Haha I swear, are we the same person. This is exactly why I cannot play any other MMO. The movement just isn't fluid. WoW really hit a sweet spot there. My opinion as well is again no MMO game has a combat system as good.
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Haha I swear, are we the same person. This is exactly why I cannot play any other MMO. The movement just isn't fluid. WoW really hit a sweet spot there. My opinion as well is again no MMO game has a combat system as good.
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Burned out a few times here too tbh, I've foudn a lot of the games we spent a long time on we were actually playing because of the community and the people on there rather than the game itself.
played a loada stuff during the steam sale, since then I've played nowt lol :/
played a loada stuff during the steam sale, since then I've played nowt lol :/
Counter Strike was pretty much the height of my gaming life too, by far and away my most played game. The last few years my time spent on it has dwindled in comparison to the earlier years and I think that's because of what people have said before, playing the game with friends. My friends pretty much gave up on it just before we left for college so I was left to play Counter Strike on my own and I got bored after a while, I return to it every so often and enjoy it just as a public server gamer.
Lately me and a couple of my friends have started playing Planetside 2 together using microphones to communicate and it has brought back a bit of the old spark, but I've conceded that it'll never be what it used to be and it's just a Sunday gaming session now rather every day as we've all got other things to do the rest of the week.
Lately me and a couple of my friends have started playing Planetside 2 together using microphones to communicate and it has brought back a bit of the old spark, but I've conceded that it'll never be what it used to be and it's just a Sunday gaming session now rather every day as we've all got other things to do the rest of the week.
that's why i quit gaming online, my mates always wanted me to game with them; every night of the week, it used to be totally exhausting...because we never finished until 2am.
the best is :- to host a private server and invite a really good m8 and to Hunt each other in a big spooky old Hospital; just you against him, it's brilliant fun..you can do this with up to 4 of you, but any more and the map gets too busy, you want to walk around for about 10 mins without seeing someone, but realising that he's somewhere in this map hunting you.
it gets very spooky and claustrophobic, a bit like Amnesia or Penumbra, now now this is what i call great quality gaming.
it might be worth looking for something like this...
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I feel burned out on gaming myself at the moment, I feel like I want to game but everything I play doesn't really do anything for me. I got rid of my WoW accounts recently as all I was doing was logging in, standing around and logging back out bored - all the fun I used to have on that game is gone, along with the friends I used to play with on it.
The only game I get enjoyment from really is modded Fifa 13 with kit/transfer updates... Which won't last long when next gen version comes to PS4/Xbox One and PC gamers lose out. I may try Pro Evo 14 but I haven't got high hopes for it as it doesn't look as fluid.
I tried Crysis 2 lately thanks to a free code off these forums and while the graphics are fairly nice, it's not got much variation in gameplay you just go from A to B without any choice. BF3 I used to like, but again really bored of it and no fun any more. I tired Skyrim but that held my attention for about a week, can't be bothered to go back to it.
Personally I'm REALLY looking forward to GTA 5 (assuming it gets a PC version), that really looks like a game I will have some proper fun with especially online.
The only game I get enjoyment from really is modded Fifa 13 with kit/transfer updates... Which won't last long when next gen version comes to PS4/Xbox One and PC gamers lose out. I may try Pro Evo 14 but I haven't got high hopes for it as it doesn't look as fluid.
I tried Crysis 2 lately thanks to a free code off these forums and while the graphics are fairly nice, it's not got much variation in gameplay you just go from A to B without any choice. BF3 I used to like, but again really bored of it and no fun any more. I tired Skyrim but that held my attention for about a week, can't be bothered to go back to it.
Personally I'm REALLY looking forward to GTA 5 (assuming it gets a PC version), that really looks like a game I will have some proper fun with especially online.
Games and gaming becoming boring is generally because you're getting older. They just can't grab your attention and interest you like they did in your teen days, and possibly early 20's to an extent. It's natural and there's nothing you can do about it, unless you could take some sort of drug that could alter your personality and mind somehow, but then what would be the point if it's not really 'you'?
You need new hobbies. The odd game might come along that will suck you in, but not like how you remembered it in the good old days without a care in the world. In any case, wouldn't you rather be out doing something than stuck behind a computer screen by yourself? You can get away with it as a kid cos you don't know any better, but once you're older there just seems to be things more important than gaming, whether you want to do those things or not.
Or just have sex more, or if you're single, masturbate to porn every night if you're bored and really haven't got anything to do.
You need new hobbies. The odd game might come along that will suck you in, but not like how you remembered it in the good old days without a care in the world. In any case, wouldn't you rather be out doing something than stuck behind a computer screen by yourself? You can get away with it as a kid cos you don't know any better, but once you're older there just seems to be things more important than gaming, whether you want to do those things or not.
Or just have sex more, or if you're single, masturbate to porn every night if you're bored and really haven't got anything to do.
no you're wrong because i didn't start gaming until i was already quite old, so it aint a Teen boredom thing at all.
new games aren't being released as often as they were and they're all very similar/ sequels/clones of previous games.
the clue is not to game so often and to find other things to do
You're just getting older.
As children and teenagers our ability to be absolutely amazed by something is much higher than as adults. Thus, once we do mature, we reminisce on how good we felt when we played those games (or watched those films / television shows, listened to that band for the first time or read that book), and we yearn for that same feeling, even though it's practically impossible.
Nostalgia is a bad thing - it makes you less happy about the now by glamourising the then, and I'm sure that back then you didn't think those times were as good as you now think they were. But we all go through the same thing. I still play WoW, and although I know the feelings I have about Vanilla are "rose-tinted", to use a stale saying, I still wish I could go back to those days. If I look from an objective point of view I can see that it is a much better game at the moment, but I'm enjoying it less because I'm an adult and not a kid.
There's nothing wrong with "falling out of love" with something. You just have to find a different way to enjoy it, or just move on completely. Personally, I'm trying to play games more efficiently than I used to. See as much content and absorb as much in a smaller space of time. As an example, my guild in WoW recently killed Lei Shen, and rather than keep trying to improve my gear or progress in heroics, now that I've done that entire raid I'm not gonna bother playing much at all until the next patch and the new raid.
As children and teenagers our ability to be absolutely amazed by something is much higher than as adults. Thus, once we do mature, we reminisce on how good we felt when we played those games (or watched those films / television shows, listened to that band for the first time or read that book), and we yearn for that same feeling, even though it's practically impossible.
Nostalgia is a bad thing - it makes you less happy about the now by glamourising the then, and I'm sure that back then you didn't think those times were as good as you now think they were. But we all go through the same thing. I still play WoW, and although I know the feelings I have about Vanilla are "rose-tinted", to use a stale saying, I still wish I could go back to those days. If I look from an objective point of view I can see that it is a much better game at the moment, but I'm enjoying it less because I'm an adult and not a kid.
There's nothing wrong with "falling out of love" with something. You just have to find a different way to enjoy it, or just move on completely. Personally, I'm trying to play games more efficiently than I used to. See as much content and absorb as much in a smaller space of time. As an example, my guild in WoW recently killed Lei Shen, and rather than keep trying to improve my gear or progress in heroics, now that I've done that entire raid I'm not gonna bother playing much at all until the next patch and the new raid.