When Do you get tired of playing a good game

[Bluelaughter]

The last time I hit this point was with GTA Vice City. For several months after work and dinner, I'd spend a couple hours every day on vigilante police missions. There's just something relaxing about methodically flipping over cars with your cruiser's bumper, or bumping criminals enough to send them into the ocean, and mowing the evil doers down when they jumped out of their cars. There was an element to these missions that was just lacking in other GTAs like San Andreas where cop cars blew up too easily, or the other ones, where cop cars just didn't spawn easily enough. I did get pretty far in helicopter vigilante missions in SA, but there was no challenge to that, no thrill of if I screw up, I'll die. I don't remember how I stopped playing Vice City, but it was probably some other game that took up 100% of my free time.

No other game has had the same relaxing draw after finishing it.

 

[ninjaRiv]

I retire the best games when I overplay them. I sell plenty of games that I love but there are a select few that stay at all times. Deus Ex: HR, Dishonored, Skyrim, and a few others. I go back to them ages later, like I did with Punisher recently, and feel the warm, loving nostalgia.

 

[5ilver]

If I'm still thinking about the game and considering another playthrough many years after my first- that's when it's a good game.

So, to answer your question, in the long-term: never. In the short term, depends entirely on the game (quantity, not quality!). Some games can be played for hundreds of hours on a first play-through, others are "over" in less than an hour.

 

[Juk3n]

Depends on the game, I played mass effect 1 through 3 times so that on my third run before 2 released I was fresh up and current on all choices, I played 2 through twice, the second being a perfect run with all the "me" decisions, and the third through once, because once was enough to fulfil my story needs. I played Uncharted 1 and 2 back to back then waited for three and didn't have the attatchment to the story to get through it. Still havn't man , I was thrilled with 2, but done with that type of game until I played Tomb Raider '12. I could do another one of those right now.

It all depends, sometimes it's just game mechanics that I get burned out on. I play Call of Duty MW3 all the time these days, more than I did CoD4, but not as much as I did MW2, I think this type of thing happens to everyone really.

After Symphonia, I can't stomach another Tales game, even though I love pretty much everything about them. I managaed 3500 hours on Guild Wars, and LOVED GW2 TO DEATH, but could only manage about 200 hours before burn out, and now im done with mmo's for good, other things on my mind,i guess as a gamer I crave more instant gratification as can be had on competitive shooters, and solid single player immersion.

What type of gamer am I?

 

[The Wykydtron]

Whenever I end up hitting the brick wall that is Tager in BlazBlue I immediately stop playing for the day. Nothing puts me in a worse mood than fighting a Tager online.


Don't get me wrong, my overall win rate in BB must be like minus 5% because i'm fucking bad and I insist on using people I cannot play just because I find them fun, i'm like the worst Hazama ever but he's SO MUCH FUN! Just his voice clips are worth playing him for alone.

"Eternal Coils of the Dragon Serpent! *slash* *slash* *slash* AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Hey even I can hitconfirm a throw into that.

But really Tager is the most bullshit thing ever conceived by mankind. Winning with superior projectiles and zoning? More like, DEAD LOL!

 

[Evonisia]

I stop playing a good game (or a game I enjoyed) when I get bored of it or I've done my objectives. I will come back to the games eventually, I don't get rid of them.

Gears of War: Judgment was actually played by me for 45 times longer than anybody cared for it (which was 1 day) until I had done my basic Campaign and Multiplayer goals.

Edit:

Although I haven't gotten bored of it, I temporarily stopped playing BioShock in order to play Infinite and BioShock 2, then played BioShock again until I had gotten all the Audio Logs.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

I still from time to time play Deus Ex, System Shock 2, Jagged Alliance 2, Fallout and Fallout 2, and some of my old SNES games like UN Squadron and Earthbound...

...so I guess I don't really ever get tired of the games I like.

I tend to rotate them, though, specifically for this reason. Like I won't just play the same game I like over, and over, and over, and over again.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

A game like Bioshock Infinite I'm pretty much done with after the first play-through. I might harbour thoughts of returning to it someday... But I never will.

The games I tend to return to have a greater focus on mechanics and scaling difficulty. Story games with BI's kind of pacing are hard to sit through a second time.

Max Payne 2 is more-or-less my perfect game, and by far my favourite game of ever. I love the story, I love the characters... But, it's the mechanics and how the game escalates your need for mastery of them as the game progresses that keeps me coming back. The first game probably did it better(that finale was great), it just hasn't aged as well.

 

[Glover09]

I play games in moods, with racing games being my baseline. Not that I don't have other stuff, but I usually won't pick up a Mass Effect, Assassins Creed, or Birds of Steel unless I'm feeling it. Once the feeling is gone, it's put away until next time, and why does that sound like a song to me?

Anyway, I do tire of racers as well, and as they are the basis, might as well elaborate. Some you finish and then...nothing, Criterion's NFS games qualify there, some you never really finish despite the completion percentage, part of the reason Gran Turismo is still so popular because it certainly isn't the damned GUI, and then there's the ones where you can make shit up, see Codemasters racers, ad nauseum. The first is easy enough, the second is more a case of burnout, and the third could be for achievement hunters or, for me in GRID, a new challenge after the norm got old.

Eventually, you'll have tired of everything at least once, so it's no big deal as long as you HOLD ON TO THE GAME! The moment you sell a good game, you will regret it because you'll think about it, then want it, then end up buying it back. Trust me, it's better in the case on you're shelf collecting dust than the $15 return.

 

[Terry Diamantis]

I'm kind of at that point with Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It's a good game and all but I find myself wanting to play something else. Of course, if I DO start playing something else I may never actually go back to DE:HR so I'm sticking it out.