I don’t know what I’m going to play. Goddammit. Probably Alien: Isolation if I’m lucky. I might pick up Nidhogg on the PS4. How about you?
The truth is I’ve been finding a little difficult to find time for games these days. Pretty depressing. Moving into a new house. Fixing stuff in the new house, working 50+ hour weeks, looking after a teething child, fighting my wife for the TV. It’s been hard times friends. I’m still only level 16 in Destiny.
LEVEL 16. WHAT THE HELL?
Even the weekends, during the day, are sorta out, since I don’t really want to be playing violent games when toddler is walking pointing at the ‘TEE-DEE’ when an Alien is ripping my guts out.
I need advice. Parents: how do you do it?
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Parents: how do you do it?
Simple. I never got married :3
As for me the season is really killing me and a lot of backup mucus is dripping down my throat and giving me a nasty chest cough. So I’m trying to overcome that by overdosing on lozenges.
For games I’m still working on Pokemon Y and Borderlands. I may try Alien: Isolation if I get better, since I don’t think I can fully enjoy that game while sneezing and coughing. Also started season 2 of Walking Dead and should probably knock that one out.
How do you do it? Schedule less violent games for when kids are around, or at least run the game through headphones. The lack of sound seems to remove a lot of the interest for the kids, and also (hopefully) makes the game have less of an impact.
…why you telling me?
LOL, good question 🙂
Don’t you mean Simple. I never had Sex?
Getting married doesn’t instantly mean kids.
I was going to say I use protection but thought that would come off as mean spirited.
“Put something on the end of it!” – Jeremy Kyle 2005
Remote Play. You need to find your charger, @serrels
I’m going to be playing South Park: The Stick of Truth. So, so good. I’m giggling all the time, even at the puerile stuff. My only complaint is probably that it relies too much on self-referential humour, rather than trying to create whole new jokes. But I can live with that when it’s still so fun.
EDIT: How do I do it? I went to bed at 2am this morning.
Mark, I think I saw something on the PAX schedule regarding your dilemma – there could be one or more panels around gaming as a parent?
What will I play? More PAX Pokémon prep (past 3000 eggs hatched now), Minecraft, maybe some more Far Cry 3 since I started that recently.
How are you enjoying Far Cry 3? Had any sweet takedowns of outposts that made you go, “YEAH!” and fist pump as the triumph music plays?
Not that I did that. Every. Single. Time.
Best takedowns so far actually on assassination missions – wait for the target to wander a little away from the group, come sprinting out of the bushes, takedown on the run, keep sprinting across the other side.
(Jump down gentle slope on other side of road, die from fall damage…)
Lol.
CIV.
All shall kneel before Polystralia!
By playing late night after kids and wife have gone to bed and staying up far later than I should only to curse myself the next day at work until later that night when the cycle repeats.
Life is a cruel mistress.
But totally worth it.
Completely.
I am not quite sure how it is done. I managed to finish the main story in Borderlands TPS and The Evil Within this week. I guess all we do is have a “one screen” rule in my house. So if my daughter is playing iPad, she cannot also be watching a movie or YouTube. The only exception is IMDB during a movie/TV, coz y’know … I am not a MONSTER.
Yeah… but refering to IMDB is taking away conversation!
Legend of Grimrock II, Mark. Legend of Grimrock II…
going to have to giv civ BE a go, Also been playing endless legend. So if BE doesnt turn out to be so great, ive got that to go back to, and perhaps some Destiny on sunday. got most of the weekend to my self, the missus is out tonight & tomorrow night
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Hey Mark. I have a 13 month old, and simply don’t sleep. 5hrs a night and my character is level 24.
So, yeah… Destiny this weekend. And coffee. So much coffee.
LOL No wonder you’re on at the hours you are. 🙂
No doubt catch you tonight then…
No doubt!
Im flying interstate for a date this weekend 🙂 But we are going to the ManaBar in Brissy so there will defs be some games goin on haha.
