Recent content by Insomniacal Fan

"Breath of the Kingdom", as a composite game, is unbeatable. Combine the joy of exploration and the beautiful desolation of the first game; with the second game's world filled with characters and adventure, and it's perfection. These games are an example of what's possible when you take...

I appreciate that, I'm only trying to explain the beauty 🙂

Perhaps there is a bit of room on my island for nostalgia, but I think I would still play this game

I think it's folly to try and review games on a single numerical scale, and I agree metacritic is subject to manipulation. It feels more reasonable to accept that reviews are inevitably subjective. I'm not so harsh on the critics themselves, I don't think anyone needs special credentials to...

I enjoyed this writeup. I won't go point by point on every take, but there were a few that stood out that I wanted to respond to. This is on sale currently at the steam store (the base game 75% off for $12.50) I will caveat, that you might want to avoid this game if you aren't interested in...

Most of (50%) of the picks should be contained inside the box, looks like most of your picks were in the single digit millions, which is pretty successful, (but not mega successful like Pokemon GO, selling (downloading) 1 billion copies, which is why I needed to use a log scale). Sales data is...

Yeah, you have the most obscure game (by units "sold") with Hard Corps: Uprising (my data shows it selling 71,000 copies, but no clue how reliable that data is), as well as the lowest metacritic-rated game with Gungrave Gore scoring a 57 (I gave you some competition here with X4: Foundations...

Some charts I thought were interesting. Don't take these too seriously, the data has minimal sanitization *edited* - tweaked the charts a bit,( added jitter)

Yeah, but it's not like anybody would have ever packed up their Intellivision over the past 50 years😀

I've actually played the fewest games on @whitechocolate 's list of anybody in the draft with 5 games. All of those that I have played I loved, which makes me think I'm going to be looking to this list for the next time I find myself in a gaming rut. You've already sold me a copy of Kenshi...

This one's tough. Seeing Super Mario World on display in a department store as a kid probably significantly impacted my life. Also, I love a good sandbox, and Minecraft is the boxiest of sandboxes. Sweeping Valve games was a strong move for Warhawk though. Portal is a game I could recommend to...

A Histogram of games picked by release date. I think it's interesting that there's almost no overlap between the two lists. Very distinct eras of gaming

The games from T&M I need to talk about: Stardew Valley is so perfect. Not only did it revive a classic SNES game (Harvest Moon) it actually lived up to the promise of what that game evoked by actually filling the game world with stuff! It has character driven stories for a diverse group of...

"The Buddy System" pre-Walton Kings are my favorite non-playoff Kings team

I experienced this; I chalk this up to having extremely low expectations of the team.