Think i've lost interest in pc gaming.

Yep, a fresh and suitable title should do it. Gaming last year was probably the weakest I've had yet. After May it wasn't until December that I found a 'new' game that refreshed everything for me again. Two new games, completed in a week, lol.
 
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yeup also i can hold my hand up to this lack of engagent with games compared to when I was a kid. yet I am obsessed about reading about the latest pc hardware to better run games and actually like this side of things more than gaming itself! I have a massive backlog of games to get through and have banned myself from near future purchases until I at least complete them once, I will however get crysis 2.

In short i like the idea of gaming more than the actual enjoyment Iget from it. as adults I guess we have farmore options with what to do with our time and money so gaming can often take a backseat.
 
It happens. In fact I just "came back" to gaming. I didnt touch my gaming rig for 8 weeks! I was just bored of games. Instead I found myself reading and watching movies. Now Ive gotten back into it...I just got done with a 2hr Stalker SSOC session. Dont worry about just do something else. As others have said...you will come across the right game and then youre home and dry!

....coffe and blueberry muffin on the side lol
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Oh man now Im gonna have to go to the store for a muffin! What a great combo tho...coffee and a muffin...
 
Are you interested in motor racing at all? Give iRacing a try for a month, only costs about £8 and is fantastic and the most addictive game I've ever played.
 
purplesky said:
There's no passion from developers anymore as the world and it's people got greedy where the only thing that matters is money :(

Everything is just a rehash. Nothing is original as what can be done already has been done. (this applies to just about everything in life, not just games)

Also, it might be possible that games have got stale depending on your age. You'll tend to find children can sit and play games for long periods and hold their attention, however, as you get older you change and games no longer give you the same buzz, if any. You probably need to get a hobby or two as clearly you are expecting games to rid the boredness away when the actual problem is that the games are boring. It's just life.
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Seriously, you honestly feel that theres no passion from developers anymore?

When I play epic games like Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Fallout 3, the feeling I get from playing those games is that the developers put 100% passion into their games.

Yes, there are far more rubbish games out there than there are good games, but there are still a handful of extremely talented developers that put their heart and soul into making their games IMHO.

I suppose everyone goes through phases where they lose interest in gaming but all it takes is a tripple A title to get you back into it.:)
 
When I moved into my house a couple of years ago I sold my gaming pc because I was skint with having everything to buy for a new house. I was left playing the latest games on Xbox 360 for a few months, while I saved for another pc. All I can say is - you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

2 years and 2 more pc's later and I haven't looked back - find something else to do for a month and come back refreshed.
 
See I'm also bored stiff atm with games :/ Loved Fallout NV, Borderlands, STALKER SoC, Anno, Bad Company 2, Warcraft, Mass Effect 2. All those are games I played for a very long time. But now I cant sit on em for more then a few mins before boredom kicks off. The only way I can get past it is if I'm watching a film or tv show on the second screen while playing. When the mind is focused on 2 things instead of 1 its a lot easier to stay occupied.

The worst part is, in the last few weeks I've really run out of interesting things to watch :(
 
Try BF2 Vanilla again as I am still playing it Daily.
There's still loads of 64 man servers running & there's the Infantry only option, Even after all these years i can still lose myself on BF2 for a few hours.
Nothing compares to BF2.
 
I was kinda in the same situation with my PS3. As soon as I got my PC the hours started vanishing fast! I spend hours on the strategy games like Civ V and Anno 1404, plus I also got Eve and X3 for even more variety that I cannot get on a console.
I was always a PC gamer at heart andn ow I got a decent system it's just reborn the enthusiasm.
 
davedudes said:
Just got a new system too from Ocuk, thing is no matter what game i play beit Mafia2, bfbc2 or even WOW, their is no passion or interest at all:(, after a couple of minutes of play i have to exit the game.

I don't like the fact i've lost the bug:(, suppose i should give it a break for a while and come back, what do you guys think?
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I experienced this a while ago, I think it was because there was hardly any PC exclusive titles in my favourite genre that were worth playing on a £1400 rig. You could play all the best ones on a £150 console albeit not quite technically as good most of the time(but they didn't crash). I was basically using a £1400 PC for the Internet mainly, and older games which I had a blast with(and still do)

Recently though I discovered Steam and its deals, just before Christmas as it turns out, around Thanksgiving. Also I discovered GoG.com.

After discovering the latter in particular, I decided that old games were still better then some if not most of the new games(in their respective genre, particularly rpg and adventure) in almost every department except technically of course(and much cheaper, generally). But then again I have went of FPS games(wasn't really into them in the first place).

After buying 108 Steam games in 2 months, I realized I had wasted money, because I was enjoying the shopping and reading and writing on these forums about games/deals more than the games.

Most of the games that grabbed me could work on my laptop, and my laptop makes much less noise and looks far better then a big block with flashing lights, dusty fans, using £40 per month electricity etc. and of course you can take it around the world with you.

I decided to use my laptop on a 50" plasma, as I wouldn't use it for any game(other than FM 2011) on a laptop size screen and keyboard. I think sitting at a desk playing games for hours will not be happening within 3 years, so personally, even though people at the minute can't use pads for their favourite FPS game, they will be able to pretty soon, maybe a new pad design in the next gen of consoles will be the killer of mouse/keyboard for gaming. I don't think you can beat a mouse/keyboard for using the web and cannot see how you could soon.

I'm going slightly off topic.

