Game Pass has been mostly liberating for me because it removed the shame from my pile of shame. In my teens and early 20s I bought a ton of physical games and amassed a substantial steam library, which eventually made me feel super guilty about wanting to buy new games. Why should I get new game when I have hundreds of games I haven't touched right? It got to the point where if I bought a new game and bounced off it I would go months without getting anything else because I was trapped telling myself I had to finish it before getting something new, all while knowing I was never going to. Game Pass removed that entire mentality because I can dip into new things guilt free. I'm even buying games fairly frequently for the first time in years because I'm not worried about shame spirals if a game doesn't click anymore.
Pacing is the biggest factor for me. As long as the game changes things up fast enough to never become tedious I usually end up sticking with it even if I'm not enjoying any of the individual parts. Where as I'll frequently abandon games I was into if they become grindy or start gating progress behind checklists of busywork.
This was my first real experience with the genre, but it really felt like the swords were in fact dating themselves. The game doesn't give you many options to create a fiction for your own character, other than choosing pronouns and weather or not you went to college. Which would be fine if the game had a story about them it wanted to tell and fleshed out the character itself, but it super doesn't and it became increasingly distracting as the game went along. The first date with most of the weapons they'll ask some benign questions about you, but after that everything is 100% about them. To the point where half way through the game every time the voice overs would pause to skip your name it felt like a conscious choice by the dev to set up a twist. I legit thought the game was going to reveal you were the stalker the whole time, following these weapons on their dates with other people.
But no, no twist. You're just a person who might as well not exist, dating a bunch of entirely self absorbed weapons. I don't know how much the dialog options change any of that, a lot of them just seemed like multiple options that said the same thing. The handful of times I chose the more obnoxious choices to try and exert some influence on the game, it seemed like it just ignored it or someone would say "I wish you hadn't done that" and move on, never to be brought up again.
Again, this is my first time with the genre so I don't know if this is just how these games are. But if the choices really don't matter I wish they would have just written a main character with a backstory and personality and let me watch those interactions between dungeons. None of the "romances" bothering to learn anything about you was gross and just made all their conclusions feel completely insincere.
The GB app also stopped working on my Roku TV over the weekend. Pretty sure it was when the TV firmware updated. TV is now on software version 9.3.0 build 4182 if that helps at all.
I'm also having the same issue with those 2 videos. Thumbnail has a lock icon and a 00:00 runtime. Going to the show pages for either of them causes the app to crash. Playdates worked yesterday after the PokeMonday went up broken. But after the new Playdate went up today I can't open that show page at all either. All the other shows still work, premium or otherwise. Even the This Is The Run that went up between the 2 broken videos works.
I also watch videos in Edge on my Xbox One and have the same problem. It all worked until Thursday. Both live and recorded videos the player just says "Loading video..." forever and the settings buttons never even appear.
I would love to jump in a GB crew. I'm on Xbox as Dr Fidget. My library is over 800 songs so I should be able to contribute a fair amount of points to the weekly challenges.
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