I've been going through game burnout lately. Partly because it's summer now and I want to get out and do other things, partly because there isn't anything releasing right now that I want. I'm also just kind of tired of what developers are doing nowadays too. I'm really sick of every single game needing to be this massive open world with over one thousand collectibles and hundreds of hours of side quests. High school me would have been over the moon for all this but it's every single game and very few actually do it right. I'm more excited for games like Yooka-Laylee, or Uncharted, or The Last of Us Part 2, or Mario Odyssey. Give me the scaled back games that are focused on gameplay or story.

Horizon is a fantastic game but I felt it could have been better without the open world. The story was awesome but I really didn't need all the padding of the open world and I completely skipped the side quests but half the time to complete the story is wasted on having to run across the world several times (thank god for quick travel in the later part of the game). Not saying the open world was bad because it's one of the new that actually get bringing the world to life. But outside of padding there really wasn't a reason for it to be open world. It's fantastic the way it is but it could have easily gone the other way and been equally as fantastic.

The mentality that a game's worth is only determined by how many hours it takes to complete has proven to be very toxic. Sure I enjoy playing long JRPGs but I don't have the time anymore for EVERY game to be "100+ hours to beat the story". That isn't a good selling point and makes me consider NOT buying a game if that is their lead selling point. I play games to relax and these days my relaxing time is getting shorter and shorter. Most indie games don't impress me (though there are some amazing ones out there) and I really don't want to play online after working 8-12 hours a day around people who I swear purposely forget common sense and are just plain stupid. I've even scaled back the systems I own. My Xbox hasn't been touched since Christmas so I sold that and my 3DS was only a Pokemon machine and that hasn't been touched since Sun and Moon came out, not with the Switch version in the works the 3DS doesn't have a purpose anymore. It's mostly my PS and Switch that I use now and even then it's a lucky day if can actually play them.

Really though I'm getting burned out with a lot in life right now, not just games.

So mods you wanna do something about this spam or what?

I keep things fresh. I switch genres after almost every game. Sometimes I want a game that requires thinking like puzzle solving or sometimes I just want to chill and play something like stardew valley. Right now I'm playing horizon.

I always take a week or 2 off when I start to feel burned out on games. When I come back I also usually switch genres too. So if I was playing RPGs, I'll go to platforners or something. I never make gaming a chore though, once you start doing that it goes from a hobby to work. And if a game sucks, rather than keep playing, I put it down and move on.

Weird. I feel the same way. I'm starting to burn out on gaming and I wonder if it's just me getting older or are games just not that great any more.

Well, thankfully it has been a good decade since I've sold my soul to Animal Crossing, and I never intend to do it again. I did run into the problem of making it a game I have to play before I can play something else, and it stopped being fun. I'm also a good twelve or so years removed from my MMO days with Diablo 2, when I made the conscious decision not to ever get hooked on an MMO again, and so I never did play WoW of LoL or any of the other big games that have derailed lives in the past decade. I briefly played Diablo 3 but it didn't take over my life and I dropped it before too long. Maybe I just needed to get MMO gaming out of my system in my younger years as I don't have that bug anymore.

I almost never platinum games, not even games I love. I rarely play online multiplayer and when I do it's to have a good time with friends and not to obtain some meaningless kill/death or win/loss ratio or to stack up in any meaningful way on online leaderboards. Heck, I have such a poor track record with completing games and though I sometimes try to force myself to keep going, if my attention is focused elsewhere I often just go with the flow and end up starting another game I'm interested in or engaging in one of my other, albeit equally indoorsy, hobbies.

Happens all of the time for certain franchises and genres. Was burned out with Uncharted after beating the collection and starting the 4th game. Came back 2 months later, beat it and loved it. Now I'm burned out from arcade shooters and sim racers. Can't enjoy games when you're forcing yourself to play them.

I buy all the newest games and dont play them. My brothers do all the time. When I get off work i just want to beat my meat take a shower and chill

The Vita has an identity crisis.

The older i get the less im actually excited by games and the less i play them which sucks, i tend to read about them more than play them.

No burnout for me, need more time to play though. I have a lot to do in my life so when I get to play it feels great to relax focus on the game and zone out. I guess if all I did ever was play games then I could get burned out but I haven't done that since I was preteen. 30 years ago

I can relate to this a lot.
It's why I'm probably going to be skipping most of the more irritating unlocks in BoI Afterbirth+, as well as why I don't really play many strategy RPG'S and stick mostly to action-adventure games and more traditional turn-based or action RPG's instead: sometimes a game just demands so much effort that it feels like a job rather than a fun challenge, after a while.

Why the ps vita pic? Smh

I never actually get video game burnout on my Vita, it's consoles that I get burned out on.

ugh.. Im burned out right now after finishing Horizon.. Once your brain is fixed on a control type and you play something else, it takes getting used to.. Best to lay off for a few days.. Open world games drain you

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau

Wuchang is great. Nine Sols didn’t have a physical copy so I never played it but I’ve heard good things so I will check it out. I stopped playing sports games many years ago when before the card dlc’s or whatever they’re called.

Last comment… ):

Great month for others, but not me. Hate soccer and soulslikes. Maybe Nine Sols is good.

🫡 it was fun while it lasted, N4G.

FC26!