Given that 2020 was 2020, I didn't have to commute as much and I could stay up a little later. Also, a 1 year old who refused to sleep meant I was playing way more than normal. According to Playstation, I played 300 days last year an average of 3 hours a day. I also played a total of 1100 hours (which is just ludicrous to me!). My top 3 games in terms of hours played were:
1 Persona 5 Royal 180 hours
2 Assassin's Creed Odyssey 130 hours
3 Yakuza Like a Dragon 115 hours
Will these be my top 3 games? Only one way to find out...and here we go!
Game I Played Too Much Of For No Good Reason:
Sonic Generations: Look, I'm a Sonic stan...simp? I dunno, whatever the kids are using for sucker these days. Hell, the last movie I saw in theaters (possibly ever at this point) was Sonic The Gosh Dang Hedgehog with my goddaughter! Given the year, sometimes I would randomly go through parts of this game. Mostly the boss battles. These two in particular:
They aren't like...good. But I like them. They make me happy. They're dumb, simple, have ridiculously overproduced music and scenarios...I just find them comforting. And man, did I need some comfort gaming every now and again. Like a lot. I played this honestly just fine game way more than I should have this year.
10 TIE: Sleeping Dogs and Shadow of Mordor (no pics or videos, they are exceedingly fine games and don't deserve the effort) :
I listened to audiobooks over the summer while I played these. I was extremely whelmed by whatever these games were putting down. They are the textbook definition of games that are fine but I can see why they have dedicated fanbases. I also can't divorce the two in my mind because I played them under the exact same circumstances during the summer when nothing was grabbing me and I kept trying to find something, anything to keep me from diving headlong into FF14 finally (a cudgel I continue to threaten using but keep avoiding it. So why else are they sharing:
Sleeping Dogs: I apparently made it like halfway through this on PS3 (I distinctly remember giving up at the wedding last time because it just wasn't Yakuza enough for me, too shooty). This game will never be Yakuza enough for me. In fact, it reminds me of a Saints Row game but they took it WAY too seriously. It doesn't stand out in any real sense to me. But I did dig the fighting system. Mostly. It was a good time sink during a lazy couple summer days.
Shadow of Mordor: It is what it is: Assassin's Arkham: Mordor. Taken at face value, it's just a fine amalgamation of Arkham and AC. But that Nemesis system. Bruh, c'mon, that was some balling ass ish right there! I really enjoyed that. But the rest of the game was you know, fine. It limps on the list the same way Sleeping Dogs does for being a solid, if unremarkable, summer lazy day game. Oh, poisoning fools was kinda fun too. Too bad I bounced extremely hard off the sequel. I guess I got my fill of Nemesis here so far...
More to come soon, maybe games I you know, actually liked a lot and have actual things to say about
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. I still always like to make a distinction between what I personally enjoy and measure the expectations of others when sharing. I'm a bit of an apologist that way 
) since she will not shut the **** up. And let's please, for the love of God, have Silver Sable die immediately in the sequel. I cannot stand this version of the character. Cool in the comics. Terrible in this game. Again, I played the hell out of this game and did everything that wasn't Screwball related but what a lame set of stories. Honestly, had this just been nested in the whole game, I would have been down with it. As a standalone, nah. They should have reversed and put the Tombstone/Taskmaster/Shocker stuff as this content and weaved this DLC stuff into the game.