I always wanted to review games but since other endeavors lagged me behind, I never did. I took hard-core gaming as a scholar endeavor more than five years ago; after some love madness in my personal life when I was living in India. I said I took it as a scholar endeavor and not simply as entertainment, much less as hobby.
Personally, the lessons that life gave me, learning them the hard way, were easy to understand. Either I took it seriously as a video-game scholar or I couldn’t possibly expect to retain anything of what I saw as long-lasting knowledge.
It baffles me to find that after more than five years I have achieved less of what I expected. A reasonably number would be 30 games finished in half a decade, but it wasn’t so. This is this way because of the hardcore rules I imposed to myself since the beginning pertaining my video-gaming. My rules, roughly, were: never using cheats, never saving only after thirty minutes of playing (consecutively) and never reading hints, faqs or strategy guides to advance.
Other reason is the massive disperssion of games started all at once. Since the last five years I started playing, sometimes finished and I’m still playing to more than 300 home computer, video-arcade, console and PC games. Of which, always faithful to my rules, I have finished a few more than a dozen. Anyway, I don’t care because the journeys were very enjoyable and the glory of playing without cheating and saving in hard parts was very, very rewarding. I will be posting here my views on those games.
