symphony
surving hour-by-hour
- Mar 12, 2022
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If so, how long did it take you?
I fell in love with the game when I first played it and I have almost 500 hours logged but I've never played to completion even before the 1.5 update which added a lot of end-game content. I've barely played since the update at all.
I'm considering setting it as a goal to complete the game before I CTB, but I'm struggling to gauge if that's feasible. Searching online gave wildly different estimate of how long a full playthrough can take.
Here's some of my decision-making process:
Pros:
It's silly, I know, don't judge too hard lol. It's just something that's on my mind and I want to hear others' experiences with the game.
I fell in love with the game when I first played it and I have almost 500 hours logged but I've never played to completion even before the 1.5 update which added a lot of end-game content. I've barely played since the update at all.
I'm considering setting it as a goal to complete the game before I CTB, but I'm struggling to gauge if that's feasible. Searching online gave wildly different estimate of how long a full playthrough can take.
Here's some of my decision-making process:
Pros:
- It's something I enjoy
- It would give me something to work towards; currently I feel most everything I do is futile and most my "goals" meaningless because I'll die before I do anything meaningful (i.e. graduate or get a job)
- It would serve as a distraction and help me fill my time
- I worry I wouldn't have enough time to get fully through it
- If I fail, I may be disappointed in myself or hard on myself (yes, I know how silly that is, I know it's just a video game)
- I may feel like I have to devote time to the game instead of other things I'd rather do in order to meet my goal
- Things like energy, motivation, and concentration are hard; when I last tried to play the game (or any game, really) a few months ago, I struggled to sit with it for even an hour for these reasons
- I will certainly not be able to do everything I'd like to with it; for example, even if I get 100% completion in the vanilla game, I may then want to get 100% completion of the Expanded mod but not have time before I CTB, which again sets me up for disappointment
It's silly, I know, don't judge too hard lol. It's just something that's on my mind and I want to hear others' experiences with the game.