Not saying they are bad games, but my own mood isn’t there for them. I have a limited amount of time and a hierarchy or titles I am in the mood to play. Things I will want to play, but probably won’t: I think I will be in for that, if it ships this year. My daughter got me Pokemon for Xmas, RimWorld has the Biotech expansion to explore, and Dwarf Fortress is finally available in a comprehensible form on Steam. LEGO Star Wars… we’ll see how far I get with that one. Those all seem safe since I am literally playing them already. Maybe at some point I’ll try and wrap up a five year view.Īnd what does the new year look like? What do I think I will play in 2023? I am not going to go as deep into charts as Belghast, but I have a summary of sorts. It isn’t Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin, but it was okay. It is go back to that mess or go back to queues on a fresh start server… until those servers die and get merged again.įinally there is Combat Mission: Red Thunder, which was an attempt to relive a bit of my gaming from 20 years ago. They’ve since merged servers and removed our company and what not to the extent that I am not sure we’ll ever return. New World was the end of our stint there. ![]() That was good fun, until I beat the main game, after which I fell off the title. But the Switch gives you some play time numbers and Pokemon games themselves always have a timer for how long you’ve played. Pokemon Shining Pearl, the remake that my daughter and I had been waiting for, saw quite a bit of play around the Holidays… and is the one item on the list that ManicTime doesn’t track. Stellaris and Forza Horizon 4, both titles I want to go back and play, were there because I had lots of time over the holidays and into January, and then reality began to sink in a little more firmly. It always feels like I am redoing things I’ve already done. But after all the work we did in that world my daughter and I started back in the day, I feel like I might have worn out Minecraft. Minecraft was an attempt to fill the void after we reached the end of the plains biome. It was fun, but kind of silly and not really our thing.ĮverQuest II was me playing the Visions of Vertovia expansion, which wore out once I got to the end game stuff and needed to get on the gear and skill upgrade grind to be able to managed any further content. Lost Ark was where we landed after New World. With the release of the Mistlands biome I got our world back online, but we’re still pretty tied up with Wrath, so it might be a while before we seek a foothold there. That was a pretty focused play time, but Valheim is very good at that. ![]() Then there was Valheim, which we went back to try again with a fresh world in order to see what had changed since we last played. It is the most played title for me, though it covers a bit less than half of the year. We hopped into Outland to get our characters and a few alts to level 68 to be ready for Northrend. We tired of Outland well before we got very far, but once Wrath was looming we were back in business. WoW Classic in 2022 really translates into Wrath of the Lich King Classic, along with the pre-patch to get ready for it. I am on a kill mail and have at least one fleet participation credit for each month. It may only be in third place on the percentages, but it is a title I did go in and play every month. The last two weeks of December are traditionally a very big gaming time for me.ĮVE Online is the usual all year title. So the new job starts in April, then my mom falls and has to come and live with us over the summer and I spend a lot of my free time trying to figure out her finances (still not there yet) and getting her into assisted living, so October is about when I come up for air from that… and then the holidays hit but I don’t have enough vacation banked up to lounge about, otherwise November and December would have been the high points of the year, as they have been in past years. ![]() Job searching is a part time thing, but once you have a new job then the work of figuring things out is just beginning. This is how HR aids and abets the bottom line, by inflating required qualifications so the company can complain that there are not enough qualified candidates so they need more H1B visas please.īut I digress. ManicTime – For your app time tracking needsĪnd things started with me being laid off at the end of 2021, which probably boosted my time played in January, because you can only spend so much time on the job search before you are crippled with anxiety because the job you got a decade ago with a Business degree now lists a Master Degree in Computer Science as the preferred education.
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