Hey gang,

If you've visited the Persona 5 board on Giant Bomb at all, you've likely noticed me all over there. It's because I've had a renaissance of such with playing games.

I'll put things into perspective: I've just this year found a job I really like. I've been there a year now, and I can't get enough of working there. As this happened, I felt like I kind of "grew out" of videogames. I just couldn't dedicate myself to playing anymore. Everytime I sat down for a session, I'd last for 45 minutes or so, then give up. I tried Destiny (TTK) which kinda sucked, then Dragon Quest Builders, which I'll admit, I liked it a lot, but after 2/3 days of playing, I just couldn't sit down and commit. I'd rather spunk my time away on Youtube or Netflix. It's tragic, I know. When I was younger, (I'm 28 now), I would literally play games all day every day. JRPGS were my favourite, but I'd be happy playing anything, really. But I dunno, the spark somehow just went away.

Cut to Persona 5. I work in a school incase you were wondering, and I've just had 2 weeks off for Easter Break. I pretty much did nothing but play Persona 5. I did an average of about 6/7 hours a day, and blew through it like nobodies business. I was obsessed with it. Go over to the "Persona 5 Discussion Thread" if you wanna see my opinions on it.

Suffice to say, I'm now totally back into the swing of things. I'm EXCITED to be playing games again. I've had about a year off, and so much has stacked up for me to play.

What would you guys recommend next by the way? I'm thinking Horizon, Nier Automata or the Odin Sphere remake. I'd LOVE to hear your guys thoughts on what I should play next.

TLDR: Had about 18 months away from games, Persona 5 totally got me back into them. Fucking super excited to be playing games again. Life is good.

Welcome back buddy. Reading your stuff somehow makes me want to play the game. My family owns a PS4 Pro, perhaps I can find the time to play this also, though I doubt I will ever finish it.

Its cool that you've found your gaming mojo again thanks to this game. P5 must really be amazing.

What games have you played? Probably stuff like Bayonetta I guess so I would say go with Nier: Automata since its made by the same company. DOOM is probably something you should consider also. Maybe even the more calm games such as Stardew Valley or Factorio. I've played Forza Horizon 3 and I don't even like cars, yet I love that game and only heard the best things about The Last Guardian (especially if you're an animal owner, but don't play it on a vanilla ps4, I've heard it sucks shit there) so play those too.

Hey duder, congrats on the return. Myself I'm just coming off Nier Automata, and after also playing in general alot these past months, I need a breather before Persona 5, although I think about buying everyday ;)

Nier Automata is an experience I rank up there with Dark Souls, Life is Strange, Braid, Fez, The Walking Dead. Ie. GOTY material. Don't sleep on it.

I agree with Jim Sterling on this one :

"Nier itself is important. It is, as far as I’m concerned, historically significant in terms of its design and the way in which it uses the framework of a videogame to tell an evolving story. If I had my way, every budding game developer would play this game to the point of acquiring endings A, B, C, D, and E before acquiescing to its final and alarmingly direct request.

Few games are able to showcase the power of the medium like Nier: Automata.

If history forgets this game, then fuck history." - Jim Sterling

http://www.thejimquisition.com/nier-automata-review/

Man, the more I hear about Persona 5, the more I think I'm the only person on the planet who really doesn't like it.

You are not alone my friend.

Play Horizon, the story is incredible. If you are also interested in a less story focussed experience, check out Hitman which I imagine you'd have missed. Neir is probably excellent but I haven't had the time, what with Horizon, Persona and Zelda.

I'm sad that I'll probably never play Hitman. I've DEVOURED the Giant Bomb content of that game, and because I've seen so much of it, I don't think I could play it myself. I've simply seen too much of it and the surprise would be ruined.

I think I'm gonna order Nier. I don't play games like that, so it'd be good for me to broaden my horizons

@meierthered: Don't lie to him, he is alone

I am alone. I'm apparently the only sane person left on this planet.

That's a shame! I actually have made a decision to only play each Hitman mission after I have already seen Brad and Dan play it. I donm't have the time to play each level more than once, so I like to see how Brad does it to learn the map and then try and do it the right way myself haha.

Hah yeah. I wanted to play it, but like most things on GB, I ended up watching and falling in love with it. It looks like a GREAT game, I'll give it that, but like I said, I've seen every way of doing every mission on this site, so I know I wouldn't enjoy it

I ordered Nier last night, due to turn up today sometime. Hoping it's as good as people say

I'm actually so with you on this, persona 5 completely renergized my enthusiasm as well,

And yea give Nier a shot,