Right, so… Have you unwrapped your presents and gobbled down good ‘ol fashioned Christmas Dinner of Turkey and Ham (your mileage may vary if you celebrate Christmas differently)? Good, because it’s now time for the fourth part of my Posting Blitz on the hobby of gaming. I’ve already talked about my taste in Roblox Games, which is a platform accessible online. This time, I want to focus on games and platforms besides Roblox that I have dabbled in, mostly as temporary relief from the mental pressure of the Pandemic in the early part of this decade. And because these are other ways to access games that I wasn’t familiar with! Until I found myself mixing and mingling in the right circles.
Jackbox Games
Let’s start with the most obvious, even if you’ve only heard of the words Smitty, Quiplash and Trivia Murder Party. If you’ve been living under a rock and have never heard of a Jackbox Party Pack, they are essentially online-based party games where players join in a room via Mobile Phone and play along to see who comes out on top. I’ve seen my fair share of action on small-town Twitch Streams which means I’m in good standing to declare my overall favourite game as Quiplash and my overall least favourite as Trivia Murder Party. The former because of how out there people can be with their quips and the latter because of the horror theme, which I loathe, and also the standard of questions being way out of my comfort zone, even if they toned down the US-centric-ness in the second version.
Among Us
It’s funny how this social deduction game became one of the biggest winners of the COVID-19 Pandemic despite having been released a few years beforehand to pretty much no fanfare or ceremony. And, when you have the right mix of players, it can be a cause of brilliant chaos! One of my best performances was on a Twitch Stream where, during a round on the Skeld, I was an Imposter who sabotaged the Oxygen, which the rest of the crew couldn’t figure out and when the timer ran out and it was revealed that I was the Imposter who done the deed, I felt very good about myself and it gave me a high!
That’s something I don’t believe would ever happen if I played games of a similar nature that you can play online, on Steam or recently via consoles like Fall Guys and Fortnite. Not only does the sunk cost of purchasing Seasonal Skins and stuff really put me off but every time I think of the former, I can’t help but always think of those TimtheTatMan Meltdowns and how he would take out his frustrations on his poor penguin plushie who’s just… There vibing and thinking to himself, ‘Not another fail…’ They also remind me of me when I was a young buck majorly struggling to complete the second part of Set to Kill from The Simpsons: Hit & Run and how every time I failed, especially when I was just getting up the hill… I got more and more frustrated and occasionally boiled over. And I think playing Fall Guys would bring those same emotions out.
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