Most likely more Diablo 3 on the ‘Bone since I’m still waiting for Costume Quest 2.
Also, I started watching Gotham the other night so now I’m keen for some more Arkham Origins.
I finished costume quest 2 last night. If you loved the first one you will love this one
I’ve been buying the old Donkey Kong Country/Land games on WiiU/3DS VC and having a blast, so probably just those.
Today will be Shadow Of Mordor, tomorrow will be Bayonetta, and Sunday will be GTA San Andreas HD. Also gotta try and squeeze in some time with Forza Horizon 2 and DriveClub.
Borderlands: TPS cover sheet with friends, then a mix of SFIV Ultra, Kingdom Hearts: Re: Chain of Memories, Disgaea 4 and Etrian Odyssey Untold.
ARMA III free weekend if the download hurries the fuck up
While my wife is awake and playing with me: Destiny.
If my wife decides to start Alien: Isolation: Watch_Dogs or The Wolf Among Us
Other times: going to make a concerted effort to get into something on my 360 pile of shame. Maybe the Stick of Truth
I literally built the pile of shame on the floor last weekend. I categorised, prioritised, and found that South Park was right near the top. Playing it now and it’s great!
I recently (like 6 monthas ago) bought some new shelves from IKEA that now houses the bulk of our game/DVD/blu ray collection and from that I have extracted the key titles on 360 that I fully intend to play and set those on the old small DVD rack immediately next to the TV. It’s a modest 8 titles (with Stick of Truth among them) that represents about a third of the unfinished/unplayed games in my collection.
The others I have effectively written off as not important enough to get to. My wife has finished pretty much everything in our collection so the money wasn’t completely wasted, but my personal pile of shame is more like a bottomless pit.
Ah Mark why do I get the feeling you’re attempting to “enjoy” Destiny at your own pace? I usually do that with games I’m very excited for and I must warn you… There isn’t much waiting for you in Destiny when you do that. There is no cohesion to the storyline and all the vistas you’re probably breathing in… You’ll be seeing a LOT more of them once you hit 20…. I mean a lot lot more….
I highly recommend grinding out to 20 and starting your meta game… at which point you can get away with playing an hour or so a day which is the only way I manage during working days!
This is true. I love Destiny but savouring the story is pretty much a waste of time. Get to the end, get to level 20, then enjoy actually playing the game in short bursts since you’ll be rerunning missions/strikes etc for better gear. Find a friend to play with if you can, it’s a wonderful game to enjoy socially.
This.
I’m playing this awesome iOS game called 80 Days. It’s based on the Jules Verne novel and it’s awesome. It’s kind of like text-adventure gaming with a nice graphic overlay, and you have to make little choices and manage your route and resources as you try to get around the world in – wait for it – 80 days. I’m really enjoying it a lot.
Also will probably watch my boyfriend play more Shadow of Mordor. I’m thinking of starting my own game after he’s done, it’s pretty neat.
Shadow Warrior and The Evil Within. Love how old school Shadow warrior is, its great. Loving it.
Yeh, i didnt think my kids (3 and 5 years old) were paying much attention to my games, and then when i was playing Hitman: Absolution , Camryn (5) asks me, “Dad, why did you kill that man and put him in a box?”.
Now i have to watch what i play before their bedtime. Keep the harder stuff for later.
Shadow of Mordor, moral grey area, after all, they are evil orcs, not people 😛
Well ARMA 3 is free on Steam for the weekend so I’m going to try out the Battle Royale mod. Maybe play some Banished too.
It’s a busy weekend for me. I’ve got Civ: Beyond Earth out today (I’m going to be picking up my copy in a few hours) and Bayonetta 2 tomorrow. Between the two of them, I’m going to have my hands full, although I’ll probably still spare ten minutes a day to do a few daily tasks for my Pokémon Soul Silver Nuzlocke Run.
