r/videogames • u/Chunky-overlord • Aug 25 '26

Image / Video So many great games were robbed in 2016

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u/squirrelems Aug 26 '26

I've noticed it seems like time passes a lot faster when you're working full-time. As a kid, teenager, and young adult with no responsibilities, it felt like one year was a LOOONG time, and now like five years pass and you're like "WHAT THE HELL".

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u/No-Range-7338 Aug 26 '26

When you're 10, one year is 10% of your life. When you're 40, you're old as fuck.

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u/squirrelems Aug 26 '26

Yeah, I guess you don't really have any frame of reference for what a long time actually is at that age. Plus you have significantly more free time besides the bit you go to school, and even then it can be fun at times. At work you're so zeroed-in on what you're doing that you're not as conscious of time passing. I've had a crazy number of days where my internal clock says it's like 10:30 or 11:00 am and when I look at the clock it's more like 3:00 pm. Lol.

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u/Cowman66 Aug 26 '26

also: that time period you have a lot of time to do NEW things, or things that are novel. our brains are really good at remembering the things that are NOVEL. when we spend YEARS doing effectively the same thing, it tends to go quick because there's not a lot of novelty to break things up with - therefore we think it goes faster.

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u/bmm115 Aug 26 '26

When you put it like that, you're cyber bullying me. /S

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u/No-Range-7338 Aug 27 '26

I'm cyber bullying myself

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u/DrAmj3 Aug 26 '26

If this were the whole reason our perception of our lives would be half over by 18. I have done a lot of stuff since I was 18.

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u/More-Pizza-1267 Aug 26 '26

This is an actual scientific effect. The older you get, the less time you perceive, and the less a day makes up of your life, thus, days and years feel shorter.

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u/Wonderful-Assist2077 Aug 26 '26

Im fairly sure its because you're on repeat at work so your mind overlaps days. Its.like driving the same route everyday you kinda disassociate.

The Routine and Memory Theory

Your brain saves energy by turning familiar routines into autopilot habits.

New experiences create dense, detailed memories that make time feel stretched out in retrospect.

Repetitive work routines and daily commutes lack novel data, so the brain does not record distinct new memories.

Fewer distinct memories make whole weeks and months blur together when you look back.

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u/Big_Niel0802 Aug 26 '26

👆 this

My experience has been that life still takes forever to progress, and I suspect it's purely on account of the fact that the nature of my career just keeps on changing and constantly has me on my toes. The only thing that's truly repetitive in my life is the drive to/from work, and the 5 minute process of filling out my timecard. The rest is constant learning and development.

I've been working this position for almost 3 years now, and each year still feels as slow as the years I spent pumping hours into Dark Soul 3 in 2016.

Side note; it may have launched in 2016, but I still regularly sink hours into it because GOD i love that game <3

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u/Dependent-Maize4430 Aug 26 '26

It’s because when you’re young, everything is new and exciting, your brain has to slow down to take it all in. By the time you’re 30, you’ve done seen it all and that magic kinda fades.

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u/CalmEntry4855 Aug 26 '26

Excellent, that means I can run it!

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u/Pearson94 Aug 26 '26

Elden Ring will be 5 next February

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u/Art-Zuron Aug 26 '26

That's actually newer than I thought. I thought it was closer to 15.

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u/Kikweek Aug 26 '26

So is Uncharted 4 damn

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u/BlindandConfused43 Aug 26 '26

The most impactful game of my life was resident evil 2 of the PlayStation 1

Wait until this happens to you.

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u/DueImagination641 Aug 26 '26

Dark Souls 3 can't be 10 years old! I played Dark Souls 2 on release in college and it was only... Oh no 🧑‍💼..🧔..🧑‍🦳

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u/DisorderlyAqueduct Aug 27 '26

20*

it's 2036, bro.

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u/Numerous_Feature8764 Aug 27 '26

Any Skyrim is 15 😭 where Elder Scrolls 6?

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u/Hashdowns Aug 27 '26

Right in my age, it hurts

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u/anengineerandacat Aug 28 '26

I mean... big games take 4-7 years to make... by the time it's released and mastered that's basically a decade.

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u/LittleBulk Aug 29 '26

I did not need to realise this. Fuck I live in a timecapsule

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u/wimpymist Aug 26 '26

This one doesn't hit that hard for me. It seems like an old game personally. I would have guessed 8ish years ago

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u/WeeklyPhilosopher346 Aug 25 '26

Doom and Titanfall 2 were better, but the rest? Ehhh

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u/Ecstatic_Sand5417 Aug 25 '26

Uncharted 4 is fantastic

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u/Potatoes_4Life Aug 25 '26

As is Battlefield 1. The last Battlefield I played for more than 2 hours.

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u/WeeklyPhilosopher346 Aug 25 '26

It’s a good Uncharted game.