games

Like someone else posted last week, I've been trying to get into Guild Wars 2. I have a set of half-ascended and half-exotics on my Engineer/Scrapper and the class is pretty fun and a lot more survivable than my Holosmith was. I was also wearing crappy Soldier grear that old level boosts used to give you though.

Theoretically, it should be everything I want in an MMO, because I hate how character-specific most stuff is in MMOs and almost everything being account-bound is great. The only thing that would make it better is a non-static class, but the ease of leveling and gearing alts with that account-bound stuff sort of makes up for it. I will basically never play an MMO that makes you repeat content ever again.

As cool as the game is though in some ways, it still feels like I'm playing a hollow collect-a-thon that is forever trying to keep me on the dopamine treadmill. I deleted my WoW account years ago and haven't been able to get into an MMO since because in the back of my mind, it's always saying "None of this matters, this game will die and you will never finish it", but like even moreso than any other game that at least I can say I 'finished' and had a complete experience with. I can't care about gear skins anymore or anything like that.

Aside from that, I started playing Abiotic Factor with some friends on a private server with just a few of us and it's been kinda fun. Game is like a mix of half-life and a base builder/survival crafting game. My room is in the bathroom and I've laid trip mines at the entrance for the next time anybody logs in to try and use it as a bathroom. It's my room now, they can go downstairs to the porta potty. Or suffer the consequences.