Well, I’ve just started Playthrough 2 of borderlands: The pre-sequel. Though I can’t find myself being interested in replaying content I played just days ago over again.
My brother did lend me Destiny for the PS4 so I might give it a go 🙂
Borderlands TPS on PC – I’m appreciating the Aussieness of the game, certainly very different to the usual gruff American white guy business! Also happy that a new AAA game is 1080p/60FPS locked on my PC at highest everything. Somewhat rare these days!
PS4 – Still going with Thief. I kept falling asleep whilst playing the Bank Heist DLC (only because I’ve had a boozy last few nights) and waking up finding that I had selected blunt arrows in my sleep and had aimed toward the ceiling…
PS3 – Borderlands 2, getting near the end of the main campaign and about to start the headhunter DLC and main DLC modules. Looking forward to Tiny Tina’s.
Vita – Hmmm… maybe some Miku?
2DS – Fire Emblem Awakening. Hitting my stride now. I managed to do a couple of missions without restarting due to deaths, but shaking my fist at the bizarre AI behaviour of some villagers that I’m meant to save but who seem to want to run TOWARDS danger 🙁
Oh god, saving those folks is one of the hardest things you can do in the early stages of Fire Emblem: Awakening. If it helps at all, saving them doesn’t really net you much, and if you’re playing classic FE then it really isn’t worth the trouble of risking your troops again and again for the sake of a few suicidal villagers.
If you do want to save them, you can always fly right up to them with Sumia or another aerial unit and use the Rescue option to keep them out of the fight. It means potentially exposing your characters to enemy monsters, but it’s by far the best solution if you want to keep the civilians alive.
I finally did it – only saved one, but it was enough to get the reward. I’m playing Hard Classic and just threw down everyone I could to run interference. Got incredibly lucky with a villager dodging a strike too. I’d already done it once but then the boss risen decided to kill Frederick and I could be having that!
Each villager that you save actually give you a reward apiece. However, since one of those rewards is actually just a log, it honestly isn’t worth your time to go back and try for a perfect run.
All the same, well done! You’ve completed one of the earliest frustrating chapters in the game.
We just finished costume quest 2 so maybe back in transistor
Considering trying to get back into sleepy dogs but I’m with you make. Even when I have time to game in short bursts the idea of a involved game is too draining.
Wolfenstein: new order- actually really reminds me of HL2, I’m doing the prison atm and the architecture and overall design are very reminiscent of city 17.
HoN – of course
Gauntlet 4 player hopefully, had 3 last time, fucking each other over is the best part of the game by far. Just good mindless fun.
Transistor: so different to Bastion, just starting to get into it.
Etrian Odessey 4: The grind is real.
Hopefully I get some time to play more of shadows of mordor.
Really enjoying it atm.
Have had the 10 year old watch me a few times now while I play it. Probably not the best parenting but as long as she knows it is not real and just fantasy I don’t see it as a problem. The other half would disagree but she was asleep at the time.
Eh I probably would have been about that age when I got my original playstation and played a lot of violent games on that, I haven’t gone to jail yet.
I still remember the first violent video game I played.
I was 8 and my old man asked me if I wanted to play a blood thirsty computer game. I replyed hell yeah and then got sat down in front of wolfenstien 3D.
bern playing violent computer games since and never had a police record
I’m mid way through chapter 11 in The Evil Within. I’ll be looking to finish it off this weekend as well as play some NBA2k15 (offline mode because my 5 online characters I spent real money on VC for just drop out constantly because 2k are a horrible company). My birthday is next week and I already know my girlfriend has picked up alien: isolation for me so I need to get through evil within this weekend so I can start on that next week. I’m enjoying the evil within though which I was a bit unsure of after some of the iffy reviews but I think they’ve been a bit unfairly critical of what is essentially a good game.
Alien Isolation and Shadows of Mordor.
