I have little patience for video games these days. It’s not that I don’t enjoy playing them; it’s that I don’t find many that I enjoy playing. In the past four months I’ve gone through eight games, and only one managed to hold my interest long enough to finish it.
“Eight games,” you ask, “don’t you have anything better to do?” The answer to that would obviously be yes, but why do anything productive when I can play games? That question was rhetorical. I know you were all ready to start leaving comments. Bite me. But I digress.
Here’s what I played, and my quick thoughts:
- Resident Evil 4. Way batter than I had anticipated, and still savoring it as I slowly play through. One of the best games I’ve ever played.
- X-Men Legends 2. A button masher no matter how you look at it, and confusing as to what’s going on half the time.
- Animal Crossing. Very zen and addicting at first, but a bit mundane after a while.
- Call of Duty 2. Awesome. Intense. Nazi-licious.
- F.E.A.R. Scary as crap, and too scary for this pansy to keep playing.
- Quake 4. Boring. Fun at times, but ultimately boring.
- Fable. Interesting at first, but after a while it got tedious. I’ve played this one for a week, but not sure if it’s worth it to keep playing.
- Need For Speed Most Wanted. Too arcadey and ricey.
I don’t know if it’s me or the games. It could quite possibly be that I’ve lost patience and my attention span is shorter than when I was younger, but it could just be that most games are no longer engaging or just plain fun anymore.
Has the quality of games really come down since back in the heyday? I remembered enjoying and playing all the way through most of the games I tried, even if they weren’t all that great.
Maybe I’ve just become a harsher critic on games without even knowing it. Maybe a voice in my subconscious is telling me I’m wasting my time playing video games. Maybe I’m growing up. *Shudder*
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Man, you are preaching to the choir. I am in the exact same boat (except I didn’t even finish CoD2). Lately it just takes a lot to hold my interest, but I am begining to blame the games. F.E.A.R. I think could be awesome, but my PC barely runs it and I can’t play it at night, so that sucks. CoD2 I just got taken out of cause I tried to start over on X360 instead of PC and didn’t feel as compelled to play again from the beginning. I DID play through all of Mario Kart because it was amazing and because I wanted the secret characters for multiplayer. I also played through Perfect Dark 0 because it had co-op. Here is what really comes out as my point… I have been playing more Guitar Hero than anything. The only conclusion I can draw is that I will still play games when they are fun. I think I also like the smaller commitment levels. I don’t like knowing that the game will take me 40 hours to complete (while only 3 or so of those hours will be amazing while the other 37 will be filler). I would much rather have a really good 8 hours and call it a day.
I have the same thoughts about F.E.A.R., but I just don’t want to play a game that’s gonna scare the crap out of me.
CoD2 I would highly recommend you play through, even if it is from the beginning. Hell, I’m ready to go for a second round. But going off what you said about the short levels, I think that was one of the reasons I kept playing CoD2. The levels themselves are fairly short and there’s lots of auto-saving between to make it easier.
And on a similar note, I fired up Fable the other day to find that it hadn’t saved my game and I would have to run through this really tedious quest, to which I said screw that and quit.