I haven't been doing much gaming this past two weeks... I've just got a lot os different areas pulling at my attention right now. I'm trying to get a handle on a financial issue, my son turned TWO last week (how the heck did that happen?), we've got my wife's friends in town for a few days, and there's the normal work obligations. I'm in the middle of a huge transition at my job and I'm having to train new employees and oversee the movement of a major project to another facility. When I get home, I'm just exhausted lately. And oddly, playing games seems like more trouble than it's worth in my current state of mind.
None of these things are particularly bad, they're just distracting. The best one though? I got an early Father's Day present: we found out last Sunday that my wife is pregnant again. Woo hoo!
I realize my posts have been less and less about actually playing video games, but Gamespot is pretty much the only blog I use now so you can pretty much count on lot of other stuff when you come by. I'll try to pick up things in the gaming community here more regularly once my real life calms down a bit.
Have a good one, everybody. See you in the OT (it's the only place I can reliably be found these days)!
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Normally I go to the OT board whenever I want to blow off some steam. I don't go there as much though because silly religious, moral, political debates are way too common. At least when I frequently visited the board it was like that. Otherwise it is mostly pointless conversation...Which isn't a bad thing.
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It's funny, I still like the hardcore games, but I tend to like watching my friends play them as I don't really have the patience to make an @ss of myself a few times in order to learn complex mechanics, I'd rather watch someone with established skills play a game the way it's meant to be played. I really do enjoy this passive gaming experience! Most of the games I play these days don't require me to be so dexterous, excepting perhaps Rainbow Six: Vegas, but I play that for the co-op as I adore it so much.
In regards to gaming for relaxation, years ago when I was way into Need For Speed: III, Hot Pursuit on PC, I would often load up a track, disable the in-game music and put on a really mellow CD like an orchestral soundtrack or some ambient electronic music, and drive around the track at 40-60mph in a time-trial with no opponent cars. Just a leisurely drive through the environments... strange I know, but something I really enjoyed. I find I'm doing the same thing with Amped now where I'll spend half an hour not completing any objectives or challenges at all, just listening to music and boarding down the slopes, making much use of the right analogue which functions as a basic camera control, something you usually don't use when playing challenges etc.
Now I can't imagine being as fulfilled doing anything else.
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