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diff --git a/content/thoughts.md b/content/thoughts.md index 8dff354..58951c4 100644 --- a/content/thoughts.md +++ b/content/thoughts.md @@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ Here are all of the thoughts I've posted so far: - [first entry, 2024-10-24](./thoughts/first-entry.html) - [updated css and navigation, 2024-10-25](./thoughts/updated-css-and-navigation.html) - [javascript, 2024-10-25](./thoughts/javascript.html) -- [muscle memory, 2024-11-23](./thoughts/muscle-memory.html)
\ No newline at end of file +- [muscle memory, 2024-11-23](./thoughts/muscle-memory.html) +- [video games, 2024-12-10](./thoughts/video-games.html) diff --git a/content/thoughts/video-games.md b/content/thoughts/video-games.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..897f5e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/thoughts/video-games.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +I've recently been getting back into video games. Unfortunately, modern games - +with a few exceptions - aren't really my thing. Games in the last decade I +enjoyed were Cyberpunk 2077, the latest update of The Binding of Isaac, Monster +Hunter and the NieR games. I wasn't in the mood to play any of these games, so +I went digging through my CDs and found Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna. This +was my first ARPG, even though there's not much of roleplaying in this game, and +it was in fact the very first PC game I've ever played. The first video game I +ever played was Rayman for the Sega Saturn. +Anyway, Dungeon Siege is a very simple game: You left click to walk around, you +left click to attack enemies and you press H to consume a health potion. That's +basically it. +No, really. You just walk through the world, click on enemies and wait until +they're dead. The worst thing is that, as is common in some older games, you +have a chance to hit. So there are times when you're missing five or more +attacks in a row, which is pretty annoying. A joke my brother and I used to say +was that Dungeon Siege is probably the best screen saver ever. Put you character +on free movement and auto attack and leave the game running while you're reading +a book or doing some work. +When I installed this game I expected that all my good memories with it were +just feelings of nostalgia, but it kept me engaged until the very end. Now I'm +at my favourite part of the game: The second to last starting point, where you +can grind the last quest for powerful loot. And that is the thing that keeps me +so engaged. The loot in this game is extremely random and when you finally get +something really good it feels incredible. Most modern ARPGs have certain +best-in-slot items that you can fairly reliable farm or craft. But in Dungeon +Siege, it is completely up to chance. That is the thing I love about this game. +I am still on the first difficulty. There's standard, veteran and elite. One +loot run takes me about 30 minutes. If I do two runs a day, I expect to make it +to elite in about three months. The experience you get really takes a nose dive +once you are on veteran. But that doesn't matter a bit, at least to me. +Another thing about this game is that the soundtrack is incredible. [Just listen +to this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxwCsV2nzTw) +I really love those older video games and I unironically think that most of them +are better than the games that are released today. |