An Irony of Gaming

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I personally don't see this gaming irony, especially when playing Sonic.

I see this in terms of the three marks of existence; a teaching that is part of Buddhist doctrine. All phenomena have the following characteristics;

1. Impermanence - the pleasure a game causes can not remain constant. Even chess, you can get bored of it.

2. The mark of Dukkha - All things are characterised by unsatisfactoriness.

3. Annata - No self - all phenomena are without inherent qualities; in this case; entertainingness. A game is only entertaining while certain conditions allow it to be, including the work the manufacturers put in, your mood/tastes, whether you've already played another too similar game recently, etc.

Back when I was 15 I had no difficulty in playing N64 007 GoldenEye ad infinitum, but perhaps it's after depressing things happen that people invent doctrines of boredom, whether its the Budh-Lite doctrine in Moog's post or the diminishing returns of marginal utility in microeconomics.

That's why most games have multiplayer now. RPGs and MMOs are meant to be repetitive and boring.

I've never noticed this when applied to sports games. Every game, every season is different.

Yeah I noticed that too. A few solutions, play an RTS or an RPG (Not an MMO). The RTS sometimes includes a map maker so u can make ur own maps, and the AI plays differently each time. RPGs are good because often there are many many MANY random functions and/or missions that help make the game longer. Another suggestion is download a mod or two, make sure their big ones though. Something that gives the game replay value, or make your own if you can

The reason why I am against MMORPGs is because the games often involve a character in a building (Always the same one which gets boring) and the missions are pretty much the EXACT same expect for a few string changes. RPGs are good because often the quests/missions have a lot more thought built into them. MMOs just take to much time developing the multiplayer part that nobody ends up MAKING decent quests.

Speak to "NPCX"
Kill "creature"/"NPCY"
Speak to "NPCX"
Collect reward.

That is BASICALLY what a quest in an MMO would look like. Sometimes instead of killing you have to recover certain things. Atleast with RPGs you're given a story behind the quest to make it SEEM unique.