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Games that made you quit gaming for a while.

WoW as well for me. It was strange because you would think I only stopped playing other games while I played WoW. I did that, but also right after I quit during the last few months of the WOTLK xpac, I went totally cold turkey on any video games for a few months. Felt good to "detox", however the damage was mostly done.


I will never touch another MMO; atleast not with that kind of seriousness. The weird thing is that with other games, you don't get a lot of social contact, so you still end up doing things in real life with real people. MMOs seem to substitute that social contact with online friends and guild mates. I guess it only affects people like me to that extreme, but atleast now I know my limits.
 
BocoDragon said:
Final Fantasy VI.

It sounds strange, but at the time I thought "they're never going to make a game as mature and epic as this again"... like it was all gonna go back to mascot platformers, etc.

So I quit gaming and I actually missed out on Chrono Trigger because of it! But in 1996 I caught up again. Got CT, got SMRPG, got hyped for the upcoming FFVII.
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There were more 'epic' and 'mature' RPGs released before FFVI.

Ever played Phantasy Star II - IV?

Even Secret of Evermore meets your qualifications, and a ton others.

I get the feeling that nostalgia clouds the minds of FFVI fans.
 
I gamefly-ed a couple of bad games in a row and then my 360 red-ringed for the 3rd time. I briefly enjoyed the strange pleasures of the outside world.
 
I've never stopped, but when I played WOW for a month earlier this year I had a real "this is all so fucking pointless, why do I waste my time with videogames" moment.
 
Rez said:
I've never stopped, but when I played WOW for a month earlier this year I had a real "this is all so fucking pointless, why do I waste my time with videogames" moment.
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Earlier this year as in 2011 or 2010?
 
It didn't make me quit gaming altogether, but after several months spent with Halo Reach's multiplayer, utter disappointment set in and, for the first time ever in my long history with the series, I couldn't bring myself to play anymore. My friends got me to come back a few times and I tried repeatedly to convince myself it was awesome but there were too many nagging little things about the experience that really turned me off. One day, in the middle of a match, it was like someone flicked a lightswitch and I was like, "This isn't fun, why am I playing this?" Been catching up on my backlog ever since.
 
but do you people mean that WoW was so fucking addictive that you had to quit gaming all together for a while when you gave up on it before being able to enjoy other forms of videogames later on?

is it that bad?

it kinda sounds like.. traumatizing.
 
WoW had a different effect on me compared to most people in this thread. After playing it for a while (twice now) it became more of a chore and rather than feel like playing a game it felt like I was manipulating a graphical spreadsheet. It actually made me WANT to play games that I found fun again. Since I stopped playing in December I have played through 10 standard (not mmo) games.
 
seat said:
I quit games for a long while when Sega gave up on Dreamcast. I really thought video games had died that day.
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A certain part of videogaming died when the Dreamcast died. Arcade style games have never really been the same since.
 
sphinx said:
but do you people mean that WoW was so fucking addictive that you had to quit gaming all together for a while when you gave up on it before being able to enjoy other forms of videogames later on?

is it that bad?

it kinda sounds like.. traumatizing.
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it sounds like my experience was a little different. I played it a lot for a month, but it wasn't that it sucked up all my time, it's just that it's so manipulative -- willingly, almost brazenly so -- that suddenly you feel like the video game rug has been pulled out from under you and a team of of cold-hearted psychologists at Blizzard have exposed the dreadful money-machine that drives everything you do. Then you're left cynical and bitter and wondering why anyone would pay money to press buttons on a controller.

And then you just realise that WOW is, when divorced from the social component, a thoroughly ethically questionable machine and isn't indicative of the state of all other video games.
 
Yeah, I always questioned why I played video games whenever I played WoW. Horrible disgusting thing.

To Far Away Times said:
I tried to get into WoW. My brother had an account for a year or so and he played pretty frequently. I think I played about 100 hrs over the course of a year (thats a lot of time playing a single game, but not nearly as much as some people spend playing WoW). I dunno, WoW was never able to work its crack like grip on me like Diablo II did.
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I played Diablo II on and off for 8 years, and then I moved onto WoW. :/
 
I tried to get into WoW. My brother had an account for a year or so and he played pretty frequently. I think I played about 100 hrs over the course of a year (thats a lot of time playing a single game, but not nearly as much as some people spend playing WoW). I dunno, WoW was never able to work its crack like grip on me like Diablo II did.
 
G(5, got to expert licence and was dominating them but stopped playing when I went on holiday at christmas time. I reckon I have played 10hrs only this year...
 
I quit for awhile after Ocarina of Time. It wasn't a bad game by any means but the Zelda magic was gone for me. I also decided to abandon Nintendo as well, which was depressing considering I was a lifelong Nintendo fan. I thought maybe I was done with gaming. I eventually picked up a PS2, applied for my Sony Fanboy license and got dudebro certification and I've never looked back.
 
WoW definitely killed some of the sense of adventure I used to have for games, or at least, end game raiding did. I used to just be able to PLAY games, and not worry about what's behind the scenes. Don't get me wrong, I love min-maxing and generally beating the snot out of games, so I'd EVENTUALLY get around to that if I loved the game, but after WoW, it nearly became necessity. I now find it really hard to play anything with missable content or a large degree of customization without having the facts laid out before me.

Also, Halo 2 killed multiplayer shooters for me. Not that there was anything wrong with Halo 2; I simply played too much of it from 04-06 or so, and became completely burned out. The only shooters I've played since have been single player affairs like Metroid Prime (hardly counts anyways) and Crysis.
 
Gears of War 1. I played nothing else for about 6 months. I just didn't care about anything else even with Gears 1's fault I just kept putting in the hours day in day out. :)

Final Fantasy XI. I played it on and off for 6 years. There were certain years where I didn't rent or buy anything else. No other game mattered. I'm surprised I was ever able to finally break away from FFXI permanently and the only thing I miss is the music----which I thankfully can listen to so I'm set there.

I've been gaming since I was 5 though. I'll play till I die. :)
 
I take huge breaks after playing a great game...kinda like refueling after some great sex. I didn't touch a game for a while after Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver and SMT: Nocturne. My biggest break probably came after Arc the Lad II though. I put so much damn time into that game, and it rocked my world. Really needed a breather after.
 
It's never really a certain game.I play several games and when I think that it isn't really fun at the moment I quit playing for several weeks.
 
I quit gaming shortly after screwing myself out of green herbs in Resident Evil 2. I came back, but more recently, I quit gaming after getting stuck in GOW3.

How Was I supposed to know you could jump on the fucking giant's hand??? I was avoiding him smashing me
For TWO WEEKS. I tossed my controller, and just got busy with work tv/hung out a bit more with friends. Think it lasted a month or so. I'd get home and just be fuming mad at that stupid part, just on-demanded tv shows as well... UGH..

I still haven't finished GOW3.
 
Mafia 2 - some part where you have to drive to different gas stations to cash gas stamps because they were gonna expire that night at midnight. Tried a few times and it was hard to even find the stations let alone finish in the time they allowed. Then I thought to myself, I wouldn't enjoy doing this in real life so why the hell was I trying to do this stupid task in a game? Returned the game to gamefly the next day and didn't turn on my 360 until MvC3 came out.
 
jeremy1456 said:
There were more 'epic' and 'mature' RPGs released before FFVI.

Ever played Phantasy Star II - IV?

Even Secret of Evermore meets your qualifications, and a ton others.

I get the feeling that nostalgia clouds the minds of FFVI fans.
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Well quitting gaming because of FFVI was not a rational position to begin with..

I was young....

I just had this feeling that other games could not live up to that. My gaming consciousness at that time had no other contender.

Now, of course, I know there were great games before, and immediately after.....

Though I will say that FFVI was totally wonderful :)
 
For me, it was Metal Gear Solid 4.

I am one of the few that thinks MGS 3 is a piece of trash, ever since it's release I had been really disappoitned and when MGS 4 was announced and shown that it would be with Solid Snake, Otacon and Liquid Ocelot as the main cast I got extremely hyped and believed that I would love it just as much as I did MGS 1 and 2.

Sadly outside of Chapter 4 this didn't happen. By the end of the game I was ready to call it quits.

Thing is I told myself that I would wait until my favorite franchise released it's next game and if I didn't like it I would in fact sell of everything and just say to hell with it.

Thing is unlike many in this thread XIII is what saved my gaming for me. Loved every second of it and it was the first game that made me want to play for long hours since the trash that I feel MGS 4 is. Ended up being my second favorite FF overall as well.
 
jeremy1456 said:
There were more 'epic' and 'mature' RPGs released before FFVI.

Ever played Phantasy Star II - IV?

Even Secret of Evermore meets your qualifications, and a ton others.

I get the feeling that nostalgia clouds the minds of FFVI fans.
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We get it, you don't like Squaresoft games, but you know, there are a lot of people who like them, so don't use the nostalgia thing, because everyone of us is blinded by nostalgia.
 
