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Life has been a busy struggle this year.
I wanted to do more reassessing of my top 50 list. There are some games on my list that I feel like are probably more nostalgia picks than anything else at this point. But I only ended up making a small number of changes. Maybe I can rethink some things for next year.
Notable changes:
Age of Empires IV at #25 - Age of Empires II is one of my most played games ever. When I play Age of Empires IV, it feels kind of like a side grade. There are things that it's doing differently to avoid "problems" that you faced in AoE2. Like how the town centers would be locked to making more people while you were advancing to the next age. But overall I don't feel like AoE4 is a huge improvement or anything. Some things I feel like are subjectively worse with Age 4.
Elden Ring pushed down to #12. I have a really hard time with placing Elden Ring. A lot of the Souls games are in my top 10 ever. There's a lot of stuff that's really awesome about Elden Ring. Overall for me, ER has some of the highest highs (after Bloodborne), but also some lows. I replayed Dark Souls 1, Elden Ring back to back for the second time, and I overall felt like I was having more fun with DS1.
Astro Bot at #7. I feel like Astro Bot doesn't quite hit the same highs as Rescue Mission on VR. But the game is awesome. I beat the game like a couple weeks after it came out, and it's so fun. I think at the time I would've given it a 9/10. I've watched my kids play through the game, and I've had to help them with a few spots, and it's so fun tearing through a level. A lot of the games in my top 10, I would struggle to find as fun in just any random 5 minute increment.
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