I think that maybe, I am starting to generate a slight distaste for Video Games in general.
I've found some games to be amazing, and some to be less appealing. There's a formula that is being used with every Video Game, believe it or not. I'm growing tired of playing through a game's repetitive gameplay. If I complete a game, I feel like it wasn't worth it or, where's my reward? Where's my money? I feel that if I calibrate hours into a Video Game to get all the way to where it ends, that I should be getting something. The sense of satisfaction and amusement is beginning to slowly diminish. I would often enjoy a Video Game until I reach a very unreasonably planned out mission or task. One simple mistake or obstacle in a Video Game for me just makes me want to stop playing. I hate when I get stuck on a mission or quest, and when I have to undesirably resort to reading guides on the Internet just to get past one little rock in the road. It's maddening, how a Video Game will forbid you to progress in the storyline, unless you finish this one mission by all means. My pet peeve is trying to solve a puzzle that some wise guy at the game developing company conjured up. I hate having to put myself in another person's shoes to achieve a goal. Why isn't my sense of logic sufficient enough to complete such poorly thought out objectives?
There's an inevitable and sour repetition with Video Games that I can't tolerate. Having to play and lose, and repeat until it's completed successfully. I can't do this anymore, I'm wasting hours and hours of time, and when I get to one mere fatuous objective that defies logic or requires extra thinking skill to solve, it makes me upset. It makes me even more furious when I'm playing a Video Game out of sheer boredom, and when I get stuck, there's nothing else for me to do. My Video Game hunger has disappeared; they have all lost their appeal. They are all too similar and how well they compare to each other baffle me. I would rather read a book. There are no worries about the Book having to rely on you to progress the storyline. No load times, or hard bosses that takes hours of strategy to overcome.
These new implementations called "Achievements" for the XBOX 360 would further validate my point. When I play a game for the first time, (preferably single player), I want to complete the game at least once. Not to get an Achievement, but to complete a simple gaming goal. Before the XBOX 360 was released, gamers unlocked things for their own amusement, there was no leaderboard or score record, it was just you. When you completed a game, you knew so, one hundred percent. You saw the ending; you persevered through the last objective in the game. It relates to every Video Game out there. There is mostly a "last" task to complete before the game is legitimately finished. Any other play time beyond Video Game completion seems rather pointless, I would say.
I see it as a waste a time to, play unappealing, tedious side missions that a game has left over, just to gain some Achievements. My GamerScore doesn't matter, in my mind, I'm aware of what I have done. I despise games that always have flat side quests. In my case, these side quests are bothersome, if I don't complete them, I feel incomplete myself. I feel uneasy and off balance, knowing that, I have not completed a game one hundred percent. That's why I'd rather not play them. Bringing up the book subject again, when you read a book, you read exactly what the author has written. No side stories, no undone missions left behind, no unlockables, no "Achievements" left to gain. Once you complete a book, it's said and done. It can't be erased.
Perhaps, maybe, I need to find a way to become satisfied by completing a game, while there are undesirable missions left over. My hours of gameplay are meaningless, nothing was gained. What did I gain? I sat in front of a television screen for hours, hours. Many of which that could have been spent, doing things that actually need to be done. Such as: applying for colleges, looking for colleges, looking for a job, doing homework, studying, reading, exercising, and writing. All of the activities I briefly listed, are in my eyes at least, much more important than gaming. But alas, my inconsistent ways seem to contradict what I just stated.
It seems as though that not all of my feelings have been expressed in this. The games that people deem as being groundbreaking or a “must play” are games that I usually aim for. After acquiring such a game that received a nine out of ten average score on all gaming websites, I play it until I get stuck somewhere. I am a very feeble player when it comes to playing games that aren’t on the XBOX 360. The Achievement feature that is exclusive to that console gives me a sense of accomplishment. I don’t know why this is. It is uncertain and odd, because before I played XBOX 360 regularly I would play games even if I did get stuck. My general reason for not staying persistent throughout gameplay, is that, once I find myself searching around on the internet for walkthroughs, I feel that my effort is being wasted because nothing is being gained from finding my way through the puzzle. No game at this time has really congratulated me.
I am tending to think Video Games are wastes of money altogether, and that perhaps, the entertainment value in Video Games has disappeared. I’ve played and have not finished so many games that I feel as though, when I start a new game, I’m grabbing a new cup to drink from, while there is already one available with my saliva and scent all over it, waiting to be fully drunken. There are many half-full cups lying on the table of Video Gaming, and yet, I keep obtaining more from the endless supply in the game developer cabinet. I wish to erase all of my memories of Video Games and start from scratch. From there I can meticulously complete a game one by one, so once I complete one game I can venture onto another without feeling like I’ve left a half-full cup behind on the counter. Maybe this is due to my small attention span and patience. With a plethora of PS2 games to choose from, I start playing new games once my interest in another grows faint. With this said, there is not much that I can replace Video Games with, with the absence of them I would be uncertain as to what hobby I would have.
