Games on Luiyología

My Year 2020 in Games

Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome again to this yearly post, where I try to analyze my gaming behavior during the last year. You can read about my previous years:

2019
2018
2017 (in Spanish)
2016 (in Spanish)
2015 (in Spanish)
2014 (in Spanish)
2013 (in Spanish)
2012 (in Spanish)
2011 (in Spanish)

Data

	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	Total since 2006
Total amount of plays	88	73	101	84	98	1222
Different games played	21	33	61	72	55	440
Games with 2 or more plays	9	9	14	9	15	190
Amount of gaming sessions	62	37	43	36	35	464

Evolution of my boardgame plays over the last 5 years

Games played per year until the end of 2020 - CC BY-NC-SA License

Retrospective

I will organize again the analysis in categories, as the time I spent in RPG or video games is becoming much more relevant.

Boardgames

In 2020 I have played more than in the previous years, and mainly to long games.
I recorded 62 gaming sessions, more than 5 per month, to just 20 different games.
My h-index as a player is now 12. I expected to raise it this year, as I have played intensively to a few games.
I have played 48 scenarios of Gloomhaven in 41 sessions. That is more than half the games I’ve played in the whole year. I love it, and perhaps I should write a spoiler free post in the blog about it.

Role-playing games

With just 8 sessions, mostly online due to the pandemic, we closed in June our Storm King’s Thunder campaign for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition.
For the moment, we haven’t started a new campaign, with D&D or not, but I hope we will be able to do it as soon as the situation allows it.

Video games

This year I have played more video games than ever, for sure.
In Steam I have played:
- Mostly Tabletop Simulator. I have more than 150h only from 2020.
- I played for a while to This War of Mine. Interesting and challenging, I will probably play again when in the proper mood.
- I finished Firewatch. An intense and well written story. Some passages ended up being too repetitive but the game is short overall.
- I completed The Darkside Detective. Interesting and challenging puzzles, good laughs with a nice design and a fantastic retro based characters and stories.
In January I bought a second hand Playstation 4 from a colleague (without knowing about covid-19 yet) and since April I used it a lot. I have completed:
- Marvel’s Spiderman. The positive things make the negative ones irrelevant. It’s just awesome to swing around Manhattan and I spent hours just doing it.
- Journey. Cute and short game, and both things deserve recognition sometimes. Perhaps too short but take it or leave it.
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Dozens of hours, my favourite game so far. Some side quests are repetitive but in general I engaged a lot with the character. Being a huge fan of the novels also helps, but it’s not a requirement to enjoy the game. I played Witcher 1 and 2 just to play this, and it was totally worth it.
- Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, including Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception. Being a completists, I need to play (if I can) all the saga. After having played (and loved) several Tomb Raider games, this was a perfect match for me and I was not disappointed.
- Call of Duty: Black Ops III. I only played the campaign, only single player and no zombie scenarios. Having said that, I liked it and perhaps I could play it again.
- Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. I enjoyed the spaceship missions and the overall campaign story, but as I played it just after Black Ops III, it was too repetitive sometimes.
- Mass Effect: Andromeda. My first interaction with Mass Effect, and I liked it a lot. Dozens of hours to avoid leaving any single rock unturned, and it was worth it.
- Dragon Age Inquisition. My first interaction with Dragon Age, and it is not going to be the last one. It reminded me sometimes to Pillars of Eternity and Baldur’s Gate, but the story is perhaps more solid and the overall atmosphere is more dramatic. The only thing that I disliked was all the gear evolution related parts, it was confusing and often useless.
Despite having a new PlayStation, I have tried to play in Stadia as well, as a PRO subscriber. I haven’t used the subscription so I finally cancelled it. In 2020 I played.
- Destiny 2, I like the game and I’ve spent several hours but I haven’t engaged yet with it.
- Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year celebration. Only with the opening scene I know I will play it again in the future. It’s probably my favorite Tomb Raider game and I love all of them.
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. I bought it with a discount without removing my subscription as it looked like an Uncharted game in the Star Wars universe, and it’s more or less like this. I enjoyed being a Jedi and learning to be one, but I didn’t like the lack of fast travel. Exploration it’s a big part of the game, and it’s nice and challenging, but once you get lost in a labyrinth a few times it starts to piss you off. The end is awesome, that’s for sure.
- Either on Steam, PS4 or Stadia, I plan to keep playing as much as I can also this year. Perhaps eventually in PS5, who knows?

