Random, Short Obsessions!

[diaperangel]

So on Saturday I got a new video game, Harvest Moon: Animal Parade. I hate/love it when a new Harvest Moon game comes out for Wii, Gamecube, or DS because for literally DAYS that's all I'm doing in my free time. Then, after a while I get bored of it, beat the game, or my game system breaks and I don't play it or a long time.

In short, does anyone else have this problem or am I just a weirdo?

[diaperangel]

She's hawt xD

[loopy]

Thats pretty much how I play games, hammer em till about half way through then just don't play them again. Most of the games I've got for my xbox I've never completed.

[Jabez]

Thats pretty much how I play games, hammer em till about half way through then just don't play them again. Most of the games I've got for my xbox I've never completed.

I'm the same way. I've only beaten like 3 or 4 Xbox 360 games all the way through. The rest, I'm lucky if I manage to make it halfway before I'm done with them. More often than not, I never play it again after that.

[diaperangel]

It's really comforting to know that there are other people like me XD

[Yvhuce]

Yeah, it's actually quite common to fixate on a new game until it's beaten or becomes too repetitive or is practically unbeatable... I usually run through games a few times with Action Replay codes before I dare try them without. Sometimes, things like infinite ammo/health/money make the games more fun. Other times, they make the games too easy. And sometimes there're codes that actually make the game harder, such as the "turn all the chickens into wolves" code for Resident Evil 4.

[diaperangel]

Making it harder?! Who would want to do that?!

[loopy]

You can make me harder if you want.....

Sorry, SORRY i'm drunk.

[diaperangel]

XD That's what he said! It's fine! Those make me giggle

[Yvhuce]

Making it harder?! Who would want to do that?!

People looking for more of a challenge. Gamers can be weird like that...

[diaperangel]

See, I'm too lazy for that XD

[Yvhuce]

I'm mostly a casual gamer. I don't really have the time or money to put into becoming a true gamer. I prefer to level the playing field, if not downright tip the scales in my favor... A game where you have to run around hiding from monsters and shooting at them with weapons that do little more then piss them off requires some fine-tuning to the tone of invincibility and infinite ammo.

[diaperangel]

Woah.... XD

[lilJester]

yeah i usually cant stop playing a game till i beat it within i dunno...2-3 days depending on the game. saldy some games i beat in only 14 hours or less.....sad.... lol probally a good thing i havent bought a game system since i had to pawn off the ps2 years ago so i could eat. lol

[sarah_ab]

i'm like that with books when i discover an author i really enjoy, i'll devour everything they have written as quickly as I can, only its not that i lose interest, but run out of their books to read...

[loopy]

i'm like that with books when i discover an author i really enjoy, i'll devour everything they have written as quickly as I can, only its not that i lose interest, but run out of their books to read...

I do this so often its unreal :S. I have just started getting into discworld through, 25+ books . Already read 5 in a month :X.

[diaperangel]

*looks at Loopy's post with happy teary eyes* A man after my own heart

[Yvhuce]

My book collection consists mainly of Stephen King's works. He's a good storyteller, and has managed to perty much tie all of his works together, so that's really nifty for those of us who know all the stories (series, short stories, and novels).

I also have a few collections of ghost stories. And one book of just disturbing vehicular stories (including Duel).

I also have a couple of books of various Native American stories and legends, and a "dictionary" of various monsters around the world (not really all that concise, and vastly biased toward mythical giants, but useful as a reference for some esoteric monsters/names for story writing). It's surprising how some of the monsters most of us know have some practically unknown names that've almost been lost to time. Or how there're sometimes heroic versions of monsters. Or how most no one has heard of some of the really interesting monsters... Plus, it's more fun to use stuff like than than the tired old stereotypes...

[gah!ghost]

Figured someone somewhere must have mentioned Discworld. This seems as good a place as any to post this. I'm listening to the audiobook of Snuff, which is one of the Watch series of Discworld books. This quote I just transcribed while listening to it really got to me in the best of ways. I'm not sure if it will come across without having read the book up to this point or knowing much about Sam Vimes and the Discworld but… here we go anyway. I feel the need to share.