Near the end of 2021, I tweeted this:
I realized as I’ve gotten older my taste in a lot of things has, inevitably, changed a bit. Every so often I would “fall out” of video games for a month or so, having gotten burned out or overwhelmed or in need of a break. However, around the midpoint of 2021 I was feeling a bit disconnected from video games in a way I hadn’t before. Nothing I played, even if I did end up enjoying my time with it, felt like it meant something to me like games in the past had. I couldn’t decide if what I had played just wasn’t that great or if I had finally gotten tired of video games in general. Turns out, it was a mix of both.
So that’s when I decided for myself that I would step away from my desire to play every big-name video game release of the year and go in search of other, smaller games I wouldn’t normally give my attention to. I’ve always loved “indie” games – I’ve always felt they had better design and more inventive ideas than 90% of what big developers dish out on a yearly basis. But each year as I found myself with less and less time on my hands, I had to carefully choose which games I gave my full attention. So, 2022 was going to be the year I veered away from expansive, 60-plus hour gaming adventures and more towards weird, inventive little games with something more interesting to provide. (I did play Horizon Forbidden West to start out the year, and that was the game that, while I thoroughly enjoy it, reminded me why I needed to distance myself from those experiences more)
Every so often I’ll post my thoughts and experiences with these games here. Hopefully I’ll inspire you to try some of them out, too.
I guess my personal goal with all this is simple: expand my horizons and get out of my comfort zone a bit. Maybe even “grow up” a little, too.
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