I haven’t stopped playing Overwatch since it came out, still getting on with friends 2 or 3 nights a week and putting in a few hours (and I’m still awful lol). I also still log on to Battlefield 1943 from time to time to get in a few matches.
I also collect retro games so there is a good bit of time there. If anything I’ve struggled to find new games that I’d want to play more than something older and cheaper. I just picked up Dark Messiah for like 2 bucks and its amazing, hard to justify a $60-70 purchase when you can find deals like that on older but still great games.
I saw a lot of the playtime goes to still updated online games like Fortnite and Apex, but I wonder if part of it is that as time goes on there is a bigger pool of games to play. Sure there will always be cutting edge graphics and gameplay, but many people wouldnt be able to tell which indie dropped in 2010 and which dropped in 2024.
Rocket League. I probably play a solid 3 hours of that every single week, and have done for the last two years. Before those two years I probably played a solid 7-8 hours a week. It’s my forever game, the game I play when I’m bored, the game I play when I’ve got a lot on my mind and just want to fill the void in my head with something safe and easy.
I like playing rocket league because it connects me with one of my past lives where I was reincarnated as a rocket soccer car and lived a short but glorious life of rocketing balls, many many eons ago when the universe was still new and full of rocket soccer cars.
I don’t play rocket league superrr often but when I do it sends me right back to that previous reincarnation and it feels like it was only yesterday I was slurping up golden boost juice, slamming aerial shots and trashtalking fools by using friendly chat reactions in a sarcastic fashion.
Rocket league is like riding a bike, the feeling never leaves you.