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COLETTI

COLETTI

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My kids were into Skylanders and I played with them, but Swap Force was easily my favorite - I played it on my own and got the platinum 😅

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Cliff Hanger

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17 hours ago, assfax said:

Were any of those WWE games that did the GG2000 "reenactment" modes worth a shit? 

Meh. They're fun to do once but kind of messy. The game that came closest to really matching the GG2K experience was UFC Undisputed 3 on PS3.

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Raziel

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I'm not gonna lie, the Original WarCraft trilogy with updated gameplay peaks my interest.

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Ramo2653

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19 hours ago, assfax said:

Were any of those WWE games that did the GG2000 "reenactment" modes worth a shit?  If anything, I believe that Kings Soul PS1 game is underrated and criminally underplayed.  VERY weak on the edit mode but goddamn I think It's kind of slightly better that KOC2.  Sacrilege i know.  There's just a little more Fire Pro surprise in the matches.  You have to love that era of AJPW but it ain't a prerequisite.  Imagine if Spike and Aki could've got together on Dreamcast* with a generous budget and license....

 

*neutral ground or is it?

I feel like this year and last years games with the reenactent matches were fun, but I'm a WWE fan and if you're not, then your milage will vary greatly on that.

SirSmUgly

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I enjoy M&L: Brothership, and I'll play Eastern RPGs with Mario in them all day long, but it's rough for Brothership coming out off the back of SMRPG and TTYD, basically the two best Mario RPGs of them all. I like M&L and hope it sells well enough to continue on, but what I really want is for Intelligent Systems to go back to making great Eastern RPGs rather than mediocre-to-bad adventure games. 

Horizon Lego Adventures is out tomorrow, as I found out from the courtesy call that I got from GameStop, and I once again wish that at least one of these games came out in the summer when I had more time to play instead. I am looking forward to goofy, fun-loving Aloy, though. 

I think MvC Collection is the last game I have pre-ordered this year. Maybe after I get that and work through a couple of these games, I can get to a couple of the indies that I've been wanting to work through.

twiztor

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18 hours ago, Cliff Hanger said:

The game that came closest to really matching the GG2K experience was UFC Undisputed 3 on PS3.

i bought a 360 just to play Undisputed 3. sold it off, just to do it all over again a couple years later. that game is/was awesome.

18 hours ago, JLSigman said:

Blizzard is milking nostalgia for all it's worth - there's now a bundle (aka Battle Chest) for remastered version of WarCraft I, II, and III.

oh man, i haven't played Warcraft II in years. maybe this is a good excuse to bust it out again. 

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JLSigman

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Got a little ways in Birth by Sleep and ran into a wall trying to beat a time trial. Will get back to it.

Re:Coded makes me wonder just how many times did they re-litigate the first Kingdom Hearts game?

The "Final Chapter" collection is short (mostly Dream Drop Distance), but the 0.2 Fragment with Aqua is absolutely beautiful and sad. I'm enjoying it.

Ramo2653

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10 hours ago, JLSigman said:

Got a little ways in Birth by Sleep and ran into a wall trying to beat a time trial. Will get back to it.

Re:Coded makes me wonder just how many times did they re-litigate the first Kingdom Hearts game?

The "Final Chapter" collection is short (mostly Dream Drop Distance), but the 0.2 Fragment with Aqua is absolutely beautiful and sad. I'm enjoying it.

Technically they went back to the KH1 stuff 3-ish times? Chain of Memories, 358/2 and Coded. In the sense of the original releases, they're games on other platforms so I could see the thinking in revising stuff but once you get a collection of everything, you really see how they kept going back to the same well. I know some of it is rights related (that's why they never revisited Tarzan).

Death From Above

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Man, I'm not obsessed with TCG Card Shop Simulator but it's close. What a cozy game. Maybe at some point I'll look into modding it and figuring out how to add even more card types.

The Smelly Gamer is the video game enemy of the year.

Cliff Hanger

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How the fuck is Microsoft letting these terrible Call of Duty podcast ads into the wild? Do they not care because addicts will always line up for another fix, or do they somehow not understand that "vaguely Southern guy yelling a plot synopsis and some marketing buzzwords with no production" is a shit way to sell a game?

