My most played games 2014

The year is about to end. 

I didn't had the time to play all the games I wanted

But here are my most played games in 2014 anyway.

Which games did you play the most in 2014?

Fantasy Life [Nintendo DS]

I spend too much time in the world of Fantasy Life. Leveling this life then leveling another life oh and let's craft something for one of my houses. If I had to decide this was my favourite casual game in 2014.  Read about my first hour with Fantasy Life here

Starbound [PC]

Starbound is another proof, that good games don't have to have the best graphics. Sometimes a spaceship, kinda cute character customization, countless planets to explore and 8-bit graphics is all you need, to keep one playing for hours. And I played Starbound for about 200 hours. I just love exploring planets and having my own home planet and spaceship. Chucklefish updates Starbound regularly.

Sims 4 [PC]

I'm a huge Sims fangirl, so do I have to say more ;) Read about my first hour with Sims4 here.

Destiny [PS4]

I only have my PS4 and Destiny for a month now, but I played Destiny a lot since then. Destiny became one of my favourite games pretty fast. Stop by at my stream and maybe we can play together.

DIABLO III - Reaper of Souls [PC]

Since me and my boyfriend lost hour first Battle.Net accounts we decided to re-buy Diablo III and the add-on Reaper of Souls. Many things changed since the last time we played Diablo III and we had just one thought "Diablo III got way better". We played everyday for a couple of hours and we were hardly able to stop playing. For a couple of months Diablo III were quiet the only game we were playing.

ArcheAge

ArcheAge I started playing ArcheAge in the beginning of October, around the time I was starting streaming. And I loved it! It was the first time I played a sandbox MMO. You have so many opportunities in this game, you can just be a trader or a pirate, you can fight great wars for one of the two factions and there are some many classes available. A great game with such potential and I really liked streaming it. But I stopped playing ArcheAge, my server died and I had problems finding groups and the queue for the 5v5 arena was just too long. Many players also left the game because of too many server downtimes, too many bots, glitches and some other problems.

Looking forward to No Man's Sky

"No Man's Sky is a procedurally generated open universe game. Players take the role of a planetary explorer with a spacecraft, allowing them to explore the surface of numerous planets and interact with the flora and fauna, and take to space, engaging in combat with hostile forces and travel to other planets. Planets and other features of this universe are procedurally generated; though initially built based on a 32-bit number processor, the final game will use a 64-bit seeding key, with the developers stating that this allows for more than 18 quintillion possible planets. The game will have online features that allow players to share details of planets they have visited with other online players, and will allow players to visit these planets through a large galactic map once they have upgraded their ship for hyperdrive capabilities. In August 2014, the developers announced that the game would be playable offline." [Source] 

Space, the final frontier, we write the year 2015, this is a never ending mission, to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
A sentence, that may describes the goal of No Man's Sky the best.

No Man's Sky will be released next year, maybe in June, maybe later. I'm already looking forward to this space survival exploration game.  You will be able to explore 1000s of planets, find secrets and leave hidden messages for other players. An whole open universe can be explored. No campaign just exploring on your own, go wherever you want to go. Maybe this sounds boring for some of you. But for me that's the game I was waiting for. Exploring planets, go on your own space mission. You also will be able to meet other players but that is really unlikely to happen, in this infinite world.
Thinking about it it reminds me a bit of a 3D version of Starbound, where you are able to explore countless planets too. I'm so looking forward to play No Man's Sky and will definitely streaming and/or let's playing it.

Bravely: Default Deluxe Edition Unboxing

What's inside?

Bravely: Default Game
Game Soundtrack
Artbook
AR - Cards
Agnes figurine

I had to buy the Deluxe Edition of Bravely: Default after I heard the news about its sequel Bravely Second. The Agnes figurine is very well painted but her eyes doesn't suit to the rest of the figure, they aren't as well painted as the rest of the figure and look a bit cheap. But the figurine still looks great. The soundtrack is really nice just like the art book.
This was my first unboxing video ever. Trying to do it  bit more "professional" next time and in a better quality.

