project status: off the rails
I have been thinking lately about Moogle U, and why I've gotten so bad at it. When we first started (omg, in 2013) I was doing a really kickass job at tearing through the games and posting and having commentary and thoughts and feelings and all that shit. And the complicated thing is that I'm still really enthused about the idea of Moogle U, but actually executing on it is tiring, and also no matter what I do I seem to not have time anymore.
I realize a lot of why I was so damn good at it in the beginning was that we played the first nine games on portable systems (and when we did Tactics and FFTA, I was also really good at those), and I have a long commute and also a lunch hour on which to play games and take a million screenshots. But around the time we finished FF9, there was the wedding and the house-buying and then things never seemed to get back to where they were before (plus, let's be real, around the time we finished FF9 I also got into FF14, and then mobile games happened.)
FF13 in particular has been harder because my husband also wanted to see the plot, so not only do I have to wrangle my own schedule, but I have to wrangle his as well. And it's not fair to blame it entirely on him - I dropped the ball hard on FF12 and FF10/X-2 all on my own! - but I'm sure it is a contributing factor. And of course, posting less frequently means less community interaction which means less energy to drive me to the next post, etc. and so on and so forth.
I don't want to give up Moogle U; I also don't want to make games into chores. But I'm wondering if maybe I should start setting a recurring appointment for myself and my husband - let's play FF13 - so that at least there's time carved out for me to sit my ass down and work on playing the game. I've been working on it since January but have yet to make an actual post for it, go me.
To an extent I think some of this is that we've gotten so far into the series, and have so few games left to do, and I really want to finish this project that we began (and we keep having enthusiastic conversations about other series we can play and talk about when we're done with FF.) I'm not sure why I'm so much slower about all of this; in theory I've wrapped up all of the bullshit that slowed me down initially and should (ha, there's a nasty word, "should") be able to devote more time to this if only I'll sit down and do it. (Some of that, again, is the lack of portable gaming--it was way easier to pick up FF1-9 for half an hour and then put the console in sleep mode and go to bed, whereas with 13 I have to make sure I allow enough time to get to the next save point.)
And, as usual, I have thrown out a great many words and not actually accomplished anything with them. Cool. Par for the course.
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I realize a lot of why I was so damn good at it in the beginning was that we played the first nine games on portable systems (and when we did Tactics and FFTA, I was also really good at those), and I have a long commute and also a lunch hour on which to play games and take a million screenshots. But around the time we finished FF9, there was the wedding and the house-buying and then things never seemed to get back to where they were before (plus, let's be real, around the time we finished FF9 I also got into FF14, and then mobile games happened.)
FF13 in particular has been harder because my husband also wanted to see the plot, so not only do I have to wrangle my own schedule, but I have to wrangle his as well. And it's not fair to blame it entirely on him - I dropped the ball hard on FF12 and FF10/X-2 all on my own! - but I'm sure it is a contributing factor. And of course, posting less frequently means less community interaction which means less energy to drive me to the next post, etc. and so on and so forth.
I don't want to give up Moogle U; I also don't want to make games into chores. But I'm wondering if maybe I should start setting a recurring appointment for myself and my husband - let's play FF13 - so that at least there's time carved out for me to sit my ass down and work on playing the game. I've been working on it since January but have yet to make an actual post for it, go me.
To an extent I think some of this is that we've gotten so far into the series, and have so few games left to do, and I really want to finish this project that we began (and we keep having enthusiastic conversations about other series we can play and talk about when we're done with FF.) I'm not sure why I'm so much slower about all of this; in theory I've wrapped up all of the bullshit that slowed me down initially and should (ha, there's a nasty word, "should") be able to devote more time to this if only I'll sit down and do it. (Some of that, again, is the lack of portable gaming--it was way easier to pick up FF1-9 for half an hour and then put the console in sleep mode and go to bed, whereas with 13 I have to make sure I allow enough time to get to the next save point.)
And, as usual, I have thrown out a great many words and not actually accomplished anything with them. Cool. Par for the course.
I've posted this at http://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/1154800.html and you may comment there or here. On Dreamwidth, this entry has
comments.