Anonymous 04/11/15 (Sat) 22:45:03 e181aa No. 13033
How do you rekindle your love for videogames?
Anonymous 04/11/15 (Sat) 22:49:04 22737f No. 13035
>Choosing different games to play, getting out of your niche or into a niche you haven't tried yet >Playing with friends >Mind altering substances, take your pick >Dev'ving, modding and content creation for vidya >Therapy to deal with your depression or medication for your depression
Anonymous 04/11/15 (Sat) 22:52:47 f3237f No. 13036
>>13033 Usually if I'm in a funk and don't find myself wanting to play much of anything, I'll usually go replay an old favorite or two. Generally helps me to get back in the game.
Anonymous 04/11/15 (Sat) 23:04:40 da6eb5 No. 13043
>>13035 Pretty much this. Preferably all options at once.
Anonymous 04/11/15 (Sat) 23:13:48 7a2ef8 No. 13045
people's creativity and imagination usually comes through in mods in ways that make me feel happier than when playing a studio made aaa carefully laid out thing
Anonymous 04/11/15 (Sat) 23:21:20 67c17c No. 13048
I stopped playing video games and found other hobbies for a month or two. Then I gave them a try again when my mood was better from being so productive, and I was hooked again. Unfortunately, I stopped being productive because I spent all my time playing vidya.
Anonymous 04/11/15 (Sat) 23:42:25 371e86 No. 13051
>a whole night of EU3 multiplayer
Anonymous 04/11/15 (Sat) 23:48:33 0a7436 No. 13054
I usually just play something old, or watch anime.
Anonymous 04/12/15 (Sun) 00:01:59 8179e5 No. 13057
>>13033 Take a significant break, a few weeks or even months away from it.
Come back to it once you think youve had a suitable break and stick with the genres and reputable developers that you know you'll enjoy.
Anonymous 04/12/15 (Sun) 00:03:26 c4b965 No. 13058
>>13035 >>Playing with friends Not OP but most of my friends are either dead or scattered to the 4 winds
So that's not an option……
Anonymous 04/12/15 (Sun) 02:00:12 58ab5d No. 13076
I bought a WiiU. That did the trick for me.She even beat me once .
Anonymous 04/12/15 (Sun) 02:36:17 d5b44a No. 13081
>>13033 Stop trying new games and try old ones instead. Gaming really went to shit in 2007; anything after that is unlikely to be good.
Anonymous 04/12/15 (Sun) 04:16:32 bb51a7 No. 13103
If you aren't having fun, op, do something else
Anonymous 04/12/15 (Sun) 04:19:05 c78f6b No. 13105
>>13058 How did you get friends in the first place?
Anonymous 04/12/15 (Sun) 04:54:11 3b0936 No. 13110
>>13033 after many years playing videogames I can tell when I'm going to like a game from gameplay footage and some comments on it so I only play games I know I'll like, they are sparse but I enjoy replaying them so I don't need to rekindle anything
Anonymous 04/12/15 (Sun) 04:57:59 85f908 No. 13111
Mix it up and play different titles every now and again. Playing the same game over and over is boring.
Anonymous 04/12/15 (Sun) 07:37:18 270003 No. 13124
1- do not play the same games over and over
Anonymous 04/12/15 (Sun) 08:51:18 fba1e3 No. 13130
Take breaks, play good games. These days I pretty much only play vidya when I come home for holidays and I have so much fun.
Anonymous 04/13/15 (Mon) 01:01:13 025b61 No. 13266
>>13033 Dig out a relevant emulator and try out all the old games you were interested in playing but never got around to.
Anonymous 04/13/15 (Mon) 02:36:57 8db658 No. 13280
>>13058 >friends are either dead or scattered to the 4 winds Is this what happens when people stay inside and watch stuff like "Legends of Galatic Heroes," instead of going outside to have normal conversations with other people?
Anonymous 05/14/15 (Thu) 02:39:59 0de27c No. 16751
>>13058
you're friends with dead people? Nice, I've always wanted a spirit companion.
Anonymous 05/14/15 (Thu) 03:52:39 758c00 No. 16755
Anonymous 05/14/15 (Thu) 05:47:03 6a691f No. 16756
>pirate old games
>pirate old japanese-only games
>pirate games you never tried before
>get a few more hobbies
>stop posting in Chinese Imageboards once in a while
I still like video games.
Anonymous 05/14/15 (Thu) 19:20:20 2ee569 No. 16782
Don't play games for awhile. I was a hardcore gamer playing like 10+ a day but then I just got bored of gaming and couldn't play any games. Even new ones like when New Vegas first came out; I was just unable to play the game. I stopped playing for over a year and now I can play games again like I used to but I'm doing the 10+ hours a day thing. You should limit yourself to maybe only 3 hours a day and do other stuff like watch anime or whatever interests you. If you do games 10+ hours a day you're not going to appreciate them anymore and you'll get burnt out.
Anonymous 05/14/15 (Thu) 19:34:28 16cddd No. 16783
>>13081
This, but don't always expect any old game listed on GOG to be worth it. Try it first on Abandonia or the Abandonia forums; the latter has links to & requests for CD images that otherwise can't be posted on the main site. I tried Legends of Kyrandia and couldn't keep going after two sessions. Beautiful game, but the music and gameplay is shit.
