You may have already caught onto this, but I have been going through a slight lazy streak. I don’t mean that it affects my everyday life, it is only affecting how I play videogames. As mentioned in a previous post, I haven’t started The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom yet. I don’t have any excuse for this. I know for sure that all I am doing is depriving myself of the opportunity to play a game that I know I am going to enjoy. However, I do want to say that I have come up with pretty good excuses for gaslighting myself into waiting even longer to play this game. So, I figured I would share them with all of you because putting them into words will help fuel my laziness even further. This is not meant as a way to convince myself to play, but as a vague hope that one can understand my dilemma. Also, I wanted to do this because of a text my friend sent me after the last post. I never said I wasn’t petty.
First off, I do not have as much energy as I did in the past. I used to be able to play games for hours on end with no need for breaks in between, save for the bathroom. I can’t do that anymore. If I can play a game for an extended period of time, it has to be one that doesn’t require a lot of effort from me, like a Pokemon game for instance. There is so much to do in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom that it is a little overwhelming and part of me doesn’t want to start playing a big game that I know will require a lot of time investment. Although, that has rarely stopped me before, which leads into my second reason for not picking up the game yet. If I do start, it may be hard to stop. I don’t want a repeat of my playtime in The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
You might be thinking that is not a bad thing. However, if I play an open-world game, I am planning on dedicating all my time to playing it properly. The free time I have will all be dedicated to just playing that one game. Half of the games I play are already not getting the time they should, so imagine what is going to happen when I open up that case. They might as well be dead in the water at that point. I might not be able to play it for long periods of time, but I will definitely be able to play it at any chance I get and that somewhat worries me. I at least try to keep a balance. Well, the excuse I just gave is also tied to my big confession. Remember how I started with that? Yeah. The truth is that I still haven’t beaten the first game.
I know. I know. I can easily do it at any time. I just don’t want to and because I haven’t beaten the first one, I haven’t played the second one. Since The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is an improvement in everything the first game had to offer, it would be even more unlikely that I would want to go back and play the original after starting the new one. So, right now I am slowly trying to work my way through the first game so I can eventually play the second. I might not finish it anytime soon, but it is something. Not that these excuses really mean anything. At the end of the day, I use these restrictions to justify the path I am taking for my own selfish reasons. For now, the game will remain on my desk, waiting for the day I open it. Until then, no game! Oh, and another confession, I didn’t have much to talk about this week so I decided to do this because I thought it would be fun. It was. Have a good night!
That Casual Gamer Guy 