by chummy8
2021 was an interesting year for my personal gaming. I played the fewest games last year since 2015 and that is including the classic games I played on my new emulator. For the first time ever, I am only carrying over 1 game into the new year.
I am not looking forward to too many games this year with Warhammer 3 and Starfield topping the list. Warhammer 3 could very well be my forever game by combining the maps from Warhammer 1 and 2. As for Starfield, I'm more than ready for an epic Bethesda RPG as long as it doesn't take after the recent Fallout games. I am also looking forward to whatever is being added to Cyberpunk 2077.
In 2022, I am looking forward to playing some classics that I never played before on my new emulator. My plan is to make this year the year of the classic game by playing games that I never got to play as a kid. When I say that I missed some of the greatest games of all time, I am talking about - Link to the Past, Dragon Warrior, Breath of Fire, Seiken Densetsu 3, Mother 3, Shining Force, Final Fantasy 4-12, and Parasite Eve. It will be interesting to see if these all time great games hold up since I'll be playing them for the first time in 2022. Along with these games I haven't played before, I am itching to see how my favorites like Blood Omen and Shadowrun (Genesis) hold up. I've been losing interest in modern games anyway.
My 2022 prediction is that I will play more classic games this year than new releases along with the usual backlog grind. I also intend to replay some modern classics such as Witcher 3 (again), Pillars of Eternity 2 and finally finishing the Yakuza series (4, 5, 6) and then replaying Yakuza LAD.
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Started Dec 23 - Can't finish I came to Guilty Gear Strive from Street Fighter 5. With the first impression, I loved everything about Guilty Gear. The characters, the music, the artwork - they are all amazing. One of my biggest gripes about fighting games is that I often can't find a character to main. With Guilty Gear, I immediately found a main and started dominating people with him. And now, I found a secondary character that is super fun to play. Every character in this game is great and I can't wait to see who else gets added to the game. Another great plus with GGST is that it is simpler than SF5. There's a dedicated get off me button, and a dedicated combo extender button. Much easier to get a handle of than the 4 different V trigger techniques that came with SF5.
Started Jan 1 - Finished Jan 31 I was never into the Zelda games as a kid. I thought the NES version was too difficult (I was 7). While we had both a SNES and a Genesis, I didn't have many first party Nintendo games. The only Zelda I ever finished was Ocarina of Time and my first Mario Kart was Double Dash for the Gamecube. I have been putting off this game for decades and it is time to give it an honest play through. Many people on this site claim this is one of their favorite games of all time and well it's time to put it to the test. I took my time with this, only doing about an hour a night. I'd do a dungeon, explore a bit and then quit. But in the end, this might be a perfect video game.
Started Jan 14 - Finished Jan 15 Mutant League Football released for the Genesis in 1993 is better than this game. I know, because I recently played Mutant League Football. This new version is tiresome and boring. In the first few hours of playing, I discovered a play that the AI can't defend against. Which makes the game completely reliant on countering the AI dirty tricks. Add to that the repetitive and annoying commentary, makes this game something I never want to play again.
Started Feb 6 - Finished Feb 6 Yeah Gunstar heroes is a great game. Solid run in gun action.
Started Feb 6 - Finished Feb 6 A hallmark of the beat em up genre.
Started Feb 7 - Finished Feb 7 Played on the SNES. Plays faster and feels better as a beat em up than the first one. Kinda wished there were more enemy variety and weapons, but I had a good time with it.
Started Feb 7 - Can't finish With the new DLC out, I thought it would be a good idea to drop another 100 hours into this game.
Started and Finished Feb 9. I didn't even know this game existed until recently and it is simply the best Final Fight game.
Started Feb 17 - Won't ever finish Unfortunately, this game has some controversy around its launch that I feel is overblown. And, judging the game as it is today March 22, 2022; I still consider this game to be worth a purchase and your time. The negativity surrounding this game is partly related to bugs which have been present in just about every Total War game at their launch and the narrative campaign that the game launched with. I am not concerned with the bugs in the game right now. None of them are game breaking and CA has a history of stamping out the more serious bugs in their previous games. The newest patch notes show that they are aware of and are working on these bugs. The narrative campaign is admittedly not my preferred way to play a Total War game as I would rather play a sandbox mode. But the campaign as it is today, is still fun to play and I think more fun than the Vortex Campaign in Warhammer 2 which I played maybe 2 or 3 times. In the Warhammer 3 narrative campaign, rifts will open up at a regular basis out of which will spawn enemy heroes and armies. You can close these rifts with your own armies or heroes. But if you want to win the campaign as intended, you need to take your main Legendary Lord into these gates where they have to go through a gauntlet (battles, attrition, mazes) effectively taking them off the main map for about 10 turns. The rifts and the gauntlets themselves were never a big deal for me - annoying, but not a game breaker for me. The latest patch notes offer solutions to increase the rewards in the gauntlets and even prevent the rifts from opening in the first place which would allow the player to not even interact with the narrative campaign at all. What makes me like this game so much are the races. Just about every race in the game looks fun to play. I managed to beat the campaign 3 times in the month since launch and am eager to go back and try another race. It is rare that I feel this way as I easily spent a couple hundred hours just playing Beastmen in Warhammer 2 (BEFORE their rework). The combined map and campaign have not been released yet. But when it does, I could see Warhammer 3 becoming my forever game like Warhammer 2 was. Which is a game that I always have installed and will come back to regularly in the years to come.
Started March 20 - Finished Nov 15 Keeping up with my resolution and finishing all the Yakuza games. FINALLY finished Yakuza 4 - 8 months after I started the game. This game's gimmick is that it is the 4th Yakuza game and it includes 4 main characters. I liked the new characters almost as much as I like Kiryu. But I felt that I didn't get enough time to invest in them. I spent 8 months finishing a 20 hour game so I'll admit that the plot was confusing and an orgy of betrayal. To me, it felt needlessly convoluted and that is saying something considering this is a Yakuza game. So far, I liked this game better than Yakuza 3. But it is not the best Yakuza game I've played.