The thing is, sometimes as a gamer, you don’t want innovative.  You don’t want something that breaks new and strange ground.  Sometimes you just want to sit down with a game type you love, understand, and enjoy playing.  It’s comfortable and fun and recognizable.  I call this Mac and Cheese gaming.  Let me explain.

Food can be an amazing thing that exposes you to new cultures and flavors.  It can combine flavors in new and interesting ways.  It can be prepared in an incredibly variety of fashions.  Food can make you glad to be alive or make you kinda wish you were dead.  But sometimes, for all the marvelous, amazing, fancy things that can be done with food…  Sometimes you just want to sit down with a bowl of mac and cheese.  Good, creamy, rich mac and cheese.  Now, you don’t want bad mac and cheese.  You want the pasta to be cooked just al dente, and the cheese sauce should be the right consistency, not too thick or too thin.  There should be just enough cheese in the sauce that it has a cheesy richness, but not so much that the sauce breaks or get grainy.  Mac and cheese, cooked just right, is a wonderful thing.

When I sit down to play some Zelda, I want some Mac and Cheese gaming.  Is Twilight Princess amazingly innovative or mind-blowing?  No.  But it is delicious, and it’s just right for me.

… shit, now I want mac and cheese and we have no pasta.  Thanks a lot, blog.  I blame you for this.