New game burnout?

[StayPuft]

Been kind of a long time since I started my own new thread, so I figured what the heck?

Has anybody else ever faced an issue with what I will call "new game burnout?" Let me explain....

I'm not referring to getting burnt out on new games in general.... I'm simply just referring to getting burnt out on being the one to learn the new game yourself. In my experience, if somebody ELSE has taken the liberty to learn the rules and run the game for us, I'm fine with that.

However, for some reason I've just become burnt out on learning any of my own new games. So many games these days come with this God awfully long, like 50 page rule books. I used to not have a problem with that. I'd read through it little by little, learn the game, and be ready to bring it to the table at my gaming group.

These days, I don't know why.... I just can't bring myself to do it anymore. Hopefully that will pass in time, but these days I take one look at these dictionary sized rule books, cringe, and put it right back in the box never to be touched.

As result, I have several new games from KickStarter and stuff and just have not had the patience to actually sit down and learn them. So, I have several games I have yet to play because I am the only one who has them and I just don't have the patience to learn them.

Entirely different for games that don't have such ridiculously long rules. Those I can still learn with little difficulty. But, I've just gotten so burnt out on all the overly long, super complicated rules. Usually, long and involved though they may be, the game is fairly easy to pick up once you get into it.... but I just can't even muster up the motivation to get that far.

Anybody else ever have that experience?