This comment really hit home with me b/c I am: in my thirties, great wife, great son, great house, pretty good career and hobbies...overall try to stay a positive person. Prob more happy than I've ever been.
But, for some reason I get seriously pissed about the total lack of Gran Turismo on PS4. I mean WTF? I was out of gaming for a few years. My wife surprises me with a ps4 when she's pregnant. I basically just assumed that GT7 would be out soon (and having been out of gaming I also assumed that GT6 would be workig on ps4.
Anyways, it's been cool b/c I still have my sports games and I've learned to like new stuff (Witcher 3 is great)...but I'm primarily a racing game fan. (I'm also in the minority in that I think Project Cars sucks.)
But yeah, I pretty much have what I want out of life. But, the total botch of the timing and 2087 release date for Gran Turismo 7 is something that I really do think about, and get bummed/frustrated about on basically a daily basis.
Unfortunately for you Xbox is where it's at for racing games. The Forza series is just as good as Gran Turismo these days. Even better considering you can actually play them!
By the time GT7 comes out, X1 would have had Forza 5, Forza 6 and Forza Horizon 2. It is essentially the main reason I got an Xbox over PS4!
I tell myself it's not that bad b/c I hated FH2. My buddy has FH2 and I can't stand it. Crashing though restaurant tables and off buildings the whole thing was super arcade and dumb to me.
I want real tracks, realistic lap times, some real racing teams cars, etc. but, I know Forza 6 will have all that.
E3 came around and from PD?.....nothing. Meanwhile, Microsoft is dropping a Ford GT out of the ceiling and has a sept release date on Forza 6...damnit.
I can't justify having two systems, and I'm not going through trading in. Microsoft lost me to Sony with the NSAbox. I'm pretty much stuck, I just hope it's by Xmas of 2015 at least. This 2016/17 crap is insane!
FH2 is actually a great game but you're right it's an arcade racer. It's competition is Need for Speed and The Crew etc. In my opinion it is better than both of those games. I love the style but im a big fan of the serious racer too.
Forza 5 was great and Forza 6 will be even better. It's a shame you still view the Xbox as a NSAbox because you're really missing out on great games. I only have one system too although if I could afford it i would have both!
I was just suggesting you look at Xbox (or PC) if you're an avid racing fan, because Playstation have massively dropped the ball in that regard. Saying that the new Formula 1 game is coming out soon iirc. That might scratch the itch until (if?) GT comes out!
Nope, only GT7 or a Forza 6 will do. I could easily afford XBONE. But, my annual income just took a 17-18k/year hit. I'm still doing fine. But, stuff like having PS4 and XBONE when I maaaaybe play games 3-4 hours a week...well, that's just not happening.
I'm right there with ya on the GT7 thing. Bought my PS4 hoping that there'd be a soonish release date, but seeing as this is Polyphony we're talking about they're really good about being slow with the development.
Now of course there are other things to play on the Piss-Station 4 and there is always Forza on the Xbox, but even in my childhood I knew that deep down that I'm a Gran Turismo fanboy. I can't help that fact.
Sir as my elder i would like you to respectfully know i have similar desires in life, im 39 and 1/2 so still being in my 30s im glad to know this is ok.
But why is that a bad thing? My dad says (He's 55) that all he wants to do with his life is drink a beer and sit outside of our camper in New York. Everyone thinks the end goal is to have a job that makes you happy. On the contrary, I think it's to have a job that doesn't make you hate yourself and gives you the funds so that you can do what you want to do with the rest of your life. Career =/= life.
Don't worry. Most folks are in the same boat. I'm 56. Had 2 careers, retired at 45. Started a business, then another. And now own one and partnerships in two and hate both of them. ( the business and the partners) Am dissolving one next month. The other at year end. I keep telling my wife I'm going to be selective about next partnership or business venture. But the reality is someone will say "LobBobBlob let's go together and chrome plate turds, this area needs a turd shop" and I'll be in business again. For 2-3 years I'll love it and then I'll loath it. My normal cycle is to love an idea, get something going and then hate it. Amazingly we somehow make money, but it's not through fore site, planning or always knowing what we are doing. It seems that attention to detail, honest work, personal pride, reliability and that combined with some luck seems to pull us through. But knowing what i truly want to do in life still escapes me.
This is me. I had to leave the one career that made sense, and I'm so far out of it, I can't get back in. So since then, I'm just plopping along into whatever comes along (I am not a leader, I'm an excellent follower and assistant). Make me feel better knowing I'm not the only one!
I figured out that I already knew what I should do. Many of my friends doubt every move that they make "is this the correct path? Where is my goal?". Dude (and dudettes), there's no goal and most of the time there is no path at all.
Right now? Wash boats in a boatyard, survive on benefits for me and my two kids.
In the past? Long list: first job at 14 as a dishwasher, then the next year prep cook. Then waitress, cashier, ice cream scoop, waitress again, theme park attendant, PA on national talk show, PA on other shows, assistant producer, assistant line producer, public relations mouthpiece for a national broadband pressure group, (mother in here somewhere as well), online marketing on the side, yarn shop worker, and now back to waitressing and finally back to boat washer.
38 and I just try to make each day a happy one, this has always been my first goal in life. Today it's recovering from an island camping trip, coffee and getting toasted. Tomorrow will be work and flirting with nurses and cute clerks.
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u/knitwasabi Jul 13 '15
Hate to say it, but I'm in my 40's and still can't figure out what to do with my life.