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Dust To Dust - The Plight Of The Unplayed Game
Thanks to Eurogamer for its editorial discussing the phenomenon of having too many videogames and too little time. The author starts by suggesting: "Take a look at your own shelves. Look closely. Spot any shrink-wrapped games you definitely will get around to playing some day?" He continues: "Let's have a look at this writer's personal 'to play' pile: MGS: The Twin Snakes, Super Mario Sunshine, Knights of the Old Republic, Full Spectrum Warrior, True Crime, Deus Ex 2", before concluding: "Games. We love them. We could fill about 47 lifetimes playing them. But we hate them too. Most are overblown, bloated, and chaotic in their design. If they were movies, most of the footage would be on the cutting room floor. Few games designers seem to know how to edit, and weigh down the production process in the belief that we need bigger games."
OK, I clicked on the "Reply to This". Now what?
Well, you could mock him for this line right here:
"Personally, i can't afford to buy games i don't plan on buying."
stupid enough to buy games that you have no intention of playing immediately? That'd be as stupid as saving downloaded porn that you're never going to look at again...Ohhhhhhh! I get it now. Never mind.
Brian
As for getting the money for rent: you'd be suprised what a bounty the human body can provide! Why, selling your blood, hair and teeth alone should supply you with the necessary funds. If you have a woman, you can milk her and sell the milk, or make cheese and peddle that at the local farmer's market.
Yeah, right.
Great jumpin-jehosephat; I have tons of shrink-wrapped DVDs sitting on my shelf waiting to be watched! Cripes, the only chance I've had to play Doom III was at a Circuit City, with a small Japanese child behind me screaming helpful hints. I don't have time to go buy games, let alone play them. You want to talk about a genre where there's too much stuff to deal with? Talk about books! People have written books for millenia and they don't ever go out of date. Hell, almost every medium out there comes out faster than one person can deal with. Magazines, TV, movies, books, radio, newspapers, internet sites - video games probably come out at the most REASONABLE pace of all, simply because you only play up-to-date games. You never have to retroactively play a game because your friends can't believe you missed that classic. I haven't seen Scarface - I get bothered about it daily. No one ever yells at me for not playing Contra enough.
That is completely not me nor any other RPG fan.
;)
I remember playing Shining Force I or II many many times over, happening to find the special characters without really trying to do so.
I remember playing FFT till I fell asleep, and then woke up sometime later before dawn, and continued on.
I remember playing FF Legend(s) on the original ugly-ass yellow green LCD game boy, restarting an innunmerable amount of times, trying to kill that cactus looking 'Seven' character.
I remember re-playing the Fallout games just to see all the different things you could do with the character classes.
I remember playing Dungeon Master (anyone remember that game), and trying every damn spell combination to see if there were other 'unknown' spells besides zo-kath-ra.
So you see, I don't know what this guy is talking about
0- Eamonman Proud member of DNRC
I would be perfectly willing to take some of that "disposable income" off of your hands, or if you like you could just buy my games for me. heck ill even give em back to you when im done with em so they can gather duct on your shelf instead of mine.
I thought it was 42 lifetimes.