Do you ever get sick of games?

This is the first time I've really been sick of them since I started to really get into them in mid-2000. There have been breaks during the summer, but now I have no interest in playing them. All I've played in the past month or so is a few N64 multiplayer games at my friends house and about twenty minutes of Metroid Zero Mission. I'll probably get back into it once Half-Life 2 or Halo 2 comes out, but right now I'm in a slump. When's the last time you stopped playing games for a while, or does it never happen to you?

Ive been playing games since the Atari or before and only as life gave me more important matters such as a career and family to take care of did I grow less entertained.

I am sick of games. Working in video game retail for about two years killed them for me.

I have gone through a couple periods of this. The first one was finally ended when I got rid of my (then) current generation games and got a Neo Geo MVS. The most recent was solved by getting into PC games. I am now back to PC/PS2/Xbox/GC/GBA, so the change of pace brought back everything. I think what happens to me is that when my time is restricted, I can't play everything I want to play. That frusrates me to the point where I don't play anything. I know that doesn't make sense, but I believe it to be the case.

I love games, but I've found myself playing them scarcely these days. My little homebrew project is a good way for me to reconcile my intrest in gaming with my need to feel somewhat productive and/or creative.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

I have gone through a couple periods of this. The first one was finally ended when I got rid of my (then) current generation games and got a Neo Geo MVS. The most recent was solved by getting into PC games. I am now back to PC/PS2/Xbox/GC/GBA, so the change of pace brought back everything. I think what happens to me is that when my time is restricted, I can't play everything I want to play. That frusrates me to the point where I don't play anything. I know that doesn't make sense, but I believe it to be the case.

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I suffer from the same thing. I've so little time to invest in gaming that I become rather frustrated with the fact that I've gotten so far behind. I lose interest and therefore find it difficult to play as often as I would like. I still continue to buy games which translates into owning a large amount of incomplete games.

I can't say there was a point that I ever got sick of games, but there were a few times I stopped following games and had no interest in new games. Mostly during the times in my life that I felt other things were more important, end of high school, when I first went to college, when ever I found a serious relationship. I would still play a game here or there for say 30 minutes, but my attention was elsewhere. I suppose that somewhat of the same thing will happen again when I have my first child or when they start getting involved in organized activities, but probably not to the extent that I stop following the industry, I wll probably just play one hour for every three I play now.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

I love games, but I've found myself playing them scarcely these days. My little homebrew project is a good way for me to reconcile my intrest in gaming with my need to feel somewhat productive and/or creative.

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That's the exact reason I built my Mame cab. :)

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Originally Posted by Deewtaei

I suffer from the same thing. I've so little time to invest in gaming that I become rather frustrated with the fact that I've gotten so far behind. I lose interest and therefore find it difficult to play as often as I would like. I still continue to buy games which translates into owning a large amount of incomplete games.

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This is exactly where I am at right now. I don't know why I keep buying all these games, when I have, heck I don't even know how many titles I need to catch up on.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

I think what happens to me is that when my time is restricted, I can't play everything I want to play. That frusrates me to the point where I don't play anything. I know that doesn't make sense, but I believe it to be the case.

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Same here chief... same here...

I think it happens to everyone, you just need a break and the itch to play will come back eventually. When I get bored of console games somethng good on the PC usual turns up and vice versa. I havn't bought a game in a long time though. For most games a rental is enough to play it enough to get my fill and then have nosecond thoughts in returning it. I find few games that are worth paying full price for now.

I get sick of individual games and sometimes genres but not gaming in general.

My mom expected my video game "phase" to be over by age 16. I told her this wasn't a phase.