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I've noticed that I have some core games that never really get boring, and then have games that I rotate through.
Most of my core games are mobile games, which means a lot are uninstalled because until recently I had an iPhone 6S 16GB (well I still do, but I bought a 7 256GB today), but there's other titles such as Kirby's Epic Yarn!, Minecraft Java, Undertale/Deltarune, etc.
I'm also 15 though so who knows.

also there is a sense of commitment to a game that can be lost from your younger stage of life.
but there is also less games to really commit yourself to, from "AAA" like content. some newer games are just farming simulator for exp or some kind of nonsense.
And if you have the option between 200 to 2000 games now, compared to a few back then. Also when you might just hit some gems that you get into for one reason or another.
 
I would also say, some games you can get "in the moment" of things, like monster hunter world, where I felt it was a bit meh, until I found a group to play for hours with and through some of the annoying grind in it. to other MMO like games that can have some kind of community.

No i dont anymore lol, i just used to. I do on the occational weekends when im not busy though.

Recently I've keep having this feeling where gaming was not what I remembered it was... like the whole 'sitting down in front of your PC and just dive into it' wasn't attractive anymore.
 
Everytime I open a single player game, after 5,6 minutes I keep thinking about the daily chores I have to do. Doing dishes, cleaning my room, keeps friends in contact etc. And I'm not even married.
 
Then I quit the game and pick up whatever stuff I needed to do, like cleaning or cooking or something, after doing so I kind of felt relaxed and even had a sense of accomplishment. LOL.
 
Younger me will sigh in disgust. Is this an age thing??? Where turning on vaccum cleaner somehow felt more rewarding then hard grinding ARPG for 5,6 hours? 
 
I went to cyber cafe from time to time, want to pull an all nighter, and it felt like doing work. LOL. I felt heck, I will only do this from now on if someone is paying me to do so. Why do I want to go home?? I just started this new level in Wolcen....
 
Does anyone feel the same way?? 

I try and get other things done before I game or I use it as a break from other things
I'm about to be 21, so certainly not old
my game choice has changed a lot over the years, I really don't play any competitive FPS games anymore I'm mostly back on the strategy and sim genres again.
 

I find I'm no longer interested in new release games. I think I've only purchased one new game this year. Modern games just don't seem rewarding to play. It's also much harder for me to find the motivation to learn a new game so if I do play games I'm more likely to just go back to the same old games that I've been playing for the last few years.

yea i agree with this i get bored with everything execpt destiny 2 thats like the only game that i enoy lol

I still play games but usually it was after 10pm because I don't have anything else to do around that time period. 
 
New games nowadays doesn't give me similar excitement anymore. The only new-ish one that i somewhat enjoy playing nowadays is Last Epoch, Hades and Satisfactory. I tried Halo Infinite recently. I was kinda enjoying it early on and then slowly questioning my existence. I quickly went to sleep and removed the game the next day.
 
I used to hate turn based games but as i grew older i starting to like them. I discovered Divinity: Original Sin 2 last year and blown away at the game quality and how much i enjoyed the game mechanics and story at my own pace.

Wow! You got a cool dad! 

Probably start with Ubuntu. It's pretty much the industry standard and has very good community support. If it works fine for you, then keep using it. If you're not happy with it, there are dozens of newb friendly distros out there for you to try. Linux Mint, PopOS, Zorin, just look up top Linux distros and you'll get tons of articles listing tons of distros. These types of distros hide the true complexity of a Unix-like system from the user to create an easy to learn interface. Fixing issues under the hood can sometimes involve a steep learning curve.
 
If you do wanna dive right into the Unix-like side of things, Debian and Arch are decent, and there are others like them too.
 
UI preference, hardware support, lightweightness, etc are all different for all the different distros out there so we can't really tell you a distro that will work well for you first go.
 
A certain distro might be a buggy mess for one person, while that same distro might work flawlessly for another person.
 
Anyways, welcome to freedom, the wild west that is the world of Linux, with the good and the bad that comes with it.

Going Pop!_OS or Ubuntu won't change the fact that he still need to use the Github script for his GoXLR because the developer didn't bother to create a package for Linux user. 
 
I think Linus himself chose that font style, no way that was out of the box font. 

No, why should I care? I'm not following this "challenge", but if he found KDE pretty and decided to go for manjaro after doing some googling, what's the problem?

Though I have to say, one game gave me another perspective of life - What Remains of Edith Finch.
Very rare occasion. 
If anyone's played it i hope they agree...
The "Game of life" is superior to any digital one. It might even been one to consider my goals in life. How often a game does that?

Maybe you're tired of games with goals since you now have goals to achive IRL. You might nowadays find goalless sandbox games fun because it's pure freedom and no expectations.
 
I think that's why BeamNG is one of my favorites. It always has been and always will be an expectationless escape from the real world. Over the years, other game modes have been added that include challenges and goals, but you need not pay any attention to them and just stick with the free roam mode that always has been there and always will be there. 
 
Or maybe fire up Minecraft in creative mode, pick a direction, and just walk enjoying the world. Try that whenever you're bored. I've walked hundreds of thousands of blocks in game. 
 
But if you have any self respect at all, DO NOT turn to social media every time you feel bored. It's a trap that I'm still working on escaping from. I find it's sometimes better to just sit still and just let yourself exist. It's nice to not be doing anything sometimes. Anything is better than bordem driven addiction. 

I do have goals aligned for myself in real life. And I am preparing for it, waiting for the opportunity to go for it. I think you nailed this one. 
 
Hmmm. I think social media is fine. I find browing reddit and chatting with people and getting things off my chest really relaxing. I think if you can actually sit still and just chill, that's awesome dude. 

It's more priorities in life than your age, I'd say.
 
