As I’ve mentioned before, I have a bit of a gaming… problem. I can get addicted to the things. Board games. Tabletop games. And computer games, too.
Board gaming and tabletop gaming are trouble enough for me. That’s why I try to steer clear of most PC games. I tinker a bit here and there with some of the PC wargames from HPS Simulations and some of John Tiller’s games, but I generally keep everything else off-limits because it’s too easy for me to get hooked into the bloody things.
Last year I had an episode… an ‘event’ … that got me stuck into the various versions of Dawn of War for a while. Not completely out of control, mind you, because the RTS genre isn’t something I find insanely compelling. But it was bad enough for a while.
But now. Ugh. Now…
A few weeks back, in a moment of complete moral collapse, I bought Fallout 3. And that – entirely – is the reason I haven’t had a new blog post for nearly 3 weeks.
I feel lucky that I can remember how to logon to my site’s control panel. A 3-week PC gaming bender would embarrass most people, but I’m pretty shameless. It’s eaten up nearly every bit of my gaming time (and some time when I shouldn’t have been gaming) and I’m not even close to finishing my first play-through of the thing. This is great PC gaming stuff.
You can find plenty of reviews of the game online, so I’m not heading off in that direction except to say that I’ve found it a well-produced, engaging and gigantic game universe.
After a few weeks, though, things are sliding back towards a proper equilibrium. As I recover my functional grey matter over the next few days, I’ll be looking once again at some of the newer board games that arrived a few weeks back.
My name is Matt and I’m a game junkie. Please Stand By.
At least it wasn’t something insidious and soul-destroying, like anime.
I share the same problem. I’ve had to de-install World of Warcraft twice. Civ II almost swallowed me whole at one time. Good thing I have a family to keep me on track or I would end up like that guy on the South Park WoW episode, only not as good a player…
A couple of the Civ games tagged me. But I’ve been especially weak WRT all of the games in the Fallout lineage, including the original “Wasteland” game from the Wayback Machine. Is there anything more fun than laying waste to a camp full of raiders? I don’t think so.