Christmas Gaming

Traditionally for whatever reason christmas has always meant heavy gaming. For what ever reason you always end up with some downtime. Either its too cold out or your just sick of listening to your mom talk about how people you graduated with are more successful than you but whatever your excuse you end up alone in front of the TV.

Christmas is the perfect time to discover some new titles that you were waiting for as a gift from that rad family member who knows who is intune with your wants and not your needs. I still remember very fondly the year the i discovered original Halo. It blew my mind. I hadn't really gotten back into FPS's since Perfect Dark and after that christmas i was all in.

Adversely it is also a good time to finish some game that you might have started and then neglected for shinier prizes. This is the route I decided to go this year but instead of something recent I took a time machine 16 years to the past and played Shinning Force with the help of Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection.
For one reason or another I have always looked back at this game with fondness and rose tinted fading memories. And it was all justified.

There must be something about cartoon graphics and RPG's it just seems to fit. I can loose days to these and not really notice but for some reason the newer 3d super graphic mega complex RPG's wear me out after a few hours. It might be nostalgia or just my old age but i haven't managed to cram through 21 hours of gameplay in 3 days in quite some time.

Of course it could boil down to my first salient point and I could have just had nothing better to do. That or all the rum.