* I am selling my rig.
* I'm using my £550 laptop (which was fun finding and researching a bit like how you research graphics cards that are within your budget.)
* I use my laptop on my 50" plasma
* I sit on a sofa that doubles up as a bed if I want it too
* I have an AV receiver(£350, speakers £400) which I plugged in an hdmi connector to from my laptop, and get a brilliant picture and 5.1 sound through a very good sound system (sound quality can make a big difference in a game)
* Rather then selling my 360, I kept it and it is great for most games and has a brilliant online component in most games and a great interface in general, with other things like gamer points that seem to matter more then they do in Steam. Finding multiplayer games in pretty not so popular game types, like poker for free is a breeze, and is more personalized with your gamer picture and gamer score and such, it's hard to explain.
* I have loads of fun seeing what games play on my PC, just like the old days (I'm looking forward to upgrading my laptop, whereas it seems I just never had to annually for my desktop. A current good rig now will last you 3 years easily, because of the pace of change, still people upgrade every year)
* Games that actually work well on my laptop, like Mafia II I spent £4.99 on through Steam sales, saving a lot of money(If it didn't work I wouldn't have played it at all probably, because it was like £40 on 360). I've compared the 360 demo and it is not as good as it running on my laptop by a bit of a distance.

It's pretty good watching youtube on a 50" screen, I can do it on my blu ray player too, if my laptop blows up.

The moment when I realized all this was when I bought Assassins Creed II from Microsoft Games, or whatever its called and thought this is amazing(I was using my £1400 rig). I already had it on my 360, but at the time never used the 360. I thought I'd compare. It felt much better on the 360, even though the port is very good. I thought "What the heck am I doing?" using a £1400 rig to browse the web buy games I don't play etc. when games like this have passed me by and play great on my 360! Here's me thinking using a wired 360 pad on my PC was revolutionary!

I play tons of games again, from just about every genre, making these changes have give me a new buzz for games which I'm so pleased I kept because games have always played a huge part in my life(since I was 8, I'm now 36), I love them.

Unfortunately, the time is coming when spending £1400 every 12months on a new rig will pass (maybe it's actually a good thing) and people like you will enjoy games again.

At the end of the day, all these upgrades and questions and answers etc. should be done in the name of GAMING I think some people lost sight of this a while ago... like me.

Luckily, I woke up.

P.S. WoW inc New Expansion with every setting maxed out, including sound quality, works flawlessly on my £550 laptop.
 
So basically what you're doing is comparing a console game to a pc port to decide you dont think pcs are worth it over consoles? And yes all fps games atm can use gaming pads but I would never swap for the slow movement and reaction time of a gamepad over the precision of a mouse and kb, cant see how anyone would tbh. For racing and beat em ups gamepads have the edge but for fps, rts, rpg, the mouse kb approach has major advantages. Works for me cause I dont like racing or beat em ups and love the other genres :) Its always a case of what works best for you though.
You enjoy your console and I'll enjoy my pcs.
 
Play some older games,it's easier to become fully adsorbed by them than it is with a lot of the newer games imo. Deus Ex (first one), Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines, Half Life 1&2,Far Cry, GTA Vice City,POP Sands Of Time. If you like strategy,Rome Total War.
 
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So basically what you're doing is comparing a console game to a pc port to decide you dont think pcs are worth it over consoles? And yes all fps games atm can use gaming pads but I would never swap for the slow movement and reaction time of a gamepad over the precision of a mouse and kb, cant see how anyone would tbh. For racing and beat em ups gamepads have the edge but for fps, rts, rpg, the mouse kb approach has major advantages. Works for me cause I dont like racing or beat em ups and love the other genres :) Its always a case of what works best for you though.
You enjoy your console and I'll enjoy my pcs.
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I was waiting for this, I've probably played games a lot longer then you and have built more PC's then you have had hot dinners.

I wouldn't be using my PC for gaming if I was a console fanboy.

The games that I can't get or play on consoles can play perfectly on my laptop.

Like:

Strategy games, where you do need a mouse (Civ 5 etc)
MMORPG (WoW, Everquest 2, LoTR) work flawlessly on my laptop
Witcher works maxed out on my laptop
All the games that work better on a PC or I can't get on a console(like the classic rpg's, adventures etc.) basically

Even Battlefield 2: Bad Company 2 works well on my laptop, and that is about the best online FPS, and a decent offline game too.

So your little remark is mute.

P.S. You only need a keyboard/mouse for FPS's. Also, call me a game fanboy in the future, if you want to call me anything at all.
 
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i feel like i almost have to "psyche" myself up to play a game for an hr nowadays, that is if it isnt statcraft 2 which is great.

when did gaming become an effort?
I still love hardware, its just my vice I guess, and will continue to haemorrhage money into my rig for I want those short moments of gaming i do get round to doing to be maxed out, quality moments:)

hence looking at sandybridge and 470 sli in the future...

crazy i know...
 
Just built a new PC as in sig, not played any PC games for a few years (last game I bought was Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare). Thought I would give it go again after all these years and just bought Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Football Manager 2011.

Used to play Championship Manager back in the day and like the original Battlefield games so these should keep me interested for awhile.
 
davewhite04 said:
P.S. WoW inc New Expansion with every setting maxed out, including sound quality, works flawlessly on my £550 laptop.
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Assuming you aren't doing many raids with a lot of memory heavy addons, if i was top end raiding i wouldn't fancy using a laptop.

Also voice communication on consoles when playing with friends is an absolute pile of garbage, especially quality wise.

Only thing console is good for is racing/sports games such as fifa really, although guess you can just hook your gamepad upto PC.

And i highly doubt unless some mind reading gamepad comes out it will replace mouse and keyboard in FPS, and it certainly wont replace it in games like WoW etc. so don't think mouse/keyboard will ever be trumped.

Also multitasking on PC whilst on a game or whatever your doing isnt avaiable on console and sitting with a laptop on my knee the entire time i don't fancy.
 
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