/Tired Gamer/

I've picked up outside hobbies and might try some of those AAA games coming out at the end of this year/start of next year.
I've gone through phases of being bored of games but this phases just isn't passing, I think I'm growing up... I haven't been online on Steam or talked to virtual friends in months

>>382532686
Go fuck off back to the Pewdiepie comment section

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I think it did finally hit me. I picked up only 1 game during this sale and absolutely nothing catched my attention. Tried going through pages of deals to find something that may interest me but no such luck. My last hope goes to Itsuno's new project. I just wanna know what this man is working on so I may find peace from this no games suffering

>>382534337
First time seeing a tired Gamer thread on /v/ kid?

>>382532686
Yes, i don't play video games anymore, just whenever my friends decide to invite me.

>>382532686
It depends what game it is. Some games will bore me really fast and I'll just put them down to never pick them up again. Sometimes I just won't be in the mood to play something.

Lately I've been really turning off RPGs. I just can't put all that time into something like that, feels like far too much effort.

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>>382532686
fuck offffffffffffffffffff

>>382532686
Is the bitesized roachman OK?

>>382534875
It's sad really, I bet it's not even that you don't like RPG's, they're great once you get into them but that initial part feels like a hurdle almost
Hurdle might be strong, it's only videogames after all but it is supposed to be a hobby

>>382532686
No, I still enjoy video games even though I'm upset and disappointed with the industry.
I hate the industry and everyone trying to ruin my hobby, whether it be unintentional or not.

Though right now, I just feel guilty for putting any time into a game or sense something is going to disrupt me whenever I decide to relax and enjoy any form of media.

>>382532686
Damn look at his hands that guy must be a giant

That's the problem with me, j just can't get into single player games anymore. I think is because I don't have much time because work and uni, and multiplayer games doesn't require great attention and immersion.

>>382532686
Yes, it's probably a generalization but it mostly happens when you grow up and realize the free time you have is limited so you don't want to waste it on padding systems, something which was acceptable when you were younger and just looking for a time sink to distract yourself with.

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>>382534646
Yeah that's another problem I'm facing
Nothing on the gaming horizon really interests me that much. I'm not one of those "industry is dying creativity is dead" fags either.
There are games that look good, interesting even but seemingly never to the point I feel I have to pick it up straight away.

And then time passes and I never end up playing said game. It was never like this before

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Gaming fatigue has kinda screwed me from completing games on time. I've recently stop playing modern games because they feel like a massive chore to complete. I'm having more fun with old games than new games at the moment.

>>382535416
Koksal is a giant badass

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just stop playing every single trash game you come across

be more selective in what you put your precious time in
no, you don't need to fucking play the 4834283th round of league of legends or overwatch

your game addiction is your game addiction's worst enemy, you don't need to be playing games 24/7 of course you're gonna burn out

>>382532686
besides a few select single player games, only competitive multiplayer games interest me. But even then it feels like I'm wasting time in those since you don't truly have fun in comp. games unless you devote time to learning the ropes.

>>382532686
Kratom and PUBG

It's a meme game but me and a bro been having a blast with it

>oh look I can play the game now
>10 seconds later another cutscene and mandatory tutorial section

Never mind

>just bought a brand spanking new GPU
>have only been browsing 4chan ever since I got it

>>382535328
>guilty
What?

>>382536678
I don't do this anon. In fact, before this burnt out feeling I hadn't been playing much vidya at all. SFV I spent a lot of time with recently, and generally I never spent too much time with one game before

Wonder if it's related

>>382537117
It's either this or they throw loads of systems at you that honestly, you just don't give much of a toss about

>>382539747
How have I not seen this before?
Holy shit

I bought over a dozen games last week and I've only played two since. If you're like me it might have something to do with an addictive personality, but I often binge a game until I get bored and pick it back up after a few months. In the mean time I find something else to obsess over and fill my backlog, that's just normal.

>>382535248
Yeah, that word applies well. FF7 for instance, the first 1-2 hours are a complete bore. Once it gets to the overworld collapsing then things start to kick off.

But also I have this habit of putting down a game and not picking it up again. 1-2 days pass and then 2 weeks and then 2 months and I've forgotten the plot and don't want to start from where I left off.
When I started FFXV I said to myself I'd take it slowly. It's been since launch that I've played the game, only the intro, and I don't feel like playing it much now.

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I find myself spending more time pacing around the house with the game paused and listening to the menu music. I'll do this for a couple hours everyday just thinking to myself and imagining how I would have designed and improved the game.

I find this more fun then playing nowadays.

