![]() In the last few weeks I've been to music concerts, had drinks at weird novelty bars, played pool, watched films I made at festivals on big screens with captive audiences. I can't be the only one in this position: since the world re-opened, life has become a lot more about the experiences that exist outside the confines of my house. I'm sure the developers have worked hard, and I hope it finds a captive audience, but I'm not even interested enough to wonder if I'll play it. Will I play it when it releases? I don't know and, honestly, I don't really care. But given my post-lockdown life rebound, the thought of this new title fills me with apathy. Two years ago, the imminent release of Apex Legends Mobile would have driven me rabid with excitement. Since that happened, mobile gaming just hasn't been part of my daily routine anymore - I have to force myself to play games now and then to test phones, but that's very much part of my 'testing time', not something I do to relax. It was just a shift in circumstances which meant my life was about more than just games, especially mobile ones. No longer was I playing incessant games of Call of Duty: Mobile, I never finished my Mechanicus campaign, and I even uninstalled most of the games that I was, at one point, addicted to. Mobile gaming was a natural, and immediate, victim of this change. Life stopped being about the three basic modes: sleeping, working and gaming, and starting resembling pre-pandemic life (as much as it could given all the rules about leaving the home). So I started spending more time being social, more time focusing on my creative hobbies, more time exercising. ![]() Had to leave the house as much as possible, if just to see the sun had to reconnect with friends who I'd lost contact with, even if just online had to look to the future instead of just looking at screens. There was a very particular point in mid-2021 when I realized that, even though Covid wasn't over, I had to treat myself like it was. ![]() I would have devoured both those things if they had been released in 2020, or even the first half of 2021.īut that's not the case anymore. Otherwise, the average skill of plays shoots up over time and you find yourself at too big a disadvantage when you jump back in after a few months away.ĭuring lockdown in the UK, I was super keen for Apex Legends Mobile and Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile, both things that were just rumored at the time but are now confirmed. I find that's the only way to enjoy multiplayer games - play them constantly. There was a time when my lunch break would consist of a round of Apex Legends and a round of Warzone, and I got good at both. I had a fixation on Battle Royale games for a part of lockdown. It was a paradise (well, it felt like it at the time, though in hindsight putting life on hold for two years so I could spend every waking hour staring at screens in the same flat probably did more harm than good). ![]()
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