Other than that, either take a break or play some old classics.
Anonymous 05/15/15 (Fri) 00:13:00 0c7f73 No. 16788
>>13035
Don't buy new video games. I seriously don't buy games (with a few exceptions) until they've been out for a few years.
Anonymous 05/15/15 (Fri) 00:36:30 53e7c5 No. 16791
>>16788
The time tested method that has kept me nearly non-disappointed for years with video games is to live approximately one year behind the rest of the world. That way, you know if a game is shit or not by the time you are looking at getting it, and all of the cut content DLC has been released.
Anonymous 05/15/15 (Fri) 01:48:18 e545f2 No. 16792
Early this year I found myself burnt out on the vidjeogams. Especially new ones. I remember being able to spend days sitting down and playing HoI3 or Civ V or a multiplayer FPS or whatever. Then I spent the first half of last year watching KSP crash and burn and then spending the last half of last year watching the industry crash and burn really did a number on me. I picked up games, I played them for a few hours, I tended not to touch them again. I bought games and never played them. I played old favourites and found myself bored.
So I watched animu. I read lots of books. I spent weeks doing nothing but wasting time on the internet wondering if I should be playing games.
Then I set up PCSX2 and started playing games I hadn't played since 2003. Then I set up a Morrowind build and found myself playing it for 15 hours of the day. I found myself getting back into GS games and old favourites.
Now I haven't played games in 2 weeks because I haven't had the time or inclination, but I'm sure I'll get back to it soon.
Just take a break. Get new hobbies. Explore new games from old times or other genres.
Anonymous 05/15/15 (Fri) 03:29:34 07c1df No. 16798
>>16788
I still don't know when I'm going to get around to getting a PS3 and exploring all of its panty quests.
Anyway the best way to have fun with games is on a couch with some bros (no homo…until later) or at an arcade or some shit. Games (inclusive of video, board, sports, etc) have until very recently been an exclusively social activity. Removing the social aspect can remove a lot of the fun, and the online shit kind of makes it worse.
Anonymous 05/19/15 (Tue) 02:02:36 9bc791 No. 16911
>>13033
I cant play computergames anymore wihtout analysing them. The medium is shit as a whole, but only because ressources are not put to use properly. I force myself to play through them simply to get aquainted with pop-cultural content, latching onto mechanical or narrative elements I like to make it more bearable if possible. Media isnt there to be enjoyed.
If you want fun games, go for a game of pool with mates.
Anonymous 05/19/15 (Tue) 02:05:12 9bc791 No. 16912
>>16798
>Games (inclusive of video, board, sports, etc) have until very recently been an exclusively social activity
Not entirely true, see chess.
Anonymous 05/19/15 (Tue) 02:24:48 53e7c5 No. 16914
>>16798
>Games (inclusive of video, board, sports, etc) have until very recently been an exclusively social activity
No they fucking have not.
Video games became a social activity when the casuals infested it. They were for a dedicated core audience to have fun alone with before.
Anonymous 05/19/15 (Tue) 03:26:49 112c64 No. 16918
>>16798
Are you fucking retarded? Some of the most highly regarded games ever made are single-player narratives or puzzlers, adventure games, etc. Are you telling me the era of point and clicks was indicative of exclusively social activities? Monkey Island had a "share" button I never noticed?
I will agree that multiplayer games are immense fun, especially ones that find innovative ways of making you interact with other players. Saying games of all types were exclusively social until "very recently" is blatantly false and disregards every great singleplayer game in recent history.
Anonymous 05/19/15 (Tue) 06:21:15 1fcba6 No. 16934
>ignore how horrible the gaming industry is
>dedicate to only play casual games
>cancer get cured, you get your gf, and achieve the american dream
ignorance is bliss
;_;
Anonymous 05/19/15 (Tue) 18:56:50 e24f9d No. 16945
If you're feeling burnt out from vidya, it may be best to just take a break from games entirely and come back to them at a later time.
Anonymous 05/21/15 (Thu) 22:06:59 4ee428 No. 17033
>>13033
I'm currently in the same position. So far, my solutions consisted of:
Pick up on more books. Currently reading "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics" by John Mearsheimer.
Listen to more music. In fact, music and books usually go hand-in-hand.
Be more choosy in your games. As you gain more familiarity in video games, you start to identify which games are shit or not. If you keep playing the same games catering to the lowest common denominator, then of course you're going to be disillusioned with gaming.
Scour the games that you really want to play. I don't play very much older games, especially 90s PC games since most of them don't work on Windows 8.1 or they've really aged in terms of game design. AAA games are generic and soulless, avoid them for the time being until the game industry get their shit together (which will be never). Fortunately, recent indie games are booming. Many are utter shite and I avoid banal pixel-art pretentious platformers like the plague but Shovel Knight, 140, and AaaAa! Awesome are genuinely fantastic. cRPGs are on the resurgence and I am very must looking forward to playing Wasteland 2 and Pillars of Eternity.