OdysseusVA
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Destiny in the top 10 is a lock
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Giant Bomb 18: Everything is always a surprise on some level
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Death Metalist
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Fucking shit.
He did it again.
That's the best way to market this year's GOTY podcasts.
I'd be up for a Singstar COOA, sure.
Piston Hyundai
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Nintendo needs to realize when Mario says more than like 5 words in a sentence, it stops being charming and starts sounding weird.
Class act move, though.
We'll need to break Brads hands so he can no longer play bad games, it's the only way.
The Dear Leader
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It's the only way.
Yeah, I can't remember why it didn't make the top 10 though. Did they disqualify it or did it just not have enough support?
Not enough support. Who knows what would've happened if it did get a significant push. It's possible (and I would say, probable) someone would put up the Expansion Pack/GotY version point and get it DQed.
I was thinking that The Taken King would be in the same vein, not being a "new" game.
I genuinely would put it in the top ten of the year I have to say, not just trying to troll you all. Hell, I did 55 Sparrow races today!
TharpDaddy
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Always Bet Brad.
is that from the episode when they missed the bus out of the campaign stop
"WE CHANGED TIMEZONES?!?!?!"
shortsFortallPeople
Banned
Yo
I'm never going to find dandelion at this rate. Nearly 30 hours in and the most I've seen of him is in a flashback.
This witcher game is going to be long as hell, huh? I had finished the witcher 2 in 25 hours and I was doing side quests and stuff, this game might be too damn big
I'm never going to find dandelion at this rate. Nearly 30 hours in and the most I've seen of him is in a flashback.
This witcher game is going to be long as hell, huh? I had finished the witcher 2 in 25 hours and I was doing side quests and stuff, this game might be too damn big
fake game of thrones dragon lady has two weeks left, bro
Yeah I did all sidequests and all the ? locations and it took me like 110 hours. Then the DLC added about 8-10 hours.
Maybe I have some of the times wrong since I have 140 hours played on steam.
Maybe 128 or so for the main game and the rest was doing everything in the DLC.
Anyway it's a long game even without doing all the ? stuff and sidequest, though sidequests are usually great.
Probably a good way to go about it, some of the other ones are good one off stories but not essential.
shortsFortallPeople
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I've only been doing side quests that seem to have some decent story to them, like Fencing Lessons or Tower of Mice for example. I just don't have the time for how much content this game has.
MassiveNights
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If Destiny is in the site Top 10 I'm going to follow Colin Moriarty on Twitter.
#SaveUsJeff
#SaveUsJeff
BUNTING1243
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why would you want to hurt yourself like that
That's not true at all. Jeff grudgingly liked it and it was on Drew's Top Ten list.
I've said it time and again: if there was one game that shouldn't have been on the top ten, it's Advanced Warfare.
It took me three full nights of playing to get through the Dandelion quest. Which I liked because I like Dandelion from the books, but I can see it being rough for anyone else.
MassiveNights
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Brad will have turned me into a monster, a monster!
Piston Hyundai
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colin moriarty bad man, we get it
CoolBatteryCharge
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I want to open my Xenoblade X so damn badly right now but I must subnet IP addresses for the next three hours.
Incandenza
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The only things that I would recommend skipping are horse races, fistfights, question marks (clearing out all of them sounds insane to me), and treasure hunts that don't involve gear you want.
Everything else is worth doing. Even random witcher contracts are often incredible. But if you're gonna pick and choose, focus on the sidequests given to you by major characters.
shortsFortallPeople
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I liked dandelion from the first two games so I have no qualms with the character, it's just that this particular quest line seems pretty bloated. I don't want to have to do a thousand things for a thousand people just for them to tell me they saw a cloud in the sky that kinda looked like dandelion 3 moons ago or some shit.
But I'll keep on trucking, I feel my love for the witcher 2 makes me want to keep chugging along in tw3. But so far, tw2 has been a better experience overall.
Gozer the Gozerian
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Really enjoyed the game as a whole but I got so tired of witcher contracts, the constant plodding follow the red glowy trail stuff was such a drag after the 20th time.
In Witcher games I like to talk to every single person and get every single dialog option I can. So I'm probably a crazy person.
I rarely go though games in a hurry. I like to do basically everything I can that I enjoy or have an interest in seeing. So I end up 100% games a lot because of it.
I basically don't want games to end. And most of the time when a game ends it's somewhat of a melancholy moment for me.
