Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "ANALYTIC DREAMZ 2023 GAMING WRAP-UP"

Episode Date: January 13, 2024

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnalyticDive into a personal journey through 2023's gaming landscape with Analytic Dreamz in this introspective segment. Fueled by the PlayStation 2023 Wrap-Up, Dreamz unpacks his own adventures, triumphs, and favorite titles from the year gone by. Prepare for candid reflections, unexpected gems, and insightful analysis as Dreamz dissects his top picks, memorable moments, and gaming stats.This segment offers:Unfiltered insight: Get an insider's perspective on 2023's gaming scene through Dreamz's personal experiences and preferences.Hidden gems unveiled: Discover lesser-known titles that captured Dreamz's attention and might have flown under your radar.Honest analysis: Dive deeper than just top 10 lists with Dreamz's critical breakdowns of what made certain games stand out.A relatable journey: Connect with Dreamz's personal gaming highs and lows, finding common ground in your own gaming year.Whether you're a die-hard PlayStation fan, a casual gamer, or simply curious about the year in gaming, Notorious Mass Effect - Segment 2023 offers a refreshing and authentic perspective. Tune in and relive the thrills, challenges, and joys of 2023's gaming journey with Analytic Dreamz!Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

So for the hip-hop and gaming 2023 year-end wrap-up, I wanted to do a specific type of formula for this episode. So we have the industry leaders in gaming and hip-hop news coming on this episode. But also, well, I just previously already talked about the Game Awards. So we already talked about the industry leaders in the Game Awards. But I also wanted to give the flip side and give my own personal take and wrap-up of gaming for my, experience. So to help me out with that, I brought up my PlayStation 2023 wrap-up. And of course, it says analytic dreams, but it doesn't have my logo, even though I've been changed my logo, but I guess in an update, whatever. At least it showcases that I'm not playing when I say

Spider-Man is one of my favorite fictional creations of all time. I mean, that just, at this point, that should be solidified in y'all minds as a fact. So I don't know how long the segment's going to be. I'm going to be given my personal reflection on 2023 when it comes to my gaming experience, while also, of course, you know, trying to keep entertaining for y'all because I think one of the biggest things about content creation is letting people in on what you personally like, don't like, and things you, just overall inspirations in your creative process, because everybody's creative process is different and I think some of the things they intake mentally is a tribute to that so anyways um 2023 PlayStation wrap-up i have this list here

also to help out shameless plug analytic dreams video on spotify to see the video version along with the audio but with that being said let's get right into it so it's giving me my wrap up for 23. Of course, I got a PS3 this year. Obviously, you can see January 11th. Well, I don't know if I got January 11th. I'm pretty sure I did because consoles, the one thing I've realized by putting a PC together by hand, unsuccessfully, of course, you know, refer to the beginning of the episode. But anyway, it's trying, attempting to put it together. Consuls really, and console players really have it easy. It's really plug and play. I know. people be like oh plug and play but you got to download plug and play but you got to update

compare to pc it is plug and play this you buy it already intact you plug it up you play a game it's plug and play compared to what you have to do with pc but only reason i say that is simply because when i got the console january 11th of course i went through the whole game they had specifically to show you the roundabouts of the dual shock which is the new controller for ps 5 basically mimicking the Xbox controller but we're not going to speak on that. So in 2023 without being around the bush

as you can say as you can see I am a certified gamer. Now I know I know what you're saying 14 games that's a lot like if you do the math honestly I don't even think I paid a full price for all of these 14 games because if you do the math

it's something egregious right it's like goodness gracious that's how you know he gets money first first of all, I'm broke. Second of all, 14 games is quite a lot. Not going to lie to you for one year. But I do like to prod myself on being a gamer.

And all of those games, I had authentic and organic attraction to. So I think I may actually be a nerd. I think I came to the realization that I need to join the nerd community. I don't know if I need some bifocals. I don't know what. what the jumping in process is, but I just need the nerd community to know that I would like to submit my application with this snapshot of me playing 14 games in 2023.

