Think i've lost interest in pc gaming.

Yeah I have lost interest too. I'm using my £1300 rig to watch movies and chat.

The days are gone where I'll sink a weekend into getting a better made-up item.

It's time to work hard, to get a house, a new car, and a wife.

Real change! :(
 
oxygene said:
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 :(
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Sounds like someone has torrented all the torrents on the internet syndrome hehe
 
Purdy said:
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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I don't know what the performance is like in RAIDS etc. but I do know that it will be just as important for everyone to have a good connection speed.

Again, I don't use talk in games, but I do very much doubt that it's absolute garbage on consoles, as millions of people use them.

Actually the more I look at your post the more I say to myself, he's talking crap...

F1 2010 is just as good if not a fair bit better on the PC then any console, and you can use a 360 pad or even a feedback wheel.

There's only one thing that makes racing games stand out on the 360, it's called Forza 3.

I suppose it's pointless buying a £500 laptop just for Streetfighter though, so you have me.

You've completely missed my point it seems.

Also, I wouldn't use a laptop on my lap(for gaming), read what I wrote.
 
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I always think I am losing interest, but everytime that happens a new game will come along and I will play it nonstop for months.

Maybe stop looking for new games and just keep playing what you used to love? For me it's Quake 3, I have played nothing but quake live for the last 4 weeks and my HDD is loaded with the latest games lol.
 
AceTK said:
Sounds like someone has torrented all the torrents on the internet syndrome hehe
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Sounds about right :/ Unemployment is a real killer.


davewhite04 said:
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.
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As for this, its a kind of stupid comment lol. I've made dozens of pcs for mates, work, self etc, and played fps since wolfenstein 3d, RTS since dune 2, rpg since diablo, and several others. So I've been on my favourite genres from the ground up, and spent countless hours on each of them. I also started my gaming life on a console, the atari 2600, before moving to a proper personal computer the amiga. I have been with every stage of computer and console development since I was able to hold a controller.
I was not trying to say pcs are better then consoles or consoles are better then pcs. I was just saying one works better then the other at certain things. And those certain things are the things I use them for. I use pcs for music, films, tv, rpg, rts, fps, mmo, multitasking, communication, business, and I use consoles as a foot rest. Easy.
 
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I'm like this with the PC and the 360 tbh, go out and buy the games. Play for a few hours and then lose interest... Maybe come back to them months later and force myself to play.

Even in moments of extreme boredom I don't find myself with a desire to fire up games now.
Minecraft is the only game I am really happy to waste time on... :|
 
nlel1975 said:
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.
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Nice PC you have got.

If by Championship manager back in the day, as in the early 90s, Football Manager 2011 will blow your mind. If your talking about something like Championship manager 2005, then it will blow your head clean off.

I'm not a big FPS fan, but the only one I have installed is bad company 2, it's pretty good in my opinion so it might be awesome for you if you like you FPS games more.

Two good games to start with imo.
 
I have felt the same way for at least 2 years. The only games that have kept me playing are TF2 and GTA IV, which are ones I keep going back to. In terms of what interests me, there isn't a great deal anymore. Deus Ex 3 and Crysis 2 look to be the only games that might bring interest back to pc gaming - so if you haven't seen those, definitely check those out!
 
oxygene said:
As for this, its a kind of stupid comment lol. I've made dozens of pcs for mates, work, self etc, and played fps since wolfenstein 3d, RTS since dune 2, rpg since diablo, and several others. So I've been on my favourite genres from the ground up, and spent countless hours on each of them. I also started my gaming life on a console, the atari 2600, before moving to a proper personal computer the amiga. I have been with every stage of computer and console development since I was able to hold a controller.
I was not trying to say pcs are better then consoles or consoles are better then pcs. I was just saying one works better then the other at certain things. And those certain things are the things I use them for. I use pcs for music, films, tv, rpg, rts, fps, mmo, multitasking, communication, business, and I use consoles as a foot rest. Easy.
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Well I will not try to have a ****ing contest here, but my first computer was a Tandy, I couldn't afford an Amiga/Atari ST(still played on them at my mates) so still used my Spectrum 48k then later 128k, by the time I could afford something better it was a megadrive/snes/neo geo/386dx

Built my first PC in 1992, have been building them ever since, for myself and mainly friends.

