I think im getting old...

Damo_Sport · Dec 28, 2011

Anyone else just lose interests in games sometimes? I have a few decent games on Xbox then i really should be playing i know after 10 mins il just turn em of again >.<

its quiet annoying because i want to play them, but i know il just be bored

Im getting old argg!!!

Whirly172 · Dec 28, 2011

yh i put fifa on and loose intrest by half time some times so just turn the ps3 off

Damo_Sport · Dec 28, 2011

Ive got things like RAGE to finish, skyrim.. gears3, borderlands, fallout... Just have no interest in them...

Whirly172 · Dec 28, 2011

yh my fat ps3 got ylod like 4 months ago so i have to start a few games from scratch again but cba

LewisTaylor · Dec 28, 2011

I get stressed out play COD MW3, i'll play maybe once a week if that sometimes, i just get ripped to bits by the people that play it daily!! by the time i go to move my gun i've already been shot dead lol.

Bluebeard · Dec 28, 2011

I lost interest when I was about 8. Alex Kidd on the Sega master System iirc. Played that for about 2 days.

I've never been able to get into them.

Damo_Sport · Dec 28, 2011

Xbox has given me soo litle interest lately im even thinking of returning to world of warcraft lol

Whirly172 · Dec 28, 2011

lol that just because chuck norris is in to it ?

Dafthead · Dec 28, 2011

Latest COD, only played it for about an hour. CBA anymore

SC03OTT · Dec 28, 2011

My Xbox has sat under my tv, unplugged for a little over a year. The only time I play computer games is with a group of mates. They dont really interest me any more.

Damo_Sport · Dec 28, 2011

I used to sit em on for hours.. then we moved beginning of december and ive lost interest every sinced we moved flat.. weird

seanybaby1788 · Dec 28, 2011

I only enjoy playing online now apart from
Some games with epic offline campaign e.g cod or gow

Goodj · Dec 28, 2011

It's not getting old, it's that games are now (mostly) becoming a series of spin-offs.

Fifa 12 is only ever going to be Fifa '05 with different names.

CODMW3 is just CODMW but with other stuff

GT5 is GT but with more cars.

Sure the graphics get nicer, but that really is about it.

The only difference I see is the physically interactive games (Wii, Move, Kinect).

Still, I'd prefer a 10-person Daytona set-up

Silent_Scone · Dec 29, 2011

05? Whatevs... Fifa 99.. Epic. It becomes more about appealing to a much wider audience nower days, so that any spaz can pick up and play.

Brian · Dec 29, 2011

I got old and lost interest back in the days of PS2, although I do think I'm missing out sometimes.

Darren S · Dec 29, 2011

Silent_Scone said:
05? Whatevs... Fifa 99.. Epic. It becomes more about appealing to a much wider audience nower days, so that any spaz can pick up and play.

Nail. Head. Hit.

Focus and involvement are rare requirements these days. Anything that can grab peoples' attention for more than 20mins at a time is doing well. Shame in a lot of ways - but the old days of several hours slog are LOOOOONG gone!

D.

Munson · Dec 29, 2011

Games are better than they ever have been, on the whole.

bully · Dec 29, 2011

Im old and I lost interest in spending hours on a game (except when I was off after an op long term) when the original xbox came out.

I suppose I turned into any spaz and just wanted to pick up and play for 20 minutes, my time got too valuable to me.

Also I think the online play made things get too difficult for me, back int he day it was complete a game and compare scores. Online means playing people who have serious skill level.

Example being, as I am off at the mo I played Goldeneye Wii in single player, good fun but on easy level. Went online and got rinsed. Practiced a bit and went online again, got slightly less rinsed. No fun at all, killed, spawn, look up and get my bearings, killed, spawn, try to move, killed.

Waste of my time as there is no enjoyment. Maybe its the game setup letting noobs be with experienced players but it got stupid.

On the other hand, when I go online on Mariokart Wii I win 99% of the time and it bores me.

Turkish · Dec 29, 2011

Daniel said:
I lost interest when I was about 8. Alex Kidd on the Sega master System iirc. Played that for about 2 days.

I've never been able to get into them.

You really need an Xbox Dan. I'd imagine you'd get as much enjoyment venting your days frustration by shouting abuse at cretins down the mic as actually playing the games.

Goodj · Dec 29, 2011

RE: Attention span.

I could get back into doing multiple hours of Fallout at a time, but I can barely make it through a short-weekend on F1 2011 without getting quite bored.

