Disinterested

I've always been the type of person who can't do one thing for too long. I dropped out of the Boy Scouts, quit baseball after one season of play, and switched majors several times before finally choosing my current combination.

Of course, this personality quirk applies to games too. Very rare is it that I find a game I want to play more than necessary. Most single-player games get beaten and put on the shelf, maybe picked up again if I feel the wish to play it. If a game has multiplayer, I can only play it seriously for about a week at a time before I take a rather long break. The only exception to this really has been World of Warcraft, which I played rather religiously for about four years before starting to play that off and on as well.

As a result, I buy a lot of games, always making sure that I have something to move on to next. Steam sales, cheap used games that I missed out on, and the pay-what-you-want bundles that have become quite popular give me a leg up on my habits. Even still, sometimes I get to the point where I am right now; I have plenty of things I can play but nothing I want to play.

My unfinished/unplayed Steam list is around thirty games right now with things like Far Cry 2 (which I've never been able to like) and Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (decent, but repetitive). None of them sound appealing. Instead, I only have one game installed on my computer - Skyrim (which I play infrequently, having done most of what I want with it) - and Resonance of Fate for my X360, a game that I am not sure I want to get into just yet.

It's a strange problem that I have off and on and there really isn't any solution to it that I've found. Most of the time, it solves itself; I wait a few days and something jumps out to me as appealing. It's still a troubling notion and it sometimes makes me wonder if I play games for the wrong reasons. Why don't I want to play these games that I have purchased, even the ones that I really want to play?