What's your go-to game when you are suffering from Burnout?

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Originally Posted by DubiousDisk

Any Tales of.. game.

I just pop one in/on and have a grand old time with its cheesy stories and best cast of characters ever created for an RPG. Personal favorites being the obvious big 3 of Symphonia/Abyss/Vesperia, but Graces has recently won me over with how unapologetically campy it is.(seriously please play it, the entire game is just "Solve everything with love and friendship" and it's hilarious)

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We need to find the butt, Cheria, it's the only way.

Graces is my fave modern Tales of game haha. Eternia and Graces, the two best, but I quote Graces a LOT.

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Originally Posted by rainichan

We need to find the butt, Cheria, it's the only way.

Graces is my fave modern Tales of game haha. Eternia and Graces, the two best, but I quote Graces a LOT.

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Graces had such good characters, skits, and combat. It's just a shame the story was a dumpster fire, especially considering how good it starts off. Luckily Future Arc (essentially the Epilogue for those of you not in the know) had such good writing to where it was a good cap point to the story. Just a shame it took THAT long for the story to become good quality again.

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Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

Graces had such good characters, skits, and combat. It's just a shame the story was a dumpster fire, especially considering how good it starts off. Luckily Future Arc (essentially the Epilogue for those of you not in the know) had such good writing to where it was a good cap point to the story. Just a shame it took THAT long for the story to become good quality again.

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I'd take my least faves over Zestiria, the true dumpster fire lol. I'm the most mad over that one, where I liked the lore and worldbuilding but they messed so much of it up I just... disliked it greatly. Didn't help that the last boss was a pain in the arse and for all my trouble I got a 3D "Congraturation" screen, essentially, as my ending. I wanted to like it, but it just wasn't in the cards.

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Originally Posted by rainichan

I'd take my least faves over Zestiria, the true dumpster fire lol. I'm the most mad over that one, where I liked the lore and worldbuilding but they messed so much of it up I just... disliked it greatly. Didn't help that the last boss was a pain in the arse and for all my trouble I got a 3D "Congraturation" screen, essentially, as my ending. I wanted to like it, but it just wasn't in the cards.

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Started that series with Tales of Destiny on the PS1. Series has changed quite a bit since then as the story of that game revolved around ppl that had sentient talking swords that also leveled up on their own. I think it also had airships that were actually giant dragons.

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Originally Posted by rainichan

I'd take my least faves over Zestiria, the true dumpster fire lol. I'm the most mad over that one, where I liked the lore and worldbuilding but they messed so much of it up I just... disliked it greatly. Didn't help that the last boss was a pain in the arse and for all my trouble I got a 3D "Congraturation" screen, essentially, as my ending. I wanted to like it, but it just wasn't in the cards.

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We don't speak of Zestiria. While Graces F only had a dumpster fire for a story, Zestiria was a California wildfire in how bad it was. IMO if Tempest had never existed, Zestiria would have been the game that broke the series, if that tells you how bad I feel the game is (meaning as bad as Tempest, if not worse).

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Originally Posted by RitsukoSonoda

Started that series with Tales of Destiny on the PS1. Series has changed quite a bit since then as the story of that game revolved around ppl that had sentient talking swords that also leveled up on their own. I think it also had airships that were actually giant dragons.

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Tales of Eternia ( Tales of Destiny 2 ) was my favorite Tales game.

VRChat! I recently invested in a VR headset + full body tracking and I have a blast for hours on hours just hanging out and talking to people. Sometimes I'll visit worlds alone and just interact with the environment, like amusement parks, restaurants, game worlds, go carts, etc. It's amazing the amount of stuff you can do in it and the people you meet. (Although you have to be careful cause it's full of awkward children depending on the worlds you go into e_e I just avoid/block them asap lol)

And honestly even if you don't have a VR headset, the desktop version is still fun to go on to try out different avatars and roam worlds. My bff did it for awhile until she got a VR Headset.

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Originally Posted by Renalt

Tales of Eternia ( Tales of Destiny 2 ) was my favorite Tales game.

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You. I like you. Eternia is my fave older Tales game, all of the characters are so charming and the story is a good one.

just beat Gotham knights and GoW:R. just got done with splatfesst in splatoon 3.

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Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

We don't speak of Zestiria. While Graces F only had a dumpster fire for a story, Zestiria was a California wildfire in how bad it was. IMO if Tempest had never existed, Zestiria would have been the game that broke the series, if that tells you how bad I feel the game is (meaning as bad as Tempest, if not worse).