My Year 2019 in Games

Sun, 05 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome again to this yearly post, where I try to analyze my gaming behavior during the last year. You can read about my previous years:

2018
2017 (in Spanish)
2016 (in Spanish)
2015 (in Spanish)
2014 (in Spanish)
2013 (in Spanish)
2012 (in Spanish)
2011 (in Spanish)

Data

	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	Total since 2006
Total amount of plays	73	101	84	98	84	1146
Different games played	33	61	72	55	71	430
Games with 2 or more plays	9	14	9	15	13	186
Amount of gaming sessions	37	43	36	35	30	401

Evolution of my game plays over the last 5 years

Games played per year until the end of 2019 - CC BY-NC-SA License

Retrospective

This time, I’ll organize the analysis in categories, as the time I spent in RPG or video games is becoming much more relevant.

Boardgames

2019 has been the year with less plays since 2009.
I’ve played only 33 different games this year, and incredibly most of them were new (to me).
I recorded 37 gaming sessions, 3 per month.
My h-index as a player is still at 11. I expected to raise it this year, but I haven’t since I almost played new games.
I have played a lot less to boardgames. Nothing unexpected as this year I haven’t been able to attend Tierra de Nadie (TdN) or any similar convention. Not attending TdN implies at least 25-30 plays less.
On the other side, the number of gaming sessions is not that different. And makes sense as I’m playing more to longer games.
Only In 2019 I have played 19 times to Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle Earth, in several sessions with up to 4 straight plays. I’m enjoying it a lot (as the rest of my playing group), so we are continuing with The Hunt of the Ember Crown expansion. I’m even considering starting a solitaire campaign to compare.
I did not fulfill my desire to complete in 2019 all the published games of Unlock! and Exit, but I played 5 and I have bought almost all of them so it’s a matter of time.

Role-playing games

We are still maintaining our monthly Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition campaign. I’ve only skipped a couple of sessions because of business trips or similar issues, and despite that I’ve attended 10 sessions.
I’m sure we will continue with this in 2020 and beyond, if nothing important changes. We will see what happens when we complete the Storm King’s Thunder campaign.

Video games

This year I’ve used Steam from time to time. Chronologically:
- I completed Baldur’s Gate II
- I played for a while to Icewind Dale
- I finished Life is Strange: Episode 1
- I also completed The Witcher
By the end of the year I acquired Stadia Founder’s Edition. I started trying it with Destiny 2 but definitely enjoyed my new Stadia with Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition.
Either on Steam or Stadia, I plan to play as much as I can also this year. For the moment, I’m continuing with Rise of the Tomb Raider

My Year 2018 in Games

Sun, 13 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome again to this yearly post, where I try to analyze my gaming behavior during the previous year. I have been doing this since 2011 in Spanish, but this time I will do it in English as with the rest of my posts. You can read about my previous years (in Spanish):

Evolution of my game plays over the last years
	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	Total since 2006
Total amount of plays	101	84	98	84	81	117	161	1039
Different games played	61	72	55	71	52	81	80	397
Games with 2 or more plays (in the year)	14	9	15	13	14	19	40	175
Amount of gaming sessions	43	36	35	30	44	41	36	365

Games played per year until the end of 2018 - CC BY-NC-SA License

Analysis

In this yearly post I used to include a graph with the games played by month, but it turned more or less complex and meaningless as the trend was clear year by year. I tend to play more or less the same along the year with some peaks in the gaming conventions.
In 2018 I went back to the 2016 numbers in amount of plays, with a higher amount of different games played.
I’ve played 61 different games this year, 41 of them were totally new (to me). A very high proportion.
I recorded 43 gaming sessions, almost 4 per month.
Again, in 2018 I have zero hours recorded in the Steam platform. I miss it and I will give it some priority in 2019.
My h-index as a player is still at 11. Reading carefully the data, I expect to go up at least one level in the next period, as I have several games near the h-index frontier.

Retrospective

I still enjoy a lot playing boardgames, role playing games and video games so I will keep this as one of my main leisure activities for 2019
In January 2018 we finished Pandemic Legacy Season 1 the campaign we started back in 2016, but after that I haven’t played any other legacy game. I still love cooperative games and I would not reject starting one with a stable playing group, maybe the recently announced Journeys in the Middle Earth?
I am becoming addicted to escape room inspired board games. In 2018 I have played several Unlock! and Exit and for 2019 my goal is to play all the published games of those two families
I managed (with my party and DM) to maintain since March a monthly Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition campaign, and I only missed one session because of a trip. That is very good news for me and for the entire group, we are enjoying it a lot so we will hopefully continue with the same frequency and passion.
I’m still eager to play prototypes, but since early 2018 I am no longer a member of Asociación Ludo. I was not involved at all so, although I miss some of my colleagues there, I decided to leave after realizing that the association does not benefit from me if I’m only providing economic support. I will consider returning when I’m capable of offering more :-(