Getting "burned" or "bored" quickly?

[Siyano_v1legacy]

Hello, I was wondering if gaming was my thing anymore, because no matter what, I look at the games and feel like that most of the time I play game and often get bored of it quite quick or just get uninterested, very very few name has gotten my attention and which I played them, althought most of the time its impulsive and finish them in less than few days in a row or compulsively do like 200-300 hours (depending of the type of the game). Now I look at the future and I am quite scared, nothing seem to even get my attention, not for the next year anyway, some may slightly interest me, but for that 15-20 hours they may have. I also did buy recklessly buy a console becuase I wanted more games, and did the same thing, played all the few game I had for like 5-6 hours each then became "bleh"
I guess I have to slow down gaming and just look at sometimes else.
What you view on your own gaming habit? what are you looking for in the future?

 

[Fox12]

I think you need to stop playing games for a while. Go do something else. Read a book, watch some movies. Hangout with friends. Go to parties. Get a job. Learn a second language on the computer. Write a novel. Just take a break for a few months. If all you do is play games then of course you'll get burnt out.

 

[Siyano_v1legacy]

I think you need to stop playing games for a while. Go do something else. Read a book, watch some movies. Hangout with friends. Go to parties. Get a job. Learn a second language on the computer. Write a novel. Just take a break for a few months. If all you do is play games then of course you'll get burnt out.

Pretty much /thread. I'd add that an obsessive attitude and general lack of balance in life is also an underlying cause of so much irrational complaining involving new releases, and the often extreme amounts of disgust spewed all over the internet when things don't turn out like people thought they would.

It isn't just for games either. I often see it worse on IMDB for movies and have no doubt that the same goes for music, book forums, etc. And then let's not even get started on politics.

It's just human nature to lose a bit of oneself the closer you are to a "thing".

 

[Xprimentyl]

I?ve been slowly and steadily getting burned out on gaming since the year prior to this current console generation. The whole mishandled pre-launch debacle left a really sour taste in my mouth as I finally saw the industry for what it is: lazy and greedy. There was a time when I naively thought developers and publishers were actually trying to invest their time and effort into creating engaging and worthwhile experiences, but once they saw that the target demographics were content with Generic FPS #284 and Same Game As Last year But Now With Tacked On Multiplayer And Microtransactions, it became apparent that most of them aren?t interested in the quality of what they develop so much as they are how much they can charge for minimal effort.

Don?t get me wrong; I still game and am nowhere near as cynical as the above might make me sound, but I am much more selective with what I play, pay for and refuse to jump on any hype trains. So much of the games today are so same-y it?s just hard to get excited about anything. I played Fallout 4 for about 2 hours, then realized, ?oh, so Fallout 3 and Minecraft had a baby;? haven?t played it since. I?ve loved Halo since the launch of the Original Xbox, then Halo 5 shit on my chest and had the gall to ask me for more money when it was done. The best games this generation so far have been retreads, remasters and backwards compatible games from last generation, so it doesn?t bode well for my interest in the future.

I have been taking a quasi-break for the past 7 months; I might play for an hour or two a week, usually during my lunch breaks. I haven?t bought a new game in AGES, so most of play time has been cleaning up achievements in games I already own or re-playing Inside for the 157th time.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Maybe it's just the times and the amount of media that fights for our attention. I find myself feeling less inclined to replay a game or rewatch a movie nowadays, when I can just go online and watch whatever the hell I feel like at any moment.

I'm still looking forward to new games though.

 

[CaitSeith]

So far I have looked less into the future and more into the past. The most recent game I'm currently playing (without counting the Bioshock remake) is Mordehim: City of the Damned. But before that, my past months have been playing PS3 games that I missed when they were first released: Demon's Souls, Catherine, Tokyo Jungle, etc... I'm also gitting gud in Dark Souls II to finish the DLC areas.

 

[Saelune]

So far I have looked less into the future and more into the past. The most recent game I'm currently playing (without counting the Bioshock remake) is Mordehim: City of the Damned. But before that, my past months have been playing PS3 games that I missed when they were first released: Demon's Souls, Catherine, Tokyo Jungle, etc... I'm also gitting gud in Dark Souls II to finish the DLC areas.

