Alice's 2010 Video Game Resolution

Yep. You do get jaded. I started casting out wider because I got bored of FPS games in the main... a starvation of ideas seemed to set in so quickly with the genre.

I used to gobble up any old shit as a kid, even coverdisk FPS slop like Radix: Beyond the Void and love it for those little specks of the so-far unseen.

Now I look forward knowing I'm probably never going to have another gaming moment of basic sensory awe like those first steps outside of the Vortex Rikers in Unreal.

Interesting, as I've been playing almost all FPSes for the past 10 years, but recent events have basically forced me to branch out.

Trine was something that really struck a chord with me; I had played the Duke Nukem Manhattan Project demo a while ago, and that was okay, but not good enough to buy the whole thing. Trine's elements with switching abilities and the flow of grappling-hook/platform/smash really made things fun (I haven't hit the very last level yet; that's apparently where all the harmonic game mechanics go out the window for a tedious treadmill boss fight).

Torchlight got me into the hack-and-slash RPG, and that's saying a lot as I usually end up avoiding RPGs because of the steep learning curve (not just learning how to play, but learning what skills and weapons the developers DEMANDED that your player use in order to progress well in the game). I've been pacing myself a bit, but there have been a few weekends where I have dumped a few hours at a time into one of my Torchlight characters.

AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity was a game that I bought after having seen some of the videos, and hearing the recommendations from Chris Remo. It's first-person, but it's a BASE jumping game where you have to glide around as close to as many structures as possible, give your "fans" the thumbs-up, give your "foes" the V-sign, and tag specific buildings. Each of the levels lasts about less than 3 minutes per run through, but the act of controlling my character's really fast movement between dangerous floating structures seems to speed up my time perception, and I'm always having fun getting a better score on certain levels I've covered, running through favorite levels, and buying into unexplored levels.

Aww, someone else remembers the demo discs. Those were beautiful.

Alice, no offense. Everyone has their own tastes in music but while I was pumped about your adventures in Paradise City, the moment you mentioned Avril Lavigne....it just killed the whole mood.

Yeah, I used to play nearly all the demo disc games, back in the day (and all the mods for games I had). Then when all that stuff was already on the web somewhere months before the demo disc/magazine, I kinda stopped doing so much demoing.
It's convenient now, with demos getting kind of rare and often showing up after release. Which is still mind-leydenjarring to me. (bottles, who uses bottles)

Here there be dragons...

I missed the steam deal for Burnout and now I don't have enough money anymore.

Damn I love that game!

The only reason I got into Burnout: Paradise was thank to its demo. It offered just enough to see what the game was about, and it left me wanting to buy the game ASAP. So many games either don't have any demos or offer some early, bug-ridden half-assed attempt. Another game w/ a great demo was Bioshock.

Funny, I took you for more of a 2048x1536 person.

i can get behind this. i think we become jaded about this hobby, like any other i suppose, and get "stuck" in certain genres. i try to think back to why I play certain types of games, like FPS or RTS or whatever, and its because I was not so jaded about things and was able to see possible enjoyment of a game based on that games merits, not through the filters of genre, who developed it, platform and so forth.