Not really, mainly because I don't have the time to enjoy them. I have college applications, my job, band, school starting up again in under a month, so I can't really enjoy them like I once could. Knowing I have other stuff to do kinda takes away the fun.
Poll: Do you enjoy playing games as much as you did when you were a kid?
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I still enjoy them about the same but my mind is blown far less often nowadays than it was back then.
In some ways, I enjoy them EVEN MOAR now! 
Look, when I was a little kid, games were a great way to pass the time, to get lost in.
They were a nice challenge, and I could talk to my friends about them.
But as I got older I loved them even more, learned to appreciate the art behind them, the methodologies, the design, the mechanics.
I've even got to the point where I want to MAKE the games. I want to be the storyteller, the DM, the taskmaster.
I liked writing stories as a kid, but now I want to be able to create entire WORLDS.
I want to come up with interesting stories, mechanics, designs.
If anything, life, (and lack of skills, money, and experience! XD), is getting in my way, with uni and work. (And self-confidence issues, but thats another story...)
But you know, I always make time to learn new stuff, play new games, tinker with new devices.
I recently took up Magic: The Gathering. I'm falling in love with it. Learning so much all the time. Experimenting with decks, mechanics, watching other people play, and playing myself.
Its the sort of thing I will admit my gaming experience is currently lacking at the moment, that living element.
(Again, its limitations in my life that are preventing me going deeper into it)
I know A LOT, probably waaaay more than a 21 year old person should know about videogames.
(I'm not 5th on that obsucre games quiz for nothing ya know! ;p)
They are my children, and I am their keeper, and I always will be.
Ever since I played my first game, when I was about 5 years old,(something on the SNES either Super mario World or A Link to the Past) I was hooked. I was bonded to them.
I'm exploring new things now, because I want to keep learning, but I also want a more social, face-2-face stuff I had when I was younger, (in secondary school we had a whole crew of gamers, but alas, it has whittled down to only 2, me and my best friend...).
So magic, as expensive as it is, is my new proxy. My excuse to get out and explore and interact. Hoepfuly I will find people like me to play games with, to share my viewpoints with, to learn from, to have an ACTUAL conversation where I'm not just talking out loud to my family, where the recipient stares at me like an alien, just not comprehending anything I say on any level!
But thats not to say I neglect my games.
Look, I took up guitar for a while. I got as far as playing a few videogame tunes, basic ones really, but I shelved that. I know I have natural music ability, but it came to the point where I needed better hardware, and better physical conditioning, and time to really improve, but I decided to shelve it, and stick to my games.
I could never, ever leave myself with no time to play. I need at least 3 or so hours of gametime. Any kind of game really. I'm not fussy!
And since I have other important priorities, the guitar has to gather dust, at least until I get a large window of time to play with it some more.
(Its a bit too hot here in the UK for me. I'd stick to the guitar now if anything! XD)
Look, when I was a little kid, games were a great way to pass the time, to get lost in.
They were a nice challenge, and I could talk to my friends about them.
But as I got older I loved them even more, learned to appreciate the art behind them, the methodologies, the design, the mechanics.
I've even got to the point where I want to MAKE the games. I want to be the storyteller, the DM, the taskmaster.
I liked writing stories as a kid, but now I want to be able to create entire WORLDS.
I want to come up with interesting stories, mechanics, designs.
If anything, life, (and lack of skills, money, and experience! XD), is getting in my way, with uni and work. (And self-confidence issues, but thats another story...)
But you know, I always make time to learn new stuff, play new games, tinker with new devices.
I recently took up Magic: The Gathering. I'm falling in love with it. Learning so much all the time. Experimenting with decks, mechanics, watching other people play, and playing myself.
Its the sort of thing I will admit my gaming experience is currently lacking at the moment, that living element.
(Again, its limitations in my life that are preventing me going deeper into it)
I know A LOT, probably waaaay more than a 21 year old person should know about videogames.
(I'm not 5th on that obsucre games quiz for nothing ya know! ;p)
They are my children, and I am their keeper, and I always will be.
Ever since I played my first game, when I was about 5 years old,(something on the SNES either Super mario World or A Link to the Past) I was hooked. I was bonded to them.
I'm exploring new things now, because I want to keep learning, but I also want a more social, face-2-face stuff I had when I was younger, (in secondary school we had a whole crew of gamers, but alas, it has whittled down to only 2, me and my best friend...
).So magic, as expensive as it is, is my new proxy. My excuse to get out and explore and interact. Hoepfuly I will find people like me to play games with, to share my viewpoints with, to learn from, to have an ACTUAL conversation where I'm not just talking out loud to my family, where the recipient stares at me like an alien, just not comprehending anything I say on any level!
But thats not to say I neglect my games.
Look, I took up guitar for a while. I got as far as playing a few videogame tunes, basic ones really, but I shelved that. I know I have natural music ability, but it came to the point where I needed better hardware, and better physical conditioning, and time to really improve, but I decided to shelve it, and stick to my games.
I could never, ever leave myself with no time to play. I need at least 3 or so hours of gametime. Any kind of game really. I'm not fussy!
And since I have other important priorities, the guitar has to gather dust, at least until I get a large window of time to play with it some more.
(Its a bit too hot here in the UK for me. I'd stick to the guitar now if anything! XD)
We shall see when my three PS2 games I ordered, Need For Speed: Most Wanted, Beat Down: Fists Of Vengeance and LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy come in the next few days.
No- There's the element of discovery and novelty that made every single new videogame as a kid the best thing ever in a tiny world.
