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Welcome to Games for Thought!
Hello there! Thank you for checking out my blog. Name’s Nic. Nice to meet you! Games for Thought is a blog based around discussing games. Talking about things that work or don’t work for some games, or just why we enjoy certain games or aspects about them. This can include full on game reviews or […]
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Persona and the impact a game can have on you
So this is going to be a bit of a different post from the usual kinds! I wouldn’t really call this a review or a discussion exactly as I mainly want to talk about the Persona series, particularly Persona 4, and it’s impact on me. With Persona 3, 4, and 5 finally branching out from […]
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Splatoon 3 – It’s just more Splatoon and that’s okay!
I’ve said before in previous posts that I don’t really feel that every game needs to strive to be innovative or groundbreaking. Sometimes it’s perfectly fine to play to your strengths and just keep doing what works. This is something that Nintendo is kind of known for with a lot of it’s games. Just look […]
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Deathloop – Please give this game a try!
It’s that time at last! The time I finally get an excuse to gush about a game that really deserves more attention. Deathloop. A game released exclusively for the PlayStation 5 last year by Arkane Studios, the makers of Dishonored and the reboot of Prey. Despite releasing such a long time ago, now is actually […]
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Do games need to be innovative to be good?
So recently I’ve started playing Soul Hackers 2 from ATLUS and it’s been a pretty good time so far! I tend to really enjoy ATLUS and their RPGs like Persona and Shin Megami Tensei so I was pretty confident I’d have fun with Soul Hackers as well. It’s a pretty standard ATLUS RPG though. Great […]
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Cult of the Lamb – Running a cult shouldn’t be this cute!
I seem to be on a roguelite kick recently! First with Prey: Mooncrash and now with Cult of the Lamb. Both are vastly different roguelite experiences though, but they are similar in a sense give that they both change things up from the usual roguelite formula. Meaning that for someone who is into roguelites but […]
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Prey: Mooncrash – The most unique roguelite you’ve never played
After having loved my playthrough of Deathloop awhile back when it first came out, I decided to check out some more games from it’s developer, Arkane Studios. They are a developer I’ve always known and heard about but I never actually played any of their games. They are probably most well known for their Dishonored […]
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The benefits of hard to find secrets in Games
So if you’ve been paying attention to gaming news on Twitter recently you may have seen that Nier: Automata has been trending like crazy despite being a pretty old game at this point. This was mainly due to the fact that a new unseen area of the game had supposedly been discovered. This set the […]
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Ghost of Tsushima and how important polish can be for games
After talking about exclusive games last week I decided to go back to one of my recent favorite exclusives, Ghost of Tsushima, and play through it again. Especially since I hadn’t tried out the Director’s Cut version of the game yet. And while revisiting it, I was reminded just how important polish is to a […]
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The Double Edged Sword of Exclusive Games
Games that are exclusive to certain consoles or platforms have always played a big part in the game industry. Even going back to Super Mario on Nintendo and Sonic the Hedgehog on Genesis. Exclusive games were just something people accepted about the industry. But when Epic Games decided to launch their own store for PC […]
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Invisible Choices in Games
Choices are always a fun part of games. They can give games replayability or help cater the game to different play styles so everyone can enjoy. But more often than not, choices in games are used to affect the story of the game more than anything else. For some games, it’s the biggest draw of […]
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