Have any of you ever decided to give up videogames completely?

Adamantium

I have

well at least for the next 3-5 years. Other things to focus on, getting fit, well, university etc

I decided 2 months ago that I wasn't getting much out of it, like how i used to as a kid being able to pour unthinkable hours into the GTA'S, FF'S and MGS'S of yore.......it just got frankly boring and samey

so i went into smyths traded in my collection, except a few choice games, i'll probbaly want to show to grandkids and such and played one last FINAL game that I really foundly remembered:

Final Fantasy 10 on the PS2, 2001.

I complete it this morning, and I got to tell you people, its pure art!:D

After 50 hours, i sat back and thought well I haven't played anything (as a whole) as emotionally charged in 10 years

this is no rose tinted glasses, storytelling and the medium of gaming has stagnated and probably moved backwards(yes bioshock is dung).

Mods don't move, i put it in after hours to get a wider section of the boards .ie users population.

Logical Fallacy

Adamantium wrote: »

this is no rose tinted glasses, storytelling and the medium of gaming has stagnated and probably moved backwards(yes bioshock is dung).

L.A Noire says "s'up!".

pragmatic1

Gave them up when my xbox died. But theres a new gta out so might have to buy a new one.

aaronjumper

Not once. Especially with the new GTA on the way.

Another chance for mindless violence and immature humour.
It's good for the soul. Kind of. . .

krudler

Hell no, been playing games for nearly 25 years now, since the atari 2600 days, long as theres quality games being made I'll be playing them.

*sits and waits for Skyrim*

No way. Although as I get older the type of game I play is changing.

galah

after finishing Giana Sisters on my C64, I decided to pack it in. Graphics & plots weren't gonna get much better, anyway.

mackg

Adamantium wrote: »

I have

well at least for the next 3-5 years. Other things to focus on, getting fit, well, university etc

I decided 2 months ago that I wasn't getting much out of it, like how i used to as a kid being able to pour unthinkable hours into the GTA'S, FF'S and MGS'S of yore.......it just got frankly boring and samey

so i went into smyths traded in my collection, except a few choice games, i'll probbaly want to show to grandkids and such and played one last FINAL game that I really foundly remembered:

Final Fantasy 10 on the PS2, 2001.

I complete it this morning, and I got to tell you people, its pure art!:D

After 50 hours, i sat back and thought well I haven't played anything (as a whole) as emotionally charged in 10 years

this is no rose tinted glasses, storytelling and the medium of gaming has stagnated and probably moved backwards(yes bioshock is dung).

Mods don't move, i put it in after hours to get a wider section of the boards .ie users population.

Congrats on your reason for not moving it being one of the reasons for moving it given in the charter

Also online multiplayer has given certain genres a lot more appeal in my eyes, they say games have gotten easier but multiplayer is the most challenging aspect of any game.

stovelid

Adamantium wrote: »

Mods don't move, i put it in after hours to get a wider section of the boards .ie users population.

Isn't there some kind of nerd addiction forum it would be more suited to/

Danbo!

Not by choice, ****ing ylod

TheZohanS

Not really into video games, don't have the time. But wouldn't GTA5 on the xbox Kinect be cool...

silvine

Give it six months and you'll be back. They all come back in the end.

hooradiation

Adamantium wrote: »

this is no rose tinted glasses, storytelling and the medium of gaming has stagnated and probably moved backwards(yes bioshock is dung).

No it's nothing but rose tinted glasses. Gaming hasn't got worse, stagnated or any of that nonsense.
You just got old.

So yeah, cleanse your palate by taking a break, when you eventually come back you'll probably appreciate the games you'll play a lot more.
Or you'll still think as you do now, so you can go onto the games subforum where complaining that games now can't live up to your embellished memories is practically mandatory.

being addicted to and then dropping wow kinda took a lot of the fun out of games for me

still, i'll be playing skyrim

Cuddlesworth

I replaced my gaming with a porn addiction.

Dotrel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD-88a7msKI

Jaxxy

I've taken breaks, during which I haven't played anything for a couple of months at a time. (DS doesn't count, right?)

But with so many delicious new PC games on the horizon; Diablo III, The Old Republic, etc, I'm building myself a new monster machine in preparation for when I voluntarily turn into a social hermit.

opinion guy

I'm debating getting the xbox out of the cupboard for Battlefield 3 +/- MW3

silvine

hooradiation wrote: »

Adamantium wrote: »

this is no rose tinted glasses, storytelling and the medium of gaming has stagnated and probably moved backwards(yes bioshock is dung).

No it's nothing but rose tinted glasses. Gaming hasn't got worse, stagnated or any of that nonsense.
You just got old.