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Wait what? People don't like Zestiria? O_o I thought it was amazing. I just redownloaded it recently so I could replay it at some point. I thought the story was excellent. Same for Graces F, in my opinion. I haven't played the older games, but the worst entries out of the modern ones I played was Xillia and Symphonia 2. I played from Jude's perspective in Xillia and he was insufferable. I'm sure I don't need to explain why Simp-phonia 2 was bad. xD

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Originally Posted by MagicPeanut

Wait what? People don't like Zestiria? O_o I thought it was amazing. I just redownloaded it recently so I could replay it at some point. I thought the story was excellent. Same for Graces F, in my opinion. I haven't played the older games, but the worst entries out of the modern ones I played was Xillia and Symphonia 2. I played from Jude's perspective in Xillia and he was insufferable. I'm sure I don't need to explain why Simp-phonia 2 was bad. xD

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Problems with Zestiria include:

- You're forced to always use 2 specific people in the party at all times
- how stupid the AI could constantly get (even by Tales standards its bad)
- the overly complicated equipment leveling system (Berseria made this way easier)
- battles at the location you're currently at in the dungeon (could cause issues with reaching or hitting enemies)
- the camera itself (while bad in other Tales games, the previous complaint makes this problem worse)
- the entire Alisha debacle (Alisha leaves and never comes back despite have been shown as the first female party member in interviews, her equipment still drops despite this)
- Rose basically being shoved into your party (keep in mind the director REALLY loved her VA and this may be in part the reason why it happened)
- rushed story towards the end

That's just off the top of my head.

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Originally Posted by Renalt

Tales of Eternia ( Tales of Destiny 2 ) was my favorite Tales game.

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Tales of Destiny 2... that was the one about the 2 planets on course to collide and the girl with the round thing on her head that needed a translator because she didn't speak your planet's language?

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Originally Posted by RitsukoSonoda

Tales of Destiny 2... that was the one about the 2 planets on course to collide and the girl with the round thing on her head that needed a translator because she didn't speak your planet's language?

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Yep, Meredy was the alien girl who didn't speak the language.

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I don't get burned out and I don't run out of things to do even after 7.5 years. As long as this game remains enjoyable I probably won't be interested in whatever new games come out.

Playing through Star Ocean The Divine Force right now. I had been waiting for a decent Star Ocean since PS2.

Im late to the party in this thread but I dont really get burn out from Final Fantasy XIV. To me, the content is so diverse that I might get burnt out on a certain activity or two in FFXIV, but then I just go do something else for a while, in FFXIV.

As a side note, while not exactly burn out, I have been enjoying a lot of real life activities with my SO lately and just been gaming less in general. But not "burnt out."

Generally speaking, anything else to keep you off from the game! Even watching some shows, outside activity helps. Allthough it does not mean shutting off from anything reated to FFXIV, listening its music or looking at media is fine for me.

Single players are also a fun pass time, i replayed FFX when i was feeling awful and it was a blast.

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Originally Posted by LeonKeyh

Playing through Star Ocean The Divine Force right now. I had been waiting for a decent Star Ocean since PS2.

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I've been enjoying most of this Star Ocean, just wish there was a quest journal of sorts so that you can track any of the sidequests that you started without having to take a screenshot/write it down/find a list of all of them online. Pretty sure there is a sidequest somewhere I started that I haven't finished because, well, I have no idea what ones I've actually started and I'm already pretty decently far into it.

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Originally Posted by LeonKeyh

Playing through Star Ocean The Divine Force right now. I had been waiting for a decent Star Ocean since PS2.

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I enjoyed the demo! I still need to pick that up. And agree with the poster later on about the quest log. Even in the demo I felt like the game needed one for the handful of small side things it had.

I'm curious about this new Star Ocean. I've not really liked a Star Ocean since 2nd Story. Till the End of Time was pretty good until the plot twist and then I just couldn't bring myself to finish it. I tried like 3 times.

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Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

Problems with Zestiria include:

- You're forced to always use 2 specific people in the party at all times
- how stupid the AI could constantly get (even by Tales standards its bad)
- the overly complicated equipment leveling system (Berseria made this way easier)
- battles at the location you're currently at in the dungeon (could cause issues with reaching or hitting enemies)
- the camera itself (while bad in other Tales games, the previous complaint makes this problem worse)
- the entire Alisha debacle (Alisha leaves and never comes back despite have been shown as the first female party member in interviews, her equipment still drops despite this)
- Rose basically being shoved into your party (keep in mind the director REALLY loved her VA and this may be in part the reason why it happened)
- rushed story towards the end

That's just off the top of my head.

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I don't know, a majority of that just sounds like nitpicks. I read about JP players getting mad about the whole Alisha/Rose thing, but I thought they were being a little dramatic. I actually liked that there were two female leads at different times. It was pretty unique to me. And I don't recall the ending feeling rushed. If anything, the anime adaption's ending needed to bake longer in the oven, not the game's.

