Since the last BACKLOG entry in September of 2022 I became obsessed with WarTales (Early Access, PC), completed my first playthrough of Steelrising (PS5), reviewed Star Ocean: The Divine Force (PS5) and the latest God of War game before the end of the year. Me? I’ve got a list of cool-ass old games to cut through whenever valuable modern shit dries up. Shit barely passes for entertainment anymore beyond a penny slot machine. The major point to make, if we can speed whatever this thought is along: If you are bored playing a 2023-released video game it is likely a symptom of above-average intelligence, or, under-medication eh. ![]() “ Don’t overthink it.” quickly becomes the major motto of this latest corporation-raised generation. Scam-level monetization and systems of psychological reward which amount to gambling make the popular video game experience entirely painful, joyless dirges seemingly meant to program underdeveloped brains. At some point I’ve had to consider that no hobby of mine has changed as drastically as video games have and to such a negative degree that the technological advances made over the last 2-3 decades hardly count. If you want your video game music or game reviewed: most popular sub-genre of video game today is basically “grift as a service”, a strange brew of broken and repetitive actions meant to juice the lowest common denominator without producing a fair or consistently functional product. These posts have nothing, or at least very little to do with music. Beyond updating my progress in completing said games I’ll note small achievements, write short reviews and there may be some discussion on first impressions on upcoming games. BACKLOG is a long-running yet increasingly infrequent casual video game blog feature which finds me checking in on progress through my extensive backlog of video games, old and new.
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