apocalypse later
02-18-2007, 09:05 PM
It sounds like an incredibly stupid question, I know.
But three years ago, I was huge into retro gaming. I went to thrift stores, pawn shops, etc almost twice or three times a week. I soon amassed a collection numbering almost a thousand games. One thing I noticed, however, is that I hardly ever played any of the games. I actually began to lose interest in playing video games in general. I even got bored with some of the better games coming out--lately only Oblivion held my attention for more than five hours. I began reading about games more than I played them.
I think I attribute this phenomenon to the massive backlog I had. I knew I didn't WANT to play all of those games. Hell, having Virtua Fighter next to Panzer Dragoon Saga or Madden '97 by Dodonpachi is discouraging, since all I saw was a wall of games that needed to be played. I ended up calculating approxiately how much time it would take me to finish all the games, and it came out to somewhere in the tens of thousands. I just got overwhelmed with the amount of games I had and never knew which to play next.
So now I'm strictly a gamer. I play only what is great and only what is worth playing, and it is working out much better for me. I actually enjoy playing the games more than reading about them now.
Anyone else like this? Maybe I'm just a weird OCD freak.
But three years ago, I was huge into retro gaming. I went to thrift stores, pawn shops, etc almost twice or three times a week. I soon amassed a collection numbering almost a thousand games. One thing I noticed, however, is that I hardly ever played any of the games. I actually began to lose interest in playing video games in general. I even got bored with some of the better games coming out--lately only Oblivion held my attention for more than five hours. I began reading about games more than I played them.
I think I attribute this phenomenon to the massive backlog I had. I knew I didn't WANT to play all of those games. Hell, having Virtua Fighter next to Panzer Dragoon Saga or Madden '97 by Dodonpachi is discouraging, since all I saw was a wall of games that needed to be played. I ended up calculating approxiately how much time it would take me to finish all the games, and it came out to somewhere in the tens of thousands. I just got overwhelmed with the amount of games I had and never knew which to play next.
So now I'm strictly a gamer. I play only what is great and only what is worth playing, and it is working out much better for me. I actually enjoy playing the games more than reading about them now.
Anyone else like this? Maybe I'm just a weird OCD freak.