I'm recently married. Making my wife smile means far more to me than anything I can do in a game. Throw in house maintenance and... yeah, gaming should take a backseat.
 
That and experience simply puts games in a broader context. You start to realize that you're pouring tons of energy into a game with little to show for it. For some games the very act of playing is the thing (I love Destiny 2 for the mechanics), but I've seen enough in life that I ask why I'd play for achievements/trophies or multiplayer dominance if I wasn't a competitive player. I'd rather hike, or travel, or otherwise see the world around me. Life is too short to not explore as much as you can before you're gone.

from age to difference in gaming and more.
there will be some big hits that some people just want to complete.
But a lot of games today also has a different focus, both in keeping you in the game or engaged in the content.
Sadly a lot of bad practices that can sour someones experience, either from a point of balance or paid content or restrictions.
Also that a linear path in a lot of games have gone away, with some that are just bigger than what they need to be.
 
as seen with older shooters like halo or other BF or COD and so on. Where most chaptered content is gone. also the pace being more and more "too much" at times. in the same way if an action movie was just action for 4-10 or so hours in a game, that can be draining. or if the game only used cutscenes and so on.
then there is also information pressure, knowing the "META" in some games where it's maybe a cheap way of saying "gotta learn this to win if not, don't enjoy it" and has to be up to date on it, as it goes for some SP but mostly in MP aspects.

yeah I was definitely surprised that I get a high doing daily day chores than gaming LOL
 
Also I dont eat as much as I used to, went to buffet and wanted to have a blast just eat a ton end up realizing that I am kind of full after 30 minutes. LOL

Thats a really good point. If a game has some sort of dominating meta that everyone attaches to the game becomes very boring to me. I don't have time to research builds and strats to just play the game effectively and not waste others time.

I found the strange correlation between being inebriated and not playing games.  Don't want to play computer games when inebriated.
Also yeah, getting older by the minute.

Maybe watch this video, see if it applies to you
 
For me it's not just games, it's literally everything I do from anime to games to reading manga, I can't keep focus on it for more than a few minutes unless I truly enjoy it, which is getting rarer these days
 
take care of your mental health, fellow gamer

Same here, I too have some issues that's made me not what I used to be capable of and I was never good at frag games - If there was a way to have a character with a target on their ass that would have been me, right along with a nice, big sign on my back that says "Go ahead - Shoot me".
Driving games I'm still good at though, maybe not the best but can hold my own vs the average player you'd ever run across for sure.
Well.... It's really a matter of perspective. I too experienced this and it's really a form of "Burn Out". Nothing you can do about it because it's real and it happens.
Maybe taking a short hiatus will recharge the batteries (If you will) for being more into it. I didn't have problems with thinking about other things while playing, it was more like I just wasn't getting into it like before and I used to do some all nighter's back when I was.
I still have some games that I've never completed or even played around here from over 10 years ago (PSX and PS2 days) - It's funny how it works out but that's how it is because now I've got all the time in the world to game if I was still into it like before but I don't.

I'll give an example - The Xenosaga series for PS2:
Finished the first game, got about halfway through the second and just ..... Stopped. Still have the third and final one but I've never played it, maybe I'll pick it up again one day and finally complete the series. Still have all the game guides I bought to play these so not lacking there if I ever do but will say it was during the first one I started to feel it becoming more of a "Chore" than a game and that's when I realized it's burn out as said.

Now - I must admit if a game catches my attention and it's fun to play that's fine and I can still stick with it but the more gameplay repetitive ones like RPG's (Some games in the FF series is a good example of it) I'm just not into that as before.
Constantly going to, away and back to areas over and over again just isn't what it used to be and (To me) gets boring or in some cass really tiring really fast.
Also having to run across or slug through the entire game map, just to get that one thing each and everytime isn't too much fun either (Anymore) even if the enemy characters are more powerful/leveled up..... With games that actually have a story behind it, those are much better but even then the sheer repetitiveness is still there for me.

I'd suggest stepping back and when you really feel the urge again, go for it.

 

Depends. Usually I get sidetracked and want to do something else like watch sports. Most open world games/souls-borne games are incredibly boring to me. Feels like they follow the same exact formula and after you play one, you've played them all. Story usually isn't enough to detract from that.
 
Shooters, I can't keep up with the zoomers or people that play all day anymore. I play a few matches in Halo Infinite, get my ass kicked, log off. I try not to get frustrated, but its hard because I enjoy the game and used to be good at shooters. After 10+ years of playing MMOs its completely ruined what aiming skill I had.
 
Recently played through Guardians of the Galaxy though, it was a really fun play through. The fully customizable difficulty was really nice rather than your typical easy/medium/hard. Story is great, combat is meh. The linear story and world reminded me of older games which was refreshing.

14
 
I don't know why, but most games became boring to me at that age.

I started noticing my interest in some games dwindling over the last two years or so. I was VERY involved with counter strike a few years ago. Nowadays the only games i play are the ones i can play at my own pace like strategy games, RPGs, etc.
 
If you have to work 8 hours each day suddenly your free time is much more valuable so i don't like wasting my free time playing frustrating or stressful games. I also had a few months this year where i just didn't really have a game to play. Everything was just boring after a few minutes like you described in the OP.
 
But i'm still a gamer at heart and i still discover games that pull me back in every now and then. Games that recently accomplished that were Dark Souls Remastered, Dark Souls 3, Cyberpunk, Witcher 3, Final Fanstasy 15 and Terraria.
 
But yes, i noticed that i got less and less interested in certain games over the last few years. For example i'm simply not interested in playing multiplayer shooters anymore.
 
Games i'm really looking forward right now: Elden Ring and Final Fantasy 7 Remake when it finally get's ported to PC. But other than these games i currently don't really know what to do with myself when sitting in front of my PC.