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Giant Bomb GoTY 2016- Agent 47, take out that Doom Marine

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silentg

Member
Death Metalist said:
Vinny Caravella's Top 10 Games of 2016

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Oh boy, Vinny's #1.

e: Damn good picture.
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Doom
confirmed
 
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SmiteOfHand

Member
Do not misunderstand. I love LOVE
Rez, and am happy to see it get its props
, but it should have lost to
Space Pirate Trainer. SPT is the complete package. Spatial awareness and roomscale. Aim by sight. It is VR complete. Both SPT and Raw Data being cut is madness.
 
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LiK

Member
Vinny list is good. Didn't know he liked some of those games that much cuz he barely talked about them on Beastcast.
 
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kai3345

Banned
Quoting my post from the Giant Bomb OT, but I wish they'd have talked about this stuff when discussing Helmut Kreuger:

kai3345 said:
In the discussions about Helmet Kreuger's character, they didn't even talk about the best part, the fact that he's
also actually a fucking assassin, but is a huge wimp. If you get another disguise you can sit in on the meeting with Margolis where she assigns Kreuger a hit, and then she hands Kreuger a vial of cyanide to take if the job goes south. After the meeting if you follow Kreuger you can hear him stressing out about being in over his head.
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Day 2 Cast Spoilers:
Helmut deserved to win, but I felt like the guys didn't make that great of a case for him. I feel like the stuff above really makes him a great, layered character - even through just a handful of voice lines. The double twist of Helmut secretly being an assassin, but then also a huge weenie was great.
 
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Death Metalist

Member
Reached the disappointing games discussion, I enjoyed
Recore
for what it is and yup, the first half of the game is way stronger than the second half. You know what the funniest thing about it is? The fifth
robot
is actually on the cover of the game but not in the game lol.
 
adamsapple

adamsapple

Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
kai3345 said:
Quoting my post from the Giant Bomb OT, but I wish they'd have talked about this stuff when discussing Helmut Kreuger:
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I doubt any of the GB staff have actually seen that part or had that character revelation in your quotes :p
 
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Egg0

Banned
kai3345 said:
Quoting my post from the Giant Bomb OT, but I wish they'd have talked about this stuff when discussing Helmut Kreuger:
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Is that the same conversation she has with you if you're disguised as him? Because from that chat,
it just sounds like she wanted you to seduce some rich lady to get to her rich dad or something.
 
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Sleeping Lesson

Member
Best VR Experience:

Hooooow is Superhot VR not the winner, let alone on the damn list! Crazy. Insane! I mean, it's pretty short but somehow Jeff didn't even finish it and that's not why they removed it.
 
styl3s

styl3s

Member
Reedirect said:
Alex is really amazing this year. Gives credit where it's due, tries to put games that clearly won't win anything in the spotlight for at least a moment.

Brad, on the other hand, is so goddamn crazy about Doom I wouldn't even be surprised if he pushed it for Best Multiplayer.
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Alex will be the only reason Last Guardian gets put an last in any category.

He's doing gods work and i hope he fights tooth and nail to get it in high up in the top 10 because it fucking deserves it.
 
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kai3345

Banned
Egg0 said:
Is that the same conversation she has with you if you're disguised as him? Because from that chat,
it just sounds like she wanted you to seduce some rich lady to get to her rich dad or something.
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I'm pretty sure she's
telling him to go murk somebody. That's why she gives the cyanide in case it goes bad. I feel like a seduction job wouldn't require a suicide out. It's the same cyanide that Vinny picks up off of the woman's body in the Hitsmas video.
 
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Curufinwe

Member
firehawk12 said:
Is the UC4 boss fight worse than the UC2 and UC3 fights? lol
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The UC2 boss fight is incredibly annoying on Hard or Crushing. It's in another league of difficulty from the boss of any other Uncharted game.

The UC3 boss fight is straight forward.

The UC4 boss fight is a bit confusing because they cut out the practice sword fight from the old lady's house, but nowhere near as difficult to get thru as Lazarevic.
 
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Curufinwe

Member
Protome said:
By weird you surely must mean "the right choice"?

Nadine was the only remotely interesting character in that game despite her terrible accent. Primarily because she doesn't give a shit about the insane lengths the idiots in the game are willing to go to over treasure.
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No, Sam was a much more interesting character. Whether you liked him or not he was a huge part of the game. Nadine was an afterthought.
 
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bigkrev

Member
I'm really starting to think Superhot is going to make the top 5. Jeff seems enamoured with the game (at this point, i'm guessing it's either 2 or 3 on his list), Vinny had it high, and Brad is the only person who didn't play it.
 
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petethepanda

Member
Curufinwe said:
The UC2 boss fight is incredibly annoying on Hard or Crushing. It's in another league of difficulty from the boss of any other Uncharted game.

