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Sivart13 posted:I'm not too excited about the inevitable Hades vs Animal Crossing showdown, because Hades is the pinnacle of game design while AC:NL is a baby game that Griffin and who knows who else will passionately defend anyway Geez, sorry you hate things that are relaxing and feel good.
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Nothing's as relaxing as tearing through the Underworld at high speed careening across the River Styx with a handgun powered by Zeus
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RandomFerret posted:Animal Crossing is the game of 2020. It's not the best looking, it's not the most fun, it's not the most influential, but it is the most important Agreed. It's not 100% my jam, I've bounced off of em pretty hard, but it came out at the right time and kept everyone's attention in a pretty awful time and then continued to deliver on content without any paid DLC. Really I'm just annoyed that FF7Remake lost immediately while fuckin Kentucky Route Zero gets a bye because Russ insists on putting Astros party hut on a list of the best games of 2020.
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The same argument that makes Animal Crossing the game of 2020 makes Kentucky Route Zero the game of the 2010s. And neither are wrong.
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Sankara posted:Justin's luxury show wasn't very good. That’s because Justin is the least funny brother
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Blaseball deserves to win purely for how absolutely furious it made all the gamers voting against it in the Listener's Choice bracket.
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Colonel Whitey posted:I watched Polygon stream Hades and I can’t imagine ever playing that game, looks way to chaotic and stressful I thought the exact same thing and put off buying it for quite a while because of that. It is far less chaotic when actually playing. I can’t watch someone play Hades because I get overwhelmed, but it’s probably my GOTY. (Animal Crossing is a bad game, with bad mechanics, bad multiplayer, bad design, and pretty good graphics. The fact that I put 150+ hours into it only says something about this year, and very little about the game.)
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Dec 13, 2020 16:15
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I got bored of Animal Crossing very quickly, maybe in part because I never played the old ones and don't have nostalgic feelings for it. Also those fake Nintendo Direct videos with the fake quality of life improvements just emphasized how annoying the actual game is to play, which is the opposite of relaxing imo. Hades, on the other hand, really is incredibly fun and deserves GOTY nods.
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Dec 13, 2020 17:32
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Dec 13, 2020 17:33
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I got a Bluetooth receiver for my switch that auto-macros grindy poo poo on animal crossing and Pokemon and also is a Bluetooth receiver for my switch. Basically it feels like having a game genie again.
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The 7th Guest posted:love to casually drop 150+ hours into a bad game I have no excuse except to say, “this loving year.”
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Dec 13, 2020 17:40
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AndrewP posted:
I've been a huge fan of everything Supergiant has put out and so seeing how big Hades has gotten this year has been pretty nice. None if their games have been unsuccessful by any means, but Hades has been on a completely different level.
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I love Animal Crossing for it being just a lil thing I do for about 40 mins every day. Just say hi to my animal pals, sell off fruit etc. It definitely has some things that could be improved on (holy poo poo the menus) but I still am a big fan. I'd probably put Hades over it though because a successful run feels reeeal good and the characters are all written so well. Also, since GOTY type things came up and the Geoff Awards were the other day, I have a question. I stopped listening to the Besties near the beginning of its return, how did the boys feel on Last of Us? A friend described it to me as oscar bait misery porn so of course it won big at those awards but how did the Besties take it? Good Listener fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Dec 13, 2020 |
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Dec 13, 2020 17:42
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If you're talking "best game of the year" it's probably Hades, but if you're talking "game that is so inextricably linked to 2020 that you'll never remember the game without remembering the year and vice versa", it's ACNH or Blaseball.
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I hadn’t even heard of Hades until a couple days ago and I have no idea what Blaseball is. I also have not played Animal Crossing. What I’m saying is I’m not very plugged in to the video gaming culture.
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Dec 13, 2020 17:51
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Colonel Whitey posted:I hadn’t even heard of Hades until a couple days ago and I have no idea what Blaseball is. I also have not played Animal Crossing. What I’m saying is I’m not very plugged in to the video gaming culture. Blaseball is sort of a shared hallucination that only exists on Twitter and Discord, so it's super easy to miss. It's also been on break while the devs smash out a bunch of code because they weren't expected this game to get at all, let alone quickly. The fact that it mostly exists on Twitter is also why it swept every poll it was in. The podcast does a good job of explaining why people are so into it and this video has a more in depth look https://youtu.be/Y5t8DwnDE1k
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Wasabi the J posted:Have you applied to write at polygon? good news, they only use freelancers at this point so no app necessary
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Good Listener posted:
I think they liked it for the most part, but there was some debate between the four of em about how they felt about the execution of the plot. Some felt it was a bit more heavy handed than others. 
