Usually get burned out from playing video games can come from many factors.

In Minecraft, you have spent so much time to get the best of what you can get, then a creeper blows up, you fall in lava, or a griefer destroys all of your stuff with auto-save on. At least in Minecraft, you could have loaded back so you don't see this happening or keeping trolls away.

In Grand Theft Auto Online, you are minding your own business, driving around the city and suddenly someone kills you. You have the option to fight back, but risk getting spawned killed over and over again. The option to go to passive mode, but you can't fight even against NPCs and police officers. But at least you can go to a private match to avoid all of this.

If you're playing Halo 5 on Legendary solo, you are often babysitting the other 3 AI teammates from the beginning of the game to the end. It may seem funny at first, when you see your teammates die through a domino effect in attempt to revive you, it gets tiresome fast.

Any game that involve trial and error. Usually these games are meant to teach you to learn from your mistakes, but technically the game can be cheap and unfair on purpose. It doesn't make the game any harder, but frustrating. I'm no robot, but it's no fun.

Any online game that involves griefers, team killers, spawn killers, and also using glitches. This is pretty much self explanatory, make it seem like you don't even want to play anymore until you find reliable people to play with. Good thing these are unacceptable in tournaments.


Now here's a game that really made me feel burned out...
The Division.
You spend so much time leveling up, ranking up Dark Zone levels, farming, repeatedly playing missions, tasks, assignments, both easy and difficult, to build up your character. You tediously spend so much time getting better loot, making your character stronger and stronger. It's not easy. Not at all. You enter the Dark Zone for the millionth time, and you always face assholes. They will casually kill you for no reason, then steal all of your loot. They would also possibly spawn kill as well. You try to go north to face harder enemies, and you deal with far less assholes up there. It's an acceptable trade off. The new update comes along, and based off of your gear score level, you are placed in really, really difficult high leveled enemies at the easy south part of the Dark Zone. You can't go anywhere north because they are extremely strong. You try to extract your loot, and now you have to keep an eye on the rope. Why? The new update allows people to cut the rope, drop all of the loot on the ground. You don't feel reassured anymore when placing your loot onto the rope. The ability to cut the rope forces you to stay around. If you die, eventually the loot will be stolen. You respawn, try to get your loot back before they extract the stolen loot that belonged to you. You would be forced to go rogue by simply trying to get your loot back, whether if that means killing them as they have it, or cutting the rope as they try to extract it. When you die as rogue, you face some harsh consequences.

But what really bugs me the most: You spent so much time building your character from the beginning, only to be single shotted to death by a sadistic player that will now steal your hard earned loot. Every. Single. Time.

I'm so burned out, I can't even enjoy Overwatch for the remaining time of the day.

I think the problem is that you play shooters way too much. Shooters are not fun. They haven't been for years. They're all the same exact shit over and over again, and when one game comes out that has something new, every other game that follows it and has that exact same thing. It started as you running around a map picking up weapons and killing each other, which was nice. Then they introduced loadouts, and every game ever afterwards did that (including Halo, which traditionally did not). Then they went to weapon mods. Then it was perks. And then weapon skins and other bullshit. Shooters are all the exact same thing over and over again, and nothing is ever interesting. And don't even get me started on the community for those games.

In games like Minecraft, I don't really think you can "burn out." You reach a point of frustration if something you made gets destroyed, but you can easily remake it. I didn't play Minecraft, but I played Terraria extensively, and the only reason I stopped was because the creator stopped updating the game for a couple years, and I had gotten all the end-game stuff. If the game had been regularly patched, I probably would've played it a lot longer.

So basically, it's no surprise you feel burned out when all you do is play the same type of game over and over again.

The only game I'd say I've been burned out from is EVE Online, usually after losing a couple ships in a short timespan due to stupid decisions. Luckily it usually only last for a few days and then I'm back into it again.
I guess it sort of happens with Minecraft too, but it's usually because the people I'm playing with is losing interest once we reach the higher tech levels of whatever modpack we're playing and playing it alone is no fun. I guess it's the downside of having only a small group of people playing and then being online 10 hours a day in the first few weeks

I'm getting super burnt out on CS: GO. I made it to DMG then moved from Germany to Texas, all the while Matchmaking was reworked, so my rank expired and I'm down to Silver II. It seems no matter how hard I carry, I can't seem to rank up.
The only thing keeping me playing is the fact that I got both an AWP|Medusa and a CZ75-Auto|Chalice as casual drops on the same day. I sold the Chalice and now have an inventory of ST skins I like aesthetically.

While this is true for core franchises like CoD, Battlefield, etc., there are lots of other shooters trying to branch out from this formula. Sure, None of them are entirely perfect, but it's all up to personal preference if the bad or lacking elements are diluted by what the game does right.

You can definitely burn out on games like Minecraft. The community for these games aren't exactly the greatest. With constantly updating games like Terraria or the dozens of cookie cutter open world crafting/building games, the devs can easily take a direction you don't like. It's the same problem with any other genre with market saturation. only instead of a steady course of yearly releases, most of these games refuse to leave Early Access.

Yeah. I went back and looked at all the time and money I sunk into EVE Online, and put a stop to it when I was in high school. Nothing sucked worse than losing something that took you months to get because someone wandered in with a crap ton of jamming equipment that you think you can fight until they show up with friends.

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on May 27 2016, 10:30 pm by Generalpie.

Come play Dirty Bomb with me again

ISK hasn't been a problem in the last few years for me. Besides, I rarely fly anything expensive solo and my alliance has some of the best logistics pilots in the game, so I rarely lose anything in alliance fleets (and if I do, we have a really good ship replacement programme).

The closest to video game burnout I've ever been was when I was playing Ocarina of Time. The first time I played it I rage quit around the fire temple because I couldn't figure out how to free the last two Gorons. Later, I decided maybe I should try again. I've never been able to pick up a game if I started the file a long time ago, so I started a new file. I think it was in order to get into the Forest Temple, you had to evade some guards (not the guards outside of the castle when you're a kid, this was after). And I remember approaching the hedge maze and going fuck it. Not this shit again.

I don't think I play any one video game enough to get burned out on it.

World of Warcraft might be up there. I like the monotony of dungeon crawling and rep grinding, so sue me. I don't like dedicating hours outside of playing the damn game on strategy and builds and watching boss fights. I could raid in Wrath because the story line was hella interesting. But every expansion since then I max level, finish up the world quests and then I'm kinda done. It doesn't help that the last guild I was apart of was just swimming in drama. I loved most of the guys I raided with, but man it took absolutely nothing to upset the apple cart.

That actually sounds quite fun.

I recently finished XCOM for the first time. It's been on my backlog since launch day. It definitely was a game that oustayed its welcome. Got very repetitive the last half of the game. I even finished it quicker than the average player too.