Feel sick of video games in general

[ledahead]

I am 27 and have been playing video games since I was a little kid. I had always liked playing video games and had continued playing them until about 1 year ago. It was funny how it happened. One day I was interested in video games and the next I was just bored by everything that was out. I think the problem is that after playing video games for 20 years I feel like I have played almost every type of game there is and nothing is new to me and that is why I am bored. I have played platformers, first person shooters, online fps's, strategy games, racing games, point and click games, some indie games, etc. I don't want to feel this way because I still have a fondness for video games, I just get bored when I play them.

Has anyone else had this problem? Do you have any recommendations for reinvigorating my interest in video games?

[Whatswiththeheadbands?]

I have found that i don't play video games nowadays very often. It's actually for a similar reason you stated.

[Peanut]

I've gone through this exact thing several times before. You'll come around and if not maybe it's just time to move on. I think I'd be in a very long stretch of doldrums if I didn't collect/play a lot of old games these days. New games really have been very boring for the last year or two.

[Prowler]

I've gone through something similar a few years ago. Maybe it's just a phase you're going through currently? Sometimes you just get burnt out of something you enjoy and need to take a sabbatical from it.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

It's so easy to get what you want from the Internet today. You get tired off it after a while (but hopefully return later).

[ledahead]

I think part of it also is that I am getting older and have more responsibilities and less time. This has all made me see that time is very valuable and I don't necessarily want to spend it playing video games. Not only that but in getting older you see that there so much out there in the world to experience and I think I feel like if I am spending time playing video games then I am missing out on something else that I will get much more out of. Don't get me wrong, I will always play video games to some extent, even if just casually once and a while. I just think that I have changed and value my time differently.

[Peanut]

Yup. Again, something a lot of us go through, not just involving video games. If you truly feel you're missing something then go out and do those things instead. Games will always be there when you get back.

[Nameless]

i still love video games but i certainly have been playing a lot less lately then i use to and am not as crazy with the i must play and beat everything. i'm much more selective then i use to be.

[Memphis]

Kind of the same thing with me right now. When I was younger (Jr. High/High) I ALWAYS wanted to be playing games and I always wanted to do and complete every single thing in the game no matter how hard or time consuming.

Recently, however, I'm just not interested. I haven't touched my PS3 in months, I've got no interest in the PS4 (Until Uncharted 4 or Borderlands 3!) right now and rarely play my Wii U. I've got like a dozen unplayed games between the PS3 Wii U and 3DS but my interest in playing them is non existent.

However, Nintendo seems to keep drawing me in. I haven't had so much fun with a game before Mario 3D World and DKC Tropical Freeze has been extremely hard to put down when I pick it up. I've also been playing Mercenaries 3D like crazy which has led me to playing RE4, 5 and 6 more just to play Mercenaries. Love that mini game.

[Icebot]

I used to get tired of the same video games a lot but I don't have much time to play video games these days so it's highly unlikely to happen to me now or in the future.

[CyberCubed]

I imagine you're just tired of shooters. Virtually all the biggest games this last gen (and on PS4/One), are shooters.

There was a lot less diversity on the PS3/360 than in the PS2 days.

[Leo656]

Your assumptions are puzzling. Just because certain games are popular doesn't mean a person who plays games all the time plays THOSE games, CC.

I try and play SOMEthing every day, or at least a few days a week. Sometimes I can, sometimes I can't. Newer games, older, I try and mix it up. But just because my hours at work per week and my hours gaming per week are comparable, I've never touched a Halo, never touched a Call Of Duty, never touched a Borderlands. Not that I never will, I try and touch a little of everything so I probably will eventually, but I prefer RPGs, platformers, wrestling, and other stuff. I actually don't play most of the "popular" games until years after the fact, because my backlog is so huge I always feel an obligation to play a game that's been on my shelf for 5 years, instead of the Latest and Greatest.

So maybe it's not shooters or anything else that's a drag, maybe it's just the hours on end in front of the TV silently acknowledging that Achievement Points don't give you Vitamin D? I been there. I always get over it, but I been there. I could never, I don't think, STOP playing games. My Dad taught me Frogger when I was three, before I could even write my name, and I think the only time I went more than a week without playing SOMEthing was when I started a new job and had a lot of stuff going on and for like a month, I had no free time at all. But every now and then, you just kind of feel like, "Man... what am I really doing?" That's only natural.

I doubt it's just a genre thing. I think most people try and balance their 100-hour RPGs with their weekend-rental platformers, at least I do. Most likely, it's just that feeling that time could be better spent elsewhere. We all been there.

[Peanut]

Considering in the opening post dude basically says current games just make him feel bored I'm going to assume what Cybercubed said is part of it. It's not an assumption, it's exactly what the OP says.

