3D Dot Game Heroes: More Zelda than Zelda?
An Article by The Missing Link
Living in this thing called “real life” can be somewhat disconcerting sometimes. I mean, looking back to the days of college and high school, I now realize and miss the absolutely obscene amounts of free time I had before I entered the world of adulthood. The days where I could sit and play videogames many hours a week are long past gone, and now I have to all but schedule my videogame time amongst my full-time job (plus overtime), my volunteerism, time with friends, and the handful of other hobbies that I have. I really can’t afford to stay up till 4am (even though I still let it happen from time to time) to play games anymore because, if I do, going to work the next morning will cause the day to go by in a sleepy haze. I mean, I’m 29 years old; I’m not physically able to pull all-nighters with much success anymore.
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Too many games; not enough time.
So, I’ve had to adapt pretty heavily. These days, there are good games getting churned out several times a month, a problem made much worse by my ownership of a DS, a Wii, an Xbox 360, and a Playstation 3 (not to mention—finally!—a rather capable PC). I can’t just afford to buy every game that remotely interests me and expect to find the 10 to 40 hours it’ll take to slam through it; I have to be selective now, a fact I realized ever since I discovered at the turn of the year that I had a stack of games that I had purchased but never actually played that was about a dozen high! There are some gems in there too:
Assassin’s Creed II,
Skies of Arcadia Legends,
Valkyria Chronicles,
Odin Sphere, among others. But there are also some games in that stack that just haven’t held my interest—
Halo 3: ODST and
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. And so with these latter games, I had to make the call; I had to let go, stop playing them, and instead play through the games that really called out to me.