I say finding all the extra, meaningless stuff to do in games comes from 2 sources. 1) For all of us long time gamers there was tyhe immense fun of filling our castle with everything we could find(like the bridge) in Adventure for Atari. 2) Remember when you found that first glitch in your first game(again, long time gamers still hunt for them since the amount we found on floppy disk games had so many)? We still have the uncontrollable urge to find these things and call everyone we know to tell them about it. I find that it's the older generation of gamers who hunt down the useless things to do, but it's the next gen-ers that over-use them. I stand by Adventure and will probably hook up my Atari to fill my castle once again! Ahh... nostalgia....
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I say finding all the extra, meaningless stuff to do in games comes from 2 sources. 1) For all of us long time gamers there was tyhe immense fun of filling our castle with everything we could find(like the bridge) in Adventure for Atari. 2) Remember when you found that first glitch in your first game(again, long time gamers still hunt for them since the amount we found on floppy disk games had so many)? We still have the uncontrollable urge to find these things and call everyone we know to tell them about it. I find that it's the older generation of gamers who hunt down the useless things to do, but it's the next gen-ers that over-use them. I stand by Adventure and will probably hook up my Atari to fill my castle once again! Ahh... nostalgia....