I’ll be the first to admit that this one is a bit of a cheat. I wracked my brain longer about 2015 than any other year on this list. I can’t say any of the handful of games I’ve played from 2015 have really changed my life — and 2015 is so recent, it’s hard for anything to have had the time to change my life. So here I was, skimming lists of games released in 2015, just in case I’d forgotten something, and that’s where I found it: StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void. I had no idea Legacy of the Void had
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30 Games That Made Me Who I Am: 2000
Diablo II is a lot of things to me. In late 2000 I’d just upgraded from the old family computer to a brand new one I got for my 13th birthday, and Diablo II was among the first games I installed on it. My brother had found the CD abandoned in the college computer lab he worked-studied in, and decided to give it to me. The expansion pack, Lord of Destruction, was the first game I bought with my own money, after I convinced my sister to drive me to the store so I could get it without my parents knowing. A
Path of Exile: Baby Steps
Baby steps through the office. Baby steps out the door. Baby steps down the Path of Exile. I’ve been playing the Path of Exile beta on and off for a few months now. This game and Torchlight were where I ended up looking for the qualities I loved in Diablo and was afraid I might never see again from Blizzard. Long story short, Path of Exile is a blatant love letter to Diablo II. I really like that about it: it doesn’t try to hide its agenda, and its agenda is to capture a little of the spark that made