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  • What is a Cosy Game?

    After reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, I’ve been really interested what defines a cosy game. Gaming has been a part of my life in some way or another through the years, though not a huge part. But a big reason was because of the change of tech in the mid 2010’s. In any case, this term of Cosy Game popped up in the book, and I think I know what it means, but I’m not really sure.

    I’m still curious into what it really means, so I’ve been googling Cosy Games, and just seeing what they’re like. Currently, I don’t think I totally understand what it means. Playstation had a monthly challenge to “play a cosy game” and there was Dave The Diner. That was a game I had added into my list of games to play, because it sounded like Moonlighter, but in the real world.

    So perhaps what I understand as cosy game is also part of the graphic styles, and it’s something palatable. In my head, I think Animal Crossing would be a cosy game. It looks cute, it’s got easy game play, nothing too difficult but running around and just solving different peoples things, catching things, things like that.

    In a way, I guess Pokemon was that to me. Something simple, catching, nothing too difficult. But it’s a turn based RPG. So I don’t know.

    All this being said, I finally turned on Fallout 4 this week, and I think my gaming life is going to be very focused for the next few months. I really miss the extensive scope of what the game brings. I’m glad I skipped the whole Fallout 72, because I heard it was mad bad. But then again, I didn’t play it and I’m happy playing around with Fallout. I was slightly tempted to turn my Xbox360 back on again just for Fallout3. But we’ll see if we get there or not.

    Gaming, as another new angle to my stories and interests again? Maybe!

  • Options and Choices: an overload of gaming options.

    I’ve been really stuck deciding where I should publish my thoughts, and if they should even be published at all. But I find this as my safest place, because it is, after all, my blog. I don’t have to worry about the theme, or the direction, or anything else in specific because I have total say in what I think I ought to be publishing here.

    That being said, I still think about the visibility, and how it might be read or perceived, but statistically, the site monitoring says that there’s so little people reading this and it shouldn’t matter at all. So it’s cool, and I’m alright.

    I’ve been thinking about the range of consoles and devices that I have around me. I am playing a lot of them, but the rotation of games, and the lack of free time I’ve been having has really limited the amount of gameplay I get. I could definitely squeeze in a game during travel, or just playing a lot more, but I do need my breathing space. I need my down times to think, and sometimes having a game to take up that thinking space really makes it less enjoyable.

    At the same time, which game do I play? Should I finish all my games to 100%, or should I work on those that have been in the library for decade (literally for some games)? Should I play something popular, or should I replay an older game that I’ve always replayed because I just enjoy it that much more?

    I’m still deciding the priority, and honestly I’m wasting more time on the indecision. I should just sit down to play a game, and at those times, I end up replaying games a lot more.

    Does that mean that I should just stop buying new games and just playing old games until they’re settled? I am uncertain. Sometimes a game that I have wanted to play goes on cheap all of a sudden. I buy it, and then I have another game that is unplayed for another period of time. Perhaps I should really just finish older games before I get new ones!

    These thoughts have affected the way that I think about the rest of the things I have. I do collect a lot of stuff, and because of the type of things I get, they don’t necessarily break apart. More than that, I actually maintain things quite well so they do last longer than they’re supposed to.

    I enjoy retail therapy as well, and that leads me to spending a lot on things that I don’t really need, but I want to have at some point. I don’t think it’s the best thing to do, especially with limited resources, but sometimes I feel like I can’t help myself. With the help of my wife, I’m slowly unwinding from this, although I feel it’s taking a bit longer than I would have wanted to.

    Anyway, I’m writing all this, because I’ve got a few devices around me right now, and I can’t decide what I should do next. This is really the effects of the sin of overbuying and indecision. What a complication we have let ourselves go through in this process…

  • A Bit of Gaming History : Humble Bundle

    Since I’ve been gaming a bit more these days, I’ll share a little about how gaming used to be years ago. I’ve been quite inspired by a gaming podcast, and I think it’ll be fun to share what I used to do.

    I was a broke kid, like every other broke kid out there. We’ve all gone through that time period when we were relying on our parents for cash and allowance, and then came the days when we were earning something of our own. As crazy as that sounds, we would then buy games with the little income we had, and starve for a good period of time. Or at least, I did that a lot.

    There was a point where I was trying to get the most amount of games for the best pricing. I mean why else would we try to buy games, if not to play them one day, if any day at all.

    I was also adamant that if I could afford games, I should be able to buy as original as possible, but with the biggest sale price. This meant that Steam Summer sales were really all the rage. It was quite fun because Steam would give you points and you could win a little bit of cash for clearing games and getting trophies or card packs.

    Then came along this amazing thing called Humble Bundle. The current Humble Bundle looks very different from what I was used to. It was a service that collated a bunch of games, and sold them to you at a bulk price. It was like maybe 5 games and it would be 5 bucks at minimum. Soon after that it was bundles of about maybe 20 games, and the game collection just kept on growing.

    I think one of the most fun parts of humble bundle was that it soon included comics and books, and I ended up reading a bunch of comics through that bundled means too.

    Eventually, it became a lot bigger, and the bundles were more expensive. Then they sold games at slightly cheaper prices to Steam itself, and I decided that I didn’t really need to hitch on Humble Bundle anymore. Also my steam library was way too big by then.

    I really enjoyed this process of getting games as well, because it was kinda curated for you. Some of my favourite podcasts were dying away slowly, the 1UP show and other older gaming podcasts, and I needed a fun way to find out new games that might pique my interest. It was good.

    Now, I feel old because there are just so many gaming studios, and so many types of games. It’s huge, and its great, but it’s too much for a person like me. I love indie games as much as I love big name triple A games, and it was nice to get an assortment that seemed dependable at that time.