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This year had too many good games in it, and I wanted to write too much about all of them. However, writing is hard and I'm lazy, so I just picked my top 5 and wrote a lot about them instead. So heres a bunch of words about my top 5 games of this year, and below that, I also have my 6-10 without a bunch of words because I got tired of writing. 1. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 3 I s...
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A few nights ago I was thinking about those near - or in some cases completely - illegible Metal band logos, and thought that Giant Bomb could use one. I woke up the next morning thinking I should give it a shot, since it's something I've never tried before. And here it is! And here's a picture of Alex with the design pasted onto his chest to see how it might look in shirt-form: All I can say i...
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November's been a relatively quiet month of releases, which is perhaps for the best because everyone seems to be in catch-up mode right now. Myself included, of course, as three of the four Indie Games of the Week+ (see below) were 2019 explormers I was curious about. My list is coming together nicely, though I'm still short of the ten I need (plus maybe a few extras) to put together a top ten...
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(And Other Good Uses of Time and Money) Hi, hello. With the year winding up to a close, my life winding up to a mess, and video games continuing to exist, I figured I should write something. But, since my inevitable overdone Game of the Year and “Real” Game of the Year blogs are only a month away, why not instead spend my time dumping on a popular, relevant game that a lot of people like? The O...
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Before the December rush starts and I brute force my way through a stack of 2019 games for last minute GOTY entries, I wanted to take a brief break with something relaxing and contemplative. If Gorogoa is anything, it's unhurried; sometimes it pays to take things easy and look at the problem from a different angle. That's explicitly the crux of the game's puzzles too, as you work with perspecti...
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Welcome to the Bucketlog! It's going to be 2019's year-long blog series, focusing on games I've been meaning to play since forever. I've put together a list derived from a mix of systems, genres, and vintages because it's starting to look like 2019 might be the first "lean" year for games in a spell (though time will tell whether that pans out to be true) and I figured this would be a fine oppo...
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10. Soma (2015) I played Amnesia under the pretense that it's one of the scariest games ever. It certainly lived up to the talk for me and left a big enough impression that I kept tabs on whatever Frictional Games made next. Awkwardly enough Frictional Games next game wasn't Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (developed by The Chinese Room), but rather Soma. I played Soma expecting another super scary...
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I realize the IGotW feature is in a little bit of a rut here, with yet another explormer with heavy RPG elements that spent a long time bouncing around Kickstarter. It's Indivisible from Lab Zero Games (the Skullgirls people); an RPG that is overtly riffing on tri-Ace 's Valkyrie Profile but also subtly on Konami 's Suikoden . Indivisible follows impetuous axe-girl Ajna as she chases after the...
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I was struck when listening to the Beastcast conversation on Square Enix 's Kingdom Hearts III that, when prompted by Dan to explain what Kingdom Hearts was, Vinny never thought to compare the progression of Kingdom Hearts III - or any given KH game - to his beloved Mass Effect . In both franchises, the player spends their time pursuing smaller stories isolated to particular worlds - the Theria...
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The decade is almost over and there is so much to look back on. One of them of course are movies. 2010s can be seen as the decade of the superheroes but really, it was another good decade for cinema. Looking at the last ten years, I still haven’t seen so many I still want to. And I’ve seen very little from this year so my list was actually made from the last 9 years. If you want to share your l...
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All right, all right, so it's another explormer . However, I would argue that Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is the most important explormer of this year, and it's therefore paramount that I cover it here instead of some minimal budget thing from 2016 (not that I mean to denigrate minimal budget things from 2016; plenty more of those coming in 2020). The big surprise return of Koji Igarashi...
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Welcome to the Bucketlog! It's going to be 2019's year-long blog series, focusing on games I've been meaning to play since forever. I've put together a list derived from a mix of systems, genres, and vintages because it's starting to look like 2019 might be the first "lean" year for games in a spell (though time will tell whether that pans out to be true) and I figured this would be a fine oppo...
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IGotW is entering GOTY mode for the final six entries of 2019, focusing only on games released this year as I desperately try to pad out my top ten. Despite all that, it's still business as usual this time with another quirky explormer, this time with a cat that controls a robot suit. Gato Roboto is a monochrome, 8-bit-styled (though the smooth animations belie its more modern roots) explormer...
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The Outer Worlds, the second in the "Outer W(x)lds" franchise released this year, after Outer Wilds is... Okay, sorry, I had to get at least one last of those jokes in. But I do think it's funny that, handful of MK 11 matches here and there aside, I went directly from Outer Wilds to The Outer Worlds. Wouldn't have happened if Outer Wilds released on PS4 at the same time as PC and Xbox One, so c...
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LET'S GET #TeamJohnnyComeLately TRENDING ON TWITTER! Let's go Team Giant Bomb! Hello, and welcome to my latest blog, and this time around, we have a special topic: Extra Life 2019. For those who managed to miss it, last weekend marked a majority of the site's streaming and participation for Extra Life 2019. As with previous years, there were dozens of "classic" moments ranging from drunken poet...
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October is and will always be my favorite month: it's where my birthday lands (the 25th, which was also the release date of The Outer Worlds , so it was a good day for a lot of other people also), everyone's all giddy about Halloween and a season of wholesome spooks and less wholesome getting sloshed at costume parties, and the weather's hit that right zone between cold but not too cold. The fa...
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I suppose it was unavoidable that I'd pick a horror game on this particular date, given that Bonfire Night is only five days away with all its terrifying conflagrations and loud noises from the fireworks. Reveal the Deep might not be the scariest game I have in my Steam backlog, but it explores venues of the horror genre that few other games and media does: the suffocating claustrophobia of the...
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Fighting games! It's a genre I've long enjoyed, but usually in the context of just playing through the single player content, whether that be a story, challenge modes, or what have you, and then if I'm lucky, playing a decent amount with friends, locally. At least that was the case when I was young. I had a small circle of friends, but we all loved playing stuff like SoulCalibur II, Smash Bros....
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Hey duders! This past weekend I did my part for Extra Life 2019; I’m out of town on the actual game day, so I had to do it a week early. (For anyone interested, my Extra Life page is still up here , and I recorded my stream and uploaded it to YouTube here .) I thought my stream went very well; I for one had a good time and managed to (barely) hit my personal goal. Best of luck to all my Giant B...
