{"id":146487,"date":"2021-01-03T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/video-games-id-rather-read-about-than-play-review-geek\/"},"modified":"2021-01-03T17:00:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T14:00:31","slug":"video-games-id-rather-read-about-than-play-review-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/video-games-id-rather-read-about-than-play-review-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"#Video Games I\u2019d Rather Read About Than Play \u2013 Review Geek"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a368c103ea5e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a368c103ea5e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/video-games-id-rather-read-about-than-play-review-geek\/#World_of_Warcraft\" >World of Warcraft\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/video-games-id-rather-read-about-than-play-review-geek\/#Pokemon\" >Pok\u00e9mon\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/video-games-id-rather-read-about-than-play-review-geek\/#EVE_Online\" >EVE Online<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/video-games-id-rather-read-about-than-play-review-geek\/#Farming_Simulator\" >Farming Simulator\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/video-games-id-rather-read-about-than-play-review-geek\/#Kingdom_Hearts\" >Kingdom Hearts\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/video-games-id-rather-read-about-than-play-review-geek\/#Dark_Souls\" >Dark Souls\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><strong>&#8220;#Video <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game<\/a>s I\u2019d Rather Read About Than Play \u2013 Review Geek&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-content-area\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-65874 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/thumbcache\/0\/0\/71d1a808843378c998806ef6ca1e5343\/p\/uploads\/2020\/12\/3055022f.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshtos from Bloodborne, World of Warcraft, and EVE online\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Video games are a pretty big part of my life. I try to give most genres, if not individual games, a go. Some of them I can\u2019t stand playing \u2026 but I still very much want to experience. It\u2019s an interesting dichotomy: Games aren\u2019t like <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>, and you can\u2019t sum up the whole in a couple of hours. So, reading it is.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few games that I\u2019ve kept up with over the years, not out of any desire to play them, but out of a fascination with their world building or communities. Anytime a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> story, review, or editorial on them pops up in my newsfeed, I stop and go through it. It\u2019s involuntary at this point.<\/p>\n<p>So, here\u2019s a brief list of games that I really dislike playing, and still like reading about anyway.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"World_of_Warcraft\"><\/span><em>World of Warcraft\u00a0<\/em><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I\u2019ve never really enjoyed massively multiplayer online games. Structurally they\u2019re dull, if only because it\u2019s hard to make an exciting combat system that can accommodate literally thousands of people at once. And despite claims of epic world-spanning conflicts and telling your own personal story in an evolving narrative, they inevitably seem to boil down to killing 10 mildly angry-looking sheep in different colored fields.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The (almost) Complete History of World of Warcraft\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EmhO1LldIQw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But <em>WOW<\/em> is different. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/worldofwarcraft.com\/en-us\/\"><em>World of Warcraft<\/em><\/a> has been continually updated for 16 years, and even at its start, it was based on a world already full of some pretty deep Tolkien-style fantasy lore. There\u2019s so much breadth to the story that you almost can\u2019t help but at least know some of it when you\u2019re interested in games. It\u2019s spilled over into other genres entirely\u2014a bunch of my <em>WOW<\/em> knowledge comes from the desire to know who the hell the guy on my <em>Hearthstone<\/em>\u00a0card is, and why I am not prepared to play him.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WoW Plague Video\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sAEhyHiNdrA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> aspect. Over a decade and a half of <em>WOW<\/em>, it\u2019s developed into its own culture, with events that have some fascinating ripples into gaming and culture at large. We could talk about the <em>South Park<\/em> episode or Leeroy Jenkins, but perhaps the most topically relevant is <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Corrupted_Blood_incident\">the Corrupted Blood plague<\/a>, a game glitch that spread through an online world in a way that mirrored real-world epidemics \u2026 and amazingly, became a source of useful information for actual research into the sociology of infectious diseases.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pokemon\"><\/span><em>Pok\u00e9mon\u00a0<\/em><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I have not completed a Pok\u00e9mon game since <em>Pok\u00e9mon Ruby<\/em>, waaaaay back in 2003. