Life is a game

My current game of choice is called Path of Exile or PoE.  Josh tried to play it with me but it wasn't his style.  He also played Diablo 3 and World of Warcraft with me (when I played them) for a bit but he didn't really love them either.

After Josh passed I created a character in PoE called Deathturtle_the_Great.  Josh's online persona was Deathturtle.  When he played PoE his character's name was Deathturtle so I couldn't use that.  DT the Great is a melee character that smashes!  That is what Josh liked.  I've played it a couple of times and enjoy thinking of Josh being there, hitting everything in his path.

The types of games he played were first person shooters or games like Grand Theft Auto.  Whenever a new GTA would come out I would "lose" him for a couple of weeks while he played the crap out of it.

He loved Portal.  I played that as well, but could not finish the game.  I still have a fondness for the Companion Cube.

Then there were the Resident Evil games.  I also attempted to play one of them but couldn't get past the first major battle.  It was the same as GTA, I'd lose him for a bit while he played the games.  haha   It was fine.  I actually would watch him play; it was pretty fun.

His favorites were Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead.   He'd get so mad at people who wouldn't play as a team and would leave others behind that he would yell at them and call them names.  haha  He could trash talk with the best.  I used to go to him for good 'comebacks' because I really can't think of things to say to people that don't have the words, "Oh ya?  Well...so do you!" in them.  I tried TF2 once...I am not a first person shooter type of gamer, that's for sure.  ;O)

Then of course there was always Rock Band.  He loved to sing even though he was tone deaf.  I still loved to hear it.  He couldn't play the instruments very well so I'd play drums or guitar while he sang and then turn off the instrument while I sang.  He just loved singing some of his favorite songs with the game.  Sometimes he'd just ask me to sing some songs because he wanted to hear my voice.

My favorite game he played was online Poker on his phone.  Not the kind for real money, of course.  He would come in and say, "Okay, honey.  We are up to 1.5 million now.  I was up to 2 million, but I lost some money.  I'm on my way back up."   We'd make jokes about what we're going to do with his gambling money.  lol

One nice thing about Josh is he understood my need to let out my stress by killing monsters and zombies in my games.  I'd have a bad day at work and he'd say, "Go kill something for a bit."  It is nice to check out and go on a killing spree in a game.  I think it keeps you from going on one in real life.  :)