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Bought another game console...
Posted 5th September 2009 at 11:37 AM by fba827
(Not RPG related, just a ramble ...)
So, I broke down and bought myself a new gaming console with some birthday money (yes, I should have spent it on other things... but that's a debate best reserved for my head, not for the blog).
I had been planning to eventually get it (in terms of doing research and cost comparisons for sellers; I just didn't know when I would get it), so it wasn't a pure impulse buy.
A brief background:
I grew up on the original NES, then Sega, then a few years of just playing occasional games at friends' but not my own console.. Then I had an XBOX, PS3, and Wii (at separate times, but owning each for less than a full year).
I find that I get a few games, play them obsessively, and then have no interest in replay value of the games I own, and rarely does a new game come out that warrants my attention (not interested enough for using my budgeted 'play' money) so the console just sits there until I sell it/trade it in.
But now, we're at the cusp for 4 games (Batman Arkum Asylum, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, Alpha Protocol, Dragon Age: Origins) that I -really- want to play. So I got a new console system.
We'll see how long I stay interested before it just sits there...
But, hey, in the meantime, I do hope to have enough fun with those particular 4 titles (as well a "collection" title I'm getting just to play Phantasy Star 4, and Shining Force 1 and 2. )
Edit:
Another thing I noticed... when I was younger (with the NES or Sega) I would have friends from jr high/high school over all the time. Weekend long sleepovers with 3-5 friends where we'd switch off between video games, RPGs, movies, and random silliness when we didn't have school.
So I guess part of the eventual boredom with consoles is that I don't get that "play-with-friends" nostalgia. Hence, all I have to look forward to is the game itself, rather than the old "game experience" I got used to.
Add to that the fact that games today are not really geared towards me... I'm not much for "twitchy" games, and I lack the coordination to do fancy button combinations. In fact, my favorite games are turn-based RPGs followed by a misc of other things that are probably "slower paced" for someone who is in their teens.
So, I broke down and bought myself a new gaming console with some birthday money (yes, I should have spent it on other things... but that's a debate best reserved for my head, not for the blog).
I had been planning to eventually get it (in terms of doing research and cost comparisons for sellers; I just didn't know when I would get it), so it wasn't a pure impulse buy.
A brief background:
I grew up on the original NES, then Sega, then a few years of just playing occasional games at friends' but not my own console.. Then I had an XBOX, PS3, and Wii (at separate times, but owning each for less than a full year).
I find that I get a few games, play them obsessively, and then have no interest in replay value of the games I own, and rarely does a new game come out that warrants my attention (not interested enough for using my budgeted 'play' money) so the console just sits there until I sell it/trade it in.
But now, we're at the cusp for 4 games (Batman Arkum Asylum, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, Alpha Protocol, Dragon Age: Origins) that I -really- want to play. So I got a new console system.
We'll see how long I stay interested before it just sits there...
But, hey, in the meantime, I do hope to have enough fun with those particular 4 titles (as well a "collection" title I'm getting just to play Phantasy Star 4, and Shining Force 1 and 2.
)Edit:
Another thing I noticed... when I was younger (with the NES or Sega) I would have friends from jr high/high school over all the time. Weekend long sleepovers with 3-5 friends where we'd switch off between video games, RPGs, movies, and random silliness when we didn't have school.
So I guess part of the eventual boredom with consoles is that I don't get that "play-with-friends" nostalgia. Hence, all I have to look forward to is the game itself, rather than the old "game experience" I got used to.
Add to that the fact that games today are not really geared towards me... I'm not much for "twitchy" games, and I lack the coordination to do fancy button combinations. In fact, my favorite games are turn-based RPGs followed by a misc of other things that are probably "slower paced" for someone who is in their teens.
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