You know the road: it’s called The Damned Game Wouldn’t Download Because The Computer Kept Insisting That The Antivirus Program Said No And The Antivirus Program Said Nuh-UH And The Computer Said Uh-HUH And Then You Start Randomly Pushing Keys Like A Monkey And Suddenly It All Works Again. It’s such a lovely road. I couldn’t possibly tell you why I don’t travel it more often.
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I tend to end up playing the “Well, you’ve downloaded the game but it’s going to crash if it’s on an external drive, so you’ll need to download it again to an internal drive because you can’t just copy it over from where it was installed because the launcher will freak out” game.
There’s a reason I switched to console.
(Granted, a larger part was two consecutive Elder Scrolls games crashing at launch because they didn’t like video cards that they *should* have been compatible with.)
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I put in a game.
It works.
And I don’t even have to blow into the cartridge.
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I do miss top-down games with actual tactics and strategy. Dragon Age: Origins was one long interface screw (and some of it was deliberate choice.) on console, and I’m still grumpy about it. (The setup for the invisible assassins, especially. The supporting characters revert to basic aggressive AI when off screen, a hard-coded camera pan and a dinky archer spawning in the middle of the empty room you just cleared mean your character *will* walk into the ambush alone.)
Tides of Numenor seemed to work pretty well, though. I need to make another run at that one when life gets less crazy. (I got a decent start, but had a couple of weeks unable to play where I forgot most of the mechanics, what I was doing, and where things were. So… Yeah.)
Antivirus, you say. Well, like WC Fields and water, I never touch the stuff. (Although, admittedly, I leave the default Windows AV because it’s good enough.)