Voting for Best Game of 2022

Jo,

Everyone knows it's my favorite anyway


I have been waiting since 2011, maybe I should just write my own freakin script?

Why do you think I decided to turn King's Heir: Rise to the Throne into a novel that got away from me (a wealth of ideas and characters that demand to be written about) and is now basically a series that includes at least 4 different variations on how the story could have gone after the old king is murdered? I didn't just go into sequel territory, either. That royal lineage puzzle gave me a ton of information and ideas for half a dozen generations' worth of prequel material, not to mention writing material for what happened to the "off-screen" characters while the onscreen pov player was busy trotting around town fiddling around with various hidden objects and puzzles.

If you want to write a continuation of your favorite games, go for it.

It's looking like Cruise Director 8 will never be finished, so if Mike and Emma are going to get married and we ever get to know what's going on with the Captain, both cruise directors, plus the woman and girl in the photo on his desk, I'm going to have to write it myself. If I do, it's going to involve time-traveling spies. At least.

Oh my goodness. Picking just one in Oldie But Goody is way too hard. Like choosing which one of my (umm, non-existent) children I like best! Do I take the one that gave me the longest play time (41 hours!) but thoroughly stumped me frequently & forced me to resort to a walkthrough, or the one that I was able to solve all on my own(!) but made my brain work really really hard, or the one that constantly delighted me with different & original challenges & made me feel "oh so clever" when I FINALLY figured them out?? Oh, decisions, decisions. Eventually I'll be able to figure out one of them to vote for (well, maybe!), but till then I just keep changing my mind over and over.

P.S. Jo - at the end, will we be able to see the total results even in categories we did not vote in? I didnt play any of the games in some categories, but when I do get around to certain genres, I definitely want to start with the winners in our poll!

If true, I'd be happy, though a cruise around the USA sounds a bit weird. What are they going to do, winch up Liberty of the Waves and put wheels on it? Just cruise around the coast of the part of North America that contains the U.S.? A quick trip to Hawaii and back?

So much for the devs telling me they wanted to hold Mike and Emma's wedding reception on shore at some exotic place (I think they cited somewhere in Africa, like a park)? I'd have to check my emails.

I'm really picky about what I get from BFG now. It's limited to the stuff I really like - Vacation Adventures, Jewel Match, Hercules, Spellarium/Cursed House/Laruaville, and maybe the rescue games (depends on what prices Steam has). BFG has priced itself far out of my budget.

I was profoundly disappointed by the last Park Ranger game, that recycled scenes from past games and even dropped in one from Cruise Director (and just swapped the two Ranger characters for Dion and Alexis).