There’s an article recently posted on Game Pro (April 30th) called Too Big and Too Hard (no, it’s about games, not the writer John Davidson’s unfortunate seedy club bathroom experience with a guy named Bruno). The article talks about rethinking the way players approach games and the disconnect between game reviewers that praise games which add more content and complex systems and players who may not want games that complicated.
First, I’m glad someone said something like this. It’s something I’ve been considering for a long time, all the way back …

I usually cross post the gaming articles from my site on gamasutra, too, so if you’re interested in discussing this post you can do it here on my site, or at the cross post on gamasutra. I hate to drive people away from my site, but the discussion is usually better on gamasutra, so I wanted to point that out. Anyway, to point:
The older I get: the more money I have, the more games I want to play, and the less time I have to play games. When I was …

So, I play video games, but the older I get, the less likely it is that I complete them. I’m like a goddamn video game tourist that comes to your overseas city and then stays in the hotel the whole time, only eats Chinese food instead of the local delicacies, and compares everything about the foreign culture to the country I’m from (yet profess to not particularly like). So here are several grains of salt for you to have – they go great with tequila.
Still, I try tons of …