Yeah it sounds funny, but its something i dont want to feel anymore..
I don’t know what’s getting into me nowadays, 2 years back when i loaded up a battlefield server (or any other game) i felt this jolt of excitement, happyness, whatever i just felt good playing videogames, mostly battlefield in general.. but now things started changing, i stopped regularly playing videogames since November 2016 and now im starting to play regularly again but feel this odd feeling of emptyness, weird as hell man, and i don’t find playing videogames exciting or fun or find myself enjoying it anymore, its just this weird feeling of emptyness that i feel whenever i play. and its starting to affect my performance ingame and im starting to just stop mid-game and just feel, well, empty..
Yeah i sound OVER dramatic here lol, but i just want to get to the bottom of this…
I’m in the same boat. Haven’t been excited for a game for a while now. And the majority of the ones I’ve played have been a let down in every way. I mainly play shooters and RPGs and they’ve all been really boring and lazily made.
An example is I love tactical shooters. Was excited for Rainbow Six Siege and it ended up being a total crapfest. Then Ghost Recon…more garbage. Its sad there hasn’t been a true tactical shooter on consoles since '09. I won’t even start on rpgs . I’ll be going on for days. Nothing is really enjoyable much no matter the genre. Its all graphics and fluff…no substance.
Same here, more or less. I remember coming home from work and jumping right into Battlefield 3, with my squad buddies. We’d play all afternoon and all night sometimes and enjoy every second of it. It was the same with Battlefield 4 too, even with it’s launch issues. Now we have Battlefield 1, everyone went off to play different games and we hardly touch it.
The same goes for most video-games released these days actually, they just don’t pull me back for more like they used to. I don’t know if it’s because I am getting older or the way games are made these days don’t tickle my fancy.
I know exactly how you feel man. I haven’t played video games on a consistent basis since high school. I still enjoy them, but I don’t get the same satisfaction I did when I was younger. I can play for a couple hours here and there but it’s not fun for me after that, I feel like I’m wasting time. When I was a kid it was no big deal to spend 6, 8, 10 hours on a weekend day playing games and I would enjoy every last second and wish I could play more. The only games that still grip me are story driven games where I feel the characters were well done. Uncharted 4 for example, I don’t think I’ve ever been so emotionally impacted by a game just because of how real the character development was. But if I replay the game it will be for that reason, not because I want to actually PLAY the game.
In short, it’s called growing up. That’s not to say grown ups can’t play video games and enjoy them, but each one of us change and I think for a lot of us our childhood hobbies start to fade away.
Well at the ripe old age of 25, I don’t feel this way. Yet I guess, we’ll see if time will change anything.
I actually find myself feeling the other way. Gaming is just about the only medium of entertainment I enjoy anymore. I used to watch a lot of TV when I loved with the folks; after having moved out and delved into the internet for all of my entertainment needs, I can’t STAND TV anymore. Its so trite and stupid. And the commercials. OMG. My intelligence has never been more insulted. The types of people they think its a good idea to give screen time is just astonishing.
Movies are all the same re-hashed stuff over and over, and when its not some “remaster” of an old story, its the most mind-numblingly stupid idea. Angry birds the movie? The Emoji movie? Are we really serious here? I’m not about to go to the theatre for that.
I find myself spread too thin across my games, I actually genuinely struggle with what to play with my free time. I have at least 8-10 games all underway at the moment, and I don’t get to spend as much time with them as I would like sometimes.
being 29, I don’t think I’ll ever enjoy games like I used to when I was a teenager, maybe it’s a hormonal difference. that euphoric feeling when you’re 12 and you play Unreal Tournament for the first time, it’s a feeling that will never be replicated.
but being 29 I can enjoy games on a more cerbral level, and I end up not doing that despite my better judgement. I still do find myself spend more hours on shooters, but I just find out I don’t play games for the experience like I’ve used to when I had the time, I play games for relief, when I have time.
Habituation. Interests come and go. Find a new hobby - it’s normal to lose interest in things for a long period of time, and then suddenly have the urge to try them out again months or even years later.
