In any case, we're mostly up to date on consoles now; heck, tons of games are on phones nowadays anyway. We've had a PS4 for a few years now, although I haven't bought any games for myself. We don't have a Nintendo Switch, but we still have a Wii U and occasionally someone in the house still busts out a game for it. Especially Breath of the Wild.
For quite some time, I had a reasonably capable gaming desktop too, although reasonably capable is a debatable. It ran everything I wanted it to, and had a good graphics card, but I wasn't using it for much for several reasons; one of which being that it was a shared computer and when my wife needed it, she was usually doing something considerably less frivolous. And the location was bad too. It was was equipped with Windows XP, and both The Old Republic and Steam eventually stopped working on it because they no longer supported that OS. For the entirety of 2019, it's been a non-starter for any gaming.
Which is fine. One of my sons pre-ordered Red Dead Redemption 2, so we got that in the fall of 2018, and four out of the five people in my household were all playing it quite a bit. Most of my 2019 gaming was, in fact, RDR2 gaming. In the last few months I admit that I have gotten to the point where I'm kinda done with the collectible and challenge kind of completion stuff that I still haven't done, and I'm not very interested anymore. Although my daughter recently went back to her online account while I was sitting there watching, and heck—it looks very different. Not only are there not a bazillion griefers running around shooting at you just because, but there is a lot to do. It's not exactly all story mission stuff, but they look for the most part like reasonably entertaining side quests, bounty hunts, and stuff like that. I do think that it looks like I might revive my interest in RDR2 for 2020, maybe, if I get into the stuff that you can do in Online. I do wonder, though... there really doesn't ever seem to be a lot of people on when my daughter has logged on, so I wonder if there's enough going on to keep it running. I know that's always a concern with online games, but it's really a notable difference from how it was earlier on. Y'know, back when we all got turned off from doing much with RDR2 Online because it was a stupid free-for-all of grief and frustration. I admit I don't know much about how it works now, though. I only this week rediscovered the fact that there's all this stuff to do there in the first place.
Anyway, if 2019 was the year of RDR2, then 2020 will likely be, at least for many months, the year of rediscovering and playing through a lot of SWTOR. I have my new desktop, which I can set up in a dedicated location where I can be on it (within reason) as much as I want without any interruption, and it is also dedicated solely to my use. I do intend to install SWTOR as just about the first install (after basic tools like a free office suite and an improved browser like Brave, etc.) and then get the two month non-renewing subscription. (It's curious that you can buy a one month subscription, but it automatically renews, and I don't really want to worry about remembering to cancel it, honestly.) That will unlock all of the story content available by the end of my subscription, even when it expires, which will give me plenty to do. Although to be fair, most of the stuff that comes after the main class stories aren't worth doing over and over again with each class, because the content is basically the same other than a few minor details of the voice acting and dialogue, although hopefully it's at least worth doing with each faction. The expansion storylines are relatively big; as big as a normal game by itself, honestly, but after playing through eight unique class stories, it does seem—although understandable and certainly forgivable—disappointing to not have more variation in how it rolls out.
Anyway, yeah—in 2019 I was more constrained in my video gaming, and RDR2 was just about the only thing I played. I'll probably try the brave new world of RDR2 Online in 2020, but I'm looking at SWTOR along with some blowing off steam on Steam using my copy of Street Fighter IV to round that out. That's probably about as much video gaming as I'll have time and stomach for, quite honestly. If I do play anything else, I'm leaning towards maybe a bit of Blood Bowl, maybe a replay of Force Unleashed, and maybe Spider-man PS4, which my other son bought and played through back when RDR2 came out. I always kinda half intended to play that too, but never got around to it. I may still not; it's not a high priority.
It's curious, is it not, that my video game "goals" such as they are do not revolve at all around anything new. RDR2 is the closest thing to a "new" game showing there (and Spider-man PS4) and they're both almost a year and a half old by now.
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