Dragon Age & Mass Effect (Gaming)
Jul. 22nd, 2023 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cinderliteDragon Age:
I've been playing a lot of Dragon Age again for the last few days. It's been a good way to keep myself preoccupied. It's Inquisition specifically that I've been playing. I started from the beginning again on my Xbox, and it's been going fine. I've been making an effort to actually do all the astrariums and oculariums, which I normally ignore as too much work/effort. I know, I know. I shouldn't do that, but video games are supposed to be fun and if it's stressing me out, what's the point? I generally try to play games in whatever way I can most enjoy them. I'm doing them this time because I want to finally complete all the DLC, and it requires sooo much power in order to do that. It's a real pain!
I've been mindlessly playing for the last few days while listening to someone play Mass Effect for the first time, and it's put me into a Mass Effect mood.
Mass Effect
Today, I decided to take a break from Dragon Age: Inquisition to play some Mass Effect. That was an unmitigated disaster.
I don't know why, but I have such a hard time playing games on my PC. They either don't work properly (even though my laptop is an expensive gaming laptop) or I lose my save data. I lost all my save data on Dragon Age a few months ago and, today, Mass Effect keeps crashing on startup and I don't know why. I've played it for 95+ hours already, I know my computer can run it. I downloaded it yesterday (it's 110GB!), and no matter what I do, it won't start up the 2nd game. It only loaded up once when I removed the save file, but when I removed it a second time, it still didn't load. I'm going to try the other games too (after it stops verifying files) to see if it's just ME2 or what. Either way, it's extremely frustrating.
I'll edit this after I've tested out a few more things to stay updated.
EDIT: Okay, I just had a successful run! If I let it sit through all the "Not Responding" screens and don't agitate it, it does eventually load the game. Which is good! Only, it shouldn't be doing any of that shit to begin with (it never used to), and I don't know how to fix that.
I've been playing a lot of Dragon Age again for the last few days. It's been a good way to keep myself preoccupied. It's Inquisition specifically that I've been playing. I started from the beginning again on my Xbox, and it's been going fine. I've been making an effort to actually do all the astrariums and oculariums, which I normally ignore as too much work/effort. I know, I know. I shouldn't do that, but video games are supposed to be fun and if it's stressing me out, what's the point? I generally try to play games in whatever way I can most enjoy them. I'm doing them this time because I want to finally complete all the DLC, and it requires sooo much power in order to do that. It's a real pain!
I've been mindlessly playing for the last few days while listening to someone play Mass Effect for the first time, and it's put me into a Mass Effect mood.
Mass Effect
Today, I decided to take a break from Dragon Age: Inquisition to play some Mass Effect. That was an unmitigated disaster.
I don't know why, but I have such a hard time playing games on my PC. They either don't work properly (even though my laptop is an expensive gaming laptop) or I lose my save data. I lost all my save data on Dragon Age a few months ago and, today, Mass Effect keeps crashing on startup and I don't know why. I've played it for 95+ hours already, I know my computer can run it. I downloaded it yesterday (it's 110GB!), and no matter what I do, it won't start up the 2nd game. It only loaded up once when I removed the save file, but when I removed it a second time, it still didn't load. I'm going to try the other games too (after it stops verifying files) to see if it's just ME2 or what. Either way, it's extremely frustrating.
I'll edit this after I've tested out a few more things to stay updated.
EDIT: Okay, I just had a successful run! If I let it sit through all the "Not Responding" screens and don't agitate it, it does eventually load the game. Which is good! Only, it shouldn't be doing any of that shit to begin with (it never used to), and I don't know how to fix that.
