Blogs of the Round Table: Love is a Story I've Been Encouraged to Finish, or What We Need Is Little More Voodoo
April's Topic
The topic for this month's round table is on the personal core mineral that you most love or hate in games. My answers here probably won't surprise anyone that even briefly knows me, but I'll try to make the journey interesting. I'll start closer to what I dislike and then work my way from there. Keep in mind that everything is relative and there are no "hard" feelings here.
I've played a lot of games. I've played a very diverse swath of games. I've beta-tested games, I've reviewed games, I've bought more games than a reasonable person might and have a number of crazy opinions about games. I've built crappy little games since High School and I'm currently in what some friends have regarded as "the crazy state of mind" that maybe I want to work for some cool game company or another... [1]
I've learned a lot of things from games. One thing that I've learned from games, for example, is that I suck at playing them. Or at least that's the easiest way to say it in today's vernacular. More apt is the admission that I'm not and have never been a "hardcore" player. In gaming I've tried a wide variety of games and very much am a "jack of all trades, master of none". I've never beaten a Mario game. I can't beat most FPSes without coop help. I managed to snag 100% of the collectibles in Psychonauts on my second play through, but still have yet to best the evil meat circus. I have no qualms about cheating or referring to GameFAQs when I get frustrated and fewer qualms about shutting off a game ...
