by pitohui » Wed Feb 25, '09, 11:21 am
I tend to go nuts with new releases; I finished MGS2 in one sitting when it came out, much to the chagrin of the other guys in my dorm. And being a big DQ nerd, I thoroughly cleaned out all of DQIV in a rather fitting four days.
These days I still like to go crazy with new games, but "crazy" has been scaled back to four or five hours a sitting, max, if I'm not feeling completely exhausted after work, or gone out drinking, or had dinner with friends, or whatever. Priorities now are a lot different than when I was a little kid and could play all day or until my mom yelled at me. I think that's one of those idyllic childhood memories that doesn't exactly translate to adult life. I tried doing a marathon gaming session over the holidays and got so crushingly depressed at how I'd wasted an entire day. I think the primary function of adolescence is to pound into your stupid skull the fact that you need to grow the hell up and do something other than goof-off all day.
I'm constantly playing my DS, though. Usually to pass the time between big releases. It's just so much easier to flip the thing open and resume right where I left off, instead of having to turn on a console and load up a save and then fret over how long I can play until I need to start thinking about finding a save point so I can get to a job or something on time. Makes it easy to play on the train, too.