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2012 Video Games Report and Game of the Year
First of all, a quick reminder that my Game of the Year doesn’t necessarily have to come out in 2012. Because I don’t have the time to dedicate to video games, the price premium of buying it new rarely makes sense to me. So my Game of the Year will be my favorite game that I played in 2012.
As I compiled my list I realized that I played a lot less games in 2012. I may not have played a lot less hours (I haven’t bothered comparing the totals with 2011), but I definitely had a lot less variety. A lot of that has to do with the birth of my daughter this year. Only as the year has gone on have I been able to carve out some time here and there to play story-based games. In addition, I resumed pursuing my master’s degree in the fall, right around the time I was able to have a bit more time to myself. I didn’t have any gameplay at all in March, September or October.
July 2012 Games Report
[caption id=“attachment_5589” align=“aligncenter” width=“480”] The Walking Dead - “Oh, FL…..too often the butt of jokes”[/caption]
The Walking Dead (7 hrs) - I had no reason to play this game. I like point and click adventure games, but I don’t read The Walking Dead or watch the TV show. I don’t really care much for zombie games although I’m not opposed to them. But the same was on sale during the Steam Summer Sale and Dan bought it for me. This is a really, really good game. While you can probably really appreciate it if you’re a fan of the comic or TV show, I’m enjoying it without the need to know anything about what happens in that fiction. I think is easily accomplished because the game serves as a prequel to the comic (and, by extension, loosely a prequel to the tv show as well). So I don’t need to really know anything or have unnecessary character exposition to set up the world. You’re playing as the zombie apocalypse happens.