My living for a few years was building gaming PCs/business PCs/Networking etc... I must have built in excess of 200 PCs within the few years I worked with them.God knows how many I have built now.

You are obviously not short of experience either, wisdom however or intelligence I'm unsure about.

It seems I enjoy more types of games then you for a start. All the games/apps you mentioned I use and do on my laptop. I have a 360 because it is a sensible thing to do considering most of the best games are gamepad friendly and work just aswell on a £150 console as they do on a £1400PC, not to mention you get to play games that are not released on PC(that are classics), rarely vice versa now.

Multitasking? A £300 PC with a version of Windows 7 should do this competently, even my iPhone can.

Anyway my point was, there is no need to spend £1400 on PCs any more if you just want to play games (I seriously think some people with £2000 rigs get more enjoyment out of tweaking their system then running 3d mark).

If you lose interest in games, try other ways to help bring back that interest.

I am the first to say that consoles were NO WHERE near as good as PCs a few years ago, this is not true now, and since most developers concentrate on console development, PCs are stuck in time for the majority of games. Yes Civ 5 and such are great, Football Manager 2011, it's still a luxury to have a PC, it's just you don't need a £1400 one sitting in the corner weighing 25kg and has flashing lights coming out of the dvd tray.
 
Thanks for all the advice guys:cool:

I don't play on consoles, so i haven't gone over to the dark side yet:D

Currently I have the following games installed - WOW, BC2 COD : BO, Fallout NV, StarCraft 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Mafia 2, Dirt 2 and Assassins Creed 2. Jeez, i've just noticed ive got a lot of number two's there.

I'll be getting Dead Space 2 this week sometime so watch this space.


Thanks for the replies once again.
 
davedudes said:
Thanks for all the advice guys:cool:

I don't play on consoles, so i haven't gone over to the dark side yet:D

Currently I have the following games installed - WOW, BC2 COD : BO, Fallout NV, StarCraft 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Mafia 2, Dirt 2 and Assassins Creed 2. Jeez, i've just noticed ive got a lot of number two's there.

I'll be getting Dead Space 2 this week sometime so watch this space.


Thanks for the replies once again.
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I'm sure you'll get your passion back mate, as people have said, it may just take the right game.

One last piece of advice. Spend sometime with one game before giving up on it. I bought Assassins Creed 2 ages ago, and played it for 10mins and give up, as I thought I'd never get used to the controls.

I went back to it recently as I've mentioned, and spent more time on it. Just finished it the other day after spending 42hours on it, great experience.
 
davewhite04 said:
I don't know what the performance is like in RAIDS etc. but I do know that it will be just as important for everyone to have a good connection speed.

Again, I don't use talk in games, but I do very much doubt that it's absolute garbage on consoles, as millions of people use them.

Actually the more I look at your post the more I say to myself, he's talking crap...

F1 2010 is just as good if not a fair bit better on the PC then any console, and you can use a 360 pad or even a feedback wheel.

There's only one thing that makes racing games stand out on the 360, it's called Forza 3.

I suppose it's pointless buying a £500 laptop just for Streetfighter though, so you have me.

You've completely missed my point it seems.

Also, I wouldn't use a laptop on my lap(for gaming), read what I wrote.
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It is important for everyone to have a good connection speed, but in raids especially if you're healing i find i go for heavy in addons, even as DPS and tank i would and i wouldn't be running max. settings on a laptop with those tbh, especially in stupid aura fights.

Personally i find using talk in games what can make them better at times, playing with friends over skype/vent, xbox live chat isn't too bad, mic quality is usually terrible though, and playstations is non existant really, can't chat to someone playing a different game.

