I listened to this whole thing, and I'm not really sure why, because for the entire 53 minute video (though I listened to it at 2x speed, so really only about 26 minutes for me), they're doing nothing but talking about the inane minutiae of games, primarily Nioh 2 but also some Monster Hunter, that I have never played and will almost assuredly never play, but there was just... something about that, and I don't know what it is, really... it was almost kind of soothing, in a weird way.
In my post here, I'm going to veer off on a bit of a tangent away from what they were mainly talking about in the video, though. The thing they said about people who, when a new game in a series comes out, want to go back and play/replay all the old games in the series before getting to the new thing, but then never actually get to the new thing... that's kind of me, honestly. A very good example of this as of a few weeks ago or so was that I said "Hey, I want to play Terranigma again. But... first, I'll play Soul Blazer and then I'll play Illusion of Gaia." I made it through Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia, but by the time I got to Terranigma, I was kind of burned out, and I only made it as far as GreCliff before just kind of stopping.
It's also like every time I've said "I want to give Mother 3 another try," I always start that process by replaying EarthBound Zero (it's actually called EarthBound Beginnings in English now, but that wasn't out yet the last time I did this, and the bootleg prototype ROM I was playing via emulation at the time was still called EarthBound Zero) and then EarthBound first, and then, by the time I actually get to Mother 3, I make it maybe halfway and then just stop. Last time I played Mother 3, I think I actually made it as far as New Pork City, with is basically the end of the game, but... just stopped. With Terranigma, at the very least, I've actually made it all the way through that (once, about 15 years ago). Not so with Mother 3.
And yeah, all of that is also why I've barely stepped even a pinky toe into long running series such as Tales (aside from a few singular, abortive playthroughs of Phantasia, Vesperia and Symphonia), or Atelier (as I've mentioned before), or Ys (though I actually own several of those on Steam now), or The Legend of Heroes including the offshoot Trials games (all of which is apparently part of yet another overarching series called Dragon Slayer, which also includes Xanadu/Faxanadu... kinda ridiculous), or many, many others. Even if in most of those cases each individual entry may be stand-alone. Doesn't matter.
But then, it all ties into my whole "play any new (or at least new to me) game really far, but then just drop it without actually finishing it" thing. E.g. Control and Hollow Knight, both of which are games I played really far into, recently, but have just kind of stopped playing, even more recently. I still have them installed on my computer, so there's still a chance I may get back into them, but the last time I played Hollow Knight was... *checks Steam* ...November 27, and the last time I played Control was actually before that, but I booted it up once and made it as far as the title screen on, Steam says, December 9, but I didn't actually play it any, at that time, so that doesn't count. Septerra Core is my current "I'll probably play really far into it but never actually finish it" game of the moment. ¬_¬ (In that, I'm currently to the Wind City area, having just gotten Corgan in the party.)
Also, on another issue, Woolie saying Persona starts at 3 and Castlevania starts at Symphony of the Night or whatever... yeah, that's pretty fucking asinine, truly.