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In 2013, I glogged about playing 87 games across 151 posts. And in 2014, 112 games in 145 posts.

In 2015, I only managed 29 games in 53 posts.

Sure, I'm in the best shape of my life, have an exciting new job, and even rearchitected this blog. But at what cost?

If there's any semblance of "theme" in my past year's gaming activities, it's re-treading old ground. Despite my low game count overall, several of them were games I'd already played -- revisiting Red Faction: Guerrilla, the remaster of Shadow Complex, the PC version of GTA V, even SpaceChem for some reason. Not to mention Broken Age's second half, and Legacy of the Void finally finishing off the StarCraft II saga.

And then there was Assassin's Creed Rogue, which felt quite a lot like I was just playing Black Flag again. And Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell -- but now I'm falling down a rabbit hole, aren't I.

Breakdown of games played last year:

The good:

  • Grand Theft Auto V on PC finally fulfilled the grand crime sandbox's destiny.
  • TIS-100 (fucking hell, still in-progress) provided me with a whole new way to hate my stupid monkey brain.
  • Wolfenstein: The New Order (in-progress) has, so far, been more satisfying than I expect a "simple" shooter to be.

The bad:

  • Assassin's Creed Rogue, a clearly-unfinished attempt to spin off of Black Flag, utterly disenchanted me with the entire Assassin's Creed franchise.
  • Broken Age, though good overall, was a letdown in its second act.
  • The Magic Circle (demo), which purports to lampoon game production cliches, was itself a game production cliche.

The ugly:

Things I'm looking forward to in 2016: