There’s too many epic video games and not enough mellow ones – Reader’s Feature

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A reader finds himself incapable of choosing what game to play next and settles for Flower and Journey over Elden Ring.

I’m in a bit of an odd spot with gaming at the moment. For a while now I’ve had real trouble getting into anything new. It’s certainly not been for want of available choice. I’m lucky enough to have a sizeable and reasonably varied game backlog, across multiple formats, which I often contemplate trying to clear. Plus, though I’m still very much in the previous generation, both Elden Ring and Horizon Forbidden West are things I like the idea of getting to grips with one day, even if I have to do so in their last gen forms.

However, since I platinumed Bloodborne last summer, I’ve genuinely found it difficult to get into anything else, long term.

I have tried. Paper Beast (once I stopped being freaked out by a persistent, flailing creature in a cave early on) held me for a bit, but it didn’t last. I’ve had a couple of stabs at getting into Cyberpunk 2077 since launch, but the first try barely got past the character creation screen before I canned it, preferring to wait until a verified patch had made the game stable.

The subsequent attempt saw me completely overawed by the sheer size and scope of the game world once I’d made it out into Night City proper and the missions started pouring in.

I had a similar feeling during my brief flirtation with Mass Effect Legendary Edition, chosen for a spin as I loved the games on PlayStation 3 and had a sudden rose-tinted craving for some shiny, shiny nostalgia. Yet after choosing my first away team and making my way down to Eden Prime to investigate, I just froze at the prospect of the enormity of all that was to come. I thought of all those conversations, moral dilemmas,