I’ve been playing a lot of video games lately.  And walking.  Not simultaneously though, I haven’t quite mastered that skill yet.  Unfortunately, the way I’ve been playing most games I enjoy isn’t very productive, but wow, is it fun!  I prefer “open world” games like GTA V and Just Cause 4 because you can basically just run around (or drive, or fly) and reek havoc on the world, experimenting with what’s possible and what’s not in that particular game.

I guess within these games I’d probably be considered a terrorist…I just run around causing as much trouble as possible, without completing the game’s goals in any way.  I have seen that it can help though, whenever I do get around to playing the games as they were intended.  For example, wandering the entire playable area in a game can end up revealing the entire game map, as I recently realized in Just Cause 4.  The map you can bring up shows the areas of the world you’re in that you’ve discovered.  So the first time I brought up this map to seriously play the game, it was nearly a complete map already!  I can now easily pull this up at any time, set a waypoint to an airfield if I feel like taking a plane ride, travel there the quickest way I can, then hop in a plane and take off.  It’s fun just to see what issues i run into try to get that far too. Lego Worlds is very similar (there he goes with Lego Worlds again…<eyeroll>) – you generate a random world, then start exploring it, revealing the world’s landscape on the map as you travel through it.