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Dec 13, 2020 20:48
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I keep forgetting I want the Chiefs to win lol e: wrong thread
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Dec 13, 2020 21:39
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AndrewP posted:I keep forgetting I want the Chiefs to win lol Unfortunately, Halo got delayed this year.
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Dec 13, 2020 21:47
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AndrewP posted:I keep forgetting I want the Chiefs to win lol I think the McElroys watch more sports / know more about sports than they let on, and sometimes it kind of comes through but then they remember their audience and say something like "Haha sportsball, what even is a touchdown right guys?"
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Pham Nuwen posted:I think the McElroys watch more sports / know more about sports than they let on, and sometimes it kind of comes through but then they remember their audience and say something like "Haha sportsball, what even is a touchdown right guys?" I dunno, they're kind of in no mans land when it comes to sports teams, aside from Marshall.
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Dec 13, 2020 22:00
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Listening through the Sawbones back catalog and these episodes where infant Charlie is fussing on-mic are very very cute 
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AndrewP posted:I dunno, they're kind of in no mans land when it comes to sports teams, aside from Marshall. Eh, I think they're in the Cincy sports market. That has its own sets of problems, but still.  Austin SHOULD have a pro team at this point, but I don't think the other Texas cities would sign on at this point.
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AndrewP posted:I dunno, they're kind of in no mans land when it comes to sports teams, aside from Marshall. Clint seems to know some stuff, I’m relistening to the Balance arc and he drops a Joey Votto reference during the tardigrade fight in Crystal Kingdom.
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Chieves posted:Eh, I think they're in the Cincy sports market. That has its own sets of problems, but still. Austin was allowed to have a MLS team if you count that.
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My GOTY is Red Dead Redemption 2 because I bought it late and actively put off the main story in favor of riding my pretty horse around pretty landscapes whenever I get free time to game. The gang leader “needs more money” to organize a trip to Tahiti when I’ve already put $400k in 2020 dollars in his coffers cmon son.
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TL posted:Clint seems to know some stuff, I’m relistening to the Balance arc and he drops a Joey Votto reference during the tardigrade fight in Crystal Kingdom. Clint is from Buckeye Country, he knows what's up with a sport.
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just watched one of those Heath Robinson contraption videos and noticed Justin McElroy received extra special thanks in the credits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwaH-qT4Rm0
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Animal Crossing, I bounced straight off of after seeing that it is probably the shallowest game ever made - you do pretty much every activity you'll ever do in the first two hours - i think it's a great "social space" or "design tool" but a boring game. The controls, UI, pace are all just so slow and plodding. It's fun to design an Island, but when I realise that the layout I want would take multiple weeks to accomplish.... no. That's not fun or rewarding. If I want to build something up slowly over weeks and months I'd pay attention to my job or family. The core loop of "collect stuff, sell it, pay for items/upgrades" is fine, but the RNG / gacha means that if you want to make a cool beach nightclub, and you don't get any cool beach nightclub furnitures, you just have to wait. It felt to me, and I'm aware that this is being dramatic, that I was gambling my time playing AC. I could spend 5 minutes logging on for a chance to get an item. If I didn't get what I wanted, it was a waste of time. Having a job and a family means that time is previous, and I don't want to spend that time in a slot machine for a digital DJ turntable every day. I do not understand how Griffin has the time to play multiple MMOs and stuff like AC to the level he does.
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well why not posted:Animal Crossing, I bounced straight off of after seeing that it is probably the shallowest game ever made - you do pretty much every activity you'll ever do in the first two hours - i think it's a great "social space" or "design tool" but a boring game. The controls, UI, pace are all just so slow and plodding. It's fun to design an Island, but when I realise that the layout I want would take multiple weeks to accomplish.... no. That's not fun or rewarding. If I want to build something up slowly over weeks and months I'd pay attention to my job or family. Anxiety and insomnia.
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Also it's part of Griffin's job to play video games and talk about them on a podcast so he doesn't have the same constraints as the rest of us real job havin folks.
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:Anxiety and insomnia. please don't leak the title of the upcoming MBMBaM retrospective
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Dec 14, 2020 18:52
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Be on the lookout for an extremely chunky bongrip at about 41:20 in today's episode 
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DoombatINC posted:Be on the lookout for an extremely chunky bongrip at about 41:20 in today's episode lmao once again justin forgets his mute button
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DoombatINC posted:Be on the lookout for an extremely chunky bongrip at about 41:20 in today's episode Lmfao
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DoombatINC posted:Be on the lookout for an extremely chunky bongrip at about 41:20 in today's episode  loving choice
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Related goty chat: https://twitter.com/polygon/status/1338528779749253122?s=21
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What the gently caress is this Bumble/Yukon Cornelius thing Travis is talking about
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