ADD in Video Games
When it comes to real life, I'm super easily distracted. I often contribute it to ADD (which is self-diagnosed) but honestly I just think it's who I am. The body is designed to notice things that move or are shiny instinctively (which explains a lot, don't it?). Therefore anytime there is movement or something shiny, I'm automatically drawn to it.
I guess my body has taken this natural process and attributed it to all aspects of life. I really cannot sit in a lecture for more than 20 minutes without having something to distract myself. There's something about having boundless amounts of energy and sitting down for long periods of time that doesn't work together (why I have no idea). Anyways, I tend to be quite ADD in normal life, is what I am trying to say.
And the same thing applies to video juegos (games for all y'all who don't speak spanish). When it comes to games, I'm easily amused, but I'm also easily distracted from them. I prefer to beat games, but I'll enjoy games in waves. For a few weeks it'll be racing games, then FPS games, and then for a long while it'll be action/adventure games. Then I'll switch back to puzzle games, and the cycle will start over again. Why this happens I have no idea, but I think it might be because I get stuck on a particular place in the game and just choose to move on.
For instance, I got Batman: Arkham Asylum about a year after it came out. I played it through almost to the very end of the game and then got stuck on a fight sequence before the final boss. I literally played that sequence 2 hours and still couldn't beat it. So I finally tired of my failure, put the game away, and moved on to other greener pastures.
Fast forward about three quarters of a year. Arkham City is coming out in a month (or less, I really don't remember) and I still haven't beaten Arkham Asylum. So I hop back into the game, and within 15 minutes of returning to the dark world of Batman, I have defeated the dreaded fight sequence and beaten the last boss. I still kick myself for that. I often wonder if I hadn't put the game away for that long, if I would have been able to beat it earlier? But the past is the past, and I cannot escape it.
Rather I look forward to the future and what it holds. Expect a review of "Alice Madness Returns" in the next coming blog posts. I look forward to diving into the dark, twisted world of the game. More to come...
I guess my body has taken this natural process and attributed it to all aspects of life. I really cannot sit in a lecture for more than 20 minutes without having something to distract myself. There's something about having boundless amounts of energy and sitting down for long periods of time that doesn't work together (why I have no idea). Anyways, I tend to be quite ADD in normal life, is what I am trying to say.
And the same thing applies to video juegos (games for all y'all who don't speak spanish). When it comes to games, I'm easily amused, but I'm also easily distracted from them. I prefer to beat games, but I'll enjoy games in waves. For a few weeks it'll be racing games, then FPS games, and then for a long while it'll be action/adventure games. Then I'll switch back to puzzle games, and the cycle will start over again. Why this happens I have no idea, but I think it might be because I get stuck on a particular place in the game and just choose to move on.
For instance, I got Batman: Arkham Asylum about a year after it came out. I played it through almost to the very end of the game and then got stuck on a fight sequence before the final boss. I literally played that sequence 2 hours and still couldn't beat it. So I finally tired of my failure, put the game away, and moved on to other greener pastures.
Fast forward about three quarters of a year. Arkham City is coming out in a month (or less, I really don't remember) and I still haven't beaten Arkham Asylum. So I hop back into the game, and within 15 minutes of returning to the dark world of Batman, I have defeated the dreaded fight sequence and beaten the last boss. I still kick myself for that. I often wonder if I hadn't put the game away for that long, if I would have been able to beat it earlier? But the past is the past, and I cannot escape it.
Rather I look forward to the future and what it holds. Expect a review of "Alice Madness Returns" in the next coming blog posts. I look forward to diving into the dark, twisted world of the game. More to come...
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