The 2nd step on our path, may be a little hard to swallow. I never said the path would be an easy one. Dig in deep, for this is the 2nd step on the path to Video Game Enlightenment: Acknowledgment.
Video Games are not, and will never be, as good as you remember. It is difficult for modern gaming to live up to the expectation of our 1st gaming memories.
It seems unfair to compare Today’s Gaming Age to that of our fondest memories. Often reviewers will compare games to older ones in a negative light. They use a common phrase such as: Like Grand Theft Auto but (Saints Row 2)… Like Zelda but (Darksiders)… Like God of War but (Dante’s Inferno)… It seems like a crutch reviewers use, when they don’t want to play a game for what it is. Your job must be much easier once you have played God of War once, and then can reference it for any game that has a similar combat system. The path to Video Game enlightenment is no place for the lazy.
If you continue to hold on to the ghost of games passed then you will never be able to move forward. Your path to enlightenment will be stunted before you are able to get a good start.
So, come with me. Let us move on, and put the past behind us. We know where we came from.
The Mrs and I did were guilty of this for years in our co-op games. Anything we played was not TimeSplitters 2. Even when playing Borderlands at 1st, we compared it to TimeSplitters. After playing it, however, we were able to let go of our gaming past, move forward and were all the better for it.
So, what game have you always had a hard time letting go. What game do you compare every game you play, for better or worse?
The 2nd step is the hardest.
It’s not too late to join The Path to Video Game Enlightenment.
Step One: Discovery
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The beautiful thing of RPGs is that there are so many different ways to tackle a story, character/player interaction, weapons, magic and their upgrades, battle system mechanics,etc. It’s easy not to compare one against the other. However, I have problems with any RPG game being better than Final Fantasy 7. Is my opinion unhindered by ‘first play-first love’ if I’ve played it several times throughout several years, and still think the same thing? Last time I played FF7 was several months ago.
Well doll, you know mine
As always a great article very fun what you are doing with the series. I like.