I’m off for the next two weeks. This is the rare vacation where I’ll be at home the whole time and have the house to myself – Wait, scratch that. This is the only vacation I’ve ever had where I’ll be at home the whole time and have the house to m🔯yself.
My wife will be out of the country for a wedding, and I’m planning to use the time as a DIY writing retreat to work on some extracurriculꦯar projects I’ve had percolating. But that’s just during the day. At n♏ight, it’s all fun all the time and ditto for the weekends. Those are prime movie and video game hours.
I’ve made the mistake on past vacations of assu🌠ming I’ll have more time for gaming than I actually end up having. I’ve always been this way. When I was in elementary school, we took a field trip that required a two hour drive each way, and I put every Magic Tree House and A to Z Mysteries book I owned in my backpack for the ride. I did something similar at 13, and spent most of my family vaca▨tion in the hotel room trying to get through all the novels I packed. As an adult, I’m better at actually vacationing on a vacation, but I still pack four or five books for most trips. I have never learned.
I’ve done the same thing with games, too. In December 2020, I took the last few weeks of the year off and tried to get through multiple RPGs, each big enough that you could easily spend a hundred hours playing it. I started 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Quest 11 with the intention of trying to finish it in the few days before 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Cyberpunk 2077 came out, but ended up getting five hours in and never touching the game again. I also tried to play Haven, a cool꧒ roma𝓰ntic story-driven RPG, and quickly had to move on as Cyberpunk consumed all my time.
Now, as I anticipate a vacation with an unprecedented amount of free time spent alone, I’m trying to recalibrate. If anything, I’m underestimating the amount of games I can play in my two weeks off. I’ve settled on two that I’ve wanted to cross off the bucket list for a long time, but have never gotten around to until now: 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Alan Wake and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallout: New Vegas.
Fallout: New Vegas is a game that has been on my “ooh I have the house to myself” docket before. I started playing it once when my wife was gone for one (1) day, and barely got through the character creator. When ✅I had to go back to playing games for work, it fell by the wayside. Now, I’m committed to making real progress. By all accounts, it’s a game I should love. The Outer Worlds is a personal favorite and I’ve never met an Obsidian game I didn’t like. The problem has always been time and now I’ve got plenty of it.
Thing is, I don’t like sitting at my computer for long periods of time if I’m not working, and that’s where Alan Wake comes in. I've got a borrowed copy for PS4, and when I'm not taking in IMAX showings of Oppenheimer and Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, this is how I plan to spend my nights. I like the Remedy games I've played (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Max Payne and Control) and the sequel looks right up my alley as a fan of The Last of Us Part 2's overgrown Pacific Northwest setting. Maybe I should get some Stephen King books out from the library to complete the package.
You know what? No. That might be too much. Let's keep it simple. Fallout: New Vegas and Alan Wake. That's it. When I come back at the end of the month, I'll have made serious progress in both. You can hold me to that.