(06-09-2014, 10:48 PM)Hiroshu Wrote:(06-09-2014, 06:37 PM)Saiden Wrote: Ah, yes. I have heard similar things about X and XIII. Back when the early ones were being released, I was playing games more akin to the Castlevania series. I found RPGs in video game form rather late in life, sadly. So there are a lot of classics I have not played. I just loved those platformers.Â
You know, the older I get, the less time I want to invest in RPGs. After I played through Journey, I thought, "Why can't we have more awesome games that I can finish in 2 hours?" That said, I do love open worlds. I just don't like to have to do a lot of math and reading while playing the game. I just want to sit back and adventure. I honestly wish there were more open world games with fewer RPG elements.
Yeah, for more recent years when I play singleplayer games it is more along the line of casual adventure/story games such as last year's Tomb Raider reboot. As far as open world goes, I have found that many of the lauded open world games tend to not jive with me because the openness leaves me too directionless. They tend to provide content via lack of meaning - you run around this world until you see an icon on the minimap, which will be some kind of event that seems suspiciously familiar to the last five events you did. I tend to get bored rather quickly. If somebody ever developed a combination of Heavy Rain, The Sims, and EVE Online, I would be a happy person.Â
But on top of all that, I just simply do not have anywhere near as much time to devote to games as I used to. When offline life gets busy, everything but MMOs tend to fall by the wayside - with an MMO, I can log in and everything was just as I left it, depending on the game I may have acquaintances I can chat with while I relax for an hour or two that evening and wind down, and I do not have to worry about paying attention to new releases and finding something new to play.
Everything's gonna be okay, bb. ♥
