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Last year I wrote, "I didn’t play a lot of games this year." That's a huge loving bummer because I feel like I played even fewer this year. Regardless, here are ten more of them. Honorable Mentions: Lost Judgment (had no hope of finishing in time), Gato Roboto (indie metroidvania with surprisingly fluid movement), Deep Rock Galactic (more fun times with the goons mentioned below) 10. Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart I got a PS5! Uh, accidentally. I didn’t think it would go in the cart, and by then, I just HAD to click “buy”... Anyway, Ratchet and Clank is one of the few great showpieces for the next console. Not only are the console’s capabilities used for the oft-discussed wormhole mechanic, but for other things like split-screen cuts where two far away characters are shown in their respective environments at the same time, in engine. The game looks and sounds great. A particular stand-out moment is the first time you enter the bar full of robots and weird space creatures; this is the first time I have ever felt like I was in a Star Wars movie in a video game. (A good Star Wars movie, I guess.) 9. Great Ace Attorney Adventures (count as the Chronicles release for scorekeeper purposes) This is the game that kept this post so long. I started it in August but fell off at some point, and had to do a couple marathon sessions to finish in time for GOTY. However, I knew it deserved to make the list, so I needed to finish it. I played a bit of the original Ace Attorney games on the DS and more recently last year on the Switch. When I first heard about the Apollo Justice games on the 3DS, I was skeptical. New characters and 3D models? Why, when the original cast and the pixel art were perfect? Great Ace Attorney Adventures, the first of the two games in the recently localized pair, has quelled both concerns. Ryunosuke and his companions are as funny and well-realized as Phoenix and his, and the 3D models are painstakingly animated to be full of personality. There’s a lot of great gags that the new mechanics allow for, and Susato is an excellent heir to the Maya Fey role. Her animations are delightful the 100th time you’ve seen them. Great Ace Attorney 1 wraps up its own story nicely, but it leaves a few threads that have me excited to play 2 next year.  8. Final Fantasy 7 Remake I played the original FF7 this year and didn’t enjoy myself very much. After getting the PS5 I tried out FF7R and have got to say I enjoyed it so much I want to give the original another try. Even disregarding the modern trappings, like the stop-and-go team based action combat to some insane bullshit Tetsuya Nomura storytelling, at its core FF7 is the story of doing ecoterrorism with your friends. And I think that’s neat. 7. Guilty Gear Strive When this year started I didn’t know how to play fighting games. It’s never been a genre I had much interest in or remotely any ability in, so I generally ignored them. Earlier this year I started playing games with ShallNoiseUpon, Flower Rhythm REMIX, and Relax or Die. Frankly this has been my primary social outlet this year, and I’ve been really happy to have these guys around. Anyway, Tekken went on sale and our group caught a fighting game bug. This year we’ve played Tekken, Street Fighter III AND V, Power Rangers, Darkstalkers, Blazblue, Marvel vs Capcom 2, the Jojo game, and Guilty Gear. I didn’t take to Tekken (shout out to Ms. Unsmiley who took me aside for a training session; even if Tekken didn’t stick her advice was widely applicable to other games). Guilty Gear did, to the point where I ended up buying an arcade stick. After a brief flirtation with Millia I found my main in Potemkin, and managed to land some good heavenly pot busters. Guilty Gear’s not necessarily better than the other games I listed, it’s just the one I enjoyed more due to its soundtrack, visuals, and over-the-top aesthetics. For giving me many weeks of trash talking with my friends and showing me that I could be halfway decent at fighting games, Strive had to make this list. 6. Metroid Dread Two impossible things happened in October. The first is that “Metroid Dread,” which is the title applied to multiple attempts to make the fifth 2D Metroid game and the latest one in the timeline, was released. The second is that it actually managed to meet expectations. In the first few hours, Dread seems pretty linear. There is a robot that will chase you several times throughout the adventure. Sometimes you are “soft locked” into a path, where