What a season, what a season. For the second year in a row I managed to play more than 10 games of the current year. The year was full of surprises, my number one was a game I thought was gonna be "ok" at best, while one of my most expected games did not make the cut.
First, some awards for games that are not on the list:
The "Would Probably Make the List if I had Played it" award goes to Return of the Obra Dinn. Everything about this game appeals to me, it came out at the same time as RDR2 so I did not get to play it, I made the wrong choice.
The "Most Impressive But Not Really Good" award goes to Red Dead Redemption 2. I like how the game takes it slow and all, but in the end the gameplay is just not good, and things like chapter 5 made me actually hate it. And even though Arthur is a great character, I could not care for the story at all.
The "Almost made the cut but I did not play enough of it" goes to Dead Cells. I only managed to play a handful of runs and I like it a lot, I'll probably play a lot of it in 2019.
Also, here's the full list of games I played in 2018, there were 48 in total, most of them finished, some of them I was "satisfied" and put down knowing I'll probably never play them again.
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I played the other GoW games and thought they were ok, so I did not have my hopes high for this, which made it a delightful surprise, the game looks stunning, combat feels great and sound design is amazing. Not only that, they managed to make Kratos an interesting character for once!
Big card game fan here, this game caught me by surprise and got me hooked, mixing roguelike mechanics with CCG was such a fresh idea to me, even though the graphics are terrible and the game is on early access, it was one of the best things I played in recent years.
I'm a sucker for Vampires and for the World War I period, specially in a story based, choice driven game, so this game presses a lot of my buttons. The story is pretty good and there are many great characters, I think many people might have overlooked this game.
This is nostalgia overload, the original Pokemon games are among my all time favorites, and this game turned out better than I expected. I love the fact that wild Pokemon now appear on the grass and that you don't need to fight them to catch 'em all.
I'm all for more weird games, also I love card games and Lovecraft, so I'm the target audience for this. It's a hard game, I need to come back and dig deeper.
Spider-man the movie 2, yata yata, swing, yata yata. Game looks gorgeous, plays great, story is actually ok!
I'm not gonna say this game is not full of issues, but I did have a great time playing it with my friend and meeting a few strangers. I also believe most people who reviewed this game played it alone, and this affected their enjoyment of the game.
Such a simple and powerful story, it's nice to see more games like this showing up and being recognized. A perfect game for a rainy saturday morning.
Probably my least favorite quantic dream game, specially after replaying Indigo Prophecy this year. That said, I do love this style of games, and hope they do better next time.
A delightful short experience with fun writing, every year that passes I appreciate short games more and more.