Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
Yeah it’s all I can do to even catch up with people irl once every few years, or even online, what with careers and kids and locations.
Must get better at that.
Also I’ve been thinking I need to get back into Skyrim, I used to really enjoy that and my irl stamina’s a bit better these days so the cost benefit ratio would be a bit better.
Do you manage to game at all?
I don’t play many games these days. I’ll go weeks without playing any, but it’s more a priority thing. I get 1, maybe 2 hours in the evening to myself. I often try to use another half hour at lunch as well.
With that time I can read, watch TV, play games, work on lemmy stuff, etc.
In the past year or so I’ve played through Ryse: Son of Rome to the end, and also played some small amounts of Oxygen Not Included, Morrowind, Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrouds, but I didn’t get too far in any of those ones. I tend to play everything on the easiest difficulty these days, so as to make more progress with my time.
I’d say I play less than 1 hour a week. Even 10 years ago that number was a lot higher, a couple of hours most days, but different priorities now 🙂
I loved Morrowind. Re tv when you’re pressed for time some of those series of really short episodes are great. Eg Rose Matafeo’s Star Struck.
I played one of the Elder Scrolls games (can’t remember which, but I think not Morrowind) on a disk that I borrowed from a friend a couple of decades back. I didn’t understand what I was supposed to do, so didn’t play it much.
It wasn’t until Skyrim had the Game of the year edition with all the DLC for $15 that I finally played it. I loved it and spent 100+ hours playing it (I know, amateur numbers).
I only recently tried Morrowind, which was only a few dollars so I thought I’d give it a go. I enjoyed what I played, having had a better casual intro to the series via Skyrim so I knew how things worked, but the problem is I didn’t get a chance to play for a few weeks and now I have no idea what I was doing. No quest markers and now I can’t be bothered spending the time to work it out, so now it’s been months 😆
Having played Morrowind obsessively when it first came out, I downloaded it on Steam and … geez it makes you work hard now that we’re usef to quest journals and maps. Also you’re in a potato world. But I still have amazing crystal clear memories of flying around netch farms at night and stuff. I think maybe it offloaded a lot of the image processing onto our brains or something!
I don’t mind so much the maps and quest journals if I’m in the moment, but it’s a problem when I suddenly need to save and quit, then don’t pick it up again for weeks.
Oh in terms of graphics, I can remember how awesome games looks. Quake 2 was so detailed compared to the first. Need for Speed was basically photo realistic. Age of Empires had such detailed units and AoE2 was amazing!
Unfortunately I didn’t play Half Life until a decade or so after it came out, but that was apparently revolutionary (and I still really enjoyed it even though it was a decade old).
Carmageddon is the one I remember thinking was amazing. The one with the humans not the zmbies. Also, Quake ha ha ha.
I never got into FPS though.
I don’t think I ever played carmageddon, though I know of it.
Before those amazing graphics games came out I used to play shareware games like Commander Keen or Crystal Caves. Only the first episode of course 😆
Omg Crystal Caves, haven’t heard that name in a long time! Jump Man was my jam.