A Few Good Games: Preamble

My favourite games suck. My favourite RTS game (Warcraft III) is also one of the games I expect to lose every time I play it competitively. I play Magic: The Gathering because I love collecting the cards and enjoy putting new deck concepts together, but I bemoan the loss of every cent to my hobbies and groan when I have to deal with somebody else's new deck.

I think Counter-Strike is over-rated. I couldn't get into Fallout 1. I don't mind the pretty-boys and consumptive girls that make up Final Fantasy, but I have tried it now and decided that level-grinding in a single player game is nothing to be proud of. I've quit WoW multiple times, but I think any gamer over 18 has probably done that now.

Now, I'm creating a blog about my *unpopular* opinion on games. I'm starting off with a mammoth update of 12 titles, both board and card and video. Because every one needs an avenue through which to vent their opinions. But also because this is a university assignment by me, student number n6852432 for my personal assessment item number 2.

This blog represents a collection of a few good games. There are 6 games that I like and 6 that I dislike. Both are tinted by opinion but discussed in a scholarly framework, paying attention to such concepts as 'balance', 'choice', 'flow' and whatever tool is at hand to drive my point home. Like say, if my point were a nail and a certain concept were a hammer, I would totally use that concept. But if my point was a screw...