By burn out I mean settling the controller down and just telling yourself "Okay I can't play anymore." Either due to svcking out every inch joy out of the game or simply that gamer spark in you just flat out over heated, and you need to do something else quick.

For me it usually takes months or sometimes at least a year to burn out, but when I do I don't play games for weeks and just do something else like reading new novels or going to the gym more often than usually.

When I either run out of characters to create ones that I actually like playing anyway or when the character I'm playing becomes a choir and not fun. Well in rpgs that allow character development and such.

It depends on the genre. I burn out on first-person shooters in 5 to 10 hours. I don't even buy them anymore. I've learned (the expensive way) that I'm just wasting my money on them. I usually play roleplaying games many, many times longer than that before I burn out.

It also depends on the developer. I burn out on roleplaying games made by Bioware and Obsidian much faster than I burn out on roleplaying games made by Bethesda, for instance. I will spend 5 to 6 months playing a Bethesda game before I feel a need to take a break, as opposed to about a month or two with games made by other developers.

A few months usually. It happened with Skyrim, GTA V, and I'm 'kinda' getting there with Destiny.

When it comes to gaming as a whole, I can't say I burn out for long periods of time. I love playing video games too much. However, there will sometimes be days when I'm just not in the mood to play video games and I'll spend the day doing something else. But the very next day after I could easily be in the mood to play.

When it comes to certain games...eh, it depends. RPGs obviously last me much longer than say, a linear shooter. However, there are some games like Red Dead Redemption that I end up playing for years before I finally grow tired of it. I don't even know why I played it for that long, it just happened.

Depends on the game, and my mood. So I can't really give a solid answer.

im in the same boat

I rarely get burnt out on gaming as a whole, it's more I get burnt out on the game/series.

I played through AC2 in a week then jumped straight to Brotherhood. Got burnt there fast.

Then there is Skyrim. I've been playing it pretty average since launch and still going at 210 hours on my current character. When their story is over I will break for about a week then go back with another.

It depends on the game. I got burnt out playing 'Saints Row' after playing it for a solid two weeks, yet I can go back to playing 'Minecraft' or 'Smash Bros' endlessly.

This pretty much me. I can play Lord of the Rings Online for a good six months before needing a break but a couple months with a game like Farcry 4 or GTA V. Bethesda games are weird. I can stop one day after starting and pick it up a month later and knock out 100 hours over a few weeks.

Until something Game-breaking happens, such as a Major bug, or a Hard Drive Crash, in which I lose all progress. Mostly I'll just get bored after a while.

I'm the same way. I haven't really played Skyrim since December 31st, but knowing me, I'll get back into the 'Skyrim Mood' again and will spend hours playing the game again.

Guess it just depends on what we're into at the moment.

I just spent three Months mostly playing Fallout 3, I decided to quit because I realised I was replaying the same build. I have kept My Mods current for Skyrim, and I have begun playing New Vegas.

I might have played the newer Dragon Age Games had I not decided to never play another Bioware Product after being hit with Ads for DLC built into DAO.

For Beth games I'll burn out completely at about 2-3 years. I will, however, take multiple breaks (a month or more each time) to help keep things a little fresher, a little longer. In that time I'll go back and revisit older games for brief periods, I've burned myself out on.

I tend not to play any sort of multiplayer games, but once in a while one will catch my eye, yet still can't bring myself to finish them. They just don't seem to hold my interest the way Beth games tend to.

It depends on the game and the time.

I could play a new game all day during holidays.

But I never want to get too invested into a game when I don't really have that much time to play it.

It depends. FPS (I only buy other when the multiplayer gets depleted) lasts for as long as the multiplayer goes. I don't play it much. Only during week. You know, got only one hour and half to spend, so I play it. Now, friday to sunday, If I have nothing better to do, I play my good old RPGs and FIFA. But when I have vacations, I mostly play Beth games. But I must say that sometimes I do a fullstop in gaming. Normally for two months.

As with others, it seems to depend. My big three games of the past year were Divinity Original Sin, which I started off playing in alpha/beta and continued playing for months fairly solidly; later in the year, Bioshock Infinite and its add-ons and Dragon Age Inquisition, both of which got two play-throughs each before I decided I was done with them for the time being.

And now I've entered another phase of "gaming meh" where nothing much is piquing my interest. Tried playing Gat Out Of Hell which is kinda fun but isn't quite engaging me and gives me motion sickness, so it's back to browsing forums and wasting time.

No idea how long it'll last. Burn-out usually stays with me until something comes along and grabs my attention. When that'll happen is anyone's guess.

I generally don't burn out. Instead, I feel something a bit different, especially playing games which take a long time to complete. I rarely play multiple games at a time, which I'm sure is a factor, but that's just how I game.

Generally, when I finish a game, I get what I call the "Gaming Blues", which makes it hard to start another game right after another. Most of this is likely due to having to "relearn" to play another game given controls are different, as well as game play.

I got lucky with Oblivion, which took me to Skyrim, then to Fallout 3 and New Vegas. Because the controls were virtually identical, there wasn't much lost between games. It took me a long time to get into a new game afterward, though, because those games did such a damn good job in controls that it set the bar for other games (at least to me).

The other time I get distraught is when new consoles come out, like the current gen systems. I try to focus on moving to the new console, but these games have been totally horrendous. So far, I've yet to find one worth the AAA money. The best game I've played on the XBox One was Max and the Curse of Brotherhood.

In looking at what's coming out... I think I was too stupid to get this console this early, but at the time of purchase, I got it for a great deal (less than $300) once I traded in my Wii (that I rarely touched).

*sigh*

I miss the Gamecube. Don't get me wrong, I love the 360, but there's no denying the power of Nintendo games and the fun they bring. These "hardcoe" consoles lack these simple but fun titles.

Look at the bright side, you get to play the same shooter reskinned at least 20 times.

I'm probably the only XBox owner who has never played a CoD/Battlefield game.

I did try playing Halo once, but just couldn't get into it. My wife bought me the MCC collection, which I've yet to install because it's broken.

Right now, as bad as this sounds, I'm just waiting for Fallout 4 and TES VI.

It's pretty bad when studios like EA and Ubisoft can't even come close to what Bethesda does, being a smaller company to boot.

Screw EA and Ubisoft. Together, they're ruining gaming.

Gamecubes are not that expensive, of course the games are another story, I don't have mine anymore but we use our Wii for Gamecube games.

Anyway, a more detailed answer in my part. Sometimes I can play a game for months without touching any other game, other times I start them and get bored in the start screen. Everything just...depends.

Depends. Most of the time I feel like playing the game another time (games like Dragon Age, Mass Effect) but usually I get bored of playing the same game immediately after, so I'd usually stop at somewhere near the beginning and come back to it maybe a few weeks or months later.

Sometimes for other games (Dishonored) I went through quite a few playthroughs before becoming bored. For a long time after that I didn't feel like playing it again. I tend to replay games quite often unfortunately, which means I don't really experience new games often. Its like "Ooh I feel like playing Bioshock again" or "Oh what about Dragon Age again?" Curses!

Then for games with no gameplay whatsoever (like the Walking Dead or the Wolf Among us) I tend to not play them ever again, even though there are different choices you can make. I tried playing a different moral path recently, but got bored at the start.