The Game in the Red Dress

The latest edition of Game Informer (issue 200) listed what they felt were the top 200 games of all time. Because they are all print-y they don't have the list online, but if you google you can find it.

I'm old enough that none of the games were really before my time. But counting through them I've only played 69 of the best 200 games of all time. And I'd say 30 or 40 of those I played for less than an hour -- "not for me".

I feel like an oddball when it comes to games. On one hand I haven't played a wide variety of games, but on the other hand I don't play games long enough to really feel like I've mastered them. I've only had two or three full games in my life that I really completed, in the sense that I did everything you could in the games. All of them had "Ratchet" and "Clank" in the name.

Really it takes me a while to warm up to new games, and even once I warm up to games I bore easily. So I'll often get myself in a position where I'm in the mood to play nothing at all.

I could quit playing games too. On two or three occasions I've decided to quit playing games, or to quit playing them for a week. The same thing happens every time -- I successfully quit games for two or three nights, but give up giving up when I realize I've replaced my gaming time with doing nothing at all.

What's the point of this post? Now that I'm raiding WoW is driving me nuts. I need to find another game to play as a distraction but I don't feel like starting another game. So I need to force myself to pick another game and play it for a night or two until I warm up to it and can play it for fun. And I'm dreading that so much that I'm writing a blog post so I can put the task off all the longer.

Man, I've been whiny lately, haven't I? Speaking of going without things, I think I need to do a week of posts without talking about me or my overactive "feelings". A Boat detox, if you will.