I've been away for a few days (working 27 hours in two days, including one overnight, and then hanging out at a friend's house after work from 7 pm until 1 pm the next day will do that), and spent the last hour and a half going through the video game forum, which I rarely do. I noticed topics about COD, Rock Band, Guitar Hero, Mass Effect, etc, so I'm gonna make a topic about a game I bought yesterday after work.
I bought Thrillville for the 360. Laugh if you must, but I loved spending time with the roller coaster game for the Dreamcast where you build your own coasters and then ride them. This game is basically a light "tycoon" game, but you can build any ride, and then ride it, and includes 30+ minigames. It just seems like something fun to play for a few hours at a time without having to invest huge portions of my life to it.
That being said, I know I've probably mentioned this before, but I can tell I'm getting older if you just look at my video game habits. Not 2 years ago, I spent probably over 300 hours in Morrowind, and would sometimes play it for 8-9 hours at a stretch. Ditto for games like FFTA. In a scant few years, though, I really cannot see myself having the time or motivation to do that anymore. I bought the GOTY edition of Oblivion the day it came out, and have only spent about 3-4 hours on it so far. Mass Effect looks really cool, but I know if I bought it, I would never have the motivation to play it.
So basically, all my 360 time is spent playing mostly Live Arcade games, which you can pick up and play for 20 minutes and be satisfied, or play for 4-5 hours (I played ONE GAME, not one session, of Every Extend Extra Extreme for 4 hours the other day...I got 66 trillion points, and that did not even put me into the top 500 on the leaderboards) and still be fulfilled. I think the achievements and leaderboards help with this. At this point in my life, with work taking up lots of my time (especially now during the holidays), and the internet taking up the rest of it, I just don't have the motivation anymore to play a game that I know is gonna take 40-100 hours to solve, and play for a few hours at a time, and feel any sense of satisfaction. I'll keep thinking about how much more "work" I'll need to put into it before I can beat it. And with the exception of RPG Maker, the word work and the words video games should be mutually exclusive.
So yeah, I bought Thrillville. It might not be jaw-droppingly awesome in terms of graphics, story, gameplay, etc, but I'll probably have fun picking it up and playing for a few hours at a time here or there without having 60 hours of gameplay ahead of me looming over me like a grey cloud.
*end justification*
I bought Thrillville for the 360. Laugh if you must, but I loved spending time with the roller coaster game for the Dreamcast where you build your own coasters and then ride them. This game is basically a light "tycoon" game, but you can build any ride, and then ride it, and includes 30+ minigames. It just seems like something fun to play for a few hours at a time without having to invest huge portions of my life to it.
That being said, I know I've probably mentioned this before, but I can tell I'm getting older if you just look at my video game habits. Not 2 years ago, I spent probably over 300 hours in Morrowind, and would sometimes play it for 8-9 hours at a stretch. Ditto for games like FFTA. In a scant few years, though, I really cannot see myself having the time or motivation to do that anymore. I bought the GOTY edition of Oblivion the day it came out, and have only spent about 3-4 hours on it so far. Mass Effect looks really cool, but I know if I bought it, I would never have the motivation to play it.
So basically, all my 360 time is spent playing mostly Live Arcade games, which you can pick up and play for 20 minutes and be satisfied, or play for 4-5 hours (I played ONE GAME, not one session, of Every Extend Extra Extreme for 4 hours the other day...I got 66 trillion points, and that did not even put me into the top 500 on the leaderboards) and still be fulfilled. I think the achievements and leaderboards help with this. At this point in my life, with work taking up lots of my time (especially now during the holidays), and the internet taking up the rest of it, I just don't have the motivation anymore to play a game that I know is gonna take 40-100 hours to solve, and play for a few hours at a time, and feel any sense of satisfaction. I'll keep thinking about how much more "work" I'll need to put into it before I can beat it. And with the exception of RPG Maker, the word work and the words video games should be mutually exclusive.
So yeah, I bought Thrillville. It might not be jaw-droppingly awesome in terms of graphics, story, gameplay, etc, but I'll probably have fun picking it up and playing for a few hours at a time here or there without having 60 hours of gameplay ahead of me looming over me like a grey cloud.
*end justification*
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