PixlBit

yeah, being able to do EVERYTHING is a little out of control. What I'm trying to suggest though is carefully curated choices that, when put together, create a character more complex than "good, bad, or middle." I find I have more fun when a character starts to be visible due to the choices I make in a game. I've been playing Tyranny a lot lately, and there's a lot of interesting choices in it that have let me start to sculpt my own personal story. I'm not saying games don't do this, I just think when they do, they're kind of unaware of it. 

You know, I was looking at Ultima 7 the other day on GOG. It's playable on Mac, so I think I'm gonna buy it. Just a couple bucks. 

I've never been crazy about god games, but I like running interstellar empires and cities and stuff. 

I've been wanting to play that Egypt game for a while. I keep on hesitating when it's on sale. 

jeez.  We're old. 

Cary's absolutely right, it's all about the handhelds, man. 

Hey I'll check these out soon. But I wanted to ask you if you were going to play Monster Hunter Stories 2?

Jeez, that font on that box... 

I've never owned one of these. Actually, that might not be true... my brother in law gave me some weird consoles when I was living in San Francisco, but I don't remember what they were. I should have kept them. 

When I was a kid, we had an Atari, but we also had a TI99 computer, which had a full keyboard, took cartridges, but also could access data on tape. I actually used that a lot... I can still feel the muscle memory of typing on the keyboard... I would experiment with coding in basic at a very young age on that thing, and play educational math games.

It's funny how these things just fade into history, remembered mostly in blogs and ebay listings. 

Yes, but what about Xenosaga????? 

I think a lot of people have their own personal golden eras. For me, nothing has topped the psone era with the FF trilogy and all the other JRPGs. But I also have deep respect for the SNES era. 

Monster Hunter Stories 2 looks very good. I have the first one for my iPad/phone but I've never gotten around to playing it. The new one looks beautiful. 

I've promised myself I'm going to finish BoTW before the sequel comes out. I've finished up the Zora divine beast, and I'm up around the mountains now.