Gaming on the Side

I've been a gamer all of my life that I can remember. From getting the original Nintendo when I was a kid, all the way up through SNES, Playstation and others. I've loved gaming, and for good reason! There are so many things we can do and learn from gaming, it's pretty insane. They are also INCREDIBLY addicting, so it's really hard to be careful when we partake in them.

I had a bad gaming addiction for a really long time, not to the point where I would sit infront of the computer for days at a time without moving. I thankfully had a good release on that with skateboarding, hiking and other things outdoors. I would still spend many hours in front of the computer or video game consoles gaming for a considerable part of my life.

Recently I got into gaming a TINY bit again. I played Splinterlands for quite a while and that was enjoyable, but it lost it's luster for me and became more frustrating than it was enjoyable. Thankfully someone happened to share something I saw, and I found an OLD game I loved, Wolfenstein!

This game was the shit when I was a kid. We played it quite a bit when we were at my friends house, his dad had an awesome PC setup where we could play it and other games on the computers and would take turns. Sitting next to someone watching them play was definitely an interesting experience, and not one that many would do. I enjoyed it though! So we played many games, including Doom. I haven't played Wolftenstein for DECADES though, and it was fucking awesome to get back into it a bit!

This definitely brings back so many memories though! I have so many fond memories of hanging out with my friend and even with his dad when he would partake with us. It was awesome. I do have to be careful though, because I can get really into them! I have been playing here and there for a few months, and ended up beating most of the different levels which was cool.

I finished the last section of maps the other day, and now I'm onto an "expansion" pack of sorts - that wasn't in the original gameplay! I will admit that I'm a little lame sometimes and look up the maps online so I can see where the secrets are lol. I love playing it and it's cool to find the secrets when I can, but I do like to also know where they are so I can get the extra points. The new set of maps is fun, I finished the first level and hope that it continues with the same set of 9 or 10 like the others do!

I also have been enjoying the newest Splinterlands game, Soulkeep. I guess they sold it to another company though, so they don't do the primary development on it anymore.. but they still do own the rights to it or something? At any rate though Tower Defense games have been one of my FAVORITE types of games for years! Yes the shooting games are a lot of fun and awesome, but TD games are amazing. I remember playing things like Command and Conquer years ago, where you did something very similar. You had to have strategy! That's what it's about with these games, and that's what I think is so awesome.

I still have a LOT to learn and do with the game though lol. I have been sucking on a lot of the levels, especially the campaign ones. I did end up finishing the first campaign finally, and moved over a little bit to the tournaments side where I still lost but it's a lot of fun. I try to employ new strategies with the levels to see if I can do something different and have a good result. It doesn't always work out, but eventually it does! I am currently stuck on the first level of the 2nd campaign, and it's a tricky one for sure! I kind of wish they had more levels per campaign, and made them a little less difficult but that's okay. That's the nature of the game, and I'm sure that buying stronger cards or more cards would improve my odds at winning the levels. Maybe one day..