Best Of

Antenna(33 minutes): A free game on steam that is interesting and a slightly frustrating puzzle game. Looks a lot like LIMBO but is very restricted and more conceptualized. Everything centers around radio transmissions and antennas. You simply walk around getting antennas deployed and locating broadcast mixed in with "human" transmissions, static, and morse. Worth a half hour since it is free. The game closes itself after you finish.

Games Completed: 119
Time: 5 weeks 73.61 hours

The Division(22.5 hours): The story is done 100%. My max level is only 28 and I didn't even bother with the dark zone PvP. I can't find the will to even launch this game any more. Once I hit level 20 the grind started to get worse which meant the main story took longer and longer to progress forward in. Just can't grind this any farther, especially since this was a free game with a spare 970(which has turned in a couple million points for Team 93).

The install of this game is around 40GB and runs through UPlay so have fun with always on DRM, this is important. If you have grown up watching 90s spy movies this game might just be for you. Everything kicks off when a horrible virus spreads around New York killings lots of people. The government rolls in trying to control this unknown outbreak but an extreme percentage of the population still dies. Eventually this "first wave" of government intervention fails and chaos really takes over. Now huge sections of the city are controlled by gangs who steal supplies, try to burn everyone alive, and just want to be all around dicks to anyone left.

You come in as part of the second wave to attempt to bring order back to what emergency personnel are left and seek a resolution to the situation. But you aren't some lazy grunt running errands for the CDC and getting basic services back up for the citizens still alive, you are a super secret military delta seal team 6 black ops group called......The Division. Your job is to figure out what happened to the first wave of people, which did include Division agents, and stop the virus.

Everything in this game is about how to build a character and spec out guns. Very much oriented to raid game play and optimal builds. Follow the meta for quick runs and drop percentages. The game is beautiful and difficulty scales so picking up randoms into a 4 person team isn't insanely difficult. The scaling seemed to be BS with a 4 man team and running in groups of 2/3 felt as though the difficulty scaled correctly because at 4 people there always just seemed to be too many enemies on the field at once preventing anything besides a sniper fest.

The city is broken into regions that are for designated levels with their own independent shop keepers and safe houses that allow quick travel, most major elements allow quick travel after you find them once. There is a pretty great HUD overlay that gives you turn by turn to find elements you marked on the map but the grinding and just mass of repeating instances even ruins this a little. Slowly I just kept wishing for an auto-follow to allow me to set the character to run some where so I didn't have to deal with running for 5 minutes to spend 10 minutes shooting the same guys trying to steal the same supply drop again.

Eventually you finish off the main story and all that is left is leveling to 30 and respec so you don't get slaughtered in the dark zone where you can PVP other people playing The Division. This just feels like WoW with guns and lamer quest. Several expansion DLCs are planned and have been announced to finish up the story, bring in new features, and increase level cap. As is the game feels complete and not like content was cut out. There are graphical bugs galore and you really never know what you will find as patches hit and mess 1 thing up and fix another. Funny how ubisoft still has the same basic vector draw issue in all of their games, what is it about their engines they can't get straight but everyone else can.

I might play it a little more if skill counted for more over build but its a game I still see a lot of FPS plays sticking with since most of the game is centered around replayability.

Games Completed: 118
Time: 5 weeks 73.01 hours