14th November 2005, 10:44 AM
That's actually accurate too. I'll get a game, start a new game file, and then some shiny object will show up (in the form of a NEW game) that will distract me. This happens until I stop getting new games one after the other, and then I fianlly start working in reverse until I clean up the pile.
At least, hypothetically that should be the case. So far, testing has shown I need to revise or throw out that hypothesis....
The main issue is there are too many really good games coming out. Even my own internal "quality filter" which only lets me get what I percieve as the best currently available isn't enough to stop the horde. So, I have unfinished games spanning back to the ol' Playstation. Actually, I have beaten all of them, but not perfected. Back in the day when I could only get what I got as a gift, I had a decent gaming drought that meant I actually got bored with what I already had not because of base insatiability (which is my only real excuse to buy new games these days, and I really can't rationally come up with any other reason when I have so many other games I already own that I can enjoy the unexperienced content of) but rather because I had already turned all the games I own completely inside out and DEFEATED them, as a game should be defeated. Currently, if selling games was outlawed in the US (and it really seems like that just won't ever happen), I'm pretty sure I'd have more than enough incomplete games right now to last me for like 4 or 5 years.
However, then I think about all those games being released right now, like Shadow of the Collosus and Zelda: TP and Kingdom Hearts 2 and so on, plus the intuited knowledge that Nintendo is eventually going to make "Nintencats"... Our hobby is now not just unfeasible from a monetary perspective. It is now a completely untenneble position to play "all the best there is, even with exclusions of low quality games" on the basis that our TIME is limited.
The only possible recourse is to eliminate SLEEP. The only way for THAT to work is to pass laws forbidding work places from taking advantage of this lack of a need for sleep by drastically increasing work hours (currently the only reason companies like EA eventually send their employees home is due to sleep, so a legal safeguard is needed, after all the only reason to eliminate sleep is to get more free time otherwise there's no real point).
At least, hypothetically that should be the case. So far, testing has shown I need to revise or throw out that hypothesis....
The main issue is there are too many really good games coming out. Even my own internal "quality filter" which only lets me get what I percieve as the best currently available isn't enough to stop the horde. So, I have unfinished games spanning back to the ol' Playstation. Actually, I have beaten all of them, but not perfected. Back in the day when I could only get what I got as a gift, I had a decent gaming drought that meant I actually got bored with what I already had not because of base insatiability (which is my only real excuse to buy new games these days, and I really can't rationally come up with any other reason when I have so many other games I already own that I can enjoy the unexperienced content of) but rather because I had already turned all the games I own completely inside out and DEFEATED them, as a game should be defeated. Currently, if selling games was outlawed in the US (and it really seems like that just won't ever happen), I'm pretty sure I'd have more than enough incomplete games right now to last me for like 4 or 5 years.
However, then I think about all those games being released right now, like Shadow of the Collosus and Zelda: TP and Kingdom Hearts 2 and so on, plus the intuited knowledge that Nintendo is eventually going to make "Nintencats"... Our hobby is now not just unfeasible from a monetary perspective. It is now a completely untenneble position to play "all the best there is, even with exclusions of low quality games" on the basis that our TIME is limited.
The only possible recourse is to eliminate SLEEP. The only way for THAT to work is to pass laws forbidding work places from taking advantage of this lack of a need for sleep by drastically increasing work hours (currently the only reason companies like EA eventually send their employees home is due to sleep, so a legal safeguard is needed, after all the only reason to eliminate sleep is to get more free time otherwise there's no real point).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)