So I quit playing Neverwinter. It’s been over a week since I played it and honestly I do not even feel inclined to go back. This is by far the longest it has been since I started playing it about 10 months ago, as I played almost every single day.
Anyways, I have been playing some other cool stuff, mainly Half-Life 2 and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Both of those games are amazing. It’s amazing how an “old” game like Castlevania for the PSONE can still be amazing, though the graphics are “pixelated” or whatever, it is still cool, to see the backgrounds moving differently than each other, to see the clouds racing overhead, and the fireballs of the exploding enemies, etc. All pretty awesome stuff even though the “quality” of the graphics “suck” now compared to newer games. The soundtrack is cool, I can se why this is considered one of the best PSONE games and in fact one of the best games of all time.
Which brings me into another topic. That “newness” has nothing to do with goodness, or quality. Have you ever looked in a video rental store (well probably not lately), but it happened to me when I was looking at the racks of videos and I saw one that looked like a dumb movie, and probably was, but then I remembered that it had been a big summer hit about 2 years prior. Ever had that happen, where you saw or maybe played an old game and was like “wtf is this sh1t? I thought this used to be awesome.” There is talk about how Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has not aged well and the interactions seem silly even though that game was totally amazing and revolutionary for it’s time, I have not played it in years so I cannot speak on whether that is true or not that it hasn’t aged well, but there are a lot of parody videos about the game on youtube.
So yea, don’t fall for the hype of “the latest game!!!!”, at least I don’t. I play old games that are still awesome, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VII, Half-Life, I was just playing Dino Crisis on PSONE, pretty cool survival horror with some hard puzzles. I often like games that are sort of dark or alone or quiet, it’s hard to explain, and I can go slow and explore without my hand being held or scripted things constantly popping up. That is what I did the most in Skyrim, I didn’t go for quests but mostly just wandered aimlessly, exploring, coming upon a mysterious unknown cave or dwarven lair, entering it not knowing what would be there, it was great fun!