Hi everyone,
I’ve been experiencing this for a long time, and I wasn’t sure where to post it, so I decided to share it here.
For years, I dreamed of having a high-end gaming setup like the one I have now. Before building this PC, I genuinely enjoyed almost every game I played. I was always excited to try new games. Even on my old PC, where I had to play at low settings with 40–50 FPS, I feel like I enjoyed gaming much more than I do now.
Now I can play almost every game at 1440p on my OLED monitor, above 120 FPS, with amazing visuals and features like path tracing. But for some reason, I can’t connect with games anymore. Games that I used to play for hours now start boring me after a short time.
I thought maybe the problem was my PC, so I bought a PS5. At first, going for Platinum trophies was actually really fun. But after getting 17 Platinum trophies, I started feeling the same way again. I don’t even feel like buying games on PC anymore. I buy almost every game on PS5 because I feel like my goal is just to get the Platinum trophy. It feels less like I’m enjoying a game and more like I’m completing a task. Sometimes I even feel like I’m playing games like a robot.
There are times when I want to play something, but when I sit in front of my PC, I just don’t feel like launching any game. Some days, I don’t even feel like turning on my PC.
Has anyone else experienced something similar? Did I just grow out of gaming, or is there something else behind this feeling? If you’ve gone through the same thing, what helped you enjoy gaming again?