solutions in search of problems

[pktechgirlbackup]

I'm not a big fan of computer RPGs now, but I loved them as a kid. Some of that was because my mom wouldn't let us play FPSes, and my poor darwinfail tendons couldn't take action games in general and I talked myself into second choice. But I assume I also genuinely enjoyed them for gameplay reasons. Now I pretty much don't because, and I mean this in the best possible way, I already have a job. By which I mean not that RPGs feel like work (although grinding really, really does), but that I already have an activity in which I can solve challenges in a variety of ways, level up my skills to face progressively harder challenges, and have to make decisions with incomplete information. I know some people play RPGs for the story, but in order to be more fun than books they'd have to deliver information at a competitive speed. What life doesn't fulfill is my desire to shoot a bunch of zombies in the head and have a little alert come up telling me what a good job I did.

And that is why I play Left 4 Dead.