something has happened behind you preventing you from backtracking. (On one occasion this saved me from wasting several hours when I didn’t realize I was right in front of the gravity suit.) However, it isn’t linear at all. After the game had been out for a few days speedrunners started noticing that there were optional paths, for example it is possible to fight a certain boss after acquiring the morph ball bomb, which gives you a quicker way to kill him and a unique cinematic. Samus herself is a badass in this one, far gone from her Other M appearance. Her emotes in the game’s few cutscenes are for the most part cold, aloof, and maybe a little bored. She is easily equipped to deal with her enemies even without her abilities. By the end of the game, you are a powerhouse, dispatching foes with ease. I’ll spoiler the description of a standout boss. Flappy Bird as I call him is a boss in the latter half of the game that requires the space jump (infinite screw attack) to deal with. He is pushing you back with wind at the time. The boss fight is fun and features several very cool cinematic attacks, but someone discovered that you can queue up a shinespark (infinite dash) while running against the wind. If you shinespark into the boss he dies instantaneously. https://youtu.be/F-GMo_farJc 5. Bloodborne  After years of false starts I have finally grown eyes on my brain. Bloodborne is a loving masterpiece, with a richly constructed world and perfectly tuned combat. But I don’t need to tell you Bloodborne is good because you’ve already read VideoGames’s post. I’ll just say Cainhurst Castle is one of my favorite areas in a video game ever. 4. Chicory  Of all the games on this list, maybe save #2, I think Chicory is the one I will become the biggest evangelist for. Chicory: A Colorful Adventure is the world’s first coloringbooktroidvania (royalties owed to SexRex). You paint the world by clicking on things, and interacting with various environmental structures with paint will allow you to traverse the world. As you progress, your bond with your magical paintbrush grows, and with it, your ability to traverse the world. The titular Chicory is not the cute puppy player character, but rather the Wielder, a bunny rabbit who wielded the magic paintbrush before it fell into the player character’s (whose name is your favorite food and whose gender is up to your interpretation) hands. Chicory doesn’t want the brush anymore, so now it’s yours. Why Chicory doesn’t want the brush is where the game’s plot picks up, but basically, Chicory is a story about burnout, depression, and the way the expectations of society can dehumanize us. It is also much cuter than the previous sentence implies. So, for those who don’t know, I’m a college teacher. This year has been the toughest of my career. Upon the return to face-to-face instruction in the fall semester, the emotional and psychological toll of my job increased as each individual student needed something from me, either for their physical or psychological well-being. It’s my job to meet my students’ needs, but there is little to no institutional support for meeting each individual accommodation. At one point in the game after a particularly nasty encounter, the player character is talking to their sister, Clementine, when in a very video gamey way a NPC asks for a favor. Clementine tells the NPC off and tells the player character, “You can just say no.” It was like Clemtine was speaking directly to me, telling me to set firmer boundaries. Chicory is a cute game, at times laugh-out-loud funny, with another banger of a Lena Raine soundtrack. I’d recommend it to anyone who likes video games and most people who don’t. 3. Persona 5 Royal  The Persona 5 cast weighs large in my heart. I originally played P5 in 2018 and started Royal in 2020, and in fact it’s on my list from last year. You can read that post here. I finished it this summer, and buddy, Royal is a perfect update to the base game. I talked earlier about the new mechanics making the dungeon crawling a little more user-friendly and exploration more worthwhile. What I couldn’t talk about then that I can now is the new chapter. Without getting into spoiler territory, the third semester brings the mechanics of Persona 5’s world to their natural extreme and feature the most interesting villain in the game’s rogues gallery. It was nice to see again a cast that, frankly, feels like my friends. If you can deal with the game’s absurd run time and more problematic elements, Persona 5 Royal is an incredible game. 2. AI The Somnium