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Guys,... I need to talk. I need to talk about how I'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's Play, Metroid Prime. I've made no secret, I absolutely love this game, and consider it one of the greatest games of all time. However,... I won't lie. I didn't choose this game entirely because my old LP was badly out of date.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's also not on the current gen Nintendo system, and that's fine. I was really REALLY hoping to see it on Switch eventually. I still do hope for that. But I couldn't wait any more
I got in a very big Metroid fix the last year or so. It'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's a fun distraction and very VERY casual.
However, in the years (yes, YEARS) leading up to New Horizons... I can't say I wanted a new game very much. I'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'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't shown. My "excitement" for NH (which I wasn'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've just never accepted this as one of Nintendo's biggest franchises. In my eyes, it'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've had for those franchises?
Now, there was a jump in time between New Horizons launch and my LP of Metroid Prime. Honestly, I'm not making this thread to complain present day how I feel about those games, I'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's one of my favorite games of all time (as I've said many times), and overall I don'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'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't know what'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'm sure will be a wild conclusion to my favorite Switch game.
All in all, I'm sorry to anyone whom I gave a hard time to. I'm sorry for any Animal Crossing fans who probably hated my guts for years now. I'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.
