# Video Games You've Played Recently **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** video-games-e-games\ **Created:** [July 25, 2022, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546 "2022-07-25T19:45:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 67
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2026, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546/1336 "2026-02-10T22:28:39Z")
I have a large number of games I actually want to play, and then I get sidetracked by … infrastructure. So I play City of Heroes and World of Warcraft with friends - but to play well, you need support, in-game currency, practice… infrastructure. So I end up grinding all the stuff in my own time to make sure the weekend play is ready, and being late middle aged farts, we then only play for 6 hours or so. So I never get around to starting all the things I want to play because then I wouldn’t be ready… it’s a horrible cycle. I did clear out 5-6 games during Covid, and once life calms down, I am going to get to a few really good games I wanted to play (though I did get a few replays when I upgraded to an Intel Arc B580 to see how much better Cyberpunk 2077 looked). ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2026, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546/1337 "2026-02-10T22:31:24Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > …once life calms down, I am going to get to a few really good games… I have considered that when I end up at the old folks home I will be popular. My game library is extensive. Make sure there is one good gaming PC and I can work on the backlog. Willing to bet I would not be the only one there keen on doing that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2026, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546/1338 "2026-02-10T22:34:54Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > So I end up grinding all the stuff in my own time to make sure the weekend play is ready, Heh, that’s why I often end up cheating. With a trainer/character editor where possible, or just paying for one of those shady real money transaction sites where necessary. Who has time to do all that grinding? Especially when $5 on one of those sites gets you like several months’ worth of normal progress. It’s silly and stupid, but it really makes some of the grindier games way more accessible… and plus you’re probably paying for the livelihood of someone who would otherwise be in a textiles sweatshop… ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2026, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546/1339 "2026-02-10T22:34:57Z")
That would be the old(er) Doper Home many of us have talked about forming! Gaming PCs in the “cave”, multiple grilling and smoking set ups, intensive audiophile’s equipment with exquisite soundproofing, bookshelves 'till the end of time, and individual bedrooms that basically afterthoughts. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2026, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546/1340 "2026-02-10T22:36:52Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > I have considered that when I end up at the old folks home I will be popular Is that really a thing now? I mean, it makes perfect sense, I’ve just never seen one there before (not that I visit many). I’d imagine a communal VR setup there would be a blast, and a relatively safe way to get some exercise too. Eventually it’ll just be like [San Junipero - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Junipero) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546/1341 "2026-02-11T01:55:01Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > Is that really a thing now? I mean, it makes perfect sense, I’ve just never seen one there before (not that I visit many). My mom lives in a senior living apartment, and gaming doesn’t seem all that popular. As in, it doesn’t seem like anyone owns a game console or anything. Mostly people watch TV. But it’s not like today’s old folks are completely immune to technology; everyone has a smart phone it seems like, and I’m sure most of them play mobile games of some kind, even if it’s just solitaire. And there are probably some tablets and laptops around, it could be that they play a game now and then. WiFi is provided to all residents as part of the facility (decent speeds too). My mom plays games on her phone, though I think she mostly watches YouTube and does those “color by number” things. And maybe card games. It’s not like she is a stranger to video games; she was practically addicted to Wizardry on the Apple II when I was a kid. It’s just not something that she kept doing. I’ll say that there aren’t any consoles in the activity areas or anything. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546/1342 "2026-02-11T06:02:31Z")
My partner and I had kids in middle age. (I’m 49, she’s 43. Our daughter turned 3 in December and our son turned 1 last month.) I will never get through all my 530 Steam games, much less the GOG/Epic/Ubisoft/Luna/etc. games that I have accumulated. Maybe I’ll finally finish Mass Effect 3 when I’m retired… ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546/1343 "2026-02-11T07:08:26Z")
**NBA 2K26** on PlayStation 5. Right now I’m in the Playoffs mode with the modern-day Indiana Pacers. We just eliminated the Milwaukee Bucks in five games, and are now about to take on the Cleveland Cavaliers. The playoff presentation is just something _else._ ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546/1344 "2026-02-11T12:03:49Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > Maybe I’ll finally finish Mass Effect 3 when I’m retired… Play till the big fight at the end then just switch it off before the ending. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546/1345 "2026-02-11T15:09:10Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > Play till the big fight at the end then just switch it off before the ending. I _liked_ the ending to Mass Effect. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546/1346 "2026-02-11T15:10:41Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I _liked_ the ending to Mass Effect. Mass Effect 3? The first iteration or the redo? ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546/1347 "2026-02-11T15:14:00Z")
Will you go through the library with them when they’re older? The only time I ever connected with my nephew was when I showed him [Ultimate Chicken Horse](https://store.steampowered.com/app/386940/Ultimate_Chicken_Horse/). Now he apparently talks about it all the time when I’m not there, and playing it has become an annual holiday tradition… ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546/1348 "2026-02-11T18:51:49Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > Mass Effect 3? The first iteration or the redo? I only played the remastered edition. End of the whole series, not just the first game. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546/1349 "2026-02-11T20:24:04Z")
I liked the ending of Mass Effect 3, Remastered Edition. I go with Destroy. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546/1350 "2026-02-11T22:01:17Z")
I think main character(Shepherd?) dying was the only proper ending. I still think Mass Effect 2 was the peak. I enjoyed 3 and it had many story beats I liked, but it is hard to end things. I still don’t get why Tali didn’t reveal her face at the end of her and her people’s storyline. I thought it was a perfect moment to do so and she did not. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546/1351 "2026-02-11T22:19:33Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I still don’t get why Tali didn’t reveal her face at the end of her and her people’s storyline. It’s shown in a photograph, you just don’t see it live. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546/1352 "2026-02-11T22:22:06Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I only played the remastered edition. End of the whole series, not just the first game. Ah yeah, that at least explains something, the first version of the ending bit made no sense. They redid it quite soon after and it made a bit more sense… There was a bunch of very angry videos about the first one, but they fell off with the later at least not being quite so ludicrous. I think what happened is the writers all sort of left and they chucked out a “And then they were all rescued by, let’s say, Moe” Simpsons ending. Then sort of grafted a bit better one. It took quite a while before they did that, so there was a definite period when the bloody awful one was the only one. That’s the one I remember, and I did watch the reworked one, but it’s the bloody awful ending which stuck. In general I thought the ending writing just sort of was bad compared to the rest, which had so much promise, delivered so much. It was a bit of a Game of Thrones Season 8 for me, but in GOT I was hate watching that past end of Season 5. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546/1353 "2026-02-11T22:37:53Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > It’s shown in a photograph, you just don’t see it live. Yep. Lame I thought. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546/1354 "2026-02-12T01:01:02Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Lame I thought. We deserved more than that after 3 games, yeah. It was an afterthought. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546/1355 "2026-02-12T01:04:26Z")
Well, wasn’t expecting this… Diablo 2 just got a new expansion and a new class, the Warlock ([gameplay video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=motj_X3Qaas)): [Diablo II: Resurrected – Infernal Edition on Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2536520/Diablo_II_Resurrected__Infernal_Edition/) (and it’s finally on Steam, and is Deck Verified) Yes, that’s D2, not 3 or 4. (Though the Warlock is also coming to D4 soon) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546.md?page=66) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546.md?page=68)