Files  PORNOOOOOO MAAAAAAAAG After enjoying Everyone’s VN Of The Year 2020, 13 Sentinels, I was strongly encouraged to play AI. Despite some technical hiccups with the Switch version of the game, I was delighted the whole way through, and it was nearly my GOTY. Its sequel is certainly one of my most anticipated games of 2022 – I have already pre-ordered the stupid Aiba statue. Anyway, AI: The Somnium Files is a game about artificial intelligence (AI), eyes, “I” (the self), and “ai” (the Japanese word for love). Yes, it is extremely far up its own rear end, in the best possible way. You play as a pervert detective, Date, as he and the Erika Harlacher-voiced Aiba who lives inside his prosthetic eyeball investigate a gruesome murder. The game plays out over five different routes depending on the choices you make in the investigation scenes and features an incredible cast, even the most annoying of whom (Ota) turn out alright. 1. Monster Hunter Rise  Could it have been anything else? I don’t think I need to explain Monster Hunter to the people here: it’s a dense action game where at any moment you can execute a wide variety of actions (if you are willing to awkwardly claw your hands to use a menu while you run). The combat is fighting game-like in the sense that you have to fully commit to your animation, and mistakes in footing and timing can be costly. Each of the monsters have their own personality and behavior, and there are more than a dozen different weapons to learn and build. I’ve always wanted to get hooked by a game that I can sink lots of hours into, but I never do, and I hop from game to game pretty quickly. I’ll occasionally flirt with a multiplayer game like Splatoon or Apex Legends, but those don’t typically last very long. Then, Monster Hunter Rise came out, and it was a perfect storm of a few factors for me. First, I had already played a little World and knew that I liked the basic thing that Monster Hunter was doing. Unfortunately, World is dragged down by its attempts to be a big budget AAA game: too much goddamn talking, and so many bells and whistles that joining friends for co-op is its own monster to hunt. Second, Rise is handheld, and having something available on the Switch means it is ten times easier to fit into my life. Finally, Rise came out the weekend before spring break gave me a week off work. I sank 100 hours into Rise in its first week of being available, and barely touched it again for a while after. To be clear, the 1.0 release of Rise was not finished. Not all the monsters were in, and the game ends on a cliffhanger teasing its real final boss fight. That’s not to say it is light on content. However, I had burned myself out on 1.0, so when 2.0 and 3.0 launched over the summer (with the true final boss), I didn’t play very much of the new content. That changed when the Mega Man collaboration happened. Rise had started doing collaboration events with various other Capcom properties (and eventually non-Capcom properties), and you can get a loving RUSH costume for your dog. So, I was back in. A few weeks later, you could get a loving SONIC costume for your cat. I was all the way back in, and ended up beating the true final boss from the 3.0 update. The music was incredible, and it was one of the coolest final boss fights I’ve ever played (easily, I think, the best one of the year). For finally giving me a game I can keep going back to, an incredible final boss, Sonic and Rush costumes for my pets, and good times with goons, Monster Hunter Rise is my game of the year. truncated list 10. Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart 9. Great Ace Attorney 1 (can be counted as Chronicles) 8. Final Fantasy 7 Remake 7. Guilty Gear Strive 6. Metroid Dread 5. Bloodborne 4. Chicory 3. Persona 5 Royal 2. AI the Somnium Files 1. 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McCracAttack posted:Pro tip, hold the brush down for a few seconds to get a fill tool. If the game ever tells you about that I sure didn't hear it. You can also find a brush style that is a quicker fill tool. Waffleman_ posted:You forget that Aiba, Date's AI eyeball, is his aibou (partner) lol nice
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Relax Or DIE posted:games forum groin of the year thread '21 Something Awful > Forums > Groins
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just relax riffing with himself here
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khanstant lmfao great job looper 
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I love the goty thread.
