2021 Playstation Wrap-Up

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So, I’m trying to get back into blogging in a small way as hopefully you all can see through this week’ posts. Today, I’m going to focus on the games that I played over the past year. Playstation is doing a yearly wrap-up of the games, by allowing players to log in and see their yearly stats. I will use screenshots from the Wrap-up to show what my year was like in gaming. I won’t do all of them, just a few of the ones that I think are the most important. I’m going to keep this introduction short, so without further ado, here are my Playstation 2021 Wrap-up Stats.

Top Games of 221 https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/dragon-quest-xi-s-echoes-of-an-elusive-ageDragonQuest XI

My number one played game of 2021 was, according to Playstation, DragonQuest XI. I put in nearly quite a bit of time playing the game and beating it. It was a fun experience that I thought I’d “finished,” only to discover that I was only approximately 50%-60% through the game. I persevered and finished it right around September of 2021 (just as I was beginning my new job approximately). I haven’t yet gone back to see if I can get the Platinum Trophy yet, but I will give it a go when I finished my current playthrough of the games I working on right now. I do know that I’m not really a JRPG (Japanese Role Playing Game) fan, but for some reason, I really enjoyed my time with this game. I feel like it helped me get to grips with some of the conventions of the JRPG genre.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/dragon-quest-xi-s-echoes-of-an-elusive-ageCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

So, this game is the one that I spent the majority of time with during 2021 for my online gaming. Now, obviously, I won’t be doing so now that Microsoft has bought Activision, but before that time, CoD was a favorite (mostly because my mother enjoyed watching me play). CoD has been slowly losing its relevance because they have refined the gameplay in such a way as to want to cater to those who will purchase their “battle pass.” I like the CoD shooting experience, but I no longer like the way the campaign is rendered (with stealth/stealth-like elements). I feel that I got fairly good with the game, but mainly because the time that I put in was in service to my mother so that she could watch the game. By myself, I probably would have put only “half” the time that I did for this game. While much better than Vanguard, this game started some of the egregious ideas that were fully featured in Vanguard.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/812140/Assassins_Creed_Odyssey/Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

The reason why this game is so high is that I basically played it over the tail-end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021 (1st 3 months approximately). I did the bulk of the game in 2020, but finished the game and worked for a Platinum trophy during the beginning of 2021. I don’t have the stats for my 2020 gameplay handy (I wrote them down in a notebook), but I felt that I spent quite a few hours building up my character and finishing the game, and then doing all the work for the Platinum trophy. I enjoyed this one quite a bit, but I thought AC Origins had a slightly better story. Both focus on family, but there are more choices in Odyssey which means that it couldn’t be as narratively focused as Origins.

Source: https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/1151640/Horizon Zero Dawn

So, this one is complicated. I stared this way back in 2017 when it was released, but I kept trying to play it as an action game, when it is a “stealth” game first, action game second. While I played it on and off from 2017-2020, I finally figured out how to play the game late in 2020 after playing through Assassin’s Creed Origins and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. I went past the place in the game where I was stuck and I’ve pushed through, saw the story, and finally finished it (although this happened late in 2021 and early 2022). I enjoyed the story and feel that I’m now ready for the release of the next game, Horizon Forbidden West, a game I’m looking forward to when it releases in February.

https://www.codemasters.com/game/grid/Grid (2019)

This is, unfortunately, one that I spent far more time with than I should have based on how much fun I had. This game is a good looking game, but is very shallow. The cars don’t handle that well, the tracks are quite limited and repetitive, the AI is a bit suspect (sometimes they seem “god-like” and sometimes they seem fairly inept). Unfortunately, this is a game that looks better than it plays. The reason why played it for so long is that I bought it on sale and I got the game and all the extra content that came with it. I felt like I needed to finish the game and the DLC. While I did it, the game was simply too repetitive and I ended up stop having fun playing it halfway through the base game. I had to finish the game and then finish the DLC, all while disliking the game more and more with each passing day. I managed to finish my goal, but I’m not all that proud as I played a game to completion simply to say I had rather than having a fun and enjoyable experience.

Sidney

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