The first day of the rest of my life…sucked. I can’t watch Burn Notice w/o headphones because Zena’s listening to vent (Ventrillo, a VOIP program) as she raids (that is, playing World of Warcraft with 24 other people for 4 hours). Not that I’m tempted to play WoW again, but seeing it again after an entire month is a bit reminiscent of my recent Warcraft related dream…er- nightmare. When I woke up from my dream, I was kicking myself. “ARGH, how did I get back into WoW again?!” I thought. It only dawned on me a few minutes later that I didn’t get back into it, thank god.

I played Zelda: Ocarina of Time for 2.5 hours today. I only finished the first dungeon. I’m VERY thorough, I explore everything and talk to everyone that’s available to me at the time….then do the important, game changing things, then explore everything/talk to everyone again. Lately, I’ve been a bit spoiled with my gaming…I have guides galore as I want to finish everything 100% the first time around so that I don’t need to go back and (ever) play the same game again. I learned my lesson with my first RPG, Final Fantasy VII. Played that for 56 hours…then talked to someone and realized I did a lot of stuff wrong. Beat it again in 30ish hours…doing everything a lot better.

Anyways…this game is a bit old, I don’t have a guide for it and I’m going to try to not look on the internet/walkthroughs/anything. Old games were…well, they were different before but it’s more that I was different. When I was a kid, my parents rarely bought games for us (my brother and I). Each game I had, I beat, re-beat, found everything, knew everything. I had all the time in the world and only a few games to play.

Now, I’ve got money…and with money, it means buying games without much care about them. Because some games on purchased on a whim, they’re less important. Meaning less time is dedicated to them. But that’s the thing, I don’t have time anymore either. Well, not as much free time as when I was a child. So I buy lots of games but don’t have time to REALLY play them, get into them, know everything, like I did when I was younger. Plus, because of the internet and guides and my lack of time, I look things up a lot more easily. It’s faster but…not as fun if you don’t explore everything on your own. I kind of want to take my time with Zelda…play it like a game I’d play as a child/teen. It is a 1998 game so I would have been…16 when it came out. Yikes…still too old. I’ll play it like I’m 12. Small, socially awkward, loner asian kid. Friendly but isolated. Afraid of girls. Track pants everyday. Once wore my pajamas to school. That was embarrassing.

Damn repressed childhood memories. YOU STAY AWAY. *runs off and hides*

…………who am I kidding, I can’t run anymore.