00:03in the United Kingdom the average life
00:06expectancy for a male such as myself is
00:1078.7 years as I'm recording this voice
00:14over today is actually my birthday I am
00:18now 31 years old and was born on the
00:231993 which means statistically I only
00:26have little over 47 and 1/2 years left
00:30to live heck let's get exact from my
00:33date of birth my expected date of death
00:37would be Thursday the 5th of November
00:412071 with the day rounded
00:45up yes it's one of those videos video
00:50games have been around for well over
00:51five decades and in that time thousands
00:54upon thousands of video games have been
00:56made according to a quick Google search
00:59I just did whilst writing this line
01:02800,000 different video games out there
01:07world and if we take off the shovel we
01:09you find on mobile phones we're looking
01:11at almost 100,000 and that's not
01:15counting unofficial fan games that I'm
01:17sure many have tried and failed to make
01:20over the years now returning back to
01:22myself I am what people might consider a
01:24midcore gamer I play a variety of genres
01:28and the majority of my free time is just
01:30playing video games I know a total loser
01:34right however the thing about me is that
01:36it's not often I actually finish many of
01:39the games I actually start and it got me
01:45why why do I purchase a whole game only
01:49to never finish it the answer is
01:54time and that brings us onto the subject
01:57of this video you just can't play
02:02everything no matter how much you might
02:04want to let's find out why with some
02:07scenarios I and perhaps even yourselves
02:11are all too familiar
02:18with imagine this you're playing a brand
02:21new video game you just bought and
02:24you're enjoying it you're halfway
02:26through completing it but then what's
02:29this A brand new shiny video game that
02:31everybody is talking about that you've
02:33also been looking forward to playing
02:34comes out and well you don't want to
02:37miss out now do you people could spoil
02:39it and there's so many cool things
02:41you've seen you've just got to play it
02:44so inevitably you stop playing your
02:46current game and play the new one where
02:49afterwards it usually goes in a few
02:52directions the same thing happens again
02:55you find a shiny new video game whilst
02:57playing this one and the cycle continues
03:00or you actually do complete that new
03:03game but it's been a long time since you
03:06played the game you stopped playing
03:09you've forgotten the story The Mechanics
03:11you put all those hours into the game
03:14you might even have to start over to
03:16remind yourself on what to do but that
03:19means it's so many hours just down the
03:21drain Time of Your Life you've just
03:25wasted and therefore you may not go back
03:30at least not right away because then
03:33maybe a new game comes out oh doesn't it
03:35look so cool but it's a direct
03:38continuation of that game you stopped
03:42ago but you're determined so you start
03:46up that game again from the beginning
03:48after putting it off for so long
03:51and well the same scenarios may occur
03:56but there's also another
03:58scenario and that is burnout you did
04:01complete the game congratulations and
04:04now here's the sequel just in the nick
04:06of time as much as you enjoyed the last
04:09game you feel so tired of the franchise
04:13for now and so you decide to put off the
04:16sequel perhaps never even play
04:24it almost a decade ago I tried Dark
04:29Souls I struggled with the first boss
04:32made it to fire link Shrine and then
04:34kept dying over and over and
04:44over I didn't understand the appeal of
04:48these games so I gave
04:51up then bloodborne came out again I
04:54didn't get too far into that and gave up
04:57too a couple of years went by and I
05:00decided to watch two dudes play through
05:03bloodborne they were the game grumps and
05:07saw how bad Aaron sucked at the game but
05:16persevered this is probably one of the
05:18first times in my life I ever felt
05:22inspired if someone like Aaron Hansen
05:26who is notoriously bad at paying
05:27attention to directions can beat the
05:30souls games surely I
05:35did I beat them all Demon Souls Dark
05:39Souls Dark Souls 2 bloodborne Dark Souls
05:423 SEO Elder ring eight or so years ago I
05:46despised these types of games they were
05:49too hard but I persevered and now these
05:53are some of my favorite games of all
05:57time if you're someone who finds things
05:59things like Souls games too hard and
06:03mode then these games just aren't for
06:07you I'm sorry but it's something you
06:11accept but that's okay across your life
06:15you will have met people made friends
06:18had a variety of experiences and jobs
06:20you maybe loved or hated and all of that
06:23culminates into the person you are all
06:30you and for some people because of all
06:32of their different experiences they are
06:36games Life's a tradeoff I thoroughly
06:40enjoy the souls franchise but sports
06:42games like FIFA or EA Sports FC now NBA
06:49NFL they're just not for me I just can't
06:51get to grips with the game playay
06:53meanwhile others out there are
06:55absolutely cracked at them just because
06:58something is popular doesn't mean you're
07:00going to enjoy it and sometimes we as
07:04humans are just going to have to accept
07:08all Christopher Nolan
07:11films the majority just don't appeal to
07:14me and most of them are just bad there I
07:21it in fact let's talk about that there
07:24are so many different types of genres
07:26out there some that seemingly became
07:28entirely new genres just by mixing two
07:32together like Metro Vania somehow they
07:35took game names and mashed them together
07:37to make a genre and yet most of us
07:40somehow know what that
07:42means and if you don't Google it the
07:46fact of the matter is that not every
07:47genre will appeal to everybody I've
07:50already mentioned sports games but then
07:52there's games that involve
07:54micromanagement city builders like City
07:56skylines or even stat adjustment games
07:59like democracy and Football manager
08:02seriously who enjoys this it's like
08:04staring at spreadsheets after already
08:06staring at spreadsheets in your 9 to 5
08:08office job you might as well just keep
08:10working if you're having that much fun
08:12most RPGs are of course notoriously
08:15known for spanning anywhere between 10
08:17to 100 plus hours in a single
08:19playthrough which is maddening when you