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I was proper obsessed with the originals, just like everyone else in my fourth grade class. But I\u2019m of the (surprisingly common) opinion that the games never got better than <em>Gold\/Silver\/Crystal<\/em>, just the second collection in the series.<\/p>\n<p>But consider: One of the most interesting things about <em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> is the Pokedex entries, which were sometimes weird and disturbing way back in 1996. Cubone is the original go-to here: a little dinosaur-looking thing that wears the skull of its dead mother as a helmet. With later generation we get Bewear, a giant teddy bear-looking thing that habitually crushes people\u2019s spines, Banette, a former doll that was <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arently so angry at being abandoned that it was imbued with life and \u201cseeks the child that disowned it,\u201d or Yamask, a Pok\u00e9mon that appears to be a dead human spirit that carries a mask of its former face around.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_65854\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-65854\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/thumbcache\/0\/0\/a55d0606c4e5e3ec891a9c0376e81a6b\/p\/uploads\/2020\/12\/5199ddca.png\" alt=\"Pokemon white pokedex entry \" width=\"700\" height=\"460\" data-credittext=\"GameFreak\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salamence literally believes it can fly. <span class=\"imagecredit\">GameFreak<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With almost a thousand monsters in the roster at the time of writing, it\u2019s no wonder that the developers of the <em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> games have had to come up with some wild stuff to fill those Pokedexes. I\u2019m here for them \u2026 and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gBisNJxAmIk&amp;list=PLDUoOYLKP1C4iicbwNdxMPdkaBCPac54o\">for the Drawfee episodes<\/a> that they spawn.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"EVE_Online\"><\/span><em>EVE Online<\/em><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em>EVE Online<\/em> might just be the most fascinating game in history, despite being a little more than a combination of spreadsheets and animated wallpapers. Okay, that\u2019s not fair. At its heart, <em>EVE<\/em> is a deep game about living out a life as an untethered spaceship pilot, in an online world shaped and reshaped by its thousands of dedicated players. It\u2019s just that it looks a lot like a spreadsheet on top of an animated wallpaper.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"EVE Online - Biggest Ever Battle Captured Footage\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kavAF1fkEGU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But <em>EVE\u2019s<\/em> universe of star systems and space stations is truly controlled by its players. The developers have stated that more or less anything goes in the game world, so long as you\u2019re not actually hacking the game itself. That means EVE is, essentially, a libertarian utopia. Players cooperate in gigantic guilds called \u201ccorporations,\u201d and they\u2019re free to fight or scheme as they please. Several smaller guilds are <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/inside-the-biggest-heist-in-eve-online-history\/\">entirely dedicated to corporate sabotage<\/a>, available for hire to the highest bidder.<\/p>\n<p>Add in the fact that there\u2019s a tenuous but very real connection between <em>EVE\u2019s<\/em> in-game currency and actual money in the real world, and suddenly the imaginary city-sized ships and player-controlled star systems are literally invested with value. <em>EVE\u2019s<\/em> biggest corporate battles involve <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bloodbath_of_B-R5RB\">thousands of players fighting each other in real time<\/a>, and some of the documented \u201cheists\u201d that have gone down are the stuff of Hollywood heists. It\u2019s enough to make you want to read a book about it\u2014<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B01DONPR0M\/?tag=reviewgeek-20\">and you can<\/a>!<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Farming_Simulator\"><\/span><em>Farming Simulator\u00a0<\/em><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s always interesting that some video games are essentially attempts to replicate a real-life job\u2014you know, the thing that most people do when they\u2019re not playing video games. I can see the appeal of simulating the workday of, say, a commercial airline pilot, or even a city manager. But a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/270880\/American_Truck_Simulator\/\">long-haul truck driver<\/a>? A <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1168680\/Cooking_Simulator__Cooking_with_Food_Network\/\">cook<\/a>? A farmer?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Farming Simulator 20 - Launch Trailer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GZm8G9oWuzc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid I\u2019d spend every summer on my grandparents\u2019 ranch in Texas. I\u2019ve done real farming. I can drive a tractor, I can brand a cow, I can build miles and miles of fences. Instead of doing any of that, I make snarky lists on the internet. Farming is a foundation of human life, but it\u2019s also boring, plodding, back-breaking labor, so much so that we\u2019ve used millennia of technological advancement to remove as many humans from the equation as possible.