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Next you'll be looking down on people who play games
Time to start reading the Daily Mail
Time to start reading the Daily Mail
Whats happening to me?
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Soldato
The Problem is while they look prettier Games just don't have the length or re-playability that the old ones did... I still find myself enjoying Deus Ex, system shock, Baldurs Gate & Halflife whereas I'm getting bored of Bioshock, Skyrim, Dragon age etc...
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I call that chronic gaming slump 
Whenever that happens to me I usually try to change my play style or try out different games that I previously hate / dislike and for some reason it works for me
Whenever that happens to me I usually try to change my play style or try out different games that I previously hate / dislike and for some reason it works for me
they don't allow people to make map, mods etc... its all about money now.
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I've experienced the same thing.
I like playing games but few have really grabbed my attention in recent years. Fallout 3 took me two years of on/off gaming to complete. RAGE was the first game in ages I played from start to finish in a few weeks! Last year I had so many games on my pile of "to complete at some point" it was getting silly. I have managed to get through some of them, the most recent being Metro 2033 last night.
Borderlands 2 had me hooked for a couple of hours three nights in a row but my social life is busy and after a few nights off gaming I haven’t gone back to it. I really want to get Dishonored but with so many other games waiting to be finished, can I really justify it? Surely it’ll just get pushed to the side like the rest?
So what’s happening to me? I guess I’m just growing up and finding other things to do with my time.
Then again, I will quite happily sit down with System Shock 2 once a year and play that from start to finish
I like playing games but few have really grabbed my attention in recent years. Fallout 3 took me two years of on/off gaming to complete. RAGE was the first game in ages I played from start to finish in a few weeks! Last year I had so many games on my pile of "to complete at some point" it was getting silly. I have managed to get through some of them, the most recent being Metro 2033 last night.
Borderlands 2 had me hooked for a couple of hours three nights in a row but my social life is busy and after a few nights off gaming I haven’t gone back to it. I really want to get Dishonored but with so many other games waiting to be finished, can I really justify it? Surely it’ll just get pushed to the side like the rest?
So what’s happening to me? I guess I’m just growing up and finding other things to do with my time.
Then again, I will quite happily sit down with System Shock 2 once a year and play that from start to finish
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Soldato
Then again, I will quite happily sit down with System Shock 2 once a year and play that from start to finish
Eventhough I now have completed the game 7 or 8 times it still leaves me catatonic, curled up in a corner lying in a pool of my own fluids!
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I go by the gametrailers.com visit timeline. Imagine a typical doghouse diaries style graph, on the vertical axis is the number of times a month I visit gametrailers.com. On the horizontal axis is my age.
It's not a pretty sight!
It's not a pretty sight!
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I have the opposite issue, approaching 30 and getting back into it. thats probably worse right? 
I have the opposite issue, approaching 30 and getting back into it. thats probably worse right?
No, I would rather be rekindling my love for games than losing it
Soldato
There is no going back now. GAME OVER for you my friend.
Man of Honour
I have the opposite issue, approaching 30 and getting back into it. thats probably worse right?
I guess that you have nothing left and are turning to a second childhood as a consolation.
Soldato
No, I would rather be rekindling my love for games than losing it
Dude the fact you're worried tells me the love is still there... as it is with me I'm just praying the developers sort there act out and start making games that have length, plot and playability that I wish to go back to... try replaying some of your older games and see how you feel.
Man of Honour
If worrying when my gaming additction would return was my only worry. I cry at young people
Soldato
If worrying when my gaming additction would return was my only worry. I cry at young people
It's not the only thing I worry about it's just quite high on my list of priorities somewhere between piracy and beer!
Im there now, there is no cure.
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I only ever was a very casual gamer, most games over the last 10 years if i played them it would be for a few hours and then never play it again. Apart from quake live which i still play all the time. cod:waw i played a fair a amount and recently played a lot of d3 and now just bought bf3. For the first time in for as long as i can remember, i have three games that i enjoy playing and i still have cs:s and beta available to play. But recently last 6 months i have been playing more games than i have in the last 5 years. I kind of go through stages where i don't play any games for a while, not even quake live. Then ill start playing again. It just depends on what my social life is like i guess. At the moment i don't have a social life so playing more games
Soldato
I fell out of love with games for a few years, now I am back.
CS:GO and Dota2 have rescued me.
Never played a Dota2 style game before, but it's the perfect mix of strategy/rpg type of thing. I love it, shame I suck and the people on this game seem to be the most unforgiving bunch who won't help when someone asks advice, but belittle them for being rubbish :/
CS:GO and Dota2 have rescued me.
Never played a Dota2 style game before, but it's the perfect mix of strategy/rpg type of thing. I love it, shame I suck and the people on this game seem to be the most unforgiving bunch who won't help when someone asks advice, but belittle them for being rubbish :/
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Wouldn't even call it that, in my case, really.
I don't game anywhere near as much as I used to, and only because I just don't have the time to do it. If I sit down to game, I want to play for 2-3 hours. These days I can't... by the time you're in from work, house cleaned up a little, grab a drink, check emails, make dinner, sort out the dogs and finally collapse on the sofa there's maybe 2-3 hours before bed time again.
In that case, IF I don't have writing to do (which I normally do!) I'll just slap on a movie or some TV shows as you can guarantee the wife will need me to go do something in the middle of it.
Friday nights are about my only gaming time unless I get a sneaky hour in here and there. When there's a high profile new release, I'll probably cane an entire Friday evening/most of Saturday on it as long as she's not too bothered.
Games just continue to pile up. Oh, for those Uni days spent doing nothing but drinking and playing Day of Defeat.