Game Genre Overload?

[Tanukitsune]

It's happened to me quite a few times, and I was wondering if I'm the only one who has suffered it?

Game Genre Overload is what I call when you play too many games in the same genre and all of the sudden you just can't play that genre for a while...

The first time I remember this happening to me was when I tried to beat all those adventure games I've never beaten... I almost hated adventure games after that ordeal and couldn't enjoy them again until Telltale game around!

The latest case is RPG overlord, which happened to me after playing the extra awesome Lost Odyssey, and after that it seemed that all I had was RPGs!

But I noticed that it's not only playing games of the same genre which cause this, I'm beginning to think the biggest factor is the quality of the game, when you get Game Genre Overload you get very nitpicky and you end up disliking games you'd probably wouldn't complain about if you weren't "overloaded"...

During this RPG Overload I discovered I never liked SRPGs to begin with and once I gave up on Enchanted arms and moved onto Blue Dragon I felt much better, I could probably even play Fallout 3 or Fable 2 now even!

Does this make it a blessing or a curse? On one side I'm quiting games I probably would have forced myself to finish otherwise, but am I giving up on a game that I'd enjoy if I weren't overloaded?

[elmuerte]

never had that problem, I only get bored of games

[Scrobbs]

I wonder if there is an element of that in why I get bored of some games quickly - Far Cry 2 in about 20 minutes, for example. I watched a mate playing the demo of COD5 and couldn't even be arsed to have a go! (Although to be fair I did play COD2 and COD4 a *lot*

[Marek]

never had that problem, I only get bored of games

Thanks for your brilliant contribution to this thread?

[Nachimir]

I've only had this once, when I binged on RTS games. I do also sometimes go through phases with genres, like playing Monkey Island on my DS sent me into a phase of point and click adventures, F.E.A.R. started a phase of FPS games that ended with S.T.A.L.K.E.R., etc.

[Tanukitsune]

I wonder if there is an element of that in why I get bored of some games quickly - Far Cry 2 in about 20 minutes, for example. I watched a mate playing the demo of COD5 and couldn't even be arsed to have a go! (Although to be fair I did play COD2 and COD4 a *lot*

Well, it sounds like you might have FPS overload? It might help to play something quite different? It always works for me!

[DanJW]

I do get this. Recently after my PC died and I reinstalled everything, I only really had steam on the system. Hence I ended up playing only TF2, CS:S and various HL2 mods. After a couple of weeks I was incredibly irritable whenever I played, getting really frustrated with my team-mates the whole time. Then I installed Terror from the Deep for a change of pace and felt much better.

[Roderick]

I don't think I've consciously experienced this. On a macro-scale, maybe that's why I'm not really interested in adventure games anymore? I played great quantities of them in my youth, and then I just couldn't get the patience to play them anymore. Even now I want a bit of action and jumping in my games.

But that could also simply be shifting tastes. It doesn't feel like I O.D.'d on them!

[miffy495]

I got pretty sick of Sandbox games right after the GTA collection was released on Steam. Playing through all 3 games in the GTA3 Trilogy and both PSP versions will do that to you. Luckily GTA IV helped me get over it.

[ThunderPeel2001]

For me, there's two types of games: There's the fast and immediately enjoyable ones (Guitar Hero II, Geometry Wars II, etc.) and there's the slow hour-eaters (GTAIV, Mass Effect, Sam & Max, etc.).

As long as I get a balance of these two, I'm good.