Here’s the update :
The money I put on my reloadable VISA posted at around 7:30 pm last night, so no worries there. It’s all there ready to be spent.
That means that by now I have bought Borderlands 3…. kinda.
I bought it, downloaded it (which took 14 hours), and tried to play it. But it hangs on the very first loading screen, and I am pretty pissed off about that.
So far, I have tried two of the things the internet suggested and neither of them worked. Three if you count “just wait a real long time” as a solution. Right now, the cute little robot whose name escapes me is dancing across a black screen over and over, and that’s it. It is hung there.
And it’s been twenty minutes. And I don’t hear any activity from the hard drive, so I somehow doubt it’s loading anything. So I think I may be officially fuct.
And that pisses me off solid because I have wanted this game for ages and it took so long to download and I was so happy to see it for sale for 50 percent off, and now it looks like I will not get to play it.
Son of a bitch.
I hope it’s not just an issue of my computer being a few years too old to keep up with this fairly new game.
The solution to that would no doubt be expensive. I can afford it, but it would still suck to have to take all my extra cash and put it into upgrades.
But I might have no choice if I want to be able to play newish PC games. And I do.
I mean, to say playing video games is my main hobby is an understatement along the lines of “many fish like to swim”.
So it would make sense to invest in said hobby. But I would rather not.
Of course, if I can’t get Borderlands 3 to work, I will have to return it, and get my $40 CDN back. And then look for something new to entertain me.
Which will be a pain.
Wow. I totally forgot that I wasn’t done writing. Between trying to make Borderlands 3 work and watching YouTube videos, this little blog o’ mine got forgotten.
Too many irons in the fire, I guess. Lesson learned.
Anyhow, so yeah, I will have to find another game in which to invest, and that’s very annoying at this point because that means facing all those options again.
Oh well. I am sure I will find something. And who knows, maybe I will get the damned thing running. I am not out of options yet.
But the prognosis is poor. Reminds me of when I bought Red Dead Redemption 2 at full price, only to find it ran incredibly poorly on my machine.
Turns out, it was a legendarily bad port to PC and at the time there was nothing to be done about it except return the damned thing.
I wonder if they ever fixed all those issues.
If they have…. maybe I will try it again.
More after the break.
God damn fucking son of a bitch!
For full effect, imagine that statement spat out in a rush of French Canadian fury, with accent, and with such fluency that it makes it almost seem like one word.
So, no luck with Borderlands 3. I was pondering trying a few more things when I noticed that according to Steam, my time “played” (hah) was 118 minutes, and that kind of decided it for me because the cutoff for returns is two hours, or 120 minutes.
Of course, I’ve never played the game. It hung (as in, listed as Not Responding in Task Manager) before even getting to the main menu, let alone playing it, but whatever. I will buy something else.
In the meantime, I reinstalled a kickass older game called Dishonored which I haven’t played in a long time and which is very up my twisted little alley, because it’s full of darkness, brutal violence, revenge, killing the fuck out of bad people, bringing harsh and final justice to the bastards who betrayed you, and lots of room to explore once you get far enough into the game to have the run of Dunwall.
It also has excellent controls for doing things like climbing on top of things, jumping gaps, peeking around corners, climbing up walls, and all the other things that make me love games like Shadow of Mordor so much.
Basically, I love games that let me use the full range of humanity’s monkey-like climbing and scrambling abilities instead of expecting me to believe that my protagonist knows how to use a zillion guns but has not figured out how to scale a fence or walk on a narrow ledge without falling.
Plus, I have always wanted to be able to move around like that, but even if I had ever been fit enough, I have the wrong body type for it.
You don’t get a lot of bear shaped ninjas.
Dunno what I will end up buying for myself. I will take a look over my Steam Wishlist and ponder my options. No rush, I have Dishonored to keep me busy till I find something new to acquire.
Stealth plays a fairly large role in Dishonored, and as patient readers know, I am not good at stealth. I lack the patience and attention to detail required.
But I am getting better. I don’t blunder into situations as much. I have learned to go a bit slower and give myself a chance to assess a situation before attacking.
It’s hard to restrain my basically bloodthirsty and battle loving nature. My instincts still tell me to just kill the motherfuckers already.
Well my food is here. I got the good sushi from Toku. Apparently they won’t come into the building any more so Joe had to go down and get it for me.
Noted. Next week I will be ready,.
Damn I miss going to restaurants.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.