Contentious C

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13 hours ago, Death From Above said:

Man, I'm not obsessed with TCG Card Shop Simulator but it's close. What a cozy game. Maybe at some point I'll look into modding it and figuring out how to add even more card types.

The Smelly Gamer is the video game enemy of the year.

Take "video game" and "of the year" out and you have no idea how right you truly are.

Ramo2653

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10 hours ago, Cliff Hanger said:

How the fuck is Microsoft letting these terrible Call of Duty podcast ads into the wild? Do they not care because addicts will always line up for another fix, or do they somehow not understand that "vaguely Southern guy yelling a plot synopsis and some marketing buzzwords with no production" is a shit way to sell a game?

My favorite version of this is in sports podcasts. Hearing Colin Cowherd read that copy in the most drab afternoon sports talk show host voice is hilarious. 

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Cliff Hanger

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1 hour ago, Ramo2653 said:

My favorite version of this is in sports podcasts. Hearing Colin Cowherd read that copy in the most drab afternoon sports talk show host voice is hilarious. 

I wasn't familiar with his voice (i halfway keep up with soccer and hockey but am not a sports guy) and now that I've looked him up, I think they're just running his live read as the ads on other podcasts with a "Rated M for mature" tag at the end. Fuckin bizarre to hear in the middle of a Behind the Bastards.

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Doragon

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15 hours ago, twiztor said:

i'd settle for a "Let's Go" version of G&S.

They would rather just do Pokemon Legends "fill in the blank placeholder" in Johto set many years later instead.

Death From Above

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Honestly Nintendo seems allergic to creativity. They basically just recycle variants of the same 4 things and it's a shame because you see a lot of indie games that Nintendo could have made that would feature new ideas, but bigger because of their name power. The state of modern pokemon is a pretty good example. Nintendo's pokemon games have come nowhere close to some of the golden age titles for a while.

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Tabe

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3 hours ago, Death From Above said:

Honestly Nintendo seems allergic to creativity. They basically just recycle variants of the same 4 things and it's a shame because you see a lot of indie games that Nintendo could have made that would feature new ideas, but bigger because of their name power. The state of modern pokemon is a pretty good example. Nintendo's pokemon games have come nowhere close to some of the golden age titles for a while.

The best recent Pokémon game is currently being sued by Nintendo for being too good. 

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JLSigman

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On 11/15/2024 at 8:04 AM, JLSigman said:

The "Final Chapter" collection is short (mostly Dream Drop Distance), but the 0.2 Fragment with Aqua is absolutely beautiful and sad. I'm enjoying it.

May or may not come back to Dream Drop - it's just a bit more out there then I want right now. It's cute, and I don't mind cute (especially in context of Kingdom Hearts), but I'm not in the right brain place for it yet.

Starting a run on KH3, with EZ codes and on easy play, because my hands will not put up with this repetitive button clicking anymore. I vaguely remember this first part, and I think I bounced off it on PS4 because I hated the gummi ship (see arthritic hands). Maybe this time will be a bit easier.

 

(and for those keeping track at home, yes, I know have saves in all of the games at this point)

J.T.

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2024 Game Awards nominations are out.  Spoilerized for size.

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Game of the Year:

  • Astro Bot (Team Asobi)
  • Balatro (LocalThunk)
  • Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science)
  • Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree (FromSoftware)
  • Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix)
  • Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero)

Best Game Direction

  • Astro Bot
  • Balatro
  • Black Myth: Wukong
  • Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
  • Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
  • Metaphor: ReFantazio

Best Ongoing Game

  • Destiny 2
  • Diablo IV
  • Final Fantasy XIV
  • Fortnite
  • Helldivers 2

Best Performace

  • Briana White (Final Fantasy VII Rebirth)
  • Hannah Telle (Life is Strange: Double Exposure)
  • Humberly Gonzalez (Star Wars: Outlaws)
  • Luke Robers (Silent Hill 2)
  • Melina Juergens (Senua’s Saga Hellblade 2)

Best Mobile Game

  • AFK Journey
  • Balatro
  • Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket
  • Wuthering Waves
  • Zenless Zone Zero

Best Art Direction

  • Astro Bot
  • Black Myth: Wukong
  • Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
  • Metaphor: ReFantazio
  • Neva

