What kills your motivation to play a game?

[FPLOON]

Answer: Lack of Motivation...
Follow-up: Backlog...
Unrelated-related note: Procrastination...

Other than that, that nagging feeling that you're doing it wrong, thus leading to spending what could feel like hours wasting time looking up related shit to reaffirm yourself that you are, in fact, actually doing it right this whole time... and a follow-up would be ending up finding out that you missed something and the only way to obtain it now is to reset everything and try again... *sighs*

 

[FakeSympathy]

1. Late at night or after long day. I wold be just too tired to give a crap about what I am doing in the game, eventually shutting it down
2. Necessary micro transaction to progress through the game.
3. Crashes glitches to the point where game is unplayable
4. Other people in multiplayer telling me i suck, when I have difficult learning curve.

 

[Artina89]

I would probably go with repetitive side quests, and if the main story doesn't really interest me all that much. I am currently experiencing this problem with Fallout 4. I don't really care about finding Shaun, but I am starting to find the sidequests quite boring and repetitive. The only thing that is keeping me going is that I really hate not completing a game, so when I come back from Montreal I am going to try and find the motivation to chug on ahead and at least completing the main story as it is not particularly long, and then maybe dropping in from time to time in between downtime from playing other games in order to complete the sidequests.

 

[pookie101]

Not letting me *play* the game. When I boot it up, please don't cold open with some 10 minute long cutscene. Or if you do, at least make it interesting.

I shut off Shadows of Mordor the other day because the game really, really wanted me to care about this guy I just met and decided to tutorialize me - and I just didn't give a shit. I wasn't in the mood for it. I wanted to get exploring but NO; I must watch a 3 minute cutscene, take 10 seconds to sneak up behind the main characters wife and kiss her, then watch 3 more minutes of cutscene.

How games still get it wrong when Half Life 1 and 2 got it so right is beyond me.

well half life 1 is a bad example you do remember that freaking 5 minute tram ride at the start?

for me nothing kills the experience than bad, ui and mouse and keyboard controls