The UC3 boss fight is straight forward.

The UC4 boss fight is a bit confusing because they cut out the practice sword fight from the old lady's house, but nowhere near as difficult to get thru as Lazarevic.
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It's definitely clunky to have a final boss that suddenly introduces a new mechanic, but yeah, the moves you have to react to are heavily telegraphed, and it's also... just... so cool. (I do kind of wish I had experienced it first on normal difficulty, though; it took a few tries on crushing, which I guess detracted from the momentum of the finale.)

(But I'm also one of the crazies who thought Golden Abyss's QTE final boss on crushing was kind of exhilarating.)
 
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Glass Shark

Banned
Current GOTY standings based on math, meaning it's completely worthless:

1. Doom
2. Hitman
3. Overwatch
4. Picross 3D: Round 2
5. Overcooked!
6. Inside
7. Stardew Valley
8. Titanfall 2
9. Superhot
10. The Witness

Actually, this is pretty believable.
 
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Egg0

Banned
Here's my guess for top 3:

1. DOOM
2. Hitman
3. Overwatch (probably)

Although Overwatch could be number 3 or 20 for all I care, and that's a shoot brother-jack-dude!
I like Overwatch fine, I stopped playing when competitive was introduced.
 
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daveo42

Banned
jrh2 said:
Current GOTY standings based on math, meaning it's completely worthless:

1. Doom
2. Hitman
3. Overwatch
4. Picross 3D: Round 2
5. Overcooked!
6. Inside
7. Stardew Valley
8. Titanfall 2
9. Superhot
10. The Witness

Actually, this is pretty believable.
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Superhot, Titanfall 2, and The Witness should be on the list, with The Witness probably being just shy of the top 5 at #6. Stardew Valley might not make the list either. Dan's really gonna have to fight for that one as he's the only one who put actual time into the game.
 
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firehawk12

Subete no aware
Curufinwe said:
The UC2 boss fight is incredibly annoying on Hard or Crushing. It's in another league of difficulty from the boss of any other Uncharted game.

The UC3 boss fight is straight forward.

The UC4 boss fight is a bit confusing because they cut out the practice sword fight from the old lady's house, but nowhere near as difficult to get thru as Lazarevic.
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I don't think the UC3 boss fight was hard or anything, just boring. People shit on the UC1 boss fight, but the UC3 one was a joke compared to that.

I still remember exploiting the fuck out of the UC2 boss fight because screw that fight. lol
 
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Phediuk

Member
Man they were harsh toward XCOM 2.

I mean, that game has an 88 Metascore, and they're all acting like it's the worst of the worst dogshit.
 
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icespide

Banned
oh my god this hitmas video is amazing. they need to make this a regular thing

Oh Vinny's number 1 is doom. That settles it then
 
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jett

D-Member
I can only assume Helmet Kruger winning new character is a GB inside joke.

But when the other nominees are a mute dogbirdthing and the generic-ass military dude from Doom, maybe it was a shit year for new characters.
 
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Felix Lighter

Member
Xcom 2 is better than the previous Xcom except for the performance issues. I haven't heard the discussion but if it's anywhere near most disappointing, I do not know what they expected.
 
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Egg0

Banned
jett said:
I can only assume Helmet Kruger winning new character is a GB inside joke.

But when the other nominees are a mute dogbirdthing and the generic-ass military dude from Doom, maybe it was a shit year for new characters.
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Hopefully Uncle Death gets his due next year... somehow.
 
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Protome

Member
Curufinwe said:
No, Sam was a much more interesting character. Whether you liked him or not he was a huge part of the game. Nadine was an afterthought.
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Being around a lot doesn't make him interesting, he's incredibly one note, has no actual arc and seems to only really exist to allow Nate to settle down and retire happily while giving them an out to return to the well with.

In a game filled with shallow one dimensional characters, he's the most blatant of them all. It doesn't help that his introduction as Nate's beloved long lost brother happens in the fourth game and as a result feels incredibly forced.
 
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silentg

Member
Protome said:
Bring around a lot doesn't make him interesting, he's incredibly one note, has no actual arc and seems to only really exist to allow Nate to settle down and retire happily while giving them an out to return to the well with.

In a game filled with shallow one dimensional characters, he's the most blatant of them all.
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He's shadow Nathan
 
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Albo

Member
Speaking of uncharted 2 boss reminds me of 2009 goty when brad tried to argue that the awful generic villain of uncharted 2 was a better villain than the joker in batman
 
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ShadowSwordmaster

Banned
jett said:
I can only assume Helmet Kruger winning new character is a GB inside joke.

But when the other nominees are a mute dogbirdthing and the generic-ass military dude from Doom, maybe it was a shit year for new characters.
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We live in a world that Knack 2 is a thing now. Inside jokes are becoming reality is a correct trend in video games.
 
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