I'm bored already. After just 3 days, I am now utterly bored with SimCity after I've mastered the art of growing my cities without going bankrupt (no cheats!). In fact, they prosper! This is not a challenge anymore, and I'm not the type to inflict natural disasters on my cities only to re-build them. As far as city building games go, I much prefer the Sierra series of Caesar, Emperor, Zeus where there are goals that need to be achieved.

Yet I can't help wondering why I can play the equally non-goal-oriented The Sims for such a long period of time. Since I have so much time on my hand as a home bum, I did some self analysis and I think it's because I set personal goals for my Sims -- to earn enough money to re-do the house, reach the pinnacle of their career and it's always fun to see what the mix of 2 Sims will turn out.

Maybe I'm just more goal-oriented than I realized. Hmmm.

Labels: games, hmmm