Ever felt like losing your gaming "essence" or "need" ?

i hate that when that happens. after the first week up at school no one would play halo with me. :crying: i had to play their games instead... mmo's and crap...

 

What I do is lower my skill etc, so they can play catchup and eventually win sometimes - then they turn around and mock me!!

"oh yeah, as if you did that, just admit you lost"

assholes - who in their right fucking mind can beat me in F-zero X/GX! (I know a good few hundred around the globe could but not that common that I come accross one - same for SSB:Melee and at one point , Soul Calibur 2 hehe)

On a related note, online play on the DS breaks my balls. I ve rarely lost on Tetris DS and Mariokart DS (although i got my ass handed to me on Metroid Prime Hunters, i suck) but the fuckers just quit whenever they re losing, which pisses me off.

 

I haven't been gaming outside of music games for awhile... I hope I'm not going to be come "casual"

 

dont worry Henry, you were casual to begin with

j/k

 

lol, yeah henners. you need to stop hanging out with girls, working, and going to school and start focusing on your gaming! like me! i'm not in school, i just lost a girl, two down, one to go!

 

I think we traded life styles jon. Like pokemon cards.

 

I can, in either aeropolis, lightning and casino palace (ruby cup) port town and green plant (sapphire cup) green plant and lightning (emerald cup) or cosmo terminal and aeropolis (diamond cup):nod:

But I get you point: is like me with HW2, where nobody gets even the basics, so you play it slow, and if they win they'll mention it everytime they can, but if you win is all like "ah whateva this game is dumb, you got CS?"

 

lol...

 

I played video games for about 10 minutes yesterday. All I've done all week....

 

lol, last night you played like one 2 minute round of tony hawk then you were done! :lol:

 

so, graciano is the Butch!

 

:dance:

 

you just sat on my bed playing my guitar. And it was more than one round...2 rounds on burnside, one on the school, and one on the warehouse. Thats 8 minutes without load times

 

Honestly, I've pretty much lost interest completely...barely have any free time and find other stuff to do instead.

I might play some over the summer...really depends. Nothing epic. Just Guitar Hero...something that I can pick up for 5 minutes and feel accomplished.

 

Most of the games I play nowadays are multiplayer games or online games, or games on handheld systems (PSP, DS, etc). Sometimes, I play Smash Bros Brawl with my bro when I'm home from college on the weekends. Otherwise, like Phantasy Star said, I don't have a lot of time to play games anymore.

Ironically, I would like to get back on some gaming in Phantasy Star Online though! Sadly, Sega closed the PSO BB last month..

-SK

 

private PC servers are up

 

Perhaps the more familiar you become with gaming and the various titles that are available you also become more educated & wise to good games v bad titles, the sort of game(s) you prefer and ultimately learn to differentiate. Not every game is good and as time passes you may find that fewer games have that immediate appeal.

When we were kids there was a feeling that you had to obtain every title that came out for your particular (computer or) console. As you figure out the software houses you like, the type of title you enjoy, you start to focus a bit more.

Given that these days new games titles are fairly expensive, you are going to be less inclined to obtain so many. You may also just wait for sequels of titles you have previously enjoyed.

Another aspect is the hype! Years ago there was less advertising, fewer TV spots, (depending on age) no Internet splash and therefore your expectations were lower.

Just a thought or two. I'm personally enjoying many of the advancements and don't prescribe to the notion that new / next gen gaming means that something is lost. However, I do really still enjoy older games, because I feel that if a games title is strong enough, if it has all of the elements you enjoy in a games title then it will generally last the test of time. A lot of older games were incredibly accessible due to the lack of controls etc. It's far easier to immediately grasp precisely what you have to do in something like Arkanoid than GoW for example. (Not that GoW is particularly difficult, but you get what I mean).

 

Finally, I think I have made it through this stage, it's been almost a month since I 'recovered' my 'gaming thirst'... I've been playing TLoZ:OoT Master Quest for GC , No More Heroes and Lost Winds on Wii , FFIII on DS , TLoZ: Minish Cap for GBA... It was funny though, one day I just woke up with the urge to play Zelda and missed my classes that day and stayed all day long playing Since then I've been playing lots of games, mostly old games I had not finished.

 

I'm in the same position as you guys, today i sometimes feel a lot more compeled toward the art direction, architecture and mechanism of a game than actually ''beating the bad guys''. And even that. Sometimes, it gets me back, exactly as it was when i was younger (sadly, drugs helps sometimes too) but it's for a short time, and then the old world take you again.OH:


You just need to be focused and engaged, as you were as a kid, you need to fully understand the meaning and mechanism of the game, as you were able to find younger. Sadly, this ''philosophy'' is more difficult to applicate on newer tittles, since most of the time, it's re-ashed gameplay you already have a preconstructed vision of, with loosy and undeep gameplay mechanics and no real skill challenge.

 

I thought I was losing it there for a bit but then GTA4 came out. Since then I've bought Lost Odyssey, Gears of War, Heavenly Sword, Folklore, Dead Rising, Viva Pinata and Condemned.

Gears and Heavenly Sword were a bit short, but good games.