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Aidan_702 posted:A week for results??!?! But I gotta buy some of the top results while I’ve still got a tiny amount of money left after Christmas buy Chicory while you wait
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Jay Rust posted:Post your favourite 2021 game music! https://youtu.be/YVjDqUYIdww https://youtu.be/qJqB_x5AQLM hatty posted:GAA spoilers but the moment this played I had to grab my good headphones just so I could hear it better. maybe specify it's a GAA2 spoiler (my fault for clicking)
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hatty posted:Oh man I’m so sorry nah you're good, I should have been more careful without context I'm also not sure how big of a spoiler the title is but it seems significant
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the full version of Unbeatable is gonna own so fuckin hard
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I played some ARR this year and got into the 20s before I got bored and paid for a couple months where I forgot to play. I'm excited to try again this summer.
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Arist posted:Gonna play FFXIV while FFXIV wins Gonna play Blazblue Centralfiction while Blazblue Centralfiction wins
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Rarity's being a real gamer right now
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Escobarbarian posted:Haha I’m free until 9pm when I actually have something resembling plans with people. There’s no way it’ll take that long…….right?? 75 entries at 6 minutes apart will take 7.5 hours 
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Regy Rusty posted:PLAY CHICORY
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I need to play Wandersong
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I played it. It was cool, but a couple times I forgot I played it, so it didn't make the top 10.
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And he quoted himself!
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hm gonna have to check out blue reflection
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I think my entire top 10 might be in the top 75?
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10 - Ratchet (top 50) 9 - Great Ace Attorney (top 50) 8 - FF7R (top 50) 7 - GG Strive (top 50) 6 - Metroid Dread (top 50) 5 - Bloodborne (50's) 4 - Chicory (70's) 3 - Persona 5 Royal (top 50) 2 - AI (top 50's somehow? didn't see it in Rarity's first post) 1 - Monster Hunter Rise (top 50)
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Jay Rust posted:Gonna be here for a while if we’re haiking through the entire plot Hope VG is forced to continue this even after #1 is announced
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Walla posted:Look, if Final Fantasy IX can reach the top 75 in 2022 then a 3 year old deckbuilder should. Ace Attorney is sub-75, Great Ace Attorney should do well
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thanks LVG
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bop bop perano posted:This is VG, but with posting instead of driving: You just want to yell.
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Excited to actually have time to play Lost Judgment this year.
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All caught up. Well deserved to Endwalker, a game that made a bunch of my friends very happy; congrats Rarity and VG on an incredible thread and some wonderful Kirbies, and most of all congrats to the gamers. I'll take one of them probes too. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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My personal anticipated GOTY 2022 top three is: AI The Nirvana Institute, Final Fantasy Stranger of Paradise, and Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak. We'll see how those three end up doing in the end...Jay Rust posted:If anyone wants to take the time to repost their 2020 list and talk about whether they’d change any of it, a year later, I would eagerly read your thoughts Here is 2020 HM: Miles Morales 10. Lonely Mountains Downhill 9. Animal Crossing 8. Personal 5 Royal 7. Tony Hawk 1+2 6. Yakuza Kiwami 2 5. Dark Souls 4. Paper Mario Origami King 3. 13 Sentinels 2. Yakuza LAD 1. Hades 10 through 4 are fine I think (maybe Animal Crossing and Kiwami 2 go up--I'm judging Royal based on what I had played by that point, not the third semester content), but I don't think I got the top 3 right. I recognized the Hades was the technically superior game of the three, but in the time since I've started identifying "game of the year" with "most personally significant game to me." In that case, what have I continued thinking and talking about this year? 13 Sentinels, baby. So 13 Sentinels would be my #1. Not sure if I'd put Hades at 2 or 3. I am proud to name 13 Sentinels as my 2021 2020 Game of the Year. wuggles fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Jan 9, 2022 |
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nachos posted:Endwalker might have a longer runtime than the rest of the top 20 combined, unless someone spends 300 hours on monster hunter rise I'm 180 away and both the PC version and the expansion have yet to release.
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Kull the Conqueror posted:If Triangle Strategy doesn't make my 2022 top three it means something went horribly wrong I was real psyched for and then real disappointed by Octopath Traveler so I'm cautiously optimistic for Triangle Strategy
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