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Originally Posted by
NewHighScore 
Hit it right on the head I think. It seems as though most of us can only find a title or 2 to keep us interested in gaming whatever the genre may be of our particular choice. I'm lucky I found Starcraft 2 when it released. I hadn't gamed since the 1st year of WOW whenever that was(04?) and that lasted less then a year. I felt PC gaming was dead for a long time. Now I have played over 7000 ladder games of sc2. For me it is my go to game that can always keep me interested in another match. Without it I would be very depressed with gaming. Luckily in the recent past I found 2 more games which I very much enjoy. XCOM Enemy Unknown and Chivalry: Medieval warfare.
I'll also be honest here: A part of gaming, for me, was escapism. And not in any good sense.
It was an excuse for me to run away from problems that i felt i couldn't otherwise deal with at the time. Now i never gamed excessively to the point i neglected everything - i just would turn to gaming in order to get away from a few of lifes troubles. Just as say, some may turn to gambling or drink. My vice was gaming.
The irony is, although this worked for a while, inevitably i lost enjoyment for gaming, because my mind was preoccupied on the thing i was trying to avoid...it just took a while for me to realize this. Now i sometimes wonder if i may be going through this "phase" again, and as a result i think i'm spending more time reflecting on what i may, perhaps, need to address.
Now i'm not implying that this is what the OP is doing, but i'm just throwing that out there in case, for some of us, this rings any bells, and could possibly be why some of us may not be enjoying gaming as we once used to. Too much of a good thing, in a nutshell.
Edited by Thingamajig - 11/5/12 at 5:58pm
