What ever happened to that old time game feeling?

I’m asking this because I’m just not seeing it anymore. Just the other day as I sit down for an already thought out 2 hour battle with GTA 4 I found my self having no problem putting the controller down. I remember playing Halo for the first time. I even took a day off of work because I couldn’t get enough of it.

My 2 hour battle with GTA 4 turned into a 20 minutes shoulder shrug leading to me watching the last episode of Mash.  It just wasn’t there anymore. At first I thought it was me, that perhaps I had lost the gamer in me. Then I thought maybe the game was just garbage and couldn’t hold my attention.

Later that night, after my march down the Mash memory lane I picked up my controller and started again. While playing I tried to figure out exactly what was different, then it hit me. It wasn’t what was different but instead it was what isn’t.

Time and time again I find my self playing recycle games. Most of us know exactly what that means. Developers produce a great game. Then there told to make a sequel for that great game. As the gears turn and the ideas start to flow you find yourself coming up with the exact same game with minor tweaks to make it better. This is fine for round 2 but once you get into rounds 3 and 4 you better be knocking down buildings with your new epic ideas because the old ones are on life support.

I know many gamers who feel the same but the old lines come through almost every time.

“Maybe the next one will be different”

Give it up its not!