From God of War to Baldur’s Gate, David and Sam discuss what they’re playing as part of the 2024 Gaming Backlog Challenge.
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Want a fun way to celebrate, laugh, and/or cry about your favorite games of 2022? Introducing The Punished Backlog’s first ever prop awards.
Ready to reflect on the past 12 months? Here are the top 10 best character- and story-driven games of 2022, according to one female gamer.
2022 was an impressive year for games, but which were the best of the best? Here’s my personal rankings, from absolute worst to GOTY.
I finished God of War Ragnarök last week and had some questions; you might, too. Here’s my attempt to explain and answer questions from the end of God of War Ragnarök. Major spoilers abound. What…
Welcome to Punished Notes, Volume 26! For this edition, I’ll be discuss one of this year’s biggest releases, God of War Ragnarök. I’ll start off with a spoiler-free mini-review of the whole experience, mention some…
For those of us who love, play, and appreciate video games, the end of the year is especially exciting because everyone gets to give us their Game of the Year lists. But why do we do these lists? Why do we care? Why should anyone? For this edition of Punished Chat, I spoke with this very site’s David Silbert about how we approach making our own lists, what we value, and why they exist at all.
From a game design perspective, God of War (2018) knocks it out of the park. Yet while the elements that make up its story are touching, the way the emotional story beats hit the player largely contradicts the actual gameplay of the experience. The end result? The whole game feels worse than the sum of its parts.
Five Games that Blew Me Away in 2018 This year was a little all over the place for me. The latter half gave me a lot of time to focus on gaming, but, with the…
The Allure of AAA Pulls Me Back In 2018 was an atypical year for me in media consumption. I took a bit of a sabbatical from playing games for the first half of 2018 and…