As kids, my friends and I didn’t really have access to a large number of games. We had to be happy with whatever few games were available among all of us, and it was very rare to get something new. So we used to play the same games over and over again, trying to beat old high scores or seeing if we had missed anything. There were no DLCs or expansions for these games, so it was not like we were playing to prepare for some new content drop a few months later.
Fast forward to 2024, it is not uncommon to see people pick a main game to focus on, while occasionally trying other games. No matter how many games they try, they always return to their main games, usually when there is a new content drop in the form of an update or expansion or a limited time event. In other words, having a main game is like having a hobby within a hobby. Playing games can be your hobby, but playing your main game is a hobby within that hobby. You can call a game your main if you know nearly everything there is to know about it, if you can guide new players to reach the highest goal achievable in that game, and if you blindly buy whatever new content the game puts up for purchase, without bothering too much about trivial things like review scores and quality of the content.
Having a main game can be a good and bad thing, and we will talk about a bit of both in this video.
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