Death Stranding....

209 hours played means I'm plus 38 hours since my last confession blog post. Yea, who was I kidding when I said I'd not do the other locations to 5 stars! 

Short distance, long distance and abandoned cargo runs all made it happen more quickly than I thought. 

Completing the locations(The Veteran Porter, Novelists Son & Prepper) also gave a lot more lore in the form of interviews and e-mails; As well as collectibles(useful and not). Not only from them but from other NPC's which adds some nice world building.

Oddly enough I'm not pushed to discover all the remaining data chips(never say never eh).

The last location done was the 'First Prepper'; He's was the most remote and took the longest.

Once I'd gotten him to join the network I was at least able to put up a Zip-Line to link into my and others zip-line strings to make it easier. Lost cargo hunting was a great help in boosting his standings/likes. They tipped the balance, hunting for such lost cargo also added to the 'fun' in dangerous areas.

A Casual Carebear Gamer

I'd seen it in screenshots but never thought who would give it as a gift... The Santa hat comes from the Prepper.

While all of that was on the go, adding in the usual infrastructure upkeep was par for the course. It's no wonder I was still playing the game a lot. 

This was also helped along by the likes reaching the high 900k's. Not a goal I'd set but as it was so close and I'd all else done, it was an easy 'goal' to fix on... Once I'd topped the 1 Million like mark more meaning to play was fading away. 

So where and what now?

I still want to be in the game; But I don't want to be in it for the sake of being in it. The 1 Million likes was an easy ticking/pottering along goal. But now.....Having no goals is pointing me back to that which I don't want to do.... Data chips.

I think I need a more direct break from the game. Don't play for a week and see what the state of roads and infrastructure is.....