I rarely buy new games on a whim anymore. New games I do buy are games in a series I know I like. Mostly I like getting old games on sale that I missed out on for one reason or another. I recently been playing Daggerfall in earnest, since I want to beat it cause I want to be a TES Super Duper fan instead of a TES Super fan.

Im mostly having trouble with games at the moment cause I lack the energy to do anything intense. I really like games where I can dick around and do what I want when I feel like, or do nothing yet stll be doing something. Its why I really love TES, and why Terraria is my most played Steam game, since its what I pay when I dont want to play anything.

I -was- playing Shadow of Mordor, cause it was one such game, but Im an achievement whore and the Test of the Wild achievement is next on my list...and that is the antithesis of what I like about the game... =. =

 

[omega 616]

I'm kind of in the same head space. I seem to be playing games for X amount of time but never really even finishing them or even getting started. Not long ago I said to myself "I've finished bioshock 1, but played 2 for about 10 minutes and infinite for about an hour. I will complete the series!" I played 2 for another 10 minutes and infinite for about 4 hours (actually just looked at steam and it's sat at 5 hours, last played 28/6/16 and bishock 2 is sat at 22 minutes. I swear to god I was pulling numbers out of my ass but when I actually checked, I was bang on. Freaky!)

Did the same with loads of games, dishonored, for a long time arkham asylum (but I finished that yesterday, not as great as people bang on about), mafia 2, skyrim, human revolution, max payne 3 etc.

I dunno, I start to play and then things just annoy me to the point I quit them. Tutorials (I remember being so wound up at the infamous first light tutorial) and unskippable cut scenes, any kind of slow down really. I just want to play the game, fuck the story, mostly crap anyway ... I just want to listen to a podcast and play a game.

 

[ShoobieDoobie]

I can't enjoy games anymore. If a game is too easy I get bored of it, and if I get even the slightest bit of challenge I start nerdraging.

Plus the future of gaming is screwed. Do you think we'll ever get a masterpiece game like Chrono Trigger ever again? Nope.

 

[Siyano_v1legacy]

I think you need to stop playing games for a while. Go do something else. Read a book, watch some movies. Hangout with friends. Go to parties. Get a job. Learn a second language on the computer. Write a novel. Just take a break for a few months. If all you do is play games then of course you'll get burnt out.

Pretty much /thread. I'd add that an obsessive attitude and general lack of balance in life is also an underlying cause of so much irrational complaining involving new releases, and the often extreme amounts of disgust spewed all over the internet when things don't turn out like people thought they would.

It isn't just for games either. I often see it worse on IMDB for movies and have no doubt that the same goes for music, book forums, etc. And then let's not even get started on politics.

It's just human nature to lose a bit of oneself the closer you are to a "thing".

Your post quite resume my "problem" I have the same kind of feel toward most thing I do in general, I have trouble finding interesting new movies, besides few selection. funny thing is I don't play that much "now", I juggle with, watching youtube, movie or tv shows, lurking in forums and what not.
I guess it the computer in general I have to leave

 

[Bob_McMillan]

I haven't bought a new game since Uncharted 4, which was in May 10. Combined with real life stuff and general boredom, I haven't been playing too much games lately. I have still been following all the gaming news though. I have to admit, I kind of enjoy seeing games crash and burn, which is not a very nice thing to feel good about.

Since all the real life stuff ended, I feel compelled to play, just so that I don't waste money on PS+. I still enjoy gaming, but only really when I play BF4 with my friends. Other games can't keep my interest for more than 2 hours. I suppose it's time to get a new game, and from the looks of it that's going to be BF1.

 

[CaitSeith]

I can't enjoy games anymore. If a game is too easy I get bored of it, and if I get even the slightest bit of challenge I start nerdraging.

Plus the future of gaming is screwed. Do you think we'll ever get a masterpiece game like Chrono Trigger ever again? Nope.

