Cross-posted from "ADHD gaming" by @[email protected] in [email protected]
This is why MAME emulation and classic arcade games are so addictive. They were no bullshit. They got you started right away.
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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Too god damn true. Some games back on the last two generations took so god damn long to load. GTA V took I believe like 4 minutes to load from cold boot? So I'd be lost in thought, and the bored by the time the game loaded up.
i mean, it's true, but why?
I need someone to explain it to me.
It's so hard to finish long ass games....
...it didn't used to be. It used to be fun. Can I please have that back? Please...? Please...
If a game takes 2 minutes to come to the menu, yes then i do lose interest in the game, not because of ADHD, but because i recognize it's inefficiently coded and probably will hang and lag like crazy later on.
YES!
I finished downloading almost 40GB of Call of Duty Mobile over mobile data on February 21st. I still haven't played it, and now it needs updates installed for sure.
Yeah, quite a big phone game.
That's why I like playing older games. You launch them and start playing immediately.
I don't have ADHD but it happens to me sometimes. Because all of these lengthy updates, shader caching, loading of game loader, loading of game, etc. By the time a game fully loads I need to go to bed.
I played Roller Coaster Tycoon from 1999 recently. That was the exact opposite, and so refreshing. Its an efficient game, which I think it had to be to run well back then with the simulation of 1000 individual guests and the whole park on a Pentium 90 with 16 MB of RAM.
I don't remember how it was back then, but now playing it on a modern computer, it just loads instantly. When I noticed how truly instant it was, I was so surprised that I just switched back and forth between loading two saves for a bit :-)
It was written by one dude in assembly
Yeah I know. Chris Sawyer. If I recall correctly he said he had to use a little bit of C to interface with the Windows APIs but the rest is all assembly 😄
What does he use to lift up his massive brain?
I quit playing the Sims 4, I am simply, a builder. I would go on a month binge, then not play for 6months. Sometimes I'd play once a month-
But having to fix my mods every single time I booted was so much. I never had issue finding what was broken, it was just so time consuming. Then after two hours the game would be ready to play, and .. I would be instantly bored, forgot my house plan to the mind vortex, all energy spent, ugh. That game is seriously dead.
I was beyond excited to move from xbox to pc with that game. amazing how it took no time at all for me to hate it.
I also play PvE Rust, it takes like a half hour to load in, and i get a whopping 33FPS. Love that game so much, 20-30mins loading time is fine if I dont have to fix mods like a sleuth every fuckin time I want to play. Just walk slowly so the graphics can load in lmao
I still load into Rust and immediately just, log off often. Hyperfocus just isnt there sometimes. Thats when I load N (it's free and fun!) and play short levels.
I think you'd like satisfactory! It loads pretty quick too somehow.
Thank you lol I post enough here, I didn't wanna crosspost one that I made elsewhere immediately after making one before it
I was wondering why you posted it in general gaming and not here :)
It's not a big deal to crosspost immediately. It's not like I don't know you're a meme addict :D
Still lol I like to spread the love around. After leaving Risa and the psychopaths running Startrek.website I like throwing shit basically everywhere and saying "Have fun" lol
Or, like last night, making a dumbass meme about sending me pizza and then openly rejecting pizza offers
You forgot to add:
- read everything about the game before installing
- check ALL mods, install them all, configure them all
- explore options, configure it perfectly, run benchmarks
...and then your part 😁
"This mod says it is incompatible with this version, but will it actually not work? I think it said that with the last version too."
Well, after extensive comments-research on this problem, I might just try if it works 😁
Doing this used to annoy me, but I've come to accept that the modding bit is just a hobby of mine. I enjoy the process of research, troubleshooting, and time spent finding, installing, and configuring mods. Then I'll play the game for a bit, maybe complete the first quest or something, and then it will sit untouched for the next year before I eventually uninstall it for storage.
True. My last run filled about 700g or so. After said weeks of excessive tinkering. But at least I managed to game some hours in the end. Not counting all those "does it even run?"-runs....
And yeah I've come to peace with that too. I love the tinkering and I love games that are exactly like I want them to be. 4 decades of gaming made me horribly picky 😁 Even if I then don't play them adequately long afterwards.
This is me with skyrim... But I do play test for some hours write down what is bad and need to be fixed, start fixing the mods, find more mods, aaaand repeat. I just figured I like moding more than playing haha
Last year when I did the same did I tell my self: this will be perfect and next time i play again then I can just play without putting time and effort into moding, maybe just update some. Lol I started over, again... And this time has it been a month instead of 2 weeks since I started and I am not done... I wonder if I will ever be done... More mods are just added and more merges and patches do I create. Maybe moding is the game I play 😂 I am scared of next year because I kinda double the time spent modding every year.
Yup, Skyrim is the big one for me too. I also fiddled with FO4 for a while, but nothing keeps me coming back like Skyrim... or at least, its nexus page. If I had an hour tracker on mod organizer 2, I'm sure I'd overtake my playtime in the actual game by at least 10x.
I also create private mod packs for my friends and I to play numerous games. Minecraft, Lethal Company, R.E.P.O., Risk of Rain 2, and more. Fortunately for those last three, I never really scrap my mod packs and instead build upon them constantly as new mods or updates come out. Which I do perhaps a little too much, because I get poked fun at for it now lol.
One thing I've come to appreciate is how detailed nexus mod pages tend to be compared to most other websites. Half the mods for games like Lethal Company or RoR2 don't even have any pictures or detailed descriptions of what they do. I'll hear about a really neat mod in the Lethal Company modding discord server and then check out its page just to see "adds a couple new items and enemies" and that's the entire page.
One thing I've come to appreciate is how detailed nexus mod pages tend to be compared to most other websites.
Same, I think that is half the fun. Some have very flashy showcases of their mods and very detailed information how to change x and y and also give recommendations to other mods. Also the posts section is very active for most mods regardless of how old the mod is, I have seen many mods not updated since 2016-2018 with many comments from 2025. So it is easy to tell if the mod has any problems or if there are fixes and workarounds.
And I REALLY like that in nexus they show dependencies, so when I find a mod I like then I check what depends on it to find replacers, textures, fixes, patches or mods that use the mod as a base. It is very convenient and also the reason it takes forever to be done with the mod list haha
Don't forget the community and the comments. Nothing beats checking one mod you really really really want but it's 5 yrs old...and the comment from yesterday says "still works today if anyone is wondering". Yes! My hero 😁 I always vote and give kudos like free candies.
This is exactly how it goes for me too
Get a Steam Deck, and you can press the power button whenever you want to stop playing and it puts the system on standby. Press it again and it powers on in a couple seconds right where you left it.
Me but with a half hour setup for a solo boardgame 😭
Im interested in knowing what solo boardgames you like?
I can never play solo boardgames tbh. If I am going to play something solo, I can play something more complex on the PC. In fact, many of the most popular BGs have very good apps for themselves too. And if one wants to play something specifically boardgamey, things like Slay the Spire exist.
I ask because my son, near 12 years of age, has ADHD and ODD. Videogames have historically been a massive issue with him, and today doesn't play them. He does however love board games. However being he is a only child, he will play Chess/Clue/Yahtzee against himself often. I play when I can but I'm not always able to. He doesn't like drawing, painting or writing, so I lean into board games.
I've found a few solo board games, but nothing good
Was hoping to hear what else might be out there that people find enjoyable, as his birthday is soon.
I'll look up what Slay the Spire is
Also monster train 2,just came out.
For solo boardgames, it really depends on its age, but if old enough to play complex ones, there's some ones with almost infinite replayability. Spirit island, Dune Imperium, mage Knight, voidfall.
That is why the first thing I do with ANY new PC game is to disable all those company logos and legal bumpers that are played before you even get to the main menu.
In most cases it is as easy as opening the game's files in explorer and deleting a few files, like "nvidia_logo.bik" or "legal.bik".
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