My Gaming Secret
I think people who consider themselves a “gamer” (or an intense fan of any hobby for that matter) keep a truth buried. One that the holder believes that bringing the truth to light would cause them to loose face in the community. It’s little inconsequential truths like a friend of mine never played D&D as a kid or my wife never owned a console system so she has no muscle memory of where the jump buttons are.
My little truth is something simple and truly annoying. I rarely finish games (end the game and get credit roll). Being my easily distracted self this might not sound too astounding, but it is something I am not proud of. The list of games that I need to complete is only growing. Currently the biggest titles on that list are Fallout3, Dragon Age: Origins, and Bioshock 2. Two of these titles are at heart RPGs but for one reason or another they have discouraged me from continuing playing.
The problem that drove me away from Fallout 3 is I lost all my followers. Apparently a particular quest effectively kills all your followers when you are captured by the enclave. The Brotherhood of Steel guardian I could stand loosing, but they took my dog from me and that is something I just won’t stand for. I am fully intending on hacking the game to get Dogmeat to respawn in some fashion, then continue playing. Because I don’t think I would take the time to play through the game again, since I doubt I would change the majority of my decisions/interactions in the game. On top of that I haven’t even acquired all of the expansions, and I have got to play those. Now with the count down to New Vegas is getting dangerously close to ending the pressure to finish playing is getting quite strong.
As for Bioshock 2 and Dragon Age these two great games are suffering from the same plague. Getting their saves breaking delicately so I lost 2 hours of game play in Bioshock and 4 hours in Dragon Age. Honestly these are both good games and the biggest issue is that I am being forced to replay sections due to tech errors, not choose to replay the sections myself. These are the few games I could place a reason on why I stopped playing.
However the list of games that I cant place why I stopped is just growing. The Ballad of Gay Tony, the DS Castlevania games, Pheonix Wright, and I am fearing Red Dead Redemption is slipping on to that list. It’s grasp on my current play list is getting more and more tenuous. Thanks to the release of Limbo, Castlevania: Harmony of Despair, StarCraft II, Crackdown 2, Transformers:War for Cybertron…
I think I am doomed to see my list just keep growing.