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The Results Are In! The Guide of the Year Awards 2022 01/31/23
Which guidewriters won this year? Take a look and give them some congratulations!
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Plat #100 - Neverwinter Nights
This is a bad port of a game most people considered mediocre at the time, but I loved it and stayed up until 5 AM playing it on our family PC when I was little. It was the first game for adults I had ever played, and it taught me to read which lead to buying fantasy books outside of my age range, and I always did very well in English and on essays in school as a result. It's been years since I read anything fantasy, I mostly like horror and non-fiction now, but I have enjoyed collecting some WRPG platinums this year and will probably continue to add to my collection.
I played every available campaign on D&D Hardcore difficulty with a Druid/Assassin/Shadowdancer build, and aside from Morag, the absurd number of Skeleton Devourers the game spawns in Shadows of Undrentide and a few bosses in Chapter 3 of Hordes of the Underdark got all of the trophies except the two wiz/sorc only ones without issue. The companion AI is absolutely braindead in this version and frequently my henchmen would get caught on a box or a door and leave me surrounded by enemies by myself. My animal summons constantly loaded in front of me when I transitioned through areas, and my bear's fat ass would push me backwards through the threshold right back into the loading screen again in a loop of swearing.
There was also a funny glitch that happened occasionally where the player running animation froze in place with one leg forward and just slid along, but her head continued to bob as if she were running so it just looked like my Neutral Evil Half-Elf was rollerblading everywhere jamming out to music on her Airpods.
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I wish there were more games where you could shapeshift into or befriend wild animals instead of going, "Oh cool a lion!" and then immediately slaughtering them to rip off their skin for crafting-related trophies.
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The trophies for Hardcore mode and finding all batteries in Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul glitched on me. I could not recommend a game less, nothing about it is scary even in VR, and it looks like a free game made by a single person in 2009, not a movie tie-in game for a cash cow series with 6 sequels.
I've heard deleting all your data, reinstalling and playing the entire game in one sitting can fix the Hell Yeah! trophy but I cannot be arsed.
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I picked up Mundaun in the sale, because it was recommended by the same person that introduced me to Darkwood and Pathologic 2, both of which I find fascinating.
I'm also planning to get House of Ashes and Fatal Frame in October, and I want to check out Fear & Hunger on PC, but that will hopefully be it for my gaming purchases this year. I have other hobbies I want to devote the time and money to like ballet, books and natural perfumes.
I go through books way too fast since I started reading again, and I can't go to the library like I used to thanks to Covid, so I'm exhuming Barnes & Noble gift cards from three Christmases ago out of the bottom of my purse and settling for Dean Koontz novels scavenged in the wilds of Goodwill. Stay strong out there comrades.