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    Default Are you currently "not feeling" video games?

    I know we at some point all experience burn-out, or something happens to us in the "real world" that de-prioritizes video games.

    Right now I'm very MEH towards games. But I know it's just one of those things... 2 weeks from now I'll probably be back in the thick of things.

    It just discourages me a little that I look at my collection and I go... "You know... I really am not in the mood to play any of these games right now..."

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    I'm currently touching my games.

    ohhhhh yes.

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    That's why God created eBay. To buy stuff you WILL want to play!

    Seriously ... we've ALL gone through this. Many times I find myself writing, talking, and thinking about games more than I find myself playing them. Right now, my "room of doom" has been demoted to a big "pile of doom" as I'm in the middle of yet another building project.

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    I'm major league addicted to Halo2 on Live right now. No, I am not feeling Blah.
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    I've had several gaming slumps as of late, mostly because indecision kicks my ass, I can't decide which game to choose, and eventually, I just get frustrated and not play anything. THAT sucks majorly. :/

    But on the whole, my slumps have not been very numerous in quantity or in time. Flack makes a damn good point, though... I don't find myself playing games as much now because there are just too many damn items I want on eBay (mostly Sega CD related). Heh... so far, I've been doing pretty good, and when I finally get an SCD, then I will definitely be out of a slump.
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    The day I stop wanting to play games is the day I no longer have a pulse.
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    I've been playing more this last week than I have since like... December. I'm addicted to Radiata Stories, and I plan to play it as soon as I get home from school tonight. :) Once I'm done with it, though, I'll probably go back to being way too stressed and busy with school and shit, and then I probably won't play much until school is out for the summer. :/

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    I was feeling "Meh" it until h2 came out. But I get that feeling all the time. How about being to bored to play video games.
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    My interest in playing video games waxes and wanes. Kinda like the tides.

    My interest in the industry and its history and doing my part to tell those stories remains constant.

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    yeah i feel that way right now. i have all these games but i can't sit here and play them. i'd rather do something else..

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    My interest in videogames has been growing for the last 4 years, and now itīs probably at its peak. I enjoy a lot more games today than I did before.

    Iīve even enjoyed playing Donkey Kong Jr. Math today! (but it sure has to do because a friend has given it to me for free )
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phosphor Dot Fossils
    My interest in playing video games waxes and wanes. Kinda like the tides.

    My interest in the industry and its history and doing my part to tell those stories remains constant.
    Thats exactly how I feel. To bad I have no Industry related stories.

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    History I like better then what's going on now at times.

    I have my moments now and again. Somedays I wake up and I don't even want to touch my games, but like Flack said, that's why god made Ebay.

    I always want more, I have no clue why, I could have a wall of games...and still want more
    These cartridges are dirty as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!

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    I was in a slump until yesterday, when I started playing Resident Evil 4. God that game rocks! Anyway, I usually get in a slump because I have too many games and I'm so indecisive about which one I want to play. So I'm working on reducing my collection a bit. I think I'll be happier this way. Quality over quantity, I say.
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    I wasn't really feeling that into games until Four Swords Adventures came out... That game kinda rekindled my love for 'em.

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    I was feeling that way about my XBOX for about six months so I waited for EB to have a good trade in deal and ditched it and 40 games! I paid off my PSP and pre ordered a few launch games. I then bought my wife a DS and Zoo Keeper for Valentines day . She loves it! I still have store credit to spend. Now I am excited about playing games again. My two year son now plays my wife's GBA SP!

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    My interest surely comes and goes towards videogames. Videogames tend to have their golden ages, and their down times. The down times are good, insofar as you can catch up on stuff you wanted to play, but didn't because other games seem more urgent. The golden ages are are good, because it seems like everyone's at the top of their game. I currently think the industry is in a down time, but hey, that happens, and it'll only make the next FF7 that much more satisfying...
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    depends on which games you mean.
    95% of all new games sux ass imo, so its not easy to "feel" them

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    My excuse these days is that I am running Windows 2000. I don't want to install any of my games under Windows 2000 in fear of comprimising its blissful stability; odds are there are still plenty of things that wouldn't run anyway, or at least wouldn't run as fast as they would under Windows 98.

    Of course I have multi-boot system, but restarting my computer is a sufficient obstacle to playing games that I still mostly stay in Windows 2000, doing productive things. Like posting on message boards.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phosphor Dot Fossils
    My interest in playing video games waxes and wanes. Kinda like the tides.

    My interest in the industry and its history and doing my part to tell those stories remains constant.
    I couldn't have put it better myself. I got through a lot of phases with my interest, and I'm currently a bit "ehh" (though I have started playing PC games now that I have a good enough PC to play on, and I can play Quake III and The Political Machine) when it comes to video games. But I don't think I'll ever be sick of flipping through my handful of gaming history books and talking to people about how Nolan Bushnell ran Atari for a while with no money.

    But next week I'll probably find myself scouring the local Good Will store and the pawn shops looking for stuff in good condition that I don't already have...

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