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Gaming was like breathing. It was the biggest part of my life as a teenager, one of my priorities as a college student, and eventually one of my most expensive “hobbies” as a young professional.
Then all of a sudden, after thousands of hours spent playing across genres and platforms, boredom hit me hard for the very first time in my early thirties. Some of my favorite games soon gave me the impression of being terribly long. I couldn’t help but notice all the repeating tropes and similarities in game design between franchises.
I figured it was just a matter of time before I found the right game to stimulate my interest again, but time continued to go by and nothing changed.
Is it that games have failed to innovate, or that real life is ultimately more engaging?
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday January 08 2019, @03:15PM (1 child)
It's not "1 wrong move and you're dead", it's "1 wrong move and you have to hotfoot it and/or use a flash grenade and/or take advantage of another of the guard's weaknesses."
The game does a fairly good job of teaching you its mechanics. If you pay attention to that, and use the knowledge you've been taught, the first mission goes pretty smoothly.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday January 08 2019, @04:59PM
Might have been a different game, or I just really took a set against it - I do remember whatever hardware I was running it on (reasonably competent for the day) was struggling a bit, might have contributed to the poor experience.
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