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Giant Bomb #25 | A Fun Time with Friends
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If it makes you feel better, I imagine on average Giant Bomb will have played less than one of those games each and they have no problems with a top ten.
Sleeping Lesson
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I remember electing to play only like 2 games in 2014. This real is remarkable not only in that there are so many good games, but so many games I want to play.
Piston Hyundai
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It's been four months since the last Ranking of Fighters.
Proof that god is real.
ReCore Review - 2 Stars
Mafia Review - 4 Stars
Maybe Jeff liked ReCore more than Mafia, but nobody really liked it generally. At least Alex enjoyed Mafia
Love to know what you're smoking
Incandenza
Banned
Speaking of The Old Games I'm gonna play through either Planescape Torment or Mother 3 over the holiday break and the decision mostly depends on how well GBA emulation works on RetroPie.
Only Alex liked Mafia
And evne his review was incredibly unconvincing as to why he did. Jeff and Brad were both very positive about ReCore until the issues happen.
LurkerPrime
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Yeah, totally. It seems designed around constant "training," but it really should've been just level-based with grinding, like Dragonball Xenoverse, instead of that horrible Sisyphean management nightmare it actually was. After the first four hours, any lost progress just felt like a slap in the face that set me back 40 minutes. It felt like I was simply dumping time into it for progress rather than actually playing to progress. The whole thing was a shame because I really wanted to like it.
I sort of wonder if it was supposed to be a free-to-play game with in-app convenience purchases, given how brutally it was designed. Suddenly the sheer ruthlessness of the management side would make more sense.
All that said, having played Darkest Dungeon now I suppose that was what Punch Club was going for; something that could have setbacks, but still feel like a progression was taking place. But the thing is, Darkest Dungeon has a bunch of progression failsafes to prevent a feeling of "starting from zero," so that you always return with something more than you lost and can always build up again easier than before. It is a stupidly dense game in terms of mechanics, but that works to its benefit, so it never feels stale. (Meanwhile Punch Club takes 90% of its sparse mechanics out of your hands.)
So, yeah, Darkest Dungeon is pretty rad. It made me realise that Alex is my spirit animal.
I'm not saying that Mafia was some beloved game by the staff, but there was one person who enjoyed it. Yeah they liked ReCore at first, but that doesn't mean the issues don't happen.
Not that this discussion matters because neither of them will be anywhere near the Top 10 list
Welp, guess I'll do one too then, though I still have a couple things left to play:
Doom
Hitman
Titanfall 2
Furi
Inside
Pony Island
Overwatch
The Witness
That Dragon, Cancer
Dark Souls III
Bottom of that list is a tossup with the likes of Uncharted 4, Darkest Dungeon, Stardew, Devil Daggers, Quadrilateral Cowboy, etc.
Wish I could count Steamworld Heist though. Only played it this year.
Human Trashcan
Banned
Came out December last year, but it is dope, so, whatever
stump sock
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doom
hitman
deus ex
probably some other stuff
hitman
deus ex
probably some other stuff
Sleeping Lesson
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When are we going make a poll for Giant Bomb Content of the Year?
nckillthegrimace
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yeah, and where's the steins;gate 0 quick look?
They'd need to put out 10 pieces of content first
Why would we need to, when the Game Tapes with Seaman is such an obvious winner?
List of the good games in 2016
DOOM
Overwatch
Hitman
Owlboy
Odin Sphere: HD Edition
FFXV
Uncharted 4
Dark Souls 3
Titanfall 2
Pokemon Moon
Hopefully TLG joins that list soon.
I haven't played enough Forza Horizon 3 to put it anywhere but I liked it a bunch so far.
I wish I liked Tokyo Mirage Sessions more than I do.
DOOM
Overwatch
Hitman
Owlboy
Odin Sphere: HD Edition
FFXV
Uncharted 4
Dark Souls 3
Titanfall 2
Pokemon Moon
Hopefully TLG joins that list soon.
I haven't played enough Forza Horizon 3 to put it anywhere but I liked it a bunch so far.
I wish I liked Tokyo Mirage Sessions more than I do.
Sleeping Lesson
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A quick look of a visual novel, one that you need to have played the previous game to understand and none of them have, sounds terrible.
Sleeping Lesson
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Under an hour, what an insult!
CoolBatteryCharge
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Still waiting for Giant Thrones 02.
ok might as well
Hitman
Dark Souls 3
Witcher 3: Blood and Wine (I say it counts)
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Dishonored 2
Thumper
The Witness
Hyper Light Drifter
Inside
Titanfall 2
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I have good news for you: You're not gonna play either of those games. You will crush rocks on the side of a road and whistle sad tunes cause I just informed Nintendo about your heinous emulation plans.
Twin Tails
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last w eek
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Recore is one of those games that didn't need to be as big as it is. "go to that tower" isn't that fun if it involves 5 minutes of gliding through sand in an otherwise completely empty area. It seems like a fine podcast game though.
I really expected it to be the indie darling this year, but it kinda came and went. I think it's PC only, too. That can't be good for a game with a 10 year dev cycle.
AuthenticM
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nckillthegrimace
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but the reading feels so good
Incandenza
Banned
This just in Noctis still looks like a tool with his fuckin red-soled boots
The Dear Leader
Banned
They all look like tools honestly, which is still a improvement from most Final Fantasy characters.
True but all the same we're talking about the game of the year here.
You can tell the Driver: SF people worked on the missions for Driver: SF in Watch Dogs 2. Because it's full of the same really likeable, short bite sized chunks of dialogue. Like it might be the most endearing dialogue in the game such as Marcus discussing Short Circuit with one of his passengers and the hated sequel. The dude in the car says 'we don't discuss the sequel' then when he gets out of the car, Marcus starts quoting the sequel
I'm only like 7 hours in, just hit my first ending. I'm enjoying it a lot but it doesn't hold a candle to the original so far. Hopefully it gets better!
Need to start putting a Jason avatar with a tick next to him if his not off sick on the BombCast threads each week
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
The FFXV lead dude looks like the grown up version of the singer of this awful, awful, awful german teeny band that was popular like 7 years ago.
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