I finally finished Alien, was a pretty good ride that dragged a little toward the end – so much so that I’m not sure I really want to return for the DLC. I think I might move on to Borderlands, or maybe I should just knock Evil Within off, but I don’t know. I might return to some of my back log, I really need to start playing Dark Souls 2, but that means REAL commitment. I usually spend most of my time looking at my huge list of games, and get sleepy from thinking about them too much.
Then there’s the console games…I really want to play some of my WiiU games, or finish Infamous, or, or….I’m tried.
I know what you mean. I’m not sure what it is but even though I really enjoyed the game I’m just not that psyched for a second playthrough or DLC. I’ve played worse games twice just for a difficulty achievement but I can’t seem to get into the mindset to play Alien at all.
I plan to play Shadow of Modor and perhaps pick up a copy of Alien Isolation but I seem to always end up playing Destiny *sigh* *hang my head and walk away*
Parents: how do you do it?
Schedule a lan over cup weekend at a mates – that’s about the only time outside of late nights that us as fathers game in our social circle. The lan is actually a ripper idea as we have 2 guys coming from interstate that we haven’t seen in nearly a year.
We’ll try and capture some of that lost Uni day feel good times.
Its a long way from gaming back in our teens or twenties.
I’ll be playing a mix of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Dark Souls, Civ V, and LOZ: Skyward Sword.
Civ: Beyond Earth. I’ve been building a science fiction setting in my head for years now and BE is giving me the tools to take it for a test run.
DRIVECLUB (you have to write it in all caps, right?)
I’ll be playing WoW. The new patch has a lot of good stuff to explore in it, and I have an annual date with
disappointmentthe Halloween event. Ten years of failure. TEN YEARS. Obviously something wrong with me, but that’s pretty remarkable for a game, at the same time.There will also be some Civ: BE, and Sleeping Dogs for a thus-far entertained audience.
How so you do it?
Get a cheap second TV for starters. Getting a 24″ for my office has been a relationship saver for me.
Probably Diablo 3 on Xbone. Gotta get my monk to level 70.
Have finished Shadow of Mordor and, while being a wrecking ball of orc-murdering destruction was very fun & satisfying, I don’t think I could go back to it straight away.
If I get really bored, I’ll jump on Destiny. Hurry up MCC/Dragon Age!
I think I’ll be able to finish off the last of Legend of Korra tonight. It’s a short, low budget brawler but I’ve really enjoyed it. I also got into the Fable Legends closed testing which I’m really looking forward too, even if it is only up on a crazy Euro schedule. Outside of that probably Kingdoms of Amalur and Destiny.
Going to finally try and beat the Destiny Raid tonight. Tomorrow gonna play some Titanfall with a group of friends; I picked it back up last weekend and its still fun as hell. I’ll make some room for Alien too.
Yeah I think your best bet would be remote play with the Vita but even then if your toddler is anything like mine then whatever you have in your hands the baby instantly wants that aslo. The only time I get game time in is when its sleep time for everyone else. @markserrels
STOP PRESS. Scratch everything I said about what I’ll be playing, I’ve just been informed that the Warframe ‘Archwing’ update goes live.
I WILL BE A SPACE NINJA FLYING AROUND IN SPACE WITH ROCKETS AND LAZORS
I’d expect I will be either button mashing in Project Diva F or grinding in Rainbow moon.
CIVILIZATION BEYOND EARTH!!!!
I’ll be finishing Space pirates and zombies ….in about 2 hours, then moving onto MORE of my steam backlog…yep, I’m already exhausted just looking at how many games I have on that list. Probably Timeshift.
Evil Within, Alien Isolation and Shadow of Mordor on my master race machine.
I get most of my gaming done between the hours of 10pm – 2am weekends. I too have young kids, work long hours and have to fight my wife for the TV, but I’ll gladly forgo a few hours sleep each weekend to catch up. This weekend I’ll be playing The Evil Within and Destiny, and during daylight hours, Mario Kart 8 with the fam.
And if it’s any consolation, Mark: I’m still level 9.