So yeah, cleanse your pallet by taking a break, when you eventually come back you'll probably appreciate the games you'll play a lot more.
Or you'll still think as you do now, so you can go onto the games subforum where complaining that games now can't live up to your embellished memories is practically mandatory.

But they don't make them like they used to!

aaronjumper

silvine wrote: »

But they don't make them like they used to!

No. . . they make them better :P

DualFrontDiscs

hooradiation wrote: »

So yeah, cleanse your pallet by taking a break

That's a lot of games

DFD.

starlit

Yes I gave up video games a few years ago. Don't play them on my pc any more but do play games the odd time on my DS but they are educational games though!

Sonics2k

I'm sorry I don't understand the question.

Quit video games

joshrogan

I'd rather play games than look at the X factor or other non engaging entertainment mediums.

hooradiation

aaronjumper wrote: »

No. . . they make them better :P

This guy knows the score.

DualFrontDiscs wrote: »

That's a lot of games

DFD.

touché sir - I, of course, meant palate .

Adamantium

i usually play games for the story, music, art and not the multiplayer............. So many games are moving away from split screen multiplayer in the same room, which is just simply irreplacable in terms of sheer fun.

I remember 8 of us used to go over to our friends houses to play HALO with 2 xboxes and 2 television in separate rooms, one team in each room and the shouts we'd hear from one room as a grenade landed beside a player, and we'd know who it was

Ostrom

Never. Playing 15 years now, no sign of slowing. Have had a few long stretches without playing (most recently 6 months), but just finished batman, got sonic generations last night, getting 3DS for xmas. Couldn't imagine ever quitting.

mackg

Adamantium wrote: »

i usually play games for the story, music, art and not the multiplayer............. So many games are moving away from split screen multiplayer in the same room, which is just simply irreplacable in terms of sheer fun.

I remember 8 of us used to go over to our friends houses to play HALO with 2 xboxes and 2 television in separate rooms, one team in each room and the shouts we'd hear from one room as a grenade landed beside a player, and we'd know who it was

I do like online a lot but there is no debating the joy of splitscreen multiplayer the glory days before booze of staying over at my buddies playing mariokart, goldeneye and perfect dark. Me and a friend recently played the spec ops missions on MW2 had a great laugh so we decided to go out and get another game and continue the fun (great thing about being an adult, just being able to go out and buy a game whenever you want) but we couldn't find anything Wii sports is only good for so long. Still there is always Pro!

Snakeblood

Skyrim, Arkham City, a new SSX. It would be the work of a madman to stop playing games now. A MADMAN. I've got a PS3 and an Xbox, and when I put the baby to bed, then I can dispense a brand of street justice that not only relaxes me, but also would get me a ten year sentence coupled with some strong remarks from the bench in real life.

Kasabian

I haven't played a videogame since :pac:.

LighterGuy

Adamantium wrote: »

....so i went into smyths traded in my collection, except a few choice games, i'll probbaly want to show to grandkids and such and played one last FINAL game that I really foundly remembered: Final Fantasy 10 on the PS2, 2001....

Didnt know Smyths still accepted trade-in on PS2 games

But anyways op, you got ripped off :pac: if you wanna give up playing video games thats cool but you shouldn't of traded-in. Places would gladly give you 1 euro then resell the game on for 29.99.

Daith

I like to think when I'm a pensioner ill still be replaying Zelda A Link to the Past and can still finish it.

Randomer.

Have any of you ever decided to give up reading books, or watching movies completely?

Irish Guitarist

I didn't decide to give up video games. I lost interest in them years ago. I still occasionally play a game online (this is great for instance) but I haven't bought a console or a computer game in years.

I have absolutely no interest in modern games. Those first person shooters or whatever they're called all look the same to me. Entering a room and shooting an alien or a soldier ad nauseum doesn't do anything for me. Give me Mario any day. As for remaking things like Sonic in 3D, they can piss right off.

Wetai

Adamantium wrote: »

I complete it this morning, and I got to tell you people, its pure art!:D

You can't give them up now. You've still to do a Perfect Game & an insane challenge (e.g. OSGNSNCNDNBBNTQRSO, OSGNSNCNONIIENENNENBBRSONSC, NSGNSNCNONENNENBB

Yes, I just looked for some challenge names on GameFAQs :P - and yes, these are challenges, not random characters)

)!

I haven't done either..

Adamantium

LighterGuy wrote: »

Didnt know Smyths still accepted trade-in on PS2 games

But anyways op, you got ripped off :pac: if you wanna give up playing video games thats cool but you shouldn't of traded-in. Places would gladly give you 1 euro then resell the game on for 29.99.

oh no i traded in my ps3 games but kept the few ps2 and ps1 games i had, they're only sentimental value at this stage!

