"Gamers' Block"

Nightowljrm

Have you ever had the feeling where you want to play a game and when you go to play it, you just... don't want to anymore? So you go to play another game, and it seems like it'd be fun to play, but when you get ready to play it, you're just not into it anymore? 



I'm going through that right now. It's not that I don't WANT to play, I played Power Stone (Dreamcast) a decent bit earlier. I've been wanting to play some Nintendo, as I haven't for about three days, but I just don't get around to it. It's not that I don't want to play, but when I do play, I just get this "ehhhh" feeling.



Maybe I'm just tired. *shrug* Are anyone else's gaming tendencies dictated by being tired? I don't mean sleepy tired, but mentally or physically. I think finals really burned me out!

NESMASTER14

I get that a lot! haha

Laserman

I get that almost every day. I finally get time to sit down and play a game and about 5 minutes into it I am looking for something else to play. Maybe I am getting old but a lot of games I enjoyed many years ago just "don't do" it for me...

Nightowljrm

Funny you say that. With me, sometimes I get into playing a game and after either I die for the first time or after about five minutes or so, it's like I get a roadblock that I have to fight through in order to keep enjoying it. Once I get over that hump, I'm good for about an hour or so; sometimes it's just breaking through this weird psychological barrier. Sometimes that won't happen to me for months, other times it happens every day.

videogamehunter

Yeah this happens to me once in a awhile. Like when I want to play 360 and set up the game and everything. I put the controller down and do something else.

the_wizard_666

I get something a bit similar. I want to play a game, but I never get past trying to choose one. I stare at the wall for hours and maybe pick one out, but usually end up playing nothing. If I have the urge to play something specific though, I just grab it and go.

mcat999

Glad to hear Im not alone, this kind of thing happens to me sometimes too, usually itll be for like weeks at a time though I will will just go through a phase and not play anything.

Silverspoon

Happens to me all the time. I get a huge craving to play something n start playing n shut it right back off.

sheikah

I tend to get this alot on work days. I'll come home from work, get on the computer, turn on my tv, put a game in the console then end up not playing it and dicking around on the internet instead. I don't know why I don't actually turn the game on. It's weird lol.

onemeanspleen

I usually keep one RPG going so I can just turn that on and grind some levels whenever I cant decide on something else to play.

buttheadrulesagain

Happens often...

Soera

I get this alot ... but its cause I think of playing all day while taking care of my kids ... by the time they finally go to bed, Im so exhausted that I want to just go to sleep and hope that the next day they pass out earlier!

BouncekDeLemos

Man I get this too. My cousin gets on his 360 and goes "wanna play" and I just go... "Naaaaaaa...."



Usually, the newer game consoles aren't grabbing or holding my attention like the old ones (I haven't heard any hype on the PS Vita or anything that interested me, so therefore, I never wanted one). So if there's nothing out there I wanna play, I won't play it, and revising old games just doesn't cut it. I just got to be in the mood.

SamSpade

I never get that. I pretty much play some incarnation of Street Fighter for a few matches if nothing else but usually fire up a shmup to dick around with for awhile. The only time I really procrastinate is when I'm drinking and I plan on playing something, in that event I get sidetracked with something on the computer or TV.

K.Thrower

I get this with games, but I have it much worse with my movie collection. At least with those, run time helps some with decision making. Still, I definitely spend more time looking and giving up than actually finding one to play.

Polonius

Yeah, I get that all the time. Seems like I prefer reading about them and listening to their music more than actually playing them. But then, there's other things to do in life, too - so it kinda works out in the end. It goes in phases for me - sometimes I don't play much, sometimes I'm rather into it.

SamSpade

Originally posted by: Polonius



Yeah, I get that all the time. Seems like I prefer reading about them and listening to their music more than actually playing them. But then, there's other things to do in life, too - so it kinda works out in the end. It goes in phases for me - sometimes I don't play much, sometimes I'm rather into it.

Yeah, I enjoy reading and watching documentaries and such about games. I spent a crazy amount of time reading up on and watching retrospectives of Street Fighter and Fatal Fury. It's kinda crazy how much story and history is really there for some of these games. Not to mention, King of Fighters alone has a cast of hundreds of characters, there's alot to read up on really.



In any case, I'm just fascinated about a great many aspects of the hobby. Even when I don't play them, I enjoy them.

