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Giant Bomb 18: Everything is always a surprise on some level
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As fun as the GB arguments are - if I were an employee I would prefer the Gamespot - and most outlets - approach. A good hour of debate and if a consensus cannot be made, put it to a vote and lets all go home. In the bigger picture, who really gives a fuck which game comes first in an arbitrary list.
That's because you're a beta like Alex and not an alpha like Jeff and Brad.
Piston Hyundai
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TheMrPliskin
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It's far more linear than previous games and the writing is terrible but the combat is pretty fun and the music is good. It's not great but I don't think it's as bad as people say.
Antiwhippy
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I can relate to that. Hard tacos just crumble to a mess when I try to eat them.
Bad writing. The game doesn't open up until you get
off of Cocoon
StopMakingSense
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Pretty much. Also you still get tutorials like 30 hours into the game. Gets a little silly how system-y it is.
They included soft tacos though????
Mister Negative
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soft tacos are harder to eat than hard tacos. no structure, floppin all over the place after a couple of bites
actual soft tacos are 10x better than a taco bell hard taco though. I love shitty hard tacos as much as the next guy, but a real soft taco is life changing.
actual soft tacos are 10x better than a taco bell hard taco though. I love shitty hard tacos as much as the next guy, but a real soft taco is life changing.
Incandenza
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Piston Hyundai
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2014 was a rough year, and nobody played Sunset Overdrive.
I really liked SoM and yet I couldn't agree more
As has been said, 2014 was real rough. My favorite game was Dragon Age Inquisition, and while I still dig that game a ton, it would a hard time even cracking my Top 10 this year.
shortsFortallPeople
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It wasn't SoM's fault that 2014 was a shit year in games. I would still put it in my top 10 for 2015 myself though admittingly it would sit near the end of the list.
Its better then at least 3 of the games on that list.
i dunno, i came up with at least fifty games that were more interesting than mordor in my indiegaf voting ballot
even outside of that, 2014 was real good
even outside of that, 2014 was real good
In the year 2000 they chose Chrono Cross as their console game of the year. Was 2000 really that bad?
Kind of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_in_video_gaming
2000 had Paper Mario, Hitman, Vagrant Story and Final Fantasy IX, but was otherwise pretty short on console. Some people really like Perfect Dark I guess.
Mister Negative
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I think back to playing shadow of mordor and I wonder how I found my way through it. It seems like the type of game I'd have no chance of getting myself to finish these days.I definitely enjoyed my time with it and the nemesis system was awesome, but the gameplay was pretty button mashy and the story had no importance to me.
I guess i had other stuff going on in my life besides video games and work.
I guess i had other stuff going on in my life besides video games and work.
Incandenza
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I think at the time they were choosing games purely based on what got the highest score that year. Chrono Cross (regretfully, as Jeff tells it) got a 10, so there you go.
My 2014 GOTY would either be Shadow of Mordor or Persona Q. And I didn't even finish Persona Q!
They might have felt obligated to after giving the game a 10. But also 2000 did kinda suck
A soft taco should be finished after a couple bites man. How big are these soft tacos you're getting?
This is making me really hungry for tacos, but the local place has their $1 taco night Mondays.
Persona Q would've been much higher on my Top 10 if Etrian Odyssey IV didn't exist. I love persona, but the stuff they added from Persona took away from EO more than it added. A hard followup after playing EOIV, one of my Top 10 games of all time.
I still really dig it, though.
Piston Hyundai
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You liked Jazzpunk more than Shovel Knight?
I'm not saying SK is amazing (if anything, it's a pale imitation of games greater than itself), but Jazzpunk was like a fun little diversion more than anything.
Eh, Journey and ALBW are good and pretty out there for such a publication. Any more and they would call it shit taste again.
And looking at that page...2014 was mostly between DA:I and SoM and I take SoM over that crap any day.
Is there another Broken Age I'm not aware of?
Sorry
Death Metalist
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Last year was all about the WiiU for me, Bayonetta 2 was my GOTY. This year is very diverse so it's going to be more fun when we see the GOTY lists.
Mister Negative
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A soft taco should be finished after a couple bites man. How big are these soft tacos you're getting?
