I'm not the type of gamer who plays new release games, I'm not even the type of gamer who waits for the end of the year sales to pick the best releases at half price. I'm the type of gamer who realizes they haven't played that one game they meant to three years later and then decides to catch up. I'm like that for a number of reasons, I refuse to play games in story-based series without having played the ones leading up to it, and I spend quite a few of my gaming hours trying to finish the ridiculously long RPGs I often play. It all means that I end up playing games years after everyone else has after the hype has significantly died down. This series aims to compare my playing experience to the hype around each game at the height of its popularity and see whether it still holds up.