My Lockdown thus far

In the middle of a game; I start writing about the games I’ve been playing. At the end of a pandemic lockdown (round 1), I start writing about video games. As I lie in bed, I write about video games. Why? It’s a question I can't answer and I won’t pretend to know and just move on.

Over the past three months, I’ve been playing old video games, as I stated in the last blog. I started out with Final Fantasy IX, my favorite of the franchise. I then moved on to Final Fantasy XII, my new least favorite of...ever. I then tried Chrono Cross and FFX but, as the “tried” may attest to, the disks no longer work. To ease my pain, and to try to get sports in my life, I messed around with MLB ‘07 (with Derek Jeter on the cover) which I’ve occasionally gone back to for a game or two since. I then wanted to see if FFX-2 was as decent as I remembered. It wasn’t so I dropped that. Maybe I’ll go back to it during the second lockdown in a few months.

At this point, I took a break from playing old games and took a dive into a “new” game (that came out in ‘12 and I had over 1000 hours in:: Crusader Kings II. Game one was a nomadic Altic (modern-day south Russian steppes) because Paradox gave away the Horse Lords DLC. Then I did a Slavic Pomeranian run for no real reason. Then I returned to the old gods.

Starting with Xenosaga Episode I (which just makes sense), I replayed the entire trilogy. Ep I holds up very well, but Ep 2 is hot garbage so I skipped the last dungeon, transferred from my high school save, and went to EP 3. Ep 3 was just as good as I recall and I always thought it was pretty good.

Before heading on to the “other” part of the saga, I booted up Final Fantasy I and made myself and my friends be the Warriors of Light. After that, I moved to Xenogears. Xenogears used to be my favorite game but has dropped over the last fifteen years.

As of now, I’m in the middle of Star Ocean 3 which I started earlier in this lockdown but got bored. Maybe I’ll finish it this time which is why I’m not planning on writing about my playthrough; it just wouldn’t seem right taking a long break. Which, why until I finish/drop it, I’m gonna talk about the games I have played all the way through. I don’t know the whys of why I’m writing, but there’s the short term plan.

And I should probably customize this page at some point, too. And, while I’m here, ruminate of if I should talk about other things I’ve been doing too (books, anime, music, the video game I’ve kinda been working on...maybe). The answer is, "probably" since it might encourage me to finish The Canterbury Tales.