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[Detection]

DirtyLarry, on 27 June 2012 - 23:54, said:

Interesting timing on this thread, as I was just talking to my wife about something recently, which mattmatik's response above reminded me of.
She asked if I planned on getting a WiiU when it was released, as I was watching all of the e3 coverage one night about it.
At first I said I was not sure, then I said "yeah, I probably will. This is my golf, or my poker night."
What I meant by that is just as matt, I am fortunate enough to not even think about if I can afford a game or a system, etc. I make a decent living, so things have definitely changed from when I was growing up. I usually had to play games upwards of a year or two after they were released and on sale in the bargain bin. Just how it was financially for a bit growing up.

My wife said she got it, and understood it is what I preferred to do, so she was ultimately fine with me saying I would probably purchase it, but then all she said was "but you barely touch your games nowadays." That really kind of hammered home the point. As much as I love gaming, and it will always be my preferred method of entertaining myself, I just no longer have that strong desire to play whenever I have free time, as quite frankly everything else burns me out so much mentally I just want to take it easy as I said above.

I had that nice not have to worry about how much something cost a couple of years back, people came to me to borrow, I lived in a nice cheap 1 bed flat with a full time job, then after about a year I moved into a 2 bed house with my fiancée and lost my job, so not only did I end up losing more than 3/4 of my income, I then had to pay for a big house on top of it.

Luckily the missus is working so all was not lost, but still sucks big time when I have to make sure I have enough money for my bus fare some days

[Debus42]

I get this a couple of times a year. It's different for every person, as it depends upon your favourite genre and whether that's really being catered for by the game devs. I'm a massive fan of classic JRPGs, but it just seems to be that there is no effort being put into the story and they're trying to change everything. I think a major issue here is that the games industry is constantly changing, and some of us just aren't prepared to make the change with them and that's when some people lose their faith in the world of video games. There is the odd game that crops up for me that I find to be truly amazing, but then I finish it because it's too short and then I'm back in the same place again.

It's definitely worse over summer, and I was feeling like this today. I have recently acquired wireless internet in my house so I can access the PSN and XBLA, but there was nothing new that I wanted to download from either of them. The only game I downloaded was Wild Arms from the PSOne Classics for £3.99. For me too, there is very little to be excited about in the gaming world until September. I think the game devs need to shake up the world of gaming and give us better quality games on a more regular basis to attempt to stop this, as you call it, 'fatigue'.

[+Perfect72]

Seen a lot of similar feelings about this lately around the web. I feel the same way. I've contributed it more to a possible overabundance of games. You play so much, that while you still enjoy gaming, you get burnt out quick, because there is another game similar the experience you are having, so you have less desire to continue. Or something... I can't really put my finger on it, but yeah I know what you are saying. It really sucks.

I've wondered if it is money. Back when I could only afford a game every couple of weeks, I would play them non-stop when I did not work. Now that I am financially stable, and well off, I don't do half the stuff I said I would do when I was younger. Oh no...I'm getting.. "old."

Throwing on the TV, or Netflix, is just much easier, entertainment wise, for me nowadays. No thinking, just staring.

[LaP]

I've not played a game in a long time. Used to play around 20 hours a week.

Dunno i find games too much complicated these days. Games used to be insert cart, press start, have mindless fun for 2-3 hours. Now it's insert disc, update the game, take one hour to configure all the options, play an overly complicated games required buttons combo for no reason.

The last 2 games i really loved are Halo and WoW (vanilla). Halo had that old simple fun too it. WoW was complicated but like Baldur's Gate there was a reward for mastering it.

[DirtyLarry]

Detection, on 28 June 2012 - 00:22, said:

I had that nice not have to worry about how much something cost a couple of years back, people came to me to borrow, I lived in a nice cheap 1 bed flat with a full time job, then after about a year I moved into a 2 bed house with my fiancée and lost my job, so not only did I end up losing more than 3/4 of my income, I then had to pay for a big house on top of it.

Luckily the missus is working so all was not lost, but still sucks big time when I have to make sure I have enough money for my bus fare some days

Prior to landing this position I was unemployed for almost 7 months. I had completely depleted my savings. I was literally at the point I was not going to make my next mortgage payment. Like it was a done deal, I did not have the payment for my next month of mortgage. I was really not sure what else I could do except not pay it. Then I got extremely lucky.

So sure, the prudent thing would be to not purchase anything at all and just save, save, save, for if and when it happens again. However I am a pretty big proponent of you only live once. With that said, I make it a priority to save still, but I also do treat myself to such things as well, and just hope I never have to deal with that again. As it was awful. Hope you bounce back sooner rather then later.

[scaramonga]

7 hours straight in Civ V tonight, it does get boring yup.

