I played it when I had a free trial to gamepass. 0/10 did not enjoy.
I wandered out into the woods in my jumpsuit with a baseball bat. I was attacked by a pack of dogs. It took me a while to get my bearings, but despite a long time flailing I defeated the dogs and suffered no serious injuries. Not a fan of paper tigers like that at all.
But more generally it felt kind of aimless. When I did find something to fight, it wasn’t fun. Progress felt slow.
One, those are famous works that used characters they didn’t create. Just off the top of my head. Also The Aeneid, which I haven’t read but the internet is telling me is basically Ascended Fanfiction.
Two, you don’t really seem to have an informed opinion on this topic. Which is, like, fine. Most of us don’t know most things. But maybe consider there’s good reasons many people are disagreeing with you.
Have you by chance read Dante’s Divine Comedy? Or Milton’s Paradise Lost? Just to name two works that are widely considered Fucking Classic off the top of my head. Do you have much background in literature?
Finished my legendary light armor. I only really play light armor classes, so I’m not planning on making the others yet. 4 pieces from spvp, 2 from wvw.
Thinking of making the legendary runes. I’m like 2500 gold short to make all six (I don’t count the underwater as necessary). It’s probably overkill. But it would be nice.
I might also make a second conflux. I’ve got ascended rings falling out of my ass, and being able to salvage all of them would free up some space.
I’m not sure if I should make another legendary weapon. I have a staff, greatsword, and dagger, and those cover most of what I play. Might wait to see what the new weapons are like.
Also doing world completion for funsies on a third character. At about 75%
If this was the brain to galaxy brain meme, the bottom one might be “a group of 3+ players who want to play more than just DND”
There are so many things I actively dislike with DND, but it’s way harder to find people to play other games. Luckily my Friday group has agreed to try other stuff. We’re currently doing this “year zero engine” thing and it’s great. Whole sessions go by and I have nothing bad to say about the rules. (I think the willpower rules might be kind of janky, but nothing is perfect)
Next up is a forged in the dark game someone wants to run, and then maybe a short go of Vampire.
For most games, three hours is about the minimum to get anything done. It takes some time to get settled and ramp up into the game.
More than five hours is typically too long. Most people lose focus or get bored. Or just have other stuff in their life blocking that many consecutive hours.
My experience is that you’re much more likely to succeed if you find people that want to play and make friends with them than you are making your friends play.
If you pitch to your existing friends, they’re more likely to say yes because they’re your friends. They want to hang out. But they might just be saying that to be nice or because they’re afraid of confrontation. They might not realize you’re looking for a commitment on par with joining a sports team. If they don’t already play RPGs, they might not know they’re going to have to do some reading and writing. A lot of people just don’t read and creatively write. That can be difficult and embarrassing.
On the other hand, if you post online or in a local game store, you can find people who are ready to go. People who can already do your schedule and also know the game you want to play. There’s a small risk of getting a weirdo, but a quick screening catches a lot of that.
For example, most people don’t want to die to the same boss over and over again. That’s just not good gameplay and it’s overall a waste of time.
This is a very subjective opinion stated as a objective fact. I think Sekiro, for example, is great gameplay, even when lady butterfly kicked my ass for hours.
Some people would like the difficulty automatically changing. I would hate it. I do want to lose to the same boss over and over until I get it right sometimes. That’s part of what makes clearing sekiro such a triumph.
The other from soft games are similar, but they have leveling and coop as difficulty adjustments.
But I do recognize that not everyone likes this. Even I don’t like it in every game, probably.
I would be moderately peeved if the game just decided to let me win. Clearing the sword saint in sekiro was a triumph. If the game made it easier because I was taking a while, it would cheapen the win.
Some people don’t enjoy the challenge and would probably enjoy this, though. Utterly alien to me, but they exist.
I got an iPhone free from work. Used it until it literally fell apart. (I didn’t drop it or anything. The screen just slowly came off. Weird. Not a fan). Several years.
Bought an android for cheap. Used it until it wouldn’t hold a charge. Also several years.
Bought a new android. Plan to use this until it falls apart. Several years and counting.
A new phone just isn’t on my radar. There’s nothing I need out of a phone that this one isn’t doing.
Alcohol in low to moderate quantities helps people in social situations. It makes people more, how to say, myopic. A little drink and you don’t think as much about long term consequences. This makes it easier for people to talk about some things, or take risks like asking your date if they want to make out. Excessive drink will fuck you up, though, especially over a long time period.
Drugs are many and varied. I don’t really use any so I can’t speak to them, but generally they make people feel great. There’s a huge cost to pay for some of them, but people chose that for various reasons.