I'm watching nearly every episode of Transformers G1 ( Series I - Victory) in order this winter including the 1986 movie Transformers The Movie. In the spring I resume with Beast Wars forward. On Netflix maybe finish their trilogy. Going in release order where I can. This will be after Transformers Victory (Series VII) on DVD. In the spring I should be finished with Transformers Victory. I started with More Than Meets The Eye Parts 1 - 3.

Currently watching The Ultimate Doom Parts 1 - 3 from Series I.

I was lurking the PS2/Xbox section of my used games store earlier and, man


We really are a long way removed from the time of arcade-sim or outright simulation games being A Thing on consoles.

Things really have changed. I just got my backwards compatible ps3 running again so I picked up Star Wars: The Clone Wars and...games were so much simpler back then. Back in the day, I was happy to just get into a vehicle and drive around shooting things. Nowadays, it'd be a $20 indie game, not a full-priced release.

I just cannot get excited for videogames in general anymore. It used to be a huge part of my life, I played every day. Planned the next game to buy after, always had one ready.

Nowadays I can't be bothered. I realized there are only so few games that I actually want to play, that the rest is entirely unnecessary.

Basically, From Software- and Mossmouth-stuff are the only things I want to buy no matter what. There are still some gems here and there, but these really are mostly indie.

Personally, I just don't have enough time to play anymore. It's probably just part of growing up, or more likely the path I've chosen in life.

Speaking of video games...

https://i.imgur.com/BSv29DK.png

WHY

From everything I've read, it's basically an art piece for SAO's 10th anniversary. It's weird, but it's not like it's actually anything planned for commercial release.



Yet.

I don't play nearly as many video games as I used to either, but honestly that's fine. A lot of video games are great time sinks as a kid but aggressively disrespectful of your limited free time as an adult.

I used to be a gamer like you, then I took an arrow to the knee.

I mean I buy maybe one new-new game a year. I'm planning on grabbing Frontiers after I get a PS4 in a couple of weeks but like, that's the only game released this year that I'm going to buy. I just don't play as much due to lack of time and motivation. Hence why I appreciate mission-based games like Ace Combat a lot more these days, not that I ever didn't. Easy to knock out a couple of missions in an hour and feel like I've made some actual progress, as opposed to an open world game where there's always the pull to do More.

I feel like the video game industry is mostly filled with AAA games that focus too much on story, and less on gameplay. AAA games want to be like Hollywood blockbusters so badly. I hate playing games that you walk in a long linear line, and have stupid quick time events. It's worse when the first hour of the game is one big tutorial. This is why I hated games like Last of US because it felt like one big interactive movie than an actual game with good fun gameplay. Good story means nothing to me if the gameplay sucks. I'm not going to bother play through a boring or bad game just for the story.

When I play video games these days, they are older games, or indie games. If I do pick up a newer game, it's mostly a game based on a franchise that I like. For example, I played the newer Samurai Showdown game because I'm a huge fan of the franchise. I also plan to get KOF15 for Christmas as well. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge is the new 2022 game that I played because I hear it was great (it was), and I do like TMNT (for the most part).