Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2015 19:17:40 GMT
Yes, I'm still in Portugal, but I got an opening to post this not long after a day where I spent too much time thinking of my issues.
How do I work when playing games?
1. Pick a game, usually something suggested by someone else.
2. Grumble constantly about the smallest of obstacles, if they don't kick me back a whole lot; if they do, get angry, take it personal and swear revenge upon the game for hurting me.
3. Turn to cheats in order to utterly trample over the "evil" game.
4. Witness the systematic destruction of the game's experience and feel bad about it.
5. Stop playing the game in shame.
Example case: Touhoumon Purple
1. Start it, find it fun to catch them all, train them into killing machines and discover more characters.
2. Grumble at every single puppet lost to random trainers, at every random chance gone wrong and at every soulcrushing gym leader.
3. "Nothing should be allowed to get between me and my fun!" And so I hack myself a level 100 puppet and freeze enemy puppets on their tracks.
4. I've won, congratulations, well done. But was it worth it? Was the experience any fun? The answer can only be phrased as fuck no.
Pokemon - and by extension Touhoumon - are games built on discovery, strategy and patience. When you hand yourself victory in a silver platter like that, the experience of playing the game becomes completely hollow. No reason to catch anything, to train anything, to make any sort of strategy, to get attached to any of your puppets... It becomes an exercise of "bashing buttons then suddenly you win". A meaningless, pointless experience.
5. Within the realm of video games, being torn between frustrating gameplay and unfulfilling gameplay means I should go look for a different line of entertainment.
Sadly, almost nothing outside of them piques my interest; as a result, I'm trapped in this rut I have no idea how to get out of.
Sorry for the huge wall of text guys, but I really needed to get it all out of my chest; it was so bad I almost cried in the middle of a freaking dolphin show in the Lisbon Zoo, having been bailed out by a dose of Clonazepam.
How do I work when playing games?
1. Pick a game, usually something suggested by someone else.
2. Grumble constantly about the smallest of obstacles, if they don't kick me back a whole lot; if they do, get angry, take it personal and swear revenge upon the game for hurting me.
3. Turn to cheats in order to utterly trample over the "evil" game.
4. Witness the systematic destruction of the game's experience and feel bad about it.
5. Stop playing the game in shame.
Example case: Touhoumon Purple
1. Start it, find it fun to catch them all, train them into killing machines and discover more characters.
2. Grumble at every single puppet lost to random trainers, at every random chance gone wrong and at every soulcrushing gym leader.
3. "Nothing should be allowed to get between me and my fun!" And so I hack myself a level 100 puppet and freeze enemy puppets on their tracks.
4. I've won, congratulations, well done. But was it worth it? Was the experience any fun? The answer can only be phrased as fuck no.
Pokemon - and by extension Touhoumon - are games built on discovery, strategy and patience. When you hand yourself victory in a silver platter like that, the experience of playing the game becomes completely hollow. No reason to catch anything, to train anything, to make any sort of strategy, to get attached to any of your puppets... It becomes an exercise of "bashing buttons then suddenly you win". A meaningless, pointless experience.
5. Within the realm of video games, being torn between frustrating gameplay and unfulfilling gameplay means I should go look for a different line of entertainment.
Sadly, almost nothing outside of them piques my interest; as a result, I'm trapped in this rut I have no idea how to get out of.
Sorry for the huge wall of text guys, but I really needed to get it all out of my chest; it was so bad I almost cried in the middle of a freaking dolphin show in the Lisbon Zoo, having been bailed out by a dose of Clonazepam.
