gonna +1 the "is it gay?" instabuy.

but god I wish i could play more than one game at a time hnnngh. (cut to me chaining ten thousand eevees in let's go eevee for a shiny) 

and also didn't have 12 million alts in FF14 with backstory for all of them b/c i'm not even on an rp server god why. (also i wish i didn't have tank anxiety b/c i have no problem maining super salty healers in mmos but for some reason having to be dungeon leader just makes me urk -- and i wish i'd get over it so i could actually play the dumb dragon girl warrior i made ;w;)

If I like a game, I will play it a billion times instead of picking up more games. This year I've played Persona 5 and Breath of the Wild so much I probably have them memorized. 


If it's a game that lets you make decisions or date someone, I basically never change how my character is or who they get with on replays. Even if I intend to. Lol. 


I can never select the mean responses in games. It's a problem. 


And add me into the 'if it's gay, send it my way' list here. Persona 6, c'mon, it's time. 

i actually have the opposite problem where i enjoy rping as an evil bastard very much. as such, a pet peeve of mine is games where the option to be evil is there, but is poorly integrated. the original red dead redemption, for instance, was annoying to me because the option to be an asshole was there, even though it didn't line up with the story, have any real effect on cutscenes/dialogue, and the rewards, especially compared to the good route, were abysmal. the max-evilness reward, which took you an age to get to even if you were basically just gunning random people down at every opportunity, was literally a horse that would persistently respawn whenever any other horse you owned died, despite the fact that it was straight up worse than a horse you could get only a few hours into the game. fallout 4, infamously, has similar problems.

either put the option there, or don't. but don't put it there half-assed, poorly thought through, and incongruous.

conversely, this is the same reason why fallout: new vegas is one of my favourite games of all time. one of my favorite little examples is: there's a collectible item in the game that eventually leads to a reward. the first time you pick up one of them, a guy will soon spawn and inform you about them. when you ask him if he collects them himself, he says he gave up a long time ago. playing through the game a first time as a generally good guy, i let him go. second time around though, i got curious; i had my character shoot him in the back of the head as soon as he turned away. he had six of them on his corpse, more than a tenth of what you need to collect in total. that's how you integrate being an asshole into a game properly, rather than just giving the character moronic, anti-social variants of story-progressing dialogue lines.

on an unrelated note, i'm really bad with multiplayer, competitive games, in the sense that i can't stand to not be good at them. if i don't think i have the interest/what it takes to invest hundreds, maybe thousands of hours into becoming remarkably proficient at it, i probably won't play it at all. at least not on my own.