I also get overwelmed by choices in big RPGs. I really had trouble with Oblivion for a long time until I just used the achievement list as a guide. Some people love this wide open sandbox with not much instructions. They love to figure it all out on their own. I get that but I too need a little direction to keep interested.
It didn't appeal to me for years. I was like, build a massive city? Why? I still say that because I can't get into creative mode just to build stuff. I thought I would though because I like to be creative but there seemed no real point to it.
I saw that edition for like $12 at Toys R Us. I wanted it for the dark Bowser with the Wii-U version, but I was already not supposed to be buying anything at the time.
Mark's even more crazy with tanks. I look over at his game and he's got like waves and waves of the things.
The Titan Goblins were really cool. You'd control them during battle giving you something to do other than just watch your armies fight.
I've banned myself from collecting for a while. I went a little crazy with Skylanders and Disney Infinity figures last year. Time to forswear it for a while while my bank account recovers.
I remember scoffing at it for the same reason you did, the graphics. I was like, "this is just a bad looking game. Who'd want to play this?". Then I tried it and was quickly hooked by the expansive world and all the things you could easily build there. Then I discovered the Enderdragon and decided this was really a RPG and from then on only played it that way. Well, except when I was going for achievements and had to build this monumental beacon structure. That took a lot of resources.
There's also circuits and railway in the game. I always want to fool with that but it usually isn't that usefull towards beating the Enderdragon, so I don't do it. But the other day I tested some special minecarts in creative mode and tried to think how that could make things go faster. I've been trying to speed run the Enderdragon objective.
If you followed the achievement list in Minecraft it would basically lead to all the major objectives in the game like going to The Nether or fighting The Enderdragon. Achievements/trophies can sometimes be like a kind of guide for the game and its features.
My 2 TB external drive is still plenty enough for my music.
I'd like to play a Lego game sometime soon. The Star Wars Force Awakens one was on sale last weekend. I'm on a no-buying regimen for a while. I think I have Lego Worlds on my rental list, so maybe I'll play that next.
I love, love, love hearing about the story in Demon's Souls and related games. The atmosphere and crazy bosses are just amazing. I so wish I could play those games better. I never got far in Demon's Souls.
I also want a movie based on those games. Where is a dark themed sword and sorcery movie? Of all the dark stuff Hollywood likes to do lately, they haven't done it in the faux medieval realm. The upcoming Arthur movie touches on it, but it's not dark ENOUGH, I say.
I'm trying not to think about them until I'm truely getting bored with a game. They give you some good objectives sometimes. The Minecraft list of achievements reads like a tutorial for important things you need to do in the game.
I'm up to 50 hours this year putting it number three on my most played games list for 2017. I looked at my records and I'm up to just over 600 hours total counting both X360 and XBO versions. This is since 2012 when I first recorded playing it. Last year was the most at 412 hours. I don't think I'll ever play it that much again unless they add a medieval warfare version. I keep wanting to build a castle and defend it like in Dragon Quest Builders. I'd also like to siege a castle and build catapults and trebuchet's. I experimented with the dispenser the other day. You can get it to shoot out fireballs like it was a cannon, but you can't move it around to change aim once it's placed.
