This is my seventh year writing a Game of the Year list and it’s interesting to look back and see what I’ve enjoyed over the years. I don’t know if my taste in games has changed that much but it always surprises me with the variety of games that I have in my top 10. I feel like I played less games this year compared to the past which feels like it made it more difficult to build my list this ye...
2021 was what you can define as a year. Congratulations to all the studios and teams that launched games in the last year. As a person who knows very little about game development, I’m sure it was no easy task. Something I realized when putting my list together this year, is how many mobile games I played and how many made the list compared to my previous lists. Those games were great when I wa...
I think when we look back at 2020 most of us will reference it as “The Lost Year”. The year where the world stopped, no travel, no events, no anything. I for one was laid off at the end of March and spent seven and a half months looking for work. Luckily I found something that I’m really enjoying, bonus that it’s paying the bills. I know though this whole thing that there are people in less for...
There have been a lot of think pieces and takes about how the new Animal Crossing game came at the perfect time during a global pandemic, and this one is no different. On Monday, March 23 I was laid off from my job. When I got home that afternoon I, like millions of Americans applied for unemployment and put my financial ducks in a row. Then I loaded up my island in Animal Crossing: New Horizon...
2019 was a weird year for me and games. I played a lot of really great games this year but I also bounced off of them earlier on and quite a bit. I also had a more difficult time trying to order this list. Not because each game had an impact on me in a particular way. Because what I had played felt more or less the same as games I have already played. Some of the stuff on this list I haven't fi...
Honorable Mentions Sea of Thieves Donut County Dead Cells Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age 10 - Forza Horizon 4 See my list from 2016. Same thing applies. It’s a good racing game 9 - Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 When Call of Duty is good it's real good. The multiplayer is somewhat back to basics. Meaning there's no boost jumps, wall running or side dashes. It's j...
2017 was a heck of a year for Video Games. I'm definitely not the only person to say that. Nintendo dominated the year with the release of the Switch and releasing both first and third party games throughout the year. Playerunknown's Battlegrounds took over the PC space and how competitive shooters work and we will see the shockwaves from it for years to come. Like I said at the top of this thi...
Honorable Mentions Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice Firewatch ABZÛ Job Simulator SUPERHYPERCUBE Tomb of the Mask Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE 10 - WATCH_DOGS 2 WATCH_DOGS 2 is a strange thing. It’s characters are wide eyed hopeful young people who think they can change the world through hacktivism. But at the same time it hits some current events a little too on the nose. But even...
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