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Get Chrono Crossed: Part #1: Ten Out Of Ten? Review It Again! Get Chrono Crossed: Part #2: This Game Might Be The Weirdest Sequel To A Beloved Video Game Ever Made Part 16: It's Time For A Bunch of Side Stories With No Connection To The Main Plot! I wish this game played around with the concept of alternate dimensions more. When we last left off, Serge uncovered more information about the Froze...
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From now on, there are not many new games that I'm interested in for 2021 so what I can do right now is to watch Giant Bomb's videos, and posting news threads for specific games. I'm done with wiki pages.
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The ones that are scheduled to release by 2022 are: Assetto Corsa Competizione (Enchanced for PS5/Xbox Series X) British Touring Car Championship The Game Chocobo GP Forza Motorsport Reboot Gran Turismo 7 GRID Legends Heading Out Need For Speed 2022 Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown
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When it comes to game releases every year has its big headliners and hidden gems, but none were more packed than 2017. As my backlog-related project for this year I'm looking to build a list of a hundred great games that debuted at some point in 2017, making sure to hit all the important stops along the way. For more information and statistics on this project, be sure to check out this Intro bl...
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The appeal of punishing skill-based games like Dead Cells and Hollow Knight, and the accessibility of mainstream titles like Golf with Your Friends or Spider-Man (2018) look to be irreconcilable. We think the profound sense of triumph that we derive from those former games wouldn't come unless they punched us in the stomach time and again. If they didn't set the bar so high, we'd never see our...
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I'm not sure what it is about the grim dystopias and bright neon lights of cyberpunk fiction, since I'm certainly not computer literate enough to follow half of the hacking nonsense that accompanies the genre, but I find myself drawn to that aesthetic again and again. Clearly I'm not the only one who feels this way, if there's a robust industry of narratives - video game and otherwise - spun wi...
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Konung: Legends of the North Oh did I mention there are three of these games. Developer : 1C Company Release Date: September 3, 1999 Time Played : about two hours Dubiosity : 5 out of 5 Russiosity : пять out of пять Would I play more? Very seriously considering an encore stream. Dunno if I’d manage to play the entire thing though. Konung is… special. I’ve flirted with Eurojank plenty of times f...
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It's never too late for a mid-year check-in, that's what I always say. Though maybe in this case, it's a year which we don't so much check in but never check out, Hotel California style, since we're still all stuck indoors twiddling our thumbs while watching all the morally vacuous and scientifically disinclined people gallivant outside as they dance and sing and spit into each other's maskless...
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My adventures in Spira continue ! Final Fantasy X: HD Remaster Edition is my first Final Fantasy game, I just passed 25 hours and here's what I know so far. For context, I'm currently on my way to Lake Ice World and, yes, I dodged 200 lightnings. -- In no particular order, my thoughts: Wakka just gets more racist, huh? I like that most of the side characters have names and personalities, like t...
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For many players, developing their skill at a game is infinitely more rewarding than a game just telling them they're skilful. It's why titles like Dark Souls, Cuphead, and even Crypt of the Necrodancer attained cult status: they were wellsprings of intrinsic reward. We can label all rewards, both inside and outside of video games, either intrinsic or extrinsic. Intrinsic reward has to do with...
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This is a video I made about the history of Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright and how its development affected the future of the Ace Attorney franchise (directly leading the creation of the Great Ace Attorney sub-series). Hope people enjoy it.
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A few years ago, there was something about EA's yearly product presentations that felt perfunctory. The agony of them was that the publisher had games that would make your mouth water and your eyes dilate, but then they also had entries in their yearly series and less polished casual games, both of which acted as extra-strength sedatives. You couldn't ignore an EA showcase because you'd regret...
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Stop me if you've heard this one: after some unnamed cataclysmic event renders the surface unliveable, the survivors go underground to form subterranean societies built out of the bones of old world infrastructure like metro stations, tunnels, and bunkers. Then again Stygian Software 's UnderRail isn't all that focused on an original premise; rather, the game operates as an homage to bleak, cla...
