{"id":22296,"date":"2022-12-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/games-of-2022-pokemon-was-the-best-vicarious-experience\/"},"modified":"2022-12-26T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T08:00:00","slug":"games-of-2022-pokemon-was-the-best-vicarious-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/games-of-2022-pokemon-was-the-best-vicarious-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Games of 2022:  Pok\u00e9mon was the best vicarious experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\nSurprising literally no-one, my Game of the Year is Elden Ring. It exceeded my Erdtree-sized expectations and, despite some absolute corkers being released this year, nothing else came close. The games that made me happiest, on the other hand, are games I\u2019ve hardly played, if at all. Pok\u00e9mon Legends Arceus and Scarlet brought me more joy than all the Elden Rings and Immortalities and Marvel Snaps put together.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI\u2019m not a player of these games. I\u2019ve tried a few, but I\u2019ve never finished one, they\u2019ve just never grabbed me. My fiancee Rune (yes, they\u2019re non-binary, why do you ask?) on the other hand, absolutely adores them. Sun &amp; Moon were the first releases after we got together and I\u2019ve been dutifully ensuring they have every new Pok\u00e9mon game to hit the shelves, even during some tough times.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt\u2019s totally worth it though. Nothing compares to their delight as they experience the heady joys of something so comfortingly familiar liberally sprinkled with new surprises. I help with the all important starter selection and contribute to the names. (Would you believe that, as a games journo, I\u2019m pretty good at puns?) Making them laugh is good. Making them groan and hit me with a cushion is even better!\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games-of-2022-pokemon-was-the-best-vicarious-experience\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprising literally no-one, my Game of the Year is Elden Ring. It exceeded my Erdtree-sized expectations and, despite some absolute corkers being released this year, nothing else came close. The games that made me happiest, on the other hand, are games I\u2019ve hardly played, if at all. Pok\u00e9mon Legends Arceus and Scarlet brought me more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22297,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[6080,6625,2890],"class_list":["post-22296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-releases","category-pc","tag-literally","tag-noone","tag-surprising"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Games of 2022: Pok\u00e9mon was the best vicarious experience | Xtreme Servers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"View Games of 2022: Pok\u00e9mon was the best vicarious experience for free, here on XtremeServers. Discover more great articles on our site. 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