Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: More like beating your time on Rubik's cube (feet only, blindfolded).

[quote name="Last"]American kids used to just get 2 games a year so they were forced to replay for score and with imposed challenges. Also, most of the games were made by Japanese for Japanese so a lot of soulless grind chorejobs were packaged as games in the US. However, after we could rent games or at least convince our parents to buy them more often then guess what? We still played the shit out of our games but we began to chose fun over work. For proof, look at the billion hours spent on multiplayer FPS games. Or Madden. Or Angry Birds. The bragging rights from a 15952749283749283 score (the next highest player got 15952749283739283 !!!) is replaced, correctly, by achievements, gold star completions, and win/loss ratios. I had a roommate that would get baked and make 1cc attempts on Zelda. Picking up that wooden sword over and over and over and over and over again. I wonder why that didn't catch on with a wider audience? Probably because the unwashed masses are so primitive in what they "think" is "enjoyable".[/quote]