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With 2022 past its close, I wanted to take some time to reflect on the games I played this year as well as what it has been like to be a new dad. In it I explore some of the things I found in Dad(tm) games like The Witcher 3 and God of War Ragnarok as well as lessons I learned in things less dad centric, like Tunic and Vampire Survivors.
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I havent played Webbed, but I remember seeing it release and being kind of surprised, because the premise and a lot of the gameplay ideas were virtually identical to something I made in my second year of uni studying game design.
Now, I had no hand in Webbed and afaik dont know anyone who worked on it either, but in a way it felt kinda validating that an idea I had had too made it into a full game, and one that was rather charming at that.
When you don't play any games for 3 weeks 🤯🤯🤯🤯 cringe ass grown man
17:38 not gonna lie, the way you made the retrospective of games based on your experiences with your daughter made me emotional
how old is she?
please when she is 5 yo, and start to read, please dont say,,, ohhhh kids these days, they grow so fast.
You made me cry you jerk. Congratulations on your new parenthood cherish all your moments and don't get jaded to it as she grows up. It can be hard to always be "Dad" but don't ever forget that it's a privilege and an honor to have the title. Also replay ragnarok when she gets into middle school.
the amount of souls veterans that soured their own experiences with elden ring is frankly just laughable. thank god fromsoft just ignores their fanbase and do what they want, easily the best fromsoft game to date by a gigantic margin, followed by sekiro and ds3.
For a real kicker as a New Dad seeing how being a Dad shifts your perspective on how games hit, play The Last of Us again. Joel, while still very much a flawed person, tends to hit a bit different when you have a better understanding of how big a space in your life being a Dad can take up…and how devastating and fundamentally life altering losing a child would be. It’s something we all can understand conceptually but when you actually have a kid…yeah, that’s a whole new experience.
Honestly? I enjoyed Sekiro more than Elden Ring. ER's scope was too big for them to have captured properly this time, hopefully they do so in the inevitable sequel. Still a great game though, don't get me wrong.
Sekiro meanwhile is polished to near perfection
The first time I played through Sekiro over a year ago, I died 10 to 20 times on every boss, and an entire 52 times on the Demon of Hatred! I counted.
Just a week ago though, I did a second playthrough, and beat nearly every boss first try, including Isshin. Surprised myself.
Still died a couple times to Demon of Hatred though lol
I would highly suggest doing a second playthrough of the game at some point, you might be surprised by how good you've gotten. It's an amazing feeling that the first playthrough couldn't quite capture.
What is the game shown from 10:26 to 10:32?
you know, this video makes me feel a kinda way. not all of my freinds are gamers, and the ones that are are either very casual, or heavily invested into one game/series. and thats okay, but im the only one i know that plays a diversity of video games and prefers it as a primary source of entertainment. i am the only one i know that regularly studies gaming history, and regularly deconstructs them, ripping them apart as a work of art, and as a piece of software. i keep up to date on the business side of gaming, i keep up with gaming news, and ive never missed an E3 since Fallout 4 set the world on fire.
gaming is a huge part of me, its something i love dearly, and its been apart of my life for as long as i can remember. some of my earliest memories are of me playing Kirby and the Magic Mirror on my GBA, and replaying the Sonic trilogy over and over again on my GameCube.
it gives me profound joy knowing that i will always love video games, and while my friends may not share my passion or kind of relationship with games, as i get older i like to imagine that i will also share my love of gaming to any future children i may have. showing them the wonders of exploration, and connecting with someone through video games like ive never had before. that excites me.
but for the time being, i find that youtube channels like these, are doing a pretty good job simulating what its like to connect with someone who has similar interests as mine, and its nice to imagine a generation of gamer dads and moms raising children in the real world and in their private world.
Congratz to you and the lady you live with for the baby girl !
Can you give us the full list of games you played this year?
This coming year you should try out mgsv. It was such a fun and engaging game.
Awesome video as always. I will become a father too within the next few days. Glad to see that gaming and parenting can work side by side 😊
Just wait until the moment you start keeping track of time based on the games you and your child play together. My oldest is 6 and playing games with him has made gaming better than it ever was before. It made Mario 3D World one of my favorite games of all time.
Thanks for sharing with us!
"Push the baby back in honey, I haven't finished Elden Ring yet!"
I had the exact same thing with sekiro but a few weeks ago, did it over winter break and while typically I feel I waste my breaks do to being anxious to bring out of the house I felt so good that I did a major achievement of getting through such a difficult game. While Persona 4 is still my favorite game I played this year, sekiro will always have a place in my heart aswell
I appreciate new GoW being a 'Dad game' thematically and I think it does that well in isolation. But it becomes incredibly awkward when it reminds you it's tied to the old GoW. He isn't just a dad. He is a dad who hacked his first wife and daughter to death with chain blades. Feels like the game tries shift a lot of blame off to mean old Ares for tricking him but in the scenes of him in the service of Ares he looks very lucid. And even if his wife and daughter werent in that village that night doubt he would be oblivious that there must have been other women and children living there probably slaughtered as well. Not to mention other instances like when he chains an random woman to a door lock to be crushed to pulp by it, bashes an innocent civilian's head into a wall and throws them into a pit of fire or needlessly beat the shit out of Midas and tossed him into lava. He was a psychopath. But then he apparently gets some off screen character development with wife #2 and I guess now that's all water under the bridge for fans.
