I'm with you there, a hot girl is definitely one of the better reasons to buy pick up a random game. With GW2, you can play as little or as much as you want. There is so much exploration and helping out It's expensive because it's been around so long so there's quite a few expansions. They usually go on sale once or twice a year and the sale just expired in September. But you can play the base game for free. And after you buy it- besides having the options for cosmetics and certain quality of life options like extra inventory space, bank space, name changes, it's completely free. There's not much group content you can do until you level a character to 80, but that turned out to be a good thing because there is a lot to learn. But it is so a lot of fun. It's very alt friendly and doesn't have the usual classes as you would necessarily expect. It's mostly races of characters based on the main story and you can gear them up and pick out their traits and abilities and play them however you want.
The base game still has so many players. And they just released a new expansion last month so new people are playing the game. I started a new alt actually that I've been playing for about a month new. A new race-class combo I've never tried before. OMG sorry if that was more than you wanted to know lol.
Thanks for the info about GW2. I appreciate it a lot, actually. I sometimes miss the mix of a sense of community with being someone who isn't me in an MMO; my absolute favourite was Planeshift, which was heavily about roleplaying. One day I may look into GW2. I don't really remember much of my playtime with the original, but I did appreciate that, as it sounds with the sequel, you just buy the game and don't have any ongoing membership fees. I like the idea of not being locked to any one class or character. I'm glad you're still having so much fun with the game. P.S. I also bought SpellForce 2 at some point in my early teens, for the same reason as with Guild Wars. Young Kurwenal really was easily swayed!
I've never played Monster Hunter, but I've read all about it and watched YouTube videos and people play it on Twitch. I wish I had a Switch. One day maybe. My PC is pretty old and can't handle a lot of newer games, so I mostly play games either on my IPhone, Android tablet, or games on the Xbox game pass through their cloud gaming over the internet.
It took me so many tries to get into Monster Hunter. I attempted Tri, 3U, 4U and Generations. Bounced so hard off each one, but was convinced there was something there I knew I wanted to play, I just couldn't crack it. Then I played Rise on my Switch and everything clicked. Went back and tackled the older games with fresh eyes after that. It's unfortunately not a game that you would benefit from playing an hour a week here, maybe every so often. Especially at the beginning, you need to have a kind of obsession to grasp it, I think. I really enjoy it, personally. I've yet to come across another game where I can become a human assault helicopter, or use a sword and shield that click together to form an axe, and then the shield part of the axe, the blade, spins, and suddenly you have a chainsaw. It makes no sense and is brilliant as a result.
I've never heard of Oracle of Ages. Going to go look that up.
It's a Zelda game for the Game Boy. It was released as a duology with Oracle of Secrets; once you finished one game, you got a password code that encoded what you had done in the first game, then you input that into the second game and start playing that game, with your choices from the first carrying over. You could play them in any order, and while playing the second game, you'd even get codes to them put back into the first game and unlock things there. Once you've finished both games you unlock a hidden final sequence and final boss. It was always a really special game to me, though 2D Zelda games in general have always been very special to me.
@Namelesa I have to say, I'm so jealous of your mental ability to play Baba Is You. I wanted to get it ever since it was released, but knew deep down that I'd make it through 4 levels max before having a meltdown. I've seen videos of some of the later levels and my brain just can't compute.
