And yes, I’d been playing a bunch of other stuff in the meantime.
Borderlands 2: Borderlands, but more of it and with a much better story and villain, and I was happy with that. I’ve made it most of the way through TVHM with Axton and should get around to finishing that off at some point. I’ve also done most of the DLC, except Hammerlock’s Big Hunt, which was a boring slog. Not sure if I’ll have time for UVHM or trying other classes in the future.
Minecraft: Of course. The 1.6 release took a long time to stabilize for mods, so I’d been putting together and playing my own custom mod pack of it, tweaking it as mods were updated. The major mod packs are catching up now, but I think I’ll stick with my own custom one for now.
Gran Turismo 6: It’s an improvement in a bunch of ways, but it’s really what GT5 should have been in the first place. It fixes up a bunch of stuff (the menu system and career mode in particular), but doesn’t really do anything revolutionary, and still has a bunch of flaws (weak leaderboards, features delayed into future patches) so it feels fairly weak compared to hearing about the new stuff in, say, Forza 5. It’s about the best I’m going to get for now though, without an XBone or PS4.
Terraria: There was a big patch (1.2) that added a whole bunch of new stuff so I started a new world and character. I haven’t really put much time into it yet though, so I haven’t really seen too much of that new stuff.
Animal Crossing New Leaf: I caved in and picked up a 3DS due to a tidal wave of games I was interested in last year (including Fire Emblem Awakening, Etrian Odyssey 4, and Shin Megami Tensei 4), but this is the one I’ve put the most time into by far. When granted municipal powers over animal people, I turn into an obsessive petty tyrant, apparently.
Ittle Dew: An indie Zelda clone. Fairly simple and short, but it’s still fun and pretty cute.
Bit.Trip Presents…Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien: One of those ‘continuous runner’ games where you can’t control the forward motion, just whether you jump, duck, kick, etc. Surprisingly difficult, but it’s satisfying when you finally nail a good run, and it’s still easier than the original Bit.Trip Runner game, which I gave up on in frustration.
Cookie Clicker: DON’T ASK.
MMO-wise, I finally registered Rift and gave it a try, but it didn’t really grab me. I just haven’t been feeling the MMO urge for a while now, so I recently wound up cancelling all of the active subscriptions I still had going (Rift, EQ/EQ2, WoW, and LOTRO). Maybe EQ Next will revive my interest, since it’s at least trying something different.