I was really sick last week. As in so sick that I took what may have been my first ever sick day of my professional career. I'm still recovering a bit, which is what I'll blame for being incredibly lazy the week/weekend. Lotsa sleep, Netflix, and gaming.
I've been playing a mix of Mad Max and Rebel Galaxy. Kinda binging and flopping back and forth between the two. They're both fairly repetitive and grind fest-y, and herein lies a recent realization: Why do I keep playing a game if I'm not particularly enjoying it? Well, the answer's easy: I paid for the game, so I better get everything I can out of it, dangit. Kinda hearkens back to my time as a teenager where we had to save multiple months to buy something for the N64, so we'd absolutely play it to death to a) get our money's worth and b) keep ourselves occupied with a limited library.
But here I am, all growed up. While I'm not wealthy, I can certainly afford to buy a couple games here and there without it being too big of a deal. I guess old habits die hard, though, and I have a hard time justifying a game purchase if I haven't been able to finish off a previous title that I've grown bored with. Well, and maybe I haven't even grown bored with it so much as I realized that it wasn't that great to begin with.
Rebel Galaxy is the worst of the two. Good elements here and there, but overall kinda slow and really repetitive. I probably saw all major gameplay mechanics within the first 3-4 hours, and kept grinding away for another 25hrs so that I could get a better ship. So that I can grind away for another X hours so I can get an even better ship. The story is underwhelming, the battles aren't particularly exciting, and the navigation/movement is frustrating.
So... That means I should stop playing, right? What if I don't have another game I want to play instead? Does that (gasp) mean I should play my instrument or sketch or watch a movie instead? I mean, what am I doing with my life if I'm playing a game I don't like because I don't want to do anything else? Hmph.
-Cril
1 comment:
When I keep playing a bad game (or reading a shitty book), it's about not being wrong. Like, I CHOSE this thing and I'm not dumb, it can't suck!
Also, sometimes with grindy games, I think I just disappear into the mindless repetition of it. It's a good disconnect from whatever else has been going on.
I also suffer from the guilt of not doing creative things instead of doing something I'm pretty sure I don't like.
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