New game burnout?

[StayPuft]

I mean, the sad thing is I WANT to learn new games. Hell, I want to collect and be the one to learn and bring them to the table.... but I just can't motivate myself to read 50 pages of complex rules anymore. I think you may be right, Dwarf. I'm just becoming a grumpy old man in my still relatively kinda youngish age. LOL!

It's just too much. When the rules are THAT long, I find myself reading a bit and then basically my reaction being "HUH?!?!" So I have to re-read and re-read. Then, there is SO MUCH that even if I do finally get through it all.... If I go too long between reading and playing, or go too long between sessions of the game.... too much of it is lost.

I still can't help but look at Last Night On Earth as a great example of what it SHOULD be. Sure, it's not like it is just a little two page thing that is quick to pick up.... but at least it isn't like 50 pages. Not only that, but LNOE, despite being a decent length of a rulebook, can really be essentially boiled down into one or two pages, with the whole big rule book just needed to clarify a few things here and there.

If your game needs 50 pages of complex rules.... maybe the game is too damned complicated. LOL! But...again....maybe I'm just being a grumpy old curmudgeon here. LOL!