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, there are new <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/787860\/Farming_Simulator_19\/\"><em>Farming Simulator<\/em><\/a> games almost every year, on every platform, with tons of licensed DLC to accurately simulate extremely specific pieces of farming equipment. It\u2019s baffling. It\u2019s fascinating. I suspect that most of the people who find comfort in simulated farming would quickly lose it if they had to sprig a field of hay, or swap out a planter for a mower without any help. But I don\u2019t want to ruin the fantasy for them, so I\u2019ll just sit here and marvel at how I can spend five bucks on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1101720\/Farming_Simulator_19__John_Deere_Cotton_DLC\/\">an official John Deere CP690 Cotton Picker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Kingdom_Hearts\"><\/span><em>Kingdom Hearts\u00a0<\/em><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I have never once played a <em>Kingdom Hearts<\/em> game. The combination of <em>Final Fantasy<\/em> and animated Disney is not something that I ever thought I would need. But <em>Kingdom Hearts<\/em> started to catch my eye about 10 years ago, when I noticed that one of the DS\u00a0 games was called <em>Kingdom Hearts 358\/2 Days<\/em> (pronounced Three Hundred Fifty-Eight Over Two Days).<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve since received such titles as <em>Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance <\/em>and<em> Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue<\/em>. I figured that any game series that had worse titles than a <em>Street Fighter<\/em> remix was worthy of at least a little attention.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"So This is Basically Kingdom Hearts\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OZ7IxXN9hm0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I still don\u2019t really care about <em>Kingdom Hearts<\/em>, any more than I do about any other JRPG that isn\u2019t <em>Skies of Arcadia<\/em>. But trying to decipher its bonkers story is a lot of fun. To believe the various explanations that came out in droves around the release of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00DBF81JS\/?tag=reviewgeek-20\"><em>Kingdom Hearts III,<\/em><\/a> the series\u2019 storyline might be either the most brilliant or the most horrible piece of plotting ever penned by human hands.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also possible that the story cloned itself and then became an evil shadow version that was also a clone and now lives inside the heart of every writer, including me and my clones, and also Sebastian from <em>The Little Mermaid<\/em>.\u00a0That was all nonsense. But by <em>Kingdom Hearts<\/em> standards, it\u2019s pretty tame.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Dark_Souls\"><\/span><em>Dark Souls\u00a0<\/em><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I\u2019ve tried three times to get into <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/570940\/DARK_SOULS_REMASTERED\/\">the original <em>Dark Souls<\/em><\/a>, and never made it to the second boss. Its slow movement and\u00a0<em>gotcha\u00a0<\/em>combat don\u2019t appeal to me at all, nor does its infamous difficulty. I could spend a few hundred hours gitting gud, I\u2019d just rather spend them on something that\u2019s actually fun. I tried out its sister game <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/814380\/Sekiro_Shadows_Die_Twice__GOTY_Edition\/\"><em>Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice<\/em><\/a>, just to see if I could get past that with some fun ninja moves. Nope, eventually the frustrating bosses got the best of me.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_65866\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-65866 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/thumbcache\/0\/0\/565b0a97968118ccde18cd937f55678c\/p\/uploads\/2020\/12\/xaf193f7e.jpg.pagespeed.gp+jp+jw+pj+ws+js+rj+rp+rw+ri+cp+md.ic.EniKU_DYSZ.jpg\" alt=\"Dark Souls boss fight\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data-credittext=\"From Software\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"imagecredit\">From Software<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And that\u2019s a shame, because<em> Dark Souls<\/em> and its fellow From Software games (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B08FC5TTBF\/?tag=reviewgeek-20\"><em>Demon\u2019s Souls<\/em><\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0188QFSHC\/?tag=reviewgeek-20\"><em>Bloodborne<\/em><\/a>) have some of the deepest most satisfying lore around. I know this because I\u2019ve dug into reviews and wiki articles that explain the worlds and characters in them, with the various horrifying bosses being a highlight for how their character design weaves in bits of plot and world history. Most of this is presented organically. You really have to dig into the games themselves to discover how and why the world is the way it is.<\/p>\n<p>Or you can cheat, and read a lore article. Like I do. 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I try to give most genres, if not individual games, a go. Some of them I can\u2019t stand playing \u2026 but I still very much want to experience. 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