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veeg if you don’t play Pentiment by the end of Feb so HELP ME GOD
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Yesss! So pleased to see Pentiment continue to get love this year, and I hope it keeps cropping up in these threads for years to come ala Disco Elysium. It's so, so good!
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Jerusalem posted:Also just wanna say I love the badges, even if they don't have Kirby on them Thank you  I was a little worried. I do have plans for 2024, I just was not able to make it work in time this year.
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Pentiment was my GOTY 2022 and I'm glad to see it still get a lot of love.
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I will play Pentiment if it ever comes to ps5 or whatever or just watch veeg stream it whichever comes first (hard to say)
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Captain Invictus posted:one of the best games to come out this year, and it didn't even get nominated for Best Indie because Geoff Keighley is a hack who doesn't know what indie games are. Grinnblade posted:Great music, tight controls, incredible attention to detail in creating A LOT of distinct animations for every character in the game. It feels weird to put this game at #1 when I beat it back in February and haven't touched it since, but a replay is never very far from the front of my mind even as I work through some of the other things I've wanted to get to this year and prepare for some of 2024's releases. Einwand posted:The best platformer I’ve played in many years. The controls are flawless and have levels of depth just sitting there waiting for you to dig in if you wish on your quest to P rank every stage & boss, or if you want you can just have a goofy romp through the weirdness grapplejack posted:I 100%ed this game and then went back and played it again, which should be all you need to know.  18. Pizza Tower (Tour De Pizza) (2023) 119 Points. Voted for 17 times. Appeared #1 four times. Average of 7  What if, hear me out, Wario owned a pizzeria?
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I said come in! posted:Can't praise this game enough. My absolute favorite title of the year. Great characters, and story that adds onto the previous game and grows the returning characters and world. omg chael crash posted:I just love both Star Wars and Cameron Monaghan. ShakeZula posted:Once I finished it I said to myself “I think this is my GOTY,” and nothing I played the rest of the year made me reconsider.  17. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (Respawn) (2023) 124 points. Voted for 19 times. Appeared #1 three times. Average of 6.5 Hearing the sequel is apparently way better than the first proves that one cannot be sick of all these Star Wars!
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Jerusalem posted:This is definitely one of those games on my list to pick up once I have cleared at least a bit of my backlog, but I also assume it's a game I am going to be TERRIBLE at. Honestly I think it's soundtrack of the year as well, just absolutely amazing. RichaadEB's covers have been my hype songs for raiding in Dragonflight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMVFI8HRZLI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysDv3rcJdR0 So it's OK to be crap at it, I know I am, if it means listening to the absolutely baller soundtrack
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Escobarbarian posted:Pizza Tower was a big disappointment for me because I actually wanted something that played like Wario Land and not something focused on speed and combos, but it’s objectively pretty fantastic and it looks and sounds amazing. You're gonna like anton blast or whatever that other one is. Also I played jedi survivor in december. I'm not sure it's gonna make my top ten for 2024 either.
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Escobarbarian posted:Pizza Tower was a big disappointment for me because I actually wanted something that played like Wario Land and not something focused on speed and combos, but it’s objectively pretty fantastic and it looks and sounds amazing. Yeah this is why I haven't played it, I don't think it will actually appeal to me. I wanna explore and find secrets not have to go fast.
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Ineffiable posted:You're gonna like anton blast or whatever that other one is. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1887400/ANTONBLAST/
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Ibblebibble posted:Pentiment was my GOTY 2022 and I'm glad to see it still get a lot of love. Exactly this. Ink and quill, friend, ink and quill.
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I enjoyed Jedi Fallen Order so definitely hoping to get a shot at the new one sometime this year... but there are SO MANY GAMES :
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Mamkute posted:Curtain Call was at 2nd place on my 2020 list and this game is an expanded and enhanced version of that gameplay experience on the television screen. seedge posted:The best Final Fantasy Guitar Hero RPG you'll ever play. morallyobjected posted:If you like rhythm games and Square's music, there's just simply zero reason not to pick this game up. Even if you don't get it on sale, it's absolutely worth it. I have over 200 hours in it this year. I wish they'd make similar games for other developers, like Nintendo. But for now, this is all we have, and even then, it's perfect.  16. Theatrhythm Final Bar Line (Indiezero) (2023) 131 points. Voted for 25 times. Appeared #1 three times. Average of 5.2  This game is incredible! The only reason I have played 15% of it is because I need to play the games the music comes from first!! If you know these games then bathe in this game!
