Rut of a Lifetime

I've been gaming since I was very little.  My first gaming system was an Atari 2600 followed shortly by my amazing and still loved Coleco.  I've owned consoles from every generation since.  There's not really a genre I wouldn't play (unless you count SimCity as a genre which in that case you can just go fuck yourself).  I love RPG, shooters, puzzles, horror, adventure and plenty of smaller download games like Limbo and Castle Crashers.  Bottom line is that I love games.

I'm also in the rut of a lifetime as far as gaming goes.  I've gone through spurts where I'm overly "blah" about most all games I own.  Tons to play and no desire to play them, but this is worse.  In most rut times I will play just for the sake of playing.  I may hop between 3 games within an hour to try and find something that I'm not bored with, but now I just feel no desire to play.

The other night I hoped onto 360 looking to shake things up and even though it was fun to play with the guys I was bored with the game within minutes and ready for something new.

I have at least a dozen games I haven't even touched yet and for a while all I could play was Mass Effect 3 and now I don't even want to play that anymore.

I need a wake up call.  A game to bitch slap me back to what I love about games.  Maybe it's the new, and apparently awesome, Dishonored.  Maybe it's a replay of an old game I loved that's been rereleased with a ton of new content and has a new coat of paint with the updated Rage Engine in Doom 3 BFG or maybe it's going back to Pandora in Borderlands 2.  Possibly it's donning the suit and tie as the greatest and scariest game character of all time in the new Hitman as Agent 47.

I miss the excitement that games used to bring.  Or maybe I'm just getting old.