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To think it's not normal for an 18 year old to play video games on their day off?

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FiremanSamuel · 25/06/2017 13:33

To think it's not normal for an 18 year old to play video games on their day off? Mine doesn't move!

OP posts:
GoldilocksAndTheThreePears · 25/06/2017 20:11

To be honest, my gaming IS the only socialising I do. I'm disabled and stuck at home and I play social games. Right now I'm having a long (typed) discussion with a Russian teenager about gathering in FFxiv, an ongoing chat in another server about Destiny 2, and in a few moments I'm going to hop into a vooice channel with 7 people to run dungeons together.

ScrunchyBook · 25/06/2017 20:16

Ooh I'll try and romance Cullen then.
Although... the 'intimate' scenes in the Witcher 3 were a bit "eww noooo!" for me Blush

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 25/06/2017 20:22

The scenes in Witcher 3 are tacky lol

In DAI they are more tasteful although as a Qunari, you can only romance, Ironbull, Blackwall and Sera if you are female.

CaptainHammer · 25/06/2017 20:29

TheHerald No I haven't and I'm not sure why! Was that the one that came with the special edition of Infinite Warfare?

TaurenInAChinaShop · 25/06/2017 20:32

Unadon why thank you

Lots of friendly sorts on my main server, well I say lots, it's a quiet backwater kind of place really Hmm Grin

Waves to SteamTrains & Bears

I'm mainly horde, although I started ally - I do dabble on the other side from time to time though - also have some alts parked on Ravencrest Unadon

SteamTrainsRealAleandOpenFires · 25/06/2017 20:36

Waves back

Nest of vipers is still on Vek.?

Missolford33 · 25/06/2017 20:49

Day off what work? Because if it is be thankful he has a job and let him do what the hell he like on his day off!

BearsDontDigOnDancing · 25/06/2017 20:58

SteamTrainsRealAleandOpenFires Sun 25-Jun-17 20:36:16
Waves back

Nest of vipers is still on Vek.?

Yep. just checked, have a cpl alts still in there, but I really struggle playing alts.

Ran a cpl LFD today, and boy do they rush rush rush, completely takes any of the fun out, and each boos at least one person got locked out as they were not quite quick enough. Is very annoying.

SistersOfPercy · 25/06/2017 21:12

Almost 20 year old DD is currently out at a large game of Dungeons & Dragons, she's been gone since lunchtime.
24 year old DS will be home soon and no doubt the first thing he'll do is turn on the PS4.

If thats how they unwind fair play to them. I admit to being somewhat jealous as I suffer terrible gaming motion sickness and can't play them Sad

Louiselouie0890 · 25/06/2017 21:38

What's wrong with someone doing something they enjoy. Gaming isn't just for kids. I wouldnt spend there money on a night they'll never remember and piss and shit it all out the next day. I would t spend my time off on a game. I however enjoy relaxing with my soaps and a book. Who's to say which one isn't normal or wrong. What a bizarre post.

SteamTrainsRealAleandOpenFires · 25/06/2017 22:30

Thanks Bears Grin

TheHeraldOfAndraste · 25/06/2017 23:13

Tali is Josephine not an option for a female qunari? I know shes bi but is she race limited? Though DPs male rogue archer Trevelyan is romancing her and it seems pretty dull.

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 25/06/2017 23:26

Yeah Josephine is a romance for all.

Oh, if anyone is playing ME: Andromeda as Sara Ryder. Do not romance Reyes, no matter how gorgeous he is, the romance is as boring as fuck. Not even a decent hankie pankie scene.

user1480334601 · 25/06/2017 23:26

I'm a 32 year old female and still play video games! Beats watching soaps etc Grin

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 25/06/2017 23:26

or even as Scott Ryder. Still fecking boring.

user1480334601 · 25/06/2017 23:29

goldilocks I can't wait til destiny 2 comes out!

UnderslungBowlingBall · 26/06/2017 01:09

Can I just ask, how do you progress in DAI? I'm a DAO girl at heart and I got to the bit in DAI where I was in the town (very start) and then couldn't work out how to get to the next stage.

TheHeraldOfAndraste · 26/06/2017 09:33

unslung if you're in Haven the first mission will be to go to Mother Giselle in the Hinterlands. Go to the war table in the chantry (biggest stone building in the place, room right at the back) to be assigned that mission and open the Hinterlands. Then you can venture out to the new area.

Alicia555 · 26/06/2017 09:44

Sometimes I play video games on my days off at the ripe old age of 32!

DixieNormas · 26/06/2017 10:39

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TheHeraldOfAndraste · 26/06/2017 10:58

Dixie i like big, scenic open worlds with complex storylines.
If you liked tomb raider the rebooted ones would interest you.
Otherwise I like Assassins Creed, Dragon Age, Horizon Zero dawn, Uncharted, Dishonored, Mass Effect, Red Dead Redemption, Fallout. The Last of Us is fantastic too but very dark.

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 26/06/2017 11:12

Also Witcher 3 is good one too.

BadLad · 26/06/2017 16:13

Grand Theft Auto is still topping the UK charts 3.5 years after release.

www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p/software/uk/latest/index_test.jsp&ct=110015

Incredible.

Pinkemi · 26/06/2017 16:24

ha! How funny.. I have actually booked a day off next week.. what I was planning on doing has been cancelled so I was thinking about playing video games all day. haha The new Mass Effect is SO addictive.

TheWitchAndTrevor · 26/06/2017 16:57

DixieNormas pre dc dh and me played lots of tome raiders, and tekken.

As we have found time to get back into games, he has played

all the new tome raiders he could get his hands on,
3 uncharteds,
far cry,
last of us
horizon zero dawn.

They are all sort of similar to tome raider.

I on the other hand got into open world games, like Skyrim and elderscrolls online.

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