Video game burn out

Man, it has been a while since I've finished a video game. It's like I just start to play then get bored with the game after a few days. The last game I finished was Tales of Phantasia. It's not the best game ever, but I can genuinely say that I had fun while playing it. The other stuff I'm playing now makes me feel like doing household chore.

This must be what gamers dread all their lives--video game burn out. You find a good game to play and never finish it because you're bored. You find another game to enjoy and never finish it because you get bored with it after a couple of days. Damn, I'm so bored with video games that I started reading the Dresden Files, good book by the way, but I digress.

Video game burn out sucks because I can't seem to enjoy any game I come across with. It's like work, I procrastinate and dodge it as much as I can. Doing work, doing chores, reading books, watching TV. Doing anything aside from playing. Doing a hell of a lot of everything just to dodge booting up the NES emulator because I keep dying in that effing dungeon in Crystalis. Ugh!

Can any of you help me get over this burn out?

Yay an updated Zoundry

Go to www.zoundry.com for a new version of the Zoundry Blog Writer. It looks good and a great replacement for the once superior, Qumana.

I'll be posting more later about Video game burn out which I'm experiencing right now.

Anyway, I'm thinking of bringing back the Technorati tags. Should I bother? I don't really have a lot of returning visitors even though I get more than 50 page-loads a day. I know how pathetic that number is, so what, I don't care. As long as I help people find the things they want.

Crystalis is hard to crack

I've not been blogging because I may be reading comics, playing videogames, working (if I can get off my ass), and mainly playing videogames. I'm currently playing Crystalis for the NES. Some say it's a Zelda clone, but a lot of gamers think that this game tops even Zelda (a sacrilege?). In my own opinion, Crystalis does not top Zelda, but it has a nice place next to this Miyamoto masterpiece.

For the uninitiated, Crystalis is an action rpg akin to Zelda. But in my humble opinion, Zelda is more of an action/adventure game than a real rpg. In Crystalis there's real experience points and hit points that you can level up by killing monsters. I don't have a strong argument as to whether or not Zelda is really an rpg, but I believe there's no such thing as experience points in Zelda. This is not a very informed opinion because I have not finished a Zelda game in my life (hides in shame). I'll try to finish the first Zelda after Crystalis, though.

Crystalis is set in a post-apocalyptic world where the hero wakes up from cryogenic suspension. If you need to know more about the story just try Wikipedia, I'm effing lazy. This game kicks so much ass that if I'm not playing it on emulation I would've suffered hours and hours of death and agony against this game. This game is Nintendo hard. If you are not effing careful, even small critters inside the dungeons can kick you in the junk. Although the difficulty is offset somewhat because you can save in any town you are in, it's doubly easier to save on an emulator though. I love the idea of different elemental sword but it makes the game much more difficult. For example a dungeon can be crawling with critters vulnerable to the wind sword, but goddamn, there's monsters mixed in who are only vulnerable to the fire sword. This forces you to switch swords regularly, which is really tedious.

I haven't finished Crystalis yet, but I hope I have enough gumption to plow through this little torture chamber of a game. Many won't find this game hard, namely the good gamers. But I just find this thing hard but fun enough to waste my time on it.

Update: Just finished beating that witch, Sabera. According to the FAQ, she's one of the most difficult bosses in the game. I beat her about after leveling up to 11 in about 3 tries. If this is how difficult all boss battles will be, I don't know if I can finish this damn game at all.