What We Have Been Playing: Nostalgia, Far Cry Trivia, and Gym RuneScape
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Eurogamer's latest weekly feature explores the team's gaming habits, including a Far Cry 3 obsession sparked by Better Call Saul, unexpected Animal Crossing interest payouts, and the social perils of mobile RuneScape at the gym.
Our regular look at what has us hooked this week covers everything from sudden television epiphanies to the quiet comforts of returning to old saves. Writing over at Eurogamer, Victoria shared a familiar household dilemma. While catching up on Better Call Saul, she realized that actor Michael Mando played the iconic cartel member Nacho Varga and also brought unforgettable chaos to gaming as Vaas Montenegro in Far Cry 3. Eager to share this revelation, she attempted to brief an uninterested spouse on the nuances of Ubisoft open world villainy, leading directly to an impromptu series replay just to prove a point.
Meanwhile, the team has been finding unexpected victories in past virtual lives. Marie dusted off a Nintendo 3DS XL and booted up Animal Crossing: New Leaf, only to discover that five years of bank interest had quietly stacked up a maximum payout of 99,999 Bells. It serves as a rare and welcome reward for ghosting a digital community. Over in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Kelsey faced a harsher reality after returning for the recent 3.0 update, realizing a recent island reset meant a grueling grind of shameless time-traveling and terraforming just to unlock the new content.
On the mobile front, the ongoing saga of Old School RuneScape took an amusingly awkward turn during a gym session. Bringing the classic MMORPG to a phone for portable AFK grinding during downtime works wonders on a treadmill until a stranger glances over at the screen. Catching someone else clocking a retro click-and-wait session mid-cardio is a specific kind of public vulnerability that every handheld gamer understands completely. You can read the original roundup over at Eurogamer.
Tags: Gaming, Eurogamer, Animal Crossing, Old School RuneScape, Far Cry
Original article: Eurogamer