RetroNESNerd

I have been having this problem as of late. It seems when I finally find time I just want to kick back and BS with friends.

Tanooki

Happened a lot to me when I had a collection in the size of around 2000 games and a dozen or so systems and handhelds of all sorts. You get this feeling and want to do it but then something distracts you and it doesnt happen. But since then I still have it with just a few hundred games because I never learn my lesson to not do more than one or two games at the same time do I jump around enough then forget or want but cant motivate to do it and it sucks. Good days in a game hunt around causes this phenomena a bit more than I'd like to admit.

Shane

I get that from time to time. Sometimes I'll go in thinking I'll play Ninja Gaiden and I'll end up playing Tetris for an hour while other times I'll just watch King of Kong.



Not meaning to derail thread but man they need to put Chasing Ghosts on DVD or Blu Ray

Nightowljrm

Looks like my six-day "Gamers' Block" is over. I'm kinda glad, too. Playing a game for random ten-minute sessions during a waking 16-hour-or-so period is very unlike me. I've been hooked on a new game of Dragon Warrior for about two and a half hours now.

Steve

Not really. Usually when I pick out my next game to play, I'm excited to play it (at least until I find out it either A. Sucks or B. Impossibly difficult). I also don't have too much trouble deciding which game to play next. I usually have a decent inkling as to what I'd like to play when I'm roughly 90% through whatever current game I'm playing. Sometimes it might come down to 3-4 titles but it's not a struggle to pick one relatively quickly.



Yeah, Finals can make it tough. When you're not feeling it, you're just not feeling it. I always try not to force myself into ever playing a game. Odds are I won't enjoy the experience. I wait until the urge strikes.

fsped09

All the time!

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It happens to me here and there. There are times I switch between 5 or 6 different games within an hour then just give up. :S

bearcat-doug

That's pretty much what keeps me from playing RPGs. As soon as I get bored and start playing something else, I just never get around to playing it again.

Natendo

Yup, it happens to me every day. I'm in the middle of around.... 287 games right now because of it.

Dendy

I have this all the time too, very annoying actually... Don't have much time to play anyway but when I get a minute and want to play, get that feeling... and I know I can spend time playing but I don't and it gets even worse...

Austin

I get this feeling a lot. Even when I was on vacation for the last couple of weeks, I still felt that way. Maybe it comes with having a large collection, or, maybe it comes with having too much on my plate (other responsibilities and urges with other hobbies)? Or maybe I am just getting old. Been playing games consistently for a good majority of my life, so maybe it's a sign of burnout.

VenusSatanas

what the hell people?!?! You need gamertherapy, Nightowlrjm this is how you get over that block:



I know exactly what feeling that it feels like to have a proliferation of games and systems, and yet have no desire to play them..or to choose a game that *was* fun years ago yet seems so dinky and silly now....so you just have to say to yourself that certain games that are like that are really good for practice. Practice on your 8 bit games will challenge your mind and your reflexes so that when you play more complex games on a newer system, its more fun and you die less!



Be open to the ''feeling'' of wanting to play, and go for it! Even if its just for 10 minutes. dont beat yourself up for it or ask ''whats it all for?''..Youre a gamer at heart and you love nintendo, so spend some time lovin' your NES and it will love you back





I switch between my NES, SNES and PS2 - I have different kinds of games for different moods that I am in. Right now, i have Bionic Commando in my NES, Super Metroid in my SNES, and Shadow of the Colossus in my PS2.. plus i have other games for these systems that allows me to play any kind of game.



I usually leave my game TV on and have at least one system on at all times - my PS2 .. Since I camp out here on the couch at night, I can just turn the TV on and press the start button to unpause my game, then have some fun for a few minutes, put it down and come back to it when I get in the mood again.



Im sure that some of you went through this same thing when you were much younger. I know that I did.. my brother and I had 20+ games for our nes, 10 games for the SNES, atari and also a gameboy.. and there were times during the summer that I would get bored with trying to beat ninja gaiden or mike tyson punch out,....at that point, i would pop in my RPG game to totally change up my style and to ''grind'' levels, or complete a quest.

the_wizard_666

Easy enough to do when you have a handful of games. When your collection spans 30 consoles and well over 3000 titles, sometimes it's a bit difficult to decide what you feel like playing. Just throwing that out there.