All right, let's keep going. So with that over with that out the way, let's get into the big hitters of 2023. And I'm not really beating the sweaty allegations. At this point, if you see that number to the bottom left, right next to right under Cyber. Punk 2077, you will be disgusted. How on earth are you spending that much time on one singular video game? Because as you can see, it basically almost doubles every game on this list, except for 2K, of course, because, you know, 2K is a little different because, you know, you got to

whoop your friends in 2K. Shout out to all my guys I played in 2K. Y'all know that work. Y'all know that work I give you on a daily basis with whatever team. I play with still going to give you that work. So, yeah, there's that. But anyways, that's probably why it doesn't double 2K. But for all the games,

that doesn't really have that game play loop that you play with your friends, you can see the outcome. Cyberpunk 2077 to me is my favorite game of 2023. Now, it's cheating because it's a three-year development for this game. So technically, if I was to go with only release dates, I would say Star Wars,

Jedi Survivor was my favorite game of this year. I know you see 2K as number two on the list, but I'll tell you, like, I swear, quick play added to a lot of that time. Because I put a lot of time into my career, which, you know, shameless plug again, NBA 2K23, analytic dreams video on Spotify.

But I had a big man. I had so much fun on that game. The new one came out. And I think 2K23 was really for 2K22. So I don't even know if that counts. as far as my year list. So Jedi survival will have to be up there as number two. Well, no, as number one, if we're actually counting release dates.

And then Spider-Man would be number two, of course, and then more to combat. As you can see, that's my overall list. So anyway, that's basically, I mean, I don't really have too much to say with my favorite game other than Cyberpunk 2077 is something I haven't felt since Mass Effect. And I think CD Project Red is like the modern day rock star games. Like I was really thinking about it.

And when I look at GTA and where they can go next, I think of cyberpunk 2077. And guess who already did it? CD Project Red. When I think of where they could go in another lane that's not futuristic, I think of the Witcher, which is also developed by CD Project Red. So when you really think about it, CD Project Red is one of the most prestigious developing studios ever. The Witcher Blood and Wine D.O.C. is always a fan favorite. Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty is about to become a fan favorite.

They've done the futuristic. They've done the throwback in unique alternative ways compared to GTA, where they've been in a present and past and state. more to a realism type of take on their story. So they don't have all the magic and monsters and stuff. So I think CD Project Red did the thing that it kind of like, it matched Eldering and GTA together. That's how I feel about The Witcher and that's how I feel about cyberpunk.

It's kind of pointing to the fact that CD Project Red is at a is in direct competition with rock star games. Now, when you say that, of course, I'm not talking financially. GTA5 is one of the best-selling games of all time, literally up there with the likes of Tetris. Y'all know how long Tetris been around? I'm not even going to look it up. I need y'all to look up the release date of the first Tetris game,

and then get back to me. So anyways, CD Project Red only from a quality standpoint, I think, is the only gaming developing studio out here actually competing with Rockstar. If you look at GT-A-5, I could one-up you with Cyberpunk. If you're talking about Red Dead Red Dead Redemption, I could one-up you with The Witcher. I don't know any other studio besides maybe a Fallout that really competes in that open-world, unique mechanics type of direction.

Like when you pioneer something time and time again, it's only so long until you're like, hey, this studio is actually doing things better than the studio we think is number one. Because for a long time, Red Rockstar was by far in a way considered the best developing studio. I mean, if you don't want to talk about Nottie Dog, when they first came out with The Last of Us,

Everybody was like, oh, that's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Now we see they completely messed up that storyline, and now the legacy is, you know what. So when we look at it, in hindsight, CD Project Red and Rockstars is in direct competition, quality-wise, definitely not financially. So, but yeah, that's basically it. So my big hitters for 2023 doesn't surprise me, as all of these games was fun to play, of course, which is why I don't on my list. So anyways, let's keep going. I wonder if I could have clicked those and they would show me something else.

Let me see. I don't know, that's it. I guess I could click this, but I don't know what will pop up. Give me a second. I don't want to docks myself, you know? Oh, they're just talking about share my ear. Okay, that's nothing too crazy.

