A list I'm making so I don't forget what I've played. Though I'm starting this list in May; I've definitely already played and forgotten some stuff.
This list will not exclusively contain games released in 2018; in fact, it's going to be mostly made up of older games. I won't put every single game I play on this list, but I will put every single game I play for the first time on this list. I will also include games that I have played before, but found some new life for me during this year that lead me to playing it a significant amount.
I don't get to play a ton of actually-modern games due to lack of funds, so often these lists are made up of mostly older stuff. I have no idea how I plan to handle my GOTY this year; if I'll just pick something and ignore the release date, or if I'll stick strictly to this year's releases. We'll see just how many games from this year I end up playing, I guess.
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Played a LOT of this this year. I played a lot as a kid, but this year I played more than I had ever played before. And got way deep into it, learning the basics of competitive play. I'm not any good when looking at competitive play, but I am way better than most casual players, now. This game is super fun when you go deep on it, something I always dismissed before.
A pretty meh game, but serves its purpose well. This series is better on portable systems too, in my opinion.
Picked this up about a week ago. I've been trying to finish this game in some form off and on for actual years. The PS3 I had to play FES on is now broken, so this looked like my next-best option. I think I might actually be able to finish it this time; the Vita is an extremely convenient place to play long RPGs on. I can turn the screen off at any time, and my place is always saved when I boot it back up, and the Vita maintains battery life while in sleep mode like no other electronic device I own. It's great.
It was cheap on e-shop and I needed a game to play while listening to podcasts before bed. Served that purpose, though it's not a great game. It's okay, though. There are a thousand similar games on the e-shop, though, so it's not like I really recommend it.
A very-much improved version of the original Sun/Moon. The story is better, the endgame is not nonexistent, there's actual challenge to completing the main quest this time around... It's a great entry in the main Pokemon series.
This game has a severe framerate issue. I'm not someone that cares that much about framerate, but I found it to be almost unplayable. It also moves at a snail's pace, has very undefined goals, and controls pretty poorly. This was not a great first showing for the first game in the series with the new title. (This series is Harvest Moon. The name was changed due to a rights issue. Newer Harvest Moon games are not a continuation of the Harvest Moon series; these games are named the same as old Harvest Moon games are in Japan. Newer games coming out with the Harvest Moon name in the West are from a different series started by the company that used to publish the Harvest Moon games. They are not a part of the same series. Story of Seasons games are. It's fucking complicated, I know.)
I picked this one up in spite of my disappointment with the previous one because my younger brother told me this game fixes a lot of what's wrong with the last one. It does! It's still got issues, but the framerate is tolerable, the controls are btter, the goals are more clearly defined, and there's more to do in general! It's still an excruciatingly slow-paced game for the first too-many-hours, but it does actually pick up eventually. I enjoyed this game quite a lot, though not as much as my favorite Harvest Moon or Rune Factory games. Still, it's a lot of fun, and I can safely look forward to future games in the series, now.
This game was fun, but I think it's my least favorite game in the Shantae series, except maybe the original GBC one. That one only because I didn't play it at the time, and playing it in 2017-ish with the context of what the series would go on to be made it hard to finish. I have finished every other game in the series, though, including this one. This one is much more linear than previous ones, had worse boss fights (which are never that great in Shantae games already,) and less cool shit to be rewarded with for exploring that isn't strictly necessary for completion. The story isn't great either, though that's never been a selling point for Shantae games. I just found the ending unsatisfying. Still, I say all this, but I did enjoy the game. It's just following up a bunch of games that I like a lot more. Though this game has some issues that go beyond "not as good as the previous games", stepping into "has some straight-up bad aspects to it that I wouldn't like in any game, regardless of the franchise" territory. But it's overall a good game. Not a great game, which I WOULD say of some of the other games in this series.
Picked this up, thinking WayForward usually does good stuff and I wanted a cool puzzle game to play. I do not like this game's style of puzzles. That's not to say they're bad or anything, I honestly couldn't say. I just did not like playing this game at all. This game's core puzzle mechanic does not appeal to me.
I forgot to put this on my list last year, though I definitely played it then. I played more of it this year, getting into some of the DLC. This game is still incredible. It's a genuine masterpiece.