The Successes of Stepping Out of My Gaming Comfort Zone
When you spend a large chunk of time playing video games, you’ll eventually figure out what styles are your bread & butter. These games will inevitably be the ones you seek out the most, as they are the ones you are most assuredly going to have a good time with. I myself am no different of course. Action platformers, JRPGs, and puzzle games are genres I know I can return to at any point in my life to have a good time. But only ever playing the same types of games over and over again ad nauseum not only isn’t healthy, but it also severely limits the amount of new experiences we can have with the medium. While it can be hard to break away from the comfortable and familiar, doing so can reveal a new side of yourself that you likely wouldn’t have known about otherwise. You could find something you truly love and attempt to seek out from there on, or you could dislike it but at least know for sure what’s not your thing and why. With this in mind, today I wanted to look back at the...