This is making me really hungry for tacos, but the local place has their $1 taco night Mondays.
caramelos tacos from el pelon in boston
so good
Oh shit, Bayonetta 2 was last year. I came to it too late to play it for my GOTY list, but in retrospect it would probably have been my top.
Chrono Cross was great, even if it was like the third or fourth best JRPG released that year. Haters everywhere. Also 2000 in general was great. Holy shit, Baldur's Gate 2, Deus Ex, Diablo 2, Thief 2, Mechwarrior 4 all on PC alone. I loved the Sims and it looks insane that The Sims was the PC game of the year.
If Jeff were an alpha he would end the deadlocks by pointing put that he is in charge and has the casting vote. Skyrim would never have been allowed to win. Brad with his "keep talking to wear them out" is about as un alpha as it gets.
Jason and Vinny are arguably the biggest alpha dogs in that group and neither of them seem all that bothered. They know what is and what is not important.
Piston Hyundai
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what do you think the average time for PSX RPGs to get interesting is
has to be at least three hours, right
has to be at least three hours, right
Yeah, looking at that list, I can only smh. What were they thinking?
2000 was great for PC, but pretty light on console. Some great JRPGs, but not much else.
Given The Sims massive longterm impact, it actually makes sense for GOTY. The only game that I would think that would come close to that in a long term view would be Diablo 2, but I still think The Sims still probably wins out. In terms of quality, it all depends on what you're looking for.
What's the point of having an opinion if won't put up a fight for it?
yeah, i think jazzpunk was pretty big achievement. i wrote about it in the same thread, iirc
i also didn't wanna put kentucky route zero at no. 1 again even though episode 3 came out that year
yeah, journey and albw are the two exceptions. out of like 15+ "awards"
only played the first episode of broken age but enjoyed that a lot. really not sure what people's problems with that game were
Yeah, I think somehow I'll end up at Gran Pulse, and as the game makes me think it's larger than Cocoon, it would be more open to exploration.
But aspects of that game like the soundtrack and the combat as you said, the lore and the landscape are drawing my attention way more than the nonsensical story.
(people say its sequels are worse and way worse, right? I don't think I'm gonna buy those, only if they're on sale)
Saving my KRZ vote until that game is actually done. Seems like the forest way to recognize it.
As for Broken Age, that games problems all come from Episode 2. The puzzles are pretty universally bad in the second part, the game has many reused environments and the story doesn't pay off the intrigue of Episode 1 in very interesting ways.
I think XIII-2 is a much better game, as long as the 2-party members with 2 monster thing doesn't bother you, but the story is a goddamn monstrosity. Lightning Returns is an interesting mess, but still terrible.
Just from a quick glance at that wiki page, Code Veronica, Jet Set Radio, Majora's Mask, Perfect Dark, Space Channel 5, Tony Hawk 2, Final Fantasy 9, Skies of Arcadia, and Shenmue (edit: That's 9...add Incredible Crisis for fun or Grandia 2 or something since everybody has issues with Chrono Cross) make a god damned fine top 10 list in my eyes. PS2's awful launch lineup was the only down thing about the year.
BA is just a super mediocre adventure game, I wouldn't even recommend you to finish it. No problem apart from that.
Also, Act 4 of KRZ is apparently almost done
ShadowSwordmaster
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That last Bombcast was amazing.
Not a fan of PD, SC5, or Code Veronica. I did overlook Skies of Arcadia and TH2, though.
I thought we all finally realized Shenmue and Majora's Mask aren't very good games by now?
Look within yourself. You know it to be true.
So I played a couple hours of Fallout 4 when it came out and then I switched over to Tomb Raider... Playing through that right now.
The more I go the more I think I actually want to go back to Syndicate.... Sorry Jeff... Assassin's Creed: Syndicate once I'm done with ROTR. Or maybe start Tails of the Borderlands.
Even if I know that it's not really mendatory, the whole building/base management crap in Fallout completely turned me off.
The more I go the more I think I actually want to go back to Syndicate.... Sorry Jeff... Assassin's Creed: Syndicate once I'm done with ROTR. Or maybe start Tails of the Borderlands.
Even if I know that it's not really mendatory, the whole building/base management crap in Fallout completely turned me off.
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