Sometimes It feels like a chore to play some games. Everyone needs a break once in a while.

How do you know it's temporary? Maybe it's gone for good.

I'd be worried if you *didn't* go through a few of these periods. I'm older than most and have gone through a few of these periods. I'm fairly locked in now, but I remember a few lulls... some lasted as much as a year where I didn't touch a controller and explored other interests.

That's why I'm always amused when I hear about people who won't buy digital copies of games, even with a great sale, because of some weird fear they won't be able to play them in 10 years or something. Especially if they are in teens/early twenties, I'm like dude, I guarantee you that the odds are overwhelming that you will be completely retired from gaming within FIVE years, much less ten. Most people have no conception of how busy their lives will get, how much they will change as people, etc. It becomes very difficult to keep things going into later life. I do realize that gamers are getting older as the early adopters age, but it's still overwhelmingly a young person's hobby because of that group's unique circumstances.

This happened to me at some point and it never really went away. There are very very few games that I even actually play let alone complete anymore. That said, I still do enjoy the idea of it at the very least.

Have you tried only playing games you're very excited for? I've found that I don't really have/make the time for gaming and so will only actually play through games I'm extremely hyped for. And sometimes not even those.

Over the past couple of years I've only honestly gotten a lot of enjoyment from:
Journey
Saints Row The Third
Far Cry 3 (was not hyped for this at all until reviews/word of mouth)
Virtues Last Reward/999
The Walking Dead
Dishonored (what I played of it)
...and that's about it

I've found there are only a few different things I actually like in games. pure fun (Far Cry 3 and Saints Row along with Journey in a different sense), Story (VLR/999, and The Walking Dead), and then I don't know how to describe the other thing I like. I guess it's single player action/adventure/story mix type games like Dishonored, Bioshock, Batman, Uncharted, Tomb Raider etc.

So this year I finally stopped buying games I dont actually care about.

So far this year I think I've bought Ni No Kuni and Red Dead Redemption (never really played it much first time I had it) and that's it. For the rest of the year I'll only be buying the biggest games that have me excited. So possibly God Of War and South Park, and definitely The Last Of Us, GTA V, Beyond: Two Souls, Tomb Raider, and Bioshock.

TL;DR: Dont buy shitty games, only get the ones you really really want.

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Don't worry I've been in the same lull. I just completed Uncharted 3 after what seems like forever. I have told myself I'm only going to play games I actually want to play and stop trying to force myself through my backlog. I had/have a few games I don't have any interest in completing and it was making me not want to play because I felt like I needed to play those. So I just decided to sell them and move on, started Far Cry 3 back up and playing through the DLC on Borderlands 2 and just started Dead Space 3. I have a ton of stuff on PSN I want to play as well. I am going to get through the rest of my back log and probably start my Gamefly back up and start trophy whoring again.