Name - James
Hometown - kingsport TN
age - 24
Occupation - Laid off (suprise suprise)
I am a huge fan of LOZ! Have ink in my flesh that supports that claim. A few of my other favorites include fallout 3, half life series, sam and max, metal gear series, resident evil series, siren, farcry (pc), Parasite eve and a few others that I can't think of at the moment. Other than that I will play anything at least once.
Right now I'm playing mother 3, world of warcraft, and world of goo.
I play in a band...sometimes. Name is twigg, we suck.
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Side Note: If anyone has a save game from around Chapter 8 (when you start getting the 3 key pieces) PM me. I'm pretty sure their is a way to transfer saves to PS3s using duo sticks.
What really stinks even more about this whole thing is that sometimes I'll decide to give a game another chance, to which I'll start from the begining again, only to lose interest and quit for the second time. It's frustrating to say the least.
Sometimes it's an issue with a game trying to do too much, like cooking-which really, as if that game isn't trying to stuff in enough RPG conventions already for crying out loud- in Star Ocean for example. Many times I have quit a game due the battle system, which for the most part I only really enjoy turn-based. Then there are times that I'll quit because of a lame sub-plot dungeon or story bit, that is boring the heck out of me and exists for no other reason than so the game can have the "80+ hours of gameplay" bullit point on the back of the case.
Anyways... As you can tell, it's a love/hate relationship.
I always feel bad when I abandon an RPG, but sometimes it just can't be helped.
My worry is that this is starting to spread into other genres. GTA IV? I'm on the last mission. I've put 60+ hours into the game and I probably only need to put another 10 - 15 minutes in to finish it, but for some reason I can't bring myself to do it. It's been 6 months already (I might actually do this when I get in tonight, just get it out of the way).
I think the problem with me is that I now how have the funds to buy most of the games that I'd like to, meaning that I've usually got a new game sitting there ready to be played before I've completed the last one. As soon as I get bored of a game mechanic I tend to move onto the next game.
Sometimes I think it was better when I only got games on birthdays and Christmas because, fuck me, I played those games to death and loved every minute of it.
Goddamn disposable income GRRRRRRRRR!
Hopefully my problem never spreads out to any other genres. *Keeps fingers crosse*
The thing is, it's like I want to finish Rogue Galaxy just because I want another notch in my RPG belt-- I have no interest in the story. Level 5 makes great games, and I had a blast playing it for a while, but if a long RPG doesn't have a GREAT story, chances are you'll get bored before the end. I think a lot of modern RPGs suffer from either spreading a good story too thin in order to make a long game, or putting in too much mediocre/crap story in order to make a long game.
Come to think of it, they should just take that "80 hours" crap completely off the back of the box. Parasite Eve takes under ten hours for most people on a first playthrough, but I've gotten over a hundred hours of gameplay out of it because I replay it all the time.
Parasite eve is one of the few I have finished and even though it was short it was damn awesome!
The weird thing is whenever I'm stuck at an RPG, I tend to leave it alone for a couple of months... then I pick it up back again and I'm pretty much good to go.
It's hard to get out of that slump sometimes. It's almost as if we had a "gamer's block"