I just, I didn't want to docks myself. You know how that go. So anyways, my gaming style, this is the one that threw me for a loop because if y'all know me, I say all the time the FPS games, is not my cup of tea. In fact, I am below average at every FPS game I've ever played except for

Apex Legends. So with that fact out the way, I don't really like shooting games unless I'm playing in an open world. And even with that, I need some powers to go along with it or I'm going to get bored quickly, which is something that Mass Effect offered, which is something that Cyberpunk definitely offered, and which is why those are my top games ever. So with that being said, Gunslinger is interesting because i'm more of an open world type guy so i think they kind of got my game genre mixed up because cyberpunk technically is a lot of shooting but you could go solely melee weapons you could go solely net runner you could also not even put a finger or anybody like i think there's an option where you don't even have to kill anybody in the game like there's

literally a way you can go throughout the entire game without killing anybody so like you can like and incapacitate people so you can go throughout the entire game without killing anybody so i don't know if the gunslinger title really um really uh defines me but you know hey according to playstation i am my gaming style is a gunslinger and maybe because of all the hours the online hours of playing like fortnight at apex maybe that's probably what it is but anyways those are like with friends when we were just talking. So anyways, and this was pretty interesting as this was my year-end play. And the reason why I think this is interesting because them showing me month by month

what, how many hours I'm putting into games, really showcases my interest in games and how it increasingly got more and more over time as I start to have less responsibility or had more of a grasp on my responsibilities. as you should always always this for all my games out there. Always use gaming as a delayed gratification. Never put gaming in front of any of your real responsibilities. And you know what the real responsibilities are. So never put gaming before those.

Always use it as delayed gratification. Like, oh, I'm going to put this off so I can enjoy this game right after I do this and this and this. So hopefully that's, hopefully it helps you. So anyways, January. Of course, my game in the month was Marvel Midnight Suns. RIP to that game, not going to lie to you. I totally forgot the developing studio for this game. But it doesn't even matter.

Marvel Midnight Suns, it's on the tip of my tongue. Marvel Midnight Suns. Yeah, I totally forgot the name. Anyways, it doesn't matter. charging $15 for four characters basically wanting me to pay a whole entire full-fledged game price for four DLC characters

you must be out of your mind and until they change that I'm not touching this game again so that's why I dropped this game anyways February NBA 2K23 it's probably when I was with my friends April was probably when I was with my friends

you know I'm saying like picking roles I'm one of them type guys with it's hard to stay in front of so I be getting fouls left and right. So I'll be staying at the free throw line. I may not hit them. I'm gonna get there. It's one of my weaknesses.

It's like my crypto. I'm good at everything in 2K except for time and shots and fruit throws. I don't know what it is. I can shoot, I can even shoot threes sometimes. But free throws, those are just consistently coming off the room. So anyways, Star Wars, Jedi Survivor, of course, in May. NBA 2K23, back to me, whipping people in 2K in July again.

August. Probably play with my kids. in Colorado duty. Actually, I think I recorded that, if I'm not mistaken. I don't know if it will pop up because I don't think I put it on my podcast platform. Yeah, I don't think I did. So anyways, let's keep going. One thing I did put on my podcast platform is definitely more to combat.

If you look up analytic dreams video, more to combat gameplay walkthrough, it should definitely pop up as I recorded my whole entire story walk through on my podcast platform. So just look up analytic dreams video, more to combat gameplay. So, and that's also a video along with audio. So that being said, October, Marvel Spider-Man 2, that is when my heart, you know, it was just, you know, it just jumped down on my chest into Marvel Spider-Man 2. Pause. As I don't think y'all realize how much I really appreciate the character of Spider-Man. I think in moments of

moments in life when you need guidance. And obviously you have your, you know, for me, very close relationship with my parents, family, things of that nature. But sometimes you need something to escape into and in that escapism entertainment, if you can pull out life gems

that leads you to the person you are today, I think there's some type of attachment that you will always have to that source material. So that's why for me, Spider-Man is my favorite fictional creation of all time. I think it really nails the balance of trying to do one thing and another and how nobody's perfect. So something's always going to falter.