Best Score & Music

  • Astro Bot
  • Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
  • Metaphor: ReFantazio
  • Silent Hill 2
  • Stellar Blade

Best Audio Design

  • Astro Bot
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
  • Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
  • Senua’s Saga Hellblade 2
  • Silent Hill 2

Best Adaptation

  • Arcane
  • Fallout
  • Knuckles
  • Like a Dragon: Yakuza
  • Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft

Best Narrative

  • Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
  • Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
  • Metaphor: ReFantazio
  • Senua’s Saga Hellblade 2
  • Silent Hill 2

Games For Impact

  • Closer The Distance
  • Indika
  • Neva
  • Life is Strange: Double Exposure
  • Senua’s Saga Hellblade 2
  • Tales of Kenzera: Zau

Best Community Support

  • Baldur’s Gate 3
  • Final Fantasy XIV
  • Fortnite
  • Helldivers 2
  • No Man’s Sky

Best Multiplayer

  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
  • Helldivers 2
  • Super Mario Party Jamboree
  • Tekken 8
  • Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

Best Independent Game

  • Animal Well
  • Balatro
  • Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
  • Neva
  • UFO 50

Best Debut Indie Game

  • Animal Well
  • Balatro
  • Manor Lords
  • Pacific Drive
  • The Plucky Squire

Best VR/AR Game

  • Arizone Sunshine Remake
  • Asgard’s Wrath 2
  • Batman Arkham Shadow
  • Metal Hellsinger VR
  • Metro Awakening

Content Creator of the Year

  • Caseoh
  • Illojuan
  • Techno Gamerz
  • Typical Gamer
  • Usada Pekora

Most Aniticiapted

  • Death Stranding 2 On The Beach
  • Ghost of Yotei
  • Grand Theft Auto 6
  • Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
  • Monster Hunter Wilds

Best Action/Adventure Game

  • Astro
  • Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
  • Silent Hill 2
  • Star Wars: Outlaws
  • The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

Best Role Playing Game

  • Dragon’s Dogma 2
  • Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
  • Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
  • Metaphor: ReFantazio
  • Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

Best Fighting Game

  • DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO
  • Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising
  • Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics
  • Multivesus
  • Tekken 8

Best Action Game

  • Black Myth: Wukong
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
  • Helldivers 2
  • Stellar Blade
  • Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

Innovation in Accessibility

  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
  • Diablo IV
  • Dragon Age: The Veilguard
  • Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
  • Star Wars: Outlaws

Best Family Game

  • Astro Bot
  • Princess Peach Showtime
  • Super Maro Party Jamboree
  • The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
  • The Plucky Squire

Best Sim/Strategy Game

  • Age of Mythology: Retold
  • Frostpunk 2
  • Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess
  • Manor Lords
  • Unicorn Overlord

Best Sport/Racing Game

  • F1 24
  • EA Sports FC25
  • NBA 2K25
  • TopSpin 2K25
  • WWE 2K24

Best Esports Game

  • Counter-Strike 2
  • Dota 2
  • League of Legends
  • Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
  • Valorant

Best Esports Athlete

  • 33
  • Aleksib
  • Chovy
  • Faker
  • Zywoo
  • ZMJJKK

Best Esports Team

  • Bilibili Gaming (League of Legends)
  • Gen.G (League of Legends)
  • Navi (Counter-Strike)
  • T1 (League of Legends)
  • Team Liquid (Dota 2)

 

J.T.

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My thoughts:

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  • Destiny 2, best ongoing game? lol
  • Anti-woke CHUDs won't be happy about a DLC beating out Stellar Blade for a Best Game nomination.
  • Astro Bot and Balatro aren't my cup of tea, but I think either of those would be a good pick for GoTY.

 

Chaos

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On 11/15/2024 at 10:10 PM, Cliff Hanger said:

How the fuck is Microsoft letting these terrible Call of Duty podcast ads into the wild? Do they not care because addicts will always line up for another fix, or do they somehow not understand that "vaguely Southern guy yelling a plot synopsis and some marketing buzzwords with no production" is a shit way to sell a game?

I know this board is not exactly a heavy listener base for JRE, but I grew tired of the interrupting ad with Peter Stormare the last few weeks when I would listen to an episode. 

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