My gaming life is in a rut, and nothing seems to be shaking me out of it. Its not a good thing.
Super Paper Mario bores me, Metroid gets lonely and Final Fantasy Tactics makes me want to throw my PSP at a wall. My DS holds no joy in its white plastic shell and the brief gleam of Portal is now drained and lifeless alongside a temporarily exhausted Teamfortress.
I have my cake and now I don't really want to eat it. Its not that the attraction has gone, I want to play the games but somehow the enjoyment seems to have been drained out of them after a few minutes of game time. It may be partly my desire for perfection and partly the withering of my attention span from hyper electronic stimulation that it just doesn't cut it.
Its not always been this way you understand, I've had immense joy playing hour after hour of almost any final fantasy you care to name and even managed to piss away many grades in my last year of school with WoW. But with the latest incarnation I haven't even managed to finish, or get close to finishing Final Fantasy 12, despite the fact that it is actually good game. I've tried my hand at my friends 360 and Bioshock and found it... surprisingly dull actually. (And buggy, 3 big daddy respawns? What the fuck?)
So tell me, am I a heartless, jaded, ageing and humourless bastard or is this lack of joy something you to have experienced in your time?
gettin on in the years you start to realize hwo pointless it is to want to finish a game , because at the end of 40 hours you'll be no different then when you started.
play em till they're not fun anymore , that's all you can do now.
I got bored of games one day, some light inside me burned out.
And then I was like new after a short while. I don't understand what it was, I was just feeling like all games were uninspired and nothing ever felt fresh.
I feel the same way as you do. seriously. when i was young i used to love playing games for hours on end. I remember beating paper mario 8 times until i decided i would let the cartridge rest for a few years. Yet the games that have been coming out recently have been boring the shit out of me.
I don't know why we feel like this, but I've noticed that this doesn't seem to be because I'm becoming older. I think it's because we as the consumers have pretty much seen everything that game producers have to offer.
yeah, either that or we're both just depressed as fuck.
If you're like me then you'll go through cycles like this throughout the year. One month you'll do nothing but play games, then you'll drop them the next month and actually go out side for a while... then you'll get that old feeling and you'll be back in the chair in front of the tv... hands firmly gripped to a controller... your eyes fixated on the screen and your life... passing by. *sigh*
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To answer your question, I'd say both.
The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'
That's what I said
The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand
Or so I have read
My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo
I'd like to sink her with my pink torpedo
Big bottom, big bottom
Talk about bum cakes, my girl's got 'em
Big bottom drive me out of my mind
How could I leave this behind?
I met her on Monday, twas my lucky bun day
You know what I mean
I love her each weekday, each velvety cheek day
You know what I mean
My love gun's loaded and she's in my sights
Big game is waiting there inside her tights, yeah
Big bottom, big bottom
Talk about mud flaps, my girl's got 'em
Big bottom drive me out of my mind
How could I leave this behind?
I've had these feelings.
It's what we call growing up, or growing old :)
gettin on in the years you start to realize hwo pointless it is to want to finish a game , because at the end of 40 hours you'll be no different then when you started.
play em till they're not fun anymore , that's all you can do now.
I got bored of games one day, some light inside me burned out.
And then I was like new after a short while. I don't understand what it was, I was just feeling like all games were uninspired and nothing ever felt fresh.
Of course, I was wrong.
From what I hear, Zack and Wiki will restore your faith in gaming.
I feel the same way as you do. seriously. when i was young i used to love playing games for hours on end. I remember beating paper mario 8 times until i decided i would let the cartridge rest for a few years. Yet the games that have been coming out recently have been boring the shit out of me.
I don't know why we feel like this, but I've noticed that this doesn't seem to be because I'm becoming older. I think it's because we as the consumers have pretty much seen everything that game producers have to offer.
yeah, either that or we're both just depressed as fuck.
If you're like me then you'll go through cycles like this throughout the year. One month you'll do nothing but play games, then you'll drop them the next month and actually go out side for a while... then you'll get that old feeling and you'll be back in the chair in front of the tv... hands firmly gripped to a controller... your eyes fixated on the screen and your life... passing by. *sigh*
I need to get out side for a while.