This is totally a videogame post so proceed at your own risk.
So I finally finished playing Skyrim on Xbox360. I’d had most of the game finished for about two months, but never finished the main story. I decided I wanted to finish before Diablo 3 came out so I put in the four or so hours left and finished. Overall the ending was kind of a letdown and anticlimact.
Anyway, that isn’t what this is about. Over the last couple years my videogame playing has really slowed down. The combination of work, church, and family as well as a lack of desire are at fault. This doesn’t really bother me as life tends to change people, myself included. I will fire up something on the iPad or even PC from time to time, but the Xbox360 just isn’t getting used much.
At the close of my Skyrim time, knowing Diablo is coming and what little time I have for gaming will go to it or the other PC games I’ve got going, I can’t help but feel as if I am at the end of an era. Some perspective, I camped out in front of Target in Utah on the frigid Xbox360 launch day. I played very often for years with only one substantial interruption when I was without a 360 for about 10 months. My will to play it is nearly gone and knowing it is coming close to end of life I’m just not sure I’ll ever pick it back up. I say that now, but Halo might change my mind.
Anyway, that’s my introspective moment for the night. Probably has to do with me turning 34 soon. Man, I’m getting old.