No longer interested in gaming :(

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I expected this to be a Doug31 thread

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no longer interested in spending money.

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No longer interested in penis

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Yes

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this should be a fun little discussion, haha.

there are a ton of reasons to like video games and a ton of reasons to get tired of playing them. what are the biggest incentives to keep you going? if you feel like you're getting burned out, why?

I used to play a lot of games. I spend like 90% less time now than I did five years ago. I haven't decided the reason(s) why for myself yet. here's a possible list:

- busy with other things
- not a fan of new games
- already have too many games
- changes in the way I think and feel, in general
- afraid to sit down and embark on a 50+ hour "adventure"
- preference toward other online communities vs. strictly gaming ones

will make more extensive post later. I like this thread. do not derail plz

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I feel the same way, kind of.

I'll go 3-4 months without playing a single game, and then play for maybe 2 weeks, then repeat.

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Lack of replayability in games steers me away from buying/playing them.

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You've just burned yourself out.

Why don't you find playing video games enjoyable anymore? Do you feel that you have better things to do? Are games restricting you from finishing more important things and you feel shit about it?

If you can't get motivated to play or finish games, perhaps you are playing them for the wrong reason. If you're gaming purely to kill free time, then you will never be able to fully enjoy yourself. Give yourself a break, relive the classics or change how you play the game.

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i feel bad when i play games nowadays. like i could be doing so many more important things or literally anything constructive

while it's nice to have hobbies i've gotten to this mentality that my hobbies should atleast be constructive. while there is much to gain from gaming, very little of it will actually have any applicability in the real world

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I think it's because games feel like work to me now.

Now that I work fulltime, when I get home, I want to *relax*. So if I choose to spend that time playing a game, I find that everything has become a tedious grind.

Candy Crush, for example -- it's super popular right now, but ffs, I am hating it. Sure, there's some strategy involved, but if you plug away at any given level long enough, then by sheer chance alone you'll eventually get some wicked sprinkle/candy-wrapper combo or whatever that'll demolish the board and get you ahead. Otherwise, most of your time is spent finding combos that are futile in the long run because they don't get you much in the way of points or progress. So the game, as a whole, becomes an exercise in persistence. I even wrote a macro that operated on piss-easy rules and sure enough, it plugs ahead level-by-level, bit by bit. No human element is required whatsoever.

Even action games feel slow. Bioshock: Infinite just felt like a story with big open-field battles peppered here-and-there, and that was literally it. The Last Of Us is boring me to tears and I sincerely wonder why so many people are raving about it. It's piss-easy, linear as hell, and the story is too predictable.

I did enjoy Deus Ex: Human Revolution if only because there was a variety of gameplay mechanics involved. Just enough linearity to prevent it from becoming an aimless Skyrim timesink, and just enough choice to keep things interesting with the risk tradeoffs. The ending(s) and the way they could be chosen, though, I thought was silly.

The new Tomb Raider just made me feel sad. It was an interesting game in itself, but it wasn't Tomb Raider. It's Tomb-Raider-in-name-only. It doesn't have the feel of the old series in terms of any mechanics whatsoever, and doesn't even borrow the same music style (let alone the THEME SONG). It's a completely different game. Got bored halfway in and I've yet to pick it back up again.

First-person shooters have also gotten worse, trading off gameplay and challenge for graphics. I sincerely blame the Halo/CoD series for this, because game publishers figured out real fast that if you make your game pretty, linear, and easily monetized, it'll sell like crazy and make it harder for others to compete without lifting comparable elements.

It's rare now that I encounter a game I enjoy and don't get bored of within the first half-hour of playing. Don't even get me started on RPG's. Hrrrrng.

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just wait til a really chill game comes out

something like, Snoop's Day Off in The Bahamas

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1. I don't think you should necessarily feel bad about exhausting your interest in video games. You don't have to try to force yourself to enjoy an activity you are no longer having fun with.

2. I noticed that you didn't really cite any games with a good multiplayer aspect to them in your second post. Of course I'm not assuming that you've never played a multiplayer game in your life, but I feel the need to state the obvious here: having a group of friends to play video games with can turn some frustrating games into fun ones. I think that many subpar game elements can be overlooked if you just play with other people you know. I think plenty of people in the FFR community would be willing to play a multitude of games with a figure such as yourself.

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I found the most interest in gaming when playing retro games or less known titles. Stray away from the recent gaming industry and go discover some new avenues you never set foot in. (something like Backloggery.com helped me revisit games I played extensively to renewed them by creating unusual and challenging goals: speedrunning and the likes)
I even got around a top list of some of the worst and most obscure games and decided to play them all. Helped me freshen my vision of the gaming experience in general.

Like PrawnSkunk said, be wary to not burn yourself out. And if you do (since it happens to everyone), just lay down the controller and focus on more profitable/satisfying hobbies until you feel appealed by games again. That often happens to me when I played a game too much for a long period of time.

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If you want a game that's relaxing try Fez, even though the creator himself was apparently an ass (according to my friend at least, I dunno about the whole drama behind it/him)