Gaming burnout?

[QlimaxUK]

I wish there was a new GTA game every year as I always play them for the story and side missions. But if we got one every year maybe it wouldn't be as good as a multi year developed game.

there's always saints row, just cause, prototype and others for the GTA style gameplay

 

[little_wilko]

You could try mame or Wun UAE that may occupy you for a wee while else dig out a copy of tom clancy SSN and see if you can make it work. Ive been gaming ever since my acorn bbc model b and like you am bored with it, got a ps4 but hardly play it struglle to motivate myself to fire it up. BF4 occupies my time but nothing i have in my library is a must play last thing i actually liked was XCOM you got that ?

 

[SkeeterUK]

there's always saints row, just cause, prototype and others for the GTA style gameplay

Hated saints row, just cause was mindless action. Gameplay is good in GTA but its the missions I enjoy and the well crafted map usually and styles.

 

[mw8t]

I'm more of a htpc guy and have a i5-4690K rig in the front room. There is only one game/franchise that I am interested in and will play and that's GTA.

IV looks and sounds great on the tv with a controller. Still not played V as I'm waiting for hardware that doesn't exist yet to max it (upper mid-range gpu no more than £250, 60 fps target @1080)

Would love to play it @4k on a 60"+ screen but that will require new TV and amp not to mention a gpu to drive it. Maybe early next year.

Cba with anything else. PC gaming and come to think of it, console gaming is just too nerdy for me.

 

[FoxEye]

I'll be burned out after getting the true ending to MGS5. It's the first MGS game where you have to grind out boring, repetitive crap to get the story to progress. Been 150+ hours now, and I swear I'm never playing another MGS game ever again.

Will need to take a break from gaming for a month after this. It's ridiculous.

In fairness, after like 50 hours I should just have watched the remaining story on YouTube. I'm just stupid, and stubborn

 

[divinebeetle]

Felt a bit burned out on Dragons Dogma

As the better weather approaches, I find I'm gaming less as other hobbies/interests take over

 

[Ruprekt79]

I agree with the above that the vast majority of AAA games these days, developers are restricted by the money men who want all their games in safe hands:-

Guns
Established Brand
Micro-transactions and DLC

The above are always at the forefront of many games these days and it's inevitable that it's going to get boring. Take nearly every fast shooter since Titanfall.......Titanfall introduced a new jumping system and low and behold, many more fps games jump on the bandwagon because Titanfall sales were high. That mechanic is now tiresome due to saturation of it within games.

You are like me, whereby you hope that every new game gives you that 'old spark' you used to get from games and are mostly left disappointed.

That doesn't mean there aren't games out there that still capture my interest beyond the first couple of hours. The Witcher 3 keeps my attention. Not that it does anything particular new, just it's a solid game that looks amazing with a great story and characters I really warm to.

 

[SF4AE1]

I tend to randomly get bored of new games sometimes but then I switch back to playing something like Thief 1 or a generally older game and play it all the way through - By that point forgot I was bored and go back to the modern game.

 

[PhoenixUK]

Played any MMORPGs?

Careful though, as you might spend more time on it than you'd like.

 

[cHk4]

Same as OP I chuck in hundreds of pounds each month on new games which I play for 5 mins at a time then stop playing.

I'm actually looking forward to EA UFC 2 for the PS4 that is a different type of game and I think that will bring me back a bit in to it.