>>724087480
>as a kid
Doesn't sound like you've actually played a video game yet. When I think back to something like the time I spent play mvc2 or something like that it's like someone is tearing out my heart and stomping on it. When I think about the time I spent learning all the intricacies of the game, the struggles, the rivalries, and all the people who helped me along the way. This is because it has rooted itself in my my continuous sense of self, and not some bland passive genre I begrudgingly settled into because I was too shit to play anything else. It not only creates sentimentality for the past but inspiration for the future. The same can be said for shmups, because I learned these I have so many games to play, all the time, I am always excited to play something. You don't get that with RPGs. Of course you had to allude to shitty ass elder scrolls and of course you have to pretend it's something it's very clearly not when morrowind is just a bucket of snake oil with interspersed lazily crafted points of interest on a barren map. It's all brainrot. And what's more, morrowind is gay as fuck and full of mandatory quests like rescuing a female lizard woman wot reads good from a pack of evil racist men. This is literally an unavoidable quest in morrowind and its full of stuff like this. How can anyone base their entire identity around playing crap like this?