You know, the idea of giving up video games has begun to creep into my mind

[neytirifanboy]

I assume we mean video gaming here.

My view is that these things happen naturally.

I have rarely played a video game since I finished ME3. ME was my favourite game and I spent a lot of time on it. But I really hated the ending and I can't be bothered playing any more. But that may change.

In fact, I played a lot of ME1 and ME2 on the basis that the ending of ME3 would be all worth it.

ME3 was a painful lesson for me. It demonstrates that the gaming industry is incapbable of working in the long term.. Something many have suspected.

What I really hated was the elistist attitude of Bioware. They took their fans for granted and, worse, assumed that they had no imagination and would accept any sh*t they dished up.

I don't know who they think their fans are. But I regard myself as reasonabley intellectual and imaginative. So to say the least the contrived nonsensical ending was a big disappointment. Unless it was only made for the elite genius few who are far more intelligent than me and a large part of the fan base. But even that makes no sense commercial sense. Which makes me belive that Bioware are not as great as they would like to think.

Gaming has been fun. It has let me love some fantasies like mowing down enemy soldiers in Toy Soldiers, taking over the world in CivRev or even playing as a Na'vi.

But in general, I don't have the patience to stick out to the end of a game (except ME until now). I have no patience to perfect gaming technique in things that will have no use in real life (from what I can see). Even ME3 I play on causal now.

But I am not really a gamer by heart and it can get very dull very quickly.

So yeah. I think I agree with the OP. My gaming days are in their twightlight years. If not over, certainly in a sharp decline.