I kinda played way more games than one should've, spent a free year in college doing pretty much nothing but trying to play everything ever... I'm from a family of gamers, so it was MtG, and various editions of D&D in their original formats for a decade or so, and digital... I'd take a textwall to list everything. These days it's not that much, Urban Rivals for casual grind here and there, Dota 2 for hanging out with old friends and steam money to buy other stuff (lol it's pocket change but it feels good to be able to pile it up over a long time and buy something expensive XD), Crusader Kings 2 I kind of always keep on a back burner, the new Shadowrun games are consistenly mediocre but I've allredady modded Fallout 2 to get a bunch of screwups with the flow out of it and played it up and down too many times, don't have reasons to replay Vampire the Masquerade or PT again either, and I enjoy even a mediocre but decent old school RPG these days. Dungeons of Dreadmor was fun and charming. I whish someone remade Chaos Overlords and Alpha Centauri properly. Play point and clickers with my wife, too.
I guess I had a very lucky life when it comes to being able to game as much as a complete burnout would while not actually doing bad for myself. Also strange that I did so much gaming while not actually being a social gamer - most folks with this much gaming did it because it was thier connection to thier social circles. For me it's like a life long discrete heroin habit, I couldn't really connect to most gamers anyway.... In fact, now that I think about it, I don't get into conflicts with poeople about stuff other than games or game devlopment XD At one point I had a choice between becoming a programer and what I've become, chose the other thing, occasionally wonder what might have been...
If I had a year of my life to throw out the window I think I'd go back and mod in the missing 1/3 of Fallout 2 that was cut from the original plan and all the nerds never really noticed. That thing needs a proper evil path, but modding it is too time consuming for a filthy casual. It'd take way less if I could work with a programmer, but I hate working with programmers unless I'm paying them do do what they're told and not ask questions, so I'd have to do everything myself. Maybe one day when I'm old if I keep a piece of hardward that can still run it, for my own sake. I'ts my white whale.
