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I have an even easier time keeping up with decades old games than with games that are only a year old. If I make the conscious effort to download and play an old game, there's a decent chance I'll stick with it under the guise of studying the medium's history. When I picked up 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Half-Life 2 for the first time a few years ago, I had no trouble playing either through to completion. If I felt myself flagging at an annoying part (like the irritating shootout that ends VTMB) I could urge myself to push through because I was learning something about an earlier era. With a game that came out last year, what am I learning? Sure, you can pick up something new from any piece of art if you have your eyes open, but playing Far Cry 6 doesn't scratch the itch of keeping up with the conversation or eating my vegetables. It's somewhere in between and feels pointless as a result.
This, to be clear, is a bad way to think. Good art is worthwhile regardless of when it was made. But with the need to contentify my hobbies for work on one side and FOMO on the other, is it any wonder I’ve developed these brain worms? Which reminds me, I should really get back to 2023’s hottest release, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur’s Gate 3. It may not keep till 2024.