User blog:BillSpringerJr/Gamefear

Gamefear is a word I came up with to explain my anxiety towards video games.

There is a lot of times that I want to play a game, but I either don't end up playing it, or when I do play it, it takes me forever to get into it.

Its partly due to the fact that I believe that I can't be good at the game and so many other people are so much better than me. I always think, "Oh, that's too hard for me I can't play that." And these are games that I really do want to play.

I am playing Dead Rising now and the gamefear mixed with the games horrific settings has caused me to do very little in the game. In the beginning I rarely strayed far from the security room. It wasn't until level 35 that I actually started to stray out of the buildings more than a few times to do missions.

I had the same gamefear with Call of Duty 4. I really wanted to play it and when I did it took me a long time to even take a step into the online battles. I am good at it now but it took a very long time to shake the gamefear.

Has anyone else felt like this?