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Like most kids, I grew up playing video games. These are some of my favorite video games. They are chinese but I think it’s easy to recognize them with the thumbnails.

From 2000s to 2010s, my favorites are Red Alert, Need For Speed (2 -> Carbon), Grand Theft Auto (3, Vice City, San Andreas, 4, 5) and Assassin’s Creed (2 -> Revelations). These games had been my great companions when I was alone.

I am really good at racing games thanks to Need For Speed, and am hugely interested in open world games thanks to GTA.

After 2015, video games have made a huge leap forward. Steam becomes famous since then, and indispensable today. I have bought ~100 games on it, but I didn’t run all of them. There was a joke I used to say to my friends: I’ve already bought it, why should I spend time playing it?

The Assassin’s Creed released about 10 versions after Revelations but I never played them. I was not interested when there is no Ezio. GTA5 is phenomenal, it was the first game I bought on Steam (maybe Dota2 or PUBG?). For years, I was really into the Tomb Raider series and the Batman Arkham series. They are the best AAA action games in my opinion.

I play Dirt3 and Forza Horizon 4 instead of NFS. I even enjoy playing Euro Truck Simulator 2. I don’t play GTA anymore but I enjoyed Cyberpunk 2077. Red Dead Redemption 2 and Fallout 4 are attractive to me but I don’t have time to play them. I also didn’t finish Black myth Wukong either. I wish I could in 2025.

I’ve been into Suit for Hire lately. It’s an indie game, small yet challenging. The one before was Sifu. I spent hundreds of hours playing Sifu over and over again. Sometime I believe I was really a master.

There are many kinds of video games. I enjoyed watching my friends playing Split Fiction a few weeks ago, I participated too. I often wondered if video games don’t exist, what my childhood would have been like? Especially in modern times. Would it be more boring or more interesting?

Day 42.