You're God, right? Mr. Nook has told me about you!

[razielim]

I restarted my ACNH island last night, and I thought I’d take it nice and easy this time like people online who have restarted and say that without the hype or the uncertainty and anxiety of March 2020 it’s easy to just be chill and not feel any pressure to rush or have a perfect island, but I need you to know that my first playthrough in the midst of all hype, I didn’t tt for at least three whole months, whereas in the past 12 hours, I have already speedrun almost all the way to KK.

At some point you have to accept certain things about yourself, and I’m facing the glaring fact that the only ACNH external pressure I ever felt was to “take it easy” but when left to my own devices, I play this game with the same singleminded forward drive as ACII or DMC3. I barely slept and don’t remember the last time I ate, and that’s honestly the best way to game.

News about this new island.

• My new name is God. Yes, this makes the dialogue about as hilarious as you would imagine.
• My new island name is Inferno. Yes, this makes the dialogue about as hilarious as you would imagine.
• So I’m running around my island, working my indebted butt off, fully expecting a twink to show up at the campsite. Why a twink? Because the first campsite visitor is hardcoded to be a Smug villager, and in the past two years, the only Smugs that have shown up on my island have been Zell, Marshal, and Raymond. (Okay, Marshal was an amiibo, but still.) Walked into the tent, knowing from past experience that you have to accept your first camper, wondering who my government-assigned boyfriend will be this time. And of all possible species options, because life is ironic and hilarious, I find this literal fucking bear.
• Lesson learned - Smugs aren’t all twinks, they’re just all gay. Brb gonna go buy my new daddy some leather.

Comments

[dreamersdare]

I have never played this game, and yet everything about this post delighted me so much I now kind of want to :D

[razielim]

What games do you usually play?

[dreamersdare]

Virtually nothing nowadays, because time :( (also, I broke my Xbox and haven't gotten around to replacing it). But my general preference was for either strategy games or story-driven first-person 'shooters'. So, Civ4 was one of my staples on the PC (and technically still is, because I picked it up cheap on Steam a few years back), but things like Diablo II, Baldur's Gate, Fable II (♥) and III, Assassin's Creed, Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty. I was an early Minecraft adopter (I think I technically still have permenant account details somewhere...) but I haven't played it really since they sold out to Microsoft.

Games were increasingly moving toward online/multiplayer settings, and that didn't interest me, plus I was increasingly busy, so I kind of fell out of it. But I do miss it sometimes.

[razielim]

AssssCreeddddd. Love me that series. Well, the earlier stuff, at least. I'm in the same boat of not really enjoying where games as a whole are trending towards. I replay my oldies but goodies and call it a day. I really miss more story-driven stuff.

Interesting that you mention specifically Civ4. Our whole family started off with Civ1 & 2, but then my mom stopped on Civ4 and refused to go further while my dad happily moved on to Civ5 but didn't bother moving to Civ6. (I fell off the wagon after Civ2 and Alpha Centauri; I am weak.) What made you stop on 4?

[dreamersdare]

I loved the first one, never got around to playing any of the others. But yes, same. All the games I really enjoyed were story driven. Prior to breaking my xbox, I know I was struggling to find anything I wanted to play. Like, I would walk into the shop to look for something new, and walk back out empty handed.

I played Civ2 obsessively as a kid, but only on the bloodlust setting because to hell with spaceships *laughs*. Loved 4, really loved the 4 expansions (the Great Wall is ♥ and also MINE and I will butcher any other civ that builds it!). But I hated with a firey passion the interface and graphics on 5. My housemate at the time bought it, and I had a try and was just, "nope". I think there might have also been features of it I didn't like, but I never played it long enough to remember them. I (and Mr DD) basically just both stuck with what we liked.

[razielim]

Civ2 had so many fantastic scenarios! (Fandom wiki now tells me these were part of an expansion pack?? But seeing as how my dad pirated all the games we played, this is news to me, I just thought these were a standard part of the game.) Settlers who?? Catch me playing as dinosaurs and wizards eoigjerojgerg

...Mostly I just really wanted to unlock T-Rexs. I didn't play to win, I played to unlock T-Rexs and murder everyone with specifically those units.

[dreamersdare]

I have never played as dinosaurs! I might have to investigate this (my steam download included about a milion expansion packs that I never get around to going through).

Civ is not about winning. Civ is about getting the cool thing and keeping it. Although I do remember reading something about some chap who played Civ2 to the win, and then hit yes on the 'just one more turn' option, and kept going for about 20 (real world) years. He apparently ended up in a dystopian nuclear hellscape locked in a state of near constant war between three superpowers...