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By the way, the reason your friends might say they "don't have time" yet play repetitive shooters or other games for hours on end is perhaps that those kinds of game require much less emotional investment. I know I'm like that, some games I just can't play because I know it'll take me forever to finish them, but I've still probably plowed down a good couple of hundred hours into BF1. Why? Because I don't have to recall the story or characters from two weeks ago, when I last played the game. I love a good story based game, but if it takes more than a few hours to play through there's a good chance I'll never finish it, unless it's very compelling. Horizon Zero Dawn is an example of a story driven game that had my attention from start to finish, but the only game I recall having that kind of pull on me before that was probably Fallout 2.