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Monday, October 29, 2012

The newer generation of game players

Lately I have realized that the new generation of video game players will not know who my video game heroes are. Characters like Ryu, Link or Sonic may not even resonate with them at all. Think about it, most of them grew up in the age where their video games are in 3D. FPS are the biggest things around. Jrpgs or better yet Japan developed games are on the decline.


I used to have temptation introduce to them to my gaming heroes, like telling them, "You young punks and your online play". It dawned upon me recently they have a different perspective regarding video games and their characters or even how they view video games. Games that resonate a lot with me like the more retro platformers, Jrpgs and even fighting games are not even in their view of games they would consider playing.

Initially I feel sad that things I like will be forgot, then I do realize I never liked the things my parents or even grandparents loved. This made realize things we love now only lasts within our generation but I don't mind that now.

It might be selfish thinking to not minding to see a certain favorite past time / thing be replaced but we often forget that we are moving on and changing. In a sense, this is just be history in the making which I am glad to be a part in. To me that is more than enough of a comforting thought.

I never liked the idea of the future generation holding onto things that might become totally irrelevant or even wrong by future standards. I don't think anyone has the right to say a thousand years into the future things should be done in a specific way even though it hinders humanity from progressing on.

Whatever happens to my beloved kinds of video games, I will remember that I was part of it.



Side note - I do believe self discovery is more exciting than people forcing it onto you

Sunday, October 7, 2012

A lot more to juggle than expected

I guess my last blog was last month's news. I am slowly getting used to my new job and honestly I do not know if I am doing well. I tend to over worry on things. That is how I am.

I do enjoy the first 2 weeks the fact I do not need to tend to my phone anymore than totally needed. It sort of gave me my sanity back. I guess I have to be honest I was feeling pretty bad during my last job and I did had really suicidal thoughts throughout. Putting the job down was one of the things I guess helped alleviate that.

Here's came the next piece I need to juggle in my life. Pursing my degree. I have done some information search for the private universities in Singapore. I have also narrowed down the courses I would take though personally I do not know if I am capable enough of handling them. (Sigh worrying again before things even got started). I have not come into the area how I am going to handle my school fees.

I hadn't talk to my family or specifically my father regarding this yet. I wonder if I am procrastinating to avoid pursing my degree. After all, I did finally get that much cherished free time. I wanted to spend it on playing the games I stacked up over the few years.

But the most ironic thing is here I am sitting with my PS3, my Xbox 360, my PS vita and my DS, for the whole weekend I didn't even touch them. There's still the strong push away that at the back of my head, all this free time will vanish when I play games. Though once I start playing and get done with it. I feel really relieve.

It will take sometime before the tension goes down. Overall I am still feel glad and relieve.

I will sign off here for today.

P.S. I do live video stream now and then which you can check it out here > www.twitch.tv/kilvear