About This Site
Hello, I’m Christopher John Brahm, also known on most gaming platforms as Jumpropeman!
The Game Hoard was inspired by my ever-expanding enormous game collection and the wide range of video games I’ve played from all the different genres across many platforms. Video games have always fascinated me because it is the form of media that not only seems to be filled with the greatest degree of creativity in its offerings, but the gaming audience happily embraces such creativity and fosters its growth by rewarding such diversity. Being able to directly experience the imagination of others makes each and every game special and unique in some way. The goal of The Game Hoard is exactly as the tagline reads: play every video game ever released! Along the way I shall also be giving my thoughts on the games I have played so that others may benefit from this journey. I believe that every game is worth at least a thousand words and deserves a day in the sun, so only one review will be posted per day and with a degree of depth that should hopefully leave readers walking away with an understanding of what the game is about and if it executed its design effectively.
CURRENT POSTING SCHEDULE
Currently, The Game Hoard is guaranteed to post a new review on every even numbered day. There may also be extra posts on odd numbered days, and during Review Series posts are made every day until the end. Subscribe to The Game Hoard’s emails on the side to always receive a notification of a post, but there will only ever be one game focused on per day, as every game deserves its day in the spotlight.
Besides describing and evaluating the games featured, I will also be giving them a rating on a scale of my own creation. Number scales are improperly weighed these days due to the industry trend towards undervaluing high numbers and making the midpoint not actually the middle. Instead, I decided to make this rather common sense scale by which I’ll judge every game on this blog!
To put it even simpler: Rather than trying to quantify games with a number system that is variable between people, the word ratings help to easily sum up the game’s quality. For some people, a 65/100, 3/5, or even an 8/10 are all Good, but they would still differentiate a Good game from a Great game or a Fantastic game. Just because two games are Bad doesn’t mean they’re necessarily of the same caliber even, just that if asked on the game’s quality, that would be the word best used. A game either achieves or fails at what it sets out to do, meaning even an incredibly simple 8 bit game can be Fantastic or one with a lot of systems, complexity, and high definition graphics can be Atrocious, and of course vise versa. You could think of it as a 1 to 7 number scale, although the word ratings are preferred for better capturing the game’s actual quality rather than a hard to interpret number.
Also, the guidelines for The Game Hoard’s goal of playing every video game ever released may change but are currently as follows:
1: The video game must have been released to the public in some form as a complete product. Cancelled titles, personal projects, hacks, flash games, early access, and so on aren’t counted unless they one day meet this criteria.
2: Ports and remakes count as the same game in the goal unless they have considerable differences. For example: I would not need to play the PC, PS4, and Xbox One versions of Assassin Creeds Origins, I’d only need to play one of them. However, Metroid: Samus Returns is a considerably different from the game it’s a remake of, Metroid II: Return of Samus, and both games would need to be played. Also, games like Sonic Colors where the Wii game and DS game have considerably different styles of play would both need to be played.
On this site, you can expect to see a few series consistently, as well as the occasional unique feature when an idea strikes me. The main series you can expect to see include:
REGULAR REVIEW
While not indicated in the title, a Regular Review features the game’s title and system as well as a description of what you can expect in the game. These reviews are meant to tell you what a game is trying to do and whether it pulled it off successfully, and will make up the bulk of The Game Hoard’s coverage. These used to be split into A Glance at the Past and A Look at the Latest, but those names weren’t really futureproofed.
REVIEW SERIES
Each review series will have a different name in the title, such as 50 Years of Video Games or The Haunted Hoard, and they’ll contain reviews with similar themes as part of a special series. These can be based on all kinds of things like holidays, series, themes, or consoles, so keep a look out for new series all the time!
DISASTER REPORT
In Disaster Report, I will be taking a video game that is particularly awful and deconstructing it in an extended format. Expect any game in one of these articles to be the worst of the worst and to get utterly torn apart for being so.
QUALITY TIME
For bad games, there’s Disaster Report. For the best games, there’s Quality Time. In this style of article, an in-depth look at a fantastic game will let you see just what makes it such an amazing example of what video games have to offer.
OTHER
A new series may pop up at any time! Check back here to see if any new features have been added to the site!
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Also, feel free to check out all the games I currently own on my backloggery: