whispers i've only played the demo for book of hours b/c i cannot afford the full game yet but legit i immediately fell in love with that game, it is so very very me

Eeeey, Beat Saber!

Beat Saber!! it's been too hot to play for a while but now that it's cooling down i wanna get back into it again

looking at this again and just... thinking about metro redux. i played last light first b/c it was a ps+ game of the month and before it i was fervently anti-fps because i didn't know they could have stories or be so compelling. i was so used to my cultural experience with fps games and gamers being people who only played CoD/Halo multiplayer competitively

and being mean over VC so i was like "ah, all fps games are awful and encourage people to be awful and mean bullies"

fell in love with artyom hard and actually really enjoyed the emphasis on light and dark stealth mechanics and all that, so I started to give fps games a chance. playing metro redux changed me fundamentally as a person who engages with media and as a gamer

also man, there's so many games I've played that have been important to me or formative in some way, i actually had to cut stuff from this to make space for the ones that are on here b/c i wanted to have the greatest distillation of things that capture my interests or had a significant impact on me