Overcoming Gamer's Block and the Social Pressure to Play Games the 'Right Way' - Escapist Magazine

When gamer's block strikes, it's hard to start playing and finish all the video games you want to play, and it can cause stress. Here's one solution.

Internalizing that there’s a “right” way to play games can ruin your ability to enjoy them.

In this op-ed, Nick Calandra writes about how adhering to others' ideas of how several prominent games should be played was ruining the games for him. Once he let himself “set [his] own parameters for how [he] wanted to experience [them]” he was able to play in the ways that made the games fun for him.

Players have different needs and tastes. We should be willing to dismiss authorial intent in crafting our own experiences and we shouldn’t gatekeep others from crafting their own.