I launched Destiny 2 for the first time in two weeks or so. I did enough events to get enough FWC tokens to turn in for an engram. Then realized I wasn’t actually having fun and turned it off.

It’s not a problem with Destiny. I think I’m just less interested in that type of game now. I thought I wanted to care about earning new gear, but I currently super don’t care. I was all excited to earn the FWC ornaments for my Hunter because they look cool, but grinding out Destination activities is like opposite of fun for me right now. I wish they’d go back to the old faction system so when I actually do play, I can still be building rep for drops, rather than forcing it to limited time events that turn the game into a chore.

Anyway. I’ve been home sick for the past two days. I played quite a bit of Assassin’s Creed Origins yesterday. Today I’ve been jumping around, and nothing is doing it for me so far. Started Bloodborne, but a few things are preventing me from engaging with it. The first is that I’m planning on jumping into Monster Hunter next week, and there’s no way I’ll finish Bloodborne by then. The other is that Dark Souls remastered is coming in a few months, and I need a significant break between those games. I never finished the first Dark Souls, and I’m really looking forward to going back to it, so I think Bloodborne will have to wait.

I fired up the Telltale Batman game since it was free on PS+ a while back, but I didn’t even make it through the menu before I realized that I fundamentally just don’t care enough to play it.

I lost my Zelda save on Switch, so I started that again today and might keep going through that.

It’s a weird time that comes around every so often where no game really feels right at the moment.

• Busy with work & not even wanting to do anything other than vegg out in front of netflix for a bit.
• Playing a little Super Mario World with my kids.

That's the entirety of my free time. I want more gaming, but I just haven't got up the motivation to go turn on the ps4.

My Destiny 2 fireteam now engages in different nightly rituals. For me and one friend, we Fortnite like there's no tomorrow (we won a squads game last night as a duo!). Another of our friends is playing Diablo 3, which makes me die a little inside every time I see him on. Our fourth hasn't logged on in a month. The fifth is apparently ensconced in his Nintendo Switch, which makes me both jealous of his amazing Mario and Zelda times, and also sad that he's not in chat with us. And the sixth has been playing Madden. And he doesn't even *like* sports.

Where are you folks now? Still beating the Destiny 2 Drum? Exploring other parts unknown?

Last night I re-installed The Division because I've heard it's much improved. I'm gonna verify those claims tonight. Dark times we live in.

No dark times here. I try to make a point of ignoring the negativity I see on the internet. (Some of it seeps in here I guess, but I still do my best to ignore it.)

Love D2. The quality of life improvements mostly overcome some deficits like less interesting gear (and honestly the fact that it doesn't cause me the anxiety about "keeping up" like D1 did greatly improves the quality of my REAL life). I continue to play it when I can. Mostly raids, which remain the most fun I've had playing video games.

I do admit that I am perusing my list of games. Thinking about playing Battlefield 1. Still want to play Wolfenstein: the New Order so I can play the new one (but I'm a little worried the new one might take itself too seriously).

I am curious about the Division based on some recent reevaluations I've read. Regardless, I think I just want to buy it cheap, play the campaign with a buddy or two, then bow out of the progression stuff. Don't have time for two "lifestyle" games.

inb4 Korny, but it does do a lot of stuff just right.

Dark times we live in.

It's okay to not be playing a Bungie game 24/7.

Even if Destiny 2 was fantastic I wouldn't have time. That said, I did spend an hour today looking at the best MW-DXing radios I can buy. So that's an hour wasted.

I almost watch Narc and Blackstar play games and argue with Jilly on Sundays, and I run the observatory on Wednesdays for my astronomy club. Beyond that I have no life and do nothing.

Dark times we live in.

Umm...

Another world, another time, in the age of wonder. A thousand years ago, this land was green and good - until the Crystal cracked.

Anyway. For having dropped two rather large (I would hope generally constructive if critical) essays on my feelings for Des2ny I play it quite a bit. However, I'm playing it more as I did the last half of my time with Dest1ny. It is still the most comfortable shooter on the market, so it gets points there, and I don't feel I have to do any one thing.

But in the rest of my time? Still attempting to massage Genesys to support an action-narrative Destiny setting. Slow progress. Periodic trips in Unexplored and Skyrim on the Switch when I'm tired of regular seating round out most of my time playing games. But it's all short bursts around everything else a new year brings. Like work.

I have Mario+Rabbids queued up and a new copy AC:New Leaf, if that one friend who still plays ever has time available at the same time. MH World and Far Cry 5 are coming up soon, so those will be other diversions.

