What is your opinion on the topic? Have you never tried it, do you do it all the time, something between the two extremes?
If you have done it, how did you find it? Fun, boring, a great way in increase immersion, a total waste of time and effort, something else? Also, do you prefer digital or physical format?
If you haven't done it, would you ever consider trying it out?
Personally I think there are two sides to it: on one hand it can be really fun, increase immersion, improve your creative writing skills and of course immortalize your character(s) -- but on the other hand it takes time and effort, and if needing to Alt-Tab out of the game in order to write the journal, it can decrease immersion.
The only game I've done it thus far is Skyrim, and I used a mod to be able to write in an actual in-game journal. It was a lot of fun, and I wrote long entries, but every single time the frequency and length of my entries steadily decreased to a full zero.
At the moment I'm thinking I might try keeping a character journal in Cyberpunk 2077, once it's released. In the meantime, I will most likely give that Skyrim journal mod yet another go, and hope that I won't lose interest after a dozen or so entries.
If you have done it, how did you find it? Fun, boring, a great way in increase immersion, a total waste of time and effort, something else? Also, do you prefer digital or physical format?
If you haven't done it, would you ever consider trying it out?
Personally I think there are two sides to it: on one hand it can be really fun, increase immersion, improve your creative writing skills and of course immortalize your character(s) -- but on the other hand it takes time and effort, and if needing to Alt-Tab out of the game in order to write the journal, it can decrease immersion.
The only game I've done it thus far is Skyrim, and I used a mod to be able to write in an actual in-game journal. It was a lot of fun, and I wrote long entries, but every single time the frequency and length of my entries steadily decreased to a full zero.
At the moment I'm thinking I might try keeping a character journal in Cyberpunk 2077, once it's released. In the meantime, I will most likely give that Skyrim journal mod yet another go, and hope that I won't lose interest after a dozen or so entries.