• 19Oct 09

  what i heart about gaming

  Growing apart from gaming, coming back to it, but never letting go. Because it is a passion deeply rooted in my growth. A great escapism, entertainment, and when lucky, also a form of art to discover in itself. That much I believe in it.

  So in those current days, where I am getting back to things I loved for distractions and purely as passions - even though they may not have me end up with a better job, or put something out in the world like when i draw or make music or design; during the course of my life, video games did things for me, inside of me.

  And that is good enough.

  _Quezakolt

  • Posted Oct 19, 2009 10:43 pm PT
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• 20Jun 09

  Open question : Where is the time for gaming?

  I love gaming.

  But I have a big, big problem.

  I work 40th hours a week.

  I have many issues in my life also.

  I can barely find the strength to watch movies or seldom read parts of books.

  Music is always running at work, no problems there.

  Everytime I want to continue a game to where I left, I find myself thinking it is useless, because it takes too much time. But damn, I still DO love gaming. It's some kind of guilty feeling where my mind is saying; you could be doing something else that needs to be taken care of.

  Resume my 3 years study of Japanese. Start up the Mandarin studying.

  Keeping fit, taking care of the chores. Seeing people and friends. Doing my art. Making new music.

  Such a puzzle it has become to fit in gaming!! I cannot find the hole which I can fill with gaming without guilt.

  So my questions is, where do you find the time to game on? How many hours per week can you dedicate to your gaming time? Or are games just too long and complicated nowdays? Why does a single needs to have all the freaking possible features?

  Every input is appreciated!!!

  ~S.D.

  • Posted Jun 20, 2009 2:50 pm PT
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• 13Sep 07

  "Game Over": Eternal Punishement

  I think one of the point that is forgotten when comparing games to other art forms is the idea of "game over". It is something that occured to me while playing Persona 2 : Eternal Punishement. The game story, setting and characters are novel, relevant and adult. Even some of the basic game mechanics are very modern. But the game is trapped in old school mindset. It's not forgiving; it's something i'm ok with it (in parts) as I enjoy hardcore games. It's got long dungeons after dungeons, and it's got an encounter every 5 steps.

  The reason I'm saying this is because, when I read a book, I never have to start over. When I watch a movie neither. But story-driven games in modern clothing have this to them: the notion of having lost sometimes as much as an hour or more and having to start over. I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I just don't know why some games seems to want me to see the game over screen so often. I think games, especially console-rpgs, would benefit from having some kind of continue-point system which you could restart from, instead of that one save-point outside the dungeon which is 2 hours back in the game. A lot of games have this already (Resident Evil 4 comes to mind), so I think that story-driven games could keep their difficulty while also becoming more user friendly and less aggravating.

  • Posted Sep 13, 2007 9:15 am PT
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