Gamer Choices: Get Gud or Variety

<p>Let me set the stage for this article&colon; the <em>Street Fighter<&sol;em> Championship is on the television and my buddies and I are watching it while we get through a shift at work&period; This leads to the conversation about how we should all quit and become professional gamers since it is much more lucrative than our current jobs&period; We pondered what games we would be able to play professionally against other players&comma; and I really couldn&&num;8217&semi;t find one other than <em>Resident Evil Mercenaries&&num;8212&semi;<&sol;em>my buddies picked <em>Dota<&sol;em> and <em>Overwatch<&sol;em>&period; Now my buddies are part of the PC Master Race while I&&num;8217&semi;ve only ever played on consoles&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t know if that affects my thoughts on gaming or has an effect on my thoughts about this subject&period; My buddies prefer to &&num;8220&semi;Get Gud&&num;8221&semi; at one particular game and enjoy it to their hearts&&num;8217&semi; content&period; I&comma; on the other hand&comma; would rather play as many games as possible to see all the talent that there is out there&period; I tried the one-game theology for a time&comma; but it just never stuck with me&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;111023" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-111023" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-111023" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;08&sol;03192747&sol;851cf7cacbe5b1dcf91c05dcaed9cbf9b2590223d5f762b8ed6b345e357c7c6d&period;jpg" alt&equals;"EVO" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"352" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-111023" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;EVO&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>For a time everyone I knew was playing <em>Destiny<&sol;em>&comma; so I would rush home from work&comma; fire up my PS4 and do all the Nightfall missions looking for Legendary drops and such&period; I even had the crappiest time trying to get through the <em>Vault of Glass<&sol;em> raid&comma; something I&&num;8217&semi;ve still not accomplished to this day&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m thinking we did this for about six months or so&semi; it was all about focusing on leveling up in <em>Destiny<&sol;em> so that we could school the DLC when it dropped&period; I enjoyed my time with the game&comma; but as I played I could feel my stack of unloved games staring at me&comma; wondering when they would get the chance to show me all their glory&period; Eventually <em>Destiny<&sol;em> was costing too much hard drive space and I had to let it go&period; In hindsight&comma; I kind of regret throwing 6 months into a game&&num;8212&semi;that year&comma; I only completed about 14 games&comma; which is the lowest ever since I&&num;8217&semi;ve started tracking my annual game count&period; <em>Dark Souls II<&sol;em> and<em> Bloodborne<&sol;em> helped me lower my games-beaten rate as well&comma; but at least those games could be completed and put away in time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>How some of my buddies play the same game over and over really vexes me&period; I have one buddy who specializes in fighting games&period; I personally would never want to play him in <em>Mortal Kombat<&sol;em> and <em>Street Fighter<&sol;em>&semi; I&&num;8217&semi;d be destroyed&period; I did play through the storyline of <em>Mortal Kombat<&sol;em> on my 360 and enjoyed it&comma; but never did I think to become an expert&period; My buddy will go into the practice rounds and perfect moves with his main characters&&num;8212&semi;a common activity for expert players that I didn&&num;8217&semi;t know about until videos were on Facebook for it&period; I thought it was pretty cool&comma; but I could never see myself doing that&semi; I&&num;8217&semi;m just not invested in a single game for THAT long&period; I even have to take breaks from huge games like <em>Fallout 4<&sol;em> and <em>Skyrim<&sol;em>&comma; and sure&comma; I would eventually go back to them&comma; but sometimes not for months&period; I just need variety in my gaming life&semi; I can&&num;8217&semi;t play only one&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;111501" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-111501" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-111501" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;08&sol;14230846&sol;evo2015-melee-crowd&period;jpg" alt&equals;"&lpar;EVO - ROB PAUL&rpar;" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"426" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-111501" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;EVO&comma; ROB PAUL&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Right now&comma; as I think about it&comma; I have a game belonging to a different genre in every system I own&period; <em>The Uncharted Collection<&sol;em>&comma; <em>LoZ&colon; Twilight Princess<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Prince of Persia HD<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Battlefield&colon; Hardline<&sol;em> and <em>Spiderman&colon; Edge of Time<&sol;em> grace my current and last gen consoles&period; They are different types of games&comma; and all provide plenty of opportunities to save before jumping to a game on another system&period; I must be an extremely fickle individual since I have to play something different all the time&period; When I&&num;8217&semi;m choosing games to put in to the consoles&comma; I also give myself a rundown so I don&&num;8217&semi;t only have platformers in each system&semi; I try to have an RPG&comma; a platformer&comma; a shooter and so on&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m pretty sure this is why I&&num;8217&semi;ve never gotten a tattoo and just can&&num;8217&semi;t seem to hold on to a relationship&&num;8212&semi;I change my mind too quickly&period; I will always play different types of games to experience as much as gaming has to offer&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t want to be known only for my kills in <em>Overwatch<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;