I want your problem, let's trade game tastes looool. Knowing my family, I'm going to end up with another pile of game for Christmas this year so I'll be going into 2022 with even more games to play. I just want a break to breathe and play something that doesn't feel like it needs to be a checkmark on a list. I want to spend more time with my games again instead of treating them like speedruns.Kikki wrote:I hope my year next year is MORE stacked with games. 2021 has been feeble, for me.
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I think I'm going to end up dropping Like a Dragon and watching the rest of the plot on YT. The game itself is fantastic, good characters, good story, fantastic to look at, gives me a lot of laughs, but holy « Puppy Doodoo », the encounter rate in this game is driving me bonkers. I literally CANT walk from point a-b without having no less than 2-3 battles on the way, and it's usually a WASTE OF TIME. I'm not getting loads of experience from the small mooks that are always stopping me to deal piss poor damage, I just want to move around the city freely and do side quests without being stopped ever 10 seconds. The fact that it can't be toggled off or the fact that the lower level mooks don't run away from me is maddening. I spent half of my day yesterday trying to get stuff on the map done only to get frustrated at how everything is constantly screeching to a halt so I can get my party to do an AOE and then get back to running down a road, only to get stopped again and again.
The only way to mitigate this is to take taxis, but I'm at a point in the game where money is hard to earn and I'm not going to blow all my cash while also trying to save up for the next piece of equipment. I ended up stopping after saying to myself 'this isn't fun any more' and played FFXIV for the rest of the day. I am way too tired for good games with « Cow Poopoo » mechanics.
I'm looking forward to playing Ghost of Tsushima's DLC (and I've been thinking of getting back into it by playing all the content I ignored last year) and Pokemon Snap's free update, and working on Genshin Impact, but I'm done trying to tackle big « Mr.Gourmet's hat » JRPGs with cumbersome progression. Just let me play, don't arbitrary road block me for no good reason.