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fridge corn
Apr 2, 2003

NO MERCY, ONLY PAIN :black101:
Hell yeah ghost of tsushima owns

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VideoGames
Aug 18, 2003
I know that many of us here are waiting with baited breath to see where FromSoft’s latest offering is going to chart but fans will be delighted to know that they have representation all over our countdown. We’ve reached their first entry here at #54 but which of their amazing games will it be?

CAR CRASH CRACKERS posted:

Everything feels so lonely and desolate.

Lisztless posted:

Its level design is the best in the entire series to this day.

Tosk posted:

Incredible use of interconnected level design.

Epic High Five posted:

"Good lord, they solved this 10 years ago, why aren't more devs doing this?"



54. DARK SOULS
(FromSoftware, 2012, Re-Entry)
37 points, listed 5 times


It fell out of the chart last year but the original Dark Souls is back over a full decade after release to be the first of four FromSoft entries in this year’s countdown.

(VG: Oh how I adore the soulses!)

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


Maybe kind of an indicator of how many points Elden Ring hoovered up is that over 25 more people voted in this year's GOTY thread yet the point totals between 2022 and 2021 at this stage of the countdown are almost exactly the same.

hatty
Feb 28, 2011

Pork Pro
Whenever I read Rogue Legacy 2 it’s always to the tune of the Three’s Company theme. Am I alone here? Yes? Okay then

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer
Banger

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
Weird how I let VG post some games and suddenly a Dark Souls shows up :thunkher:

VideoGames
Aug 18, 2003
Not even my favourite souls game! There is no conspiracy here :ninja:

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
That's exactly what a conspirator would say!

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

Anno posted:

A lovely map.

Goa Tse-tung posted:

The first Grand Economy game.

BigOwlGuyBMJ posted:

This is why you got an economics degree you nerd.

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

Usher in the golden age of communism.



53. VICTORIA 3
(Paradox, 2022, New Entry)
37 points, listed 6 times, #1 1 time


Charlie, I’m listening :frogon:

Item Getter
Dec 14, 2015

VideoGames posted:


It fell out of the chart last year but the original Dark Souls is back over a full decade after release to be the first of four FromSoft entries in this year’s countdown.


Shameful that Elden Ring lost to 3 King's Field games for the PS1

Help Im Alive
Nov 8, 2009

I am amazed Sifu only ended up at 61

Did no one play it??!

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

Help Im Alive posted:

I am amazed Sifu only ended up at 61

Did no one play it??!

I think it suffered with CameoutinthesamemonthasEldenRingitis

CottonWolf
Jul 20, 2012

Good ideas generator

Looking forward to the wave of delays from the month that Armoured Core is announced for this year.

VideoGames
Aug 18, 2003

lunar detritus posted:

My most played game this year, and the previous year, and probably the year before that.

Jay Rust posted:

My Chewbacca is in love with an enslaved space vampire.

ethanol posted:

I am now making vat born demigod babies.

Ms Adequate posted:

You want orks? Astartes? Catgirls?



52. RIMWORLD
(Ludeon, 2013, Up 18)
38 points, listed 5 times


Rarity posted:

Did someone say something about catgirls?
(VG: I have three pet cats all running around on the landing as I post. They are very happy for having been just fed!)

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
...I can't believe Veeg put me in quotes for the catgirl line

VideoGames
Aug 18, 2003
Is this a reverse got?

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
catgirl deez nuts doesn't even make sense veeg

Silver Falcon
Dec 5, 2005

Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and barbecue your own drumsticks!

Oh, Rimworld! :neckbeard: That's one of my husband's favorite games when he's not playing Dwarf Fortress. I told him it charted and he said it deserved better.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
Well my darlings we stand here on the precipice of the top 50 which means things are going to be getting interesting very soon. However before we can get there we have to say goodbye to one last game that failed to make the cut. Here’s what you voted in at #51!

LawfulWaffle posted:

Nothing gets me salivating like some juicy nacells or a full bay of cargo containers just begging to be salvaged.

AceOfFlames posted:

The single most pro-union message I have ever seen in fiction.

haveblue posted:

How you find and regain the power capital is pretending is theirs is a story that needs to be told in this modern world.

