To play or not to play?
Last night I was reminded that quite often I post about games I’m starting to play, say I’ll talk about it later after I play it some more, then never get round to posting about it. Looking through my posts I see I’ve done this a few times so over the next few weeks I’ll be trying to clear up some of the backlog of games I wanted to talk about but didn’t for whatever reason.
Which brings me to the point of this post.
I only really gave it some thought this morning but it’s true… I have a lot of conflict in my gaming life. On the one hand I like to write about gaming and the various things I encounter while playing (even if only 2 people read it lol), but on the other hand I want to game… as much as I can. Having a full time job and other commitments, my time is limited on a night and I need to make a choice.
Often writing loses.
Like now. The last few months have been feeding a combination of Monster Hunter and Jedi Academy addictions, yet I have barely mentioned them here. Why? Well, mainly because I am too busy playing them really.. although there are other reasons.
Take Transformers: War for Cybertron for example. Came out on a Friday, completed it the next day, post was up by Tuesday (written on Monday but scheduled for Tues). Did I not like the game? Far from it. The thing with TF: WfC is that after 11 hours of the single player campaign, I know all I need to know to talk about the story, the gameplay mechanics, the overall feel of the game from a fans point of view. I’ve played 3rd person multiplayer games before and this adds little new other than vehicle transformation, again, the depths are not hard to plumb.
11 hours of Jedi Academy multiplayer and I was still trying to master seemingly simple tasks such as swinging a damn lightsaber! 11 hours of Monster Hunter and most players will still be fighting the lightweight division of monsters and certainly still learning attack patterns and evasion basics (superman dives as last resort etc).
So yeah… if it takes me a little longer to talk about a game compared to others, it often just means either the game is so good I’m not pulling myself away to post about it, or I’m not convinced I have seen enough to make an accurate observation.
Then you get the Rogue Warriors of the world that only need 15 minutes of your time to play and can be summed up in just six short words 
