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I feel like I've lost patience for games I would have loved round 8 years ago. I've been trying to play Dead Space 2 recently and its just been boring me. Dark Souls and its sequel are the only games I've played recently that have really enthralled me in some way. I plan to replay a few old games sometime soon -after clearing my current library- to see if they still hold up for me. Majora's Mask, Psychonauts, and the Metroid Prime trilogy are probably top on my 'replay' list.
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or that playing MMOs lends toward sticking with a handful of games over time
Over time, I basically got into the habit of asking myself, "Would I still be playing this game in a year, or replaying it, etc.?" If the answer isn't an affirmative, I don't get it. This has really cut down on the amount of games I've purchased over the years; I am sure it's also worth factoring in how differently I approach games as an adult than I did as a child.
But honestly there's a lot of stuff out there that I feel like is probably a good product but that I don't really care to play or own myself. I feel like I used to not be as picky. |
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I made a lot of bad game decisions back during High School/College with my Dreamcast and XBox. Granted, most of them were cheap games on the discount rack.
Then I got Steam. Way too easy to make a poor game decision. Though I got Dark Souls 2 and I find that to be a good purchase. |
I am so old that I remember being so excited when the Nintendo Entertainment System came out, and how awesome Super Mario Brothers looked. I miss that childlike excitement that I used to have.
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I do in part attribute my professional path to an early involvement with technology.
Shooting cans and ducks on the NES was definitely a wide-eyed, child wonderment moment. As was the colors and variety coming from the Atari. I also will never forget how after my brother and I got a NES my one grandmother liked Mario enough to get her own. She ended up being better than anyone I've ever known at the game. This is unrelated to the ideas of joy and amazement we had as children with games, but it just popped into my head as a happy memory.
In fairness, even random toys got that kind of hype from me -- and a lot of us, I wager. Still, I know what you mean, and I feel it's been really terrific to have grown up alongside video games' and entertainment's evolution. |
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