Social Studies 3rd Period posted:

"Each day he steps into the yard
To earn his wages working hard
I pray to the stars and heaven above
To return my daddy to those he loves
If there comes a time when he and death meet
Bless the next cutter that takes his seat"




51. HARDSPACE: SHIPBREAKER
(Blackbird, 2022, New Entry)
39 points, listed 7 times

UNIONISE
:hai:

fridge corn
Apr 2, 2003

NO MERCY, ONLY PAIN :black101:

Rarity posted:

catgirl deez nuts doesn't even make sense veeg

I understand it perfectly tho??? :confused:

Ineffiable
Feb 16, 2008

Some say that his politics are terrifying, and that he once punched a horse to the ground...


Shipbreaker rules so much. It hits such a specific niche I didn't even know I wanted.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

I expected my Goty to not even be in the countdown so it's fun to not have any stakes

VideoGames
Aug 18, 2003
All right my friends it is time to kick things up a gear! So many games to get through, so little time to get through them. I think the best thing we can do now is see which game you voted in at #50!

nitsuga posted:

The sole reason I bought a Playstation 4 as the world began falling apart.

The REAL Goobusters posted:

A very chill and almost zen experience.

Palmtree Panic posted:

The simple act of driving is tranquility.

fridge corn posted:

A celebration of the automobile and of CAR LIFE.

KidDynamite posted:

Just let me drive all the cars.

biceps crimes posted:

If you're similarly a sufferer of being into cars, you've probably already played this.



50. GRAN TURISMO 7
(Polyphony Digital, 2022, New Entry)
40 points, listed 10 times




CAR LIFE.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

Tourismo

Regy Rusty
Apr 26, 2010

9/10 in the top 50 let's goooo

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

Can’t wait for the movie!!,

Ineffiable
Feb 16, 2008

Some say that his politics are terrifying, and that he once punched a horse to the ground...


Spelled wrong in both graphics even.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

How do their feet reach the pedals? :thunkher:

AceOfFlames
Oct 9, 2012

Rarity posted:

How do their feet reach the pedals? :thunkher:

Sticks.

fridge corn
Apr 2, 2003

NO MERCY, ONLY PAIN :black101:
Hell yeah quoted and the Oskirbs even driving some sick RX-7s :hellyeah:

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

Turismou

VideoGames
Aug 18, 2003

Ineffiable posted:

Spelled wrong in both graphics even.

At least I am consistent.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

KidDynamite posted:

Gorgeous and beautiful.

Flint_Paper posted:

Just playing it for 3 minutes was enough to grab me right back in.

Item Getter posted:

Delivered on the promise of exploring a huge interconnected world.

John Charity Spring posted:

No Metroidvania can compare to this.

Dr. Fishopolis posted:

Watch one of those 7-hour video essays gushing over it. They're not wrong.

Roth posted:

I loved the game so much I bought plushies.



49. HOLLOW KNIGHT
(Team Cherry, 2016, Down 10)
41 points, listed 7 times


One of the forum’s perennial favourites, Hollow Knight makes its 4th appearance in the countdown. Silksong when???

morallyobjected
Nov 3, 2012

Ineffiable posted:

Spelled wrong in both graphics even.

veeg loves tourism too much

AceOfFlames
Oct 9, 2012

Rarity posted:

Silksong when???

Silksong is the new "Elden Ring pre-Summer Games Fest trailer".

Hell, someone should make the equivalent of this YouTube channel for Silksong.

AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Jan 7, 2023

Regy Rusty
Apr 26, 2010

Evergreen game

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

No Kirb award for Best Flash game?

VideoGames
Aug 18, 2003

Tae posted:

Crossplay is finally here.

Ibblebibble posted:

I had an absolute blast learning the ropes.

Manoueverable posted:

Gave me the tools to finally learn and succeed beyond my wildest dreams at something I thought I'd never be good at.

Mysticblade posted:

Big sword, big buttons and gently caress huge damage.

KidDynamite posted:

Lets me body people and get bodied in return.

Foul Fowl posted:

Some kid had his worst day online when he met me. Nothin personnel of course :clint:



48. GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-
(Arc System Works, 2021, Down 37)
41 points, listed 6 times, #1 1 time




That wasn’t a kid, Foul Fowl. That was me! :cry:

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

Should’ve Strived harder haha

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exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


2023 is gonna be stacked for fighting games, Strive will have lots of competition next year!

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