Shortie

Fighting bosses in games has always been my favorite part of any game, especially if it's a new game I am playing and I am on that learning curve of having to work out the best strategy to defeat a boss. The only gripe I have with some bosses in games is that some of them will be so difficult that you can spend hours just trying to defeat them. If they are really difficult and you find yourself playing for hours, trying to work out a strategy that would work but you get more frustrated as you try, I find myself just getting burned out on the game and leaving it. Games that get that sweet spot for a boss are the ones I adore.

I myself hate to take breaks from games unless I really do have to due to maybe burnout or just frustration. The number of games in the past I have started to play and then left part way through and then when I have gone back, I am so lost as to what I was doing or what I had to do, it ends up being off putting and I tend to go away from the game because I left it at an awkward part. I am someone who when I play a game, likes to get in the groove, work my way through the game and just try and complete it in one sitting if I can so that I don't have the worry of forgetting things or the confusion of what I was doing. I hate to start a game and then just not want to go back to it after a break.

It would have to be Grounded for me. I started playing Grounded back in 2020 when they released it early access for people on Game Pass and I spent hours just playing the game, trying to work everything out. I got to the point where I found it so overwhelming and wasn't fully getting the gist of what I needed to do that I gave up and I have never gone back. I now see so many playing it and they love the game and seem to find it so easy to know what to do in it but still to this day, I myself am still at a loss as to what the aim is of the game. It's probably something so simple but I just couldn't get my head around it.

I often question myself why when it comes to voice overs for characters in a game, they are so limited some of the time. I often sit and go through the voice overs multiple times when I create a character because it's so difficult to choose as there is only so many and I always feel like they lack something, but I can never really put my finger on what. Hopefully one day we can see a better range of voice overs for characters so that there is something more unique for everyone rather than just the usual normal basic ones we sometimes get in games now.

When it comes to an MMO community, something I always feel it should have is a community of people who will agree and work together as a team to complete the tasks or the task at hand. There is nothing worse than having a group of people in an MMO who don't agree, and you end up with so many problems where it can get quite stressful. Unfortunately, you will always get a few bad apples in MMO's who will make playing the game difficult which is a shame as it ruins it for everyone else. I always say if you can meet and get to know a group of people and build up a community of people who all want to enjoy the game without issues, go for it and do that.

I myself always used to worry when my laptop or even my PC would kick off with the fan going crazy when I was doing anything heavy. I used to worry that my PC was getting ready to just give up on me because of how hard the fan was pushing itself, after a while I got used to it and realized it was doing what it was supposed to which was help keep my PC cool whilst I was doing things such as gaming. It's nice to have something there even if it's just the fan kicking up to know that your PC is doing something so that you are aware to not do too much and possibly cause it to crash out.

I'd say in the beginning for the launch they didn't get everything right. They had a lot of issues on launch, and they had a lot missing such as co-op which many were looking forward to. After it was released last year, I started to play it but I found myself not enjoying it as much as I had enjoyed previous Halo games, felt like something was missing and I was a huge fan of the games prior to infinite being released. Fast forward to a year since they released, and it seems to have got better. I have yet to jump on and check the updates myself, but many are saying with the latest update it's a lot better than it was. Definitely going to be checking it out soon just to see how much better it is than on release. They may have had a bad release and let people down, but it seems they may have redeemed themselves.

I am super looking forward to the new chapter we are getting on the 4th of December. The current chapter and season we are in now which is chapter 3 season 4 will end on the 3rd of December with a one-time event, they are already teasing it and it is getting a lot of hype. In the past seasons have ended and then the new season or chapter is released the next day. We still have 10 days to go for the event, but I am super excited for it and cannot wait to see what Epic are bringing to Fortnite next. I have heard that we will be getting first person, motorcycles and animals that we can ride on that fly. If all that is true, it's going to be amazing to see!

With a game like Rumbleverse I can fully see where you would be able to bring in WWE Wrestlers into it and it would definitely be fun to see Pro Wrestlers come into the game. Of course, they would have to get rights from the companies such as WWE or even AEW, but I feel if they could come to some kind of arrangement, it would be great for both parties to bring them to the game. I myself have played Rumbleverse a few times and I will admit, with how the game is played, having wrestlers in the game would work amazingly.

For playing alone it would definitely have to be single player games, but I will admit that multiplayer games can also be played alone with the solo modes or free for all that you get in multiplayer modes. In terms of playing with others I would definitely have to say online multiplayer, but you can also play story games with other people as well or even local play with a friend in the same room. There are so many ways you can play games so there is always a great way of you being able to meet new people or hang out with the friends you already know.

For me I can play around 2 games at the same time before it gets too much. I feel if I have too much going, I just confuse myself and then it gets too much, and I just give up with all so 2 games at the same time is the sweet spot for me. The only problem I have is having a huge backlog of games that I need to play but haven't had the time to do so, hopefully one day I will get through the backlog but for now, we just keep playing.

