TIME SINK VIDEO GAMES ANDROID

Add to this the fact that your tower is populated by a bunch of living, working minifigs and the whole thing is just incredibly delightful. And even rooms that aren’t based on actual sets have been wonderfully created using actual LEGO bricks and elements. If you’ve ever seen the mammoth £300 Ninjago City set, you’ll recognise a lot of the interiors have been pulled directly from that. The floors of the tower, too, contain lots of cute little nods to LEGO. I get a real kick out of seeing sets I’ve built in real life digitised in such a way. And on the top of my tower I’ve currently got Garmadon’s Shark Mech, but I could swap it out for the real Old Fishing Store set, or the top of the LEGO Expert Parisian Café. There are lots of nods to genuine LEGO sets in there – my elevator is currently themed on Emmett and Lucy’s rocket-house from The Lego Movie, for example. LEGO Tower, from the same developer, is exactly Tiny Tower, but with a beautiful LEGO-themed facelift. You’ll spend money to buy stock and new floors, and earn money by selling stock and collecting rent off your residents. Each floor will either be residential, allowing new people to live and work in your building, or some kind of shop/service, where your residents will work. Developer NimbleBit released Tiny Tower back in 2016 a free-to-play mobile game about adding new floors to a skyscraper. It’s pretty simple, but its LEGO-ness makes it rather addictive to the likes of me.

TIME SINK VIDEO GAMES ANDROID

A new one has just landed on iOS and Android though it’s called LEGO Tower, and it’s all about, well, building a tower made out of LEGO. The console releases of recent years have got a bit stale, but I’ll still try them out in the hopes of an improvement. And of course, as a result of that, I like to dabble in LEGO-themed video games too. I’m not ashamed: I may be thirty-one years old but much of my disposable income goes on those irresistible plastic bricks. I guess that's what makes game hour in ffxi really long, not necessarily the gameplay.Hello, my name is Kim and I’m a self-proclaimed LEGO obsessive. I can, however, spend a LONG time socializing, in ffxi/on FB/reddit/rl. It's the same thing as using Facebook, socializing.

If I'm just sitting in town chatting and afking I don't count that as playing ffxi though. Anything longer than that I get bored too. When I play ff11 I generally play 4-6hr per week. Most of the time I play a game for 10-20hr then quit. Last time when I played a game for over 50 hours it was ff13 back in 2014. I haven't spend more than 20 hours on a single player game in past 5 years. How much time investment for one (insert achievement here) is too much nowadays?Īnyways. naturally as an FFXI player i'm thinking like 500 hours for gameplay grind but then they mentioned 20 hours to unlock some of these achievements and i couldn't help but think '20 hours thats like hardly anything', are we the crazy ones here? Does the rest of the non FFXI playing video game enthusiasts community consider 20 hours for one thing too much? Personally i have around 33k hours logged in while thats not all actual gameplay for me its likely 75% gameplay.

The video in question had several achievements that are tough to get for various reasons but some of the ones on the list were for taking too long of a grind to accomplish. a game that is 'good' or worse, I will not be arsed with bothering.Ībout to head to bed but was watching a video about video game achievements that were too hard to get the other night and i was reminded of it again after clicking on my playtime for FFXI. I similarly got everything in Bloodstained, and beat it at least 4 times because, again, the game was such a joy for me to play.

for a game that you can beat in a relatively short period that was a lot of time, but I was mostly getting those achievements because I was having so goddamned much fun with the game. for me, there are countless games where a 'one and done' playthrough is all I am interested in, but if I am truly having fun, I am much more likely to end up getting the achievements that sap more time.Īs an example: in this year's annual summary from Sony, it said I spent 100 hours in Resident Evil 2, in which I chased every achievement (while also having a lot of fun *** about afterwards). I have encountered a fair number of people who think they need to platinum/get every achievement for any given game just because. I think a measure of an achievement being worth chasing is how much you actually enjoy the game.

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