And I feel like no other superhero really showcases that balance. Like if they're young, they have no problems, then they enjoy being the superhero. If they old, they're driving all the foreign cars, missing with all the bad women, you know, it's really no, oh, I'm struggling with my personal life because I'm a superhero. It really wasn't that struggle at all until Spider-Man. I mean, when you think of back in the day, I don't want to go on a whole side tangent, but with Wolverine being famous, Batman being famous, did you ever think they were struggling in their personal

life while being the superhero? No. Fantastic Four made it like a family dynamic of being a superhero. So there was like a famous family. It was like, it's like the Kardashians of superheroism. It was like super famous as a family. So when Spider-Man came, it really showed the complexities of balancing actually being a superhero with personal responsibility. So I thought they really nailed that. And one of the biggest things that I would recommend is for you to watch the spectacular Spider-Man TV show if you haven't. It's not even that long. It got canceled. But the part where it got canceled, it was like a nice conclusion because you could already see where it was going. So I would just watch it to that point.

But anyways, yeah, I can talk about Spider-Man for a minute. But anyways, you can see October. I just know Life Spider-Man 2 and 34 hours. And let me tell you, that was a complete game. Like, I did everything in the game. I did basically everything. Like, when I went into the game, there would be nothing for me to do because I did everything. in that short, I mean, 34 hours isn't short.

Let me take that back. Basically, I would like more content in my upcoming Spider-Man games from Insomniac. I need them to stop holding back because there's so much obvious content that they could put into the game that I just feel like they just actually looked at us and they was like, hey, they're going to take this amount of hours. So let's just not even extend it. So I was upset with that because it was just so much they could have kept going. like the carnage story it was like oh yeah let's lead that up to dlc i would say spoiler alert but i don't think you would know who and where that angle would come from and plus the game's

been out for a minute so anyways i'm not going to keep going though so i'm not going to spoil it anymore november oh so i told myself once i get into the holiday season i'm a dive into cyberpunk and let's just say November and December kind of showcases how I dove into cyberpunk now I know you may look at it and be like what in the world how can you put so many hours into one game you just got to get it man

for all my cyberpunk players out there you just you just got to understand if you've ever read a good book or if you ever watched a good show and couldn't put it down that is the same thing that cyberpunk is Think of your form of escapism, entertainment that you just could not turn away from, cannot put down, cannot wait to pick it back up.

That's what cyberpunk was for me in video game format. Now, obviously, I was responsible with it, which, you know, brings the full circle from what I was saying earlier and started when I was in a holiday season, so I had more free time to burn. But still, cyberpunk 277 is very contagious. So, yeah, as you can see, November and December, I ended my year off with some cyberpunk 277. So now, we have, you know, the world, but look at this.

Get this off my screen. Ain't no way. They put advertisement in a wrap-up. Is that what they doing? Not even Spotify did that yet, and they like the biggest wrap-up? Anyways, let me, bro, PlayStation, you slide for that one. That's crazy. I was like, dang, I don't remember playing that one.

Yeah, they put it out. advertisements in the wrap-up. Y'all putting full-blown advertisements in the wrap-up? I can't even look in my past achievements without y'all putting ass down my throat. Pause. Extra pause. Anyways, this year, they say I play 253 hours,

and they say, hey, that's a lot of gaming, a.k.a. you have no life. Now, I just plain. I ain't said that part. I also said, you spend 99.21%. What did that point 21 come from? of the game time playing 11 games on your PlayStation 5. Hmm.

That is crazy. Let me see. Actually, that is a lot of hours. Let me go back. I am a sweat. You've got to do so math right here. 253 divided by 24. 11.

I mean, 10.5, so we're just going to round up. 11 days is just straight game. Talk about sweat. Talk about somebody who has no life. now I'm just joking of course but anyways you see my trophies I don't have no platinum

because for the Spider-Man game I still gotta I gotta do something as simple as like run across the bases like that's the part while I'm at in the trophy collect the thon for Marvel Spider-Man

