My friend Mark was way into it when it came out. I got a copy later, but only played about half of it. I'm excited to play it all with Duke. The dialog and cutscenes in the game are already totally rediculous. Reminds me of Far Cry Blood Dragon in a way.
The trend towards making games easier has dominated recently. Not in Banner Saga or XCOM that I've noticed though. I just want to make some progress in XCOM. I just can't keep dudes alive for very long. I was playing a bit wrecklessly that day though. I really didn't want to be so awful cautious. I wanted to wreck house SWAT style. Guess I gotta micromanage to win in XCOM. Not my style at all.
I've been hitting the armor if it's more than my attacker's, then going for their health after that. I'm not sure that's exactly right, but it worked ok today when I played for an hour while I waited for Diablo to install.
I'd love to spend some time out west. Went there once as a kid, but I'd like to revisit.
Kacey Musgraves is pretty easy on the eyes, I'll say that.
Someone on one of my podcasts was joking about not knowing what a CD was. I thought it was funny because, really, they seem pretty out of date with dowloads and streaming and all. Even thinking about music as files seems a little old fashioned. What's a file? I just turn on a streaming service and hear the music. It' is the cloud, man. Dig it?
Just kidding, though. I just bought some CDs and vinyl this week. Of course, I just ripped them to my laptop to play on my iPod. Then they get put in a folder or recycled.
Right, sometimes they're fun. Maybe I just need a break from them.
I usually stop on an achievement if it seems like it will be a long tedious process. I don't want it to become like work. Oh, heck no.
"achievement fever" is a good phrase. I think I had that with Doom last week.
After playing the story in a game, I usually find I'm at about 50% completion with achievements. That's without looking at them once or really thinking about them; although, now that I know many of the types of things achievements usually ask for, I sometimes think about doing certain things during my first playthrough. I don't want to distract myself too much from the story, though, on my first run.
I felt today like I ruined further playthroughs of Doom by using a walkthrough to finish up the collectibles. I figured it would take me too long to get them all on my own, but now I kind of want another reason to play the campaign again. I'm considering playing on a new save and just upgrading whatever I want instead of trying to be all completionist about it. I sort of feel achievements might be getting in the way of my enjoyment of a game at the moment.
That's a good attitude. It's easy to get caught up in various challenges a game gives you. I'm kind of interested in seeing what achievements I don't get now, or what ones I get just by playing my own way. It was interesting seeing where all the secrets were that I missed in Doom. I used a walkthrough and some of them I would've gotten on another playthrough, but some of them were so obscure, I would've had to discover them by accident to find them on my own.
