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Okay, this is the intro.

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We are all guilty of playing a game for a few days,

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loving it,

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and then suddenly a bit of the spark is missing and what we tend to do at that moment

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is start again.

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We all love that thrill of starting a game fresh,

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starting again,

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creating a new character,

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generating a new map,

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just going back to zero.

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But why?

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There are so many reasons as to why we might be drawn to the thrill of starting again.

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The beginning of a game is built in a very specific way,

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and the way you feel about a game inevitably changes the longer you play.

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so in this video i want to go through why starting again feels so good why

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that feeling slowly starts to fade and what actually happens when you stay

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with it instead of resetting okay

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this is chapter one why starting again feels so good that feeling

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at the start of the game is genuinely hard to beat and i think if you're someone who

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restarts games a lot you probably know exactly what i mean by that

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because the beginning of a game has a kind of energy to it that the rest of the game just

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loses.

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At the start,

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everything feels untouched,

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clean slate,

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nothing's gone wrong yet,

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nothing feels messy,

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and you have that really nice feeling that this game could become anything you want it to.

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That is a massive part of why restarting is so tempting.

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When you go back to the beginning,

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you're stepping back into possibility,

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and what's ahead of you is potentially a completely different experience to

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the last one you just had.

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And I think Skyrim is one of the best examples of this.

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The game that we've all started again at least 6 ,000 times.

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When you start Skyrim again,

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it's not just a case of saying,

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right, this time I'm going to use magic instead of swords.

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Or this time I'm going to be stealthy instead of aggressive.

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It goes deeper than that.

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You're giving yourself a brand new story to live in.

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you're stepping back into a version of the world where everything still feels unknown even

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if you know the game inside and out you're trying to recreate that feeling of being let loose

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in this huge untouched world where every road might lead somewhere interesting

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somewhere new you almost trick yourself into feeling like this is uncharted

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territory even though you know full well it isn't and you're not burdened by

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progress this is a big part of that feel good feeling

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you're not looking at a cluttered inventory an overwhelming list of half finished

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quests or quests you haven't even started yet a character build that you're not fully

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happy with or the weird feeling that the characters become something that you didn't really mean

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for them to become at the beginning none of that exists none of that mess exists

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it's just you a fresh character a new world and the excitement of what's ahead

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minecraft is another great example of that fresh new beginning feeling but

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this time the world actually is new

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You spawn in,

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you look around, and for a moment,

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everything feels simple in the best possible way.

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You've got absolutely nothing,

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and that is the appeal.

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There's something really satisfying about having to begin again with empty hands,

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a blank map,

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no base,

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no systems in place,

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no long -term mess to manage.

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It's just a world and your imagination.

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That early part of Minecraft is so powerful because every tiny bit

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of progress really matters.

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Hitting trees with your bare hands to get wood,

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making your very first tools.

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getting your first home or shelter built even if it's made out of dirt all these minor

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things feel much bigger at the start and much more rewarding everything feels clean

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and meaningful because it's all still building towards something you're

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not maintaining a complicated world yet you're making one and that gives

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the beginning a kind of purity that a lot of games lose later on and then you have games

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like the sims and i think this is one of the most interesting examples of all because

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with the sims the thrill of starting again is tied to control you get to make everything

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exactly how you want it you create the sim decide what they look like choose

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or design the house that they live in what kind of life they're going to have it's all neat

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and tidy it feels like setting up the perfect life from scratch and that in itself

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is obviously deeply satisfying a lot of the time what we think we want is actually

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a feeling we think we want a new save a new character a new world but

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Really, what we want is the feeling that comes with those things.

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The sense of possibility,

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the clarity,

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the control,

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the excitement of there being something ahead of us.

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And games are very good at making the beginning feel like that.

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Because the beginning of a game is usually the most concentrated version of progress

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that the whole game has.

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Everything happens very quickly at the start.

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You learn how to play the game quickly.

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You unlock things quickly.

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You improve your skills quickly.

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You can feel the game opening up around you in real time.

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that's part of why it's so gripping people tend to enjoy experiences most when they feel

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clear engaging and manageable when they understand what they're doing when they

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feel capable of doing it and the feedback from the activity is immediate at

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the start of a game you are learning but you're not buried in complexity yet you're

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progressing but you're not grinding yet you are engaged but you're not mentally

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tired of the systems yet

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so the beginning feels good because it's been designed to feel good early game is often

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where the feedback is the strongest where progress is the fastest early game is

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where your imagination is doing a lot of work as well you're not just playing what's there but

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you're projecting forwards into what it might become in skyrim for example you're

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not only enjoying what's happening right now you're imagining the character that you

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might become the paths that you might take in minecraft you're imagining the amazing

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house that you're going to build in the next 10 hours or so in the sims you're not just making

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your sim you're imagining the life that they're going to have the jobs that you might get the family

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you might make the house that you might buy or build so part of the thrill of start again is that

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you get the present and the future at the same time you get the immediate satisfaction

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of a clean beginning and you get the imagined satisfaction of everything that might

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come next and that's a really strong combination

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and there's another part of this as well which i think matters just as much starting again feels like

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a second chance now what i mean by that is when a save file has been going on for

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a while it can start to feel compromised you know you've made choices that you're

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not entirely happy with you've gone in directions you didn't mean to or want to

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you've picked up habits that don't really fit how you wanted to play in the first place maybe

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you've rushed through bits maybe you've cheated a little bit wasted a bit of time

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Maybe you've lost the mood that you had at the start.