Yes, I am someone who is in agreement that playing games helps develop skills. There are so many different ways in which gaming can help with skills. Co-ordination is one of them. I remember when I first started playing more games where I had to follow a mini map to get around places, I struggled at first but the more and more I got used to it, the more I learned how to follow those maps without running into issues so that was a new skill I learned. Also, communication skills. Gaming online especially can help with your social skills. I myself have social anxiety but I have found that the more I have spoken to people online the better I have got at it and it's really helped.

No, I feel if I am going to be playing the game, I want everything that happens in the game to be unknown until it happens. Sometimes when a character dies in a game, especially when it's a game I really enjoy I do feel a little upset but that is all about being drawn into the story and that is what I play the games for. I remember in Destiny 2, Cayde was one of the characters that eventually passed away and I was pretty gutted by that, I didn't know prior that he was going to die and it really drew me into the story line.

Yes, I have played many games just like this where when I have found something, I know it was something I would have needed further on in the game. It's all part of what those kinds of games are about though so I guess that is why I expect it when I play them. It's the ones that I find early and then have to keep for a while during the game because I didn't need them for the longest time bug me.

I have been in quite a mess with what games to play at the moment. Fortnite is great but I am now waiting for a new season, well the new chapter so I haven't been playing that a whole lot like I was. At the moment I have been jumping between Overwatch 2, Roblox, Fortnite and Destiny 2. I am super excited for the Christmas events to start coming out on games, so I am also waiting for that as well as they are always fun.

I once bought GTA V for £5 (roughly $6) from a store where I live. Being that GTA IV wasn't a game I fully enjoyed I was reluctant to spend a huge amount on GTA V if I am honest and I waited until it was at a great price. Being that I also had a £5 voucher as well for the store I purchased it from, I never paid anything out of pocket for the game. I mainly got it due to the fact I had seen people playing the online side of things and I got interested. I haven't played it as much as I thought I would to be honest, so I am glad it didn't cost me much out of pocket. My eldest son though has played the heck out of it so that was a bargain.

A few years ago, I would have said a cat and now we have a game where we can play just as that and that is stray. I am not sure if there has ever been a game where you are a dog. That would be interesting, playing a game as a dog but playing from being a puppy and growing up from that. Other than that, I would love to play a game as an insect, I feel that would be very interesting.

For me it would definitely have to be Destiny 1. I remember that being released around the time I had my operation to have my gallbladder removed and having access to that game helped pass the time I had to spend in bed resting up after the operation. If it wasn't for Destiny 1 I would probably have struggled with my recovery after my operation, that game really did suck me it and it was so addictive. I now spend a lot of time on Destiny 2 as well.

As a kid I used to have a lot of cart-based games, but I will be honest, I never thought to hide anything in these at all and I never knew anyone who did either, so this is new to me that people used to hide things within the cartridges. Not going to lie though, that is a really great idea and something I wish I had of thought of now. The number of times my brothers would steal money from me because they knew where I stored it was shocking, this would have prevented it.

When it comes to the release of a game, I always go by how excited I am for the game and how confident I am the game is going to be good before I purchase it. Usually, a first-time purchase of a game is very rare, especially within the first week of it releasing unless I know it's a game that I would definitely enjoy. I tend to wait a few weeks to see game play or reviews on the game if I am unsure and will then purchase it if I feel I will enjoy it. Other times I will wait for a price drop of the game before I purchase.

Yes, I do watch game play videos on YouTube but usually the only time I do this is if I am struggling with a part of a game and would like to see a walkthrough of the area I am struggling with. The last game I used walkthroughs on YouTube for was Destiny 2 and it was to complete quests I had as part of the Witch Queen expansion. Without those walkthroughs I would have been stuck for a while.

As much as I know these are an option for you to use which is supposed to be easier on the eyes and to help you sleep after gaming and using it, it's never been something I have ever used or will use. I prefer to be able to see my game as it's intended, and I honestly have not found any difference myself when using blue light over just having it set normal for me, so it doesn't seem worth it to change it when I game.

I often question why game developers will choose to not have a difficulty setting on their games, especially when some of them make the default setting difficult. That often leads me to just lose interest in the game if I am honest. I prefer to go on the normal difficulty of a game and then play through the game, get used to it, get to know the game before going up a level of difficulty. When the difficulty is just set for me and I can't change it, if I struggle, I just leave it and don't bother going back. It's a very odd choice to have no difficulty settings and I am glad it's not a normal thing for all games.

I'll be honest, with the last few years being quite stale for new releases of games or with games that I have been excited for not being as good as I expected when they released and instead being quite a letdown, I haven't looked as far as 2023 for games at the moment. I am hoping that there is some good games though and I look forward to announcements made for next year, I am really hoping that we get out of the stale stage of game releases and start getting some good releases that are not disappointing.

If you can get a group of friends who all get on and you all enjoy gaming together on a regular basis, then that is a great way to be able to start out a clan. I myself used to co-own a clan with a friend and we had a group of friends that we gamed with that were part of the clan. We had a ton of fun playing on a nightly basis and found it was quite chill to run the clan with the friend I was running it with. I also a few years ago used to own another clan with my other half but due to everyone moving away from gaming and into work or other things IRL the clan soon died off. I would definitely create another clan in a heartbeat though if I had the right friends to hang with who wanted to be part of the clan.