Games you've beaten in 2022.
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Beat Gears Tactics.
Beat it in the sense that I beat the final boss. There's more stuff I can do after that, but I've had enough of it.
Anyway, it gets a 3/5. My feelings on it have ranged from "I love it, this is one of the best Gears games ever" to "I'm so tired of this, it's so repetitive." Coincidentally or not, that mirrors my thoughts on Halo Infinite, but the key difference there is that Infinite had a good, if not great story to supplement its gameplay, whereas Tactics's story is probably the weakest Gears story I've ever had, its only rival for the bottom spot being Judgement. Its moment to moment gameplay is fun, but it can get very repetitive, since you're effectively repeating a set of missions over and over in a lot of cases.
Still, easily a net positive, and I wouldn't mind a Tactics 2 that ironed out some of the kinks. But for now, beat it, which means that unless you count DLC as its own thing, I've now played every Gears game. So, ranking as it stands for the series is currently as such:
8) Gears Pop
7) Gears of War: Judgement
6) Gears Tactics
5) Gears of War 3
4) Gears of War 4
3) Gears of War
2) Gears 5
1) Gears of War 2
Beat it in the sense that I beat the final boss. There's more stuff I can do after that, but I've had enough of it.
Anyway, it gets a 3/5. My feelings on it have ranged from "I love it, this is one of the best Gears games ever" to "I'm so tired of this, it's so repetitive." Coincidentally or not, that mirrors my thoughts on Halo Infinite, but the key difference there is that Infinite had a good, if not great story to supplement its gameplay, whereas Tactics's story is probably the weakest Gears story I've ever had, its only rival for the bottom spot being Judgement. Its moment to moment gameplay is fun, but it can get very repetitive, since you're effectively repeating a set of missions over and over in a lot of cases.
Still, easily a net positive, and I wouldn't mind a Tactics 2 that ironed out some of the kinks. But for now, beat it, which means that unless you count DLC as its own thing, I've now played every Gears game. So, ranking as it stands for the series is currently as such:
8) Gears Pop
7) Gears of War: Judgement
6) Gears Tactics
5) Gears of War 3
4) Gears of War 4
3) Gears of War
2) Gears 5
1) Gears of War 2
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God of War
Started the save file in December 2018, reached the credits in February 2022.
2/5
Hate what this game represents.
Force a camera perspective PURELY because it's the trend. The designers can claim it was for cinematic purposes all they want, but they used the same kind of language in God of War III interviewers when talking about the camera angles, which were highly cinematic without being obtrusive or so limiting. There's nothing really impressive about telling a CG story with a single shot. It makes for boring photography. The camera is always so close to the character and can never pull out much to emphasize the scale of the level or setpiece. Having such a limited field of view that doesn't capture the full player character means no jumping, which means fewer ways to evade, which means more simplistic, monotonous combat, not to mention more basic level design. Stop using the interconnected world design to claim the level design is good. Most individual areas have very little going on. The camera also limits the kinds of action setpieces you can have. They're still there, but you have far less control over them than you used to, usually just button prompts on screen as the character you can't control plays out the cutscene. Jesus, the field of view is so bad, I can't emphasize it enough. That you need triangular warning prompts to know what's happening around you really says it all, doesn't it? The dodge button is on the face of the controller, and you're dodging so much that you can't really keep your thumb on the camera stick, so you mostly just push it into the most convenient position you can and then wait as the more pressing danger leaves the screen again. Rapidly back and forth from the Cross button to the stick. Massive downgrade.
The combat becomes more boring and limiting after you get the other weapons, because then it turns into a color match game where the fire weapon is needed for the ice enemies and the other weapon is needed for the fire enemies. There should have been one or two more weapons, because there really isn't enough going on in the combat to carry the game for as long as it goes. Same giant troll type enemies over and over, with the same execution animations again and again. I might be mistaken, but I think there's only three types of bosses: the aforementioned giants, the villain Baldur and the Valkyries. The few others are more like interactive cutscenes.
