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sdcSpade
joined 2 years ago
Ich bestehe darauf, dass die Garage ein 'Autoschuppen' ist. Das hat Moe schon vor Jahrzehnten entschieden!
The only console I ever felt comfortable playing FPS on was the Wii. I never had much care for lightgun-style games, but maybe they had a point after all.
"Hey, would you like to stab your colleagues in the back? We've got a knife you can use right here!"
Deus Ex. I was 14, didn't really play or like first person shooters and only played it because it was in the pile of old games someone essentially dropped off on me. But I understood rather quickly that this game was something special, especially with the player's choices actually making a difference. I remember a moment when I was playing around with cheats and at one point spawned a Paul Denton next to his dead body in the lab under UNATCO just to be funny and when he started talking to me as if he hadn't died, a quick online search revealed that I didn't even know how deep your influence truly went.
I still don't really like or play first person shooters, but that's now mostly because Deus Ex has set my standards very, very high!
The sdc-prefix doesn't mean anything to me anymore but after all these years, I feel naked without it.
I sit on my hand and upvote my comments/posts with a numb hand so it doesn't feel like I'm the one doing it.
As far as single-player games are concerned, I realized I have a sweet-spot of ~100 hours when I get somewhat tired of it, and ~150 hours when I'm just done. I don't know anything about the story of Xenoblade 3 after the snow area because I crossed that threshold and just stopped paying attention. I just wanted it to be over. I had just played the Live A Live remake before that and I realized how much I miss the pacing of classic RPGs.
On the other hand, I'm closing in on 500 hours in Monster Hunter Rise. I have no problem casually grinding out games that aren't a long-term story-commitment.