\u201cThe truth is that the less time I have to game, the more like an average video game consumer I become. I don\u2019t necessarily have the inclination anymore to peel back the onion layers of innovation cloaked as inapproachability in games with obtuse conceits and arcane controls.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The article made me ask myself, \u201cat what point I lost my gaming innocence?\u201d Did it in start in the late 90s with more and more gaming sites selling out (dare I say going mainstream)? Or maybe it was somewhere between the birth of Thing Number One and Thing Number Two (or perhaps Thing Number Three)? Could it just be a sign of growing up, getting older, and moving on to other interests? Or as the author at Gamers with Jobs just mentioned, maybe it all comes down to time.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, I can compare the relative value of the next Madden to its predecessor. I can carp about how Halo 3 was in no meaningful way different from Halo 2. I can realize the World of WarCraft is basically a big hole into which I can throw my time, but it\u2019s far more enjoyable to just have fun with these games. We constantly run the risk of taking the whole endeavor too seriously.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I think those monolithic reviews from back in the day sort of did me in to the point where I burned myself out on gaming. The end result is that I have become much more of a casual gamer (that mainstream thing again). Be it football or racing games; the hardcore sim nut in me is almost a thing of the past.<\/p>\n
These days I have such a limited amount of gaming time that I have to play games for fun. It is no longer the other way around. I want a quick \u201cpick up and play\u201d experience, that is fun, semi realistic, but easy enough not to frustrate.<\/p>\n
I still enjoy writing about games. In fact, I have done more of it this weekend than I have in several months. With that said, the days of long, verbose diatribes on braking lines, statistical abnormalities, and the like are long gone. I am not into scientific gaming these days. When I do play, it is all for fun factor. Simply put; if it is not fun, why bother playing?<\/p>\n
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At what point did gaming become such a core? I think it must be some kind of a loss of innocence; it\u2019s hard to describe, but I know it when I see it. I think most of my longtime readers know it as well.<\/p>\n![\"Share\"\/](\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\")
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