I was a die hard nintendo fanboy and chose the n64 and GCN over the PSX/PS2, I got so used to not playing games very often that I basically stopped. I was hyped for the wii and was so completely disappointed, every game I bought for the first 2 years were awful, mainly because I hate motion controls. I quit gaming entirely, because of the wii, it was so frustrating waiting for games and then realizing how awful they were upon playing them.

Back in 2008 I bought a ps3 for bluray and it was right when dead space came out, I bought it on a whim. Talk about being completely blown away, I have since went and bought a 360, an xbox, a saturn, psp, ds, gaming laptop, etc. I can't imagine not playing games.

Sony saved gaming for me.
 
Baldur's Gate 2 ... After finish it, I was weeks without being able to play another game, it struck me like no other game
 
I don't think I've ever quit gaming as such, I only really got into it this gen. I do however go through phases of buying lots of games, but then I lose interest and I'll choose to spend my money on TV boxsets or DVDs. For example the most recent game on my shelf is either Vanquish or Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom, can't remember which came out more recently.

For now I'm spending the majority of my money on books and the odd boxset. Though I've no doubt I'll drop those in the coming months and start picking up games again.
 
Not quit entirely, but I haven't touched my 360 since Black Ops. I was (am?) a secret CoD fanboy, but for some reason I felt a bit burnt out by it. But now I'm going through my PS3 backlog so it's a good thing, but I just hope I feel the need to go back to my 360 and get back on the horse at some point.
 
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This motherfucker made me stop gaming for almost a year. It was so bad. I never even beat it.

I usually 'quit gaming' for a while during the summer holidays. After I finished Mass Effect 2 last year, my gaming time severely diminished as well.
 
Not entirely made me stop gaming, but Just Cause 2 has made me appreciate games a lot less since no game I've played comes close in regards to the freedom available in that game. Every other game moves so slowly now :(
 
I quit gaming after I played Lineage 2 for along time. I got killed by a bunch of russians, lost the bow that took me 3 and a half weeks of farming to get.

Well, not really a long time, just a few months.

Before I quit, I got my entire clan together and we farmed the russian clan for awhile, and called it. Felt good, they dropped a lot of their gear, and one of them even lost a wep of equal value, but it wasnt good enough =\
 
Nothing in particular has made me quit, but the lack of horror games, and the abundance of shooters, made me lost interest for the current gen for a while. Batman: Arkham Asylum revived it pretty much single handedly.
 
World Of Warcraft.

Oh god did that game almost rape all enjoyment I derived from gaming. By the end I wasn't playing, I was watching a counter (my DPS meter). Nothing else mattered but my throughput as I was a Mage and when I realised how bad I had become, I almost stopped gaming altogether.

Thankfully playing proper games (Yey for the F1 2010 community here on GAF) and actually playing for enjoyment has re-kindled my interest in gaming but FUCK WoW and FUCK MMO's!
 
4 years on World of Warcraft, 4 years on Legend of Mir 2, 2 years on Legend of Mir 3, 3 years on Star Wars Galaxies and small stints on other MMORPGs killed my ability to enjoy playing games. I've still not really been able to get back into them, in spite of being "clean" for almost 3 years now. *sigh*
 
It was like playing a fucking Twilight book.

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I quit for half a year after this, and it completely ruined JRPG's for me.
 
Like many, when SEGA gave up on the Dreamcast is when I thought I was finished with gaming in general. After SEGA of America pulled Shenmue 2 from a US release that was the straw that broke the camel's back so to speak for me. I was very anti-SCEA at the time and only played Nintendo and SEGA systems and with N64 software on life support it was easy to just give up... and I did until I got accepted into grad school. That summer before starting I decided to play through Grandia on SEGA Saturn as a last "hurrah." But Grandia just kept me into gaming long enough to breakdown and buy a GameCube in May 2002. After that, three summer trips to Japan in three years buying cheap systems and software helped to tide me over until I finally "let go" of my hatred towards the PlayStation brand and bought a PSone ('03) and a PS2 ('04).

I now play games, not systems ;-)
 
Warcraft...I want to go play, I just can't.

Black Ops has killed FPSs for me, I can't play anymore, I'm just done. My gaming for the last month has been DA2, which I did more out of desire to find out what happens than any real need or want to play the damn game.

My gaming life right now revolves around GAF and I'm hoping that sometime soon that spark will be reignited. I'm thinking that it will when the 3DS comes out. Can't wait to play the new Kid Icarus game, and OOT in 3D.
 
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