Gaming

I'm having a ton of fun playing the remake of System Shock. Earlier I played Pentiment, which was amazing, and wasn't able to get on other games until System Shock came out, which I must say that I'm having a blast with it.

When I finish System Shock, I'm planning on starting Deus Ex or something similar.

Been playing a LOT of Victoria 3. It's wild to know exactly what people dislike about a game, feel the game has severe shortcomings... and yet still obsessively play it.

I'm honestly pretty positive around the number of games I get to play on Game Pass. Several major releases I was excited about are coming there this month, and even if they weren't, I'd usually be able to find something.

So many games just want too much attention.

The single-player games are bloated with crafting, mission timers, levelling trees, giant worlds that required mounted traversal, etc. They all want to be 50+ hours game time each.

The multiplayer/Live service games are battlepasses, dailies/weeklies, limited-time content. They all want to be 6+ hours a week each.

When I decide to play a game after working, I'm not playing those games anymore. I want to, and I have a bunch of them installed, but they're just sitting in my library. Games like that require me to choose to spend X hours at a time playing only that, and I'm probably not going to do that.

I love video games, and I enjoy playing those larger SP games when I do play them. But I had to dial back and stop playing a lot of 'Live service' games because the content was in passes that demanded too much time I couldn't give them. I wasn't playing enough to complete them, but their games were built around them that there wasn't much point playing them if I couldn't.

Each evening I feel like playing a game, and I just watch Youtube while playing something I can pickup and play for 30min instead - or fuck around on the internet and not play anything at all.

I decided to play Witcher 3 because it was so highly reviewed, and after playing it for ~5 hours, then going to bed and feeling like I was still in the 'tutorial starting zone', having mostly run around over empty ground. Barely any characterisation or story progression had actually occurred. With no meaningful progress or reason to continue, I just... didn't. A few days later I decided to uninstall.

Man I had to blast through Tears because I'm moving and I'm leaving the Switch behind with my family... would've liked to take my time, do all the shrines and side quests. Too bad!

Game ended on a fantastic note through!

Gaming-wise I'm in a tough spot. I have a wonderful amount of games to play through and experience. But as a Twitch affiliate, I like to dedicate my time to video games just when I'm streaming, so that I can share my experiences (and also write about them, with video proof). I also find that I need time to do other things in my life besides video games (socializing, adulting, etc) so the window for me to play games is getting smaller.

After going on a binge of buying Switch titles over the last six years I think my purchases are going to be really sparse from here on out. Especially if I make use of my Game Pass subscription more often.

I have so many games that i've gotten from ps plus and steam sales that if I was back in middle school i would be having a fucking field day. Back then i only had like 1 or 2 games that i was actively playing (mostly kotor and halo games), now i have so little time tho, my backlog is insane and i don't know where to start.

I need to finish hollow knight and elden ring and then i have all these long, heavy hitters in my backlog like witcher 3, rdr2, dragon age inquisition, elder scrolls online, salt and sanctuary, superhot, star wars republic commando, half life 1, deus ex 1, metroid samus returns, celeste, far cry 3, and tons tons more, and if i get my ps3 set up there's even more.

Too many games too little time