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Beyond Divinity Developer : Larian Studios Release Date: April 28, 2004 Time Played: Around three hours, including a spontaneous podcast with ZombiePie where we dunk on the revived TSR brand, a topic that I think is already out of date given that they seem to have deleted their twitter and retreated into their grognard lair. Dubiosity: 4 out of 5 Soundtrack: 6 out of 5 Would I play more? Cards...
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Author's Note: In a previous blog, I mentioned how I have been struggling with another bout of writer's block with my retrospective on Chrono Cross. I want to thank the handful of you who expressed concern and words of encouragement to me privately. With this episode, I have decided to take to heart a recurring criticism of my game-specific blogs. I have gone ahead and cut down this entry in ha...
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Decided to spend the second half of 2021 checking out some renowned visual novels . Sometimes my ideas aren't any more elaborate than that. I've tried to discuss the following games in as spoiler-free a manner as possible, with a very spoilerish section at the end for my final thoughts on where the story goes. I'm just glad I picked a cheerful game for this inaugural entry. The House in Fata Mo...
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I'm not sure I'm in any mood to argue whether or not Jupiter Corporation - which enjoys a close relationship with Nintendo , but is presently not owned by them as far as I am aware - counts as an Indie studio, as this insouciance is largely inspired by all this sweltering weather. Of course, being stuck in a high-humidity soup for a month straight is a far sight from the tragic floods of German...
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I've been playing Final Fantasy X ( HD Remaster ) on Twitch near-daily (also being gradually archived on YouTube for dedicated VOD viewers) and just passed the 10-hour mark, so I want to get down some of my thoughts about the game so far. In no particular order: Tidus is the stupidest person in the world. Maester Mika has a cool voice. Fire, Thunder, Water and Ice is a bad selection of RPG elem...
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Author's Note: This blog contains MASSIVE SPOILERS! It's A Great Time To Be A Fan Of The Persona Games! Persona 6 Development Confirmed by Atlus https://t.co/EMZKYZATwB pic.twitter.com/Kw0ihanX3C — WWG (@WWG) July 12, 2021 So, it appears a new Persona game is in the works. With the series celebrating its 25th anniversary and Persona 4 turning thirteen, the franchise is the healthiest it has eve...
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-From 2008- “Left 4 Dead?” It’s all he said, but I had to hold the wince on the inside. Really? The other two were very excited; visibly jittering in their seats. The holidays are the best time for them to catch up on some of the M rated stuff their older cousins are playing. J stares at me a little longer while I ruminate. It’s more time that I don’t get to play all of the other stuff I’m tryi...
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Ah, deals on physical purchases. Originally posted on Cheap Ass Gamer, reposting here for posterity. Links removed and a couple of edits included: For short-time Cheap Ass Gamers the forums appear on the surface to be the best place to find the best video game deals on the Internet, but the pros know that you need to go that extra mile sometimes to get the most out of your cheap ass dollars. Th...
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Released in 2017, Pyre was the third title in Supergiant Games history. Quickly becoming known for a strong, linear narrative filled with a colorful cast of characters and gameplay mechanics that borrowed or twisted common archetypes, it wouldn't be out of the ordinary to expect the third foray into games to be something even greater. Building upon Bastion and Transistor, Supergiant had release...
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Hey folks, Daniel here with some timely (and some not-so-timely) musings on a few things Final Fantasy . The Final Fantasy franchise has once again become a dominant force in my entertainment consumption this year, arguably for the first time since I put a bow on Enduring Final Fantasy VII all the way back in 2013 (and as a side-note, how the heck was that almost eight years ago?). Since the be...
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I realize I'm playing a lot of explormers lately, even for me, but I think whomever suggested that present Indie developers are smitten with the format might've had a point. There's just more and more coming out every year than ever before; maybe the Unity developers recently came up with some effective map tech and everyone saw that as an opportunity to get their Metroid on. Whatever reasons o...
