We've made it to October! (Patreon)

Hey. So. It's been a bit of a rough time. I moved across the state. My new company finally got the funding we'd been waiting on since our pitch in March and we're hard at work on the new game. Heck, I just finished up some scripts over the weekend!

Healthwise, I've been through the wringer. Doctor yesterday said my adrenals are shot and I broke a tooth about an hour before writing this message up. I'm struggling.

But!

I still got some writing done, and I'm pretty proud of it.

First, there's this one:

 https://medium.com/@DocSeuss/i-dont-think-i-like-prestige-games-f85ef5cc46d5 

I think it comes off as a bit raw and angrier than I'd like. Some guy had been stalking my twitter account, sending me links of anything and everything as "anti-Sony" to prove I had an anti-Sony bias. I thought that was a bit nuts--I mean, I love a lot of Sony games! This gen had Until Dawn and Ratchet & Clank, for instance, which are great games I put a lot of time into. I have several PlayStation Vitas! Sony has a lot of greatness to explore.

What I don't like are games that try to be movies and end up not really earning their narratives in interesting or exciting ways.

Saw this get tweeted last night! Orson Welles on storytelling:

This struck a chord with me, because... well, yeah. When I streamed The Last of Us for all ya'll earlier this summer (it was my first time playing and I had a lot of really fun guests on to talk about it as I played), the big thing that kept coming back to me was "I'm not really interested in this story, I feel like I've seen it before." In fact, I had some people tell me "it's a great game, it's an amazing game, I'd never play it again." That mindset fascinated me.

And here I had this guy insisting--popping up for months--that I hated ~everything~ Sony made, rather than just finding a specific kind of game not very interesting. (it's amazing to note how many people on various internet forums declared I hated Sony when there's a recent post on this very blog about why I think Days Gone is amazing)

So I wrote about it. I needed to stay up, I needed something to do, I looked at my to-do list, saw "Patreon post," and I went at it. I wrote a piece. I tried to talk about all sorts of things, and the piece got like 2,000x the traffic that I was expecting. I thought I could clarify some things for myself, and instead I had a bunch of people who actually make video games for a living tell me that "I don't agree with everything said here, but it's a really interesting take."

I am blown away by that. I am grateful and I am stunned.

But, hey, I did more than that!

Here's the follow-up, where, after I'd got all the raw thoughts out, I was able to come back with a few refinements:

 https://medium.com/@DocSeuss/yeah-okay-so-i-dont-like-prestige-games-and-i-think-i-get-why-4e8483f333b 

I like it more and nobody ready it, lmao

If you wanted something NOT about prestige games, well, as part of our ongoing saga in writing about game stores, I've talked about Microsoft.

 https://medium.com/@DocSeuss/this-is-a-tiny-blog-about-the-microsoft-store-d382af5b9797 

I'm finishing up Ace Combat 0 now with a hopes to write about it soon. The biggest struggle I've had is my ADHD--it's difficult for me to stick with some games, even if I love them. I just got all my tax stuff done and should get some government medical care soon. This broken tooth is a huge worry though; hurts to eat.

Anyways, got more stuff to write up soon, really glad to have been able to move out. If you have anything you'd like me to cover, please request it! I love writing, even if my ability to do so is currently compromised by poor health.

I'll see you all soon! Thank you so much for your help. You mean the world to me.