Does anyone else feel that unless you really love a game your not gonna finish it?
This happens to me all the time. Right now I got Brothers in Arms Hells Highway. I know a lot of people didn't like this game for some reason or other, but I enjoyed it. I played it til about halfway through and never had a bad experience. But now it seems like a chore to pick up the controller and turn on the xbox. This happens with pretty much every game unless it's a spectacular game. I know I'll have fun if I just start, but the motivation to start really isn't there even when I'm bored and don't have anything else going on.
The strange thing is I come on here and check out the forums for all sorts of games and read what people say about them ALL the time. And I'm often excited about some game or other and I'd consider games to be a huge part of my life. But it just seems like I enjoy anticipating games and talking about games more than I enjoy actually PLAYING games.
Can anybody else out there relate to what I'm saying at all?
NewShire
I am sort of the same.
IMO i think it just happens when you get older, i am now 26 amd have been gaming since 1988 when i got an atari from christmas and ever since then i have had just about every video game system ever released i still have most them in my loft nes/snes/mega drive/master system/game gear/gameboy/atari 2600/amiga 500/amiga 600+/amiga 1200/spectrum zx/commodore 64/N64/PS/saturn/PS2/xbox/GBA along with thousands of games(allot of which are floopy disc amiga games) and back in those earlier days i could play games for hours on end completing every game i bought and enjoying every second.
When i was about 17-21 i stopped gaming allot and would only play a couple of hours per month as at the age your starting to hit the clubs and what not, then when i settled down again and was working full time i started gaming hardcore again and even then i enjoyed it allot and could game for hours on end.
But over the last 2-3 years i find myself rarely finishing games unless they really drag me in mass effect/MGS4/dead rising and gears of war were the last to do it properly.
I like to collect games also so i buy allot of games, which i think is my problem as every anticipated game i buy on day one, for instance on the 24th i will get several games i have pre-ordered fable 2/LBP/far cry 2 and dead space then a week later fallout 3 and more in novemeber, i also have a pile off games i have only half finished or barely started at all, like obilvion(which i just started a new game of last night as i really want to finish at put some good hours into it before the new games arrive) crysis/crysis warhead/stalker 1/2/heavenly sword/RFOM/ninja gaiden/DMC4/uncharted/ass creed among others some games like grid/dirt/lost planet/spore/motorstorm and others i have barely touched.
I have so many games i want to play but with work and other things keeping me busy i rarely get the chance, i want to stop buying every game on day 1 and just start buy 1 finish it then but another but i just think i may aswell get them now and just leave 1 till i finish 1 but that does not happen.
In my case its not so much that im not enjoying them its that i dont have the time or i keep getting new games which i start playing.
Also i find myself on the forums or on sites just reading previews watching videos talking about games coming up and im really excited to play them but once i get them i barely touch them.
Lost odyssey for instance really dragged me in and i played through the first 3 discs(around 35 hours) in a few weeks not playing anything else then i got a new game i forget what and i still have not got round to finishing the last disc, i only just started and finished my effect in August even though i bought it on release day in 07.
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