The seemingly harsh, but equilly nastaglic review of our games, and the final goodbye to the 2017 Binge

By:Nolan, Emma, Ronald and Wesley

I think it is easy to say that this third and final binge was this group's most enjoyable of the three different binges. I think I can speak for most of us when I say that our group simply plays more video games than most people, so this one felt the most natural and much less like work. I myself can easily say that when I got up every morning to binge, I actually was really looking forward to spending the next several hours playing the same game.

All four of us agreed that we loved bingeing in a group more than by ourselves. We felt that by playing around other people playing the same game, there was a sense of comradery and similar interest of goals within the game and within the atmosphere of the room. We had fun, we laughed and even here and there we had some slight competition between us to see who could get through the game faster. Or when one of us would be behind, we found ourselves peeping at the other person's screen to see what happens further in the game. It just felt low key, relaxing and overall like fun.

However, no game can go without its criticisms. As fun as both games that we played were, there were some aspects that made us enjoy it just that much less. For example, we all agreed that the story for Murdered:Soul Suspect the story could have been added too a little. For the most part we agreed that the story felt perhaps a little lacking, or there were things that could have been easily implemented to game the play time longer, the story less predictable or to add more variety. One thing we all agreed on heavily was that the camera angles in Thief  were very nauseating and uncomfortable to play with. Emma and Ronald both had a difficult time dealing with the fast motions of the first person camera (when you see from the eyes of the player character). Some gameplay segments felt pushed in and unnecessary, or there would be a mission segment where the difficulty seemed to be raised for unnecessary reason, making progressing more of a chore than fun.

There might have been a handful of critics, but overall we all enjoyed playing these games. This class and the binge experiment itself has been quite the experience to say the least. We all had an enjoyable time going through it and testing our will against hours and hours of non stop consumption of media. But, we prevailed nonetheless, which looking at my group mates, that was to be expected!