In my younger days I was awestruck by the vastness of games. Anything seemed possible. The worlds in these games seemed endless, like there was a whole new world inside a disc. Friends and I used to spend countless hours learning cheat codes in Halo 2 to explore areas the devs may not have wanted most to see (megajumps to get out of the map). In gears of war we spent hours trying to get jump out of the map to explore the vastness of it all. In Halo 3 on the final mission you didn't have to finish the level as intended, you can instead look for that secret ghost or wraith to make the level even more exciting.
But as I got older I learned what games really are. They're just code! The vastness of of the game's world is just an illusion. The secrets I thought I was finding was just programmed all along. No matter how vast you think the game world is, there is an edge to the map. It does end... I'm just seeing what the developers want me to see.
I know this may be a dumb reason to lose interest in games but does anyone else feel the same? My imagination seems to be lost. Maybe I'm just in a phase in life where I really am just getting old...
But as I got older I learned what games really are. They're just code! The vastness of of the game's world is just an illusion. The secrets I thought I was finding was just programmed all along. No matter how vast you think the game world is, there is an edge to the map. It does end... I'm just seeing what the developers want me to see.
I know this may be a dumb reason to lose interest in games but does anyone else feel the same? My imagination seems to be lost. Maybe I'm just in a phase in life where I really am just getting old...