Gaming burnouts

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    Picture the scene. You load up a game you love, get comfy in your couch/gaming chair and...nothing. You either just don't feel like playing or feel like you're forcing yourself to play. Have you ever felt like this? What was the cause? What did you do/play to regain your enjoyment?

    For me, it was about a month ago. I had just finished Persona 5 Royal and began another playthrough of SMT IV. For some reason, I just plain didn't have the motivation to play through the earlygame. I had been playing Royal for 2 weeks straight, so I figured that might've been the reason - Naraku's difficulty wasn't helping either. Long story short, I decided to take a break from gaming for a while. For the past few of weeks I've been occasionally working towards trophies in Okami HD instead ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
     
    Tbh if there's one thing this pandemic and lockdown has shown, it's that I never really get gaming burnouts. I'll happily play video games for hours everyday, the only time I really get bored of a specific game is when I've completed it and finished all the worthwhile post-game content, which is pretty normal I guess!
     
    No I don't really get burned out from video games.

    Sometimes when I finish a game I have a desire to keep playing, so I start a second file and don't end up finishing that one.
     
    Burnout for me is...weird. Whenever I spend a lot of time on a game, as soon as I stop playing it I just lose all energy and it's really hard for me to pick up something else right away. When I finished Xenoblade Chronicles last month it was two weeks before I did more than just read visual novels, because everything I picked up I just wasn't in the mood for.
     
    Gaming burnout? Never heard of her.
     
    I think I properly experienced it for the first time in a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnng while with ACNH recently. The game itself, once you get around some things, is kinda poorly designed anyway BUT I just realised that I was getting to a point where it actually felt like a chore to pick up my Switch and play the game.

    Joycon drift waaaaas a small factor in this too, but generally I felt kinda bummed and didn't play anything for like a week or so and haven't touched ACNH since :X
     
    That first paragraph is my natural state and it's only occasionally that I will have the motivation to play a game and only rarely on those occasions will the game keep me playing frequently or for long periods of time. Generally no matter how much I enjoy a game after two weeks I will no longer want to play it, although there are extremely rare times where I come back to it after not playing it for a week or two and it renews my interest.
     
    For sure! I was obsessed with video games as a child to the point that it was the only hobby I had in my free time (if my parents didn't force me to do other hobbies). Growing up I played video games for hours on end and could never see the day where I didn't enjoy or play video games to the same hardcore extent I did then. Though I do like video games still, I actually feel no desire to play them or feel addicted as I did before - in fact a lot of other hobbies which I would have once found "boring" in comparison (reading, sports, movies) are of more interest to me now. I think I burnt out of video games properly around 10th grade. At one point I just realised I felt bored when I played or didn't particularly care and though I do still play games, I only play very rarely or occasionally. I only really play now to hang out and I do have a lot of fun with friends (made the mistake of repicking up League of Legends before finals after 3 yrs of not playing) but by myself I just can't bring myself to play most games. :p
     
    Happens to me all the time. Typically the way it goes for me is...
    Hyperfixate on a game, not be able to do/think about anything else - > Hyperfixation cuts off, can't pick it up for weeks -> Cycle repeats itself

    I can't consume media normally ngl
     
    same animal crossing is kind of burning me out with just how time-consuming things like terraforming, placing paths, and just moving/destroying stuff takes. also I'm honestly way too lazy to get rid of the flower field i neglected and it just kept expanding but now i actually need the space. Though I found that whenever i take like a 2-3 day break, I'll play AC pretty religiously for a week or so.

    For other games, I usually burn out quickly if I either spoil myself too much or play too much of the game in one sitting. Especially games that require you to do like repetitive stuff (playing all 4 routes of FE3H for example) will take so much out of me.
     
    virtualpet said:
    Happens to me all the time. Typically the way it goes for me is...
    Hyperfixate on a game, not be able to do/think about anything else - > Hyperfixation cuts off, can't pick it up for weeks -> Cycle repeats itself
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    Why do you have to call me out like this? :P

    But yeah, I also tend to go through phases where I just wanna play One Game and play it until I burn out. I'll pick the game up a few months later and do it all over again.
    Animal Crossing and Splatoon 2 are/were the only games where I can/could play daily. AC is meant for small bursts and isn't really bingeable, and Splatoon 2's mulitplayer, so it's different every day. Or maybe Splatoon 2 was just a 2 year binge, because I don't play it regularly anymore.
     
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