Why not? Seriously, which are the reasons for such certain "nope"?

 

[Siyano_v1legacy]

This is the longest technological plateau the gaming industry has had before a major evolution, let alone revolution in terms of design capabilities. Back in the early 90's we were given 3D worlds to explore, and a new control scheme (for better and worse) to facilitate that big change.

Fast forward well over two decades on and....we're still there. Sure, it all looks prettier and no longer plagued with cringeworthy presentation, but the new VR push will really have its work cut out to elevate games to another remarkable level.

 

[Xprimentyl]

I start to play and then things just annoy me to the point I quit them.

^This. I generally try and stick with a game, but I literally had to put The Division down because I got tired of it dropping new shit on me every five minutes; 2 hours in and it was still introducing new mechanics and features. Between the crafting, upgrading, weapon customization, convoluted menus, collectibles everywhere, multiple currencies, and a multiplayer mode for which they recommended that you play the single-player game for 4-6 hours to level up to fully appreciate, it was just too much! Oddly 6 years ago, I would have loved a game like that, with so much to "do," but today, I don't have that kind of time, energy or patience for a game I know is little more than a mediocre and more complicated 3rd person shooter. Same reason I quit Fallout 4; I was already annoyed with the menus in the Pip-Boy, but when I got to the introduction of settlement building, I was immediately "nope."

I think this is why I love Inside so much (and yes, I will bring this game up every chance I get!) That metaphysical monster couldn't be any more mechanically simple, but developer Playdead did so much with so little so well and so much better than the big AAA developers, it was beyond refreshing. I enjoy sending that faceless red-shirted boy to the right for an hour LEAGUES more than I do collecting a bunch of random shit Ubisoft has scattered across yet another one of their "sandboxes." Sad fact is, though, for every once-in-a-generation gem like Inside, there's a thousand Assassin's Creeds with a thousands sequels for each in the making. It's textbook quantity over quality and it's exhausting and a large reason why gaming is so "meh" nowadays...

 

[ShoobieDoobie]

I can't enjoy games anymore. If a game is too easy I get bored of it, and if I get even the slightest bit of challenge I start nerdraging.

Plus the future of gaming is screwed. Do you think we'll ever get a masterpiece game like Chrono Trigger ever again? Nope.

Why not? Seriously, which are the reasons for such certain "nope"?

Look at the PS4 library, every other game is a remaster/remake of some game we've already played! Why won't they try anything new? Is it too much of a risk? I don't know the exact reason.

 

[CaitSeith]

I can't enjoy games anymore. If a game is too easy I get bored of it, and if I get even the slightest bit of challenge I start nerdraging.

Plus the future of gaming is screwed. Do you think we'll ever get a masterpiece game like Chrono Trigger ever again? Nope.

Why not? Seriously, which are the reasons for such certain "nope"?

Look at the PS4 library, every other game is a remaster/remake of some game we've already played! Why won't they try anything new? Is it too much of a risk? I don't know the exact reason.

Who says the next master piece has to be in PS4? Even then there is Abzū, The Crypt of the Necrodancer, Hand of Fate, Resident Evil 7 (trying to move the franchise in a different direction), and who the hell in this world even knows which genre Death Stranding is going to be.

 

[Scarim Coral]

My gaming habit has been shifted.

I'm pretty much burned out playing Guild Wars 2, my main game but this is due to me buying a tablet a month ago. I spending more time on playing game on the tablet then I do on my pc and 3ds. I also become less motivated to do anything on GW2 now since I still log in for the daily reward but that it (I no longer motivated on getting the new recent achievements).

As for the prospect of upcoming game, it's not so bright. The only game I looking forward to now is Sun and Moon and that's it.

 

[gsilver]

I'm kind of feeling this way these days, too.

Every once in a while, I find a game that I'm really into, but must of them are kind of "blah"

I still haven't found a replacement activity, though. I'm trying more exercise, more anime, and more movies, but I find myself getting bored of those even quicker. And the exercise tends to wipe me out the next day, too.