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I love the discussion of games that happens around the holiday season as it's an opportunity to wax lyrical about the titles we're most passionate for and overflow with positivity about what we've played. Every year , I produce a GotY list that I select not from the games that came out in the previous twelve months, but from the games that I played for the first time in the year. In purely alph...
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Hi there! This is my list I tweeted out for Subpixel ! I played 73 games this year, but these are the cream of the crop. Here are my “Top 10 Games I Played in 2019”. 10. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night A very late entry to the list, as I just beat it last night. This was originally the spot Super Mario Maker 2 took, but I think SotN deserves this more. 9. Crackdown 3 A lot of the games I pla...
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It is time for my obligatory GotY list. This particular year was pretty alright. I seem to be pretty hot or cold on video games depending on the year but this one was sufficiently satisfactory. I played a total of 22 video games this year, although only ten of them really stood out in 2019. You can read my thoughts on the other games I played that are not listed by following this link . If you...
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My list this year is using the same format I used in 2017, from the Game of the Year event over at discourse.zone. Because I liked that! Anyway let's do it: Favourite Big Developer Game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice From Software's latest is both a marked departure from the Souls series, and a razor-sharp refinement of it. Sekiro is not a game about picking armor sets, weapons, spells, or even a ch...
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Super Mario Bros. 3 was probably the greatest sequel of its age. Topping the legacy set by the original Super Mario Bros. Gaming Historian has a great look at Super Mario Bros. 3, it's creation, impact and legacy for those involved. https://youtu.be/MxT6IwUtLSU
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It's that time of year apparently. We've been playing so many games that have been coming out at such a rate lately it's nigh impossible to keep track of everything. Anyway here's the list. 10. Pokemon Sword & Pokemon Shield *deep inhale* Okay.....so this generation of Pokemon even more than previous generations feels like the "sports game on a new console that's stripped of features in order t...
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Hello, and welcome to the Sparky Buzzsaw Blog of Yearly Bullshittery. It's pretty typical at the start of these things for everyone, myself included, to say, "Ugh, that sure was a year, huh? Well, video games." We don't like to get into the specifics of why the year sucked. We don't want that kind of confrontation. Well, motherfuckers, dig out that tin of popcorn you got for Christmas. Because...
sparky_buzzsaw (Premium member)
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What a weird ass year for games, it included a couple of my favorite releases that i think stand the test of time, right alongside some of my most disappointing experiences in gaming ever. Honorable mentions-They are billions, Mordhau, Slay the spire-These games made an impact and saved me from putting more time than i should into the two disappointing loot games that wont be mentioned here. Li...
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While we're still just about in the festive season, I figured I'd pick something Christmassy and what's more Christmas than (EG) GNOG ? This diorama style point-and-click belongs to a certain subgenre evolved from the Windows 3.1/95 salad says of interactive screensavers and experimentation-based clickery. There are a number of Indie games doing this, and I think the intended age is probably se...
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Videogames were really damn good in 2019. Some things I played that were very good but didn't make my list include: Wargroove VOID BASTARDS Destiny 2: ShadowKeep Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Sea of Thieves: Anniversary Update The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn/Heavensward Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 04: VR Kit Dark Souls: Remastered BoxBoy! + BoxGirl! The...
kilgoretrout696 (Premium member)
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2019 was yet another incredibly strong year for TV. You know things are going well when 7/10 of the shows on this list were new for 2019. Special shout out in particular to Big Mouth, which continues to be hilarious, and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, which continues to be campy fun. And of course to Stranger Things. The "Scooby Doo hijinks set in the 80s" aesthetic continues awesome, but Nanc...
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2019 was a weird year for me and games. I played a lot of really great games this year but I also bounced off of them earlier on and quite a bit. I also had a more difficult time trying to order this list. Not because each game had an impact on me in a particular way. Because what I had played felt more or less the same as games I have already played. Some of the stuff on this list I haven't fi...
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! It’s time for everyone to get very excited, and very upset about what other individuals, various gaming publications, and even mainstream outlets decide is their “Game of the Year.” Sure, 2019 was a pretty great year for games, but what if I told you there was a better way? What if… there were games that didn’t come out this year? Hard to believe, I kno...
arbitrarywater (Premium member)
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The puzzle platformer seems like the ‘default’ genre for a lot of indie developers looking to make a project on a tight budget with a small staff. It makes sense, since they can be made with limited numbers of assets and rely more on clever design than complex mechanics that need to be tested over and over and very finely tuned. It means, however, that during the current bloom of indie teams we...
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Jordan Hass is the host of "Game Shows, I Suppose" a podcast all about game shows, as well as "Fun Time Calls" a podcast... that's it. I gotta be honest with you fine folks, as I am writing this, I am sort of in a very "dazed and confused" state. The reason I am putting up my list now, is simply put - I am pretty sure my list won't be anybody's. I did not play any of the real "go to" choices, I...
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It's that time of the year again (the end part of it, specifically) where the pageantry of Game of the Year is in full swing and I'm left picking over a depressingly small list of games upon which to bestow accolades. 2019 was a buffer year in many respects; the entire industry and those that cover it have been holding their breath for next year's two new console debuts and any number of curren...
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It's been another year for games. I kept busy. There was certainly stuff, nay, good stuff, to play. I still have some catching up on a few games I couldn’t play in time, but I’m also definitely looking forward to 2020 which should have, well, more good stuff. Anyway a few notes about the list: The “And 1” spot is for a game that either might not have otherwise made the list due to a technicalit...
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For much of the year I thought I might have a hard time building a solid list of 10 games. As it turned out, I could have made a top 20 without much trouble. So it was a good year for games, but maybe there weren’t many 10/10 classics for me. First up, my Old Game of Year: Yakuza 0 The dichotomy between Yakuza 0′s melodramatic main story and its silly tongue-in-cheek side missions made the game...
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I figured winter was as good a time as any to review a game called Seasons After Fall . It's another explormer , though I might refer to it more as a "lite explormer", in that there's a significant reduction in the usual components that make up this ubiquitous sub-genre. For one, Seasons After Fall lacks combat and its large areas are connected in such a simple and straightforward way that an i...
