@Moojuice
Thanks for responding.

It's true that limiting yourself completely one way or the other likely won't fare too well.
I've also found, however, that were I to continue moderating, I will not progress in what does matter fast enough for it to have a significant impact on my life. I have learned to moderate my moderation, thus becoming immoderate as a paradox to the entire notion.

The biggest thing that I want to have happen next year is for my interests to flip. I love music and I love video games, but the comfort of games has proved much more intoxicating and instantly gratifying. I'm not sure I can handle it. When I walk into my room, I see a stack of pretty white Wii games, a stack of pretty white DS games... at the very least, I'll have to trim the fat of most of them so as to not be so tempted.

I'm considering the following clause:
I resolve to abandon all forms of media not being musically, educationally, or philosophically focused unless in a social setting.
For every full week of abiding by this trend, I will allot myself one day or evening of playing whatever I want.
I consider this karma for the last few years that the roles have been sadly reversed.

This will likely be my last post on a non-music-related forum for quite some time, so- have fun everyone!

My resolution is to stop reading about video games. No blogs, no forums, no p/reviews.
I waste far too much time on these things.

I'm also going to continue my streak of only watching Lost and stand-up comedy on TV. I've gotten rid of my netflix subscription. And I'm seriously considering putting all the video games in storage. Still haven't decided on that.

Instead I will drink wine and play guitar. All the time.
But I'm thinking Rock Band 2 might actually be a healthy game to keep playing.

Thoughts? Should I cut video games completely from my diet and let the addiction crash, or should I "moderate"?
There's more out there than glowing screens...

You have about 12 hours to respond to this comment. :)

You're pretty much right on.
Sega is only the producer (and they picked it up not so long ago). If he works for Sega, he most likely hasn't helped develop The Conduit at all. He's a figurehead, but hey- at least that means that one of the real creators of the game isn't taking a lot of time off in the final stretch of development to go hype it.

agreed. Personally, I just don't feel like shooting people. That's not the happy, fun, innovative experience I was looking for. I think I can let my anti-gun feelings slide for some aliens though, as I'm far more interested in The Conduit or the Metroid Prime remakes than CoD. It's just too grim.

(alright, so I was willing to shoot people in RedSteel... maybe it's just the realistic military aspect that has me so turned off)

1) The Legend of Zelda (sic) (Yes- N.E.S.)
2) Ocarina of Time
3) A Link to the Past

At least that's in order of how much they once captured my imagination...
Lately though, I've found the fetch-quests present in Wind Waker and Twilight Princess annoy me too much to put them on a top list. I also found I wasn't really enjoying the "no idea what to do- better go look up a guide" aspects of The Minish Cap either. I have to say that I loved Shadow of the Colossus and Okami far more than any recent Zelda title.
Hopefully Miyamoto really pushes the next Zelda game into very new territory and emerges with the kind of awe and wonder you can really only get from something fresh.

Dino-Riders! I'd forgotten what they were called, but when I got those toys for my birthday... when I was 5 or 6 or so... it was one of the happiest birthdays ever.

I hope I can feel like that again someday...

(looks up Dino-Rider toys on eBay)

:)

ug. I signed up (I've been a My Nintendo member for a while) and none of the games I previously had registered gave me points.
I had to complete surveys for points. Did one on World of Goo and got 10. Did one on Smash Bros. Brawl and got... nothing. WTF? I only have 4 surveys available and not all of them even give me points? So registering games doesn't? I have to do 80+ surveys to get friggin' Game and Watch? I hope the site is broken right now, because that's some ridiculous crap.

Do they show full length movies on the screens in Home, because if they do, I'd actually be interested getting on. If they don't, they should. It'd be a cool marketing technique... walk into Home, see some section of some movie, get all caught up in it and then have someone else distract you or ask to play a game... just like real life.

I'd kind of like to do that. Just go uninformed for a year. I can't do that now though- it's my job to be informed. (Just retail, but I work in games).
Work really got me thinking about it, because there are so many people that walk in that don't want to know that Deca Sports sucks... or they're buying games for young kids who really might not care (in their case everything above a freakin' 3.0 suffices).
Even as a kid I subscribed to magazines though. It'd be weird to completely fall off the radar at some point, but it might have to be for more than a year for me. I know enough right now to get me through a year without forcing myself to take a monetary plunge on something I don't know about...
Or, instead, I could just become a video game reviewer. Then it would be my job to walk into playing a game without preconceptions... and someone else would be paying for it. :)

I spend more time reading about games than playing the damn things, so if I were to quit games for a year, it'd definitely have to include reading about them...
Or, perhaps I could just stop reading about them, and I'll only Play games for a year- no reviews, no news, nothing. As though I were any unwitting helpless oblivious consumer.
I'd probably just stick to older titles at that point. I think I might try that...

What do you think? Quit completely for a certain amount of time, or try playing games without reading critical opinions, etc?