So, I while I am not really playing games anymore.... I play Paradox Games. Almost exclusively. I finally realized my long "dream" of becoming the Saoshyant of the ancienct Zoroastrian in Crusader Kings II and "Master of India" in Europa Universalis IV. Then there are very seldom Minecraft session with a real-life friend of mine on my own server. It turns out he is really into the exploring and surivial part of it. I really can not be bothered with gathering stuff. I just want to build and maybe show it of. Maybe we should join a bigger server. Then again I certainly can not be bothered to engage in so much MMOy fake social interaction. I also bought Banished, a city builder which has been very popular with the circle of LP-casters on YouTube I follow. And the Humble bundle. .... that probably goes straight to the backlog.

I also play about a daily match of Battlefield 4 or more. It has run really well for me in the last weeks. And today the expansion came out. Which seems good. I also pre-ordered Titanfall - because giant robots. I will probably suck at this game. Partly because I play shooters alone and do not use teamplay, but mainly because I am actually quite bad at the "shooting dudes" part of shooters. I am able to get some kills usually because when people start playing shooters (myself included), they start to have the behavioural intelligence of eelworms. They are really easy to predict. I also go to great lengths to pop up where I am unexpected. So about 90% of my kills are kills were I shoot people in the back. Also I am liking the vehicles. Many of my kills I got in the Scout Helicopter. It is really easy to pick off infantry with it. Until one guy decides to pick up a stinger. Then you die. No matter how good you fly. Not, really fair but I have my fun. In Call of Duty I used to just load up all the stealth perks and stabbed people all the time. I fondly remember the times where they had this ridiculous "lunge knife" perk. In Black Ops (part I which was the last CoD I played) I almost only used a silenced shotgun (I am not sure these things exist in real life, then again I have no interest in guns in real life). Titanfall seems not to be this game. Its about giant robots after all.... not very stealthy.

Furthermore I am gearing up for a trip. My company sends me to the headquarters in the USA for a week. I will extend my stay with a one week vacation in New York or something. To have some gaming with me I bought Bravely Default. This is my first J-RPG. I had to upgrade the storage on my 3DS to download it. Moving the data/games to the new 32GB SD-card was surprisingly easy. Simply copy a folder. I also have the impression the load times are considerably faster. I took care to get a card with about 90MB/sec rate instead of in the 30ies.