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The save begins to feel slightly contaminated by all of that.

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It no longer matches the ideal version that you had in your head.

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And restarting the game gets rid of that.

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It gives you the illusion that this time it's going to be cleaner.

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This time it's going to be more meaningful.

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Now's the chance to do it properly.

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And people love the feeling of correction.

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We love the feeling of,

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you know, wiping the slate clean and getting it right.

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This is why restarting doesn't feel like failure in the moment we restart.

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It feels more like hope.

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feels like getting back in touch with the version of the game that you wanted in the first place.

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So when we ask why starting again feels so good,

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I don't think the answer is that it's just exciting.

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Because yeah,

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it is exciting,

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but there's more to it than that.

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The beginning of the game makes the game feel like it's yours again.

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And once you've felt that enough times,

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it makes complete sense why your brain would keep trying to go back there.

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Okay,

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this is chapter two,

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why that feeling fades.

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Your relationship with the game changes as you progress.

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At the start,

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you're reacting to everything,

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you're taking things in,

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figuring things out as you go.

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After a while,

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you move into a different mode where you're no longer discovering things as much.

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You're managing things,

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things already established,

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and that shift is where the drop begins.

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In Skyrim,

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you slowly move away from that feeling of stepping into a world,

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and you start feeling like you're carrying a save file,

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where you've got loads of quests sitting there unfinished,

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you've got loads of items that you don't know if you need or not.

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skills that you've chosen but maybe you wish you chose different skills you

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have a character that is now set upon a path that you might not have initially intended so

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instead of thinking about what this could become you're dealing with what it already is

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and that brings a kind of weight to it that wasn't there before because now every decision

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feels like it matters more and changing direction isn't something that you can just do freely

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it takes time

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effort sometimes undoing things you've already committed to so instead of experimenting

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naturally you start hesitating a bit and that hesitation slows everything

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down in minecraft the change is a bit less dramatic but just as real

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because you move from creating something out of nothing into maintaining something

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that already exists you know where you've got your base your system your storage everything

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working together instead of those early moments where everything felt meaningful because

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it was new you're now expanding organizing improving

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and all of that takes longer,

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requires more planning,

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and evolves more repetition.

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So the experience shifts from discovery into upkeep,

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and that difference is enough to completely change how the game feels.

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With The Sims,

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this shift can happen even faster,

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especially if you've set up everything exactly how you want it from the beginning,

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because once the structure's in place,

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the game settles into routine,

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where you're managing needs,

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repeating actions,

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and keeping things running,

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and if there's no sense of progression underneath that,

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then what you're left with is structure without momentum,

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and that's where the energy tends to disappear.

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and not only that but when you use cheat codes like mother load to make yourself rich you

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know we've all been there and you go and buy and build whatever you want at no cost at all that

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removes any sense of progression you no longer have to commit to the game and work towards

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something everything is already instantly accessible which takes away a lot of what

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is designed to keep you coming back to keep you engaged across all of these things

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What's really changing is the pacing of the experience.

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Because at the start,

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things move very quickly,

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the feedback is constant,

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and progress feels immediate and satisfying.

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As you go on,

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the spacing stretches out,

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effort increases,

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and the gap between what you do and what you get back becomes more noticeable.

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There's research around cognitive fatigue that shows when you stay engaged in something that requires

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sustained attention and effort,

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your motivation naturally drops over time because your ability to stay engaged in the

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same way starts to decline.

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And games follow that pattern closely once you move past the early stages.

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At this point,

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you're thinking more,

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you're committing more.

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You're working with systems rather than learning them,

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which requires a different kind of mental energy.

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So the experience starts to feel like hard work.

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in a way that demands more from you just to get the same level of satisfaction at the same time

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familiarity starts to change how you pay attention because at the beginning everything

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holds your attention naturally but once you know how things work you're no longer taking

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everything in the same way you're moving through it more automatically and that reduction

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in attention makes the game feel less intriguing and less captivating so now

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you've got a situation

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where your progress feels slower your attention isn't as sharp the experience now

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asks more from you just to feel the same and all of that builds into the moment where you're

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suddenly questioning if you're still enjoying the game not enough to make you quit

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there and then but enough to make you question whether you want to keep going and because

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you've already experienced what the beginning feels like how good it feels

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your brain already knows that there's a version of this game that does feel more engaging and

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more rewarding.

