Det blev en del spel i år. En sisådär 17 för att vara exakt. Vissa längre, vissa kortare, men inga superlånga. Men den stora frågan är ju, kom jag igenom spelen jag ville komma igenom? Baldur’s Gate 3 (nej) Tetris Effect: Connected (jajemän) 51 Worldwide Games (nope) Split Fiction (nej igen) Bara 1/4 förvisso, men inte så illa ändå. Hade gärna kommit igenom Baldur’s Gate med, men 51 Worldwide Games känns rätt oväsentligt....
2022 - 8 spel 2023 - 5 spel 2024 - BAM! 13 spel Men innan jag går in på spelen ett och ett, så tänker jag att vi kopplar tillbaka till förra årets slutkläm, spelen jag hoppades ta mig igenom 2024. Dessa var: Hogwarts Legacy (check) Baldur’s Gate 3 (nope) Death Stranding (also no) Avatar Frontiers of Pandora (nu-uh) Super Mario Wonder (yes) 2/5 ändå. Death stranding och Avatar har jag väl lagt på is, på obestämt framtid....
Tillskillnad från 2022, då jag rullade eftertexter i hela åtta spel, blev det bara fem i år. Diablo IV (2023) Spelade på release, fram till jag blev klar med det. Mer eller mindre. Någon kort paus på en vecka mitt i tror jag. Storyteller (2023) Fanns via Netflix, jag och Jasmine körde igenom det samtidigt, på varsin telefon, en bana i taget och tävlade om vem som kom på lösningen först....
A week or two ago I started playing a game I’ve been thinking about playing ever since the sequel was announced, over 20 years after the first game. Pokémon Snap. Admittedly I first thought about buying the new game, ‘New Pokémon Snap’. But it felt a bit expensive for a rail shooter in 2021, especially since its coming from a game company that doesn’t really care. So I thought I’d wait for a while, see if the price dropped....
A while ago I beat THPS 1+2 for the fifth time and it’s still as good of a game as the first time. I never played the originals when they released, but I did play a lot of Tony Hawk as a kid. THPS 3 was the first in the series I played, a cousin lent it to me after I had gotten hold of a used PlayStation 2. It was a great game, but I had heard that there were better Tony Hawk games....
Nintendo has done a lot of custom coloured Switches, especially of the standard Switch. The ’lite’ version though, mostly has some basic recolours. And a couple of Pokémon variants. But there is one Switch Lite that stands out of the crew. The white, custom gold painted Avicii Invector Switch Lite. 2017 Hello There Games released ‘Invector’ on the PS4. A rhythm based music game with 22 of Aviciis hit songs. In 2019, the year after his tragic passing, they released an updated version with 35 songs, in collaboration with the Tim Bergling Foundation....
A couple days ago Wizards of the Coast revealed some cards for the new Lord of the Rings crossover set. One of which was “The One Ring”. “The One Ring”, is going to have a special special edition - extended art with text in elvish (Quenya in Tengwar letterform to be exact, if that tells you anything you’re a huge NERD). This card, among some others, will be what they call serialized....
March 10, a.k.a. MAR10 day. First celebrated by Nintendo 2016, probably when some clever Nintendian came up with the idea. And since then, they’ve actually made something each year to celebrate Mario, even if some years have been lazier than others. This year we got the final trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Wave 4 of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass (car stuff, pretty fitting since it’s also the V8 engines day today) and a new Mario themed Nintendo Switch bundle....
I’ve been playing a lot of games lately. Or… A lot of games for the very limited amount of spare time I have at hands. It’s been loads for fun though. More fun than I have had gaming in a long long time. I quite recently bought a new graphics card, and I guess I have to attribute my newfound joy to this, as I’ve not been able to enjoy AAA titles to their extent in recent years....