There’s nothing significant that I can add to the discussion about Double Fine and their Kickstarter project at this point. I’ll suffice to say that Day of the Tentacle was one of my first PC games and legitimately played a formative role in my life. I’m a longtime Tim Schafer fan, and I wish him, Ron Gilbert, and the rest of the team the best(I already donated). On that note, we return to our regularly scheduled Gonzo Gamer post.
I’m not particularly good at finishing books. I start a lot of them, let them fall by the wayside(sometimes starting another book), and, realizing I’ve spent too much time away from it, start over. Rinse. Repeat.
The same goes for many good single-player games. That’s not to say that games(or books) which lose my interest are all inherently bad ones, it’s just that I sometimes get too busy with work, school, the holidays, or going out. With some games lasting as long as 100 hours, it’s not that hard to imagine. I lose sight of my goal to sit down with whichever piece of “literature” I’m currently working on as I get distracted by other things.
The irony is that I’m pretty good at buying books. A visit to a good used bookstore can be dangerous, even for someone who struggles to finish books like myself. A 50 year old hardcover of one of “the classics” for 5 bucks? Sold.
I’m not, however, “good at” buying video games. The difference between buying a new book and even a used or otherwise discounted video game, is a larger amount of money than my habits of consumption will allow.
