I miss the fun and enthusiasm of the midnight release parties, but I don’t even miss them – disastrous

Gather around, children. Uncle disastrous here is to tell you all about a special ceremony of previous years, a rite of route for gamers everywhere.

Prior to the era of immediate satisfaction, there was a small thing called eight-second videos, and full game preloads, midnight release parties. They were exciting, fun, and were filled with joy and good memories while growing up as a blooming gamer and human being. But sometimes, apathy is overrated.

When a new video game is launched these days, you can start playing it right at midnight in your time area (or earlier) without leaving your gamer cave. It was a wild idea and impossibility that was not long ago. This is a luxury that I still do not take, because as much as I miss the charm of midnight release parties, I don’t miss them.

I myself like the idea of ​​midnight release parties compared to the parties and remember, because the idea of ​​leaving my house and standing outside a gamestop for an hour or more is surrounded by strangers or people whom I do not want to talk, just feeling plain.

Sometimes parties have tournaments where you can play around the new game, or new game of mercury. But he always meant to work with people of sales, who were trying to buy something else or to pre -order any other game. No thanks.

In addition, I always find a way to run a little strange child from school in any way, which tries to make a strange conversation, which always has a purposeful or aggressive opinion about the game that was for both of us. And this is where our equality ended.

It was the worst part about it to talk with strange strangers, I think. Hey man, I’m here for Resident Evil 5So I just want to lift it and go home and play it. I do not care that you think Albert Wescker is useless as a villain (oh, it’s all coming back to me now).

I clearly remember that midnight release for many games like many Cod Title (for) Black Oms 2, I picked it up, played all night, and called to do sick work because I never slept), Metal Gear Solid 4: Gun of the PatriotsAnd destinyThose sports were that I needed ASAP, and I needed to place them on physical media. Now I can’t really bother with any factor.

There too a handful of people seemed to be a handful of people who were not buying the game that was made for the party, either. Hand for more than 80 people to take new Duty Or HaloThere were always one or two people to grab the latest vague jrpg or something. I now appreciate those people now, because I am probably from them.

Now? If I do not want to do it, then forget to leave the house. This is one of the best things about progress in gaming technology because I can be more lazy than ever. If I am excited for a new game, you better believe that I am pre -ordering that dirt and preling him as soon as possible. Or, more likely, I will play it the next day because it seems tired to play something at midnight.

When it comes to preloading, the “Gottatta Play It It Wright” is not a negative side of the crowd. I appreciate the game on the disc as much as anyone, and I receive it. But it seems that these days most game discs are just to show because you have to download the full title on top of it, anyway.

At the same time, it makes me sad. I did not like the midnight release parties for a long time and did not like a drag. A place where gamers can come together and enjoy themselves by finding the common ground, which all feels rare nowadays, where everything takes a fight.

Dude, Times actually change. And so came. But the one thing that has not changed, even after turning gaming into a career, is that there is still a lot of excitement during gaming and memories are to be made, whether I leave home for it or not.

Do you remember the midnight release parties, or are you still not enough to vote? Tell us in the comments below your fond (or frightening) midnight release memories.