retrospective
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The Best Games of 2022
I never posted this list back then, so here we are two years late. At least I don’t have to worry about recency bias anymore. I’m limiting this to the top 6 games instead of the usual top 10 because that was the cutoff for games that scored at least 90%, and that seems like…
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Roller Coaster Tycoon Review – Revisiting a Classic
It feels fair to say that Roller Coaster Tycoon is one of the most influential games ever made. It obviously hasn’t had the franchise staying power of a near contemporary like Pokemon or Age of Empires, but there was a time in the early 2000s when seemingly everyone who played games played RCT and even…
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The Best Games of Five Years Ago: 2017
2017’s Best Games Part 2 of this year’s best games of prior years looks at 2017, which for my money is the single best year for games that there’s ever been. I don’t even particularly like several of the biggest titles of that year, yet it still had so many standouts that it’s quite likely…
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The Best Games of 10 Years Ago: 2012
2012’s Best Games I started a new tradition last year of looking at my top 10 lists from 10 and 5 years ago and seeing how they’ve changed. That said, I only started saving my top 10s in 2015 and making them at all in 2013, so this is another round where I’m actually doing…
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Mass Effect 1 Legendary Edition Review and Retrospective
After years of clamoring for it and EA repeatedly denying that it’d ever be a thing, the Mass Effect remasters were finally here two months ago. It took me a month to finish the first game and then another month to get around to writing this. Just the kind of speedy service you can expect…