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The above are games I like, some I love even.
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I finished Khazan and I loved it.
Not sure if it's worth keeping a table of immediate future playthroughs given that what I feel like playing changes at a drop of a dime, shocktober was the month of horror and I really only played Silent Hill 3 and Khazan this month. As I'm writing this, I forgot that I also played Ninja Gaiden 4. That game serves as a reminder about why I don't pre-order games. I'm very good at sifting through the bull shit when it comes to game trailers, promises and overall fomo that permeates new games. Brand new action game that promises to be a real action game and is just a souls-like arpg or trailer that shows footage caputred ingame but it's just a scripted event not representative of the game. I mean to say that I don't have positive feelings or hype for modern gaming and havent since 2013 for the most part when I swapped to being a pc player. Now, despite what I just wrote, I did pre-order Ninja Gaiden 4. The crazy part is that I liked it, in many ways it is Ninja Gaiden. The issue is that despite that observation, I don't have the motivation to go ahead and finish master ninja difficulty right now. Since I'm putting off my playthrough of the game to a later date that I don't know when, it effectivly would've been the same as me buying it at a future date (certainly at a discounted price) and enjoying my playthrough of it then, with the organic motivation instead of an obligatory one. See, I wasn't feeling like playing an action game prior to Ninja Gaiden 4, but bought it out of a perceived neccessity that I managed to convinve myself was there. Sortof fomo, but I'm not partaking in any community love, glazing, discussion or bashing of it (although I did watch some youtubers talk about, I'm waiting for The Electric Underground's video). Maybe the pre-order bonus, although I thought it wasn't great before I even bought, mainly because Yakumo doesn't fill out his outfit enough. Whatever the reason, I bought because I felt I had to, and the result is what the nigling voice at the back of my head already knew, the smarter part of me that doesn't believe the marketing bullshit. I could've waited. That's the reality. Even if a game does live up to it what it promised (A real character action game in 2025) and falls in line with expectations (Filled with Platinumisms) and perceived footage matches gameplay (too long to enumerate in this blurb), I could've waited
Point is this, I very rarely buy games at full price. I take pride on that (>Never_pay_more_than_$20_for_a_game.jpg). It seems like I'm a frugal penny pinching bitch, but I like to think it's more of a measured approach with impactful events like "voting with your wallet" or "seeing gameplay" or really just making sure that I'm getting my money's worth. I have the luxury that I've mostly played dota 2 and other pc games during the last decade, so I have access to a whole treasure trove of titles that I haven't played in the last decade. Of course they are discounted as well , meaning that I WILL get my money's worth. Don't get me started on emulation, a theoretical infinte fun factor (My E:\ Drive is coughing blood.). I may have voted with my wallet and I was never deceived with my purchase. But I still feel I could've waited.
Moving on from my random thoughts, I'll keep the future playthorughs smaller. This isn't backlogged and I have no need to try and impose a manufactured sense of taste to others. Likewise, my memory is pretty good and there are constant visual reminders about what I want to play when I boot up a game front-end. Most importantly, I don't want it to feel like an obligation. The fastest way to kill enthusiasm or fun is to make an activity obligatory. I'm leaving Stranger of paradise because that is soon, akai katana shin because it might be shmup time, and maybe deathsmiles because two of my friends played it on a trip in colorado and he quoted "I get it now". This is the end of the update.