2. I'll update every now and then, like it matters to complete strangers.
All I ask is - Do you know what it's like to go even 2 days without playing a game, after you've been practically living on them for the last 25 years? Of course some of you do.

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Yes we do. I haven't played anything since Friday until today. In the morning I just played a couple of rounds of Gwent.

I imagine it must be tough. I know the feeling of being bored by games AND having very little time for them beacuse of life obligations and yet having gaming habits engraved deeply for all those years (30 years of gaming for me this year).

Keep up with what is good for you!

Had this last year. Pc was broken with no repair until a week later. After 2 days of agony bought a new portable game and played it a LOT.

My last finished game was in June last year (Trine) since then I replayed a couple of hours (steam world dig), but I got bored of it. I replaced gaming since then with math and German learning.

I binge on games from time to time but I'm not obsessed or addicted per se. I sometimes go months without playing. I might even be active in the forums at times regularly but might not have launched a game in days/weeks/months depending on what I have going on in real life that needs my attention. There are times where I do get a bit obsessed for short bursts when binging though, like when I played Skyrim and Witcher 3 in 2015.

Wow. Do you really mean you've been playing games for 25 years, without as much as two consecutive days without playing anything? Is it just a hobby, or do you do it for living (e.g. gaming journalism)? Just wondering since you said "practically living on them", did you mean it figuratively or for real.

Yes I am a gamer, but there have been periods in my life I haven't played pretty much anything for months or even years (e.g. back when I sold away my Amiga, I think then I had the longest non-gaming period in my life, before eventually getting my first gaming PC), and even during my gaming periods, there certainly are several consecutive days I am either too busy or just don't feel like playing anything.

I sometimes feel like I've wasted too much of my life with gaming (or doing silly stuff on the internet), but even so, your post sounds rather extreme to me...do you think you're addicted?

Well, my brother 'introduced' me to the NES and SNES because we had both for some reason. That was probably that long ago. I'm only 29 and I can easily say I started when I was four or five.

It's more of life love rather than an addiction I think, but I've noticed in the past year that I just sit and look at the icons of my installed games, look at GOG rinse and repeat. It's as if I want to force myself to play something, for the sake of playing something.

When The Witcher 3 came out I thought I'd do the same thing I did with #2 and finish it over two sittings. Took me roughly six months to finish #3, because I couldn't play for much more than an hour at a time without feeling forced.

It sucks, honestly. I mean, I feel some pride that I've not even batted an eye at gaming; but at the same, I've lost interest in something I've loved literally all my life. I feel bad because my kinds enjoy watching the colourful games from time to time, like Renowned Explorers and Don't Starve.

edit: cheers for the replies everyone :)

If you mean that you think about games and gaming pretty much daily (not necessarily actually playing something)... then that certainly sounds more familiar to me too. I do think about games quite often, even at those periods of times I don't actually play anything.

It is a bit like sex. Even if you haven't "done it" for quite some time, you might still think about it even several times a day. And boy does it feel good when a hot game finally comes to you in little bikinis saying with a soft voice: "So how about it big boy, you wanna play me?". Uuuuuuh...

lol, well now that's quite the imagination... or is it?
The problem might stem from having so many to choose from, too. A way to put it is maybe I've paralysed myself after owning too many games. See, when I had a console, I would always trade most of my oldies in, so I'd only have just a couple of fresh games. Since I've gone digital with the PC, I've bought more games than hours I've put into them since the buying started.
To put that into perspective, I have 373 games on here and I've been here since late 2010. I've built myself a wonderful library when all I wanted was a few special books to read. Now I don't want to read any of them.

That sounds so familiar too. In a way having lots of games is both a blessing and a curse. I feel intrigued at having so many options to choose from... but then I feel bad about other games I "should" be playing and have hard time deciding what I should be playing. Then I play Team Fortress 2 anyway.

Again, it is a bit like sex. You have a harem of 373 beautiful ladies... but it becomes so hard to always decide with whom to have sex so you just go "Screw it, I'll jerk off instead and be done with it.". Playing Team Fortress 2 is indeed like jerking off.

My time between gaming sessions tends to be 3-5 days. Unless I am working on a specific project (like I am with Hollow Knight right now).