168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur’s Gate 3 has captured my wife’s attention in a way I’ve never seen a game manage before. She put in her time with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Animal Crossing: New Horizons in early quarantine. She got into a management sim called Virtual Villagers on her phone for a little while, but that was mostly because it was a nostalgic game from her childhood. And we’ve played adventure games together like Her Story, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Return to Monkey Island. But she’s sitting down and playing Baldur&rsquo꧟;s Gate 3 for hour꧒s at a time. That’s new.
But the thing is, I also want to play Baldur's Gate 3 for hours at a time. I have it on PC, but recently bought it on PS5 and that's the version she’s been playing. It runs way better on console than my three year old laptop, so I don't always want to play it on PC. So, a few nights ago, I got her playing on PC and now we can trade back and forth as needed.
I’m Taking As Long As Possible To൲ Get To The Last Act Of Baldur’s Gate 3
I'll wa🦩it as long as I need to for a bug-free Act 3.
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It’s a kind of interaction that I still value as an adult. When 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Horizon Zero Dawn was new, I lugged my PS4 and a small TV over to a friend’s house and took down bandit camps while he blinked around Karnaca in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dishonored 2. Similarly, my first full-time job out of college was at a daily newspaper. I typically worked six days a week, and the hours were inconsistent because I covered both news and sports, requiring I clock in both in the morning and at night. On my rare days off, I often just wanted to sit and play video games for hours at a time, and some of my favorite times from that period were playing 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Breath of the Wild or 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Stardew Valley on the cou꧂ch while my roommates played something else or watched It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Sometimes you just need to relax, do your thing, and feel like someone else is there for you, even if y꧑ou don’t want to talk.
Marriage already involves a lot of parallel play. My wife is very crafty, so she’s often working on a project while I’m watching a movie. But playing Baldur’s Gate 3 together (even se♛parately) was a different experience because we could stop and talk to each other about the game as we went. She’s much earlier into the campaign than I am (and was just getting used to the PC controls) so she would often pause and ask me questions, and I would offer advice on how best to survive the gauntlet the Goblin Camp becomes if you decide to rescue Halsin. When she’s making a dress or working on a stained glass piece, I don’t have muc𓂃h to offer. But with Baldur’s Gate 3, I fully understand the activity.
I don't always want to play co-op, because I want to see my campaign to the end. By playing separately, we're having our own, different kind of cooperative experience. And that's nice.