Nowadays the games are better, but it doesn't always compare to the first times.
When I got a new videogame as a kid, life itself got better. The berlin wall came down, I went to the moon, and jeebus himself came back from the dead.
When I get a videogame now... woo steamsale.... I might not even play it.
Nowadays the games are better, but it doesn't always compare to the first times.
When I got a new videogame as a kid, life itself got better. The berlin wall came down, I went to the moon, and jeebus himself came back from the dead.
When I get a videogame now... woo steamsale.... I might not even play it.
I enjoy them more now because the games simply are better. While I may always go back to Wolfenstein, Doom, Bomberman, Pacman etc. they just are nothing compared to modern games, even ones I'm not particularly keen on.
Actually I was musing about this while I was visiting my parents this afternoon and it occurred to me that a large part of why I'm not enjoying video games as much as I used to probably has to do with the fact that I'm unemployed and thus have nothing else to do BUT play game, surf the net etc. As a result playing games has begun to feel like work rather than a hobby.
I enjoy them in a different way now than I did then. Back then I would play games to get my mind away from the stress of school and I play them now to get my mind off of the stress of work. Other than that, gaming now is a lot more fun for me because the games I was stuck on as a kid can be played through and beaten now that I'm older, smarter and, have internet access. You hear that Final Fantasy Mystic Quest?!
I enjoy them much more now then when I was a kid, I think it's because when I was younger I played much more seriously or competitively. I have since lost my competitive nature and I'm much more relaxed when I play. My tastes in games have changed as well, instead of games like Call of Duty or Halo for multi-player, I prefer games like Minecraft, Dead Rising or Saints Row, basically games that I can just dick around with a couple of friends. I also have much more patience for single player games and I have been going back and playing games I missed during my "CoD period" as well as going back and playing games from when I was a little kid now that I actually know what I'm doing.
I would have a difficult time trying to find anything that i enjoy more now than when i was a kid
Sure there are good games, but... feels like i have to strain to enjoy them
Symbolic acts - so vivid
Yet at the same time
Were invisible
Sure there are good games, but... feels like i have to strain to enjoy them
Symbolic acts - so vivid
Yet at the same time
Were invisible
Nowadays I enjoy it less, actually, because when playing games I always have the nagging feeling I am wasting my time and should actually do something more productive.
I miss being a child with no responsibilities.
I miss being a child with no responsibilities.
I enjoy them a lot more now because I know a lot more about them. When I was a kid I just played whatever my dad brought for me but now I get the excitement of announcements, watching trailers, waiting for releases ect. My imaginations also gotten a lot crazier so it goes wild when playing games now, especially RPGs.
Love 'em more now- I never had even a fraction of the variety offered to me by games today. Now that we actually get some games from Japan, now that genre mixing and experimentation are swiftly becoming the norm, now that Steam is a thing- yeah, it's a pretty good time for gaming.
Back when I was a kid (oh that seems a long time ago!)
The only thing I had to play games on was a Commodore 64, with the 1530 Datasette. Now don't get me wrong I loved it, but sometimes the game would crash when you had to swap to the second tape when loading, or it'd crash when it finished loading and let's be frank, I was a kid, I had no patiences and after an hour of resetting, rewinding the tapes to the start again, and watching that screen
you understand why I love gaming today!
The only thing I had to play games on was a Commodore 64, with the 1530 Datasette. Now don't get me wrong I loved it, but sometimes the game would crash when you had to swap to the second tape when loading, or it'd crash when it finished loading and let's be frank, I was a kid, I had no patiences and after an hour of resetting, rewinding the tapes to the start again, and watching that screen
you understand why I love gaming today!
I enjoy games a lot more now than when I was a kid.
Back then, I just played games. I didn't really pay attention to the plot, or the gameplay or anything. As a kid, games were sort of a vague timesink. However, it should be said that I have very little memory of my childhood. To the point where I could claim that it, as a whole, was a vague timesink.
Anyway, I'm much more ingrained into the community now. This way I know which games are coming out when, and whether or not I want to play them. Growing up, I had a PSOne, a PS2, a GameBoy Pocket and a GameBoy Advance. I have more games in my PS3 library than all of those combined. And I still have other systems. So it goes without saying that there is more for me to enjoy now than there was then.
Back then, I just played games. I didn't really pay attention to the plot, or the gameplay or anything. As a kid, games were sort of a vague timesink. However, it should be said that I have very little memory of my childhood. To the point where I could claim that it, as a whole, was a vague timesink.
Anyway, I'm much more ingrained into the community now. This way I know which games are coming out when, and whether or not I want to play them. Growing up, I had a PSOne, a PS2, a GameBoy Pocket and a GameBoy Advance. I have more games in my PS3 library than all of those combined. And I still have other systems. So it goes without saying that there is more for me to enjoy now than there was then.
It depends on the game. If the game is marvelous, I'm going to have a wonderful time, if not, I'll just remember my day to day worries and the game loses its touch. That said, I still enjoy games a lot, I enjoy them even more if I don't have to worry about things such as appointments, courses, jobs, etc... of course real life issues take precedence, but I'll try to enjoy every moment I get.
No, when I was a kid I had much less experience with games. There was much less I had seen. Many games "wowed" me with what they had to offer as it was all new at the time but now I've seen most of what the industry can come up with.
I still like to play games though, I still have times when I enjoy games more than I had as a child but those were just really interesting games.
I still like to play games though, I still have times when I enjoy games more than I had as a child but those were just really interesting games.