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And in the category of (video)games I won’t ever start playing unless I’m sure I can play until I am done : Civilization

That game literally has me going “one more turn” from  start to finish.
I do play on the lowest possible difficulty setting, because what I really want is to crush my enemies and hear the lamentations of their women. It does suck that nukes have been removed from the latest iterations of the series. In Civ 1 you could actually use them and turn enemy capitals to dust (which also caused a lot of fallout that you had to clean up).

I liked the modern Xcom series, but boy did it take ages to finish that one and survive the final stage. The turn-based combat was fun, but the overall campaign had difficulty spikes that were no fun at all. Especially the first ‘terror’ mission.

I do have to admit that it’s been more than a year since I’ve played a game that was fun from start to finish. Cyberpunk 2077 definitely fit that bill. It had just enough downtime between story missions that it didn’t become a grind. I haven’t started ‘Phantom liberty’ yet, because I am kind of ‘done’ with the game myself. They did change the core mechanics quite a bit in a recent patch, so maybe there’s a chance I play again in the future if I can get the add-on for free and/or I’m bored enough that I want to play again.

The Forza-series (used to be) fun as it was a mix of open world and racing. However it kind of lost it’s magic through the years. I think the biggest loss was the complete lack of engine damage. In the first iterations you could overrev the engine at the start and damage it …

The biggest issue is that I’ve just don’t have the time to play huge games with long campaigns any more. It’s kind of why I didn’t finish Witcher 3 and why I haven’t even gotten Baldurs’ Gate 3. I’m also not a fan of combat as a means of progressing through a roleplaying game. I prefer to have alternate options of solving encounters.

Last week I kind of predicted that I would do f*ck all for hobby despite having an entire week to myself.
Tomorrow I’m visiting my nephew as the kid had his birthday this week. And monday it’s back to work for me.

ooh … just remembered that next weekend is one of the two tabletop gaming conventions I can visit.
So there’s definitely something to do. Not sure what hobby I can do, but I can definitely wait for some kickstarter to arrive (Port Royal is still en route despite not having tracking updates for a week …).