Grizzled vets
Im playing for about 3 hours every evening.
After my toddler have gone to bed and while my tired and pregnant fiancee have fallen asleep in front of the TV.
(gotta love the telly and all the worthless shows, its prime gaming time for me
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I think there is a problem when comparing the time you could have a gaming session years ago with older titles to the time you could put in now.
I had a discussion with a friend of mine about computer games and how we played them now and then.
Both of us could sit a complete day in front of the screen and just have the "one more turn" syndrome.
While at the university I had periods were I got up, made breakfast, and then sat in front of my screen playing heroes3, baldurs gate2, or system shock2, until long past midnight. Having meals in front of the computer.
In recent days, even when I have had my family away and all the gaming time in the world I cant stomach those sessions from older days. I get restless and bored. And it doesnt matter what game Im trying to play.
What Im trying to get to is that maybe we have changed as gamers as we have aged. Its not the games (or not only), its us. And we have been jaded by all the games we have played.
I have found it harder to immerse myself completely in games now, any game and any genre, than it was before.
I will forever remember the nights I played system shock 2, the Muzak in the elevator and the 6 mutants waiting outside and the 5 bullets in my rusty gun.
Or the intro from Deus Ex, the skyline of NY and the music.
But would the magic be there if I played it now?
10+ years later with a fulltime job, a family and a much more diverse life than I had as a university student.
Your thoughts?
But Im enjoying DA a lot, even though ME was more immersive to me.
/C