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).
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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. Now he apparently talks about it all the time when I’m not there, and playing it has become an annual holiday tradition…
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.
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.