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this game is so good. super deluxe version full price no regrets baybeeeeee
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I'm in chapter 2 of Pentiment and I couldn't love it any more than I do. I started a new game and handed it to my friend last Friday and he (very minor spoilers) sat and thought about whether to Martin Luther it up with Baron Rothvogel for 15 loving minutes. "Man, this got a lot more serious than I thought it was going to!" And that was just the appetizer to, "So, you monks want to debate Luther's ideas with me? What do you say, Andreas?" Much bigger spoiler: I'm a loving idiot and spent the time I should have been examining the body making friends with a completely hateful old widow and doing dumb chores for her, and as a result when it came time to talk to the archdeacon I didn't really have a solid lead on who actually did it. So I just told him everything I'd learned, leaving out the brutalized nun, and Lucky Steinauer got executed for the crime. I kinda felt bad but then my friend did the body examination and turns out the Baron died of his loving head getting smashed open by someone very strong using a mallet so maybe justice was done after all? Also, Slay the Princess. I had my friend play this one also and his run was extremely different from mine, though we got the same ending. I understand there are like five or six different endings but my first playthrough was so beautiful, haunting, and memorable that I don't know if I ever even want to see any of them. Gotta admit though, I'm a little curious was to what happens if you just unrelentingly choose violence and nothing but violence the entire game.
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vogonity posted:Swinging around the buildings in NYC is just marvelous. It never gets old. Simulation883 posted:Devoured the game and platted it in a little over a week. And after that I still kept playing through December, that traversal and fighting loop was just that fun to chill and kill time. Thordain posted:Miles and Peter have a fun dynamic, the game never sits still long enough to get boring, and flying over New York rules.  15. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Insomniac) (2023) 159 points. Voted for 29 times. Appeared #1 once. Average of 5.4 Friendly, neighbourhood, web slinging, web swinging, fifteenth placed game!
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JonathonSpectre posted:I'm in chapter 2 of Pentiment and I couldn't love it any more than I do. Oh man, I'm jealous, there's nothing quite like the first time through and the gnawing uncertainty that you missed something vital. What a game.
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JonathonSpectre posted:I'm in chapter 2 of Pentiment and I couldn't love it any more than I do. Imo a big part of the fun of slay the princess is seeing all the different princess variations so I would really recommend playing it again and trying more things. Of course I also don't think much of the overarching narrative so the endings weren't really a major component of my enjoyment.
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Quip of the Year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry5s1mW1xEM&t=2s Game does Venom and Kraven justice. Hype for the eventual NG+ update.
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Infinitum posted:Quip of the Year knew what that was gonna be before I clicked it 
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Infinitum posted:Quip of the Year Perfect ending
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Sally posted:This was gaming bliss for me. Absolutely loved it. Devoured the game and replayed it. Blitzed through the first DLC when it dropped too. kazaah posted:The plot takes some wild swings, but it's all very consistent, and there's a lot of payoff for remembering the fine details. It really encourages you to learn the plot, you know? And you feel like a genius once you do. jolo posted:I adored this game. Unraveling the individual stories and the motivations of the characters involved was magical. I am an absolute sucker for this sort of game and this is the best of its kind if you ask me. bad news panda posted:My partner and I played through this and each of its DLC's in about 1-2 days each and couldn't put it down. The mysteries can be challenging, but not to the point where you have to guess and check yourself, and tell a really fun overall story surrounding the mysterious artifact. CuriousSymptoms posted:Absolutely brilliant experience, with intriguing and compelling storytelling wrapped up in satisfying detective mechanics. The art style gives it a genuinely creepy and uncanny atmosphere.  14. The Case of the Golden Idol (Color Gray Games) (2022) 159 points. Voted for 29 times. Appeared #1 twice. Average of 5.4 Up by 22 places.  So many times you want to write curse, but it is not curse it is case. Case. Not Curse.
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