I confess it. I have absolutely no ability to restrain myself when it comes to video games. You might recall a few posts back how I was sad that my time constraints had left me in a position where I didn't think I was going to be able to play a number of the games coming out this year, namely Dragon Age: Origins.



Well, things didn't work out quite the why I thought they would.

My freelance work recently found me with a nice stack of freely acquired games that I had no use for. Not feeling like putting them up for sale on Amazon, I decided to cart them down to my local GameStop to trade in. I shortly find myself with some 95 dollars worth of credit. I already had a game in mind at the time. My press copy of Demon's Soul was unfortunately a bit gimped as the press servers were closed upon the game's retail release, so I figured I buy a copy of that, which I did.

But what to do with the other 35 dollars?

Credit at GameStop is like an inferno in my pocket. There is always, always something I want, or something that I could justify buying. Well Dragon Age: Origins was just released and my GameStop had copies lining their shelves like a billboard reading "BUY ME!" I did just that and though suffering from unnecessary purchase guilt, I returned home with both games in tow.



Now there is something that a lot of grown up gamers talk about, generally with regret, and its the fact that they just don't have the time to play that they used to. There is work to deal with, and family and friends and if they're lucky a spouse. My wife and I play video games together often, but it isn't our only activity and as you can imagine doing non-gaming things takes away from gaming time. I'm not complaining either, I just haven't had the time for epics as of late.

Well, as it turns out my wife loves watching me play Dragon Age, so rather then going out to eat this weekend, or watching some of our Netflix stuff, she played The Sims 2 on her gaming laptop and I sat there playing Dragon Age, for two days straight basically. Then this morning as I dropped her off at work she said, "When we get home why don't we play more of your game?"

I know why she loves it so. Besides the game being fun to play or wonderfully gritty and dark, it also has strong relationship elements, which she thrives on. The very reason she love The Sims so much is because of the social focus at work in the game. It's great to work as a team to develop relationships between my party members.

So in short, things have turned out better than I expected with this game.

Oh and Mubari warhounds are awesome!