Games With Structure

Well, it's officially the summer slump in which the only games one has to look foward are the souless movie and tv games like Transformers and Hannah Montana. So what is one to do video game wise? Well, one of the easier answers are openworld games, since they provide a longer gaming experience for the most part. However this can be both a pro and a con. Recently I've been playing Fallout 3 again as an evil character and it was great for the first... 20 or so hours, then for the next 10-15 hours it was fun, but in a more, "I'm almost done" kind've way. Then the last 5 hours I wasn't really having fun, but merely trying to get the achievements for Broken Steel. Of course today the game crashed on me twice at a certain point so I'm saying fuck it, I'm done. DONE. I feel good that I played through Fallout 3 again and finally blew up Megaton and finishing off Moira Brown (Who is perhaps the most annoying character in the entire game) but, it came at a cost. I feel that if a game gets to the point of boring then it's been going on for too long. It may very well be my fault for not taking a break, however normally i like playing a game until I beat it so I can have some sense of closure. (unless the game keeps crashing) Mainly what I'm getting at is that Open World games are all well and good, but when they are played to the extreme, it doesn't work that well. Proabably all the more reason for me not to play Red Faction: Gorrilla, but hey, it's summer. What else is there?

Well, it's officially the summer slump in which the only games one has to look foward are the souless movie and tv games like Transformers and Hannah Montana. So what is one to do video game wise? Well, one of the easier answers are openworld games, since they provide a longer gaming experience for the most part. However this can be both a pro and a con. Recently I've been playing Fallout 3 again as an evil character and it was great for the first... 20 or so hours, then for the next 10-15 hours it was fun, but in a more, "I'm almost done" kind've way. Then the last 5 hours I wasn't really having fun, but merely trying to get the achievements for Broken Steel. Of course today the game crashed on me twice at a certain point so I'm saying fuck it, I'm done. DONE. I feel good that I played through Fallout 3 again and finally blew up Megaton and finishing off Moira Brown (Who is perhaps the most annoying character in the entire game) but, it came at a cost. I feel that if a game gets to the point of boring then it's been going on for too long. It may very well be my fault for not taking a break, however normally i like playing a game until I beat it so I can have some sense of closure. (unless the game keeps crashing) Mainly what I'm getting at is that Open World games are all well and good, but when they are played to the extreme, it doesn't work that well. Proabably all the more reason for me not to play Red Faction: Gorrilla, but hey, it's summer. What else is there?

It's a problem of games in general (Especially single player oriented) , most of em have you doing the same thing from beginning to end, it's just that open-world games tend to last longer. I'd say try Red Faction though, was really fun until the end.

I was so bored with Fallout 3 I couldn't finish the story once. And this comes from a guy who loved the hell out of the first two Fallouts at the turn of the century. A certain amount of soul was missing from F3 that was fully present back in the day. If you can, I'd recommend playing through those utter classics (available for 6 bucks each from GoodOldGames). Or if you're sick of post-apocalyptica, try Arcanum for PC. It's from the original primary Fallout designers and is the best CRPG I've ever played.

LittleBigPlanet: the game that keeps on giving.

Usually during times like this I try to knock off a few old games that I havent finished yet or go back and pick up a couple of games that have been around for a while on the cheap that weren't quite worth paying full price for the first time around. This time though I have been playing some RPG's that are taking a long time for me to beat so I am actually hoping I will have a chance to finish them all before releases start picking up again.

Yeah, I've started MGS 4 again, and I'm starting Red Faction: Guerrilla soon. Batman: Arkham Asylum won't turn out too bad.