White Week 4, great games to waste your time on while it's snowing

 White Week 4, great games to waste your time on while it's snowing 

White Week 4 -  Time Wasters

Reddit, the Chromebook won't let me go there so yeah

    

    Snow is the greatest thing to ever exist. You can eat it, look at it, or just appreciate it in all of its glory.  Some may tell you the snow is obstructive to daily functions but for a shut-in like me, I can find a magnitude of things to preoccupy me. (note) this excludes the overbearing amount of HW and housework I have to do on a regular basis. the things I'm talking about are way cooler than using the treadmill or baking cookies.  I'm if you haven't read up until this sentence, talking about games of course. And not the candy crush that old hobits use to pander until they croak. I believe that games serve as a great way to live in an escapist mindset or at least have some sort of enjoyment in your house besides binging. Diversity of games is also an important matter as the same game will result in boredom defeating the purpose. So in the next couple of minutes of your life, I will introduce you to an array of games that (are on sale for a reasonable price), and will make you kind of vibe out.  

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    Diversity in game selection is important, I've been playing a lot of R6 and slowly losing my mind.  Its toxic community, tense atmosphere, and bugs have made it a pain to play.  In response, I've recently gotten my friends into one of the most fun games I've ever laid my hands on and I hope to do the same with you. Have you ever watched a Pirates of the Caribbean movie and asked yourself, YEAH that looks great, swinging, killing the likes? Then I'd say this game is up your alley.  Sea of Thieves (SOT) is a massive open-world game where you can basically do whatever you want.  Find treasure got it, fight skeletons got it, sail a ship got it, tussle with a Kracken got it. SOT has a canny ability to appeal to almost anyone as long as you find out what you want to do.  (note) the POTC soundtrack goes great when you play this game. I've found that the more the merrier when it comes to people and a pirate attitude (accent included) makes the game so much more fun.  I tend to run a galleon which is a massive warship in SOT and run with a crew of four bumping classics such as chief keef while blowing up other people's ships. If you have friends that are bored as well this is a great game to pick up and play. 

https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP1003-CUSA02557_00-FALLOUT4FULLGAME

    This next game is for the people out there who have no friends and plenty of time alone.  Fallout 4 is the best money I've spent on a game in years.  The game follows a vet (Ill refer to a man as that's what I played as) frozen in a vault below the surface to survive the nuclear wasteland that has claimed his past life. Before he was thawed his son was stolen from him and by a mysterious institution.  Without going further into detail I've personally owned this game for around 4 years and through every run, I've found new things to do.  There is an extensive world with many faces, personalities, etc, all backed by a fun progression/exploration system.  Like SOT you can do almost anything you want such as set up settlements or roam the outlands weary of radiation levels.  To accompany this game is a huge list of classical songs across a number of radio stations that all BANG. I unironically sing these in my chair and I think my parents think I'm some sort of maniac. And I've also found that even if you've done everything you definitely can still make the game fun. Mods are plentiful in F4 and can result in funny instances such as Tomas the tank engine with a mini-nuke launcher.  Reflecting back I definitely have a lot of memories from this game, and It's engaging to this day so pick it up if this sounds interesting.   

Nintendo e-shop, Chromebook issue again. 

    Finally, if life for you is hell (subjectively) this game literally throws you in it.  DOOM ETERNAL, is my favorite game of 2020, and I will collectively vouch for it as a god sent action-packed, rage-inducing, masterpiece.   You follow the DOOM SLAYER a mute soldier who is quite literally too angry to die.  His only desire is to kill demons and throughout the game makes it very apparent. The lore for a chimp like me is very hard to explain, but in simple terms, hell on earth DOOM SLAYER hates demons there are lots of them, doom slayer, in space now, and WOW is that god himself.  I LOVE to just turn off my brain and just casually massacre thousands of demons while bumpin the soundtrack.  (note) the soundtrack for DOOM is amazing, It a collection of heavy metal that gets the blood flowing, and I'm being very open that I run and lift to the music cause it's that great.  It's composed by Mick Gordon who is a legend for composing DOOM 2016 and Eternals soundtrack. The game has a huge replayability factor and will have you talking for hours about it (kind of like what I'm doing rn).  The DOOM SLAYER has a massive arsenal from swords, chainsaws, shotguns, to your bare hands.  This coupled with a mechanic the ques the music to your fighting makes for an unrelenting testosterone-filled adventure. I wholeheartedly back this game and highly recommend it to anyone who wants to de-stress because this is the best replacement for putting holes in drywall. 

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    There's a lot of games that I didn't mention above that I'll just list off and if they sound interesting check them out.  Id also rec, Brawhalla, CDW, Forza Horizon, Friday the 13th, kingdom Newlands, PVZ, RDRII, Nier: Automata, UNO, and MC or T. Basically as long as you aren't playing league of legends on the snow days you will have fun, but the games listed have helped keep me going while I'm locked up inside.  I'm also playing MW, R6 occasionally but fps games are getting stale for me, and as stated diversity will help knock out boredom.  If you have some cash lying around, pick up a game and try it, or not, it's your money.  I hope though you play something cause I just don't know how I could waste my time on anything other than binging Anime, or playing games.  

(note) all of these games are on a console/pc.