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Pictured: us enjoying a long cutscene Over the last few years, nothing has changed my taste in gaming quite like having a little hatchling toddling about the house. For 2019 and most of 2020, it meant that I would just wait for my daughter to go to sleep before I played anything. But as she grew older, and smarter, and more capable, my instinct was to find things she would enjoy watching. I bec...
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Game : Adglobe and Live Wire 's Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights . Release Month : January. Quick Look : N/A. Started : 01/01. Completed : 06/01. Well, here we are, fashionably late, looking to review a whole stack of 2021 games in January 2022. I would've put this together in December but I was looking to finish up a couple of series ( VN-ese Waltz and The Dredge of Seventeen , check 'em o...
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The Game Pass Gambols is my chronicle of attempting to at least sample every game released on Game Pass in 2022. Game: The Pedestrian Game Type: Puzzle Platformer Time Played: Approximately 4 hours. Completion level: Rolled credits/all achievements. Approachability: Very high. Intuitive controls and no objectionable content. Should You Try It? : Sure, why not? It’s appropriate that the first en...
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Hello, everyone!!! Today, I inducted my first Video Game Hall of Fame character and it is none other than the Italian plumber himself, Mario. It was a very appropriate choice since everyone knows who Mario is. Next week, I will induct another Nintendo character to follow Mario.
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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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Jordan is the host of the comedy podcast Fun Time Calls , he is a moderator of G4's Discord , and also has a Twitter where he posts "Goodnight Hamburger" every night before sleep. Go to his website at jordanhass.com Hello Friends, this is Jordan. Most likely you have no idea who the hell I am (and probably for good reason, but I don't know), this is a GAME OF THE YEAR list, my favorite time at...
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Hello once again it’s time for ArbitraryWater presents: “Video games I have played this year that came out this year.” Much like its predecessor, 2021 has been a bit of a mess for me personally but at the very least my continuing physical, mental, and social isolation meant I played far too many video games, including some vaguely relevant to our shared online conversation. This is what we’re h...
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Games Beaten in 2021 Cyberpunk 2077 [2020] Manifold Garden [2020] Superliminal [2019] Lightmatter [2020] Ghostrunner [2020] The Legendary Axe [1989] The Legendary Axe II [1990] Bomberman [1991] Bomberman ’93 [1993] Mega Bomberman [1994] Bonk’s Adventure [1990] Bonk’s Revenge [1991] Air Zonk [1992] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate [2018] Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars [1996] Paper Mario [2...
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I've been thinking for a while that it would be cool if other people took turns curating the Giant Bomb Infinite Out Of Context Twitter account . I've been running it for a relatively long time now and I've been doing it my way, but I'd like to see how other people would do things. I'll retain control as founder and overseer of the account, but for the most part the curator will be able to run...
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Everything you ever wanted to know about how a game of the year list is constructed. Should be making my own list soon.
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Last year I wrote down my ranking of the games I played in 2020 but I never got around to posting them. This year I’m putting them up. This ranking only includes games released in 2021, not the many, many, games from prior years that I played. I am also not including games that I bounced off or did not put substantial time into, though I didn’t finish every game on the list. Whether an unfinish...
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10: Loop Hero Loop Hero was a fun second screen game to have running when I was watching a stream or a video. Its mix of active decision making with passive gameplay makes it perfect for that specific gaming niche. If you share my need to have every waking moment filled with some sort of activity that implies progression, Loop Hero might be for you! The game definitely loses some luster if it i...
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Chicory: A Colorful Tale is an easy game to admire. It’s a small indie effort with a ton of originality and a sweet and positive message at its core. It’s a game that tackles themes of the self-doubt and imposter syndrome that plague a lot of young people and it isn’t afraid to make those themes front and center in its narrative rather than making them substories or side points. It’s got really...
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2021 was a year of upheaval around the world but I think it's safe to say that it was also the year that Giant Bomb changed forever. With the departure of three of the longest tenured members, all of whom dated back to the Gamespot days, and the relocation of remaining staff away from the Bay area I think it's safe to say that the Giant Bomb we all fell in love with no longer exists. A lot of u...
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Last year I made and posted some gaming resolutions. I wasn't successful with all of them but they acted as a useful guide to what I wanted to do with my game time during the year and I think it's an exercise I want to repeat. I'm repeating it. Here. In this post. This is me repeating it. Resolutions for 2022 1) Continue to control my spending. I spent less money on gaming last year and it work...
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Estrogen is a hell of a drug folks. I'm not about to credit it entirely for my improved mood throughout most of this year compared to last - it obviously isn't the only reason. But for a year in which I went through several kinda major life changes, started to really feel The Effects ™ of a worsening pandemic, and burned myself out on things time and time again (I have complicated feelings abou...
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For more on this series, check my initial blog here. After further consideration, I decided to eliminate the "multiple solutions to problems" category, since it's a little too close to the "experimentation and improvisation" one. I replaced it with something that should have been there from the beginning: the "just one more run" factor: how likely are you to jump into another run immediately af...
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This is a blog about the ten best games I played for the first time in 2021. As I did last December , I could contextualise this list with a high-minded introduction that would attempt to discuss how these games were an escape from the depressing current events in the wider world. But fuck it, I don't want to talk about upsetting news; I want to talk about engrossing video games. So, in purely...
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As always honorable mentions, DOTA 2, they didn't add any thing super interesting this year just solid DOTA overall. COD: Warzone probably my actual game of the year but I had it last year still paying it and liking the new map a lot. The ones on this list that aren't very descriptive I played at the beginning on the year and don't remember too too much about. Enjoy. 31.Ni no Kun: Wrath of the...
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If I remember 2021 for anything it would be that it was my first year with a gaming PC and as a result spent most of my time on the latest multiplayers with friends or the obscure indie games I'd hear about from the Bombcast or streams. As such this list was filled with shorter, less involved games overall. Honorable Mentions: Tales of Arise Disco Elysium (Director's Cut) 10. New Pokémon Snap I...
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2021 has ended and I’m back with yet another Top 10 list for the year. I don’t really have any pithy comments or things I want to say about this year. I’m a tad bit sick and dreading working over New Year’s, so I’m just going to keep the intro short this year. The one thing I will mention is I somehow ended up with nearly half a list of songs sung entirely in English, which was not my intention...
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Here we are at the end of yet another year of Japanese music. I normally go into some detail about the year as a whole or my process of putting this list together, but those feel a bit trite at this point and I don’t really have much to say. I’ll just say here are my Top 10 Japanese songs of 2021 and I hope you enjoy them! Feel free to comment or share anything you liked from the year too! 10....