08:23think about it especially when you see
08:25some RPG games with that amount of
08:27content barely crack a million sales
08:31meanwhile the FIFA games where they
08:33would just take the previous game
08:35slightly update the graphics and change
08:37the football roster would sell 10
08:39million plus within a few months of each
08:42release my point though is that whilst
08:45these RPGs might appeal to the likes of
08:47myself there are those they just won't
08:51there are people who only ever enjoy
08:52short experiences because they just
08:55don't have the time or energy to care
08:57about their fake RPG family when they're
08:59baby is crying in the other room you
09:01should probably go check on your baby by
09:03the way and then we actually do have
09:05fake families like in The Sims your home
09:08away from home whilst you're probably
09:11playing it in your own home but a game
09:14like that can at least be played in
09:16small bursts maybe you're into some
09:18indie titles where experiences are
09:20relatively short and doesn't demand your
09:22soul in exchange to understand what the
09:24hell is going on God forbid you actually
09:27do sell your soul and exclusively only
09:37of let me tell you a story January 2019
09:43the KRON Toco back then was a simple man
09:46gleefully playing through single player
09:48titles like Darksiders 3 and Resident
09:53remake then February came along and a
09:57small little niche game you might have
10:00heard about called Apex Legends launched
10:03and ruined my life I kid you not Apex
10:06absorbed so much of my time that since
10:08its day one launch according to my
10:10Playstation I had put nearly 4,000 total
10:13hours into it of course 500 or so hours
10:18was probably just being on an idle
10:20loggin screen so maybe about 3,500 hours
10:23but that's almost half a year of my life
10:26to this one game and don't think my
10:29wallet escaped either I genuinely think
10:32I've spent almost £1,000 total through
10:35battle passes and skins from around
10:37season 4 onwards I made sure to reach
10:40diamond in the ranked mode and as
10:42Seasons progressed I would end up
10:45playing less and less but I still
10:47managed to reach Diamond every
10:55couldn't and somehow that gwed at me
11:03achieving who was I doing it
11:09it and I still don't have an answer and
11:12then there were the season passes
11:14eventually getting to max level became
11:16too much of a grind every day it was the
11:19same sort of matches getting wrecked by
11:22people better than me or easily stomping
11:24those worse than me though it was more
11:26the former than the latter all that time
11:28spent doing this same thing over and
11:31over and over and what was it getting
11:37nothing sure maybe I made some brief
11:40friends along the way but as time went
11:43on even they faded out of my life I
11:48playing and I don't mean just Apex in
11:512023 there was a window during the
11:53summer I just didn't really play
11:56anything and during my free time I'm all
11:59almost always playing
12:01something somehow I had been so burnt
12:05out on apex that it put a full stoppage
12:10me how can one video game do that but
12:14that's the problem isn't it even as you
12:17watch this video right now there are
12:20millions of people across the world
12:23playing multiplayer games that one day
12:26will be shut down forever and all that
12:29time and money they have put into them
12:32will be something to reflect on
12:33multiplayer games absorb so much of your
12:36time and I'm not saying everybody has
12:38the same experience but I think all I
12:41really got out of it in the end was
12:45dopamine meanwhile think of all that
12:48time and what else it could have been
12:50spent on multiplayer games don't invoke
12:52many emotions but the two that stand out
12:55are anger and joy anger at Los
12:59and joy at winning is it any Wonder then
13:03that top twitch streamers only known for
13:05playing multiplayer games would complain
13:07that there aren't many good
13:09games they've been kept from feeling any
13:12other emotions because of the grind
13:14they've kept themselves on because
13:17diverting now could spell Doom for their
13:19twitch careers maybe even their family
13:23life and I'm not saying you shouldn't
13:26play multiplayer games hell maybe you're
13:28doing it right right now whilst watching
13:30this video but you have to ask yourself
13:33if exclusively playing this one title is
13:36what you want to do with your
13:462023 the last game I completed before
13:49the new year was Boulders Gate 3 and as
13:53the credits rolled after my 100 plus
13:56playthrough I cried my eyes out
14:00this was the second time I've ever cried
14:03at the end of a video game the first
14:06being Final Fantasy 10's ending if you
14:10know you know throughout those hours
14:12with Boulders Gate 3 these were the
14:15characters I cared for save scumming to
14:18ensure nothing bad would happen to them
14:21across my journey and then the worst
14:28happened the story ended sure I guess I
14:34playthrough but what will that
14:36achieve I'd just be going through the
14:39same content with slight alterations it
14:42wouldn't add to the personal story I
14:44went on because it would essentially be
14:47erasing it with an entirely New
14:51Cannon I would be killing my version of
14:54these characters that's why our time is
14:59we can maybe undo the choices we made in
15:02the video games we play but we cannot
15:05undo what games we choose to spend our
15:07time on video games are meant to invoke
15:10a wide array of emotions take you on
15:13Journeys that would be impossible in
15:16reality you're probably now expecting
15:18some sort of moral from me here and
15:21honestly I don't really have
15:24one but with how short our time is on
15:27this Earth we need need to be more open
15:30to other experiences and
15:32ideas you canot like something sure so
15:35long as you understand not everything
15:44everything it might be such a grim note
15:46to end on I know but acceptance of death
15:49is something I struggle to come to terms
15:52with I hear as you get older you slowly
15:55come to accept it but I guess I'll never
15:59really know until I get
16:01there if I get there I wonder about my
16:06death a lot how I'm going to die or
16:10when it can happen tomorrow 30 years
16:13from now hell maybe it'll land bang on
16:17my death date and I'll go out in a blaze
16:20of glory on the 5th of November
16:27intended and until then what am I going
16:34time I'm going to play some [Â __Â ]