Weekly Topics

Assassins Creed Buglord, eh Unity - To be honest, I haven't played Assassins Creed Unity but I talked to a couple of people who play it. And they like it, specially the graphics. But they are really annoyed, that they had to pay the full prize for an early access game. So many bugs after release is not acceptable. And a big problem in today's gaming community. More and more games get published full of bugs for the full prize.  In my opinion big publishers like Ubisoft should stop releasing one game after another and start focussing on realising good quality games without 400 bugs, which have to get patched away over weeks.  I really hope for all Assassins Creed Unity players that patch 4 will fix most of the bugs.
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That's how I get to my second Topic

The Witcher 3  Wild Hunt has been delayed to the mid of 2015. Bad news at first sight but good news when you hear the reason. CD Project Red doesn't want to release the game with tons of bugs. What a good example for other publishers, right?
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Something totally different

Destiny - The Dark Below Expansion has been released this week. Even thought, I only started Destiny last week, I was already looking forward to this expansion. And I really like the new content and hardly can stop playing Destiny. It became one of my favourite games. Unfortunately I wasn't able to beat the newest raid yet. But well by the end of the week I hope to reach light level 30.
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Bravely: Second Limited Edition Release in April 2015 in Japan - The sequel of Bravely: Default will be released in April 2015 and I really hope, it will come to Europe as soon as possible. I loved Bravely: Default and Bravely: Second will be as good or better. Due to this news I bought the Bravely: Default Deluxe Edition. Unboxing of the Deluxe Edition here.
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What got me into MMOs

A Look into the past. It was in 2006 little, 14 years old,  Jenni was watching a German TV station named GIGA. Esports, gaming news and more gaming related stuff was broadcasted there. I watched a show, where gameplays of one game were shown for an hour, without commentary. I loved watching it. Well, I still love watching gameplays with and without commentary but well, back to the past. One day Guild Wars was on and caught my attention. Didn't realized it was an MMO at first. A few weeks later I bought Guild Wars on a Friday. Why do I remember that it was on a Friday, you may wonder. It's easy, my parents are divorced I spent the weeks at my mom's house and the weekends at my dad's house. My mom didn't had an internet flat rate back then and I only was able to install and update Guild Wars but not to play it, because I was afraid of a high internet bill. So I just waited until my dad fetched me, he already had an internet flat rate. Arrived at my dad's house I went right down to the cellar, where the PC was standing and downloaded and installed Guild Wars. I remember being excited and I couldn't wait for the download to be done. You know the internet speed back then was even worse and installing all those updates took like, I don't know, 2 hours at least. 

But then it was finally done. Loggin in for the first time. Creating my first character. A little monk, Jen Personal Tenshi, which I really loved, starting from the beginning until the end. Being a Monk in Guild Wars was a guarantee for a group and wasn't that hard to level, because there were only 20 levels. I played my Monk through the first campaign Prophecies. Got the second campaign, Factions, a few weeks later and played through it. Leveled some other characters to level 20 in 3 hours, but always came back to my Monk. I learned how to farm solo and duo with and completed the next two campaigns, Nightfall and Eye of the North, as soon as they came out. I played Guild Wars for hours and hours. With the time I got into GvG (Guild versus Guild) and other PvP stuff. I even met my first boyfriend in Guild Wars.. Kinda embarrassing, but at least we had the same interests. And he was only living 10 minutes away from me. But now back to the MMOs.

Like every game, even Guild Wars got boring for me after I achieved everything. I started waiting for Guild Wars 2, which was already announced when I stopped playing. Guild Was 2 came out in 2012 and I stopped playing Guild Wars in 2009. 

I started checking out some F2P MMOs, like Flyff, Fiesta and Marple Story. I played Perfect World, which had amazing graphics back then, but none of those games could keep me playing as long, as Guild Wars.  

I started playing TERA, where I really loved the action combat system and the graphics. At the end of 2013 I started playing Guild Wars 2. But even those two great games weren't able to enthral me like Guild Wars. Don't get me wrong I loved playing Tera and Guild Wars 2 and even the F2P MMOs were fun, but none of them has kept in front of my PC for so long like Guild Wars. I still love playing MMOs and I always watch out for new ones. Currently I have a small addiction to ArcheAge and I'm looking forward to Black Desert Online.

Writing this post I felt a bit the way, I felt when I first logged in to Guild Wars. All those memories and feelings came back to my mind. And I start feeling sad, because I will never have THAT feeling of excitement and curiosity again. Sure I'm always curios about new games MMO or not, but I will never ever feel the way, like I felt back then.