Its been a good 5 months since I felt motivated to play a game. Nothing seems to break me of this excepts just purely fun games like Mario. I think I may be going *gasp* casual.

stop playing for a while. It can be a real healthy way to "reset" yourself. The plus is you will have a backlog of great games to play that have reduced in price.

Personally, I go from not playing any games for as much as a month and then pick up a couple of games and end up playing them through to the end in one or two sittings each.

One thing though, I have never stopped enjoying the News about new games, innovations in gaming and gaming hardware though. And I am addicted to a good story regardless of the venue.

P.S.

41 years old and still love gaming...

I've been there, I believe it was brought on by playing to many FPS games. My consoles just sat there for about 2 months just being used for movies and occasionally i'd play a game for a few then just stop about 20 mins in. Now I only really buy games that the story really pulls me in (or mindless zombie killing) or else i'll get that burnout feeling (unless i toke before hand that is).

Sadly i'm out of town right now and left my consoles at my place so for the next week or two i'm going to be game free but i garuntee as soon as i walk in the door i'm gonna put bioshock in and finish it (bought it the day i left).

Doubt i'll be pulled into a game though until the prequel to Dead Rising 2 is released and then Dead rising 2, then the wait for GT5.

I've been gaming since the 80s and thankfully I only recall this happening to me maybe 4-5 times ever,and usually only need 1-2 days off and I am refreshed.

I guess I am lucky that I can recharge my gaming battery so fast.

i been gaming since i was born lol

we all can relate at some point in our lives,but at the end of the day,if you stop gaming and give up all ur gaming gear etc then you were never really a gamer at heart to begin with. i might be in a phase,but its the devs fault for putting out such crxp games and the good ones that do come out are done before the half week is over lol.

but in coming months such goodness for everyone it seems

thats what iv been like for the past 6 months.

i just stare at my games for ages and then walk off even more bored. nothing is exiting anymore. all i play now is alien swarm

I clicked on this story for the hot chick and all I got was words...Hmm, I need to make a t-shirt of that.

its happening to me too , i think its all the FPS'ers in my case.I'm good at fps,when I'm really in to the game I'm almost always top player.i was playing bad company 2 today and i didn't care i was soooo bored i just had no energy to play the game i just drove around circles in a jeep and threw motion sensors at peoples heads,so i jumped on nazi zombies for a bit played 2 rounds and left .. pop'ed in dragon age and 2 mins i was done. i don't feel like playing games for the past 4 weeks there's nothing out there thats fun right now for me.i think i'm going to try to focus on more rpgs and less fps for a while even if i have to skip out on some Good ones , Gamer bunout really sucks badly.;/

I'm in the midst of burnout. I've gone back and started playing Atari stuff, I quit smoking and started vaping so I've been following that, started reading more. I've found alot to occupy the time that gaming once filled.

Theres some stuff I'll pick up in the fall but the industry seems gripped by sequelitis once again and I'm finding it literally impossible to be excited about any of the recent announcements.

I always space out my games. I play old school games in between new school to keep it feeling fresh. :)

I'm in a gamers burnout right now. I tend to be interested in other stuff, like making music, photography, video editing or perhaps (old) movies

But hey, i have other burnouts as wel. TV burnout, i never watch it anymore. Politics, all 'seen it before' ... but also with own music making you can be in a 'dip'

Atm, it is all photography. I guess games will come back. I wonder what game will pull me back in

Had this before and it feels so bad, and sad. Total dunno what to play moments. Then, i mod the games i got to make em fresh.

Oh and by the by, who the hell is that girl? PLease someone tell.

Yeah, that's happened to me but not allot

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