"Too much of a good thing" is a very real and it can be very easy to play too much of something until you need to take break from it to reignite the joy in it for you.
Fighting games are my favourite genre, I've loved them since I was a kid games like Soul Edge and Mortal Kombat Deception. However, twice now have I majorly burned myself out on them and needed to stay away from them for a bit because they were just becoming less and less fun for me.
The first time was back in 2016, I had been playing fighting games back to back for at least a few months, nothing really in-between, with Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Tekken Tag 2 and 7, Soul Edge, Calibur 2 and 4, Mortal Kombat arcade kollection, 9 and X, most of the Blazblue games, you get the picture. However, eventually it started to get harder and harder for me to get enjoyment out of them, playing online matches got to be way less fun and I just couldn't get into BlazBlue CentralFiction as I did the other. It had became clear that I had played to many fighters and needed to take a break from something you love in order to appreciate it more so I spent a year playing of games like 100% Horizon Zero Dawn, playing Silent Hill, Mega Man X and Mario Kart for the first time, got back into Pokemon etc. By the summer of 2017, I was able to enjoy them again, though currently going through a similar patch after the sheer grind of MK11 has burned me out of the genre for me and I'm deciding what I should play instead.
This isn't a bad thing either, I feel gaming nowadays puts way too much emphasis that in order to be a "real fan", you have to keep playing no matter what, not helped that the recent GAAS trend also encourages this and expects it's audience to play daily. Take a break? Too bad, you lose out on bonuses, events, missions, skins etc. Very few games seem to understand that we are still human and sometimes need a break to enjoy it again, otherwise it becomes mundane and just busy work.
As such, for you, has their ever been a time you just needed a break from your favourite genre of game or just your favourite game or gaming in general? What did you do in the mean time and what happened if or when you came back to it?
Fighting games are my favourite genre, I've loved them since I was a kid games like Soul Edge and Mortal Kombat Deception. However, twice now have I majorly burned myself out on them and needed to stay away from them for a bit because they were just becoming less and less fun for me.
The first time was back in 2016, I had been playing fighting games back to back for at least a few months, nothing really in-between, with Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Tekken Tag 2 and 7, Soul Edge, Calibur 2 and 4, Mortal Kombat arcade kollection, 9 and X, most of the Blazblue games, you get the picture. However, eventually it started to get harder and harder for me to get enjoyment out of them, playing online matches got to be way less fun and I just couldn't get into BlazBlue CentralFiction as I did the other. It had became clear that I had played to many fighters and needed to take a break from something you love in order to appreciate it more so I spent a year playing of games like 100% Horizon Zero Dawn, playing Silent Hill, Mega Man X and Mario Kart for the first time, got back into Pokemon etc. By the summer of 2017, I was able to enjoy them again, though currently going through a similar patch after the sheer grind of MK11 has burned me out of the genre for me and I'm deciding what I should play instead.
This isn't a bad thing either, I feel gaming nowadays puts way too much emphasis that in order to be a "real fan", you have to keep playing no matter what, not helped that the recent GAAS trend also encourages this and expects it's audience to play daily. Take a break? Too bad, you lose out on bonuses, events, missions, skins etc. Very few games seem to understand that we are still human and sometimes need a break to enjoy it again, otherwise it becomes mundane and just busy work.
As such, for you, has their ever been a time you just needed a break from your favourite genre of game or just your favourite game or gaming in general? What did you do in the mean time and what happened if or when you came back to it?
