The Inbetweensies

Hey Friends! I find myself in an old familiar rut that I have been in several times. Essentially I flail around at night trying to figure out exactly what I want to be playing, because nothing sounds quite right. This generally happens when there is a game on the horizon that I absolutely want to be playing but it isn’t yet available. Right now that game is Outriders and it is ultimately the game that I want to be playing. The challenge there that makes it all the more frustrating is I have access to play the demo as much as I want, but I also know that if I grind that demo into the ground it will ultimately spell doom for my long term engagement with the game.

I played a bit of Destiny 2, but found myself losing interest the longer that I played. Weirdly I think last nights problem was the fact that I didn’t engage this week until Sunday night, aka two days from reset. I think maybe tonight will be different since I won’t feel quite the pressure to wrap things up and get weekly rewards from things. I did manage to finish up Gambit and get that powerful engram. I am finding myself enjoying Battlegrounds quite a bit. This season has an enjoyable pattern of play where you do some other activities to get Cabal gold to “smash that like button”… aka hammer of proving and break a chest in the battleground. I am still bummed about Steelfeather Repeater being one season away from grandfathered into being a permanent weapon.

Valheim and I are in a weird place right now. I’ve pretty much done everything that I want to do with the game for right now. I have two massive bases and have been just sorta flitting around the map building a portal network and weird outposts. I may be finding myself winding down until the new biomes go into the game, which is a very familiar place for me as I went through similar patterns with Minecraft over the years. Mostly I have not taken down the final boss that is in the game right now, because I have heard in numerous places that when you take that boss down… Goblins become a normal spawn. I’ve already felt like my advancement has adversely impacted the server that I play on… and because of that I really don’t want to subject lowbies to such a painful encounter as random packs of Goblins.

Speaking of Minecraft… I guess I am winding down there as well. I hit it pretty hard and heavy for awhile between trying to record a daily series on YouTube while experimenting with Hardcore mode, to playing on BotchCraft to playing on my own private Realm. I think for now I am probably in a holding pattern until 1.17 drops officially and I swap over to a brand new random seed to explore the cave update nonsense. I’ve spent some time over in the Nether and found two blaze spawners that are beside each other… which leads me to want to try building a blaze farm… but that has yet to happen. Right now I mostly log in… say hi to my cats and log right back out.

So what did I do instead of all of the above last night? I apparently reinstalled Final Fantasy XV and attempted to get back into it. I feel like I am desperately searching for something to hold my attention for a month until Outriders launches. I also installed Bravely Default 2 on my Switch, but have not touched it. I could go for something mostly single player for awhile because I know when Outriders launches I will be engaged with lots of people once again as I attempt to do groupy content. I think in the back of my mind I am looking for another Dragon Age Inquisition style experience to tide me over until it is time to poke my head out of my hole again.

Being in-between the game you want to be playing and the games you have access to is maddening at times… but also a supremely first world problem. My life seems to always been perforated by moments of being unsatisfied with everything. I wish I could get rid of that feeling because it is not terribly enjoyable to go through.

5 thoughts on “The Inbetweensies”

  1. I get that in-between blah feeling sometimes too. Occasionally I find the best way to shake it off is to focus on a hobby than gaming for a little while. That way I come back feeling refreshed rather than trying to slog through a few games in search of something that clicks again.

  2. “My life seems to always been perforated by moments of being unsatisfied with everything. I wish I could get rid of that feeling because it is not terribly enjoyable to go through.”

    I get that feeling often as well. I call it “the blahs” and I’ll refer to extended versions of it as my “early 2014s blahs” or the like. Blogging has actually been one of my attempts to even out those experiences but hasn’t been very successful.

  3. I don’t quite knmow how you’ve progressed so far in Valheim. Steam says I’ve logged 135 hours now but I’m only just getting started on mining iron. I’d not expect to get to where you seem to be for a couple of months yet.

    • I probably have done more research than the average person and then focused entirely on farming whatever resource would get me gear progression the fastest. It is sort of a thing I do when playing this sort of a game.

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