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Are videogames for children?


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Beat my 29th game of the year yesterday if you include story based DLCs, though many were started and picked at for several years. Most recently beat was RAGE and I did not enjoy it. If it hadn't been so short I likely wouldn't have beaten it. Moved on to Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising and I am enjoying it much, much more.

I'm trying to actually beat games and chip at my backlog as opposed to having 15 different open world games going concurrently and barely making any progress in any of them and it's kind of sort of working. Haven't decided how I want to handle buying new games while I go.. was thinking something like for every two I cross off the backlog I can buy one new game or something.
 
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As someone that owns SSX 3, this genuinely made me smile. I kind of think this predicted the new wave of SFM videos that were popularized by GMod over the last decade.

It actually looks fun to watch.
 
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I'm trying to actually beat games and chip at my backlog as opposed to having 15 different open world games going concurrently and barely making any progress in any of them and it's kind of sort of working. Haven't decided how I want to handle buying new games while I go.. was thinking something like for every two I cross off the backlog I can buy one new game or something.
Yeah, I'm currently working through my own backlog, after getting my new computer. Open world games are the worst. I think the only open world game I've actually finished was Breath of the Wild. Then again, I think all of the others were Bethesda games, so maybe that was the issue, rather than them being open world.
 
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Yeah, I'm currently working through my own backlog, after getting my new computer. Open world games are the worst. I think the only open world game I've actually finished was Breath of the Wild. Then again, I think all of the others were Bethesda games, so maybe that was the issue, rather than them being open world.
It for sure makes it hard to feel like you're progressing when half the games you're playing are 60-80 hour open world RPGs or something. I beat them eventually, but it's a huge slog. There was a time when I loved that shit - clearing off an Ubisoft style map bit by bit - but I find that as I get older and I realize how limited my time is I have less and less patience for it.
 
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Frostpunk really makes being an evil employer fun.
 
but it just continually astounds me how slow progress is on 90% of EA games that hit it big at launch
Why keep working on something that already sold? Better to move on and make the next big thing or whatever, at least, that seems to be the idea among faggot EA devs.
Haven't decided how I want to handle buying new games while I go.. was thinking something like for every two I cross off the backlog I can buy one new game or something.
As someone doing something fairly similar my advice would be to just keep waiting until you've tired of backlog games. By the time you are hankering for something genuinely new and exciting it'll be for half price. I haven't bought a new game for more than 10 bucks this entire year and it's been really nice.
 
Why keep working on something that already sold? Better to move on and make the next big thing or whatever, at least, that seems to be the idea among faggot EA devs.

As someone doing something fairly similar my advice would be to just keep waiting until you've tired of backlog games. By the time you are hankering for something genuinely new and exciting it'll be for half price. I haven't bought a new game for more than 10 bucks this entire year and it's been really nice.
I definitely tried that at the start of the year but I was weak and ended up grabbing a few new games regardless.. I'm trying again, with the only game I'm willing to break the rule for being the Persona 5 port next month. Just gotta be strong.
 
I definitely tried that at the start of the year but I was weak and ended up grabbing a few new games regardless.. I'm trying again, with the only game I'm willing to break the rule for being the Persona 5 port next month. Just gotta be strong.
It gets easier, especially if you look at how much money you're going to save.
 

As someone that owns SSX 3, this genuinely made me smile. I kind of think this predicted the new wave of SFM videos that were popularized by GMod over the last decade.

It actually looks fun to watch.
Huh, I've been playing SS3 recently. Great game but I think they made the tricks too easy(fast) in 3, they felt more rewarding in Tricky even if they were stiff.
 
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I've been playing AC3 Remastered lately. I think it's the perfect example of a guilty pleasure game, it's a hugely buggy piece of shit but it's one of my favorite games purely because of the setting, ambition, and story.
 
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I've been playing ADACA and RoboQuest recently.

ADACA is very Half-life 2 like, you fight Cops and some weird cult group (does every retro shooter need a cult group to fight?). I'm only an hour or two into the campaign, but I will say it has been quite fun and a good challenge on the hard difficulty. The game also has a Stalker-like open world mode, which looks fun but I haven't delved into.

RoboQuest is a boomer looter shooter rogue-like. It is quite fun. And it's like 15 dollars right now.
 
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Just started up on FF12 for the third time and luckily it's the Zodiac age. When I first tried to play this one a couple times it just didn't click. I guess I was looking for an MMO feeling without having to be social or queue up with retards. For some reason, I'm actually enjoying this much more than any other time before.
 
Gloomwood is good but I'm sadly reminded that I'm absolutely terrible at Stealth Games while playing it. :roll:
 
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