Malstrom has the right idea. A lot of what he says strikes a chord with me. I grew up with the NES and Sega Genesis. So 2D Super Mario is more my preference and main reason why I loved the GBA was that it reminded me of the 8-bit/16-bit era. The Nintendo DS and to a lesser extent PSP are like that as well. And I find that in the last 2-3 years I've really embraced handheld gaming (DS/PSP and smartphone gaming as of late) and find it hard to have that motivation often to sit down on that couch, boot up my home consoles and play those. And it could be for the reasons he points out. Though for some strange reason I find lengthy RPGs (the type of games that Malstrom would call bloated adventure games) much more tolerable on portables than home consoles. It's easier for me to get addicted to and clock in tons of hours on Persona 3 Portable than it is to sit down in front of a PS2 or PS3 and play these huge behemoth games (It took me almost 4 weeks to beat FF13. I certaintly enjoyed FF13. But if there's a RPG I really like on a handheld, I'm going to favor that) I don't know why but that's just how it is. I've really embraced the portable gaming experience. Not the Nintendo 3DS though because the type of portable games I want to play right now are on the DS, PSP and my Android phone.
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