Pointless rambling

I did mention something about trying to actually post regulary here. It's been a week since the last post and I really don't have any thoughts to ventilate at this point, but I'll talk a bit about some things instead.

This week hasn't really been dedicated to Mass Effect at all. I did finish the final part of the LP last sunday and it was uploaded later on on monday so I guess that's really the only related news in that department. I'll probably dedicate an entire post to ventilate my thoughts properly about the whole ordeal later on.

So what have I played instead? Well, two titles I've anticipated heavily both got released this week, even on such a fitting day as my birthday: Saints Row The Third and AC: Revelations. I've mainly been focusing on playing the former, dedicating some 12 hours to it over the week, which actually feels quite a lot for me. I very seldom find myself playing games for that long anymore.

I do enjoy long games though. That grand feeling of there being so much to do that I'll be spending as much as days on a single product, that's usually when it also feels like it was worth the price and those 49.99 or so Euro spent become trivial. I usually relate to that actually. Dividing the cost by amount of hours played. I bought ME2 for full price at 59.99 (Digital Deluxe) and have spent 134 hours with it. That equals roughly a cost of 46 cent per hour. A far better value than some other games I've later felt buyers remorse over buying for full price, like Dead Island or The Witcher 2, their sum equaling less than 10 hours of playing at a cost of almost 100 euro.

And then you suddenly feel bad for pirating two games like Persona 3 & 4 and emulating them on your computer only to end up with over 200 hours played altogether. But hey, at least they've convinced me that I'll buy any future product in that series for full price, I almost feel obliged to do that. Some developers are defenitely worth supporting and a smaller one like Atlus seems like a good choice.

And while I am still talking about wasting time, let's go into World of Warcraft. A game I've played for 6 years, with breaks included we'll round it down to 5. It happens to have a lot of costs on the side though, including monthly costs and microtransactions as well as buying new expansions. It's a bit scary to think about how much money has been thrown into that. Still, I defenitely enjoyed the time I had with the game and not the modern day abomination that is Cataclysm. Still, lots of money spent but an almost scary amount of time spent as well. If we disregard it as a social hub of sorts, because let's face it, it's defnitely possible to login just to socialize or not do anything special at all with it. Lots of "dead time" in that sense but we're talking around 300 days played scattered out over those 5 years. That equals playing it for at least 45 minutes a day every day for 5 years.

I don't like where this blog entry is going, I have no idea why I'm writing this or why I think it's a good idea to write an entry without any actual direction in it.

Content-wise I'm not sure what to do with the channel at this point. An impression like video of Saints Row The Third is something I've thought about, so that idea might come to frutition eventually. Anyhow, I'll write something later on again, see ya then.