Well not when all my other favorite games are full time jobs also. I miss Destiny 2, but sheesh I don’t have that kind of time. Destiny 2 is a full time job just to do the weekly stuff. Other games that you could mention would be stuff like Destiny or Division or Diablo 3 or any game that just adds content without doing a new release of the game. Then consider my favorite game of all time, Final Fantasy XI. Not cause the game is hard to get back into, but it’s time consuming to get back into. I’ve been trying to play FFXIV again, but coming back to the world is so overwhelming that I get frustrated. What about MMOs? Since we have some a hot topic of Final Fantasy XIV’s Endwalker release. That is just one example of a game though. Each week went by and I would grind D2R and say, I’ll do the podcast tomorrow. And what is the cost of all this? Well, for one thing, I’ve been working on this episode of the podcast for 4 weeks now and I’m finally getting it out. That’s only half of the items in the game and I don’t have even some of the very basic sorceress gear. My holy grail sorceress is only at about 50% of the way done. We’re talking 3+ hours a day (up to like 8 hours) during the week, many more on weekends, and multiply times 10 weeks or so it’s been out. Which is a very conservative guestimate of time, since the game does not have a ‘time played’ feature…thankfully I think. I have spent well over200 hours on the game since the launch in Sept. It is notoriously disrespectful of the gamers time. What got me really thinking about this is Diablo 2 Resurrected. Starring longingly at my game collection, both digital and physical, is my new pastime. Who has the time to finish a game? By the time you play one game for a week, there are two more released already. Right now, my list of completed games is embarrassingly short. Remember when games would come out, you would play it, then you would move on to the next game? It could be a weekend, a week, a month, but that game was done and it was time to go. While it’s still our choice not to play nonstop, the deck is stacked against us. That’s not entirely accurate though is it? The games themselves come out and actively try to get us to only play that one game forever. ![]() No-lifing: to attempt to master a difficult videogame/puzzle/craft to perfection in a matter of days by sitting on your ass for hours on end as if (or because) you have no life. If you go to Urban Dictionary, the definition of ‘no-lifing’ is as follows: What really gets me going though, is the time commitment. Well until you have to pay for all those games if you want them of course. Forgetting for a second all of the games from all years past, we get multiple major releases a month now. We live in an environment where we have more games available than ever before. Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Switch) - January 28th - Nintendo Monster Hunter Rise (PC) - January 12th - Steam Kingdoms of Amalur - Fatesworn DLC - YouTube Upcoming Game Releasesįinal Fantasy VII Remake (PC) - December 16th - Epic Games Nvidia 2060 with 12GB relaunch - Wccftech Game Updates and DLCįinal Fantasy XIV - Endwalker - Final Fantasy XIVįinal Fantasy XI - Master Levels - Square EnixĪssassins Creed Vahalla - RUMOR - Push SquareĬyberpunk 2077 - Roadmap Updated - Twitter Law to ban scalper bots - Forbes Hardware NewsĪMD 5800x - Overlooked affordable and powerful CPU - Toms Hardware ![]() However, maybe we’ll get some help fighting Scalpers. Too bad they’re behind pay walls and subscription services. Still hard to find, but more and more retailers are getting what seems to be steady restocks. Star Ocean - The Divine Force: Square Enixįinal Fantasy XIV - Endwalker Server Issues: Final Fantasy XIV Console News Hellblade 2 Senua’s Saga - Gameplay - YouTube Matrix Awakens - Unreal Engine 5 demo: YouTube Why do we have so many games that require an exhaustive amount of time to really get into them? So we’ll cover some of the big ones that get me excited and that ties indirectly into the main topic this episode No-lifing games. Which I don’t love award shows, but they do give us lots to talk about from all the reveals. We have all sorts of fun things from the Game Awards. But hey, better late than never! So coming to you from the new j76 Studio here in East Lansing, MI, I hope that you enjoy episode 24 of the podcast. I had planned to get back in action in September but moving into my house and the immediate renovations took longer than expected. The very short version of a long story is that I changed jobs (same company though), moved across country from Texas to Michigan, and bought a house. It’s been a wild ride here in 2021 but it’s starting to settle down. Welcome to the triumphant return of the j76 Gaming Podcast! The highly anticipated episode 24 is here!
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