I don't yet have a firm ctb date so it's hard to tell what or if I will be playing when that happens. Currently, I am trying to finish breath of the wild, and also playing through ace attorney dual destinies. It's really difficult for me to play anything anymore because the nerves in my right hand are messed up from RSI, and it's causing a lot of pain, numbness and tingling. Currently the pain is mostly on the inside of my two middle fingers.
As a gamer and programmer, this is devastating and more fuel for me to ctb. Getting old is suicide fuel in so many ways, like I can't even make gamer and otaku friends anymore because it seems like 98% of them are 25 and under, and brutally ageist ("OMG last year when I was at otakon there was this balding guy in his forties trying to socialize, I cringed so hard my whole body almost imploded!")
In the past, I really enjoyed playing Splatoon, introduced to me by a close friend of mine. We'd play for hours, and were both X rank. She killed herself a couple months ago with SN, and I don't think I'll ever be able to play it again now.
I'm so sorry that your going through this pain, and also sorry about your friend, I hope they went peacefully. And I've never played Ace Attorney, but I've watched a few videos of the games, and I have Breath of the Wild, it's a great game, but unfortunately I have yet to finish it, and the sad thing is, I bought it on release and my Switch with it. There so much to do, and a little bit difficult at times, and once the dlc came out, I tried to do those, all the shrines and missions before I went to go fight Gannon, but with my depression, I felt like I lost the love of gaming a bit, especially for the longer games, it started feeling like a chore, I would have to force myself to play sometimes, it sucks. But I feel like I have been doing better with shorter games lately, like just tight now, I was playing Links Awakening remake, almost done with it too, plan to finish it before I try to go to sleep. I like it, 1. Because I grew up with the original Black and white version for GBP, and shortly after got the DX, and 2. It's short, and even though I dont pick up the game that much, I still play it more than BOTW. My depression has killed my brain cells a bit, so a little bit more complicated games stress me out now and days. And I like the art style of LAR as well, so far, I feel like it's my game of the year. And that's cool that you are a programmer, I wanted to be one once, but I am more of a well read poet than a man of mathematics and science, so I never perused a career in programming. I also can understand about how you must feel about getting older, I'm not in my 40s, but I'm almost 30, I know it's not that old, but the physical punishment my body as been through throughout the years, I feel like I'm 30 years older, and a few of my friends are mid 30s to 40s, so, yea, I feel older than I should. And I'm sorry that you are unable to play splatoon anymore because of your friend passing, I had a friend who died of cancer about 6 years ago, and he introduced me to the original Secret of Mana game. I grew up around when it released, bit it slipped under my radar, so I never played it, but when I met my friend in 2007, he introduced me to that game, let me borrow it, and then 6byears later he died. I never returned his game to him, I actually still have it in a box, and I have been wanting to play it again, but I cant, we played it together, it was the best 2 player SNES game I ever played, and it's not the same playing it solo, so I never played it again. But yea, I also used to play quite a bit of Splatoon 2, been a while though, I never owned the Wii U, so I never got a chance to play the first game, it looked good though. I appreciate you sharing a bit of your story, I hope whenever you do decide to ctb, I hope you get the peace that you want. Thank you
