I keep a basic log in a notebook. I just log all each game as I complete it. Organized by year I completed it. I started as a way to help me make sure I was doing hobbies I enjoyed.
I played this through the steam deck and the art style aged I credibly well and the story and voice acting was really good. Kept me hooked throughout, but I did have to rely on a walk through when it came to the puzzles.
I’ve started doing similar logging my games but not going as far as to write my own reviews.
It’s interesting looking back though a year and seeing what I played over a calendar year. Last year I tried Castlevania and Metroid for the first time and both series really pulled me in. This year seems to be the 3DS Fire Emblem games and Final Fantasy series (never played them before and now I’m up to FF7).
I really appreciate that this game has movement from keyboard. Saved me a bunch of clicking and the experience was nice!
Fun characters and worldbuilding. Doing these quests felt very true to the plot, everything looks internalized and, in some places, eye-opening. Little foreshadowing here and there: Domino’s lax attitude, Olivia’s final poem, blooming in the morgue, etc.
I even got hands on some early storyboard, where there were plans to do final locations more grand and the myrriad of possibilities that could come out of it, but I still like how it turned out despite some rethinking and cutting. For me, the ending section was fittingly grim.
Sekiro is my favorite Fromsoft game. When I first played it I kinda hated it, but at one point the deflect system just clicked and I couldn't stop playing after finishing ng+7 all endings...
First time I played through I maxed alchemy. I didn’t put any points into smithing. Second play through I leaned hard into smithing and partly enchanting, and I felt the payoff was way better.
Simply improving your items makes it worth it. Once you get pretty skilled you’ll make some serious sets too!
One of the reasons it was a favourite subreddit of mine was that the members all seem to be a bit more mature, quite often older gamers, and so the discussion was just more balanced, rational, and, well, more mature basically.
The thing about GW2 is that it's a good game in its own right, but you really need to not think of it as a GW1 sequel in its game mechanics.
Also, I actually got put off by the story in GW2, it was so very child of destiny, chosen one style. The writing for the side quests is so much better and way more interesting.
Yeah it gets much better after the personal story leveling stuff. It’s an eleven year old game, and unfortunately the content that new players see first is the most dated. They originally leaned more into a more generic RPG story that just happens to be set in an mmo. Heart of Thorns is markedly better, and it just improves from there. By the time of Path of Fire, the story, characters, maps, and mechanics all feel interesting and meaningful imo.
For me, it was the very first Assassin’s Creed. It was the first game I ever played, when I still had a crap pc with an AMD Radeon HD 5550, bless it’s soul. I remember playing that game for hours, and then replaying it over and over.
Lately, I tried to pick it up again, and was hugely disappointed. The game didn’t change, I did. My standards have gone up, I got used to other games with better gameplay and replay value or something. It just wasn’t as fun as before, and I put it down without finishing it. A shame, though memories are forever.
Mostly it's for discussing games that came out a while ago that you're just now getting around to. You get the benefit of the bugs largely having been fixed and being able to get the game for a much lower price than what it released at.
It's also quite liberating getting to explore some real gems without having your perception distorted by the hype-train.
It kinda happened for me with Fallout New Vegas. I was maybe 11 and never played anything from the series. I spent my time killer hobo-ing my way through but I always felt like I was missing something, then I started reading negative opinions about it online and got influence by that, so I dropped it. After some time I played Fallout 3 after hearing people saying it was much better, I liked and I too thought it was much better than New Vegas but decided to give NV another shot (I was 12 or 13 by then). I loved it to the point where it is probably on the top of my emotional top 10. It got me into 50s/60s music, got me interested in politics and ethics, made me become a fan of science fiction and old school RPGs focused on story and a variety of approaches. Really a fantastic game.
EDIT: wanted to add that nowadays I really can’t play FO3 without thinking that I could just play NV instead. That’s how much I love that game
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