status 2015 August

I should have never started the Mass Effect series this spring, I should have just worked outside in Real Life, and come back to gaming during the winter. I feel like I've struck out twice in a row now with series that should have really delivered, but turned out to feel like a waste of time in the end.

Bioshock and Mass Effect series both started out interesting, had a strong middle, and fizzled out into an insult at the end. I would really like to start Fallout: New Vegas now, especially since Fallout 4 has been announced, but that will be another enormous time black hole, that would be better saved for the cold and dark winter months.

I wish I had a casual action game I could jump in and out of like Team Fortress, but that has slowly turned into something I don't like over the years, and I rarely play it.

Maybe video games and I need to take a break for a few months.

2015.09.06

It's a month later, and I think about Mass Effect less and less. For a few weeks I thought about writing a long post on how the ending to Mass Effect might have been saved, but the details of the game are getting hazy now. I'm also getting over the sad insult of that ending, and don't want to re-open a healing wound.

I think I'd really like to play Fallout New Vegas now, but there's so much Real Life calling. Maybe I could just play some Age of Empires III or Starcraft 2 to take off the edge while I wait for better (worse) weather.