When Do you get tired of playing a good game

[Ironbat92]

So, I've finally decide to trade Bioshock Infinite in for something else. The game is still amazing, but I felt like I've played it so much that I'm kind of tired of it. Maybe I'll get Uncharted 3 or Ni No Kuni, but I don't know. So, has this happen to any of you?

 

[Sack of Cheese]

I don't think there's a game I can play forever. Just like everything good in life, it must all come to an end one day.

 

[vortalism]

I tend to play a lot of sandbox-open world type games or just games with a lot of options that requires me to sink tons of hours into exploring every facet of that world. A couple examples of this are The Elder Scrolls series (obviously), sometimes Dragon Age, Mass Effect, other CRPGs, Planescape Torment, Baldur's Gate and other D&D inspired stuff, MMOs in general especially WoW, GW2 and SWTOR with all their starting zones. It's usually the RPG type games with a lot of options that make me want to keep going, Minecraft too but that's not an RPG per se.

Single player shooters usually don't last long enough for me to really consider getting tired at any point, I usually don't play these games more than once anyways.

Although recently I've been a bit burnt out with Oblivion having basically reached the broken part of the levelling system twice, and completely almost all of the faction story lines (which are all really good and mostly better than Skyrim's). So right now I'm just boggled down in my D&D homebrew, actually that's a game that I never get tired of playing. Ever. DM side or as a player.

 

[TehCookie]

Either after I 100% it or put over 100 hours in I need a break. I'd never trade it in because I know I'll go back to it once it feels fresh again.

 

[Racecarlock]

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"Oh my god why the hell am I watching a kid do his homework? Why am I doing chores? I could be in a spaceship right now."

 

[Casual Shinji]

I can get tired of playing it for the moment, but never indefinite. Certainly not enough to sell it off.

One of the only games that I still have and love, but don't play anymore, is Silent Hill 2. And it's not because I'm tired of it, it's because I simply don't have the constitution anymore to play something that scary. I played the shit out of it back in my younger years, but now... I've just become too fragile.

 

[Joccaren]

As soon as I'm done with the story I stop playing, unless it was a truly fucking epic story.
If there is no story, until dicking around and doing stupid things gets boring - usually a week or two later.

 

[King of Asgaard]

I'll stop playing once I get burned out on it, but I always go back to it at some point in the future.
Oh, and OP, do not get Ni No Kuni. Trust me, you'll thank me later.

 

[LAGG]

Good games, eventually. Great games, never.

Some games are simply timeless, you might move to a new version or something, but never really stop it forever. Unless you completely get done with a genre or gaming in general.

 

[Danceofmasks]

Just own a lot of games.
That way, there's always something else to play ...

Wait ... err ... that's what I was thinking back in 1982 ... now I have over 4000 games and there's no room to keep it all.
I don't even have functional platforms to run most of them.

 

[Thandran]

Wait... err ... that's what I was thinking back in 1982 ... now I have over 4000 games and there's no room to keep it all.
I don't even have functional platforms to run most of them.

First world problems.

 

[KOMega]

I don't trade in my games at all. I know I'll come back to them someday.

Anyways, if I've completed it or already done my 100% runs then I will put the game down.
Story driven games usually stop at completion. Won't be played again for a while, but sometimes I like a good story, even one I heard before .

Online or competitive games are different. They get picked up a lot more but in shorter bursts, but for long period.
Like I'll pick up a fighting game, play it for maybe an hour or two, then stop and do it again maybe in a day or two. This will happen over the course of... well a long while before I just stop playing it.

Also, I just got Ni No Kuni. I think you might be able to squeeze more hours out of that than Uncharted 3 on a single playthrough.

 

[WarpZone]

Me and my friends STILL aren't done with Borderlands 2, and some of us even still have Borderlands 1 business we haven't finished up yet. Then just as the end of Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode starts to be in sight, they announce Season 2 and another raise to the Max Level cap. It's like, Dammit Gearbox. Every time we think we're out you keep sucking us back in!

 

[NeutralDrow]

I generally play myself out on a good game after one or two months. If I'm not finished with it by that point, I return to it later.

 

[Milanezi]

This happens to most media with me... As I near the end of the game/book, I get this nervous feeling (can't explain what it is) where I just NEED to see it end asap. But the problem is: with games, many times i see that the narrative is about to end, and... Nothing, instead of finally reaching the end it just stretches without need through corridors and corridors of enemies, and when that happens I actually get pissed. I'm not talking about stuff like Bioshock, where you think the narrative is about to end just to have a massive plot twist reveal a bigger plot, it's okay and welcome in those occasions, I'm talking about those times when you say "this should be over already!!!". I feel that some games stretch the ending so much that it spoils the whole damn game: Hitman Absolution felt like that to me with that the last mission, and every other mission that decided that a Hitman game isn't about killing, but about crossing areas undetected...

 

[Tallim]

"Oh my god why the hell am I watching a kid do his homework? Why am I doing chores? I could be in a spaceship right now."

Just fixing your embed. But yeah the start of Heavy rain was rather tragically annoying to get through when you spend most of your day doing these things anyway.

 

[ISearchForTraps]

I get tired of a game, either when it ceases to bring me enjoyment, or when there is literally nothing more to accomplish or explore in it. Multiplayer goes a long way to increasing a game's lifespan for me, but few Single Players get more than 1 Playthrough from me, unless there are additional ways to beat it.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Civilization V and Kerbal Space Program are my mainstays of late. Since they aren't dependent upon play-though limits but creative strategy, I can play them as many times as I please.

Granted, I'm much more interested in building things than conquering people, so Civilization will probably fall back soon enough.