If you don’t ally with the Empire, you basically don’t get to play with Psycasts. ![]() Higher ranked pawns will need increasingly spurious luxuries befitting their titles, requiring the creation of a throne room, better quality clothes, and so on. If you ally with the Empire, you can select one or more pawns to start accruing Honor via quests and such, which is used to ascend royal ranks, which in turn unlocks the ability to have Psycasts. The big addition was the sort of Fallen Empire faction that you interact with almost immediately in every playthrough. Royalty was the first DLC to be released. Or maybe just a primary one from which all others follow. However, in that time, I have come to a number of conclusions. Yeah, all other games in progress (aside from GW2 dailies) have been blown away. Instead of doing minor edits and publishing the last post, I continued playing Rimworld for about 25 hours over a week. ![]() Well, “work,” for given definitions of work. Or maybe I just continue doing my own thing, which apparently continues to work. So, heads up, there may be some experimentation with that format in 2023. Nobody Saves the World, Metal: Hellsinger, etc), even though personally I enjoy reading every single article by anyone still posting on my blogroll. I’ve always struggled with “justifying” creating a blog post about some of the random shit I try to play (e.g. I really enjoyed Void’s “Games of the Year” schtick over at A Green Mushroom, where there was a running tally of games played and how they sorted themselves over the year. Which is like 5 hours a week, so not unreasonable even if I pretend to be a responsible father figure. According to HowLongToBeat, that lineup is 256 hours all by itself (main stories only). And finish off Cyberpunk 2077 and Horizon: Zero Dawn. Maybe Assassin’s Creed Odyssey or Origins. Looking at 2023, my goal is to actually sit down and play Red Dead Redemption 2, Disco Elysium, Death Stranding (played 7 hours and fell off), Chained Echos, Wildermyth, and… SOMA. We’ll see if I ever pop back in.įor completeness’s sake, I also continued to play Hearthstone and Guild Wars 2 throughout 2022. Of the list, Grounded was the clear winner here with a whopping 68 hours played… and I haven’t even beaten it yet. Once again, Game Pass is the de facto best place to try out games you wouldn’t otherwise play unless they were wedged in a random bundle. You can’t even have the games sort themselves by most played. When I go to my library and choose “Sort by Recently Played,” I would expect the games to be sorted by, you know, how recently they were played. Sometimes the sidequests end up being much more interesting than the main quest for a lot of those kind of games.īy the way, the Epic Store interface is still embarrassingly shitty in 2022. Going forward, I think I’m going to have to start making a concerted effort to completely ignore side quests and such for the more open-world games. And again, I only really finished FF7R from that list. Just a shame that games stop being fun before they’re over. Play games when they are fun, stop when they aren’t. At the same time, I have been trying to embrace the whole “Spark Joy” Kondo-ism a bit more than in years past. It was especially egregious with games like SOMA, wherein I played to the first area where the first monster appears, Alt-Tabbed to see what happens if they get you, realized that there is an EZ-mode with no real consequences, and then never actually booted the game back up again. ![]() ![]() Although many of the games don’t necessarily have a defined “win state” (and many are Early Access besides), realistically I only finished Meteorfall, FAR, Per Aspera, and Borderlands 3.
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