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Feb. 21st, 2025 06:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thedarlingonemore age of calamity today. i've never actually finished playing the game myself -- i only know what happens in the last third or so from watching streamers play it, which makes Proper Gamers so mad because they want everybody to buy every game blind and experience it with no expectations, which i have neither the time nor the money nor quite frankly the temperament to do. i think breath of the wild is the only game i've bought sight unseen and actually liked, which is a bad ratio.
(okay, technically i acquired the first two mass effects having only seen a bit of the third one's multiplayer, but also the first two were a gift because somebody had a duplicate steam coupon, so does that really count either way? who knows.)
anyway my point is that first playthroughs of any game usually take me years and years -- mass effect trilogy took me four years to beat the first time, although part of that was the horrendously underpowered pc -- because no matter how prepared or overleveled or skilled i am, new experiences are scary and i put them off.
i'm procrastinating right now by writing this post, in fact, because the next mission is the one where i unlock a character who's both super overpowered and extremely difficult to use, with a control scheme completely different from any of the sixteen characters i've been playing to this point. there's a point in the mission where i'm going to get swapped into using this character automatically and i am teh nervous.
(okay, technically i acquired the first two mass effects having only seen a bit of the third one's multiplayer, but also the first two were a gift because somebody had a duplicate steam coupon, so does that really count either way? who knows.)
anyway my point is that first playthroughs of any game usually take me years and years -- mass effect trilogy took me four years to beat the first time, although part of that was the horrendously underpowered pc -- because no matter how prepared or overleveled or skilled i am, new experiences are scary and i put them off.
i'm procrastinating right now by writing this post, in fact, because the next mission is the one where i unlock a character who's both super overpowered and extremely difficult to use, with a control scheme completely different from any of the sixteen characters i've been playing to this point. there's a point in the mission where i'm going to get swapped into using this character automatically and i am teh nervous.
