u/aFinancialWreck

A couple of my thoughts going through this exercise:

1. My taste in games in pretty mainstream.

2. It was pretty hard to choose just one game in certain years. Honorable mentions to Bioshock in 2007, Super Mario Galaxy 2 in 2010, The Witcher 3 in 2015, Hollow Knight and Super Mario Odyssey in 2017, God of War and Dead Cells in 2018, Sekiro in 2019, Hades in 2020, and Blue Prince, Silksong, and Ghost of Yotei in 2025. All of these are on my all-time list and just had the unfortunate timing of being released the same year as another all-time favorite.

3. 2017 was an absolutely stacked year with Breath of the Wild, Hollow Knight, Super Mario Odyssey, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Nioh, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, What Remains of Edith Finch, and Assassin's Creed Origins. Probably the deepest bench I've seen.

4. 2022 and 2025 are the two other years that give 2017 a run for their money with Elden Ring, Horizon Forbidden West, God of War Ragnarok, Marvel's Midnight Suns, Sifu, Vampire Survivors, The Stanley Parable: Ultimate Deluxe, Neon White, Stray, and You Suck at Parking in all in 2022 and Kingdom Come Deliverance II, Blue Prince, Silksong, Ghost of Yotei, Oblivion Remastered, Hades II, Borderlands 4, Death Stranding 2, and The Rogue Prince of Persia all in 2025.

5. On the flip side, 2009, 2014, 2016, and 2019 felt like relatively weak years without as much deep competition as other years.

I know it's a pretty stereotypical list, but it's true for me.

All listed in no particular order (although Skyrim, Breath of the Wild, Hollow Knight, Elden Ring, The Last of Us Part 2, and Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 are my clear top 6).

Here's my full list of games played with their ratings: https://backloggd.com/u/Bappel3/games/user-rating/

Just did my first mega run from Shattered Rise all the way to the Cathedral. Anyone able to beat my stats on a similar run?

Did this as a way to prep one last time before trying to take on the King. Never even had to use my second chance. Used Smart Rifle as my primary weapon and Prominence as my power weapon the whole way by slowly upgrading as I went.

Now I have 364k of Lucenite still left over after maxing out the Armor Matrix....still got lots of open Halcyon spots, but I've already purchased every possible Lucenite spot...