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I started 10 second Ninja X
Liked the concept, but it has a star system that obviously wants you to do the level optimally in the quickest time

I did 3 levels and got rid of it because even though I like the game, I know that system would drive me nuts. I don't want to spend an age trying to 3 star every level.
I could pay the rating no mind, but it's not that easy. It irks me otherwise so I just decided not to play it.

Kind of bizarre but there we are
Just let me do the level and don't tell me I'm shit

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I have come to realize that there are no video games with genuinely good plots, and no gameplay that is genuinely worth spending 20+ hours weaving through uninspired writing.

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>>382532686
>play video games as a kid
>have all these dreams and hopes about what video games will be like in 10-15 years time
>in like 2002 think about what my dream F1 game would look like, what features would it have etc
>grow up
>modern F1 games are my childhood wishlist came true
>games in general have matched or even surpassed my wildest dreams
>don't want to play them anymore

>>382540934
You're not a tired Gamer, get out of the thread dickwad

>>382532686
It's called depression Anon

>>382541252
>everything is a condition
How about no.

>>382541220
I am literally the definition of this thread. The difference is that when I sleep, I will not wake up.

>>382541295
You are free to look up the symptoms of depression yourself

>>382532686

>gaming peaked between 2000-2010
>everything is in decline
>my favorite series are irreparably ruined
>my favorite genres are casualized into trite bullshit
>the multiplayer games I liked to play are dead or outright unavailable
>no upcoming games hype me anymore
>no "gaming history" events or groundbreaking new games anymore
>games are essentially released unfinished now
>DLC, nickle and diming, shady developers out the ass
>indies are only interested in much of the same just with more 2deep4u
>paid mods are soon getting forced through

I mostly moved on to other hobbies but it still hurts.

>>382541387
Ahh, self diagnosis. The depressed girls best friend.

>>382532686
It struck me with certain genres, like JRPGs and long ass open world Ubbi games, even though I still replay shorter games enough to cover for the time those other games demands, but I don't complain.

>>382541507
I am actually professionally diagnosed with depression, schizophrenia, BPD, and AvPD :^)

>>382541615
I hope you put a little smiley face with your signature when you cash in your next cheque at the drug store :^)

>>382541783
>cheque
Not US-American

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>mfw i love vidyea games as much as i did when i was a kid
>but i have fucking arthritis and carpal tunnel from playing nonstop for 22 years and it hurts to even exist

shitposting and texting certainly havent helped, neither does the fact that i carry heavy shit/work with my hands to survive. i knew this would happen sooner or later, but fuck. im not even 30 yet and it feels like my body is crapping out on me

>>382540564
>don't want to start where I left off
RPG's really are the worst for this. I can't play The Witcher DLC because I don't remember much about the game's systems, and I'm not going to turn down the difficulty.
The story's an entirely different matter too

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So many shitty games but every so often a game comes out that single handedly revitalizes my interest in vidya. Finally got BB several months ago and it blew me away, i was actually exicited to play it which dosnt happen these days. It made me feel like a kid again.

Last time it happened was DaS1.

Thank you based From.

>>382541783
>>382541941

>calling a dollar transporta-bill a cheque

lmao yuropoors

>>382542201
I've been struggling to play From Soft games since DaS1. Last game I enjoyed from them was DeS. I just really enjoyed the whole invasion portion of the game and DeS had the most people invading and being dicks in creative ways. The enemies alone can't entertain me.

>>382532686
I've had it happen before, going back to a favorite usually helps me overcome the slump. If it doesn't I just take a break for a month or two

>>382535515
Just wait until you retire and there comes a sensation of actual urgency in how you spend your freetime.

>>382532686
Tired of modern games? Yes. I think I've played one 2017 game this year which was RE7. It was fairly mediocre, but resonably enjoyable.

But I still play older games all the time, more than ever, and I'm still having a blast playing games. Just none of them are new.

>>382536687
>>But even then it feels like I'm wasting time
Holy shit this. It feels like I'm just playing to pass the time

>>382542201
>I was excited to play it
Man I miss that feel. Used to be that I'd be chomping at the bit to play some new vidya. Eagerly wanting to get back to it or playing it to enjoy myself.

Now it's more like playing for the sake of it, even if I do have fun at times. Combined with a lack of games that look seriously interesting it's a problem

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I think the only way to get out of the funk is to play a genre you don't normally play.

>>382542531
Doesn't that mar the memory of your favorites if it can't take you out of a slump?

