I guess plenty of gamers had this feeling, you play a game you really enjoy and have a lot of fun, stay up late then have to log off due to work or school.
You turn in to get up to work next day, you think about the game you played last night and you are planing what you are gonna do next.
You come home, make dinner, eat, then something happens, It just struck you, you don't have that urge to play that game you had so much fun the nigh before, you see the icon on the desktop, but you don't klick it, you klick on another game and don't play that game you had so much fun the night before for months or ever.
It was like a wall that sead NO, I don't want to play you.
I had this few times and I've never understood how the human brain to just shut down like that about a game.
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Yes, this happened a lot of times.....Off like a switch..... However on second thought after reading one of the replies, it may had been lingering or festering a few days before. I'm not sure now !
Another game that was worse than i thought..GW2.Usually if i get excited for a game,it tuns out pretty good,i do some homework before a purchase.
Any more that i had at least semi high expectations?Rift,it became a borefest after a few days.That is about it for high expectations that turned out to be deletions.
Well perhaps i was mildly excited for that other Trion game,the one with the TV series and stuff,i had hoped that would be good.
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I've done this with every MMO for the last few years, probably since a month or so after War's launch. I also do it pretty often with long or open ended games like D3, POE, Fallout, The Witcher, etc. Sometimes I think about these games when I'm away from my PC and get excited about planning character builds and such, but by the time I get home it's completely gone from my mind.
I kind of think it's me getting bored with gaming.
With games I enjoyed playing its more gradual, I simply find myself having less and less fun playing until I quit.
It seems when I stop learning. I tend to study deeply as I'm playing. Infact many games I'll spend as many hours watching Youtubes as playing. When I have done MOST all the cool stuff, that's when it hits.
The proof:
I can't play any mindless shooters, where you run and gun simply picking up weapons along the way....The learning in the only intriguing part. The story behind the game is of no real interest.
One example:
Fallout 4 base building, I was obsessed with it. I built this amazing base. Impenetrable building then with all its catwalks and gun turret's. When it was done and realized the attack horde is never really going to come, this is when it hit. I realized the story and quest never really interested me. Joining any faction was all the same, they sent you on mindless fetch quest.
MMOs:
Playing with others, this keeps me playing. But since their are no mmos where you play with others...their of no interest anymore. Their not even mmos !!
I think i'm just really hard to impress since i've played a lot of games for the past ~25 years, and they all start to feel very "same-same, but different".
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Let's face it, if you stay up all night grinding away on a game, you've probably just wasted a lot of time For some people, that feeling of pointlessness and waste can turn your mind to other things pretty quickly.
I think maybe it is an over saturation to the visuals. A lot of games produce the same graphic design that just changes in subtle ways. I feel having portals to lower regions, underworlds, overworlds, slip dimensions, you name it, where the artistry of the game completely changes helps.
But often game makers turn these extras into microtransactions and dlc's and future $$$ content. Which would be fine if it was affordable but it never is, for a common wage earner. When it turns into a rich man's toy everyone leaves to play something free and cheesy. Cheaper to leave than a new dlc in the game you once "loved" and new graphics; win win.
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A little over five years ago, however, I played every game from start to finish and sometimes multiple times.
Instead, I just end up logging into Overwatch and playing that all night because I don't have to learn anything new except for patch day. It's a familiar pair of favorite jeans. It's comfortable.
Indecision with games makes me have those feelings the OP described. I usually let my mood determine what game i want to play on a particular day.
EDIT: but many times i end up not playing anything for a day or two, and that usually helps make up my mind and tackle a single game all the way to the end. But the whole cycle of indecision repeats quite frequently.
Wait for reviews not previews, check out forums but remember no game can please everyone, check metacritic, look at steam for overall reaction, ask your gaming mates if they have played it or heard anything about it.
That might seem like a long time, but compared to playing a game for a couple of days and deciding it is not for you, it is no time at all.