In the meantime

Been hard at work on a post that isn’t coming along very well, so I’m buying myself some time by bringing you this short update instead.

Though I still have a few posts coming related to Skyrim, I‘m definitely done actually playing it. In fact, I got really tired of the game toward the end. Going for a platinum was probably a mistake, as it was far more time consuming than expected, but once you start going down that path, the Daedric prince of sunk cost will make sure you see it through.

Now I’m immersing myself in Mass Effect: Andromeda, hoping it isn’t a big letdown in the making. I mean, I‘m well aware the game wasn’t particularly well received, but it’s also a game by Bioware, and a Mass Effect game at that, the trilogy being one of my favorite games. So there has to be some kind of lower bound of quality below which Andromeda cannot fall, right. Until proven otherwise I refuse to believe it is a dud, but whatever the case may be I will know for sure soon enough. As for the critique, I won‘t even skim it, let alone carefully analyze or engage with it, until finishing at least the main quest, though I did hear there were some wonky facial animations (now patched, I believe.)

I‘m not far into the game, and my only serious complaint so far is the ridiculously small text, and in searching for a fix (there is none) I learned of many others feeling the same way, some even refusing to continue the game because of it. How curious to spend years and untold resources to develop a game, only to then noticeably undermine the playing experience and needlessly aggravating their own customers by neglecting to spend three seconds to add the option to change text size.