What do you do to keep gaming fun?

Space Dog makes all things fun Arf.!. He will come to your dreams tonight and show you some fun stuffs. (my insanity kinda helps keep it fun =p) Other than that I try to play games i'm in the mood for like lately only been interested in games I can play laying down so clicker games, point n clicks stuff like that.. You can always start a chat window while you play get some friends in the convo.

1) I rotate between games.
With this, I don't mean alternating beween TF2 and DOTA, but between genres. Right now, I'm playing driving games. 2 months ago, it was mostly platformers. Before that, shooters. Before that, turn-based strategy.
Keeps it interesting.

2) I rotate between hobbies.
For the past 6 months to a year, I've been heavily into gaming. Right now, that's beginning to wane. Before gaming, I was reading a lot. Before that, nature shows. At some point I was on a shakespeare kick. Some other time, totally into board games.

I wouldn't try to make it fun. If it's not fun then it's just not fun. Maybe you need a new hobby :)

Take a break. c:

I have some of the same problems, and my advice for myself has been:

1) Don't try all the time, take breaks. It's more fun to play if you've been doing something else for the whole day before that. Don't stress about it.
2) Try to make it more casual. Eat or drink something while you're playing. Don't have too high expectations. Perhaps learn by playing games which have a story, but it's not vital to fully get sucked into it.

Try play with friends, local co-op if possible, playing together is always fun.
Replay your favourite games, or the game you got you into gaming
Or try out a game you already have, but didn't wanted to start it because it's too difficult or different than your others - maybe the learning itself with help - nowadays games are usually easy, so they lose their charm pretty fast. With learning involved, maybe you'll find challenge in it. Ofc this is only good if you're looking for that challenge, if you feel that could draw you in more. If you don't really want a challenge, then Try games that are not grindy, not repetitive, but you do feel progress, they are story-oriented.

You need "research" games :P

Part from that...I dunno, I too lost interest. I think I want good old fun, but when I try a good old game...same thing, meh. :/

Buy new games

Look for variety. If that doesn't help, take a break.
It's supposed to be a hobby, something which you can shelve and pick up again later if/when you feel like it.

If there's a compulsive need to play games even when they are not fun, it's becoming an addiction. In which case stepping away for a while is also a good idea.

Forcing yourself to have fun sounds like a really good way to not have fun. Take a break from the usual games you play, try something different or even something outside of gaming completely.

welcome to my world (age) its the world of Lego (all parts), Walkingsimulators( Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons, Contrast, Dear Esther, Papo + Jo, Firewatch) and Casualgames (The Room and Drawn®: The Painted Tower) also perfect are the Teletales games

I have the same problem as you. I think it happens to a lot of us when we get older. What I have done to break this is play games I normally don't play. Another solution, as stated above is to only play when you really want to. Also, research a bunch of games and find a few that you REALLY want to play and do so. These methods should help. Good luck!

Take a break from gaming once in a while, another hobby would be nice.
Also, try games you wouldn't normally play.

Find friends to play with, as much as possible !

When you play enough games, you start to notice how tedious and repetitive lots of games are. E.g. turnbased games in a nutshell.

What do you do to keep gaming fun?

enjoy dying :3
or else i would have stopped playing games long ago...

also, you should look for a game you really like and get into it, at least that's what motivates me.

Switch genres. Sometimes, if I don't feel like playing a shooter, I go play a platformer.
Then when I get bored of the platformer, I go back to playing the shooter.
And other times, when I don't feel like playing anything, I just go watch a movie.

Go back and play old games that you enjoyed in your childhood. Lately I've been playing loads of old console games from the 80's and 90's. 30 years later and I still remember the tricks and secrets in a lot of them. :)

I'm taking breaks. As in, usually 1-3 years of breaks. Changing current primary hobby helps a lot. I eventually get back to video games, but it's nice to find something else in-between.

Would be wise to download some emulators and play old school games as stlpaul said, there's more enjoyable games such as Zelda than rather playing a mainstream game like CS/TF2 :p

1. Disregard what you've invested in steam - that's the (i)rationality asking you for "maximum-buffz/usage/effiency".
   It can't be that much anyway, being a savvy user, that makes use of all kinds of sales/exploits ... what you can't
   buy is time and were put that time into paid labour, the thought of losing value (games/hardware/+?) becomes irrelevant.

2. Secondly don't try hard - if you feel like playing games - do it, if you do not, just don't. In addition remove distractions -
   old games, aborted games and whatever else that is already tabled for "not really interested".

3. Disregard the flood of information/opinions, come up with your own "filtering-mechanisms" to sift through the variety of
   games in a matter of seconds (per game) to figure whether the game you're interested in is worth your inital attention.

    ^ that is roughly what i do ... now that i thought about it

Play with friends, and if you don't feel like playing, don't! Take a break, it doesn't have to mean you'll stop forever!
Your games and PC wont go anywhere, so there's no harm or loss in taking a break and finding something else you enjoy to do in the mean time.
Don't keep playing games until you totally hate them, because that's possibly what will happen if you force yourself to play. What ever you decide to do, I wish you the best! :)

I must say... gonna follow this thread till the end. I'm facing this since I started to work A LOT. besides this apparent reason, I'm still not sure if it is the main reason (because, somehow, I still really enjoy play games when my mind is genuinely clear).

Try something you wouldn't normally play. I usually don't play MMORPGs, but it turns out that lately I've been playing hours upon hours of TERA and loving it. I'll probably get tired of it soon enough, and then I'll have to figure out what game I'm interested in these days. :P

You have plenty of range of games already in your liberary never played. Thus you have much varitety to find there and play. evoland is a nice and short game. It is to the point and is only like 10 hours. Everthing changes as you evolve the landscape from blackand white to modern 3d and colours, and 32 bit sound