I had a straightforward plan for my first weekend of April: go to Austin for a writing class, go to my fav spots and only spend a little bit of cash, and be home by four so I can rest from getting up so damn early.
Oh, how I wished that was the case. HOW I WISH.
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Sunday, April 10, 2016
My Latest Excuse
It all started with one video, a simple review and playthrough. Innocent enough. Or so it seemed.
PushingUpRoses made her review and released it upon the world, sharing her latest obsession, a game that made her "ass sore"*. It was that kinda game, it gave you blinders to anything else going on in your life. If playing at the wrong time, then it would be a fatal choice. You look up and see that the time has flown, not just in the game, but in reality. And you are late for work.
I am thankful to say that I hadn't been late to work due to anything like a game (or even a book, since that can also happen... if the Internet is to be believed), but man alive... I lost several weekends over to this game.
That game is none other than Stardew Valley.
I actually heard about this game, but saw nothing nor pursued anything on it. It was a title I heard around some circles, saying it was this mishmash of Harvest Moon (which I hadn't played, but my sister had) and Farmville (which I would NEVER play, but my mother did). Funny, those types of games never interested me, but what did it for Stardew Valley? Man, I wish I can tell you. Perhaps that it's more simplified or different, I dunno. But I enjoy the eff out of it. I'm over 50 hours in and already got a wine-and-cheese business going, along with a marriage to the town doctor and raising our firstborn son.
Since playing, I have learned that this game was the work of one man, there is a massive modding community (the game is barely two months old!), and is possibly one of the best games out this year**. It is worth its weight in gold, being only a mere fifteen bucks on Steam. It's not like Farmville where you buy things to progress along with real cash. As for Harvest Moon, I still have no clue.
I have since gotten my mother hooked on the game. We spent the better part of this afternoon with the game, me with my own file and helping my mother along with her own (mainly teaching her, since she is new to computer gaming of this level). It's not everyday I bond with my folks over a video game. Scratch that... that hadn't happened since we got an Atari 2600 and played Pac-Man and Sub-Scan. That was almost twenty years ago. Damn***.
I'm unsure if I want to recommend this game to others. Not that it's bad or anything (far from it!), but do I want others to lose weekends like I've had?
I guess that is up to them. Ain't my fault if it happens to them.
*those were her words. I felt them about five hours into playing it.
**okay, it may be too soon to tell on this one. But I bet it will be on some end-of-the-year lists.
***showed my age here, BIG TIME
PushingUpRoses made her review and released it upon the world, sharing her latest obsession, a game that made her "ass sore"*. It was that kinda game, it gave you blinders to anything else going on in your life. If playing at the wrong time, then it would be a fatal choice. You look up and see that the time has flown, not just in the game, but in reality. And you are late for work.
I am thankful to say that I hadn't been late to work due to anything like a game (or even a book, since that can also happen... if the Internet is to be believed), but man alive... I lost several weekends over to this game.
That game is none other than Stardew Valley.
I actually heard about this game, but saw nothing nor pursued anything on it. It was a title I heard around some circles, saying it was this mishmash of Harvest Moon (which I hadn't played, but my sister had) and Farmville (which I would NEVER play, but my mother did). Funny, those types of games never interested me, but what did it for Stardew Valley? Man, I wish I can tell you. Perhaps that it's more simplified or different, I dunno. But I enjoy the eff out of it. I'm over 50 hours in and already got a wine-and-cheese business going, along with a marriage to the town doctor and raising our firstborn son.
Since playing, I have learned that this game was the work of one man, there is a massive modding community (the game is barely two months old!), and is possibly one of the best games out this year**. It is worth its weight in gold, being only a mere fifteen bucks on Steam. It's not like Farmville where you buy things to progress along with real cash. As for Harvest Moon, I still have no clue.
I have since gotten my mother hooked on the game. We spent the better part of this afternoon with the game, me with my own file and helping my mother along with her own (mainly teaching her, since she is new to computer gaming of this level). It's not everyday I bond with my folks over a video game. Scratch that... that hadn't happened since we got an Atari 2600 and played Pac-Man and Sub-Scan. That was almost twenty years ago. Damn***.
I'm unsure if I want to recommend this game to others. Not that it's bad or anything (far from it!), but do I want others to lose weekends like I've had?
I guess that is up to them. Ain't my fault if it happens to them.
*those were her words. I felt them about five hours into playing it.
**okay, it may be too soon to tell on this one. But I bet it will be on some end-of-the-year lists.
***showed my age here, BIG TIME
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