I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it before, but it’s a real pain trying to find a game to play with my friends.  It’s difficult for a multitude of reasons, chief among them being our tastes, but platform differences and scheduling conflicts make it even harder.  I’m not surprised though, as we’ve all gotten older, gaming has kind of faded to the background for a lot of people, as it probably should.

This isn’t me renouncing my love of games or anything, but as we get older, our priorities change.  We all have such limited time to actually play anything together, and that’s probably the sign of a healthier lifestyle on all our parts.  For me, it’s been tough to even write the blog some weeks because I’m just not playing new games as frequently as I used to.  Once again, not an indication of me cancelling the only feature on this site that regularly updates.

But more to the point, the few friends I still do have that I talk to online all have vastly different tastes in games.  We tried all sorts of things on both extremes of our preferences.  I tried Divinity: Original Sin II, a game in which my friends love, but one that bores me to tears.  We all tried Battlefield together, but that game did nothing but frustrate everyone involved.  Hell, I even bought The Division 2 thinking that it would be a good middle ground for us, but alas, it wasn’t.

But that’s alright.  The more I think about it, the more insular I’ve become in my gaming habits.  I can’t recall the last time I’ve hopped into a multiplayer match of any game by myself.  People talk about playing a couple of rounds of Apex or Overwatch or whatever, and I just don’t know how they bring themselves to do it.  It just seems exhausting to compete with others after a day of work.  What my friends and I seem to crave these days is more of a cooperative experience over a competitive one.

I don’t know, the more I type this, the more I think I’ve written this same exact blog before.  But it’s one of those things that remains constant in my life and stands to become a bigger part of it as time goes on.  Maybe Borderlands 3 will be that game, maybe that World War Z game will do it, or maybe we’ll spend the rest of our lives trying to find the perfect game for us.