I reduced my level of gaming drastically. 5-6 years ago, it was my number one expense, and I would sometimes spend my entire waking hours playing video games getting fat and lazy while my girlfriend at the time sat and and raged until she finally had enough and left my pathetic ass. I quit playing video games completely for about a year after that and slowly eased back into it at a much more reasonable level. Now I just use gamefly, I'll receive a new game every week or two, play it till I beat it (which can take 4 hours or 4 weeks depending on how busy I am) and send it back. Other than the rare times a big game I love comes out (when the new elder scrolls comes out for instance i'll be locked in during all my free time), I dont marathon anymore and my xbox will sometimes go several weeks without ever being turned on.
I still love video games. I think they are amazing creations and many are challenging and fascinating and spark levels of imagination and creativity far beyond most TV shows or movies. I encourage all children to play and have even recommended games to students. But they dont consume me the way they used to. In fact, whether I am just getting older and my patience is growing thinner, or games are getting shittier I dont know, but I find more and more games to be incredibly dull. I have been on a streak of games that bored me to tears. Bulletstorm, hunted, fear 3, homefront, crysis 2, dead space 2, red faction Armageddon. They all eventually bored the shit out of me, some sooner than others.
