It hit the spot for me and provided a break from everything going on in the world. It brought everything together, and gunning around the city in the Batmobile felt great, even if the controls are a bit of an issue. Batman: Arkham Knight was the icing on the cake. I started playing the Arkham games in chronological order, finishing each main story and most DLC content. Enter my extensive backlog of Steam games. At a low point, I need a distraction and thought a few decent narrative games would fit the bill. Over the past year, I have had to deal with a few health issues. While I did play Asylum and Origins near their original release dates, I never had the chance to finish the storyline for either game.
This year I am thankful for the Batman: Arkham series of games. Staff Writer: Kevin Chick: Batman Arkham Series For the history, I’ll always be thankful to WoW. What does is how the game impacted me, as a gamer, as a person, as a writer.
The drama of the developer doesn’t matter.
More importantly, it’s the game that locked me into this genre, kept me in contact with friends I might have drifted from, and what kept me writing about games in the early days after the fall of Warhammer Online when I might have given up entirely. I haven’t been an active W oW player in several years, but it’s a game I can always come back to.
With the graphics card supply issues that have plagued PC gaming, these technologies stretch older GPUs and let countless gamers experience new titles that might otherwise have been out of reach.įinally, though it might surprise some readers given the turmoil of the last year, I’m thankful for World of Warcraft. On the tech side of things, I’m thankful for DLSS and FSR. Having played the original Red Dead, and knowing where this story leads adds another layer that can only be fully felt having taken a similar journey way back in 2013. The beauty of the game, from the graphics, to the way the characters develop and change over time, to the deeper contemplations of the nature of good and evil and how we escape (or don’t) the decisions we make in life, is moving. I just finished as complete a playthrough as I’m ever likely to have a playthrough I’ve been working on for more than a year. That said, the game that I’m most thankful for this year isn’t a new one: it’s Red Dead Redemption 2. Hardware Editor: Chris Coke - Red Dead Redemption 2 | DLSS and FSR | World of WarcraftĪs the resident tech guy, it might not surprise everyone to know that I have way less time for gaming than most of the staff.