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During the summer I experienced a 'Burnout', a point some people get to involving games. Due to the fact that games are interactive longform media, the constant exposure tends to drive people away for periods of time. They attempt to limit their contact and avoid any form of longterm gaming commitments. I know people get 'cause it happened to a few people I know already.
It seems from observation that the length of a burnout is directly proportional to time spent 100 percent engrossed by gaming. I've found that the equation roughly goes such as this. hours of a life spent completely devoted to game = H H is also conditional as it is The collective time spent absorbed in the last 3-5 games Take this time and multiply by 12 and you get the collective hours spent in cool down Hx12 = C For example the last 5 games I played (Fallout, Deus Ex, BK nuts and bolts, Bango Tooie and Mass Effect) roughly put up about 240 hours total immersion. Not consecutively mind you but it was the total hours spent on weekend and free days over about a 2-12 month period. Then I burnt out. multiply that collective number of hours by twelve and you 2880 hours of cool down time. Divided by 24 and you get 120 days cool down. Which is roughly equal to 4 months. Which is how long I spent avoiding games (deliberately and subconciously). I'm now getting back into gaming in a big way, I'm playing the homewold games and other things and I'm planning to get demon's souls, uncharted 2, borderlands, AC 2 and Dragon Age when the last two come out. oh and just for the hell of it, here are the books I read over the summer/burnout instead of gaming. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson Anathem - Neal Stephenson Hyperion - Dan Simmons NeuroMancer - William Gibson Count Zero - William Gibson Mona Lisa Over Drive - William Gibson On writing - stephen king Just After Sunset - Stephen King The Forever War - Joe Haldeman Consider Phlebas - Ian Banks Cyberabad Days - Ian Mcdonald River of Gods - Ian Mcdonald The Dreams Our Stuff is Made of - Thomas M Disch Dhalgren - Samuel R Delany Building Harlequin's Mood - Larry Niven and another author The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester Postsingular - Rudy Rucker
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Living the dream since March 16, 2006
The urge will return, just coast with books and cheap, $5 Wal-Mart bargain bin movies for a while.
Me too.
River of God or his later Brasyl should be the next fucking heart of darkness or paradise lost.
Don't pull that ashamed bull just because it's labeled scifi. A brilliant novel is a brilliant novel no matter the subject matter.
Sorry but what you said is just incredibly stupid. Now get off your ass and buy the following novels
Dune
The Stars My Destination
Ender's Game
Dhalgren
The Diamond Age
Snow Crash
Anathem
A Canticle for Leibowitz