I personally prefer racers on console due to GT5/PGR, not a fan of forza, and yeah you have an xbox but ps3 is a similar investment, online is maybe the only thing that isn't as good.
As far as sports games go, they are a hell of a lot better on console, prior to FIFA11, fifa has been shockingly worse on PC for a while, gameplay,graphics wise, and i can't even remember the last madden that came out for pc?

Also never suggested you would use your laptop for gaming, but whilst gaming say playing WoW for example, sitting in a dungeon queue, waiting for everyone to release/run back in, i like to browse the net. Now say your playing some pub S&D on COD, you cannot multi task on your xbox, hence leading you to use your laptop on your lap if you want to do anything, maybe you don't have a tendancy like myself to be always doing something though.

You obviously don't have to spend the money you did on a PC every 12 months, could get one for the same price as your laptop and it will do you a few years, but one pc>console+laptop for me, you're basically subsituting one thing for two and on the whole coming up with a less enjoyable experience (imo ofcourse), and you can hook your PC up to your TV and use a wireless mouse and keyboard if you like anyways.

Games as a whole, personally i enjoy on the PC more, possibly due to the more socially interactive side of it, but i cannot see the advantages of having console+lappy over PC, PC+console is probably the best combination imo.
 
I started to get bored a few years back. I used to play a lot of FPS games, but started to thing that the latest blockbuster game was pretty much the same as the last. It started to get boring...

Over the last year or so I've started to play more indie games which have really sparked my interest again. Most of them are quite unique. If you're bored with the normal games out there, check out some more alternative stuff like Braid, Trine, Altitude (my current favourite 'play for 10 mins' game), Aquaria, Machinarium etc. They are not going to push your system to the limits, but they are all, most importantly, really fun and interesting to play.

SpaceChem is currently on my radar. It's being tipped as being the best puzzle game of 2011 already. Worth a look.
 
I really think it's going to take a game like HL3 to get me back into it. I've played all sorts of shooters and really only Halo and HL2 have got me properly interested and willing to see it through (Cod4 was good for the story but it was still just all of the same old, no originality, etc). I think Battlefield Bad Company 2 was the last straw for me. I'd consider myself a pretty knowledgeable PC enthusiast, and that thing just drove me over the edge. By the time I finally got the damn thing working properly everyone around me had magnum ammo and I seemingly couldn't walk 5 yards without getting my head blown off. The upgrades completely ruined the game and since I've really not been able to sit down at an FPS for longer than 5-10 minutes.

I think overall I just don't feel as immersed as I used too. Maybe I need to look into some sort of Eyefinity thing to rekindle the spark. Gaming used to be about entering a world that didn't exist, and because of that creating something amazing and believable. Everything just seems heavily stagnated at the moment. We need a Concorde moment. Something like VR, or at very least a huge step forward in graphics. I really hope Crysis 2 doesn't cop out for console sales. For all the stick it got Crysis 1 was a fantastic game with all the right intentions.
 
Jesus, so many people bored with games, maybe i just haven't played them enough as i spent too much time on WoW in WOTLK.

Surprised many FPS fans don't love BC2, blows me away, and then ME2/DA/Deadspace/Amnesia/MW2+Blops i have barely touched.
**** i haven't even played HL2 campaign yet, and i've been playing CSS for 5 years and still not bored.

Crysis 2 multiplayer looks very good.
 
Adrianr said:
Everything just seems heavily stagnated at the moment. We need a Concorde moment.
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This really. Crazy to think we've gone from Call of Duty to erm....Call of Duty...in how many years? (about the same amount of time between Street Fighter 2 to Half-Life).

boo
 
davewhite04 said:
Nice PC you have got.

If by Championship manager back in the day, as in the early 90s, Football Manager 2011 will blow your mind. If your talking about something like Championship manager 2005, then it will blow your head clean off.

I'm not a big FPS fan, but the only one I have installed is bad company 2, it's pretty good in my opinion so it might be awesome for you if you like you FPS games more.

Two good games to start with imo.
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I think the last one I played was Championship Manager 2003
 
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