>>382532686

I'm 23 years old and I literally can't enjoy any video games that don't have some sort of online multiplayer function. All my favorites growing up just don't fucking do it for me anymore. Pikmin, Final Fantasy, Megaman X, nothing. Anything that doesn't involve playing with/against other people can't hold my interest and I have no desire to play it. The last video game I was able to truly, truly sink my teeth into alone for weeks on end without forcing myself to was LBX on 3DS. Before that it was Dragon's Dogma on its PS3 release.How fucking long ago did that game come out?

There's games that I can see are good and straight up enjoy like Zombie U on my Wii U, I enjoyed it every time I played it with a friend. I think it's a good game and there's nothing wrong with it, but I have never played it alone. That's just an example of what I do with every game too. I can't play anything if it isn't online.

Oh yeah, Pokemon. I can still enjoy Pokemon.

>>382532686
You're just burnt out, I didn't play a single game from 2011 to 2016 but it eventually came back to me.

>>382533931
Just keep rotating out hobbies until you land on something that works for you. Im on a gaming kick now, when Im not im really into film, making music, lectures, politics, and debates.

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>>382543178
>Oh yeah, Pokemon. I can still enjoy Pokemon

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>>382532686
just take a break. I was burnt out from vidya a few months ago but nier automata and yakuza 0 took me out of it. Also just wait for a game to really grab your attention also

>>382543445
this

>>382543496

Upvoted. Sick burn. That post is just as funny as you thought it was going to be before you posted it for sure :D

>>382543160
It depends on the genre for me. It happened once or twice before, so I mostly stick to action heavy games for replays, since can't really mess up my feelings towards the game play if it's still fun. I can't ever imagine marring the memory of Godhand for example

>>382542607
You obviously don't know many old people then. Retired people have FAR too much free time. They're 60/65+. They've done everything. They get bored. Especially if they haven't started an hobbies before they retired

Happened to me very distinctly in 2014. Over the summer I must have played through and completed 20+ games. By September, I'd just started GoW 3 and had no interest in playing it. I then stoppee playong games until Christmas

>>382532686

You did [thing] too much and now you need a break from [thing] because you overstimulated yourself
There is literally no exception to this no matter what it is

Thinking of getting into some dungeon crawlers for that comfy gametime. Old ones too, but does anyone have good recommendations on some more modern dungeon crawlers, like Grimrock? Loved those

>>382545317
It's a generalisation that's often true, but I haven't been playing Vidya a lot recently desu
Unless you're suggesting that after all these years I'm suddenly burnt out

>>382543496
Anon why

>>382532686
Honestly I haven't played a game since August of 2013. I just come here to shitpost

help me

My problem is that I try to play numerous games at once. Its getting too hard to feel like a kid only sticking to one game because its the only game he'll probably have in a long time

>tfw backlog dating to years back that's not just cheap shit off Steam
>Don't even play new games I buy

I just can't be bothered starting games
I try and then just bore out, telling myself maybe another time because I can't be bothered getting into this.

Are games too needlessly expensive these days?

>>382540291
It only happened in some thread last week.

>>382537117
>finish the tutorial
>finally i can play, but first, 20 minutes of cutscene!

W-wow, modern games sure are fun!

>>382548987
Shit, should have paid closer attention
Just figured with the image being in circulation for a while it'd have been from back then

>>382532686
To a certain degree. I still enjoy video games, but there are fewer games that really get me hooked.

whenever i quit smoking weed for a while i get this too, every game just feels blah and after a few minutes they get turned off.

Just find another thing to do to pass the time for a few days, or until a game you're looking forward to come out.

>>382550309
It's worse when a game that really doesn't need a story hamfists one in that actually lasts quite a while

>>382543804
Fair enough, maybe I'll follow suit

>>382543341
>5 year break
What got you back into it anon?
>>382547281
I don't believe this. You've definitely played something. You can't keep updated with the state of the industry while literally playing nothing for 4 years.

Stop masturbating

>>382553948
You mean, right now? Or in general?
Either way, I CAN'T

Lies

It's because the vast amount of modern games are trash. Pick up an older console (or just emulate). I've been going through some japan only SNES RPGs recently. Highly recommend Treasre of the Rudras, Metal Max Returns if you have never played them. There will never be games like these ever again, so enjoy the experience.

I found that playing a new genre or an entirely different system can help. Right now I'm playing through a couple PS1 and PS2 rpgs. I also found that if you primarily play on a PC, invest in a console and play a few of their exclusives, youll either hate it so much you want to play some better games, or you feel like games have a meaning to them.

This is very slightly related but has anyone managed to get A DS4 working with SNES9x?

I just have no more time to play. I got BOTW and Persona 5. Haven't beaten either of them. Got 20 hours in and they were becoming too much of a time sink. Handhelds are the only thing I can play. At work, I play them while taking a shit.

