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Guys,... I need to talk. I need to talk about how I& #39;ve been feeling burnt out for most of this year. This will be a long thread. This might not be the best worded, and might possibly upset someone?... But I need to be honest. Some stuff may not be what it seems.
I want to mostly talk about my most recent Let& #39;s Play, Metroid Prime. I& #39;ve made no secret, I absolutely love this game, and consider it one of the greatest games of all time. However,... I won& #39;t lie. I didn& #39;t choose this game entirely because my old LP was badly out of date.
I chose to LP it because I was frustrated. Very VERY frustrated. I know that this is an older game. It& #39;s also not on the current gen Nintendo system, and that& #39;s fine. I was really REALLY hoping to see it on Switch eventually. I still do hope for that. But I couldn& #39;t wait any more
I got in a very big Metroid fix the last year or so. It& #39;s easily one of my top game franchises of all time, even despite the smaller library and my opinions of some games being a bit mixed. But the good games? Absolutely incredible.
My problem? I was jealous of another game that came out this year. A game that is incredibly innocent, yet sold insanely stupid well. That game, was Animal Crossing New Horizons. And I want to start off saying... I do like this game. It& #39;s a fun distraction and very VERY casual.
However, in the years (yes, YEARS) leading up to New Horizons... I can& #39;t say I wanted a new game very much. I& #39;m not a fan of the series as a whole, I will openly say this. I never grew up with the others, and for me personally, 2013 didn& #39;t seem like that long ago since the NL.
I honestly got tired and frustrated seeing people who felt like they were "Begging" for a new game to be made. I saw people whine during directs where a new AC wasn& #39;t shown. My "excitement" for NH (which I wasn& #39;t really) was often whisked away by people saying they waited "years"
This is incredibly silly and stupid to feel burnt out about, and up to this point, I think some people are probably pissed at me for saying all this. However, I did buy the game like the rest of this planet, and honestly, I enjoyed it for a few months.
Ultimately,... I& #39;ve just never accepted this as one of Nintendo& #39;s biggest franchises. In my eyes, it& #39;s not. But the game(s) also sell incredibly well too. I was a jealous bastard who got pissed off. I still am sometimes when I see sales figures of New Horizons
New Horizons is probably almost the best selling Switch game right now. I honestly find that astounding when I consider Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey and Smash Bros to be much bigger games than AC is... but that might just be a bias I& #39;ve had for those franchises?
Now, there was a jump in time between New Horizons launch and my LP of Metroid Prime. Honestly, I& #39;m not making this thread to complain present day how I feel about those games, I& #39;m apologizing for my past actions. Even without going into the pandemic, I was an asshole this year.
I had a lot of fun LPing Metroid Prime, for as brief as it lasted. It& #39;s one of my favorite games of all time (as I& #39;ve said many times), and overall I don& #39;t think I came across too much of a jackass throughout it... this year has just been stressful throughout.
There was other cases of burnout I felt for a lot of this year too. I had a rough month for most of October, before that there was a lot of drama behind the announcements of 3D All Stars and Paper Mario The Origami King, among other things. I& #39;ve just felt very burnt out.
Next year is going to be a pretty wild year. I feel there is a LOT up in the air, but also its an anniversary year for a number of franchises. Some I really really love (cough Metroid), and some I like but am indifferent on new games (Zelda and especially Pokemon).
I don& #39;t know what& #39;s going to happen. Nobody does. There are a few hopes I have, mostly that they make a good 3D Sonic game, and also the last four Smash Bros Ultimate DLC characters which I& #39;m sure will be a wild conclusion to my favorite Switch game.
All in all, I& #39;m sorry to anyone whom I gave a hard time to. I& #39;m sorry for any Animal Crossing fans who probably hated my guts for years now. I& #39;m sorry for wanting to LP one of my favorite games out of awful spite... all we can do now is look to the future.
That is all.
