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Maybe I should actually review something again

Short post, but I've been thinking about doing more stuff here. Actually reviewing some games that I enjoyed recently, giving my thoughts. My mind is drifting towards a review for Tyranny, but I'll just drop a few of my thoughts on games I've played since the last review and games I talked about briefly but never got back to:

1. Dragon Age: The Veilguard, late 2024. I liked it because it was another Dragon Age, and I played it to completion / to the secret ending because I love Dragon Age, but it is still my least favorite of the series up to this point. Dragon Age, but strictly by association.

2. Pillars of Eternity 1, early last year. What Tyranny lacked in completeness, Pillars made up for. That game knows what it is and it rides that modern Baldur's Gate 1 wave to it's fullest. Loved it, but I did burn out near the end. See Pillars 2 below.

3. Lay of the Land, at some point last year. I played more of the demo on Patreon, but I kinda fell out of it and never went back. It recently released on Steam back in April, and I bought it, but my GPU is still unprepared for that game and I will need an upgrade to fully experience it. Definitely one I want to play through in earnest, though.

4. Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, at the start of 2026. I couldn't get through the opening hours of Deadfire back in 2025 after beating the first game; I was a bit burnt out after back to back playthroughs of Tyranny and Pillars, and the technical issues with my old motherboard and CPU combo playing Deadfire just pushed me over the edge. I came back to the game in early 2026, after upgrading my motherboard and CPU the prior year, and I fell in love with Deadfire. The story, the characters, the mechanics - it felt good, and I played it to death.

5. That one Skyrim playthrough, 2025 at some point. I didn't finish this. I don't quite remember why not. I think I just found a new mod and wanted to redownload the game to try it.

6. And I've already talked about how I dropped these, but here we go again: AC Syndicate, still haven't opened again, Fallout London, still haven't redownloaded, Enderal, still never left Ark after finding it, etc, etc.

That's my list of games that I either completed or didn't complete; this doesn't include games that I currently have downloaded and actively intend to/have been playing, including an attempt at Starfield on the Xbox and some titles like Esoteric Ebb and Banquet for Fools ready to go on my PC. Who knows when or what I'll post next, but maybe it'll have something to do with something.

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