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Days later edit: Oh poo poo, I forgot one from early this year!!! I changed it. I don’t think I’ve posted a list before, but Rarity’s dedication has inspired me to share my opinions on the internet. I don’t often like sharing my favorites for things, but if there’s any category of thing I have highly personal opinions on, it’s video games. These are games that were fun and cool to play this year. They made me happy and that's cool! (edited to fix weird formatting) 11: Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director’s Cut The cyberpunk future has a small inventory. What do you mean I can’t carry 10 guns at a time? Where’d I get all of these pills?? I played this one at the behest of my partner and it was worth it. It’s one of those games that I enjoy both within its boundaries and from the outside. I played in Deus Ex difficulty and save scummed my rear end off to sneak through everything. I scrambled to find the non-shoot-and-run solutions to every boss (that they only added as of the Director’s Cut). What the hell were they thinking out of ten! 10: Dorfromantik This is number 1 in my “games to fidget with while in meetings.” You have tiles! Tiles have stuff on them. You get quests to make groups of X amount of stuff. You keep doing that until you have the world’s worst railroad network and circular rivers. Perfect. 9: Noita I have never won Noita and I don’t plan on doing it anytime soon. I love getting my rear end kicked by this game. The insane interactions between wands, enemies, and the environment lead to wild and hilarious micro runs that keep me coming back to die again. 8: Pokémon Legends: Arceus Did you hear that they made an open world Pokémon game? I’ve seen the criticisms of PLA and have my own, but none of them change the fact that I was teleported to the past, handed a haunted Cyndaquil and 50 steampunk Pokeballs, then told to run around and figure it out. That slaps. This game is cool. I could spend all day pitching Pokeballs at unsuspecting little guys from the bushes. I didn’t want to put both PLA and SV on the same list, so I went with the one that hit me with that open world vibe first and surprised me. 7: Stray Meow, meow, meow. Meow. Meow meow. Cute platforming with a cool little world to explore from the perspective of someone shorter and smaller than me. The puzzles were at just the right level of solvability and encouraged me to explore the hell out of each area. 6: Deep Rock Galactic Rock and stone.... yeeeeEEAAAHH! My favorite game to play with friends. It's so loving charming for a game where you play as a drunk guy excavating planets. The community is so nice! 5: Curse of the Golden Idol Heard it was good but then the Obra Dinn comparison came up and I flew through the metaphorical doors of Steam, cash in hand, like my life depended on it. It's not Obra Dinn 2, but it’s still a great story to unravel. The scenes get increasingly complex and fascinating as you get deeper. Using key vocabulary from your investigation feels much like getting a jigsaw puzzle with nearly identical pieces; you spend the game finding out what elements of those pieces relate to solve each chapter. 4: Final Fantasy VII Remake (late addition) I never played the original, even though I was the prime age to do so when it launched. Instead, I stumbled my way into the remake after watching my partner play it, and I love this thing. I love how it compares and contrasts with my perception of the original game from the outside, and I love how it fits in with my newfound love of Final Fantasy in general. It's long as hell sometimes but I love it just as it is. Part 2 can't come soon enough. 3: Splatoon 3 I skipped S1. I played S2 for about 20 hours. I bought S3 on a whim, thinking that I’d probably fall off of it like 2… and boy, was I a fool and a clown for thinking that. It’s by no means a revolutionary step from 2, but it hit all the right notes for me this time. Bouncing from turf wars to story mode to Salmon Run kept me in a tight loop for weeks after launch, and I loved the rhythm. It took a while, but I’m now permanently invested in these squids. I’m looking forward to coming back for weeks at a time and competing in Splatfests until they move on to 4! 2: Vampire Survivors This is the only game that I’ve 100%ed achievements on Steam 3 times in a single month. The power curve on this game is so great. It starts off painfully difficult and as you progress, you get increasingly powerful until you crush your enemies into motes of dust on a regular basis. My favorite action to idle game of the year by and far. 1: Elden Ring Every time I played a new game this year, I asked myself aloud, “Does this beat Elden Ring?” Well, uh, here it is—right where I put it when I first finished it. I’m an open world enjoyer, and Elden Ring was designed so goddamn enjoyably. I had all kinds of Moments when I played, from classic “gently caress your poison Miyazaki” to “oh… wow…” exclamations when I organically encountered huge, beautiful, hidden areas. I want to capture those moments in a bottle and relive them over and over. Truly excellent, wildly lauded, and 100% a delight. Honorable Mentions: — Pokemon Scarlet/Violet (wow, that's a lotta Pokemon!) — Sonic Frontiers (better than I thought) — Pillars of Eternity (Replaying to (mild PoE2 spoiler) fix the fact that I didn't finish Raedric's questline the first time and got a letter telling me that I'm a dumb idiot!!!!) — Pentiment (didn't have time with all the Pokemon trading and capstone-ing, so I'm going to take my time with it later) — Paper Mario: The Origami King (I didn't play it this year but I thought about it a lot and it's great) — Satisfactory (make it stop) And finally, a confession: 
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broken pixel posted:Days later edit: Oh poo poo, I forgot one from early this year!!! I changed it. Everyone's lists are cool. Please post more lists! Help Im Alive posted:#2 - The House in Fata Morgana
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This has been a great top 65! Congrats to Tunic for GOTY (Just kidding I believe in you all assuredly there’s a version backup… right?)
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Elden Ring GOTY as it should be and I deserve to be killed for 6 hours for thinking it (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Back from the dead to give a big thanks to Rarity and VG for the sick countdown and hard work. I’m looking forward to the end of this year, because I already know two whole games that came out in November/December that will in my top ten (and already scored pretty highly this round). 
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rope kid posted:Thanks, goons. Thoons. See you next year when you have to accept another goon GOTY list Pentiment award!
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