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So restarting doesn't feel like going backwards.

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It feels like returning to something that just worked better for you.

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Okay,

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this is chapter three.

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What restarting is actually doing.

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When you keep restarting games,

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it doesn't feel like you're doing anything wrong in that moment because it actually feels productive.

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It feels like you're going back to the best part of the game,

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the part you enjoy,

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fixing what didn't feel right,

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giving yourself a better version of the experience.

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And every time you do it,

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there's that sense that,

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this one's going to be the one that you'll stick with you know every time we restart skyrim we

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think yeah this time i'm going to do it right this time i'm going to do all the side quests taking the

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atmosphere really live in this world from start to finish we all do it we've all been there we all

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fall ourselves in this way because we all end up starting again eventually don't we constantly

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starting again may be exciting and fresh but it never actually lets you experience what

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the game intended in skyrim the deeper parts of the experience only really

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start to show once your character's been around for a while

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When your build has started to take shape.

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When you've made more impactful decisions.

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When the world starts to feel more lived in.

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And restarting over and over again keeps you just outside of that.

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Always approaching that level but never quite getting there.

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In Minecraft,

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the long -term satisfaction comes from seeing something grow over time.

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A world that becomes more known and personal to you.

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More shaped by what you've done in it.

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And when you keep restarting,

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you're constantly trading that long -term attachment for short -term novelty.

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which feels good in the moment but doesn't leave you with anything to sort of be proud

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of and in the sims it often turns into a loop where you enjoy

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creating the life more than actually living it where the setup feels

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meaningful but the continuation feels like a bit of a drag so you reset to

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get that setup feeling back again and the cycle just keeps repeating there's research

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on something called the near miss effect which is basically when you feel like you were just

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about to get a better outcome you came close but not quite

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And instead of putting you off,

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that actually makes you want to try again.

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You see this a lot in things like slot machines,

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where people are more likely to keep playing when they feel like they're getting closer and closer

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to that jackpot.

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You get two sevens in a row,

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and in your head,

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it's only a matter of time until you get all three.

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And in a way,

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it applies here as well.

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Because restarting a video game can feel like giving yourself another shot at getting it

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right this time.

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Like you're closer to the version of the experience you actually want.

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even if in reality you're just looping back to the same starting point again at the same

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time there's also research around persistence that shows satisfaction and improvement

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tend to come after the more difficult parts of an experience not before them

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and that's important here because the parts of games that feel slower or less

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immediately rewarding are often the ones that lead to the strongest sense of payoff

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later on so when you keep restarting you're not just going back to the beginning you're also creating

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a bigger distance between where you are now and the highest point of satisfaction

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a game has to offer and over time that can subtly change how games feel to

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you overall you might start to feel like games don't hold your attention in the same way

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anymore or that you lose interest more quickly than you used to or that nothing quite feels

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as satisfying as it should and it's easy to think that's just because games aren't as good as they used

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to be or because your attention span has changed but a lot of the time it's because you're not

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staying with the experience long enough for it to develop into something deeper you're staying

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in the part that's designed to be immediately engaging

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and moving away as soon as that shifts into something slower and more demanding.

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Once that pattern sets in,

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it becomes very easy to repeat because your brain starts to associate enjoyment with

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restarting rather than with continuing.

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So the goal here isn't to force yourself to stop restarting completely,

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because sometimes restarting is part of the fun,

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and sometimes that's exactly what you want to do.

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But it's worth recognising what you're actually chasing when you do it,

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because most of the time,

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whether you realise it or not,

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you're just chasing that immediate satisfaction.

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the constant dopamine from fast easy progress you often get at the

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start of a game the parts of a game that take longer to reach are usually the ones that stay

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with you the most they're the ones that feel earned the ones that feel personal the

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ones that actually feel like something's happened where the stories come to jaw -dropping conclusions

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when the character arcs complete their cycle these parts of the game exist way

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past that exciting early stage phase okay this is

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the outro um i don't have a title so you can just do

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like closing thoughts or the take home or something like that.

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so if you ever catch yourself wanting to start again halfway through a game chances

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are it's not because the game isn't as good as you thought it would be it's not because the game is getting worse

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or losing its magic it's because you've reached the part where it asks a bit more from you

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and you already know that there's an easier and more immediately satisfying version of this

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game waiting for you at the start and there's nothing wrong with going back if that's what you want to do but

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just know what you're trading when you do that because in my opinion once you break through that section

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of a game that feels like high effort and low reward once you get past

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that

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You reach a whole new level of immersion,

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a second wind almost,

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where you're fully invested in the story and the characters,

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and suddenly you need to see how it all plays out.

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Like I said, starting again is fine,

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but if you haven't reached the late stages yet,

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maybe give it a go now and see for yourself how immensely satisfying a game can

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truly be if you give it the time and patience it requires and deserves.

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Now,

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as you may or may not know,

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I'm not the best at goodbyes,

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