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davesf wrote a review of Naraka Bladepoint. Jun 16, 10:06am

awesome melee ninja battle royale!
Naraka Bladepoint is a really incredible mashup of the Battle Royale genre and old-school melee combo combat mechanics, like Street-Fighter-II, Soul Calibur, etc. The result is pure magic. It's like "...
davesf wrote a review of League of Legends. Jul 4, 10:13am

great when played free, but do not spend money on Riot products
League of Legends is a fantastic game when played truly free, as in do-not-spend-money. At least not more than a trivial $5 to buy one skin or something.The problem with spending money on the game is ...
davesf wrote a review of League of Legends. Jul 4, 10:13am

best hardcore ranked PvP game, hands down
League of Legends (5v5 Summoner's Rift) is hands down the best hardcore ranked PvP game out there.By hardcore, I mean, if you are going to play at least 15-30 hours a week while you are active. If you...
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davesf wrote a review of Code Vein. Sep 2, 9:14am

poor early game.. existing souls fans may find the struggle worth it
TL;DR - This game starts out very awkward and clunky for players who have never played games in the Dark Souls / Monster Hunter genre. Existing fans of unforgiving dodge/parry/iframe combat are treate...

About Me

I play a small number of games, a really large number of hours. I try lots of games, but if they are not strongly holding my interest by 10-20 hours, I put them down and generally don't come back. I don't usually bother with games that don't support at least a few hundred hours of gameplay, because to me a game that ends after 10-20 hours feels like watching the trailer for a movie with no movie.

I like games with interesting optimization or decision making.
I love competitve-fair RTS/MOBA PvP, and open-world PvP. But no mindless grind death match.
The only FPS aiming games I've enjoyed are battle royales (PUBG, Apex Legends)
loss-of-character control (aka forced cutscenes) needs to be rare (< once every 20 minutes of gameplay), and worth it

My favorite games and preferences are very evident in playtime estimates for my most played games. Everything is on PC mouse/keyboard unless otherwise noted.

Games I'm playing in 2019...

4,000+ hours - League of Legends (2013 through present)
100 hours - Albion Online
15 hours - Path of Exile
10 hours - Code Vein (though I'm worried about the short 15-30 hour completion time)

And games I've played in the past...

10,000+ hours - World of Warcraft (Vanilla through Cataclysm)
3,500 hours - Starcraft 2
1,200 hours - Player Unknown's Battlegrounds
1000 hours - Grey Goo
600 hours - Warframe
500 hours - EVE Online
400 hours - Diablo 3
400 hours - APEX Legends
300 hours - Blade and Soul
70 hours - Final Fantasy 7
30 hours - GTA 4 (Xbox)
30 hours - NBA Live 98 (PS1)

Notable mention games I really enjoyed but didn't engender lots of play hours include:

Thief
Civilization 4 / 5
Stellaris
Ashes of the Singularity
Portal 1/2 (but wow the nausea)
Total Annihilatio n
og Metal Gear Solid - interesting gameplay that was over so fast I don't know what happened (<10 hours)

Date joined:2009-03-16
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