A Strategy Guide for your Strategy Guides
On this episode of the SGR Coffee Break, we tackle the issue of games becoming too big and taking a hefty amount of time to complete. Is it that games are too long, or are we just too busy?
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Yeah, let’s just rip into that collector’s edition of Mortal Kombat X! Sorry the audio is slightly off. This is the first time I’ve used OBS to record like this.
For those that might not know, I take pictures. I take an absurd amount of pictures of various toys living life out in the human world. This addiction started with my LEGO minifigs. Needless to say, I have a terrible LEGO addiction and so the announcement of LEGO Dimensions makes me both happy and worried.
The amount of LEGOs I have stored in my basement, combined with the amount I carry with me on photo excursions, borders on obscene. I decorate my house with various themed sets, mainly during Halloween and Christmas. I have a LEGO R2-D2 on my desk. I also have no issue dropping a Benjamin on nothing more than a handful of minifigs. I also enjoy the LEGO video games. They are just stupid fun to me.
So this announcement has me excited and oh so scared. I love that this is following the likes of the Skylanders and Disney Infinity, and Amiibos to some extent, types of games. What I dig the most is that instead of just being some paint figure you place on the “portal” type device, you build the figure, and the portal for that matter, as though it were a real set. This makes it more customizable and oh so true to the brand.
I am scared because I fear I’ll be bankrupt by the end of the year. I am afraid my wife will divorce me when I drain the bank account to buy up all that this game has to offer. I worry I will not remotely be able to keep my addiction in check. I guess I could always sell a kidney to fund this first run of figures and such. NAH!
I look forward to seeing what further news LEGO kicks out as the release date for LEGO Dimensions draws closer. I already have a feeling this is an instant buy for me. Hopefully, I will be able to keep my addiction to these friggin’ tiny plastic blocks in check. Yet, I highly doubt that is even possible for me.
You know what, let’s discuss our favorite Mortal Kombat memories on this SGR Coffee Break. There will be much FRIENDSHIP, FRIENDSHIP!
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Why must you be so addicting?
If you listen to the SGR Coffee Break, you know I am immensely addicted to Elite: Dangerous. I can now add Pillars of Eternity and Bloodborne to that list. When I want to sit down and dive into a game, I don’t have any shortage of quality time sinks. While these all will be continuous contributors to my Stack of Shame, it also causes a problem. That problem: WHAT THE HELL DO I PLAY?
Don’t get me wrong, I am pleased with the amount of greatness sitting on my plate. I even look forward to adding dessert thanks to Mortal Kombat X. However, this also causes me to spend a hefty amount of time debating what game I want to play. I mean, Pillars of Eternity is a game I swear I’m only going to play for an hour or so, and then five hours pass. Bloodborne isn’t a game you don’t devote your full attention to, or the game will eat you up and spit you out and not even shed a tear for your rage broken controller.
There are days it actually takes me more time to figure out what I want to play than the time I then spend playing the game. This only becomes more complicated if there is a stream on that I want to watch as now I have to consider the game environment in which I will visit. This is probably why Elite: Dangerous gets so much love. I can just sit and mindlessly mine asteroids with little to no worry.
I fear the only solution to this “WTF do I play now” question is to probably start flipping a coin. Or just completing one game befo……right, I can’t even finish that sentence with a straight face. In the end, having too many great games to play is a blessing and a curse. Can anyone clone me and mind link to my clone so we can play different games, but I still get the experience of playing? If you can do that, you’d probably be stupid rich! Until that time comes, I’m just going to sit here and stare at my heap of games and try to figure out what I’m going to play while sipping on this coffee.