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I kind of feel like I'm burned out of playing video games these past couple of years. Life has been fairly good to me these past few years, so I've had the opportunity to do other things with my time besides playing with my Xbox 360, PS3, PS Vita, and even games on my Android phone. And it's funny because I still occasionally buy games for those consoles and on my phone I mentioned before, but mostly when they're on sale for a good price. But as a result of this, my back log of games is pretty big. I even still have some games like Black Ops 2, Skyrim, Twisted Metal, and Borderlands 2 in their plastic packaging from when I bought them on Black Friday last November. Yet despite my back log, the ONLY game that I've been playing constantly these past couple of years, has been MLB: The Show, for PS3. And I guess it doesn't hurt that baseball has been my personal passion since high school also. But I feel even that is starting to wind down for me these past 2 or 3 years now.

Also recently, I've discovered the goodness that is Steam for the 1st time. I have all my games that I've downloaded from Steam on my laptop for now, because I usually just play those games at work when I have little breaks here and there. And the game that I play the most from Steam is Euro Truck Simulator 2 (I've got like almost 100 hours put into that game so far). But now a days, I see myself playing even those games less and less frequently - they just don't hold my attention like they used to when I first got them.

Some of my friends told me that if you put some time off from playing games, it usually helps to rekindle that need to play again. So I might just do that for the next couple of weeks and see what happens. And also hopefully, with the announcement that Sony made about the PS4, maybe that will also help my inner-gamer in me to come out again.

So... is anyone else here on the same boat as me? Just liked to know how others are dealing with or have dealt with this issue before.

P.S. As for why I used a slightly bigger font when I wrote this, someone suggested to me that it's easier on the eyes to read long pieces of writing with a bigger font.

I would never getting tired or growing out of it .. not playing much, but I'm into the details of it

And try to recreate it by myself

From story, cg, and the soundtrack especially.

It's both hobby and "work" besides my main job. So it won't bore/tire me, instead it entertains me.

After 34 years or so (going back to my first clear memory of playing a computer game on a TRS-80, arcade machines probably even farther back) I rather doubt I'll get over it any time soon.

Not anytime soon, but I do get a little burned out and may not play anything for a week. When I do muster up some morale and strength to play, I love it. That said, anytime I play a game with a frustrating/hard part and I make zero progress, I shut down that game for months on end or never touch it again.

Never =)

Unfortunately, yes. Recently I found that games can't entertain me as much as they used to. This is very-very sad. *sob*

I got tired of playing video games when the original Playstation came out. I'm tragically lost in the 16-bit era.

I don't see me stopping soon, but I'll probably play less when I get out of college and reality catches up with me.

No, I work towards being able to play more than right now.

I'm tired because of games nowadays >.> 90% of them are just graphics, with DLC worth more than game itself. Guess ill stay forever playing old games...

Well, the current state of the gaming industry has really left me apathetic. I just don't follow new releases anymore.

I kind of zoned out from console gaming to PC gaming a few years back. I mean everything was pretty much accessible on the PC. I tried picking up PS3 again but it just wasn't as great as it used to be for me.

Now, I barely touch RPG games, I mainly play MMOs (rts moba fps) with friends and really only play when they're on, otherwise it gets boring pretty fast.

I pretty much spend majority of my time watching/reading manga & anime and spam VN's lol

Yes, in fact ithink it's slowly happening nowadays. Right now I play games less... time constraint and deadline got me busy.

Well, I started playing again, after what seems only like a short time since I decided to take a break from gaming. I started off with playing Forza 4 and I ended up playing it for like 3 - 4 hrs, which is a long session, even for me. It was just really relaxing playing career mode against well balanced AI opponents and not a bunch of retard crash test dummies online. Then I went on XBL and looked for some new demos and tried out Forza Horizon - and I loved it! It was so much fun driving around the huge open areas in the game, I went on Amazon and bought the limited edition version for $46 ($50 after taxes). Can't wait to play it!

So I guess that time off from gaming actually helped after all. It feels great to be playing with my consoles again!

No. Never. If i get my hands on an old console then it's gaming time. Or i load the Cps roms and play some hack and slash fighting game

Nope. There's no better feeling than destroying an opposing team on versus multiplayer games, and getting a ton of hate mail afterwards. <3





LOLS!

This post has been edited by ShatteredWings: Apr 7 2013, 03:59

I fear I already am.

I'mma be 70, 80 something years old still fucking up scrubs online on fighting video games and shooters. Ain't going anywhere.

not yet， game is happiness shared with friends

Periods of inactivity on gaming? Yes, quite a bit, for a variety of reasons (boredom, busy with work, etc.).

A time when I'll grow out of them? Never.

I don't feel like giving up playing game anytime soon. Mostly because of the prospect of game in the future better than what is now on market