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JMave
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Singapore1806 Posts
October 26 2008 09:20 GMT
#1
I really feel burnt out.

When I first got my internet, I remember that the first game I got into was runescape. Fkin runescape! It wasn't just any ordinary game to me. I got so into it, I actually played it for 3 years and for around 18 hours a day on it during holidays.

My parents got concerned and they took away my mouse so that I couldn't play. I got angry but eventually I got over runescape.

Then I got into Shattered Galaxy. I still find it one of the most awesome games that I've played. Even that didn't last. I would spend countless nights trying to level up fast and get super units and stuff but I just don't have that vibe anymore.

I also used to be really into WoW. It was quite a great game until Blizzard brought the concepts of viability and normalization into the game. But WoW was still fun. The raids were awesome.. the PvP was awesome. I missed 2 shotting mages and rogues in pre-TBC as a warrior.

Even that got really boring for me. So I got into starcraft.

Starcraft is a great game. I love the mechanics and the balance. Its great. But even that has gotten boring. I no longer find any need to play it anymore.

I feel like I'm at this point in my life where I feel I need to do more.

With that being said, I just got my enlistment letter into the military and its 9th Jan next year! So I guess that's something new. I'm not looking forward to it because I've heard stories in that place but I'm also looking forward to it because I need a change.

I've been taking guitar classes for almost 3 years but I suddenly feel like getting into it alot more. So I'm also getting a new guitar once my exams are over. Les Paul Standard!

But anyway, starcraft was fun.. I still will play it once in a while and the community is great. So much for plagu and leeboo. They were and always will be awesome!

**
火心 Jealous. I always loved that feeling when I was young. Embrace it.
XCetron
Profile Joined November 2006
5226 Posts
October 26 2008 09:34 GMT
#2
Wheres the legend in this?
Lemonwalrus
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States5465 Posts
October 26 2008 09:46 GMT
#3
He is proclaiming himself the legend of burning out. Don't worry about it, it just means that there can't be more than one of him in play at the same time.
TheTyranid
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Russian Federation4333 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-10-26 09:49:12
October 26 2008 09:47 GMT
#4
HypnoticPoo
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Singapore291 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-10-26 10:16:24
October 26 2008 10:12 GMT
#5
hahahaha u would be in national service when sc2 comes out ):

get a gf?
MEOW.
Substandard
Profile Joined October 2008
Italy270 Posts
October 26 2008 10:35 GMT
#6
On October 26 2008 18:20 JMave wrote:
I I got so into it, I actually played it for 3 years and for around 18 hours a day on it during holidays.




no wonder u burn out quicky if u play like 18 hours even if u only do that on holidays. Even progamers dont practice that much. Games keep being interesting if u play them in intervalls.
haduken
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia8267 Posts
October 26 2008 11:05 GMT
#7
I was like you once. Playing starcraft and counterstrike to the point of suicide. All this on a 56k modem mind you.

now i don't feel the urge anymore. it's like i just got over a drug addiction. but i still like to watch games and read the news and stuff.

interesting times.
Rillanon.au
Zoler
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Sweden6339 Posts
October 26 2008 12:13 GMT
#8
Of course you get bored when you play 24/7, that's for all hobbies and stuff, not just games.
Lim Yo Hwan forever!
JMave
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Singapore1806 Posts
October 26 2008 12:17 GMT
#9
On October 26 2008 19:12 HypnoticPoo wrote:
hahahaha u would be in national service when sc2 comes out ):

get a gf?



Ya.. but I don't think I'm going to play sc2 haha.
火心 Jealous. I always loved that feeling when I was young. Embrace it.
Krohm
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Canada1857 Posts
October 26 2008 13:44 GMT
#10
Oh man, I too played Runescape all the time. I played it back when it consisted of 4 servers and was 2d. Game wasn't very popular back then. 3d came out years later and the game sucked after that. Stopped playing it. I had a lvl 67 haha. Ugh what a waste of time.
Not bad for a cat toy.
Zortch
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada635 Posts
October 26 2008 15:29 GMT
#11
Thats why you gotta have multiples games going all the time.
Its so easy to burn out playing only a single game with all your gaming time.
Respect is everything. ~ARchon
XCetron
Profile Joined November 2006
5226 Posts
October 26 2008 17:56 GMT
#12
On a second note, Shattered Galaxy is awesome, I still play it now and then.
ambit!ous1
Profile Joined September 2007
United States3662 Posts
October 26 2008 18:40 GMT
#13
On October 26 2008 18:34 XCetron wrote:
Wheres the legend in this?

Bisu[Shield] / ♔ SoYeon
ThirtySixtyNinety
Profile Joined October 2008
3 Posts
October 26 2008 18:47 GMT
#14
On October 27 2008 03:40 ambit!ous1 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 26 2008 18:34 XCetron wrote:
Wheres the legend in this?


*~*~*~*
ulszz
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
Jamaica1787 Posts
October 26 2008 18:48 GMT
#15
holy shit runescape for 3 years. i played wow for like 2.5 n i thought i was crazy
everliving, everfaithful, eversure
Moff
Profile Joined August 2008
United Kingdom166 Posts
October 26 2008 19:56 GMT
#16
yeah i always burn out on games too, although starcraft has lasted a few months and isnt getting boring at all :D I always play about 3 at a time, usually ill be bored with them then swap to another set..then years later i'll pick them up again and start playing again v_v
Antipathy
Profile Joined June 2008
United States222 Posts
October 26 2008 20:07 GMT
#17
On October 26 2008 18:46 Lemonwalrus wrote:
He is proclaiming himself the legend of burning out. Don't worry about it, it just means that there can't be more than one of him in play at the same time.


I don't know whats more sad: your joke or the fact that I understood it.
"All give some, some give all"
GHOSTCLAW
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States17042 Posts
October 26 2008 20:40 GMT
#18
doing other activities is key so that you don't become burnt out. I keep trying to sneak in sc time whenever I can, and I can never get enough. But I wouldn't have it any other way.
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[X]Ken_D
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
United States4653 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-10-28 12:29:22
October 28 2008 12:28 GMT
#19
Saw the title and automatically thought about this:
[image loading]

It's a great game. One of the best arcadey games.
[X]Domain - I just do the website. Nothing more.
Suggestion Box
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
China115 Posts
October 28 2008 12:54 GMT
#20
On October 26 2008 20:05 haduken wrote:
I was like you once. Playing starcraft and counterstrike to the point of suicide. All this on a 56k modem mind you.

now i don't feel the urge anymore. it's like i just got over a drug addiction. but i still like to watch games and read the news and stuff.

interesting times.

A lot of kids are having adolescences like this these days. It's the wave of the future. It's changing societies and we haven't seen the effects yet. Technologies like gaming, cell phones, various web stuff and the like are making it infinitely easy to suck away all your time and make everything in reailty (nearly) pale in comparison in terms of gratification, which means that many psychologies will burn their lives to it as much as possible. Of course when they get used to it, then it's never enough. It's like crack.

So then they have a crisis, and then... who knows? But I think we all relate to this guy, that's why we're here.
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