I don't know, agree to disagree lol.

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Originally Posted by LeonKeyh

Playing through Star Ocean The Divine Force right now. I had been waiting for a decent Star Ocean since PS2.

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It's so good, definitely one of the best games in the franchise IMO.

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Originally Posted by Avatre

I've been enjoying most of this Star Ocean, just wish there was a quest journal of sorts so that you can track any of the sidequests that you started without having to take a screenshot/write it down/find a list of all of them online. Pretty sure there is a sidequest somewhere I started that I haven't finished because, well, I have no idea what ones I've actually started and I'm already pretty decently far into it.

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If you're on PS4/PS5, open the map and then press Triangle. It'll bring up the quest journal there. I believe there's a tab for completed quests.

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Originally Posted by MagicPeanut

I don't know, a majority of that just sounds like nitpicks. I read about JP players getting mad about the whole Alisha/Rose thing, but I thought they were being a little dramatic. I actually liked that there were two female leads at different times. It was pretty unique to me. And I don't recall the ending feeling rushed. If anything, the anime adaption's ending needed to bake longer in the oven, not the game's.

I don't know, agree to disagree lol.

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I tend to play on the hardest difficulty in Tales for the bonus exp/fol/grade, so the battle issues I saw pretty quickly as I continued through the game, and wasn't a fan of being forced to use certain characters when other Tales games let you use any party makeup you want for the most part. The Alisha/Rose thing I had issues with because they made it feel like Alisha would return at one point, but never did. Rose was just...added into the party on a whim, I feel? No real buildup to getting her to come along, and it felt odd as a result. Also, I meant rushed because after the desert area, when it felt like there was going to be more, suddenly it rushes us from there towards the final areas and ending. It was a pacing issue that felt really jarring.

Also, I found the anime a lot better in terms of pacing, characterization, and story, but the episodes with Velvet and the Berseria crew felt shoehorned in (and only left me wanting an anime for Berseria).

i don't have a go-to per se but i've invested in more storage on my pc so i have dozens of games ive installed that i can play whenever i get bored. sometimes i play wow, overwatch, persona 5, ff7r, yakuza, etc. i highly recommend a steam deck op if you don't own one, it's a seriously good investment

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Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

I tend to play on the hardest difficulty in Tales for the bonus exp/fol/grade, so the battle issues I saw pretty quickly as I continued through the game, and wasn't a fan of being forced to use certain characters when other Tales games let you use any party makeup you want for the most part. The Alisha/Rose thing I had issues with because they made it feel like Alisha would return at one point, but never did. Rose was just...added into the party on a whim, I feel? No real buildup to getting her to come along, and it felt odd as a result. Also, I meant rushed because after the desert area, when it felt like there was going to be more, suddenly it rushes us from there towards the final areas and ending. It was a pacing issue that felt really jarring.

Also, I found the anime a lot better in terms of pacing, characterization, and story, but the episodes with Velvet and the Berseria crew felt shoehorned in (and only left me wanting an anime for Berseria).

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Oh, ok I see. I only play games on Normal so I wouldn't have noticed issues about the gameplay piling up like that, I think. I guess I see where you're coming from about Alisha and Rose, but I felt like they were taking on a more "realistic" approach to it. Alisha had a lot to worry about outside of Sorey's journey, and I felt like Rose was just curious about this "weirdo" but was ultimately thrown into this situation and accepted it. In my opinion, the story is written in a way that makes it seem as if it was her destiny to join him, thanks to that wind Seraphim always following her around. (Forgot his name, it's been a few years lmao.) And about the rushed final areas, like I said, I don't recall feeling that way about it, but it's been a hot minute. I'll be on the look-out for the story's pacing issues when I replay it soon, tho!

I actually can't decide if I like the anime's rewritten parts or not. I guess I like it as a "what if" timeline instead, because it was just a little too rewritten xD. Although, I strongly agree that it made me want an anime for Berseria instead. That would have been a much better idea, for sure.

EDIT: Actually, now that I think about it, I preferred how the anime addressed Eizen, Zaveid, and Edna. It handled the emotional impact of the situation a lot better. (Although, I'm not sure what the conclusion was in Zestiria, as I couldn't figure out how to accomplish it lol.) However, that was really only possible because Berseria existed by then of course. Still, that part of the anime I enjoyed a lot more than in the game.

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Originally Posted by MagicPeanut

EDIT: Actually, now that I think about it, I preferred how the anime addressed Eizen, Zaveid, and Edna. It handled the emotional impact of the situation a lot better. (Although, I'm not sure what the conclusion was in Zestiria, as I couldn't figure out how to accomplish it lol.) However, that was really only possible because Berseria existed by then of course. Still, that part of the anime I enjoyed a lot more than in the game.

