Keep in your soul the emotions that you get from the games now.

Today I showed a friend of mine who rarely and not so long ago plays games, the reaction of the audience to the announcement of God of War 2018 at e3 2016 and tried to explain to him why it was such a cult event - why at all e3 2016 was probably the best e3 ever and why it's unlikely to happen again. And I felt very sad, very sad in my heart.

I remember all these emotions for all the announcements of all games for 15 years. I played all of them, waited for them all, I will always remember how I jumped from the announcement of the god of war of the same, or how I cried from the credits of mass effect in 2007. I will always know how I watched the GT6 intro a hundred times, or restarted GTA IV a thousand times to watch the intro. I know why Last of Us is not just a good game - but it was at least 5 years ahead of its time, and therefore will always remain a masterpiece.

And people really don't give a shit. People either saw it too - then they were not interested, or they didn’t see it - then they simply won’t understand WHY it was so and WHY it was significant, why we cried or screamed with delight. Why games that now seem like just good games have become legends.

To understand this, one had to live then - at a time that preceded the appearance of these legends, before they changed the world. And it's sad - that I and many others can only live with the emotions experienced then - without any chance to fully transfer them to the present.

That's probably why I've always wanted to blog - that's why I'm blogging now. To leave an imprint of those very emotions from the old games for those who did not watch all this when it was relevant. Although I know that I am unlikely to succeed - but I really, really want to believe in something, I can at least tell something interesting.

Don't waste today, please. Keep in your soul the emotions that you get from the games now.