I don’t get to play games too often anymore, but I bought Star Wars Battlefront the day it came out in November 2015. It looks amazing and the gameplay is very good. There’s not a whole lot of content, but it’s enough for me playing 30 minutes at a time here and there.
The only negative was that I was absolutely terrible at the game. I’ve never got used to playing first person shooters on consoles, so that was my excuse. But I was bad, really bad. Like 5 – 25 bad or maybe even worse. And I’d also let my 4 year old son play a bit and my brother rack up even worse scores.
But somehow, somewhere months later, I got really good and I was surprised as anyone. I’m almost always at the top now and I usually have a kill-death ratio of 3-1 on a good day and probably 2-1 on average.
I finally got my KDR to even recently and it felt like such a big accomplishment for doing something so meaningless. But I guess that’s the psychological part of game development. Interestingly, once I achieved my goal, I pretty much stopped playing but maybe they’ll add a new carrot to dangle and I’ll start again.
The other thing that happened is that my now 5 year old son got really good at the game too. I used to give him an extra controller that wasn’t connected and we’d “play” together. It was great until he caught on. So I let him play and all he could do was to spin around and look at the sky or snow. But he learned really quickly and now he’d probably beat me if we we’re starting over.