Life. Death. And how work seems to conquer that completely!

For the last 14 days, I have been cooped up in my office. Since switching to copy writing, the stress and workload has been piling up. I haven’t really had much time to do anything other than writing. Odd isn’t it? I got enough time to write for work but when it comes to the blog, heh…

As of late I have had some races, but honestly nothing to shout about. So, instead of talking about me losing to an old Porsche turbo, or beating Civic and Satria silly, I shall devout this time to reflect on the finer things in my life.

Recently I have re-visited some of the favorite games in my life. Being the avid pursuer of a good story, I have to say compared with yesteryear, games today have seriously taken a turn for the worse.

Come back with me, back into the land of 8 bit dinosaurs and 16 bit cavemen. Back in the day, when you finished a game you were the proud recipient of a 4 to 5 minute minimum ending. Nowadays you finish a game, it tells you what a great job you did for 1 minute or less, and then proceeds to tell you that the sequel is coming out to continue the story. Talk about marketing ploys.

Way back when I was a wee little lad, Nintendo games were shizite. Most developers were more afraid of putting out a bad game than they were about the next sequel in the story. That ultimately led to great games being produced. For example, Metroid, Mega Man, Ninja Gaiden, Bionic Commando, Ikari Warriors and so on and so forth. Those games had plots, foreshadowing and everything else a book could throw at a game. And that was with 8 bit graphics with slower than your grandmother processors.

Imagine that back then, with those craptacular sound chips they were able to cook up amazing soundtracks. Ok, I wouldn’t play any of them in the car or anything, but they were so well composed it was amazing. Super Metroid, Mega Man 2, Blazing Lazers (I know it’s not from Nintendo, but PC engine was just as good if not better in my book.) and tons of others I could mention if you gave the next hour to think about them. Obviously I am not.

Nowadays you get paper thin Steven Seagle (Not sure how to spell his name, not sure whether I want to know how to either…) movie like plots. The only other games that even try for plots are RPGs. Final Fantasy has always had a good story; unfortunately they always followed a certain formula. It’s pretty easy to recycle ideas if it’s a successful one.

Sigh. Whatever happened to the good old days? Those days have long since passed and age is catching up. No longer can I call myself the virile spring chicken I was once was (Cough. Cough). But now there lies a shade of the man he used to be. Lying there, on his comfy bed, watching DVDs, playing PS2, reading magazines and calling a girl perhaps two.

Anyways, so I have now successfully wasted five minutes of your time, I think I am pretty fucking good at it. >:D Maybe some other day this week I shall blog a bit on some of the races I have had. Hopefully I get into a real good one otherwise there will be a shortage of material for this page.