I'm really not a big fan of my schedule this week. On the bright side, I don't have to work any two consecutive days in a row. However, this also means I don't have any consecutive days off, which makes me enjoy any day off less because I just have the thought of going in to work the next day in the back of my mind. It's more of a mental problem than anything else but I can't seem to deal with the annoyance this situation causes. Maybe that last three day weekend spoiled me.
I've already put a good 18 hours into Borderlands 2 and I'm only at level 23--and the cap is 61. Granted, I'm pretty sure you don't need to be at the level cap to finish the game, but it still means I have quite a ways to go. I enjoy the game a lot but I have this urge to get it over with sooner rather than later so I could get back to my original goal of clearing out my backlog. Every new game I play means it takes longer to get this done. Some small part of me wishes I could just relax and enjoy playing games without worrying about every finishing them, but to be honest, that's just not how my personality works.
Over the past couple of years I have derived an immense amount of satisfaction from systematically completing as many games as I possibly could. Years of impulsively playing games had put me in a situation where I have a mountain of older games left still to complete and perhaps more importantly to discuss. I think it's really interesting to look back at these old games and compare them to other games from that time and to determine how well they've held up over time. In some cases they haven't held up so well, but many of them are still really fun. Secret of Mana and Seiken Densetsu 3, for instance, make me long for more games in that same style. Co-op RPGs are very rare. Borderlands 2 or Diablo 3 are sort of in that same vein, but they're still not quite what I'm looking for.
Still, it's a sure thing that Borderlands 2 will be finished, so at the very least it'll add another title to the "beaten" pile even if it wasn't already in my backlog. Unfortunately, I don't feel like I have a whole lot to say about it! I've played it for such a long time already but I"m having a hard time coming up with compelling commentary about the game. I think I probably will do so soon, but I'll need a little time to collect my thoughts. Even though the game is essentially an action RPG, its gameplay is very much that of a first-person shooter, a genre with which I have very little experience. It's difficult for me to draw conclusions and make comparisons when the format of the game is so alien to me, even despite having playing the original Borderlands as well.
I'm probably going to jump on Steam and play a few more hours tonight, but my co-op partner will have to be in bed pretty early--and so do I, actually. Unlike him, I'll have some days off during the week so I'll use those times to hit Front Mission 3 as hard as I can. If I had to guess I'd say I'm a pretty decent amount under halfway through, but it can be hard to tell considering the fact that the missions aren't numbered. If I could finish the game sometime in the next week, that would be pretty great.
Edit: Whoops, forgot to post this earlier.
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