>>382547437
Surely just sticking to one game isn't too hard

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>>382532686
>playing mhxx
>hbg'ing valfalk
>Dont feel like a challenge anymore, just annoying bullshit
>Different attacks with the same tells, one punishing you for rolling and other punishing you for not rolling
>Retarded range of attacks
>Rocket slap shit with the most awkward timing ever, will catch you at the very last frame of the roll of you were close and rolled to dodge the claw swipe
>Wing pound
>long ranged wing stab that sometimes does once, sometimes twice hitting you at the end of rolling out of the way of the first one
I used to feel motivation to find a way to best that shit, now all I feel is bitter annoyance, not only with valfalk, but with other shit like los wind pressure or flinch roars, or anytime I bounce off a monster

>Be Nintendo fan
>This literally never happens

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>fall for the PC gaming meme
>play games at 60FPS high settings
>"shit this is fun"
>games look and play much better than on consoles
>suddenly /v/ tells me that I've been playing shitty western multiplats and go on about how Japan makes better games than the west
>suddenly feel disgusted
>tons of Japanese games get announced
>none of them are for PC

>that feel when I have more fun waiting for port announcements than I do playing games
>that feel when I have more fun piecing together shitty computers and see how well they play modern games

No joke, I only hop on /v/ JUST to see if anything is coming to PC. So far I only saw that LWA's game is getting a PC version and Sega is being Sega and made an article about how Yakuza Zero and Persona 5 are "on their list" of their most demanded games.

Even if those games came to PC, I wouldn't play them anyway, I'd just shitpost about them.

the right board for being a depressed little bitch and not playing video games is actually /r9k/ and not /v/

end yourself

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I want to get the new Crash, because it's a throwback and it's not going to have a lot of bullshit

But at the same time everyone keeps bloody going on about muh so hard muh crystals muh new Souls, I feel like I'd regret it because it'd just feel like such an effort to 100% it

>>382560410
I'll kick your ass, don't talk shit on my board ever again.

>>382554505

Masturbating saps your will to do things, try it for a week and see for yourself.

Realize that when you're horny your whole mindset changes, it's like a drug addict, you know you're supposed to stop but you make all sorts of excuses to continue, your thought process is completely different when you get horny because of chemicals, so you end up wasting a lot of time and energy spanking it.

The next time you're about to jerk off, simple say no in your mind and immediately stop doing everything you're doing and go do something else (the best thing is working out, even bodyweight exercises), you cannot fight the urge or rationalize, just stop without thinking beause your brain is against you in the moment.

>>382537618
At least it handles Hiro's malware better!

>>382532686
You and 99% of /v/ could benefit from taking a break from /v/ and video games for a while. go do something else and come back when you feel like it
>inb4 b-but I can't leave
Then use a different less shitty board dumbass

>>382541970
sorry to hear anon. godspeed

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>have cousins
>they keep constantly anonnying the fuck out of me
>they always get their way when playing vidya gams

>>382562039
+1
>>382562259
I'm not sure you understand this thread anon

>>382543142
Weird strategy, if you don't play a genre much chances are you don't like it

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Going through my backlog rapidly has fucked me up, I've finished it but I don't feel like playing ANYTHING. It's been like this for 3 months now.

>>382564824
How big was your log

>>382558063
I hope that's a Vita you're talking about anon

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Yes. I've installed these games 2-3 months ago and never played.

>>382532686
>tfw you're regularly sad because you realize you won't ever get to play multiplayer games during their prime, such as Q3A/CPM/Defrag, WoW during vanilla/TBC/WOTLK, other mmo's before that, Source games mods, WC3/SC:BW and mods, etc.
>tfw you realize that while gaming is more focused on being social now, it's actually less so, with people just wanting to queue up and play to climb ladderboards, rather than getting a gang together and doing random shit together

Sounds like you play autism games that don't respect your time.

Don't do that.

I've never enjoyed a game over q0 hours long.

>>382573041
10

>>382532686
Is baba ok

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I've been burnt out for ages now, pic related is about 50% of the games I have spread over 5-6tb of diskspace.
Most of them have been moved around so missing thumbnail.

I have been working the same job for 9-10 months having taken 5 days of paid leave.
Got a cia 3ds, 2ds with r4 card, hacked ps3 with 500gigs of games, ps4 with loads of games yet I end up being bored and browsing after work.

I think it has something to do with having been poor when young, and now that I have all this stuff it feels like it's a little too late.

>>382561654
I needed this about 20 minutes ago.

Do you have any protips to rebound quickly?