Wowsers this week was a long one; like, will-somebody-please-just-kill-me-now kind of long. Honestly, I haven’t been this happy to see a week fuck the fuck off in quite some time, and me and this weekend are going to be all different kinds of special relationship-ey to make up for the last five days. Not in a weird way, obviously, but in an ‘I’ma grab the opportunity to play games relatively undisturbed and free from distractions’ kind of one! Oh, happy day. Oh, happy day!
Anyways, enough about me. What are your Gaming-related plans for this fine weekend? Are you dying to get back to where you left off in an ongoing Gaming epic, or are you starting something new? Are you using the relative calm of your work-free days to finally organise your thoughts into a piece for your own blog, or will you be using your downtime to catch up with stuff other people have written? Perhaps you’re struggling to do the former, and would like some input from the Gaming community? Are you looking for a new game to rock your world, or maybe looking for a second opinion on a game that’s caught your eye?
Whatever your plans, why not tell us about them!? If you’ve got a question – ask away! If you’re looking for your next jam, seek the wisdom of your fellow bloggers – the force is strong in them, young padawan! Jump in, get involved, make yourself at home. The WGD is your space to shoot the shit ’bout pretty much anything and everything Gaming-ey, so go to fucking town with it….
QTX 
April 15, 2016 at 3:15 pm
My special relationship-ey weekend will mostly involve Quantum Break, which I actually picked up last weekend, but haven’t managed to finish yet thanks to this week being a proper Dick! Once I’ve finished it, I’m hoping to get the review done, dusted, and posted, before heading back into it to see how some of the branching storyline stuff plays out in practice.
If I get chance, I might also suck up the whole ‘constantly getting my ass handed to me’ stuff and have another crack at The Division’s Dark Zone, but I also might not (see again, getting my ass handed to me on a regular basis). I should also probably wrap up the Battle of the Publishers: Sony vs Microsoft thing that I said I’d do about a month ago, which I can absolutely tell you’re all *totes* desperate to read!
So, anyways, those are my plans. Have a good weekend y’all!
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April 15, 2016 at 4:27 pm
… My entire knowledge of what ‘The Division’ is comes from your writings. The dark zone sounds pretty intense…
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April 15, 2016 at 4:43 pm
I mean, it is intense – but I feel obliged to point out that I’m also, like, not that great at it.
On your own you’re basically at the mercy of everyone and anyone else, so you can spend hours in there, not manage to extract anything, go nowhere (or even backwards) with your level and funds, and just generally get your backside tanned every which way.
Clearly, the chance that might happen has something of an impact on one’s willingness to just jump into it – and it’s not necessarily a barrel of laughs!
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April 15, 2016 at 5:18 pm
I like that kind of challenge occasionally, but have to be in the right mood. My favourite trick is to focus really really hard and not be doing too bad… then suddenly throw it all away with a stupid error in judgement…
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April 15, 2016 at 5:22 pm
Haha – that’s pretty much my MO too.
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April 15, 2016 at 4:31 pm
It must be Friday, the weekly Doodah has just popped up on my feed… Essentially how I keep track of the weeks.
Not much gaming time this weekend; my curiosity is getting the better of me however and I’m going to see if I can get the Doom open beta happening this evening. Like so many other people, the original pretty much got me into pc gaming and I enjoyed no. 3 (although that seems to be an unpopular opinion). The trailers for the new one have put me off a bit – maybe I’m getting old, but it looks too ‘extreme’.
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April 15, 2016 at 5:08 pm
I’m kind of the same on all counts RE Doom – but I hugely enjoyed The Wolfenstein re-imaginings/updating shenanigans, so I’m cautiously optimistic about this one too.
Although, if you do find it’s rubbish (or really, really hard), I’d appreciate a heads-up – because there’s nothing worse than watching a childhood favourite get butchered! 😉
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April 15, 2016 at 5:19 pm
Yeah – Wolfenstein TNO was a really pleasant surprise. I’ll report back on Doom… 🙂
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April 15, 2016 at 5:21 pm
Cheers, I look forward to it.
