If you're remotely like me, an obsessed gamer who constantly has an eye to future games that need to be in their possession, you're in a constant flux of needing the next big game. It doesn't matter that you may be playing the big game at the moment, what matters more is getting the next one. For as long as I can remember this has been my modus operandi. I could never truly enjoy what I may be playing at the time because in the back of my head, I internally thought a better game was looming in the horizon.

I think this is one of the main reasons why I usually don't finish games. That and I grow bored easily. Something has to clutch me with iron hooks and not let me go in order for me to finish it and only the rare few have seen me do this. So imagine my surprise that out of the blue, that feeling, that need that would tap me on the back of my head to look elsewhere for more was non existent. At first I didn't realize that was actually it. I knew something was amiss but couldn't quite put my finger on it.

Having finished watching Watchmen with my son, I returned home with a smile on my face because the movie I thought couldn't be done, was and it was amazing. When I was younger I never dreamed Watchmen could be done justice on film and yet there it was. The same for games nowadays. I never dreamed I would be playing the games that I am now. When you think about it, truly think about it, we are some spoiled assed pricks. We have games that only years before could only be seen in expensive arcade cabinets. Maybe its because I'm in my late thirties but I still get amazed by the shit we play now. Jonathan Holmes wrote an interesting blog recently why this may be the best era of gaming. Guess what? He is correct.

Yet being the spoiled gamers we are, we are blind to the wonders of present day gaming. Always nitpicking, deconstructing, over analyzing the games we have and for me always looking for the next big game. While playing Street Fighter IV tonight, I realized what was missing. I wasn't looking forward to the next big game coming soon, I just enjoyed what I was playing. Not only that but I looked at my neglected backlog of great games like Valkyria Chronicles, Persona 3: FES, and Zack and Wiki and realized that without that feeling, that need for more, what I sought I already had in my collection. I felt something alien today gents.

Appreciation of the games that we have and yes, finally... satisfaction.