I miss that feeling of "passion" - Page 2

On December 22 2012 03:43 Demolicious wrote:
Yo, I think its a focus thing... Meditation is the answer. With this you can focus on the game and nothing else. I think that people thing about too many other things while they are playing. By using meditation and power over the mind, you can focus on the game as a pure entity.

On December 22 2012 00:42 NotoriousBig wrote:
It just seems that you get older and most people don´t enjoy gaming as much when they get older, maybe you should do something completely different and don´t play, untill you really have hunger for the games again.

Otherwise, why is it bad to go earlier to bed and live an healthy life?

On December 21 2012 21:39 IamaGrapeMan wrote:
Perhaps you just don't like the style of these new games?
There's a lot of gamers who have realized at some point that they like the old way they make games better and that the new games are awful.

On December 21 2012 18:32 vOdToasT wrote:
If you want a game to be passionate about, play Planescape: Torment.

I played it this year, and it blew my mind. It was so good that I'm going to play it again, with different party members so I can learn more about the story.

It also gave me that feeling or looking forward to continuing it, after coming home from school, or after waking up. I don't care for most games. I only play a few multiplayer games, and almost no single player games, because most of them bore me. So that this game interested me as much as it did (and still does, even after I have beaten it) says something about it.

On December 22 2012 01:51 thOr6136 wrote:
Hey dude, i totally understand you. Most of the games i play in SP i get bored, i don't know why, i see the game awesome, storyline awesome, awesome environment and settings, cool graphics... but i still get bored. So basically i gave up on SP games a while ago. I would give some a try here and there but thats about it. Games i love now are dota 2 and it used to be sc2. I love the competition, depth, esport, community. Oh well, thats how it is.

What i still find awesome is reading books. And that comes very close to SP gaming (its not the same but still its close ). And i don't read a lot. I read maybe 30 - 60 pages a day, i move slow through the epic fantasy book but i enjoy it as much as possible, i find it fun and maybe its a good replacement for SP games. You may try that

On December 22 2012 02:52 Hug-A-Hydralisk wrote:
I also felt like my imagination was fading away as I was growing up, I couldn't get lost in games anymore like I used to. But then I got into a university and discovered cannabis, since then my imagination has been returning and I find myself getting lost once again in the newer generation of Blizzard games like Starcraft II and Diablo III
Playing them once again now injects me with large quantities of nostalgia and Dae Ja Vou.

I feel like there are conservative pockets of society in the United States that still reject this notion of The Internet because its a form of culture that has only been commercially around since 1995.

Losing interest in video games does not mean that you are just growing up, I think that it just means the people you're around still have a sense of rejection to this kind of entertainment.

On December 22 2012 03:43 Demolicious wrote:
Yo, I think its a focus thing... Meditation is the answer. With this you can focus on the game and nothing else. I think that people thing about too many other things while they are playing. By using meditation and power over the mind, you can focus on the game as a pure entity.

On December 22 2012 08:27 ninazerg wrote:
Sounds like you need to play Majora's Mask for the first time ever.

On December 22 2012 10:26 Dracolich70 wrote:
I have had much of the same sensations. I am now 42 and have been a gamer since I was 13. I am very passionate about gaming, and have always been that way. Also a loner in that regard, and herein lies some differences, since my younger brother was never a factor, since he was 14 years younger and never a game, really.

I think you are feeling depressed, and quite honestly, I think that playing Starcraft isn't making you happy at all, but you fearing to let go of it, since it feels like the last bastion of a reminder of the past in correlation to what you have become, and you are clinging on to it with teeth and claws. Take a time out. You are not being passionate about it, because you are not letting yourself be that. Playing games and rushing them is taking out the whole experience. You know this, you just got focused on the end line; winning, rather than the process AND achieving the fruits of your labour, which is what you are really passionate about. You are chasing a rainbow, you do not even believe in exists, or think will pop up if you keep running. Passion finds you and grabs you, not the other way around, but you got to let go.

The differences between being a child and an playful adult is the difficulty in letting go of the responsibilities, every once in a while and be that kid. Another is life makes us more cynical with time and experience in comparison to a child. Gaming is also escaping - escaping from all the cares that we adults tend to care about(many of which we shouldn't). And escaping to a place which is your realm. A realm of enjoyment. If you are a Starcraft pro player you will also clock in results, if you do something else, and once you return you'd feel rejuvenated and happy. Let yourself get immersed - like a single player game is only able to achieve... and start having fun, like you used to, and stop making comparisons to the past - this is about finding what makes you happy - now. It may differ a bit what made you passionate in the past, but passionate people will always be that, even if they lost the path, or the path got crooked.

Maybe you are just tired of gaming...

The bane of being passionate is becoming a cynic. So never become that.

That sounds like something I'd be willing to try. I don't really know where or what to start with though. I think I would most enjoy fiction/adventure/mystery/action. I suppose that's something I would need to play around with.