I should probably go to bed at this point. I typed up a short story of my arduous attempts at defending an outpost in the STALKER modpack GAMMA and how my game crashed when I turned in the quest. Sent off that post and woe-is-me, the entire text didn’t get submitted and I didn’t have it saved in copy-paste. It’s just so ironically fitting.
So ya, what’s something you’d like to ramble a bit about?
Big thing for me recently has been quitting Destiny 2. I’ve invested an…embarrassing amount of time into that game and while there’s zero regret about the friends I made and the good times I’ve had, the game has just progressively moved further and further away from what I enjoyed about it. It’s just not something I feel the same way about anymore. Feels weird(but not bad) no longer being tied down to a “main” game.
…but yeah, been nice to catch up on some single player stuff. Playing Tears of the Kingdom quite a bit but Diablo IV is really hitting that loot dopamine part of my brain Destiny did so that’s the main thing right now.
This was me with VALORANT last year. I run an indie-focused games publication, but I lost myself completely to VALORANT to the point that I wasn’t playing anything else, and the site suffered as a result. I wasn’t even really having much fun, and then I realized how much I was investing into a live service, and games I was genuinely interested to play, talk about, write about, were just passing me by.
So this year I decided to give up live service games for a year, and that has seriously allowed me to get back into my groove, and to play a lot of backlog games. Steam Deck has also helped quite a lot in that regard.
My friend and I play Destiny 2 but we do not do any of the seasonal content. We are still making our way slowly through The Witch Queen and that is quite enjoyable for me. I refuse to devote my free time entirely to one game again.
Having said that… Diablo IV… ooof.
I have put destiny 2 on the backburner recently since lightfall came out. I had plenty of frustration before that but the actual state of the game after that was so bad I just had to take a step back from it. Played a bunch of single player games and have been having a blast with them. My only issue is a lot of my friends from destiny keep going back, and I kinda feel compelled to join again. Not that I hate it, I just made a new build i love, but it has departed from its best moments.
Yeah that’s where I’m at with it too. No hate, just something that’s not what it was. I’ll probably play The Final Shape to see the thing through to the end (maybe dip in for returning raid because that always gets it going for me haha), but it’s not the same and I’m done resisting the tides. It’s a game that’s being wound down. I’m just trying to be grateful for the good times I had as opposed to being bitter about what it’s become.