Gaming has been one of my favourite past times ever since I was a little child. It started with the PS2 and the Nintendo DS eating up my 1-2 hours of allowed playtime everyday and continued with consoles like the Wii, WiiU, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch and the PC. I've tried a variety of different genres and still have a mile long wishlist with games I'd like to try out, as well as a list of games I started playing but never finished. On this little page I'd like to introduce you to my favourites, that I have actually put some time into! They keep drawing me back in and I hope to achieve my goals in them one day! If anyone would like to play together, lemme know :3
I first got introduced to Stardew Valley through a friend of mine that used to post his progress on his instagram story. When I saw the tiny little dinosaur you could actually get in your coop on your farm, I was absolutely sold and bought the game for my tablet. Which truthfully wasn't the best screen to play it on and neither was the phone I then bought it for, but when I finally got it for the switch, my playtime went trough the roof! After about a year or two I also got a laptop and installed it on there, because I was interested in modding the game (which I haven't done yet tho).
This game has a very special place in my heart and I love that you can just replay it again and again. Theres endless possibilities to alter the way you want to do your next playtrough and the opportunity to mod the game adds even more variety. I think its very inspiring what CA has managed to do and I greatly enjoy it to just run around and collect all the different items and hoard them in my chests on my farm. Its a lot of fun to jump into the mines and defeat monsters, or to play junimo cart and die whenever you're close to completing the next stage...well okay its also just the tiniest bit frustrating, but the game makes up for it by offering you the opportunity to gamble in the casino without selling your soul away.
My favorite characters are Sebastian and Linus (yes I am kind of a basic bitch). Linus is just hella easy to find gifts for & befriend and I can respect it, that he really just wants to chill and live his life. Sebastian is kinda hot and such a wannabe badboy, that you simply have to love him + dude spends so much time on his pc, that he would totally not mind it if you did parallel play with him! That being said I have never actually married anyone in the game, because I tend to forget, that the villagers exist in the first place...whoops!
I have also never achieved perfection, but it is something I am currently working on (he says and hasn't played Stardew in like a month...someday I absolutely will achieve perfection tho!)
I was 13 years old when I downloaded minecraft on my very first smartphone. It had been a fight to convince my parents that I absolutely needed to spend money on a phone game, that I technically had bought for the pc already (tho it did not run on there because our pc was shit unfortunately), but after some very convincing arguments from my side, such as "Everyones playing it" I finally got permission.
I"ll say it as it is, my first attempts at building houses and trying to understand how the game works, were not really...crowned by success. I died to more monsters on easy mode than I'd like to admit and to this day I have not beaten the ender dragon or understood how redstone works. One could argue, that my houses still look like crap, the new combat system confuses me and automatic farms are a huge mystery to my poor little brain, that just wants to place some silly blocks on top of each other.
The early days when the nether was just a big ugly box that spawned in your regular world, were kinda iconic tho and I had a lot of fun making worlds with my school collagues where we tried to recreate VARO or island projects. I remember one of my classmates nearly getting his phone taken away, because we were all playing during physics class and his volume was so loud that you could hear the minecraft cow moo trough the whole classroom.
Nowadays I mainly play minecraft by joining the Hypixel Skyblock Server and mining the same ten blocks in order to hear the satisfying bling sounds and see the immediate gratification, that is my level bar progressing. I have put over 200 hours into that at this point and I don't think I have made it past early game yet! Its a lot of fun :3 Next to that I did give gamemodes like Dropper, Bedwars and Buildbattle a try, but nothing has really gotten me as much as Hypixels take on Skyblock did.
Technically I also have a world, I'd call my "forever world" which I started a few months ago and promptly abandoned after not even a week of playing. Since I haven't created any other worlds since then though, I am still sticking to the concept...just with a big break xD. For that project I also finally learned how mods work and used those to spice up my gameplay a little...(lets be real, mostly just to give me an infinite map with waypoints because my orientation skills are shit). I swear I'll return to that world...eventually.
As a teenager I was actually never into shooter games, which was surprising as I did have a tendency for liking violent and morbid things. Even if I had liked them though, my parents would probabably not have been easily convinced to let me play them and while I could have just been sneaky, I never really saw a reason for that. Therefore it took until the age of 22 for me to be interested in downloading shooter games and oh boy did I discover what I missed out on. It was just cheap phone games in the beginning, but when I watched someone, who I originally followed on tiktok, stream Valorant on twitch, I immediately fell in love with the game!
It took me an embarassingly long amount of time to figure out how I could even access and download the game, but eventually I did figure it out, rushed trough the tutorial and jumped into a round, just to be yelled at immediately when I had no idea which buttons to press to defuse the spike...or what a spike was in the first place. I ran straight into the gun fire and like any beginner Phoenix main, I absolutely blinded the shit out of my teammates. They definitely loved me! Then like any beginner Val player I focused so much on improving my aim and how I peaked corners, that I entirely forgot about my utility, when it is exactly this util that makes Valorant cooler than any regular shooter.
Playing Phoenix as a beginner was probably a good choice, as its relatively expected that you die first as a duelist, but just like many other edgy wannabe badboys I could not resist Omens pull and eventually switched to him. I gotta say playing him just feels beautiful, even if I'm still learning when to place my smokes, when teleporting is gonna work out and how I convince my teammates to give me the spike so I can teleport to the other side of the map and plant there once I have my ult.
I am definitely not a good player yet and theres rounds where I play like an absolute beginner that can't even tell his laptop keys apart, but I'm having a lot of fun and whenever I actually hit my shots, I feel like I'm on top of the world. The active community on youtube with their advice videos has definitely improved my gameplay at least a bit and while I desperately need more friends to play with me, I also have fun on my own! I'm just absolutely not gonna touch competetive mode ever, because I like my sanity thank you very much!
Also someones needs to take my money away from me, because hhhh pretty skins :3333 Gotta buy them all!!!