I just ain't got around to it I literally did the one achievement which was the hardest where it was like well to me it was hard we had to subdue people while you're on the web

and I had to shoot a bunch of web lines of like random events to try to get the achievements for the people who know you know but if you don't know you could just hey you'll probably just be confused so anyways let's keep going so obviously I earned a lot of trophies your social style

is party animal boy that couldn't be farther from the truth let me tell you something I like RPG and open world games for a reason I am trying to get immersed in the game by myself like obviously okay let me take that back because a lot of y'all say y'all bought Gotham nights simply for the fact that I played

that I played it and not to sound egotistical people actually told me this out of their mouth and also DM me text me on my social media's for that they sent me like they sent me my TikTok I put a bunch of gameplay clips out on my TikTok you know shameless plug to my it is at the bottom but you see it and LA dreams on my TikTok But basically, they sent me a clip and it was like, bro, I literally got this game because of you and it's fire and we talk about it. Like, it's a lot of nice, very authentic interactions with people who help me out.

And I help, yeah, basically help me out with, you know, motivation. It's like, oh, people really, really enjoyed this. So, you know, anyways, not to get too sentimental. But yeah, so I was playing Gotham nice with my cousin. So I guess technically I do be in a party a lot. but it said I was partied up four times and literally that's because I don't like using party. I use Discord.

Like who literally, who hops in the party anymore? Like, it's all about Discord unless you want to sound like R2D2 on a mic. You know, you might as well use Discord. Easy is the reason why if you look, if you look it up,

Discord is implemented and integrated into PlayStation and Xbox. Now, I think both. Hopefully I'm saying that right. So you can download the app right through the console and there's a reason for that. Discord is superior in every way. And it's more of upgraded audio compared to being in a game chat where everybody sounds

like R2D2. It sounds like they're about to call like an airstrike on Martyr Warfare 2. So anyways, yeah, that social style, I think it's far from the truth. But obviously, you know, I got a little social characteristics in me. So, and then here's my wrap up. Of course, what a year. Share and compare your great. Ooh, they robin?

Hold on now. Who writing this? Quinn Miller? Now, let me chill. All right. So that's a wrap. What a year. Share and compare your greatest memories from 2023 with your friends.

It's my greatest memories of 20203 in case you're watching. If you're listening, then you probably don't see it. It's on the screen right now. But if you're watching, obviously, I'll shuffle through for you. You know what I'm saying? Let me shuffle through right quick. All right. 14 games as you covered at the beginning.

cyberpunk top game as far as top play game you know my personal pick for top game is definitely jettie survivor gunslinger i don't agree with that uh that's just that's just sweaty like 253 hours like goodness like find a job anyways uh 118 trophies uh party animal 14 games yeah that's basically it um i'm at that thing changed my profile pick to my analytic dream to loco but hey at the end of day i guess you can't complain about everything as Spider-Man up there, you know, hey, I don't mind rep it for Spider-Man. Pause. But anyways, that's basically it.

So this is my PlayStation 2023 wrap-up. What a year it has been for gaming. I do want to end this off by saying, 20-23, and I wish I would have said this while I was talking about the Game Awards, winners. But basically, 2023 has been the best year in games. I'm going out on the limb and saying 20203 has been the best year for gaming because not only did we get Spider-Man and a Star Wars game, not only did we get a Mario and a Zelda game, not only did we get an Alan Wake and a Barters Gate, not only did we get an armored corps who literally back-to-back fantastic games just dropped Elder Ring the year before. those games in itself

are classics about classics I mean in the own right because of course people are going to be like oh so Spider-Man is a classic in its own right Spider-Man 2 is better than the Spider-Man game so it's a classic in the Spider-Man realm and the superhero realm but of course in the grand scheme of things

it doesn't really compare so what I basically am saying is 2023 is one of the best years ever for gaming, industry-wise, quality-wise, and personally, with cyberpunk right here,

Cyberpunk 2077, being one of the most entertaining games I've played since playing Mass Effect. And I don't really compare too many games to Mass Effect, but Cyberpunk is up there. Like, obviously, I'm going to take Mass Effect over cyberpunk currently because I haven't beat the game yet, even though I put a lot of hours into it.

But what I will say is cyberpunk is up there quality-wise with the mass effect. And with that, that should tell you all you need to know about how good 2020 has been for gaming. So click my link to your bio. Let me know on one of my social medias. What do you think about my 2020 wrap up? And also what stood out to you the most and what was your favorite game of 2023? Thank you.