I don't like console games. The kid got a GameCube last week and has been playing Medal of Honor or something on it. I tried to play with him but (a) I'm really bad it, and (b) I have no ambition to be better. I don't want to play any more. A similar thing happened on the PS3 as well but I can't even remember the name of the game. I've also noticed the same problem with board games - Bucket Brigade / Honeybears was really dull, Niagara annoys me to the point of hysteria, I enthusiastically dislike El Grande... yet I really enjoy many abstracts and word games which are ranked down around 4000 at BGG.
What I'm wondering is, do I dislike games because I suck at them, or do I suck at them because I dislike them? I don't know if I can tell. I suck at Chess and Go as well, but they get some degree of respect from me. I can't locate any highly-ranked game that I dislike despite having won at it, except maybe Railway Tycoon... and that loses most points because it was too long. To be fair, though, and game I don't like I don't get experience at and so I'm not in a position to win.
I'd like to better understand why I don't like some games, but I can't think of insightful experiments.
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How on earth could you dislike the PS3?! Have you played Resistance 2? Dead Space? Prototype? inFamous? It's amazing!!
I'm waiting for Scrabble and deduction games on the PS3 :-).
I tend to like games more initially if I get crushed. It means there's a lot of challenge ahead.
I can't really go either way with this one; I've played games I have never ever come close to winning and they're great, I've won games I thought were dire because the win felt too easy, empty or wrong.
I've marked down many games because even though I felt great about playing them others in the group found a poor game, and I felt their reasoning was valid.
But winning should make us like a game, at least because you can generally tell you got it. I mean, it's alright to keep trying indefinitely, but if you're never winning and you know why then it's difficult to tell what there is to like about a game.
I know, it's a simplistic way to look at it; but it works. That's why I gave up on waterskiing.
I suck at Chess.
I like Set, even though I've never won, but I still get it. It;s just that Mr Coffee gets it better :) However with Chess it eludes me; I'm sure I could study strategy more if I wanted to; I mean I could read books on it or study the board more but I've only had a few go's and mainly the way I play is very bad. I look at maybe one to two moves ahead and concentrate on just one area and sometimes I forget which pieces do what, and I tend to think about my pieces more than my opponent's. Not good. It's just that I haven't really got used to thinking any further than that. In that sense I can't enjoy it because I know inevitably I'll lose and also I'm not really thinking much about the game.
With waterskiing and sports I think there is another element for me ... public humiliation ...! and physical pain! If I suck at a physical sport which for most physical sports I do it puts me off because do I realy want to pay x number of dollars for a leotard or a swimsuit or whatever outfit, plus equipment to go falling on my face in front of a group of people and also get perhaps the side of my body bashed in?
At least I am a bit more tempted to fail at Chess a few times because I do have a basic board and the cost of losing is not so bad (and you can try to study up on it and practice by yourself or with a computer without a crowd of people laughing their asses off at you).
However for burning flab it just isn't quite the same thing ...
Oh I have to just write this post because the word verification is the same as the suburb I live in. It's an omen, it might bring me good luck!
*make a wish*
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