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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 don't know tbh. I dont want to, but I just get bored so easily now with games. When I was a teen it was non-stop, used to play gmod to much 8 years ago.
Now it just seems useless racking up numbers on a screen. Been thinking of getting into VR, possibly that can rekindle it from what I have seen.

Videogames surplanted books as my favored method of escapism long ago -
it will take something that can remove me from reality even further (while continuing to offer interactivity)
to encourage me to become less engaged with them.
AR peripheals are akin to mere toys, in terms of what I'm imagining.
It would have to be true virtual reality/VR - whatever that would exactly entail I can only speculate.
(of my own volition, that is. there is always the possibility that some factor in my life forces me to disengage with videogames prematurely...)

Probably not, but if you don't live a somewhat balanced life I think you can get sick of playing all the time.

Absolutely not. I get older, games just keep getting better! lol.

When there is too little or too much work, my interest in gaming decreases significantly. The former would make me bored, the latter would make me tired of working.

I am now, when everything is 99% required to be politically correct and ecchi bits are stigmatized as female degradation.

I am now, when everything is 99% required to be politically correct and ecchi bits are stigmatized as female degradation.

Yeah, absolutely hated how politically correct Cult of the Lamb and Elden Ring was, damn shame.

Yeah, absolutely hated how politically correct Cult of the Lamb and Elden Ring was, damn shame.

Same. I hated it when Mohg said "it's mohggin' time" and mohgged all over my scarlet rotten corpse.

i call this "VGED"(Video Game Erectile Dysfunction)
There is no game can light me up thisdays.sad

I think I already did. Except for some old games that I've been playing for years (for old times' sake), I barely could finish a new game. Although sometimes my autism kicks in... and I end up playing a game for almost a day without eating, drinking, etc.

I can totally see me abandoning games. I almost did a few times without pretending, it just happened. However, I always come back. The way I play games has changed a lot. I used to love jrpg games, ANY of them, they were like a dream... I used to create mods for any game I could, putting a lot of hours in learning how to do stuff. I even learned how to use python to make some games properly.

But now none of those things feel attractive. I like short experiences, short indie games, or games more focused on the experience than the gameplay. And now I am barely able to play jrpg (or watch anime by the way). It suddenly feels so boring, I don't know why. Like if I had already played it before, like if I already knew those characters and they can't ever surprise me anymore.

There are some exceptions here and there. And I am still used to look for jrpg games so I still buy them and TRY to play them. But I rarely finish them. Persona 4 for example, I wanted to play it for years and when I got it... I played 20 hours, got incredibly bored and abandoned it. Tales of Vesperia, I had listened so many great things about it... I started it last year, and in one week and 20 hours later I was out. It took FOREVER to start. Like Final Fantasy XV, like what the fuck, it killed me of boredom.

I am having a better experience with Tales of Arise, it starts relatively fast. And Xenoblade 3 too. I want to like them. I really want to.

It's weird to get old. I feel the same in the inside but the way I approach the world is different, despite my own conscious will to not change. In my early 30s sometimes I speak to people with 25 years old and I suddenly noticed that I am not talking to the real thing. Their opinions and beliefs are incomplete, like mine was, I find the holes where I used to have them. Then I lose interest. Even in women, people with my age are so much more interesting.

Kind of sucks to be honest.

I'm pretty much becoming tired of video games, mostly because I've come to the realisation that my life isn't stable enough to keep using video games as an escape from reality

Been playing games since I was like 9 or 10 yo and having some degree of skill in the games I spent time playing and from the sense of achievement in some games, especially rhythm games it became from a hobbie to an obsession that didn't seem at first glance to have any negative effect since I had great friendships, decent body condition and good grades on school.

But now that I'm entering university I fear for the fact that I dont have enough money to pay for the university that I want to study in, even though with my current grades I could still enter the university for free but I'm not ready to handle the stress and I don't feel like I have the study habbits to go through my first year.

Porn is also a escape from reality but I don't watch it nearly as much as I used to play video games (4-5 hours per day).

In my effort to getting myself to study or at least do more productive things I uninstalled steam and I only play rhythm games occasionally.

Apart from the university thing I got other problems to take care of but I don't want to share those o: