Back to Origins

I often find myself between games.  This is one of those times!  As a result of this phenomenon I generally peruse my game library and try to find something to do--do I replay something that I have enjoyed in the past or do I try to achieve something new?  I've been halfheartedly leveling up a seasonal hero in Diablo III.  Ragnaar, the boring barbarian, is finally level 70!  Getting to 70 was a bit of a drag, but now that he's there I can look forward to roaming through nephalem rifts and scooping up loot.  That's always a good time.

Beside a little Diablo III action, I have been playing around with my new Pinball FX2 tables and finding the "South Park" table to be the most enjoyable of the four I have recently purchased.  I am finding the sound effect and voices from the show to be a really fun addition.  Alas, I can only play so much pinball before I start to lose focus and want to smash things.

An elf archer.  Probably way cooler than mine.

So my neurotic gaming choices have brought me back around to Dragon Age:  Origins.  I had started a new character in like September with a completely unrealistic goal of playing through the first two games prior to Inquisition coming out.  It didn't work out and I found that I was bored after the first origin quest.  My poor elf archer has been sitting in limbo since I started him.  Last night I decided I would give him another go and see if I would immediately get bored again.  Amazingly, I didn't.  I did, however, discover that the mage tower quests that you have to solo aren't very fun as an archer.  My archer had to do a lot of melee...a lot of ugly melee because I hadn't taken any melee talents.  It was actually kind of fun though.  I think I'll keep playing Origins for the moment.

I mean, I'll play it until The Witcher 3 comes out in 5 days!  Five days!