I've found some games to be amazing, and some to be less appealing. There's a formula that is being used with every Video Game, believe it or not. I'm growing tired of playing through a game's repetitive gameplay. If I complete a game, I feel like it wasn't worth it or, where's my reward? Where's my money? I feel that if I calibrate hours into a Video Game to get all the way to where it ends, that I should be getting something. The sense of satisfaction and amusement is beginning to slowly diminish. I would often enjoy a Video Game until I reach a very unreasonably planned out mission or task. One simple mistake or obstacle in a Video Game for me just makes me want to stop playing. I hate when I get stuck on a mission or quest, and when I have to undesirably resort to reading guides on the Internet just to get past one little rock in the road. It's maddening, how a Video Game will forbid you to progress in the storyline, unless you finish this one mission by all means. My pet peeve is trying to solve a puzzle that some wise guy at the game developing company conjured up. I hate having to put myself in another person's shoes to achieve a goal. Why isn't my sense of logic sufficient enough to complete such poorly thought out objectives?
There's an inevitable and sour repetition with Video Games that I can't tolerate. Having to play and lose, and repeat until it's completed successfully. I can't do this anymore, I'm wasting hours and hours of time, and when I get to one mere fatuous objective that defies logic or requires extra thinking skill to solve, it makes me upset. It makes me even more furious when I'm playing a Video Game out of sheer boredom, and when I get stuck, there's nothing else for me to do. My Video Game hunger has disappeared; they have all lost their appeal. They are all too similar and how well they compare to each other baffle me. I would rather read a book. There are no worries about the Book having to rely on you to progress the storyline. No load times, or hard bosses that takes hours of strategy to overcome.
These new implementations called "Achievements" for the XBOX 360 would further validate my point. When I play a game for the first time, (preferably single player), I want to complete the game at least once. Not to get an Achievement, but to complete a simple gaming goal. Before the XBOX 360 was released, gamers unlocked things for their own amusement, there was no leaderboard or score record, it was just you. When you completed a game, you knew so, one hundred percent. You saw the ending; you persevered through the last objective in the game. It relates to every Video Game out there. There is mostly a "last" task to complete before the game is legitimately finished. Any other play time beyond Video Game completion seems rather pointless, I would say.
I see it as a waste a time to, play unappealing, tedious side missions that a game has left over, just to gain some Achievements. My GamerScore doesn't matter, in my mind, I'm aware of what I have done. I despise games that always have flat side quests. In my case, these side quests are bothersome, if I don't complete them, I feel incomplete myself. I feel uneasy and off balance, knowing that, I have not completed a game one hundred percent. That's why I'd rather not play them. Bringing up the book subject again, when you read a book, you read exactly what the author has written. No side stories, no undone missions left behind, no unlockables, no "Achievements" left to gain. Once you complete a book, it's said and done. It can't be erased.
Perhaps, maybe, I need to find a way to become satisfied by completing a game, while there are undesirable missions left over. My hours of gameplay are meaningless, nothing was gained. What did I gain? I sat in front of a television screen for hours, hours. Many of which that could have been spent, doing things that actually need to be done. Such as: applying for colleges, looking for colleges, looking for a job, doing homework, studying, reading, exercising, and writing. All of the activities I briefly listed, are in my eyes at least, much more important than gaming. But alas, my inconsistent ways seem to contradict what I just stated.
It seems as though that not all of my feelings have been expressed in this. The games that people deem as being groundbreaking or a “must play” are games that I usually aim for. After acquiring such a game that received a nine out of ten average score on all gaming websites, I play it until I get stuck somewhere. I am a very feeble player when it comes to playing games that aren’t on the XBOX 360. The Achievement feature that is exclusive to that console gives me a sense of accomplishment. I don’t know why this is. It is uncertain and odd, because before I played XBOX 360 regularly I would play games even if I did get stuck. My general reason for not staying persistent throughout gameplay, is that, once I find myself searching around on the internet for walkthroughs, I feel that my effort is being wasted because nothing is being gained from finding my way through the puzzle. No game at this time has really congratulated me.
I am tending to think Video Games are wastes of money altogether, and that perhaps, the entertainment value in Video Games has disappeared. I’ve played and have not finished so many games that I feel as though, when I start a new game, I’m grabbing a new cup to drink from, while there is already one available with my saliva and scent all over it, waiting to be fully drunken. There are many half-full cups lying on the table of Video Gaming, and yet, I keep obtaining more from the endless supply in the game developer cabinet. I wish to erase all of my memories of Video Games and start from scratch. From there I can meticulously complete a game one by one, so once I complete one game I can venture onto another without feeling like I’ve left a half-full cup behind on the counter. Maybe this is due to my small attention span and patience. With a plethora of PS2 games to choose from, I start playing new games once my interest in another grows faint. With this said, there is not much that I can replace Video Games with, with the absence of them I would be uncertain as to what hobby I would have.
