I don't think I ever get sick of games. But are times when I won't touch a controller for a good couple of weeks or so, simply because there is nothing I feel like playing.
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I don't think I ever get sick of games. But are times when I won't touch a controller for a good couple of weeks or so, simply because there is nothing I feel like playing.
I'm sick of what most games have become. If a game takes longer than 15 hours to complete the first time through, I don't even give it a look. If it is online only, I don't even read past the "online" part. Most new releases get passed on by me from only a single screenshot or paragraph. I'm just not interested in what most people consider a standard new release these days, no matter how good it is.
That being said, I won't complain about all of those games because I feel there has never been a better time to be a gamer. I still get my brand new shmups (importing is no problem). I still get my brand new 2D in trickles here and there. I still get brand new twitch 10-minutes-a-play arcade releases ported home (Beatmania IIDX 7th Style, I'm looking in your direction). I still have a HUGE library of games I own with countless hours of play left in them (Steel Battalion for one). Almost every system I've ever owned is out and hooked up. There are so many used classics out there that I've never even tried....
So.... am I sick of games? 99.99% of the new stuff? Yes. It takes something monumental like Metroid Prime to hold my attention past 15 hours. Games in general? Hell no. Best time ever to be a gamer.
Cheebs, you and I could be brothers under the pelt. I maintain a very similar attitude toward my interactive entertainment. Plus I will one day own the same badass WG monitor as you :)
Pa
Mostly gotten away from games that require a focused continued effort to go through, understand and apriecate and moved onto things that fit my busy life. Like fighting games and shooters. Back in the day I could sit down and pwn all the chrono trigger endings in 1 sitting, nowadays I'm lucky to have 30-60 consistantly free minutes to do shit. Games are not "fun" when 1 of 3 bosses wants you to be somewhere else like waiting tables, updating the webpage or covering some ass event or having to be in classes..
I blame the internet and myself for letting myself become such a fucking complete person. I wish I had no life again; oh wait I don't but now I cannot play video games.
/not bitter
"If a game takes longer than 15 hours to complete the first time through"
If you go fast enough, you could beat Mario and Luigi, so you should give it a shot ;p
Anyway, I don't get bored of games as a whole. Obviously, I grow tired of some of the longer games that I love (I can't play Deus Ex again no matter how awesome I think it is). 'Pick up and play' games last a lot longer for me because that's how I play them. Outrun is the bomb...and it only takes a little over 5 minutes to get to the goal. A game like that can stick around forever because I can try and do better and better because I don't have to spend so much time at once, as opposed to some FPS (even one I enjoy) that takes a few hours to romp through or even a shooter like Varth (which isn't very good to begin with IMO) that takes over an hour or so.
Oh yeah--this game in my avatar, Gun-nac--never again ;p
Exactly how I feel... there are times when I don't mind playing a huge game, even an RPG and actually ENJOY levelling up and even the random battles, but more often than not I have no patience for them. I get all hyped for RPGs, beat one, start two more and then play action/etc. games for about a year before I repeat the cycle. My RPGs are stacking up :(Quote:
Originally Posted by BoBVila
And Mario & Luigi I couldn't put down until I finished. I honestly couldn't.
Same with me. You know that "ambitionless couch slug who did nothing but play games"? 25 hours in 2 1/2 days ;p
Wow! But I was the same with paper Mario. I don't have the facts and figures, but I can say that people were questioning my sanity before it was all said and done.
Pa
It comes and goes. I can say I'm not into it like I used to be (playing through FF imports with FAQS); drooling over Seiken Densetsu 3; screaming and yelling for no good reason that FF7 was bull-shit... You get the picture.
Now it's much more of a casual thing for me. Hell, I got ahold of Samurai Jack the other day and have been enjoying the fuck out of it. Somethign I don't have to invest my entire life into to enjoy does it much better for me now. I mean seriously - What in the fuck was I doing with a Japanese Xbox? Why do I have a Hello Kitty DC? Short fixes are the way to go for me. I played through Rygar recently and had a lot of fun with it. I've also found myself getting much more into action games that you can optionaly 100% through item collection, ect.
I've been selling off most of my older stuff and sacrificing lots of hard finds because I'm just really not playing them, and I have a bit of a space problem. I'm just waiting for Mzo to come over and clean me out... ;) (Call my cell foo')
I see games as a form of art. And i respect the work that all the various people put into it. I can't say that i play games with the same enjoyment i once did, but i still love them, maybe more, for the artistic reasons. FFCC is just blowing me away, every time i see the ship take off from port, amazing, i am taken back the environment. I think im just an enviroment whore.