I am sitting on a desk PC the whole day at work, which I believe has caused my ability to play games on my PC to diminish. I have found the following solutions, so I am asking to see if any of you has done something like that:
- Buy a console (the easiest)
- Connect the PC and the TV to a router to form an Ethernet LAN, and stream from the PC to the console using Steam Link
- Connect the GPU’s HDMI output to the TV’s and the computer screen’s inputs using a 1x2 HDMI switch
With solutions (2) and (3) converting the PC to a console so I can sit on the couch and relax.
Also, have you found your tastes change after starting work? I used to be into games with complex stories and/or challenging gameplay but now I feel to tired for that.
Thanks
Could you just play on the PC using a controller? Or is the screen size the issue?
I will say, being older and employed and burdened with household/family duties, it’s not so much that I gravitate towards simple games, more that I have low tolerance for games that require me to learn a bunch of Byzantine subsystems before I can get to the gameplay itself. I want a game that I can dig into immediately, where the complexity is something that grows as I progress through the game.
Good example, I downloaded the demo for the last Disgaea game a bit back, sort of game I used to get really into when I was younger and not full time employed. But now, there were just too many front-loaded mechanics and associated tutorials. I could tell it was going to feel like a chore having to keep track of all of them, spending forever fussing with party build mechanics before even doing a fight, so I deleted it.
The issue is sitting on a desk instead of a couch for even more of the day. I already had a low tolerance for such game systems (dunno if it’s the ADHD), so now it’s absolutely demolished and I feel you