Good games are so hard to find.

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Yeah, sure, you can play whatever.  It's like dating, marriage, education, career, and such.  Sure, you can settle.  On some things, to be honest, there is nothing to do but to settle.  The thing is, if you have found great games, and know they are out there?  It makes it very difficult to settle.  The thing is you will spend time and money evaluating games.  What stinks is when it's the first, or second, in a series that is good.  Then going back to the first, or on to the third game, only to find they are junk.  Now, to be honest, add-ons and dlc, if they don't follow the same system, are usually junk.  Castlevania: LoS (the original) was great.  The dlc was a graphic comic 2-d bumble, made more for cheap handgames, and a lousy play.  LoS 2, so far, is terrible.  It doesn't make sense, the map and access plus mission information is fare too messy.  Where you are supposed to go is too specific for various maps you can go to in order to complete a mission.  Imagine if I asked you to go north, then east, the north, and then south... but gave you three different maps of several states and gave you no idea which state or how far.  If you like running around in larger areas, with various floors and various means of changing floors, and... it's a mess.  Then, when you get into a major brawl, then the game designers crawl into your pocket, tell you what to do, push you to do it, often very inarticulately, then go away to leave you to hunt and peck again.

I sort of burned out on the suffocating micromanagement that somehow partnered with a complete lack of guidance in that game to go see if the dlc for Alice Madness Returns.  McGee or some such.  It is just another 2-d junk game for the weaksauce hand systems, that looks and plays worse on a full sized large screen and through a console.  It's horrible, lacking detail in both game play and video rendering.

I suppose, for kids, these things are fine.  But for adults, especially long-time game players, that just doesn't cut it.  Thankfully I waited until these games were so cheap that I got my money's worth in just the main/best offering.  Save Castlevania 2.  Though a small writeoff is better than a large one.  Most games really are junk.  To be honest, at this time, I am mostly in them for the story.  A good story in a game is just as rare as a good game.  Combing both of those is far rarer yet.  I should make a list of games I recommend and games I would have stayed away from.  And why.  Some games the game play is worth a weak story, and vise versa.  Sometimes I am greatly surprised, one way or another.  And, to be honest, I don't care if the game is absolutely fantastic, graphics-wise, if it is weaksauce in play and story line.  The worst is when I had been hoping a game would pull out and be fun to play only to end up with trash.  Very often, and the bigger the production, often, the worse the game.  I guess it's like movies.  Those that spent a lot, spend a lot also on advertising.  More often than not you end up wondering where all the money for the production end actually went, because it isn't showing up on the user end of the deal.

Later.  Or good night?  Yeah...  Tired again already.  I set up some dishes, prepped the recycling to go out, and added bleach water to the freezer.  The fluid in it was too thick to pump well.  I am hoping the bleach and regular water will cut it so that on my next work period I can clean it out.  Ugh...  Tomorrow... maybe.  Good night, I think, for sure.  *zzz*

Then again, I'm in a bit of a mood.  Health?  Exhaustion?  Season changes?  Because?  Don't know.  Ah, how do I feel?  Right, here you go.







Good night.