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I was looking over my Favorites list , a list of my favorite video games of all time. A list that took a lot of pondering, updating and editing to put together. But, alas, I realized that I haven’t updated the games on this list in 10 years! The most recent game that I added was Mass Effect 2 , which came out in January of 2010! Where is the Mass Effect Trilogy HD Remaster? My All-Time Favorite...
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Sometimes you sit down and you have an idea and it's a stupid thing to follow through with it, but you do it anyway and you can't explain why. Pretty sure Jeremy Medina knows that feeling all too well… The thought I got was when I read Metacritic's Best of the 2010's feature , showcasing not just how broken their own system is and how tastes have rapidly changed in the past ten years, but also...
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I went into Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood thinking it was the last good one before IV, a final really solid game in a franchise that quickly nosedived after. I remember it getting a lot of attention during 2010 game of the year proceedings, a five star review from one Ryan Davis (R.I.P. big fella), and a generally positive reputation among gamers to this day. While in the end I, on balance, enjo...
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About 10 minutes ago I read that my childhood hero Neil Peart passed away. For anyone who doesn't know, Neil Peart was a Canadian Rock Drummer and one third of the powerhouse trio known as Rush . The band is primarily known for gaining a following through sheer force of will. Their songs were considered too long for radio in an era where the medium could make you an overnight success. They were...
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Another year of challenging myself with the most mechanically demanding Indies around resumes with a game I beat in forty minutes. Frog Detective is looking to be a longer series of bite-sized adventures featuring an amphibious investigator who always does his best in what I imagine is a series directed towards the young and young at heart. I dunno what it is about this latest spate of mine to...
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Last month of the year. We all made it to the end somehow (and if you didn't, should I even ask how you're reading this...?) and while 2020 isn't exactly off to a great start there's no point losing hope just yet. For one, there's a new generation of video game consoles arriving soon and we'll getting a steady drip-feed of news throughout the year of what to expect from these new consoles games...
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Now that it’s 2020, it’s about time to talk about my favorite video games of 2019. I’ve played less and less video games over the last few years, as I’ve gotten into many more hobbies . Thinking I would wind up with a top 10 for 2019, I wasn’t even close (just 11 games released in 2019), but felt confident in these 5 games enough to rank them. My Top 5 Video Games of 2019 5. Untitled Goose Game...
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Hey y'all I'm gonna miss you Dan, like a lot, but I am happy for your new business venture! @danryckert I updated the Masterchief collection tonight and it's like my teenage dream game, I hop into multiplayer and select which games in the series I want to play and what modes and voila. It's weird at first as I can't wrap my mind around how this actually works, but it's been flawless for my last...
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The first Terminator movie is a lean little sci-fi action thriller about a killer robot. It has some cool special effects but it’s really a character driven film about two people on the run from an unstoppable enemy. The second Terminator film is a better movie in many ways, but is also more of just a big action extravaganza driven by explosions and catch phrases and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s mov...
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Another year, another Top 10! While I know that very few people care about these lists, particularly the Korean ones, I still enjoy taking the time to reflect on the past year of music and determine which songs I felt the strongest about. It gives those songs more importance to me in the future and makes returning to them even years down the line very nostalgic. 2019 was another one of those ye...
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2019 was a pretty damn good year for Japanese music. It started strong and just kept going with solid hit after solid hit from artists both new and old. Even just a few months in, there were so many great songs I was worried I’d have a hard time putting my list together in December. While there were some difficulties, mainly in nailing down the bottom few songs, this year’s list was actually mu...
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Here we are again! It's that time again where we list a bunch of games and argue wh ythese games are so much better than the games you thought were great through some arbitrary means of fake accolades. But who cares if these lists are seemingly meaningless, because it's fun, so let's have some fun. Here are the things I enjoyed playing, listening, watching, you name it, in the year 2019. 4 Good...
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The first highlight of any brand new year is the annual Awesome Games Done Quick event: a week-long speedrunning charity drive where over a hundred of the world's best, worst, weirdest, rarest, and most broken games are played through as quickly and efficiently as possible by talented and dedicated speedrunners the world over to raise money for Doctors Without Borders and the Prevent Cancer Fou...
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2019 has been an odd year. It's somehow felt like nothing happened and absolutely everything happened, both at the same time. In my personal life, I've met some great people this year, and I've also started thinking more seriously about what type of career I want to pursue, but if someone had asked me casually about what I've done this year, I don't know that I would've been able to point to an...
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Anohana - Anime - TV Originally Aired Spring 2011 - Studio A-1 Pictures Anohana was a show that I had heard great things about but put off watching because of its reputation. It's a tear-jerker. I kinda had this idea that because many people said it made them cry, that it would be a downer the whole time. But like most things that really earn that emotional response, Anohana really builds to it...
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Hey there! I'm Kyle, also known as thebigKM. There are a couple of things that I really like, but two of the big ones are video games and anime. As the past couple of years have come to an end and I've seen people making year end review lists, I've wanted to do the some only to realize that I couldn't remember half of the things I played and watched over the past year. I've also found myself tr...
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Assassin's Creed is best when you're climbing and exploring. Here we can see a direct route to the perch on the upper right, but there are some areas where you need to take a more circuitous path. I first played Assassin’s Creed in 2008, about six months after its release. I got about a third of the way through the game before abandoning it for Grand Theft Auto IV, a game I absolutely adored an...
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Man, it has been a looong time since I wrote anything about video games. The last review I wrote was for Transformers: Devastation back in 2015; A game which I forgot has existed until just now. I was so young and stupid back then. Watch Dogs review, subtitled A Bit Ruff. Yep. Anyway, as part of some sort of new year new me, I'm going to go back to expressing nonsense opinions, which no one car...
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It's a new year, and a new spate of Indie Game of the Week blogs on some not-so-new Indie games. Smoke and Sacrifice is a middling introduction to the year, as I didn't anticipate how much survival mechanics played a factor in its action-RPG gameplay framework. The game's set in some kind of post-apocalyptic landscape where one of the few surface areas not affected by an endless winter is kept...
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We continue to be in the worst timeline, yet the games still come. But first, some housekeeping: Honorary Awards: Old Game of the Year: Valkyria Chronicles 4 Best Game I Put On My List Last Year: Slay the Spire Best Game I'm Waiting To Leave Early Access: Hades Best Game I Wish I Had Other People To Play With: Remnant: From the Ashes Best Game I Don't Know How To Play: Dota Underlords Best Prem...
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