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I don't get to play for that long at a time really though, just an hour or 2 before other half gets home from work.
Level 3
Wrathchild68 wrote:I'm getting the same as everybody else. I'm finding that 90% of games released are all virtually the same idea or concept. There is nothing coming out that makes me think "Hmm, got to get that."
I bought Ghost Recon today thinking that the online would be something different but it's infested with KDR whores who don't go for the objective.
That'll be fixed when Black Ops 2 comes out lol all the KDR whores will pop over to that leaving all the objective players on ghost recon 
If I have too much of the same thing I will inevitably get bored at some point. Due to the fact I haven't bought any new games for a while I keep playing the games I currently have over and over again and it's becoming ridiculously repetitive. There are only so many times I can restart Red Dead Redemption no matter how much I love it before it gets a little tedious. However, I blame myself for the boredom and not the games or the PS3 itself.
I'm pretty confident that when I've bough some new games such as Max Payne, Dragons Dogma and Kingdoms of Amalur the boredom will disappear.
My advice to people who feel as though they have lost, or are losing their 'gaming mojo', would be to take some time out from gaming for a while, too much of one thing can eventually lose it's appeal. What you have to remember is that there are so many great games coming out this year that it would be a shame to miss out on them!
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I think part of the problem boils down to too many games that people have and not enough time to play them all.
I go through this phase from time to time, but I try and get a few hours in here and there and try and stick with one game, get it finished then move on to the next. If I try and play too many games at once, I get bored because I have to remember all the details, what I was doing, how to play etc.
Stick with one game and play it through, don't try and play every single game that comes out or you may have because that can always make it feel worse.
Also, try and do something other than gaming first, and set gaming as a goal after you have achieved what you needed to do that doesn't involve gaming, clean your room, wash your car, gardening, exam work, anything, and when you have that done, you may find that the gaming is more enjoyable because you had to do something else that wasn't so easy to do.
It's what I do, and I find it works, because I then appreciate games more.
Sometimes I find those that are only interested in blasting everything and not necessarily actually listening to the story part of the game, or just tend to cut every scene because they don't want to watch them can get bored with games too. I only ever do that if I've already played a game and running through a second or 3rd time, but most times I enjoy the story as much as the game itself.
Then again, that could come from my past when Text adventures were all we had and you had to read every bit of detail to get the most out of the game. Nowadays, it's all to easy with everything done for you, and people are too easily distracted with Twitter or Facebook.
Play the game and ignore everything else, except if you have kids or a partner, for a few hrs and then do something else.
Level 3
Ellie87 wrote:
My advice to people who feel as though they have lost, or are losing their 'gaming mojo', would be to take some time out from gaming for a while, too much of one thing can eventually lose it's appeal. What you have to remember is that there are so many great games coming out this year that it would be a shame to miss out on them!
Pretty much how I feel about most things on Sky. After a while, watching the same sort of shows even if they have different names becomes boring, or the god awful Singing shows on TV that become boring.
Thankfully with those, you can record most of them and then just FF to the bits you want to watch and forget the rest. Just a shame there isn;t a recorder out there that will just record the singing and thats it. 
I only play GT5 and Killzone 3 now. My younger brother gave me Uncharted 3 and it just bored me. Jump around, solve a few puzzles, shoot some people and game over! More or less the same as the first two.
If I wasn't a beta tester here then I know for a fact I would barely turn on the PS3. There are only 2 games I am looking forward to (South Park and GTA V) but every time I see an ad for a new game on TV or online all I can say to myself is that I've seen it all before and its not worth my time or money to buy it.
I've bought only 1 game this year (Journey; which is brilliant!) as it was the only game that offered something different. I might have to take a break for a few weeks and see how that goes!
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Capeview wrote:I think part of the problem boils down to too many games that people have and not enough time to play them all.
I go through this phase from time to time, but I try and get a few hours in here and there and try and stick with one game, get it finished then move on to the next. If I try and play too many games at once, I get bored because I have to remember all the details, what I was doing, how to play etc.
Stick with one game and play it through, don't try and play every single game that comes out or you may have because that can always make it feel worse.
Also, try and do something other than gaming first, and set gaming as a goal after you have achieved what you needed to do that doesn't involve gaming, clean your room, wash your car, gardening, exam work, anything, and when you have that done, you may find that the gaming is more enjoyable because you had to do something else that wasn't so easy to do.
It's what I do, and I find it works, because I then appreciate games more.
Sometimes I find those that are only interested in blasting everything and not necessarily actually listening to the story part of the game, or just tend to cut every scene because they don't want to watch them can get bored with games too. I only ever do that if I've already played a game and running through a second or 3rd time, but most times I enjoy the story as much as the game itself.
Then again, that could come from my past when Text adventures were all we had and you had to read every bit of detail to get the most out of the game. Nowadays, it's all to easy with everything done for you, and people are too easily distracted with Twitter or Facebook.
Play the game and ignore everything else, except if you have kids or a partner, for a few hrs and then do something else.
Nice post
@Ellie87 I just bought Dragons Dogma, after getting rediculously bored with Skyrim and its a great game! I'm loving it! It reminds me of Fable for some reason..
Exams are over now thankfully so I don't feel guilty when I'm playing, so I can sink some time now into Dragons Dogma!
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Great games come around once every 3-4 years, so in the mean time we spend too much time playing the same games we've got; but I always find that openworld / sandbox titles are very helpful in this downtime cos' every playthrough is different rather than playing on a linear game that lasts for 4-6 hours with the same repetativeness. My collection is currently full of open world games to keep me occupied. I'm looking forward to Resident Evil 6 and Assassin's Creed III in the autumn; so until then Saints Row: The Third.... awaits.
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