Video Game haul

 Well, like I mentioned, I have been busy with my new job. So that has been fairly demanding in that there has been a lot to learn and I have been having to do a significant amount of problem solving on a daily basis. It can also be physically demanding because although on 3rd shift I am allowed to sit, during day shifts we have to stand and standing for 8 hours is more taxing than I realized. There has also been some issues with sleep schedule stuff and having to be awake during the day for some stuff. So overall I feel like I have been working pretty hard these last few weeks. So I decided to splurge and buy a haul of video games even though there is no big sale going on Steam. (There is a big sale going on Epic but I have a strong preference for buying on steam). In my haul I bought one game that had just released which is also unusual for me (Forza 6). So overall I spent significantly more than I have in the past. But part of that is that I had to switch my store back to the US store and prices are higher in the US. (This is the reason they have a lot of restrictions on region switching.) So, all told ,I got planescape torment, Ghost of Tsushima, the alters, blue prince, forza 6, indiana jones and the great circle, anno 117 pax romana, atomfall, tainted grail: the fall of avalon, memoriapolis.

So a couple of those are more action oriented games, particularly Ghost and Indiana Jones. I have a strong tendency to lean toward cerebral games. But sometimes I feel that I really like action games. I played all three of the most recent Tomb Raider games and enjoyed them. And sometimes I feel like cerebral video games feel like a bit of a paradox because in some ways with a lot these strategy games that I am attracted to I just feel really mixed about investing the time to actually learn how to play properly and stuff.  That being said, playing Ghost of Tsushima has reminded me that I am not very good at these kind of action games where you have to have some actual physical skills like remembering how to do things under pressure and quick reflexes and stuff like that. I generally tend to play games on medium difficulty when I have a choice. A lot of times playing on easy feels silly and I am nowhere near good enough to play on hard. So I don't know. At my age I will probably never be a champion video game swordsman, but I definitely feel like I can improve if I put some effort in.

But that is kind of the trick. Finding games that I am willing to invest the effort in. For some reason I tend to feel like Go and Chess, and to some extent Magic are worth investing effort in. But a lot of times with video games I just feel I hit the limit a lot sooner of questioning "why am I doing this?" or "I don't really want to be bothered" instead of just plowing ahead. 

 But anyways... I also bought a cool blue controller to play the action games with. So we will just have to see. I was reading one of my gaming notebooks from earlier this year or the end of last year and it was saying my priority would be go but I would like video games to be the option to take a break from that. Hard to say. I have a fairly large collection of video games but I haven't really sunk all that much time into actually playing those games. Only time will tell if that changes or if I continue to collect without playing much.