Should have done this a week ago

Yep - burn out is bound to happen, no matter what the game or genre is. I still love Skyrim, and the last time I could say that about a game was Dragon Age Origins. I fell in love with DAO and the characters in it. I mean, the plot line was nothing original, but after burning out on MMO's and other single player games that weren't worth their dollar value in play time, it was fantastic, with some nice visuals and very evocative scenes. I mean, I was ready to cry when the forest spirit and the werewolves confronted each other... and the acting and voices on the characters were just phenomenal. I felt immersed, and not just that, but emotionally involved. Funny thing is, I never even finished the game. After logging 60 hours in a few months during a "must complete all the things" phase, I lost interest. Never beat the game, and I never do that, but I was satiated. Since then, a lot of games in general feel like the same old thing - the same FPS, the same RPG (seriously - to you RPG fans: how many goblin orthodontists can we kill and how many pet rocks can we collect in one lifetime?).

Point is, while I feel like Skyrim in particular is nothing all too new or innovative, the package as a whole is fan-frickin-tastic, with plenty of options, play-styles and stories to keep you not just busy, but having fun with the game, as games are intended to be fun and not redundant grinds or chores~ Beats a lot of the other rabble out there, and I really haven't played anything else since it came out.

I can't even do MMO's any more - the repetitive gear grinds (ie, "end game content") is just the same thing it's always been: exploiting people's compulsions in addictive style gaming. I mean, I'm not saying it's wrong, but the compulsion to play always lasts longer than the fun.

Shoor said:

...Guess who hasn't even touched MW3 and BF3... because of Skyrim. I went back to CivCity Rome a bit 'cause I just installed it on my laptop, but my senses are always screaming "SKYRIM." And I thought my Dragon Age phase was bad...

Click to expand...

same here. I got skyrim BF3 MW3 RAGE and dead Island for christmas and have only touch MW3 and this since then. I'm not sure when I will get to them, but for now I dont care.

I made the mistake of buying Skyrim the day after I renewed my GameFly account. In theory, Skyrim was going to be a filler game while I was waiting for the others to come back and forth in the mail via GameFly..yeah that didn't quite go as planned.

HeavyMetal said:

I can't even do MMO's any more - the repetitive gear grinds (ie, "end game content") is just the same thing it's always been: exploiting people's compulsions in addictive style gaming. I mean, I'm not saying it's wrong, but the compulsion to play always lasts longer than the fun.

Click to expand...

This is me as well, MMOs and their "end game" are nothing more than grinding for different colored pixels then doing it all over again in 3 months, assuming its a good MMO with content patches. I'm retired from MMORPGs (for now) because I have a completist attitude towards games and MMOs are just hamster wheels.

I bought MW3 the day it came out. It's still sitting unopened on my shelf, with a sad look on its plastic case

I never got into MMOs at all. My brother was big into Warcraft and I watched him play one day. To be honest, it didn't look that interesting at the time and I didn't like the idea of paying every month.

With that said, I've been mixing it up a bit for the last couple days. I started a new season on FIFA and did a couple more races on F1 yesterday, and then put Skyrim in again for a couple hours. I think I enjoyed that couple hours more than when I played for five hours the other day. Variety is a good thing.

Skyrim kinda makes me wanna play Oblivion again and maybe pay more attention to my build

CharlesD said:

Yesterday I fired up the PS3 and when going through the case I have my games in, I had to turn past several others to get to the Skyrim disc. So on a whim I decided to play some different games while I was watching football. I played my FIFA franchise some, pulled out Uncharted 3, Arkham City, and Assassin's Creed Revelations. I had a blast.

Nothing against Skyrim. It's a great game and I've gotten good bang for my buck, but every time I get a new game it's like this. I play nothing else for a while, get a little burned out, and then it becomes one of the games in my collection. At that point I mix it up a lot and might even come back to it for short stints on occasion. That's where I am now, and for the sake of variety, that's probably a good thing. I'll probably come back to it, but I don't see myself doing those marathon sessions again, or going weeks never playing anything else.

Click to expand...

This is what I was talking about in one of my threads. It was about games I feel sorry for.
I haven't played ACR, BF3, UC3, or MW3 since X-mas. I mainly haven't played call of doody cuz it won't work on my Ps3 for some unknown reason.