 60+ hours of content!" and instead find things that aren't one long storyline but are fun for multiple goes. I still play Baldur's Gate now and then on an old laptop just for the fun of it - I cheat constantly of course, but that's fun to me. I don't play games to work at them, I play them for fun, and godmode is a blast.
Other than that, it's something to do to relax. Some people sit in front of the TV or browse blogs on their phones from the moment they get home from work until they go to bed, but will laugh at someone for playing a game in their spare time. To each their own, we all need a way to cool down, and gaming just happens to be mine.
It's really hard to make time to play games when you get on with your life. I'm married, work full time, and am a full time student - at best, I have 1 1/2 hours on a day I both work and deal with schoolwork, maybe 3 on my days off when I'm catching up.
I recently sold my PS4 to fund a few parts for my new PC partially because of this. Gaming on a console always feels like such a commitment - this whole TV is now dedicated just to playing a game. Your controller takes both hands, everything is live action unless paused, and this is all you're doing at the time.
I've always been an MMO fan, and while I don't raid or anything anymore, PS4 got me into FFXIV, which I'll be rebuying on PC. It's a great example of something you can have up in the background, talk to some people, get into a short PvP / dungeon for half an hour if you want, and not feel like it's your entire focus.
RTS games were always fun to me too, in that it was a 'new game' each time. An hour and a half time limited match in Age of Empires is like a game of chess in a way, and you can take as long of a break as you like without feeling like you have a game to 'finish.'
In short, I guess my answer is that you need to find games that have depth in different ways than saying "Hey, I've got 60+ hours of content!" and instead find things that aren't one long storyline but are fun for multiple goes. I still play Baldur's Gate now and then on an old laptop just for the fun of it - I cheat constantly of course, but that's fun to me. I don't play games to work at them, I play them for fun, and godmode is a blast.
Other than that, it's something to do to relax. Some people sit in front of the TV or browse blogs on their phones from the moment they get home from work until they go to bed, but will laugh at someone for playing a game in their spare time. To each their own, we all need a way to cool down, and gaming just happens to be mine.
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