I know exactly how you feel. Although I haven't really stopped gaming. My hours spent gaming are just dramatically reduced because their priority has gone down. 

For me, the feeling of that I'm wasting time is evoked most during open world games. Especially in games like Skyrim. I remember at one point thinking about what I should do in game, and the choices that came to mind not gaming related. I then put it down and never picked it up again. 

I do find some RPGs relaxing though. That's mostly because I'm been gaming my whole life and have probably developed an addiction to gaming. So the relaxing feeling is really just to subdue the cravings....

congratulations,i think?

I have been to Hong Kong for a time and let me tell you... they might look 18 but they really are 35....

Its not, I'm older than you, study in college, have a high iq, yet I still get back to games just like how I was 10 years old, not studying and not being educated.

I grew out of games once.

I got better.

I've also felt a bit of a drift away from gaming, but Dota 2 and Battlefield 3 have me hooked.

I think my drift is partly due to working in this field. It's also part of my job to know and understand the games market, so perhaps I spend too much time in it every day.

Never work in a field that involves your hobby. :P

And that's a bad thing? What you need to worry about is, they might look like a woman but they are really women!

I feel like this as well. Modern games are not deep enough, I still want to be thinking about them hours after I turned off the console: the worlds they made, how I could improve to get past a certain part. I haven't bought a videogame in a year and haven't seriously enjoyed one since Metroid Prime 2.

The only game I still put time into is Starcraft II and that's because I can always improve and I watch the pros play like a sport for money, so I can try out their build orders in my own games.

As far as I'm concerned Nintendo is dead and no other company puts as much polish into their games.

The last 6 months I've drifted out of gaming, I don't know if it has anything to do with being made redundant from the game store where I worked. Or if it's because I left uni and have been able to play what I want... Gaming used to be escapsim, a distraction. Now I'm working part time, I can do what I want so the hobby is not screaming at me at the moment.

I think I'm waiting on a game to come out and pull me right back in again. I've had these phases before. :)

Age definitely has nothing to do with it, it's simply a hobby like gulf and what not.