Nowadays it can be hard to turn without bumping into an opinion about a video game or some aspect related to video games. On forums, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, gaming sites, and so on, there is a plethora of comments. But sometimes it can seem many of these run the same way, with consensus forming, and a minority getting drowned out or being dragged.

But it can feel good, even liberating, to express some deeply held feeling, without too much judgement; to be given a safe space to confess your truest thoughts, ideas, and emotions. Over on the popular Gaming subreddit, a thread invited people to share their video game “confession” with the OP kicking things off by saying that they hadn’t played a new Zelda game since Twilight Princess on the GameCube. This prompted a raft of strong feelings that might otherwise have been never expressed.

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“I have a lot of games with zero to less than an hour of play”, commented one, in a confession that might have many modern gamers nodding in recognition. “And I’m still buying new games. Although with less frequency than before and usually on sale.”

What’s your video game ‘confession’?

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Another made a confesison that would surely get roasted if in another forum. “I found RDR tedious”, they commented. This generated some sympathy with another agreeing that Rockstar’s oft-referred to masterpiece was super slow in terms of pacing, while yet another even disliked how such games are considered by the masses to be classics. “This goes for most games Redditors describe as ‘masterpieces’”, they wrote. “I’ve been duped multiple times by various games' wild popularity, only to be disappointed by grind and repetition.”

But another confession was of an altogether different sort as one Redditor confessed to how The Witcher 3 entered their life at just the right time. They say they were at their lowest point owing to various misfortunes, including being jobless and a break-up, before finding CD Projekt’s classic. “Went to Barnes and Noble and binged through the books, played through the first two games and eventually lost myself in the third game”, theywrote.

“I still don’t fully understand it but my mind felt so much clearer when I finished the game and the issues that I was dealing with didn’t really hold that much weight to me”. Now that’s a nice confession, but it’s just further evidence that games might help mental wellbeing, an idea that actually hassome scientific weight to iteven if it still requires further research.

One Redditor confessed that they had platinumed WWE 2K20. “And I ******* liked it”, they said. I don’t know about you, but sometimes people can take things too far…