News
October 10th, 2005, 11:15 PM
By Frank Ling, GN Writer
Monday, October 10, 2005
Maybe it’s coincidence. Maybe it’s bad mojo. Or perhaps it’s just the strange alignment of the planets. Whatever it is, I can attest to you that these things always happen when I am in the most critical part of a game. Not all of these things happen all at once. If they did, I would throw my consoles out the window and never play another game ever again. But they don’t, so I continue to play. With that said, I have accumulated a list of things that happen when you are working toward a final boss battle. Is it just me, or does anybody else have these things happen to them? Without further ado, here is a short list of:
Things That Happen When You Are in a Boss Battle.
• Your (fill in the blank) ________(mom, girlfriend, boyfriend, mother, father) has the sudden urge to talk to you while standing in front of the TV.
• Your (fill in the blank) ________ (girlfriend, boyfriend) suddenly decides it’s a great time to snuggle with you.
• The friend that has a reputation for making criminally long calls phones you.
• Dinnertime is suddenly a do or die situation with the family.
• The game that you have been playing for over two weeks suddenly refuses to save.
• The power suddenly goes off.
• You have to go to the bathroom real bad.
• Your dog jumps on you.
• Your cat jumps on you.
• Your cat and dog jump on you.
• You suddenly remember that you didn’t turn off the car lights.
• You suddenly realize that you didn’t make a save just before the boss battle… and you know the boss battle will take at least an hour.
• After saying to yourself, “just one more time”, after ten straight failures at beating the boss, you decide to go to bed at 4am.
• You suddenly realize that it is now 4am in the morning and you have midterms at 7am and you didn’t do a thing to study.
• You suddenly realize that it is now 4am in the morning and you have to go to work at 7am and you didn’t get any sleep.
• You suddenly realize that you don’t have enough (fill in the blank) _________ (ammo, magic, hit points, characters, secret items, keys, gems, strength, time, water, fire, earth, lightning, spells, icons, potions, health, arrows, guns, ) to beat the level and must start from the beginning because you were too impatient to take your time in playing through the game and must now resort to cheat codes to get through it but you can’t tell your friends you did that because you don’t want to look like a dweeb.
So why do we put up with all of these distractions and circumstances? Answer: We love games.
Monday, October 10, 2005
Maybe it’s coincidence. Maybe it’s bad mojo. Or perhaps it’s just the strange alignment of the planets. Whatever it is, I can attest to you that these things always happen when I am in the most critical part of a game. Not all of these things happen all at once. If they did, I would throw my consoles out the window and never play another game ever again. But they don’t, so I continue to play. With that said, I have accumulated a list of things that happen when you are working toward a final boss battle. Is it just me, or does anybody else have these things happen to them? Without further ado, here is a short list of:
Things That Happen When You Are in a Boss Battle.
• Your (fill in the blank) ________(mom, girlfriend, boyfriend, mother, father) has the sudden urge to talk to you while standing in front of the TV.
• Your (fill in the blank) ________ (girlfriend, boyfriend) suddenly decides it’s a great time to snuggle with you.
• The friend that has a reputation for making criminally long calls phones you.
• Dinnertime is suddenly a do or die situation with the family.
• The game that you have been playing for over two weeks suddenly refuses to save.
• The power suddenly goes off.
• You have to go to the bathroom real bad.
• Your dog jumps on you.
• Your cat jumps on you.
• Your cat and dog jump on you.
• You suddenly remember that you didn’t turn off the car lights.
• You suddenly realize that you didn’t make a save just before the boss battle… and you know the boss battle will take at least an hour.
• After saying to yourself, “just one more time”, after ten straight failures at beating the boss, you decide to go to bed at 4am.
• You suddenly realize that it is now 4am in the morning and you have midterms at 7am and you didn’t do a thing to study.
• You suddenly realize that it is now 4am in the morning and you have to go to work at 7am and you didn’t get any sleep.
• You suddenly realize that you don’t have enough (fill in the blank) _________ (ammo, magic, hit points, characters, secret items, keys, gems, strength, time, water, fire, earth, lightning, spells, icons, potions, health, arrows, guns, ) to beat the level and must start from the beginning because you were too impatient to take your time in playing through the game and must now resort to cheat codes to get through it but you can’t tell your friends you did that because you don’t want to look like a dweeb.
So why do we put up with all of these distractions and circumstances? Answer: We love games.