@Vectorman I’m not writing them off, but they’re not my favorite genres. I play them when the mood strikes or someone else wants to play, but they’re not my go-to games. I have some FPS games and all but the 3DS Smash lying around in case I feel like playing. I have some other fighting games too and have some Assassin’s Creed. I have Dead Space and even a couple indie psychological horror games on my laptop.

I like the original Halo and picked up a copy for my Xbox One. When I actually had people to play with I was a berserker in the campaign and a sniper when playing against others. Gears of War is cool, but the Kryll remind me of a nightmare I had when I was little.

As for Smash, I used to like it a lot more when I was younger, but my nephew has managed to turn it into a pain. I’m not exactly happy to have a little kid telling me how to play a game I’ve played for 20 years when he spends more time watching YouTube videos about it than playing then I get guilt-tripped for kicking his butt. He’s interrupted date nights and college assignments then woken me up at 7 in the morning. I had to firmly tell him no means no and “maybe later” will become a hard “no” if he begs/complains because it’s my stuff and in my bedroom. I get nervous because he jumps around like a crazy person when he’s overexcited during the game and I don’t want him to damage anything or hurt someone. I freaked out when my room was filled with 5 people plus a cat then my 6-year-old niece decided to leap over the GC controller cord when it was stretched to the limit, forcing me to watch her nearly hurt herself and murder my console in one bound.

I love my nephew and he’s very sweet, but I don’t want to play the same thing every Friday evening when I have a large collection and backlog of various genres dating from the 80’s to this week. Maybe I just want to watch a movie on the TV instead of my laptop.