Honestly, it's people like you, Daryl, Adam always let me experience a different viewpoint on gaming and give me topics to ponder, and always without fail raise mood when feeling down. So thanks for all the interesting and entertaining content over the years, here's to this year hopefully being better than the last one.
The Silksong bit killed me 😂
This was such a treat. Love this essay and hope your little one watches it one day
My sister called me at the exact moment I was tearing up about the games-by-daughter-milestone thing and so of course I had to explain why I was crying. Turns out her son had just blown his nose for the first time!
3 weeks without games? I went 3 years without playing a video game when my son was born!
….three weeks lol I don't know what it says about me when I've gone 3 years without playing a game just cause. What is the good amount of game time?
What a wonderful video. I myself became a new father this May and everything you said pertaining to your new life is EXACTLY how I feel. My wife and I have also been blessed with an amazing sleeper so once he started sleeping better was when I could devote some time to gaming (also went about 3 weeks to a month without playing a game).
All this is to say it truly is something to see someone go through the same experience as me, and still find time for their loved ones but also for their hobbies. Thanks Razbuten!
I never had the money to play games I wanted because I was unemployed, and now that I'm employed I don't have time to play games, and as someone working in the game industry this is really sad.
Can't wait for the watching my daughter play video games fire the first time video, but I'm sure you will gladly wait for it! Great video as always!
I also had the absurdly good luck in both my kids sleep schedules.
The final part about avoiding being consume by the important things, and still mantining something that feels your own, made me let out a tear, thanks 🙂
“I’m convinced Yooka Laylee is one of the most slept on games in recent years.” AND THATS ALL YOU SAID ABOUT IT! It’s slept on cause no one talked about it as much as it deserves. Please go more in depth about it soon. It’s such a damn good game and it deserves recognition and attention 🥺
I had my first child last year as well (also a girl!) and hearing you talk about the first months of parenthood really hit home.
I also get the feeling that sometimes I am only playing a game to finish it and don´t really enjoy it that way. That´s why I really like RuneScape, it never ends, so I never get that feeling for RS, which was my most played game in 2022. But on the other hand I would also like to play more different games as I did before. I played a lot of indie games though. I am always looking forward to your "the games that got me though X" videos.
I had a daughter at the end of 2022 and am just starting to play games again after mostly quitting over the pandemic. I feel guilty about taking the few hours in the evening to play games but am starting to understand that there is more to life then just working and being a father
What’s the game at 14:18?
Really fantastic video, Raz! Always a pleasure to hear you talk about games, and really special to hear how so many of these games helped you on a personal level.
Once you have kids time flies by like never before. Soak up every moment and you’ll never have regrets
In a few years time you'll be able to play a coop game with your daughter. Greatest thing ever 😊 I recommend Lego City 😁
2022 was one of the best years of my life. Got a great job in March, moved to a much better neighborhood in April, paid off $11,700 in credit card debt accumulated during the pandemic, just a giant S-ranks unlocked win.
Of course, the shift from having all day every day to play games while on pandemic unemployment to "play after work for a couple hours max a night" changed which games I played and also led to a lot of weekends where I'd save those old "project games".
As such…well, my Steam Replay answers the question of which games got me through 2022:
Super Mega Baseball 3, American Truck Simulator, My Time At Sandrock, Medieval Dynasty, and RimWorld, in that order.
Four of those five games were my personal Game of the Year in the year they came out. With far less time to play games, I've focused a LOT more time on playing the games I love most.
at 1:59 the way i said "it's not fromsoft's greatest masterpiece…" and then the switcheroo and i screamed "YES YES YES YES YES YES THIS MAN GETS IT"
god I need to replay the Witcher 3. Seeing it again got me so pumped and you are 100% correct that HoS and BaW are better than the base game. I guess when you already have most of the assets and mechanics made, its a LOT easier to focus on telling on a story in a cool and interesting way. I have my fingers crossed that the Cyberpunk DLC follows this trend.
I still want a survivor recap video from you
Can confirm that you are extremely lucky. My son is 18 months old and we still can’t get him to sleep all night without waking up most of the time. He had a brief period when he was 14 months old where he would do that and my wife and I spent every minute either playing video games, board games, or watching movies. What a wonderful time that was 😂
Can’t wait for next year’s video to end with the same wish for Silksong to come out next year 😉
My daughter was born in late 2021 and I feel you lmao. It's interesting watching a video of someone who had the exact same experience as me.
Amazing video mate, I hope you have a good year