Helix

i dont play them for my own personal enjoyment any more. havent for quite a while. i do however play them for my job

LighterGuy

Adamantium wrote: »

oh no i traded in my ps3 games but kept the few ps2 and ps1 games i had, they're only sentimental value at this stage!

Well good least you kept them.
But you still should of sold your ps3 games on adverts or something. Hey, im speaking for experience man hence why I am vocal of this :P
I got ripped off when I traded in about 40 ps2 and xbox games a few years ago. They gave me a euro for each game. While they were selling the average PS2/xbox game for 19.99 / 24.99 / 29.99.

They still have the same greedy mentality today.
Uncharted 3 came out of Wednesday. Now people paid 49.99 for that and some will be trading in after a few days. They'll only get 25 euro (at best.. most likely 21 euro) and Uncharted 3 pre-owned will be sold for 46.99 euro (yes, something like 3 euro cheaper than brand new)

HLecter

Dotrel makes an important point (comic book guy video 1 page back).

The only thing thats really to be feared is turning into a basement dwelling comic book guy, well, that or dying like that guy who played for days on end.

Put what age you are roughly in your answer. Me - late 20's, gave up gaming years back, except for a few months where command and conquer took over my life, its like crack to me, I literally crunched up the disc and put it in the bin for my own good.

Savage Tyrant

Yeah, I'm definitely never going to waste another single minute or hard earned euro on video games ever again. So childish and a useless waste of money.
I think my life will be all the better for it actually. I'm at peace with the decision.




Sorry, what? .... Elder Scrolls Skyrim? ... Next week you say? ... Oh well, fûck that then.

I'll never give them up. EVER!!

holystungun9

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

I replaced my gaming with a porn addiction.

I replaced my porn addiction with porn 'research'

Duggy747

I may lose interest in modern releases (except Skyrim, waiting 4 years for that bugger to come along) but I'll never quit gaming.

I still get a kick out of playing older classics on Snes, Arcade, Mega Drive, N64, PC, etc so even if I get bored with the gaming industry today I'll still fall back on the oldies.

Right now I'm playing Doom 1 for the buzz :pac:

Fizman

I find I have a gaming 'season'. My PS3 will gather dust from around May - Oct, then Nov - Apr I'll get stuck back into it. 28 now and I really don't have the endless hours available to put into it anymore, as the OP mentioned. I loved getting deep into games of the past like Zelda, GTA and some of the older RPGs that demanded time to enjoy, but these days I'm more likely to play a more pick up n play game such as Uncharted, FIFA, or a FPS.

One thing I do miss mind, and thinking of looking into again is PC gaming. I bought a monster rig 4 years back for over €2k but never really took advantage of it. Many a time in the past I burned the midnight oil staying up playing Command and Conquer or some FPS.

Now things like girls, jobs, training etc take up the majority of time.

However, GTA 5 has got my attention.

opinion guy

Duggy747 wrote: »

Right now I'm playing Doom 1 for the buzz :pac:

Was playing a flash version in a web browser about 2 weeks ago
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/470460

Kadongy

oh yeah

loads of times

These days I try to only play games I enjoy and feel like I've been having fun after playing though - Team Fortress 2 for example. Some games I would play compulsively for ages. Afterwards I would like I'd done some work and needed to relax Civilization, x-com...lots of those large scale repetitive strategy games with moronic AI.

minidazzler

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

L.A Noire says "s'up!".

L.A. Noire was boring, at least from a game play point of view, it was basically an old text game that just looked really pretty and had true to life faces. It was not that good.

Kadongy

Kadongy wrote: »

oh yeah

loads of times

These days I try to only play games I enjoy and feel like I've been having fun after playing though - Team Fortress 2 for example. Some games I would play compulsively for ages. Afterwards I would like I'd done some work and needed to relax Civilization, x-com...lots of those large scale repetitive strategy games with moronic AI.

I say that while Tropico 3 is downloading on this very machine
Bloody Steam sales
It looks fun though..

karaokeman

Absolutely, gave them up maybe 3 years ago and haven't regretted it since.

Don't drink, don't smoke, the internet is my only addiction.

Daith

Duggy747 wrote: »

Right now I'm playing Doom 1 for the buzz :pac:

That reminds me. We still have a PS1 setup at the family home so my Dad can still play Doom on it. And a N64 for Goldeneye.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

What a crazy notion OP...

KilOit

Never in my wildest dreams. Will play games till i hit my deathbed, even the girlfriend knows not to even try and stop me playing games