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April 15, 2016 at 6:01 pm
Needing to put some quality time in on a couple of articles I have been drafting up over the last few weeks. I am considering trying a new tactic for the third section of the articles (Life and the Moral) and for these next couple I am going to write that section in first person instead. Any thoughts on one or the other?
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April 15, 2016 at 6:28 pm
I think the first person has some advantages, especially because I like reading how somebody interpreted x, y or z, and then comparing it to my own experience with the same source material.
Some of the best discussions I’ve had about games (and films, books etc) have come about because of exactly that – and it can be quite illuminating because not only do you see stuff you might’ve missed yourself, but you can also end up thinking about how and why you took the thing you did from it instead. If you see what I mean?
Plus, I think the personal “I” can be quite compelling and interesting anyway, and from a writing point of view, it just has a bit more of a som’thin-som’thin’ in terms of impact, or feeling like you’re part of a conversation, or whatever.
Either way though, I look forward to reading them!
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April 16, 2016 at 2:19 pm
Thanks for sharing, that does make sense and I will keep that in mind as I am writing. I am excited to see how they turn out!
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April 15, 2016 at 10:09 pm
I’m sorry about your week. I picked up Dark Souls 3 this week, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. For the past few weeks I’ve been generally dispassionate about gaming, and I was starting to wonder if I was through with the hobby. But Dark Souls has been a shot in the arm!
Unfortunately I couldn’t get the game to recognize my PS4 controller, so I’ve had to go with the Steam controller which I haven’t really ever majorly used. I had to reconfigure some of the button bindings at first, but so far it actually works pretty well with the game. It’s made me want to consider using it more instead of always passing it over for the dual shock 4.
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April 15, 2016 at 10:49 pm
Cheers – it was nothing too bad, just reeeaally long and very tiring.
I’m tempted by Dark Souls 3, mainly because it looks phenomenal, but I’m reluctant to get it on account of its famed difficulty, and my famed rubbishness. I’ve read this one’s got a ‘casual’ setting, but even so, I’m not sure I could handle the constant beat-downs right now.
Are you planning on writing something about it?
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April 16, 2016 at 1:24 am
I might write something about it. I never really know what to tell people who are uninitiated in Dark Souls what to think about these games. They aren’t easy games, but for all their challenge, it is entirely possible for anyone to rise above them. Fundamentally, they have a very different flow than anything else you can play out there. Combat is like a dance.
You’ll die a lot, but if you have patience and are willing to learn from your mistakes, to hone your plan of attack, then nothing will really stop you from seeing the end. And when I get taken out, there’s just this primal aggressive urge I feel to get back in there and not let the game get the better of me.
They also just have incredible world design in a creative and aesthetic sense. Particularly when it comes to monsters. Although , I feel like the first Dark Souls has yet to be topped on this aspect.
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April 16, 2016 at 2:02 am
Yeah, I always feel I’m missing out on a lot by not really playing games like DS that much, and in particular the creative and aesthetic aspects you mention. I’ve got Dragon Age: Inquisition and The Witcher 3 on my To Play pile, and I’m hoping they’re decent “gateways” into that genre. I’ve recently started reading Fantasy again, so in a way, it’d be quite fitting to match that with my gaming.
And the difficulty/perseverance/progression thing can go either way with me. Either I’ll get really frustrated, really quickly – or, I’ll get super addicted, and it’ll just be this massive monkey on my back. Neither’s great to be honest, so I need to find that sweet spot somewhere in the middle, I think.
Finally, on the writing – I always enjoy reading your stuff, even if it’s about games I’m not familiar with, perhaps even *especially* when it’s about games I’m not familiar with. Likewise, I’ve often picked up games that haven’t been on my radar because I’ve read something about it, and because it’s seemed interesting, or because they’ve mentioned something that’s quite cool about it that I liked the sound of!
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