GAMES I HAVEBEATEN
The Witcher 3 (Base Game, 8.5/10): Finally. While I understand the praise for this game relative and would heap much of the same on it myself, I do think that this game was overstuffed with duplicate armor and weapons, far, far, far too much junk, and just enough side quests that by the time the stakes was high (to paraphrase De la Soul) it became a bit of a different game for me, and also far too obvious how limited CD Projekt Red's engine was when it came to cutscenes. I played the game for 30 hours pre-patch before I started over, and I'm about halfway through the Hearts of Stone expansion now so I'd be a terrible liar if I said I didn't absolutely enjoy my time with The Witcher 3, but I also spread it out over the course of nearly two years for a reason. Going directly from this game to Horizon: Zero Dawn reveals a lot of the polish CDPR put on the story elements big and small, but also just how vapid its combat became once the novelty of coming across new monsters wore off a dozen or so hours in.
GAMES I AM PLAYING
Batman: A Telltale Series: I appreciate what this game does to turn much of the given Batman lore on its head, but I'm not compelled to play through it very quickly and I can't put a finger on why other than I'm just not in the mood right now.
Wolfenstein: A New Order: Seems like a pretty mediocre game but I can't really tell how much of that has to do with playing it after, rather than before, DOOM. To the point I'm at I can't believe this game got so much praise for its story at the time, personally I just wasn't into it while I was playing. I haven't touched this in over a month because whenever I try to boot it up, I just get a black screen which appears to be a common issue with the PS4 version. Unlike others, I just take it as a sign my time with this game may be at its end, and I'll likely be deleting it to make space for something else soon.
Tales from the Borderlands: My girlfriend doesn't play many video games, but she did have a phase with Telltale games on her iPad back when Lee and Clementine were first introduced to the world, and one of her students last semester was obsessed with Borderlands so we decided to give this game a shot. Neither of us having much history with the Borderlands universe, we enjoyed the first episode but have let binge watching old seasons of Top Chef get in the way of coming back for the rest.
The Last of Us: Remastered: Similarly, she's had more than one student explain to her how The Last of Us was the best game of the past five years, and I'd been itching to play it ever since that trailer dropped for Chapter 2, so we've been slowly making our way through this - far slower than I'd like, to be honest, at a pace of about two hours every three or four weeks, or just far enough apart that she can't remember exactly what was going on when we last left off - and I'm still blown away by just how terrific a production this was.
NBA 2K17: My darkest shame is I let this game convince me to spend $200 on Virtual Currency (to 2K Sports' credit, at least they lack the shame to try and fancy their e-money up with a clever title; it's jsut Virtual Currency) for card packs in its MyTeam mode. I'm most disappointed in myself not because the card rewards weren't good (I actually basically changed my entire lineup afterwards for the better) but because A) I still don't play the game enough to justify spending that $200 and B) I never will because MLB The Show is coming out at the end of the month and its Diamond Dynasty mode is far, far better at providing a constant drip of rewards that doesn't inspire you to drain your wallet. NBA 2K has been my favorite sports franchise practically from the moment it crossed over to Playstation platforms, but this year I had my first experience with their Ultimate Team scenario and have come away largely disgusted with their approach to it, even as I hang my head in acknowledgement that I became part of the problem last month.
GAMES I'D LIKE TO BE PLAYING SOON BUT VERY LIKELY WILL BE PLAYING MONTHS FROM NOW BECAUSE MLB THE SHOW IS COMING OUT AT THE END OF THE MONTH
Tomb Rise of the Tomb Raider 20th Anniversary Edition
Titanfall 2 (campaign)
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