Why have a companion if you must press Square to make him shoot? I rarely used the arrows in combat, because I found it so unnatural to prompt a basic action that he should have been performing on his own that I simply forgot I had him.
The old God of War games placed the save points and the health and magic chests intelligently. In the reboot, you always restart from the latest auto-checkpoint with full health, so it doesn't really matter. It feels cheap.
The villain, Baldur, seems more like white trash than a character from Norse mythology. The dialogue all too often sounds real world rather than mythical, fitting so poorly in a place so fantastic. Turning God of War of all things into a walk and talk was a terrible idea because of the type of story that it is. You can't treat Clash of the Titans like serious drama and have the characters making these kinds of quips and having this idle everyday talk. It will just come off as pretentious. Which is what this reboot is. Super pretentious. They have gods talking without any kind of grandeur or godliness, acting like regular folk made immortal. Impossible to take seriously.
I know people were tired of the old Kratos. Instead of turning him into something he just isn't and could never be, they should have replaced him. Written a new protagonist with his or her own weapons and mechanics. They should have kept the fixed cinematic camera angles and used cutscenes (that actually cut away) sparingly, but come up with a new combat system. They should have also kept the gore, brutality and titties instead of pretending their game has to be taken seriously by art snobs. They shouldn't have built their game with the kinds of production values and photorealistic graphics whose costs so severely limit the actual game part of it, particularly the enemy variety.
Started the save file in December 2018, reached the credits in February 2022.
2/5
Hate what this game represents.
Force a camera perspective PURELY because it's the trend. The designers can claim it was for cinematic purposes all they want, but they used the same kind of language in God of War III interviewers when talking about the camera angles, which were highly cinematic without being obtrusive or so limiting. There's nothing really impressive about telling a CG story with a single shot. It makes for boring photography. The camera is always so close to the character and can never pull out much to emphasize the scale of the level or setpiece. Having such a limited field of view that doesn't capture the full player character means no jumping, which means fewer ways to evade, which means more simplistic, monotonous combat, not to mention more basic level design. Stop using the interconnected world design to claim the level design is good. Most individual areas have very little going on. The camera also limits the kinds of action setpieces you can have. They're still there, but you have far less control over them than you used to, usually just button prompts on screen as the character you can't control plays out the cutscene. Jesus, the field of view is so bad, I can't emphasize it enough. That you need triangular warning prompts to know what's happening around you really says it all, doesn't it? The dodge button is on the face of the controller, and you're dodging so much that you can't really keep your thumb on the camera stick, so you mostly just push it into the most convenient position you can and then wait as the more pressing danger leaves the screen again. Rapidly back and forth from the Cross button to the stick. Massive downgrade.
The combat becomes more boring and limiting after you get the other weapons, because then it turns into a color match game where the fire weapon is needed for the ice enemies and the other weapon is needed for the fire enemies. There should have been one or two more weapons, because there really isn't enough going on in the combat to carry the game for as long as it goes. Same giant troll type enemies over and over, with the same execution animations again and again. I might be mistaken, but I think there's only three types of bosses: the aforementioned giants, the villain Baldur and the Valkyries. The few others are more like interactive cutscenes.
Why have a companion if you must press Square to make him shoot? I rarely used the arrows in combat, because I found it so unnatural to prompt a basic action that he should have been performing on his own that I simply forgot I had him.
The old God of War games placed the save points and the health and magic chests intelligently. In the reboot, you always restart from the latest auto-checkpoint with full health, so it doesn't really matter. It feels cheap.
The villain, Baldur, seems more like white trash than a character from Norse mythology. The dialogue all too often sounds real world rather than mythical, fitting so poorly in a place so fantastic. Turning God of War of all things into a walk and talk was a terrible idea because of the type of story that it is. You can't treat Clash of the Titans like serious drama and have the characters making these kinds of quips and having this idle everyday talk. It will just come off as pretentious. Which is what this reboot is. Super pretentious. They have gods talking without any kind of grandeur or godliness, acting like regular folk made immortal. Impossible to take seriously.
