That’s never happened to me. Sounds like a nightmare.
CraigM
3650
Hey, I haven’t played a video game, other than board game adaptations, since finishing Mankind Divided in June. Partly the stress of being an itenerant software guy who is in a series of short term housing arrangements in the Portland metro. Partly that my PC is back in Chicago (see above for why). Partly I’ve been more into boardgaming since I’ve been out here. Pretty reliably at least 2-3 times a week I’m at a local games store for board games. And given the option between more board games or video games?
It’s an easy choice.
Also in the evening I’ve been more inclined to watch old Asian cinema than game too. ‘Do I play a game, or watch a ShawScope film on Netflix?’ 2 hours later…
I haven’t been able to sit down and actually play a video game that isn’t on my phone in weeks.
Phone games, though, hoo boy. My girlfriend and I got back into Pokémon Go recently, and I’ve been doing raids and taking control of gyms almost daily for the last few weeks. We’ve been going out to the park on weekends and walking around the pond (which has roughly eight Pokéstops surrounding it) for hours, and it’s been a lot of fun overall. On top of that, I’ve been super active in Puzzle & Dragons, and I recently started playing Idle Heroes, the poorly-named successor to equally-poorly-named mobile RPG Dungeon Rush, which I played actively for about two years before the lack of other active players killed off updates.
I really want to play regular games again, but I have a strong feeling I won’t really be up for it again until The World Ends With You Final Remix comes out in two weeks.
Started playing 7th Dragon III: VFD on the 3DS this week and I wasn’t expecting to like it so much but I am hooked, so will be playing that. And probably some Divinity Original Sin which I got back into recently.
Metal Gear Solid 5 was free on GWG recently so may try that out, though the last game I played in the series was 2 and I barely put a dent in it. Which reminds me I got both 2 and 3 for the Vita a while ago.
My backlog is endless. I keep meaning to finally unwrap and install GTA 5, I mean, I’ve only had a copy for 3 years or so. I have been buying quite a number of games lately, too. I play less but buy more. My wife commented on it recently, asked if i was stocking up on games for my retirement which is like 20 years away.
Papageno
3653
I played a bit of Tomb Raider 2013 today, and was stuck in one of the optional tombs that you raid for treasure, with a timed puzzle. The very last bit is where you catch your melee weapon on a stone wall so you can climb up. No matter what I do I can’t seem to swing that weapon when I need to. I think I’m hitting the right button (the Y on the Xbox controller, which is the regular melee attack button), but nothing happens at the critical moment. I hope I haven’t just been hitting the wrong button. It is supposed to be that button, right?
tylertoo
3654
Your post made me remember how I had never finished that game. So today I looked on an old hard drive and found this:
Screenshot
https://i.imgur.com/r3IJHsU.png
Looks like I restarted in 2010 and never got further, but obviously I could pick up where I left off nearly two decades ago.
Frankly, the game is so open, so vast, and the quest log so absent, even though the game is very intuitive, you are most likely better off starting over!
I didn’t play any of it, as expected: it was a Twilight Struggling Crosscoding week-end, with a suprise Brother Rabbit quick visit.
Mostly Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, I hope. Maybe a bit of Dragon Quest XI and CrossCode on the side, and, who knows, maybe even a little bit of Monster Hunter World.
But mostly Spartan-kicking people. Yes please.
If I had been told German would be the language of Eurogames, that would have motivated me back in middle school.
As I definitively threw the towel in as far Crosscode goes (sorry, rhamorim!), I am going to play Betrayal at Krondor and Kessen 3 mainly. Maybe some Ape Escape 2, Atelier Lilie or Culdcept 2 as a change of mood too.
No need to be sorry. Discovering the block-only B button wasn’t enough to solve the problems you had with the second half of the game, I suppose?
Brakara
3660
Forza Horizon 4, sprinkled with the usual PUGB and Insurgency: Sandstorm sessions.
It got me through a few more fights, before the game pulled the rug under my little feet again. I liked the puzzles, though.
Fourizon and AC:Origins (yes, the last one - never played it!) for me.
At the point of no return in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, so I’ll finish that up.
Also maybe some AC:Origins DLC.
Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey!
Some DCS: Hornet, probably, along with some Pillars of Eternity and more of the I’m-late-to-the-party Overwatch.
AC:OY! (plus some Pillars:Deadfire)
LK I have Shadows on my wishlist I will get to that as well. How do you feel about it?
My first many-player D&D 5e game. As the DM. With 6 players. That I don’t know. Online.
I have talked to them as a group, they seem pretty keen.
No time for vidya games, I have reading and prep all day tomorrow and then Sunday to rest :)
