No post for a while, turns out that the company I work for has lost it’s contract to the local hospital. As a result, both my wife and I are being made redundant and are out of a job. I will try to post here as much as I can but I will be quite busy for at least the next few months.
We are now in the process of packing everything up and moving 5 hours away to live with my parents until we find our feet again. We have at least 2 months before we are booted which is a good time-frame to organize around.
My parents do have an internet connection but it is only 1.5 mbps so it is quite slow compared to what I am used to. This connection will not be very good for online games when there will be 3 people wanting to use it at the same time. While thinking about this new development I have come to the conclusion that I will probably have to cancel my subscriptions, at least for a while. This means both my wife and I will not have WoW to fall back on all the time.
I am looking at this soon-to-be joblessness as a positive. Not only will we be in a position to go wherever we want in regards to moving, we will also be able to catch up on all the single-player games that we have both bought in all the recent steam sales etc.
I personally have a massive list of games that I need to play. A short list of the games I want to play follows.
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent
- Assassin’s Creed 2 and Brotherhood (once it is released)
- Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Call of Duty: Black Ops single player (never finished it, very close to the end)
- Darksiders (horrible pc port of the game, may play it, doubt it)
- Dawn of Discovery – Venice
- Dead Space 1 & 2
- Dragon Age 1 and possibly 2
- Fallout: New Vegas
- GTA 4 (never actually finished it)
- Just Cause 2
- Mass Effect 2
Just a quick list of some of the games that I have either started and not finished or have not even begun to play. Which leads me on to my next thought.
Is playing mmo games that take up so much of our time limiting what we can experience in other games? I know personally that I loved what I played of some of the games mentioned above, they were great fun and had fantastic story. I would be sure that I would go on to finish the game but inevitably we back to League of Legends or World of Warcraft because my rl mates wanted me to play. I get that you experience the social aspect of mmo’s but is that worth missing all of these other wonderful games?
I also have a bunch of games on my Xbox 360 and my PS3 that I have also not finished. Even more to play!
-Sighfigh
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