February 7, 2011
Late To The Party
I’m currently enjoying the shit out of Bayonetta, a game I am a year late getting to. I’m sure I’ll ramble more about how fantastic that game is later, but the more important part is… well… I don’t feel like I’ve missed anything.
I’ve passed that hurdle.
I’m sure I’ve talked about it before here. I really want to be involved in the gaming discussion. It’s something I like to be able to do. That pushed me to buying a lot of games in the past. I had to get this or that game in order to talk about it right when it was happening. I needed it to be relevant.
Because of that, going back and playing older games, like Bayonetta, was always an issue. There was something new I had to focus on, and even if I played it and enjoyed it, there was always an air over it of feeling silly for waiting so long, or feeling pressured to move on to something new.
I’m not feeling that with Bayonetta. I’m just enjoying the shit out of it. And similarly, I’ve become really interested in Dead Space 2, but I find my general reaction to be “that’s going to be great when Gamefly sends it to me in a month or two.” It’s okay. That’s fantastic.
I don’t know. I’m not completely out of the video game conversation. The games I really, really will want to talk about, I am going to still buy. Like, say, Marvel Vs Capcom 3. No way I’m not buying that, and that is a game I would feel left out of talking about. Most of these games, though, I totally wouldn’t. They’re fun, but they’re not those key games that I obsess over, and thus I don’t need to have them day one. Plus, when I do want to sample, I can sample, and send the games back the moment I am tired of them. It works so much better that way than paying for this stuff.
And now it feels better, too. Fantastic. I’m proud of myself. Well, a little bit, anyway.