No longer interested in gaming :(

[Reincarnate]

One thing I hate in games is when you can't go back and collect some secret because you missed it first time around or whatever

[Ohaider]

Everyone has phases

[Crazyjayde]

Originally Posted by Reincarnate

One thing I hate in games is when you can't go back and collect some secret because you missed it first time around or whatever

RPG

[sticklydude]

My PS3 is basically a netflix machine now.
The only games I do play on occasion is some indie games that throw in some cool mechanic and somehow catch my interest, the latest being Rogue Legacy.

Big budget AAA titles are pretty much dead to me. I lost complete interest in them (except gta5)

[Frank Munoz]

play with a friend
like your friend is physically there.
If it's a one player game I try to convince my gf to play with me and I control the left side of the controller and her the right.
Really fun, not too serious.

Also, I thought the new tomb raider was great.
It was pretty fxcking engaging, and I don't really care too much for it "feeling" like the old tomb raiders.

[Emanresu13]

Originally Posted by Ohaider

Everyone has phases

i just came out of a non-gaming slump. my perspective has changed a little, and now i don't feel a pressing need to experience a game in the way i used to. i don't need to find every single secret unless the game is so much fun that i actually want to. i don't need to pick apart every single mechanic unless the exact same reason holds. i don't even feel the need to finish a game anymore. gaming is much more relaxed for me and doesn't feel stressful, as it had become. this kinda leads to me not having a "backlog" of games anymore, since i just don't care.

in summary, i stopped worrying about gaming and just began to enjoy it for what it is.

[PrawnSkunk]

Any way to not feel this way?

[Fission]

Originally Posted by sticklydude

Big budget AAA titles are pretty much dead to me.

qft. 95% of AAA and fat wallet titles just aren't any fun whatsoever to me anymore because they are too casualized, so i ended up losing some interest in gaming as well since that severely restricts what i can enjoy.

[Reincarnate]

I'm enjoying Fez so far though :O

But yeah I agree with the others -- the AAA titles just do nothing for me.

[HalfStep]

Remember this shit? Seriously though, pretty sure you've stopped enjoying games for a long time cause every game is shit, heh.

[mi40]

it's hard to come across that one game you truly love playing

mine has changed over time, and currently you just haven't found that 'click' yet lol

try path of exile

[Coolboyrulez0]

you just havent started playing rift with me and choofers yet

[Emanresu13]

something i should have added:

it's still pretty hard for me to get excited about games. i'm basically just going through the motions right now. but they're somewhat enjoyable motions, as opposed to the mind-numbing crap-garbage motions that they'd felt like for the past half-year or so.

and i agree, the AAA titles are kinda meh 90% of the time. i mostly prefer indie stuff like antichamber.

[ToasterCubed]

Originally Posted by sticklydude

My PS3 is basically a netflix machine now.

So if PS3 is for Netflix, then I guess Xbox is for porn.

[Reincarnate]

Yeah, my PS3 is also pretty much only used for Netflix and such.

Originally Posted by HalfStep

Remember this shit? Seriously though, pretty sure you've stopped enjoying games for a long time cause every game is shit, heh.

Aaaghhh fuck that game. lmfao.

I kinda miss the Kong days, though. But I just couldn't keep up with badgehunting anymore when they kept pumping out those goddamned MMO badges. Everything else was a lot of fun, most of the time.

[korny]

Re beat doom 2 on ultra violence man, that should satisfy you for a week or two. Especially if you save at the beginning of each level and aim to beat each level in a solid run as it was intended. After that, you're back where I'm at, starving for a game worth playing again. I'm basically waiting for kingdom hearts 3 lol.

[Reincarnate]

Originally Posted by korny

Re beat doom 2 man, that should satisfy you for a week or two. Especially if you save at the beginning of each level and aim to beat each level in a solid run as it was intended. After that, you're back where I'm at, starving for a game worth playing again. I'm basically waiting for kingdom hearts 3 lol.

I've re-whored all the old Id/Apogee games plenty of times over in the past on high difficulty. They're great for nostalgia, but they also make me sad. In the back of my mind, I'm always thinking, "I'm replaying something I beat when I was literally 6 years old. I seriously can't find something else to play?"

I even feel the same way when I re-play SNES/N64/PS games (Zelda, MMX, DKC, CT, SM/SMRPG, FF, etc).

[korny]

I feel you completely. The answer is pretty much no. I have found temporary solace in mini games like the impossible game or geometry wars 2. Other than that there's no remedy. The golden days of video games are over, and as nerdy as it may be, that's a huge part of my identity. You can call it my sort of mid life crisis where I'm trying to figure out how else to be satisfied with my time without turning to alcohol. It's a harsh lesson about growing up for me. Not that ill ever be "too mature" for video games, there's just a legitimate lacking in the fun innovative styles of games people you and I yearn for. Sucks majorly I know.

[PriestREA]

I've been trying to beat all my time trial records for MKDS - don't know if that's your thing but it's kept me entertained.

[Hakulyte]

Heard of The Swapper?
Tried Touhou fan-based games?
How about old games that you simply haven't played at all?