This has to do with tangible rewards! I go turn the xbox on, and try to load any other game, and i look to the side and see the drum kit staring at me telling me, why play any other game that doesn’t really teach you anything? what, you’re going to learn that new “combo”? OOOh, wow, what an impressive skill? learn to play the drums dude, that will make people LOOOOVE you! and i load rockband on and remember that it’s late and i cant really play that loudly, i swear, the pads sound like buckets sometimes. I first saw a bucket drummer in Boston ‘99 near the Orpheum theatre for Chris Cornell’s tour.

Anyways, i turn it off and do something else, something else not being finishing the pile of games that are yet to be half way through completion. I’ve always been slow to finish games; you know, beat the first level, level two a month later… KOTOR took me 2 years. I was surprised I remembered most of the story each time i played it.

Portal did keep my attention; though, and I think it’s because i feel I’m learning something i cant explore somewhere else. It’s as if the games that get played the most are the ones that facilitate something i have a hard time doing without the game. Perhaps the same could be said about those that play many military driven stories, they cant go in the military (for whatever reason: principle, disability, occupation, age) but the games they most enjoy facilitate that.

The drums facilitate my having to purchase one. I hope the next version comes with cymbals and a windows game to MIDI driver.