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The conclusion in Zestiria is literally you killing Eizen on the mountain (you have to go back to Edna's mountain and go to the top to fight him). That's it, there's no saving him, just doing a boss fight with him that ends in his death.

I've never played a Tales of game despite owning two: Eternia and Vesperia.

...ok, technically I did play a bit, but I couldn't get over the automatic combat bit. It felt quite boring, like I wasn't in control :x So I just ended up dropping it. Vesperia I got gifted, but haven't played it yet because of the experience I had with Eternia's start.

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Originally Posted by Midareyukki

I've never played a Tales of game despite owning two: Eternia and Vesperia.

...ok, technically I did play a bit, but I couldn't get over the automatic combat bit. It felt quite boring, like I wasn't in control :x So I just ended up dropping it. Vesperia I got gifted, but haven't played it yet because of the experience I had with Eternia's start.

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There are 3 control modes in Tales games. Auto, where the AI does everything, Semi-Auto, where the game will auto move you into position for the attacks after you hit the button, and Manual, where it does everything at your current position. You want Manual.

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Originally Posted by Avatre

I've been enjoying most of this Star Ocean, just wish there was a quest journal of sorts so that you can track any of the sidequests that you started without having to take a screenshot/write it down/find a list of all of them online. Pretty sure there is a sidequest somewhere I started that I haven't finished because, well, I have no idea what ones I've actually started and I'm already pretty decently far into it.

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TBH I enjoyed every star ocean game. However some of the recent ones I didn't finish due to burn out on side activities XD

I tend to bounce around a lot. Usually a newer game for a while like God of War, but also survival sandbox games like Conan Exiles or Subnautica.

I also tend to do older games that I missed when they first came out.

I’d say the games in my “stable” now are Guildwars 2, FFXIV, Conan and Minecraft. Sometimes games like civilization. Rarely games like the Sims (but my kids love it so I try now and then).

Honestly when burnout hits hard I tend to shift to Netflix for a week or so.

Re: Tales games

I played some of these once upon a time and while I was entertained, I think I am sadly just..losing interest in JRPGs in general. I even tried octopath and all I could think was “man I’m pretty sure I’ve played this a million times already”.

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Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

There are 3 control modes in Tales games. Auto, where the AI does everything, Semi-Auto, where the game will auto move you into position for the attacks after you hit the button, and Manual, where it does everything at your current position. You want Manual.

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I just googled it, and apparently I need to get a book? Uhh... is it okay for me to go Manual? :x I prefer having full control, though I assume the game sets it up like that for some reason?

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Originally Posted by Midareyukki

I just googled it, and apparently I need to get a book? Uhh... is it okay for me to go Manual? :x I prefer having full control, though I assume the game sets it up like that for some reason?

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Just means the game won't autorun you to the target when you go to press the attack or artes button. And trust me, that autorun can and will probably cause you a few problems.

There's not really a go to game for me but the new Pokemon just dropped so I'm gonna be playing that with friends while there is downtime ^^

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Originally Posted by Renalt

I'm by all means not quitting this game but I have been logging in less and less lately so I'm looking to try something new. Lately I've had an itch to play City of Heroes again since the private server is going extremely well.

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Total War: Attila.

I've finally got the DLCs for SMT V so I've picked that back up. Also got SMTIII deluxe (cheaper than base game on eshop right now) so I'll be playing that.

I also like Rimworld, Morrowind, dabble in GW2 occasionally. SWTOR has really good class stories and I want to do all of those at some point as well.

Divinity original sin 2

Well, not really a go-to game since I rarely got a 'total burnout' from XIV, but I do play FFXII TZA, Touhou Bullet Curtain Shooter, Sims 4, Dynasty Warriors Series, and/or various PS1/PS2 games on emulator when I'm for whatever reason isn't actively engaging with XIV.

Project Wingman
Spark the electric Jester 1-3
Grim Dawn
Stardew Valley
That new Kirby game
That Yugioh game on the switch
Saints Row 2 for the 100th time
Saints Row 3 for the 10th time
Not to mention my yearly playthrough of Revengence. Feels good turning that into a yearly thing since it's release~!

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Originally Posted by Rein_eon_Osborne

Well, not really a go-to game since I rarely got a 'total burnout' from XIV, but I do play FFXII TZA, Touhou Bullet Curtain Shooter, Sims 4, Dynasty Warriors Series, and/or various PS1/PS2 games on emulator when I'm for whatever reason isn't actively engaging with XIV.

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Ahh, the 2hus, been a while since I played one. I haven't played a lot of the new ones, think I stopped after Ravesokyo (Ten Desires) but I do enjoy revisiting every so often.