Aging, Rambling Old Man
Being a silly American, I bought the US release of Persona 3 FES when it came out last April. I even pre-ordered it, counting on the buzz of friends and foes alike. It did turn out to be a great little PS2 gem, even for someone who generally avoids RPGs on the console like myself. I chalk it up to that it’s just so…high-school-anime-like.
Coincidentally the US release overlaps with the anime Persona Trinity Soul in Japan over the air, which is kind of a spinoff to Persona 3, except it’s done with a totally different setting and cast. Some of the concepts in that show shares with the game, including a cameo character from the game proper.
I purchased Persona 4 just today, thanks to a sale (that ends midnight PST time). Will it take me a year to beat it?
I’ve been also taking my sweet time with some anime series. The second go-around (if you could really say that–it’s more like trying to fall in love with your wife again rather than revisiting a fond memory) with Simoun for me is still ongoing. Along with my slow walk-like pace through Gundam 8th MS Team… I think this is probably my second time at it with 8th MS Team, too, but unlike the aborted attempt I had I will finish, time willing. In between somewhere is reviewing Emma season 2, Aria season 1, and Nanoha season 1. (Notably excepted, Nanoha A’s gets to go directly to jailmarathon. It is delicious, you must eat it.)
I’ve always tied the enthusiasm of my fanboy spurts to the seasons. It has been a frigid winter in the Northeast, and maybe it’s getting to me. Maybe it’s because I’m just getting old. Whatever it may be, sometimes it’s just good to take it easy. It’s a legit way to roll, IMO.
There is a screen shot of my wordpress backend that I’ve been looking at sparingly over the past few weeks. It’s basically a list of all the drafts stored in there. I’d say a good 70% of them are aborted ideas that probably should never see the light of day; many of them reads better as essay questions for a college-level course or thought-provoking questions you stick at the end of an editorial, trying to make you seem smarter than the paragraphs of mess you’ve fed your reader. I know at some point, those words as strung together made sense–not only that they convey meaning, but it had to seem good for me to write them down. They often still do…reading them reminds me just how weird I could be sometimes. But what makes me read them to begin with is seeing how many of those I’ve written. Guh, I am definitely glut with ideas but lacking the will to execute, somehow.
But yea, at this rate, it will take me more than a year to beat Persona 4. Thanks, old age and fast intarwebs.
Lastly, the law of equvalent pimpage requires me to talk about the silly contest that’s going on. It’s silly, but the prizes are real and so are the LULZ. To enter the sweepstake, you have to sign up at a certain website. I’ll let the rules speak for themselves.
uwah, I’m glad to read a more personal post about you, omo. I’m sure you won’t come out and tell me, but I’ve always wondered just how old you are… and what the hell you do as a job/career. In any case, if it takes you a year you’ll still be a faster gamer than me. In a year and a half I’m only 10 hrs into P3. Taking it easy is nice every once in a while… just as long as you don’t do what I did and stop watching for 3 months but continue to blog about anime. When you’re that out of touch, your opinions get incoherent…..
I got the original Persona 3 when it released, and then just as I was considering playing it I got wind that there was an undub version available, so I gathered the necessary parts to play that, then FES released, so I picked that up, then an undub of FES. Then Tales of Vesperia landed and I had to give that priority (I love the Tales games). And meanwhile, Persona 4 has released.
So I’ve got P3, P3:FES and P4 and I’ve played maybe an hour of each. :P I think you’ll probably beat me to the end. I blame World of Warcraft. :(
Also, I’ve always found that my interest in games / anime waxes and wanes depending on the seasons too, but I think it’s primarily as a result of the quality of anime that’s running. It’s actually been a really long time since there were shows on that I really got caught up in, at least a year.
You’re not alone on the having-lots-of-draft-blog-posts issue too. I keep finishing shows, writing up detailed posts about them, getting about 75-80% complete and then not finishing. And then you go back to them a little later and by that stage it’s lost relevance to you and you wonder whether it’s still worth finishing a blog post describing just how awful Blue Gender is when you finished it over six months previous. :(
I finished P3 in January and just ordered P4 this morning. Took me a year and it was the only game I was playing for most of that, which is like play 10+ hours for a weekend then leave it alone for two months, rinse repeat for a year.
As far as aborted posts go. I must have about a hundred “editorial” half-written posts, of which I’ve published zero. Every couple of months I start one, get halfway through and then say to myself, self why do you want to do this to yourself? The answer usually is, yeah your right, I don’t.
I think I’m worse (better?) than that. I tend to do much better at picking ones to go all the way and snip bad ideas in the bud earlier than you :) At the same time I think having a lot of aborted attempts is probably just how the creative process thresh out the chaff from the grain, so it’s natural your posts are better quality per attempt.
haha, super rats, I’m like you, I pick it up on weekend, play it like crazy, and forget for 6 months. However, I always start the game over since in that amount of time I’ve forgotten the whole story and how to play it. Every time I try to get into video games again, my ‘anime priority’ takes over and overrides it.
And as for drat posts, I never have them, but then again I use the dangerous method of ’stream-of-consciousness’ posting. for me, i usually just sit down for about 2 hours and clunk something out. I only get drafts when my browser randomly crashes, though that’s been enough to leave a post undone before lol. There actually are a few instances of me giving up on a post because i couldn’t think of it as important enough, but the idea usually resurfaces in another form somewhere else.
I haven’t really played videos games in about a year and some months, which is kind of strange to me because of how religiously I did so a couple of years back (and no, it’s not med school, because anime is moving just fine). But I’ve found that I’m fine not playing them, and that I’m just as fine getting back into them (I just bought P3 FES and am planning to buy P4, though I’m not planning on playing either yet). It’s a little bit of the same for me when posting. I already have ideas lined up that I can easily knock down if I feel like it, but at the moment, I just don’t. It’s not like the idea is bad, but it seems like it would be okay to hold that off for a little longer. Something like that. I’ll come back to them eventually, so I believe. :P