violace

Not much has happened in terms of gaming progress since my last update - between a lot of RL stress I admittedly wasn’t in the mood to stick to my list of games and just played whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, even if that meant starting a couple new games and making that list even longer.

My biggest timesink in the last month was No Man’s Sky. I played over 100 hours within the first 2 weeks after its release, at which point I really needed a break. But I’m not even close to being finished and there’s still a lot to discover, so this game will keep me entertained for a long, long time. I also want to get all the achievements. :)

  • No Man's Sky
    No Man's Sky

    107 hours playtime

    15 of 22 achievements

And then I’ve been playing a lot of multiplayer games with friends:

ARK: Survival Evolved: we put around 17 hours into it during the free weekend back in July and had an incredible amount of fun, even though it ran like crap on most of our machines

Don’t Starve Together: this game should be called Don’t Freeze Together, tbh. We’ve never survived the winter.

Starbound: started a new playthrough now that it’s finally out of EA. Last time I played was over a year ago, so there’s a lot of new things to discover and I can’t wait to see what they’ve done with it.

Warframe: I stopped playing right around the time when Lunaro and the new star chart were released because it was very overwhelming and I had some bad experiences with random players in public missions… but I’m slowly getting back into it and rediscovering the fun

Borderlands 2: Playing it for the first time with 2 of my best friends, we’re all loving it. It’s difficult to align our schedules and find the time to play regularly, so I’ll probably start a second playthrough on my own because I really want to see how the story plays out.

Right now I’m focusing on KOTOR again and I still want to finish that second Mass Effect playthrough as well - Andromeda is coming and I want to be done before it releases! Hopefully it won’t be delayed.

Ghostie

Oh no, what happened in Warframe? That game always seemed to have fairly decent randoms. :s

violace

I was playing my very first match of Lunaro, literally on the first day it was released, and there were people in the chat insulting me for being bad at it. :/ I’m not usually affected by stuff like that but that stuck with me because I’d had a rough day and they made me feel even more awful. In general though my experience with the playerbase is 95% positive, that’s rare in online games!

Ghostie

Damn, they’re dicks. Must be because it’s PvP, makes the worst come out in people. :/

char

That’s always my biggest fear with multiplayer, people being complete assholes just because you’re not a pro -_-

violace

Yup!! The only good solution is to play with friends, but then you always have to plan ahead so everyone’s available, and in my case they’re not really into the same games as I am. At least in Warframe you can complete most missions on your own, but sometimes to progress you need other players.