grownin up

Resident Evil 4

A great game..man, I just had the urge to pick it up again. This urge lasted...all 1 sub-chapter. It was the creepiest part of the game, too - the Ashley mission. I was recalling as she dodged suits of armor and bumbling cultists, that this was so freaking scary to play the first time through. You don't have a weapon, only a flashlight - that's what got me. Leon is a zombie-killing badass who can fend off anything...Ashley is pretty much the opposite of that.

Anywho, I was running straight through the level thinking, "ah man, this used to be sooo creepy. Maybe it's my inexplicable knowledge of where I'm going and what monsters are ahead that makes this so not fun now. ... Yup." I always reach a limit with games where I just can't pick it up anymore, regardless of how awesome it is. CTR and FF7...I was an ultimate fan of those games, logged countless hours on 'em and couldn't understand when my buddy Jesse told me he was stuck in Midgar. "What?? You pick it up, play an hour and then...put it DOWN??!" I'm starting to wonder if my boyhood obsession is losing steam w/in me...if I'm going from casual to 'every-once-in-awhle'.

I love gaming culture; this distresses me.