[Leo656]

True, it's just that it looked like he also said he played a little of everything. I just figured the fact there's been a ton of shooters probably wasn't the only reason. Sounds like he has a pretty full plate in general.

[TMNT_Guy]

I had the same problem a two years ago. I desperately wanted to play a new game, but their wern't any new game out that I was interested in. So I went to my local flea market and found a copy of Goldeneye for the N64 and Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land.

I've always heard Goldeneye was so amazing...but when I played it, it felt like the most boring thing in existence. Seriously, give me Galaga and Missile Command any day. Then I thought "Oh a Mario game! This won't let me down!" and it did. The controls were floaty and everything...moved...so...ssslllooowww. Even the dash attack felt like the same speed as walking. I don’t get why either; Super Mario Land 1 and 2 were awesome, controlled great and much faster paced then this game.

After that I did get into a gaming rut, until I got a few Mega Man and Castlevania games for the NES. Replaying Battletoads also got my interest in games again. That feeling of anger and determination to finish a game is what got me into video games in the first place.

I hope I can afford a Wii U soon, Super Mario 3D World looks awesome. I really hope A Hat in Time gets a Wii U release, I think that’s the game I'm looking forward to the most.

[Storm Eagle]

I had the same problem a two years ago. I desperately wanted to play a new game, but their wern't any new game out that I was interested in. So I went to my local flea market and found a copy of Goldeneye for the N64 and Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land.

I've always heard Goldeneye was so amazing...but when I played it, it felt like the most boring thing in existence.

I thought I was the only person alive who couldn't get into GoldenEye. When you come right down to it, I'd try watching the first few James Bond movies years later only to come to the conclusion that I don't enjoy the series.

[Peanut]

If you weren't there for Goldeneye at the time there isn't even a point in trying. I'm glad things have come back around at this point and the fact that it has aged incredibly poorly is now the common consensus. 5+ years ago saying Goldeneye was an absolute piece of sh*t was grounds for hanging on the Internet. I remember getting lynched on several forums for sharing that opinion.

[Redeemer]

I was going through this rut recently and I just have to find something new and original. I am currently playing XBOX ONE (Glitchy console) TitanFall and it is a really fun, relaxing game I can sit down and play for a few hours. really like enjoy the game.

[TMNT_Guy]

I thought I was the only person alive who couldn't get into GoldenEye.
I've never understood why people go on and on about how great GoldenEye is, yet no one ever seems to talk about Rareware's other First-Person-Shooter: Perfect Dark. Now, Perfect Dark was an awesome game.

[Peanut]

There's a pretty simple reason for both those things. Goldeneye was so pumped up because it was the first console shooter that was designed for a controller and worked, especially in the multiplayer space. Perfect Dark was held up as the gold standard for shooters by crazy people foreeeeever, until the remake came out on 360 and everyone came to the realization it was ALSO sh*t. Also, PDZ happened. Absolute disaster.

[TMNT_Guy]

There's a pretty simple reason for both those things. Goldeneye was so pumped up because it was the first console shooter that was designed for a controller and worked, especially in the multiplayer space. Perfect Dark was held up as the gold standard for shooters by crazy people foreeeeever, until the remake came out on 360 and everyone came to the realization it was ALSO sh*t. Also, PDZ happened. Absolute disaster.
Hmm. I guess theres just something about First-Person-Shooters that don't hold up compared to other gaming genres. I've never been a fan of them, Perfect Dark was the only one I ever got into. Even then it's far from my favorite game of all time.

[Krutch]

I'm 28 and in the same boat. I just don't get the urge to play them. 2 years ago I would have slapped my future-self if I'd found out that I bought Last of Us, only played about 4 hours of it(over the course of a month) and just stopped playing altogether.

I bought Arkham Origins the week it came out and its still in its shrink-wrap. Same with Silent Hill Downpour now that I think about it.

Games just aren't doing it for me these days.

[Peanut]

Hmm. I guess theres just something about First-Person-Shooters that don't hold up compared to other gaming genres. I've never been a fan of them, Perfect Dark was the only one I ever got into. Even then it's far from my favorite game of all time.

It's more that Halo absolutely perfected how a shooter should work with a controller and those N64 shooters immediately became obsolete. It's not a genre thing. Look at Doom, Unreal Tournament and Counter-Strike. Those games are old as sh*t and not only have they aged gracefully, but people still play them. Goldeneye and Perfect Dark are games that were a product of their time and little from that generation holds up, outside of games still firmly routed in old design and the absolute classics.

[Fjaj]

Play Deus Ex.

[ledahead]

I have played all the Deus Ex games and yes, they are great. The original Deus Ex and Deus Ex: Human Revolution are two of my favorite games of all time.

[Shiro Kame]

Kinda. I probably just have to get new ones since I've played every game I have half a dozen times.