Money has nothing to do with it, other than the money I'd lose from being fired for not going to work because I played MMOs til 4 in the morning and refused to get out of bed until it was time to play more MMOs. Nearly torpedoed myself in college that way.
I feel you SO much there. My biggest investment right now is either Destiny or Diablo, and both of those are ones you can put down for a month at a time and pick back up without missing TOO much.
It helps a lot if you aren't in any groups where people expect you to schedule time to grind content with them. Been thinking I should make a guild in FF14 for casual and social players for mainly this reason. It's fucking sad when I group with randos that seem like they're trying to make this game into work. And for drops that won't matter at all since I've just started doing dungeons
Heck, I was saying this back when @GasBandit was still playing Overwatch—you just can’t get anywhere by yourself in games today. All the “best” stuff is going to be locked behind obstacles that require you to be part of a (coordinated) team or else be preternaturally skilled at the game, either of which means giving hundreds of hours of your life to the game every month. You can’t just PvE your way to glory any more, because the consummate try-hards whine and complain “GG2EZ” all the time and force the devs to cater to that elite 1%.
Yeah and I am nowhere close to that point in this game. I've never played any online game enough to get to that grind and I see people at my level doing it anyway
The 'best' gear in FF14 actually doesn't really matter all that much. People do it for the fashion. Yeah, there is hardcore raiding if you want to do that, but there's also just story progression raiding where you can ignore the hard mode if you choose and still enjoy yourself. Hell, you can even craft the top end gear yourself if you're a master crafter and that's how you choose to engage with the game.
Not even one... I was playing Rimworld constantly until yesterday afternoon
And I'll probably go back to it tonight.
Man I feel like playing another campaign now.
Oh this is ticking a lot of boxes for me. Rimworld looked like something where I would enjoy the mechanics/systems at play but I just wasn't feeling the setting so I haven't bought it yet
I can understand that. Rimworld is a story generator disguised as a colony management sim/RTS hybrid set in a sci-fi space-western dystopia where far-future and neolithic tech societies collide and stories are largely generated by strife, tragedy, and struggle all coming under a "space western" look and feel. Any aspect of that could make it fall off someone's radar, but they all flip my switches.
Most of the early story campaigns don't involve your legacy characters. Those come along in the later campaigns. You will make a very large stock of legacy characters by the end. There are some good mods already for the game too, for the art, size of the campaigns, and more.
I'm already snagging mods! So far I've got:
I have the Procedural Campaign Variants, which lets you do the very difficult 7 chapter campaigns. That was my main suggestion. I have a different hair pack and a beard pack as well. I've added Expanded Humans: History, which I didn't notice much in my last play through. I also have Hero Training, which I never took advantage of because I was barely keeping up with the baddies in my 7 chapter campaign. And I have Legacy Children, which never triggered.I'm already snagging mods! So far I've got:
Procedural Campaign Variants
More Peacetime Variety
Ficeny's Hair Pack
Love is in the Air
and... uh.. Glamazon Adventuremart
Do you have any suggestions for other mods to use?
I enjoyed that game, though didn't get to play it to the extent you did. I really miss DAoC at times though.
WO could have been the DAOC2 we all wanted (and it came close)... but then EA smelled money.
Nuka-World is my favorite FO4 DLC. I recognize it's got flaws, but I just love going through the individual parks, each with their own quirks. I also like how Nuka-World has some of the most powerful weapons in the whole game.
Huh. I'll have to look for those. I came equipped and haven't picked up any new weapons yet. I do have my eye on some lovely Nuka-Cola power armor thought.
It's ok to like things that aren't popular or critically acclaimed. I prefer the themes of something like new vegas, and I am addicted to gambling so it would be nice if every game had blackjack, but making people explode is fun too
4's got some weird design choices that I don't understand at all, like the hardcoded four dialogue choices and limiting the perk list by assigning them all to a stat level, but the action does play a lot better and the modular gun crafting could be expanded to generate some diablo style loot. Wouldn't mind new vegas getting ported into 4 at all