But I don't think I'll put D2 down. Albeit, I don't really do anything with it on console lately.

Maxiiiine, Maxiiine...Maxiiine...Where are you now?

(sigh)

Anyway...

as the title says, I've been going back to Destiny 1 on good weeks—in fact, I was planning on making a post pleading to bring specialty raids back, for nostalgia's sake. We should get into doing that regularly!

More and more often the strikes have Burns on, and you know how I get. Back in the day it was extremely rare and super talented to have someone finish a Nightfall strike by themselves.

Now I do it almost every week. Just got this today!

As for backlogs, I consider myself lucky to have only 100 games, most of them done.

These are all the games I hope on having either beaten or made some considerable achievement progress on by the end of January.

I've got a while to go, though! However, I do occasionally check on Destiny 2. Rarely.

I've also been playing Fortnite and always looking for squad friends.

When not playing D2, I play a lot of PUBG. Even with all of it warts, I am really liking it. I got one Solo Chicken Dinner and a couple of Duo. Gun play is atrocious and I can't kill much. Sneaking around is my forte and had me sitting at the top 10 dinner table many times. I certainly played my $30 worth and none of the content has been denied me.

The over 50-60 gang are still plugging away at D2 Raid and Raid Lair. Twice a week at two hours each. I keep up on my weekly Milestones too, for the most part.

I expect to play more World of Tanks and Titanfall 2 soon.

Still playing D2 in small bites. I've been tinkering in my garage most nights. I built a homemade CNC and just fired up a might as well be homemade at this point laser engraver. I want to build my own 4 axis CNC as well and add a rotary table to the laser. After that I'll probably get started on a plasma table.

I recently acquired a new gaming PC, so I've been putting it through its paces by seeing just how gorgeous it can make Destiny 2 look. I have not been disappointed. I've played the game on an Xbox One X with a 4K, HDR display and I honestly don't notice any difference when going back to my regular Xbox One and 1080P screen, but going from 30 FPS on console to a fairly steady 144 FPS on PC just feels so damned good! It still annoys me when I reach a cutscene and it drops to 30, though. I was really hoping they might have gone with 60 FPS for the Osiris scenes, but no luck. The game also crashes every time I reach the 2nd outside area of the Exodus Crash (fitting) strike, but I'll figure that out eventually.

I also snagged a bunch of stuff during the Steam Christmas sale to throw at the new rig once I've got time. At the top of the list (in no particular order) are Doom, Firewatch, Life is Strange: Before the Storm, & Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. I also backed Obduction on Kickstarter forever ago, so I'll probably go through that now that I can crank the graphics settings all the way up.

Back on console, I'm occasionally playing PUBG because the friend who left Destiny 1 for the lack of story and Destiny 2 for "imbalanced PvP" now prefers a buggy shooter that was ported to Xbox by a team that's obviously never even seen a console shooter before and has no story whatsoever.

-Disciple

So I bought The Division over the Black Friday sales and have been really loving it so far. Even though it's all covered in snow, I really love playing in the New York map. The Dark Zone mode is amazing to play with a team, and while I think I could like some of the PVP stuff, I'm still too underpowered to play it effectively. Really love the many different options of playing that game though, and hoping to finish the main story before the end of January as time allows.

If you play on Xbox hit me up Kahzgul, or Kermit, if you get the game, hit me up as well! It's what I've been playing the most these days.

- MacGyver10

I had an out-of-nowhere urge to play the Crysis 2 campaign again this week, which I haven't touched since 2012.

I played through the opening levels last night, and was reminded of the mini-review I wrote for it when I first finished it: "Pretty Graphics, Dumb Enemies". The number of AI/pathfinding bugs I encountered was staggering. Still fun as a run and gun shooter, though, and it looks quite nice for a 360-era game, barring a ton of animation popping.

I intend to finish it again.

Would love to play with folks if anyone is playing on PC

Last new game I bought was Gundam Versus..but I haven't streamed a game since my replay of Skies of Arcadia last month.

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Destiny to still probably accounts for majority of my video gaming time, especially now that I’m building up a second character on Xbox. I’d really like to get the elite mode raid and the new mini raid done on PS4 but there’s so few people but I can never seem to make the scheduling work. Probably, by the time I’m leveled up nobody will be playing on Xbox either. Timing was never necessarily my forte.

As always I bought a bunch of games for Christmas that I still haven’t even touched. I’ve played some Mario kart on the switch.

I’m still playing tighten fall mostly on Xbox one now.

Wondering why my two favorite games from two years ago (Destiny and Madden) now seem to be hostile towards their player base.