I rarely go though games in a hurry. I like to do basically everything I can that I enjoy or have an interest in seeing. So I end up 100% games a lot because of it.
I basically don't want games to end. And most of the time when a game ends it's somewhat of a melancholy moment for me.
Incandenza
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It sounds like you're in the "talk to 6 women about Dandelion" quest, right? Because that is definitely the weakest quest in the main arc and things pick up considerably in Novigrad after that once you meet a certain character.
Also, Triss's sidequests are awesome, so do those.
Yeah some lunatic did the maths.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1APohBou2jzBjgspmzmulF4SX2dJ1Tbd-18HGvnuGZYA/edit?pli=1#gid=0
I guess what it doesn't quantify though is the dislike value that Alex, Patrick, Dan and Jason had for it.
It also doesn't really rank preferences properly if you ask me. I imagine Drew would want his #1 game on the list more than the marginal points he's contributing to his #8 game.
bearythebear
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Twist: Dan is the one that pushes Destiny in the Top Ten.
shortsFortallPeople
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Naw, past that. I just dealt with whoreson junior. Now, I'm helping
roche
I'm just finding the main quest not as engaging as tw2. That game starts with really high stakes and kept me coming back the whole time. I'm sorta not really giving a shit about finding ciri and making that particular part of the main quest so long means that I'm just kinda going through the motions. When kings were getting killed and It appears that another witcher framed Geralt, now that was something I gave a crap about.
That's the best way to market this year's GOTY podcasts.
If it ends up top 5 I'm buying a giant bomb cake and flushing it down the toilet.
Watching the First 20min of Firewatch... The game looks kinda cool.
shortsFortallPeople
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TTK was good but it wasn't even the best loot shooter related game this year. How embarrassing if that happens.
Yeah, I have a very similar spreadsheet myself.
Depending on how you weigh the votes, you can also get Shovel Knight to fall off the list in favor of Wolfenstein. So really, you could make the case for either game not deserving a position. But in every scenario, Destiny stays on the list. And if Brad hadn't fluffed his Dota vote, it would be even more decisive.It felt to me that the initial man quest (visit the three zones) was just an excuse to let you explore. Afterward, I was much more compelled to mainline the game and didn't feel like I was missing anything.
Okay, so what was the best one?
Askherserenity
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How would TTK be in the GOTY list? It's not a new game...what.
Abusement Park
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God I hope this happened. Imagine a Brad filibuster paired with Dan in full heel mode poking holes in all the other games... they'd be unstoppable.
skLaFarebear
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destiny World order
4 lifeeeeeee
4 lifeeeeeee
LurkerPrime
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Dan will save Giant Bomb, don't worry.
...no, the other one.
Haven't heard much of the music yet, but I can agree to this. It has a definite mood and feel that fits right into the game. XBC's majestic orchestras wouldn't do, and worse still, it'd just feel like a retread of XBC. So instead there's... bizarre rap/rock stuff, I guess.
Also, now that I've played XBCX, I can totally see where Austin's Deadly Premonition comparison is coming in. There's some downright goofy characters, in the best way possible. I guess it's the juxtaposition of jolly aburdity against serious affairs that makes it so Deadly Premonition- (or rather, Twin Peaks)-esque. Really fun stuff.
...no, the other one.
Haven't heard much of the music yet, but I can agree to this. It has a definite mood and feel that fits right into the game. XBC's majestic orchestras wouldn't do, and worse still, it'd just feel like a retread of XBC. So instead there's... bizarre rap/rock stuff, I guess.
Also, now that I've played XBCX, I can totally see where Austin's Deadly Premonition comparison is coming in. There's some downright goofy characters, in the best way possible. I guess it's the juxtaposition of jolly aburdity against serious affairs that makes it so Deadly Premonition- (or rather, Twin Peaks)-esque. Really fun stuff.
Brad will find a way.
BreezyLimbo
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Taken King goty. Yes please
Incandenza
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Ah, okay, fair enough. The stakes do get higher later but TW3 almost never focuses on the political intrigue or territorial warfare, it's more just the backdrop for the Geralt/Ciri story. Which is not going to grab everyone but personally I really appreciated the fact that CDPR made the final game in their ambitious fantasy trilogy about a dude just looking for his pseudo-daughter. Not many AAA games do that.
shortsFortallPeople
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Tales of the Borderlands, of course
Piston Hyundai
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Abusement Park
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#BetterThanRaw
I think he hadn't finished it by the GOTY podcasts and subsequently played it for end of year lists.
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