Wilkeh · Dec 29, 2011

That's why I still play Counter Strike 1.6 to this day. It was made in 1999 and updated since then. They haven't updated it in about 6-7 years now. There's no need, if it's not broken, don't fix it. It's the only game I've truely been loyal to. Also, because it's such an old game, everyone is good at it. New people will not play it, just the hardcore gaym0rz!

GiT · Dec 29, 2011

CS:S for me... Will be getting CS:GO too once out.

PC Gaming ftw, Consoles appear for the young(er than me! lol)

Turkish · Dec 29, 2011

Nah consoles aren't for young uns at all. I work with several blokes in their 40's and 50's that roll with a PS3 or Xbox.

Darren S · Dec 29, 2011

Turkish said:
You really need an Xbox Dan. I'd imagine you'd get as much enjoyment venting your days frustration by shouting abuse at cretins down the mic as actually playing the games.

PMSL. Can you seriously imagine Superfast on a console????

I've give the console 24mins to live - assuming it was lucky. And 20mins of that would be setting up his profile!

D.

Turkish · Dec 29, 2011

It would be glorious, ideally an open lobby on cod with some American teenagers for him to verbally abuse so viciously it'd result in a lifetime ban from XBL.

Darren S · Dec 29, 2011

Turkish said:
It would be glorious, ideally an open lobby on cod with some American teenagers for him to verbally abuse so viciously it'd result in a lifetime ban from XBL.

Even better, with the addition of three little words.....

"Just add alcohol"

D.

RSteve · Dec 30, 2011

I'm finding the only games that keep my interest are sandbox game and strategy, as they are pretty much play as you like.

Shooters etc have never kept my interest, I will play for 15mins and find myself saving and quitting automatically without really thinking about it.

I tend to go back to old games that I used to love alot too. I've always played GTA's, Company of Heroes, Age of Empires, Trackmania, Command and Conquer etc. It's rare that I actually acquire any NEW games (rather just play one of my usuals and then not play it for a year or two, then play it again after that time).

Damo_Sport · Dec 30, 2011

Love trackmania!! So addictive.

RSteve · Dec 30, 2011

Damo_Sport said:
Love trackmania!! So addictive.

Yeh, I played solo in the UK EPS finals around 3 years ago, came 2nd and won a cheque for £700

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Greeny. · Dec 30, 2011

Dafthead said:
Latest COD, only played it for about an hour. CBA anymore

Probably coz its awful, well its ok but the same as every other cod really. Try BF3

Greeny. · Dec 30, 2011

RSteve said:
Yeh, I played solo in the UK EPS finals around 3 years ago, came 2nd and won a cheque for £700 .

EPS

I loved the EPS, they still owe me money... :S

RSteve · Dec 30, 2011

Greeny. said:
EPS I loved the EPS, they still owe me money... :S

Tell me about it, I must have waited almost 10 months for the cash to come through!

Greeny. · Dec 30, 2011

wilky1107 said:
That's why I still play Counter Strike 1.6 to this day. It was made in 1999 and updated since then. They haven't updated it in about 6-7 years now. There's no need, if it's not broken, don't fix it. It's the only game I've truely been loyal to. Also, because it's such an old game, everyone is good at it. New people will not play it, just the hardcore gaym0rz!

I played this since 1.0 and loved it, around 7 years all in. I used to be epic! Then CSS for around 5 years after that :/

Greeny. · Dec 30, 2011

RSteve said:
Tell me about it, I must have waited almost 10 months for the cash to come through!

Ex CSS n00b here

McGherkin · Dec 30, 2011

I haven't been on the PS2 for ages - and games like TOCA RD3 have kinda lost their appeal now. However, I do play LFS a lot still.

Scutch · Dec 30, 2011

32 and love putting the 360 on. As Munson said, games are better than they've ever been. It's just a revolution of gaming. I've been a gamer since my Spectrum 48k back in the mid 80's.

You do need to be in the mood to play though, I agree with that.

RSteve · Dec 30, 2011

Greeny. said:
Ex CSS n00b here

Never played CSS. Although when we were waiting the for TM final at EPS we watched the CSS final....fook me the players did really get worked up. Shouting and balling and slamming fists against desks and all sorts, was quite entertaining.

st3ve · Dec 30, 2011

I find if I don't play for a few days I can go for weeks without so much as the want to play any games but if I do play for more than say 30 minutes I get into it and then the urge to play is there again.

Same as when a new game comes out I'll smash it for a few days or a week but once I've finished it the urge to play goes away.

I think im getting old...

Macca fan boiiiii

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