Anytime, I like to help get people into a fun hobby and show them money isn't an issue to enjoy yourself. I can't help you on Yi-gi-oh specifically but I can do my best on MTG.

I was going through similar feelings as the OP of the thread, but this post by El Caz sums up my feelings even better. Instead of making a new thread, I figured I'd just bump it.

Anyways, the last time I seriously dove into a game was in the middle of July , when I played ( and loved) VtM:B. I played the hell out of that game for about a week straight, and then I got burnt out on it. I decided to give that game a rest. Instead, during the next few weeks, l I tried playing some other games just because I felt like I had to clear my backlog of over 100 games, but it wasn't fun at all. Like El Caz said, it felt like a chore instead of having fun. After awhile, the thought of playing anymore video games just filled me with a feeling of disgust, and I decided not to play any games at all until I had a feeling of video game withdrawal
Here it is about 3 weeks later without playing anything, and now at this moment I've got some serious cravings for some gaming. Before I was all disgusted at the idea, but now it's more like "woohoo I love you videogames!"
It really is true, sometimes you think you might have lost your love for videogames, but it always comes back strong after taking a break

I would game more if I had a PC that could handle playing games without going into cardiac arrest. Still, my PSP has gotten some love after I found some emulators and the Photofast card setup :D. I also like the fact that I can play on my PSP and chill with my GF at the same time so she doesn't feel neglected and I get my gaming fix.

I have gone several days without gaming recently, but never weeks I don't think. I was out of gaming for years though when I was younger, just too busy doing other stuff. I even quit gaming entirely in 2002 after my Morrowind obsession wore off, sold everything I owned. Got back into it in 2004 when Doom 3 came out and I've been pretty hardcore ever since.

I don't consider "a couple weeks gaming hiatus" to be that big at all. It is quite normal for me not to be active in gaming for a couple of months, after which I cut my teeth into some or two games that I play relentlessly.

Right now I am a bit more inactive in gaming than e.g. two weeks ago. I played Magic Carpet last week, but now I am stuck at level 14 not knowing where the heck do I find the hidden spell (I've already killed all the enemies in the level), which lowers my interest to even start the game. Perfectionist as I am, I don't want to proceed if there is any shadow of doubt that I haven't found all the spells yet. If it is a bug (ie. it can't be found), then it'd be ok.

On Saturday I re-launched Baldur's Gate, but mainly to test how it feels to play the game by sliding the difficulty slider all the way to the top. My plan is to play the rest of the game like that.

Now the problem is that I've started exercising quite a lot once again. Yesterday I was 3½ hours away exercising (two different martial arts classes one after another, in the same place), and I'm a bit exhausted by it still today. Yesterday I didn't feel like playing anything actively after it, just watch TV passively and a bit of internets. I'll probably try to play a bit of Baldur's Gate today after work, I've promised myself to complete that game sometime even though I have absolutely no idea anymore why am I going to different places in it and is there some story or plot there as well.

I still like to buy games though, at least from GoG. :)

I hear that's becoming a serious problem in modern societies. Kids these days exercise too much and forget all about their computer games. ;)

That's one of the reasons I prefer playing PC games on a laptop instead of a desktop. I can play the game from the couch while watching the same TV movie etc. that my gf is watching, comment on it with her etc.

With my desktop PC, I'd mostly crop her out of my gaming sessions, not interacting with her while doing it. Console games (like my old PS2) are not very good for that either, after all I'd need the TV in order to play them. Thus, in my case console and desktop PC gaming would be mostly restricted to late hours when my gf has hit the sack and I could do gaming alone. Then again she could feel neglected if I did that too constantly.
I think that is what ultimately triggered the big video game collapse of the 80s. We wouldn't want that to happen again, would we?

As a matter of fact, I wouldn't be surprised if there was some kind of new collapse, considering how the game developers/publishers whine like little babies how the development costs of new games have been skyrocketing for god knows how long. Then stop developing costly fluff into them, like 10 minute long movie-like video parts, 50 cents on the game soundtrack etc.

I think mobile phone game developers will do fine, though.

I can't get away with that >.>

Lately I haven't been in too much of a gaming mood, but there's that whole weekly review thing I do.. ;)