I don't seem to have as much time to game as I used to, what with trying to write a book and all the classes I take. Or it could just be that Borderlands 2 ruined me. Nothing really compares after having played that game. Hell, I even got out of a speeding ticket once because I said I was late for work because I stayed up so late gaming that I over slept. The officer asked me what game. When I said Borderlands 2 he said he couldn't very well give me a ticket for that, issued me a warning, and muttered "I wish MY wife played video games" as he walked back to his squad car. I loved, loved, LOVED that game and played the shit out of Maya. We did also play Warframe's open beta which was very very fun especially in large groups, but it wasn't something that I enjoyed playing solo. Borderlands 2 however was something I could play with or without Jason, I loved it that much . The writing, the art, the game design, the balance, the weapons, the loot and it's co-op feature. Shit, it was about as close to nirvana as I've experienced in gaming.
To be fair, while working at Trion Worlds, I played a fair amount of Defiance too and really had a genuine blast playing that game. Still not sure why it got such bad reviews, I think it tried to be too much to too diverse a group (trying to deliver a sci fi MMO shooter to both the console FPS crowd AND the PC MMORPG crowd). Funny how both groups complained about the exact opposite shit. LOL
A while back Jason asked me to play Guild Wars 2 again, since we'd like playing it initially when it first came out. We did play it again and I got bored pretty quickly. So this girl that once adored MMORPGs and found Battlefield 2 to be mass chaos was now underwhelmed by the RPG and wanted more game-play action than simple key-mashing. Hmmm, I wonder if target practice at the range for realz had anything to do with that? Prolly.
The problem for me now is that most First Person Shooters are PVP and I'm just not willing do deal with the ever-present 15 year old jack-ass that is going to following me around in game fucking with me once he finds out I'm a chick. Nope, not happenin'. So I wait for co-op shooter games to play with Jason and those are few. Diablo III was awesome. Borderlands 2 was legendary. Some of the other games have "some" co-op content but Jason and I can burn through that shit fast which leaves with nothing to play. So I just stopped playing.
Until last night. Jason informed me that he needed reference of Maya doing her phase lock ability in Borderlands 2 and that he wasn't able to find any images online that weren't first person and he needed to actually see Maya. Which means....yep, you got it....I had to play Borderlands with him again. Unfortunately, he deleted the game off his gaming system but I hadn't off mine so I ran the patch and was in game last night. Steams says I had 92 hours logged on Borderlands 2. That's a lot of time for me. It was cool playing again. I was just running around in the world, not questing or anything, but there was stuff to shoot. In a recent shooting class they were talking about the importance of muscle memory. That point was illustrated to me when I was running along and monsters tried to gank me. I didn't really think about it. I turned and zoomed to reticle and shot, running backward, circle-strafing the enemy, reloading, and shooting some more. I wasn't oh no, what key do I press, it was pure muscle memory. Someday I want to be able to do that with my target practice with REAL guns!!!
Point is, Jason was able to get me back playing games last night using some excuse about needing art reference that was rock solid. Of course I had to help him. And since he didn't get it loaded and patched last night, we're going to have to play here again real soon. Oh man that's sooo hard to take! LOL
I just don't understand why GearBox up in DFW isn't working on Borderlands 3 yet. They need to get on that shit and quick!!!
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