I know people were tired of the old Kratos. Instead of turning him into something he just isn't and could never be, they should have replaced him. Written a new protagonist with his or her own weapons and mechanics. They should have kept the fixed cinematic camera angles and used cutscenes (that actually cut away) sparingly, but come up with a new combat system. They should have also kept the gore, brutality and titties instead of pretending their game has to be taken seriously by art snobs. They shouldn't have built their game with the kinds of production values and photorealistic graphics whose costs so severely limit the actual game part of it, particularly the enemy variety.
- Viewtiful Joe (Gamecube)
- Mad World (Wii)
- Final Fight CD (Genesis Mini 2)
- Sonic CD (Genesis Mini 2)
- Bayonetta 3 (Switch)
- God of War: Ragnarok (PS4)
- Evil Within 2 - This time on XONE.
- RE2 Remake - XONE as well.
- Final Vendetta (Switch)
- Dawn of the Monsters (PS4)
- Red Earth (PS4)
- Ninja Gaiden 2 & 3: Razor's Edge (PS4)
- Shredder's Revenge (PS4, Switch, Series X [co-op with my big bro])
- TMNT Arcade & NES, Manhattan Project, Turtles in Time (Arcade &NES) & Hyperstone Heist, and Tournament Fighters (NES).
- Fight n' Rage (Switch)
- The TakeOver - Managed to do a no death run on the Steam version.
- Guilty Gear Strive - Arcade mode I beat a couple of times.
- KOF XV (PS4) - Same.
- Killer Is Dead (360 via XONE) - I had to start a new save file, because of playing on the XONE.
- Asura's Wrath - Same case.
- Guardian Heroes (XBLA)
- Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara (XBLA)
- Quantum Break (XONE)
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- Elden Ring
- God of War on PC
- FF7R on PC
- Persona 5 Royal on PC
- Megaman x and x2
- Want to play through x4, but x3 turned out to be bullshit
- AC Origins
- Witcher 1, 2, and 3
This was also the year I cut my ties with toxic online game communities, which was one of the best decisions I’ve made. i won by choosing not to be part of those anymore.
Elden Ring
Expeditions: Viking
Expeditions: Rome
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
Return to Monkey Island
Dragon Age: Origins
Dragon Age 2
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Far: Changing Tides
Imposter Factory
Project: Wingman
Probably missing one or two. Oh Well.
Expeditions: Viking
Expeditions: Rome
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
Return to Monkey Island
Dragon Age: Origins
Dragon Age 2
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Far: Changing Tides
Imposter Factory
Project: Wingman
Probably missing one or two. Oh Well.
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PC:
Wolfenstein: TNO
PS4:
Elden Ring
ABZU
Infamous: Second Son
GoW Ragnarok (still in progress but nearing the end soon I think)
Yeah, think that’s about it actually. Although I’ve played about five times as many but I keep rotating through my backlog. Hoping to tackle a lot more of it next year. Let’s see…
PC:
- Finally finishing The Witcher 3 and DLC
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- The Evil Within
- DOOM 2016
- DOOM Eternal
- Deus Ex: HR Director’s Cut possibly
- Portal possibly
PS4:
- Horizon: Forbidden West
- The Evil Within 2
- RE2 Remake (second try)
Wolfenstein: TNO
PS4:
Elden Ring
ABZU
Infamous: Second Son
GoW Ragnarok (still in progress but nearing the end soon I think)
Yeah, think that’s about it actually. Although I’ve played about five times as many but I keep rotating through my backlog. Hoping to tackle a lot more of it next year. Let’s see…
PC:
- Finally finishing The Witcher 3 and DLC
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- The Evil Within
- DOOM 2016
- DOOM Eternal
- Deus Ex: HR Director’s Cut possibly
- Portal possibly
PS4:
- Horizon: Forbidden West
- The Evil Within 2
- RE2 Remake (second try)