Digitally listless

I am not sure what the problem is. I am struggling to stay interested in any games at the moment, and that's pretty unusual. I am home by myself today - I took a vacation day a) because I have to "use or lose" my days off before the end of the year and b) for mental health/de-stressing purposes. Normally, this would mean a lot of aggression and tension relief via excessive videogame playing, but I just can't settle on one.

The Desert Combat 0.5L mod for Battlefield: 1942 is buggy enough for me to put me off, I've recently finished UFO: Aftermath and Wizardry 8, Call of Duty is entertaining (but only in small doses), and I don't really enjoy the handful of MMORPGs that I play unless I'm playing with my wife. As Reid mentioned, the Deus Ex demo was irritatingly bad, quite possibly more of "t3h suck" than the Halo demo.

On the Xbox side of the house, Gladius really seemed like a good purchase at the time, until I learned that the tactical portion involves using the same gladiators over and over again in exceptionally similar wide-open pits (i.e. not that tactical) and that the RPG portion involves a stupid story and requires about 349574987^1000 of the aforementioned numbingly repetitive battles to level up any of the characters (i.e. not that strong on character development). Never has a game claimed to have so many elements that I typically crave, been so (relatively) well-reviewed, and yet utterly failed to entertain.

Maybe I'm in a "gaming enthusiasm slump", but if so, then I'm not sure what will get me excited to play again.

Posted by Dan on December 05, 2003 at 12:45 PM | TrackBack