With every New Year comes another year’s worth of video games to look forward to, and 2019 promise to be a good one in that regard: the release of Kingdom Hearts III is only days away, Piranha Plant and Joker are certain to be innovative and entertaining additions to the Smash Ultimate roster, Animal Crossing is coming to the Switch… and those mark only a small fraction of the many things 2019 has in store for us in terms of gaming. Amid all of this hype, I got to thinking about the varied gameplay experiences I had over the past year; so, I figured this would be as good an opportunity as any for me to reflect on them with a bit of a critical eye and definitively rank each of the video games I managed to get to during 2018!
Keep in mind while reading that, even though this is a list featuring games I played in 2018, many of these games were ones released in years past that I never got around to until last year—so, if you were expecting a list of the top 10 games that were released in 2018, I’m afraid you’ll have to look elsewhere (but not until after you read my oh-so-important list first! I crave validation!); expect a healthy mix of new and old titles in the list below. Additionally, this list will rank downloadable content (DLC) separately from standalone titles, as I don’t find it fair to compare a DLC add-on to a fully-fledged game. I’ll be weighing the score of each DLC depending on how well it improves and expands upon the narrative and gameplay of its original game.
Without further ado (and with no better means of transitioning from this introduction to the list itself than to use a somewhat tired expression in the realm of video games), let’s-a go! (Please forgive me.)
My entry for the MermenClub’s Secret Santa exchange on deviantArt! I drew @artofdroth‘s character, Django (who is described as grumpy and easily embarrassed, but, as you see here, I sort of went in a different direction 😅).
He’s admittedly not quite what I expected to draw when I signed up for a merman-themed Secret Santa exchange, but I definitely had a lot more fun drawing him than I originally anticipated. You can see details of this piece on my ArtStation and Instagram accounts!
I’m going on a cruise in a few weeks and I guess the trendy thing to do is hang photos on the door of your stateroom to decorate it. I drew both of these and don’t know which I think is cuter.
me: (shows this to my mom) my mom: no!! me: it’s just photoshop my mom: why would they do that me: (laughs) my mom: how would that make anything better
