My Modern Warfare 2 epiphany

[FaithorFire]

About 5 weeks ago, I was playing Modern Warfare 2 online. I finished second with a 29-6 kill-death ratio. Then, while waiting at the pre-game screen (listening to asshats yammer about nukes...or something), it hit me... I hate this game.
It had gotten to feeling more like a second job than a way to relax. The best part was the period in between games: looking at rewards, playing with weapon customizations, but always feeling like I wouldn't be satisfied without the next gun attachment
There was nothing fun about it anymore.

So I shut it off and I haven't turned the game back on.

Instead, I started playing through the Ratchet & Clank Games on my PS2. Turning robots into giant chickens and promptly blowing the shit out of them reminded me that video games WERE once fun. I've completed R&C 1-3 to 100% again.

I was once a dedicated XBoxer: since the 360's release. I've now canceled my Live subscription.
My next game slated for completion is Pitfall on the SNES

Am I the only gamer who's ever been hit in the face by such a realization?

 

[eggy32]

Yes I realised it sucked about a week or two after I bought it and sold it for more than I paid for it.

 

[MrShowerHead]

This has happen to me few times. Sitting on my bed, playing something like AC2, then just out of nowhere turn off the console and go play the good old games

Operation Flashpoint,Doom,Jazz Jackrabbit 2........ Ah, the memories

 

[TerranReaper]

It's practically grinding in disguise.

 

[dragonslayer32]

it happened to me with red dead redemption, the game became more of a chore than fun

 

[-Samurai-]

I've felt like that before. You can do a few things.

1) Take a break like you're doing now. Get away from that game for a bit and play something mindlessly fun. Come back to it later.

2) Although cliche, realize that it's just a game. The numbers(stats) don't count for anything. Grab a shield and some C4 and have some fun. Mess around a bit. Do things you wouldn't normally do and don't worry about your stats.

 

[MrShowerHead]

By the way FaithorFire, thank you. You made me play Jackrabbit 2 again

 

[Banana Phone Man]

I had the same thing on the same game. When it first came out I was all "wow , this is so cool" followed by more un-audioable fanboyism. Later and I'm playing it, yet again getting frustrated by almost everything in it and then I just said to myself "I hate this game, a game that makes you more frustrated then happy is not a game for me" and then I haven't played it since. I then just completed the whole of HL2 (and episodes), twice, on the easiest and hardest difficulties.

I tried to play it today and couldn't. I tried for about 10 minutes before I stopped again. I went and played a bit of CoD4 instead.

 

[The Cheezy One]

it happened to me with red dead redemption, the game became more of a chore than fun

can i have it then?
i know what you mean with mw2, you had to put so much effort into it
since mw2 last went for a ride, ive een playing my old(er) collection, AssCreed2, Fable 2, fallout 3
i still have fun with it when i go on with friends, especially listening to a french guy talk then saying to a friend "hey dom i was JUST saying that! isnt that weird?" then he carries it on with "yeah literally just said exactly those words" the french guys still nattering on to his friend, probably saying exactly the same thing

 

[khaimera]

It sounds like you just need some time away from it to miss what it is you liked about it in teh first place. I do that with Halo. Love it for a while, and then want nothing to do with it.

I bet you'll be missing MW2 in a couple of months.

Edit: where are all the report happy people in this thread? We have some offenders above. Attack.

EDIT 2: One down and one to go

*looks above.

 

[Jedoro]

I hated the grind, but now I just mute everybody, refuse to prestige, and use whatever weapons I want to. I'll noob tube, snipe, or spray and pray and nobody on there can tell me not to. Yeah, glitches get annoying, but I found my own way to enjoy the game, so I'm happy with it.

 

[dragonslayer32]

it happened to me with red dead redemption, the game became more of a chore than fun

can i have it then?
i know what you mean with mw2, you had to put so much effort into it
since mw2 last went for a ride, ive een playing my old(er) collection, AssCreed2, Fable 2, fallout 3
i still have fun with it when i go on with friends, especially listening to a french guy talk then saying to a friend "hey dom i was JUST saying that! isnt that weird?" then he carries it on with "yeah literally just said exactly those words" the french guys still nattering on to his friend, probably saying exactly the same thing

lol. if you can get to sunderland and give me £20 for it, be my guest

 

[onewheeled]

This is exactly what happened to me. Though I didn't quit Xbox or anything, I just moved on to different games, like Orange Box and finally finishing Fallout 3.

Kinda funny, actually. I planned to sell MW2, so I took it out of my game shelf, set it on the kitchen counter, then went on a trip to see my grandparents for a week. When I came back, the game was nowhere to be found. I haven't been able to find it all week, haha. So for the first time in my life, I actually have lost the game.

 

[Spencer Petersen]

I would probably play MW2 again if the devs actually updated it rather than gab on about subscriptions and shitty map packs for $15. The game still needs balancing and they are missing a whole new opportunity to add new weps, perks and mods.
Also, I'd ask for dedicated servers if they actually gave a shit, but i gave up on that long ago.

 

[CrashBang]

it happened to me with red dead redemption, the game became more of a chore than fun

I thought I was the only one!
It was weird, I love it to death but after 10 minutes in Mexico it suddenly hit me that this game is quite a grind

OT: You're not the only one. I used to play Halo 3 and Cod4 religiously online until I realised the repetition setting in and since then I haven't been much of an online gamer, instead I've been playing things like Arkham Asylum, Ratchet & Clank and Dragon Age recently and it really is so much more relaxing
Although right now I'm starting to miss having Live Gold and so I might have to get it again. I still have MW2 on my PS3 and can never decide whether to sell it or not because I do like occasionally going back and playing online now and again. Although I've heard that Bad Company 2 is much better... sigh, it's all so complicated

 

[WaywardHaymaker]

Yeah, I realized this a while ago. I would be playing MW2 and go some large number to some small number and realize that I was not having fun. So, I stopped playing it altogether. Haven't touched it for... more than four months, now? I HAVE played Michael Meyers on it with my friends, though, but that doesn't count because it's actually fun.

EDIT: @CrashBang: About Red Dead... I think that was the point of Mexico. You're supposed to hate it. You're supposed to pop down there, pop Williamson and Escuela, pop back to the U.S., and that's that. But you get caught up in the politics, which end up being futile, and John Marston hates it. And I hope Rockstar's idea was to make YOU hate it. Not the best design idea for getting people to stick with the game, but it DOES get better when you cross back into the U.S. A lot better.

 

[Extreme Pajamas]

This pretty much happened to me and my friends right before we decided to quit WoW. The game just started to feel like extra work that we didn't need. The fun dwindled away and became a dried lump of....stuff.

I remember afterward I played through all of the old Mega Man games and a few others.

 

[Zackary Yakumo]

i got mw2 for my birthday. i yelled at my cousin who gave it to me because it was a bullshit presentI have played it online a few tgimes but ostly i just play fallout 3.

 

[Radeonx]

I personally still enjoy Call of Duty. There is a vast amount of customization, and while there is a lot of unfair bullshit, it can be pretty fun with friends.