Ever get bored of PC games?

[Rhyfelwyr]

The past while I am completely bored with all computer games... RTW, ETW, EU3, even EB... if I go to play them I switch off after a few minutes, used to be once I was on them I would play them all day. I think I am having an early mid-life crisis or something...

Anyone else ever find this?

[Hooahguy]

try a FPS or something.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Bah, I don't feel like playing my PC... which is... why I'm on my PC right now.

I'm really at a loss as to what to do when I can't play TW all day.

[Cultured Drizzt fan]

I have had it happen, usually its after I have spent a few weeks doing nothing but playing TW games. It just reaches the point where I cant do it anymore, everything just blurs together and I switch any game I have off just when I start it.

Normally I just stop playing PC games for a while, go and read books, watch TV, non PC gaming, ect. for a few weeks (or sometimes a month or two) and then after that I come back and get re-hooked on them.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Yeah I've had these mini-crises before, but they get worse each time, and now it just feels as if its for good.

Talk about bad timing, I just got all my exams done about a month ago, and now I will be insanely bored for the next few months.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Get a job. You'll snap out of your funk in no time.

[LittleGrizzly]

Yeah everything seems better when you've been at work all day... even just sitting there...

Im pretty much bored of computer games... i can summon up the energy for the odd game now and again but not much....

[Veho Nex]

The past while I am completely bored with all computer games... RTW, ETW, EU3, even EB... if I go to play them I switch off after a few minutes, used to be once I was on them I would play them all day. I think I am having an early mid-life crisis or something...

Anyone else ever find this?

PC games for me come in waves RPG=-FPS=-MMO=-RTS=-TBS=-RPG

The time I am interested in each genre depends on what I am reading/watching/studying/listening to at the time.

[Lemur]

The world of PC games is so vast and varied, I can't imagine getting tired of all of them. It's like saying you're tired of books. And as others have noticed, when you've got a job, a relationship, kids, or all three, you'll find you don't have time to be bored.

Speaking of which, as I type this I'm up with a projectile-vomiting three-year-old, and I have to be up at six. No time for ennui here.

[Reverend Joe]

The world of PC games is so vast and varied, I can't imagine getting tired of all of them. It's like saying you're tired of books. And as others have noticed, when you've got a job, a relationship, kids, or all three, you'll find you don't have time to be bored.

Speaking of which, as I type this I'm up with a projectile-vomiting three-year-old, and I have to be up at six. No time for ennui here.

It's not nearly as vast and varied as books. Plus, at its root it's a basically repetitive activity: defeat computer challenge, move on. At least with books you're reading something that comes directly from someone's imagination. I hate to say it, Lemur, but I think you are failing to notice the terrible repetitiveness because you don't have the time.

@Rhyfelwyr: get a job, and find a good place to hang out. And not in cyberspace, in real life. It wouldn't hurt to learn to have a few beers to relax every night to some good music, either. Actually, it would be a good idea to carry this habit of hanging out with real people into the next year; I'm sure you will find it much more rewarding than a computer screen.

[Beskar]

There is repetitiveness in reading a book, sometimes you just don't want to read a book. Sometimes you don't want to watch a movie and sometimes, you don't just want to play a computer game.

We all have those moments. Best way is to take a break from it, then you go back into it later.

It would be like eating your favourite food all the time, it will come to the point you are just sick of having it and move onto other things.

[CountArach]

Yeah everything seems better when you've been at work all day... even just sitting there...

QFT. I got home after a 9 hour shift today and just sat in the chair unmoving for 15 minutes.

[Monk]

It's not nearly as vast and varied as books. Plus, at its root it's a basically repetitive activity: defeat computer challenge, move on. At least with books you're reading something that comes directly from someone's imagination. I hate to say it, Lemur, but I think you are failing to notice the terrible repetitiveness because you don't have the time.

Oh I don't think that's fair at all. Raising a point like that is one that can be turned around. Books, at their root, are nothing more than the realization of a repetitive activity. Read the words and turn the page. Saying games don't come from another's imagination (and even the most simple have been planned and seen concept stages) isn't fair to the medium IMO. One is a visual medium while the other an abstract one. They both have their merits and both take the right mind-set to enjoy.

Of course I'm one of among the snooty "games are art" crowd, so my opinion is clearly biased.

[Vladimir]

No. There are too many good mods.

[||Lz3||]

Yeh... that's when I switch to console games.

(or Combat air simulations. I love em')

[Andres]

We have splendid weather over here, 30 °C (90° F).

After work, mowing the lawn and having dinner, both my wife and me just sat oustisde in our chair for about 3 hours, listening to the radio, drinking water, only stood up once to get us some ice cream.

Who needs PC games? Life is beautiful.

[Hooahguy]

if you really are so bored, learn an instrument. my love for guitar sprung from my pure boredom during winter break.

[Beefy187]

Join some mafia games

And if that wouldn't do, write a book about your current mind set.. And publish a book "how to stop your kids from playing computer games"

Pretty sure most of the mums wants to buy that kind of books.

[Rhyfelwyr]

I like that idea there Beefy, I think I should write it in the "Moon People" style.

[Cute Wolf]

nope... at least until many hours (read: almost a day) of non-stop playing in Saturday... I'll take a break for a week coz I have too many tasks for monday till friday..... Holidays didn't count (I play all day in holiday, except when have something to do with my girl...

[Prodigal]

Go on holiday for a few days...A week, two. I am always surprised on returning what little importance the PC has, course I then start it up to remind myself what all the fuss was about in the first place & its downhill from there.

If you're bored with all the latest games you have now, ever thought to try a G.O.D, (golden oldie downgrade)? When all else fails, when nothing seems as good as it did last week, & everything leaves you feeling flat, install Jagged Alliance 2. Course you've them got to find & install a gazillion mods but its alot of fun.

[Samurai Waki]

I haven't played any games in over two months... makes me wonder why I keep returning, I guess I just like you fellas.