Ever started to play a game only for it not to grip your attention? Ever lost all enthusiasm for all games, even the ones you really want to play? Ever been so stressed that you have lost the will to play anything?
Simon Weatherall of This Is My Joystick looks at his gaming dry spell, and how he turned it from having no gaming appetite to being even more hungry for games.
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
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I too have experienced this. Right in the middle of Red Dead Redemption. It only lasted a week though.
I just take a look at the overwhelming increase of amazing titles i need to purchase and play, that i just let out a sigh and consider giving up gaming. Of course the effect is only temporary, but yes, it happens.
Exactly how i feel when i start up a MP game. Absolutley no motivation whatsoever.
Kill. Die. Respawn. Rinse. Repeat. The same for all MP games.
At least with single player, there is a decent story allowing me to continue playing just to know what happens next.
When I wrote this I figured that other people would have similar dry spells. Its a shame when it happens and its strange how your feelings change towards gaming. I definitely felt relieved after it was all over though.
Being a journalist myself, this happens to me more often than not. The 'Dry Spell' hits me a lot as far as new games go. They lack the fun levels of older games ( to me ).