After an especially cumbersome semester at college, I desperately awaited the summer holidays to once more ignite my love for gaming, and playing great games. While the love was there, sadly, great games weren't.
The first thing I did was to wipe the dust of my good old Xbox 360, brought new rechargeable batteries, bought two extra controllers (for some buddies), bought a new headset, got the 1-yr Live membership, new HDMI cables, and my subscription of Game Fly. My summer was set, and I was all ready to play some great games. But here is where it all started to go down: MW2 turned out cherry-pie filled not with delicious goodness, but inflated with bland air (even farts would have been more exhilarating); Assassins Creed turned out be nothing but Google Maps: Italian Renaissance Edition; L4D2 only wanted to make me watch Shaun of the Dead; BBC2 turned out be an endless wave of cheesy one-liners and wise-ass remarks, and oh, it was even grimier than MW2--if that's possible; Fable 2 just felt like masturbation session in which I was almost at the peak, but never attained that; FIFA 10 gave me control of players just about as maneuverable fully-laden shopping cart.
And this is just the list of the "good" games that I played. And now, the summer is nearly over, the school is about to start, and I'm frustrated to no-end. I seriously don't know what to do any more, I just can't find "fun" in the good games, and I'm way too scared to buy games that receive anything below an 8.0 on Steam, because let's face it, if "5-star" games are so shitty, the rest must really be scraping the bottom of the shit barrel.
The last gaming "experience" I felt was when I played Portal.
The only game I'm looking forward too, now, is Fable III. Because like I said, it's predecessor was pleasurable, but the experience was just left unfinished.
Any way to get out of this gaming Limbo? Or should I just do something useful with my life?
The first thing I did was to wipe the dust of my good old Xbox 360, brought new rechargeable batteries, bought two extra controllers (for some buddies), bought a new headset, got the 1-yr Live membership, new HDMI cables, and my subscription of Game Fly. My summer was set, and I was all ready to play some great games. But here is where it all started to go down: MW2 turned out cherry-pie filled not with delicious goodness, but inflated with bland air (even farts would have been more exhilarating); Assassins Creed turned out be nothing but Google Maps: Italian Renaissance Edition; L4D2 only wanted to make me watch Shaun of the Dead; BBC2 turned out be an endless wave of cheesy one-liners and wise-ass remarks, and oh, it was even grimier than MW2--if that's possible; Fable 2 just felt like masturbation session in which I was almost at the peak, but never attained that; FIFA 10 gave me control of players just about as maneuverable fully-laden shopping cart.
And this is just the list of the "good" games that I played. And now, the summer is nearly over, the school is about to start, and I'm frustrated to no-end. I seriously don't know what to do any more, I just can't find "fun" in the good games, and I'm way too scared to buy games that receive anything below an 8.0 on Steam, because let's face it, if "5-star" games are so shitty, the rest must really be scraping the bottom of the shit barrel.
The last gaming "experience" I felt was when I played Portal.
The only game I'm looking forward too, now, is Fable III. Because like I said, it's predecessor was pleasurable, but the experience was just left unfinished.
Any way to get out of this gaming Limbo? Or should I just do something useful with my life?
