Mustawd
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Some of the answers in this thread are prettypatheticannoying. I agree that RPGs are notoriously padded, but don't use your age as an excuse for your popamole tastes. Yes, life gets more complicated when you get older and you have less time for your hobbies. But it's simple: if you care, you will make time. If you don't, just drop the hobby rather than half-assing it like a mid-tier manager who plays a game of tennis once a month.
It took me over half a year to finish MM6 because it's the type of game that you need to spend at least three or four hours on per session if you want to get anything signficant done, and I rarely have that much time left in a day. It boiled down to a simple question: is this game fun enough to be worth the scheduling hassle? And guess what, the fact that it took a lot of dedication to finish made it all the more rewarding, and it motivated me to try the same with Wizardry 8, which is now one of my top 5 RPGs.
Accept the fact that you have less time, evaluate your priorities accordingly, and then act on them. If that means dropping certain genres, fine. Just don't whine to the world about the fact that you don't care enough to make it work.
Please. Just as things like family, career, etc. increasingly eat at your time, they also eat at your focus. This doesn't just apply to RPGs. It's across a lot of different hobbies. For example, I love reading biographies. I've had Abraham Lincoln's bio in my iPad que for over three years. Why? Because it's complex, rich, and deserves proper attention. Could I have finished it over three years? Sure..but I would have enjoyed it less, and most likely forgotten most of it by the time I got to the end.
No one is saying we don't "enjoy" these old school rpgs anymore. But when time is short, it's hard to enjoy the games in 1 hr increments. Now if you can do it, that's great for you. But to me enjoying some of these old school RPGs meant playing them consistently over a period of time...where builds/quests/story lines were at the forefront of my mind. Not shoved to the back of my mind after months of 60-80 hr work weeks; in which case my brain is fried after each day.
Obviously, this kind of work/life balance is my choice. Speaking only on my own experience, it's one of the reasons why I'm looking to start a less stressful phase in my career.
Tl;DR - Don't judge me cuz my life is busy as shit, and it's harder for me to find the time to enjoy good RPGs. At least I'm able to play some incline, even if it's not a 100+ hr epic.