It’s interesting realizing that I have the most fun in “Metroid” style games—I know I will get upgrades, but not the nature of them, and there is no choice involved.
I actually had to quit playing WOW because I kept anticipating the things I would future-enjoy and couldn’t appreciate the current game play at all. I just recently picked it up again and have been making an effort to try and just enjoy the present, and it’s been a lot more fun for me.
Oddly, while I want to say I enjoy “make choices with full knowledge” to “make choices blindly”, I’ve generally had a lot more fun with games where I had a momentary “bad news: you could have had a pony!” to games like WOW where I can spend hours crunching numbers to figure out exactly how to ensure I get the pony by level 53, and then spend the first 52 levels going “I want a pony! :(”
It’s interesting realizing that I have the most fun in “Metroid” style games—I know I will get upgrades, but not the nature of them, and there is no choice involved.
I actually had to quit playing WOW because I kept anticipating the things I would future-enjoy and couldn’t appreciate the current game play at all. I just recently picked it up again and have been making an effort to try and just enjoy the present, and it’s been a lot more fun for me.
Oddly, while I want to say I enjoy “make choices with full knowledge” to “make choices blindly”, I’ve generally had a lot more fun with games where I had a momentary “bad news: you could have had a pony!” to games like WOW where I can spend hours crunching numbers to figure out exactly how to ensure I get the pony by level 53, and then spend the first 52 levels going “I want a pony! :(”