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I went into Celeste with ambivalent feelings. It's one of the highest regarded games of this year, Indie or otherwise, but it's also one that proudly waves its masocore flag and wears its Super Meat Boy aspirations on its sleeves. I tend to lose my patience very quickly with difficult-for-the-sake-of-difficult games, in part due to the frustration-related "git gud" reasons you might expect, but...
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It has been a few months since Sony announced they were following in Nintendo’s path of releasing a small, cutesy, plastic, emulator box to the world hoping to revel in some fraction of the prosperity Nintendo set up with its NES Classic and later with the SNES Classic. It’s been a few weeks since Playstation finally revealed the full list of 20 games that will appear on the system after initia...
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The SNES Classic had a sterling assortment of games from Nintendo's 16-bit star console, but it's hardly all that system has to offer a modern audience. In each installment of this fortnightly feature, I judge two games for their suitability for a Classic successor based on four criteria, with the ultimate goal of assembling another collection of 25 SNES games that not only shine as brightly as...
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What is your game of the year? And what do you think the giantbomb crew will pick for game of the year?
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Greetings, fellow kleptomcats, to another episode of A Jazztronomical Score. If you're just joining us on our merry interdimensional crime spree soirée, this is a semi-regular feature of mine in which I detail my various heists in the Garry's Mod "prop hunter" game mode Jazztronauts. I have the first and second parts lying somewhere around here, so just click anything that looks like a link. To...
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In last year's video of the Best Surprise category, Jeff and Alex had a debate about Fire Pro-Wrestling World and its eligibility for contendership. Abby pitched the idea of 'pinning' Fire Pro-Wrestling World in the Best Surprise category until next year. I really like this game and it deserves justice. Alex was stuck in a rock and hard place last year regarding Fire Pro-Wrestling and the Best...
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I've been a little out of it this week due to illness - my head feels like a bowling ball full of green soup where nobody bothered to plug up the holes - but that doesn't get in the way of my regular blogging. Fortunately, my writing has been carefully cultivated over time in such a way that it becomes indistinguishable from the rantings of a guy hopped up on cold medicine, so it should still b...
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Every medium has works that aren't for everyone and genres which are the curiosity of a select minority, but one thing that happens in video games that doesn't happen in other media is that entire genres considered essential to the medium are left inaccessible to a lot of its audience. In film, producing horror and sci-fi won't make your movies the most popular or line your shelf with awards, b...
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Prelude What have I gotten myself into this time? Before we can appreciate the Final Fantasy manga in all its glory, we must first travel back to 2002. A year after Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within nearly bankrupted the company, Square was on the up and up. Final Fantasy X and Kingdom Hearts strong-armed the studio back to relevancy. This recovery would culminate with them purchasing their lea...
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It's Thanksgiving today, and what could be more festive than a group of disaffected robots discussing transhumanism? That's more or less the impetus of Mike Bithell's 2017 "short", Subsurface Circular : a largely passive adventure game in which a detective robot interviews a series of other androids on the titular underground conveyance about what they know and who they are. I knew going into t...
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Red Dead Redemption II is, as you might have heard, a big game. I finished it, and while there is a part of me that would like to do a deep dive into every last thought I had about the game, I'm not going to subject you to that. Instead, here's something about the parts of the game that spoke to me the most, and I suspect will stick with me the longest. That said, there will be SPOILERS. If you...
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Jazzed to see you all once again for another series of interdimensional GMod heists. Part Two's going to represent what I would diplomatically call a typical session of Jazztronauts: not everything works out the way you'd hope, but there's always something to learn from the experience. The limitations of the Source engine, usually. If you recall from Part One - which I posted yesterday - we hav...
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Bonsoir, amis. Novembers are usually marked alternately with tryptophan-induced slumbers and chaotic consumerism, though for us video game types on Giant Bomb it's more about cramming in as many current-year releases as possible before GOTY podcast season rolls around (what the normies call "the Holidays") and with it the requisite torrent of spoilers and arguments. While I have certainly begun...
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Hey gang, I just wanted to try something fun this week, so I've taken ten games released this year that I've been looking forward to playing and tied them to germane Simpsons screenshots and .gifs, courtesy of Frinkiac. I realize there's a Twitter account that does something similar, but it's kind of half-assed about attaching the games to the clips in question. (Personally, my "Simpsons gifs r...
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In my quest to play every Indie 3D platformer in due time, I was waiting for a game like Poi to appear. Not in the sense that it meets every hope and dream I might have for this underappreciated genre, but how it perfectly represents how I imagine a colorful and imaginative 3D platformer on a strict budget would look. To say Poi would be rough around the edges would be to ignore how it's rough...
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I'm going for chronological order here because I can't pick my #1 right now. November 15, 2001 - Halo: Combat Evolved I loved this game on the Xbox and it's one of the titles I'll still bust out from time to time, particularly for its fun ass split-screen multiplayer modes. It also helps that I have a good time playing through the campaign. For it's time the audio and visual elements are as det...
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We all had fun during Extra Life, didn't we? Dave Lang played dress up. Alex put his body on the line and drummed like his life depended on it to raise a ridiculous(ly great) sum of money for sick kids. Rorie took his shirt off. Dan built a model. And then there's The Quiet Man... Who says the fun times have to stop? My 9-5 job is busiest every year from late October through early November, so...
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This past weekend, Microsoft held it’s first ‘XO’ event in several years. The announcement they made a few months back that the fan based event would be returning seemed like a response to Sony holding PSX events the past few years, to varying degrees of mostly positive success. It also sparked a slew of interest in why the Xbox front office decision makers picked this year to hold the resurrec...
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I used to love Call Of Duty. When I was a kid it was the first real PC shooter that ever hooked me - I never played Halo, and before my parents bought a decent PC my FPS games had all been on the N64. So Goldeneye, basically. I never grew up close enough to anyone I knew to get involved in any LAN parties so Call Of Duty, when it was released in 2003, was the first time I had ever played a real...
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The SNES Classic had a sterling assortment of games from Nintendo's 16-bit star console, but it's hardly all that system has to offer a modern audience. In each installment of this fortnightly feature, I judge two games for their suitability for a Classic successor based on four criteria, with the ultimate goal of assembling another collection of 25 SNES games that not only shine as brightly as...
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This is what I have concluded after watching the New Game + for The Quiet Man. Allow me to explain. *SPOILERS FOR HOTLINE MIAMI 1 AND THE QUIET MAN, IF THAT MATTERS TO YOU* Hotline Miami 1's story and presentation, in a nutshell: You play some guy (Jacket) who is very good at murdering criminals. Due to the game's minimal exposition, it's unclear how much the main character knows or what his mo...
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North America East Two [Ranking Event] This weekend was Punk’s weekend. There’s no way around it. He obliterated everyone he fought, with the exception of NuckleDu and Brian_F (I’d like to see how this set went). At the beginning of Top 8, he chose Chun-Li against The Cool Kid93’s Abigail. The Cool Kid would only win one round during the entire FT3 set. In Punk’s match with CJ Truth he went bac...
