Comments on: Just look at the polygons I’m pumping! http://elwoodicious.com/2006/05/15/just-look-at-the-polygons-im-pumping/ Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. —Voltaire Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:09:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: james http://elwoodicious.com/2006/05/15/just-look-at-the-polygons-im-pumping/comment-page-1/#comment-581 james Tue, 16 May 2006 15:08:57 +0000 http://www.elwoods.org/home/2006/05/15/just-look-at-the-polygons-im-pumping/#comment-581 Right on, snack-sized gaming that has a sense of taking place in a larger scope and with a level of persistency found in MMORPGs. One of the things that hooked me to Animal Crossing was how it seemed optimized for 15 minutes a day. We picked it up in my last year of grad school where I was laden with a 50 hour work week and some 40 hours of course work. To unwind I would pick it up late in the evening and pick weeds, collect fossils, and fish. It even got to the point where I would schedule my paper writing so I wouldn't miss K.K. at te train station. Sounds sad but it was very theraputic. Now if only someone can come up with a snack-sized RPG style monster killing game... Right on, snack-sized gaming that has a sense of taking place in a larger scope and with a level of persistency found in MMORPGs. One of the things that hooked me to Animal Crossing was how it seemed optimized for 15 minutes a day. We picked it up in my last year of grad school where I was laden with a 50 hour work week and some 40 hours of course work. To unwind I would pick it up late in the evening and pick weeds, collect fossils, and fish. It even got to the point where I would schedule my paper writing so I wouldn’t miss K.K. at te train station. Sounds sad but it was very theraputic.

Now if only someone can come up with a snack-sized RPG style monster killing game…

]]> By: TonyD http://elwoodicious.com/2006/05/15/just-look-at-the-polygons-im-pumping/comment-page-1/#comment-579 TonyD Mon, 15 May 2006 21:12:55 +0000 http://www.elwoods.org/home/2006/05/15/just-look-at-the-polygons-im-pumping/#comment-579 You are indeed fortunate to have made this realization before the arrival of your little one. I remember when ours was born. I'd recently acquired a new XBox and a stack of games. I think I used the thing a dozen times, mostly in the context of having buddies over after the baby went to bed. I'm not saying that your gaming has to end when you have a baby, but it's definitely got to change. I used to spend endless hours stomping monsters in whatever game came my way. Nowadays I'm unbeleivably picky. A game has to prove that it delivers non-tedious enjoyment on my schedule or its in the trash within minutes. The good news is (IMHO), that there's room for a whole new paradigm of gaming goodness that's optimized for an adult schedule. I play a variety of online turn-based games that I can pick up when I've got a minute. My brother's family has set up a "NeverWinter Nights" room with PCs for the whole family. Boy, I'm really rambling. I must be trying to procrastinate on some real work. Cheers! You are indeed fortunate to have made this realization before the arrival of your little one. I remember when ours was born. I’d recently acquired a new XBox and a stack of games. I think I used the thing a dozen times, mostly in the context of having buddies over after the baby went to bed. I’m not saying that your gaming has to end when you have a baby, but it’s definitely got to change. I used to spend endless hours stomping monsters in whatever game came my way. Nowadays I’m unbeleivably picky. A game has to prove that it delivers non-tedious enjoyment on my schedule or its in the trash within minutes.

The good news is (IMHO), that there’s room for a whole new paradigm of gaming goodness that’s optimized for an adult schedule. I play a variety of online turn-based games that I can pick up when I’ve got a minute. My brother’s family has set up a “NeverWinter Nights” room with PCs for the whole family.

Boy, I’m really rambling. I must be trying to procrastinate on some real work. Cheers!

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