MikeIsGood wrote:One thing I lament about gaming currently is how freaking esoteric everything is, making it hard to pick things back up after having put them down for a while. I've wanted to go back to FF7R2 for weeks now since getting back from Italy, and I keep bouncing off it because there's 700 systems I don't remember and I'm in the middle of the game when you're expected to have them all down.
Trying to spend more time with it today/this weekend to bring my literal memory and muscle memory back, but this is why Path of Exile (extremely, extremely esoteric but I've played it so long and so much that I don't lose the feeling), Cities Skylines (just build a city 4head), and cozy games like Stardew Valley are so appealing often. I guess this is all to say that, as time has become harder to come by for me to just sitdown for hours on end for weeks on end, the ability to pick up and play has become more valued.
I know I'm gonna have to jump back into Elden Ring at some point before the DLC arrives at the end of June, so I fired it up tonight to see where I was at since the last time I played.
I've got six saves making up 717 hours. My average level is 149, and 150 is considered endgame/NG+.
I think I'm gonna have to start completely over on a 7th save. I jumped into what I think must be my latest save, and I'm honestly pretty lost.