10 years...

[00Xander00]

I share your lifestyle. & Congrats on your 10th year anniversary on VGChartz :D

I live with my parents too and I'm 34. I didn't have a job until I was 25. I'm also gay. I went to Uni and studied Computer Animation & play the piano. But about 15 years ago I've lost motivation with my hobbies too. I haven't made any animations, 3D modelling, game projects in Gamemaker/Unity or music in the last few years. I really need to get back on track with it.
Anyway, in the early 2010s I didn't have a job. Games were being released and I didn't have the money to buy them.
In the mid 2010s (8th gen) I got a job but I started to loose the feeling of playing games (which was a temporary feeling at the time as I wasn't used to having a job). I would still buy games but I only played a few. The Wii U was my go-to console at the time. But I felt bad as it was flopping in sales. Then Satotu Iwata died. The PS4 & Xbox One just felt like a hollow mimic of the PS3/Xbox360 that game before it (with a few exceptions of certain games). More gamers turned their backs from consoles and went to PC. It felt like the whole console industry was stagnant. I would sit down to play a game, then wonder which game I should play as I had accumulated around 20 PS4 games that I hadn't started playing yet. Then I would then stop and do nothing. Whenever I did try to play a game I would get bored after 5 minutes. Game genres felt formulaic (on PS4). It felt like games I already played before but with a different skin. I lost my appetite in my interests.
In 2016 I lost my job (and didn't get a new job till 2019). I couldn't afford games again and I lost my appetite in games. I tried really hard to get back my appetite.
In 2018 I got a PSVR for Christmas and got Resi 7. It was amazing and extremely immersive. It felt like a fresh start and made games feel new again. This made me start playing games again, whether in VR or not.
I got a new job as a Dominos delivery driver in 2019 and I went through a VR (particularly VR Horror) faze. I'm now playing PS4, PS5 & Switch. I've played through all the Resi remakes that I had before but in' get round to completing. I'm trophy hunting. I got 100% on Resi 0, 1 (2002 remake), 2 remake, 3 remake & original 4. Now I'm trying to 100% Resi 4 remake.
I'm a long time Resident Evil fan so I'm surprised I didn't try to do this before. Now I still work for Dominos as a delivery driver. Other staff there are gamers too. This social circle makes me talk about games I play and that naturally motivates me to play games more too. The thought of others' perceptions of me can motivate me. When before I was on my own with no money. Now I play on games again and will hopefully continue making animations, music and game projects too. I recently bought a Cintiq for drawing & 3D sculpting in Blender :)

My point is, time heals these things. A small part time job can also help too. Before, I felt like I couldn't afford games. Then when I would get a job I would feel (for a while) like I couldn't play them. But this feeling eventually normalises back into wherever your hobbies and interests where before.
I hope you feel better soon. I imagine most people on this site are in a similar situation too.
I wish you the best, and don't worry about it too much, as I say time will heal these things, eventually :)