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  • Getting through Super Mario 3D Land

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    I haven't beat 3D Land yet, or I guess I mean really beat, with both dudes and all the coins and all the flagpoles, and it's not cause I haven't wanted to. But wait actually, that is exactly the reason. I've played this game basically in three chunks since getting it—has it really been almost an entire year since this came out? I think the reason I sorta started and stopped was that the game ended up feeling kind of samey to me as I went. And it makes me feel bad to even say that because it's a fantastic game really. In fact it's not even really that uniform, the levels are all pretty unique! And yet, each time I'd touch one of those flagpoles I'd think alright, on to the next one, time to do this again, do I want to do this again.

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    I'm not sure for what reason I most recently picked it back up. Maybe a week ago Cory mentioned that I should finish the damned game already. I was only through the fourth world of the special section. So I did it, worked those things on out. But it was no cakewalk.
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  • The poison that is gamer labeling

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    What kind of gamer am I supposed to be? I guess I'm having a bit of an identity crisis.

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    I've been playing pretty fervently since the 80s, so maybe I'm a traditional gamer. I enjoy a nice challenge and a deep assortment of systems, so certainly I'm a core gamer. Sometimes I'll play an old NES game, does that make me a retro gamer? And I own Wii Sports, and played it with coworkers and family, I guess I'm also a casual gamer. But then I tried to earn an array of skill-based medals in Tennis, does that push me back to core gamer? Certainly the time I've been spending playing Words With Friends and Scramble on my phone with my wife and mother make me part of the casual plague that is the mobile gamer. And sometimes I'll go months between games, I wonder how much time in there has to pass to register me first as a lapsed gamer, and finally as a non gamer.

    So where are the games marketed directly to me, to my defined gaming niche? Where are the titles for the traditional-core-retro-casual-mobile-lapsed-non-gamer? Where is my place in the war of tastes, in the clash between those that wish the industry to persist unchanged, and those who willingly wish for its destruction?

    Oh wait, this is stupid.
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