Easily Sidetracked...

... I'm never going to get anything done.

Back in the old days, a game could be beaten in one sitting, roughly an hour or two at best as long as you knew what you were doing.  It didn't usually take a long time because the stories in games were simple.  You're good, he's bad, stop him by any means necessary!

Nowadays, video games are a lot like movies.  Your character has a personality and a goal, but is being confronted by many different problems at once which revolve around your everyday life, an evil being bent on global domination and/or an ancient weapon being revived.  With all the plot-twists and cut-scenes it is very easy for a game in this day and age to EASILY last longer than 20 hours of your free time, longer if there's side-quests, ultimate weapons to locate, powerful combos to learn and the level-grind to it's absolute max.  Needless to say, games like Persona 3 and Rogue Galaxy, which easily boast 100+ hours of gameplay are way beyond my chances of ever being completed.

Ever since I was young, I had always enjoyed the challenge of being told I wasn't able to do something.  It made me feel as if I was beating the entire world for telling me that I wasn't able enough for the task at hand.  So when a game such as these enters my lap, I start to feel saddened...

I have yet to finish either of these two titles, and it's not as if I hadn't been trying.  Persona 3 I have had to restart on a couple of occations due to being so worked up on watching the side-story relationships that I forgot to train my characters to acceptable levels.  Before long, I was locked into the boss battle at least 10 levels shy of where I should have been, being mercilessly slaughtered at the hands of the evil... thingies... Rogue Galaxy is a little harder to explain, but long story short is that I just don't have the free time...

Now I sit here, typing on my blog about things that I have yet to have done, but am always giving myself new things to do.  Between my YouTube channel's Season 2 lineup and the games I'm always playing in my spare time, nothing is ever going to get done unless I just commit to one.  I haven't touched Grandia III in a few days due to playing Cousinoer5's ROM hack, but now I have a sudden urge to play some Disgaia.  Whitenekos owns it, so I'll probably just borrow it off of him for a little bit, but I already know I won't finish it.  I get paid tomorrow, so I was going to be picking up the new Megaman Starforce 2 game on DS as well as a few other titles, so it's more of a "I kinda wanna try this out" phase right now...

Hopefully I'll get SOMETHING done in the near future, I hate the feeling of unaccomplishment... it's so... empty... and weak...