Lessons From Livestream Gaming - ~10 hours in

I'll start adding formal time stamps on how long into my gameplay I am. I have to add up all my random games since I started Tomb Raider on the PS3, moved to Steam, and also picked up Ori and the Blind Forest.

But I'm about 9-10 hours into gaming. I've been live streaming several of those hours. The results?

Well, my ability to navigate my characters - jump, run, etc... - is improving. Slowly. I learned how to move the camera angle only 3 or 4 hours into Tomb Raider 😅I managed to restart Tomb Raider on the PC and breeze through the areas I'd been through on the PS3. I also picked up a ton of extra hidden treasures my second time through that I didn't see before. So there's that.


Still a lot of death going on. So much death.

Ori and the Blind Forest is gorgeous. I adore playing that game even if I do spend 30 minutes just trying to figure out how to explode a spider web. And even the "bad guys" in this game are cute little gremlin things.

But I'm enjoying it. I'm actually legitimately enjoying it. I expected that I would get tired of gaming like I usually do, but I think as I see myself getting through it farther and better, I am more excited to continue playing.

My boyfriend thinks it's hot that I'm gaming.

I found out that I mumble and talk super quietly when I have a camera on me. Or possibly just in general. Gonna have to work on that if I'm going to keep up a good livestream. Which I want to do, because it's more fun when there are people along for the adventure.

The Beginning

In the beginning, there was a PS3. It was red, with a crappy blue third party controller. And there was a single PS3 game - Tomb Raider (2013). And it was good.

Except that it wasn't *that* good. Because unfortunately, I have no idea what I'm doing here.

You see, I grew up watching my brothers play video games. I dated many a gamer in my life, and have watched them play also. Everything from Sonic the Hedgehog to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Need For Speed to Crash Bandicoot, to 007, to Borderlands and God of War. But me? I can't even stay alive in Super Mario Brothers. The farthest extent of my gaming cred is that I sometimes played the training course of Tomb Raider II back when I was a kid. And I can rock like a mofo if you give me Guitar Hero.

And that's it. But now, somehow, I've been convinced to actually give gaming a legit try. To put in some time and see what comes of it. I've heard that you can become a world class master at anything if you put 10,000 hours of effort into it. To master gaming in 5 years then, I'd have to put in almost 40 hours a week. That's not going to happen, but maybe I can come up with a more achievable goal. 1,000 hours then? If I can game for 6 hours a week, then I can complete this task in something around 3 years. That still feels like a long time... but doable.

So here we go, along for the ride. I'm going to try to keep a loose log of my time and see what develops.