[mattmatik]

Detection, on 28 June 2012 - 00:22, said:

I had that nice not have to worry about how much something cost a couple of years back, people came to me to borrow, I lived in a nice cheap 1 bed flat with a full time job, then after about a year I moved into a 2 bed house with my fiancée and lost my job, so not only did I end up losing more than 3/4 of my income, I then had to pay for a big house on top of it.

Luckily the missus is working so all was not lost, but still sucks big time when I have to make sure I have enough money for my bus fare some days

Believe when I say, at nights when I get a couple hours to game, I treat it as a reward and do not take it for granted at all. When I got out of high school I moved to Hawaii for college and was scraping by. Lived off Spam and saimin for 2 years. Would torture myself going to CompUSA every week, wishing I could afford to upgrade my badass PC I built in high school. I got my kicks by helping friends/classmates with their computers and whatnot but it wasn't the same. The gaming I did do was on a GBA that belonged to my roommates son. Ugh.

I share the sentiments with Larry, hope things work out for the best man.

scaramonga, on 28 June 2012 - 03:47, said:

7 hours straight in Civ V tonight, it does get boring yup.

Should have stopped at 6 I'm purposely staying away from Civ V/expansion. Straight time sink...

[ObiWanToby]

I think the quality of games has declined too. I myself love RTS games. AOE, TA, C&C. Those franchizes are dead. They really were great games then, and are almost unplayable now. It is depressing.

[virtorio]

I follow games pretty closely, but play hardly any of them. I think I'm more interested in the game industry than actually playing the games.

[mattmatik]

ObiWanToby, on 28 June 2012 - 04:05, said:

I think the quality of games has declined too. I myself love RTS games. AOE, TA, C&C. Those franchizes are dead. They really were great games then, and are almost unplayable now. It is depressing.

For me, I don't necessarily think the quality has declined so much as the media has taken to promote the obvious high-budget games. There are some very, very good games out/coming out that just don't get the pub. Company of Heroes 2 is coming...first was a classic. But yeah, I miss the AoE, AoM, RoN games for sure.

[+remixedcat]

• Lack of good engaging storylines I am huuuuuuge on game stories and when skyrim was bugged real bad*
  
• lack of money to waste 50-60USD on a game that I get a few hours out of
  
• tired of paying to beta test games for these companies... I want a final product that's polished and nearly bug free if i am to pay for it at all. You should pay us to fix your games and not the other way around.

*to where I had to use setstage a few times to get past some of the main quest becuase NPCs got stuck in a wall or some crap it ruins that for me greatly... I would rather reinstall the game and mess with patches rather then use setstage.... setstage should be use for debugging and mod testing only and NEVER to complete a quest with standard gameplay.

[Jason Stillion]

Same boat, however really forward to the Shadownrun, and Wasteland 2 kick starter projects I help contribute too (hopefully) next year.
Also waiting on Guild Wars 2,

I could fire up Civ 2 Mutiplayer Gold, Call to power 2, Alpha Centuari, and Galatic Civ II to kill... many hours if I wanted.

[+remixedcat]

Detection, on 27 June 2012 - 12:19, said:

I think age has been the winning factor in killing my passion for a lot of things, I used to be excited for everything computer related, even a flash player update would be like "Wooo"

Now I couldn't care less about new windows being released, new games coming out, new hardware... I find myself becoming the boring adult I used to laugh at when I was younger and find myself just wanting "Something that works"

I used to run the cutting edge everything with all its faults and bugs and love spending hours finding workarounds to problems, now I cba !

kinda the same here as well I am prolly headed to the "post PC" era.... my next purchases for new systems are gonna be some kinda decent server and UPS for it and a windows 8 tablet of some sort. This system can stay as a workstation for certain things. I also don't even game on anything smaller then a 10 inch screen. it kinda makes me sick.... I played on PSPs, DSs, stuff like that and I would get a killer migraine after half an hour on that.

[TheLegendOfMart]

Wow didn't think this thread would have so many responses.

It's wierd because most games I can't stand and will only play for 5 minutes but there are other games that I get ridiculously addicted to which I will be able to play for hours at a time.

I just wish I could strike a better balance.

[Orange]

TheLegendOfMart, on 27 June 2012 - 10:42, said:

I don't know what the problem is but over the past 18 months or so I haven't been bothered with games. E3 comes around and I am really excited for games that are coming and when they eventually come out I rent them and end up returning them the same day the disc arrives in the post.

I'm not sure whether its the quality of games that has declined as of late, or whether I'm just burned out on certain types or settings of games, maybe I'm just growing out of playing games which is sad as I've seen it happen to a number of friends and thought that it would never happen to me.

I got really excited about the Vita, had it for 2 months then got bored and sold it.

Is it just me or does anyone else have the same problem?

I want to like games but they never hold my interest for more than 5-10 minutes.

Same here. well im 28 so not sure if age and life getting in the way of my gaming but i haven't been playing my xbox for months now. I get excited for new games etc but as you said, you either buy or rent and the excitement is gone.