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honestly I dont think hes too bad for this one

its basically just his normal voice, but the specific delivery makes it work alright. Hes a good voice actor.

LightningStrikes posted...

I guess thinking about it those are all as standalone as Future Redeemed is (eg require the game but played or can be played separately). In which case get out of here Starfield!

Either way the truth is it just got buried by Zelda, its one of the best expansions Ive played.

realistically I dont think it even needed to be buried its post-game story dlc (I think? It takes place after the end of 3, right?) for a giant JRPG. how many of the people responsible for nominations were ever going to play that?

Nothing is official, any publication can declare their own game of the year. theres no regulation around this sort of thing.

Not sure what big hitters we get next year besides Arcane S2, when is the Genshin anime?

theres a DMC thing coming soon from the Castlevania guy, maybe that will be something

https://x.com/geoffkeighley/status/1724126780695679141?s=20

hell yeah Hi-Fi Rush

any movie with driving is an adaptation of gran turismo

really good list this year, wouldnt be bothered by any of them winning

starfield rightfully snubbed

from Jeffs discord

Well, the thing we were hoping to avoid seems to be happening. My wife got sick last night, and since she's in very close proximity with the baby, we figure it won't be long before she also gets sick. She's been putting on weight really well and we'll just have to hope that the breathing condition along with being sick doesn't create a situation where the baby can't feed. This is going to end up impacting today's stream, which I'm going to try to get in tonight, assuming everyone goes to sleep properly.

In the meantime, a new Hall of Fame posted last night and I'm also hoping to get a little writing in over the weekend, depending on how it all goes. Wish us luck and hopefully I'll be back with NES games in 11-12 hours. Sorry for the delay.

i admire this mans commitment to NES science in the face of adversity. cant imagine having to stream and be funny with this going on.

JackMan posted...

There's something about the ads for Dr. Squatch that rubs me the wrong way. I'm sure the product is fine, but the ads are obnoxious. For soap and shower gel of all things.

yeah I hate that guy, hes extremely off putting to me

Grimlyn posted...

ganondorf

kumail nanjiiani

hell probably never get to be an eternal again, so he may as well use his crazy jacked body for something

cool

it feels kind of surreal to see Nintendo promoting Mallow and Geno never thought Id see the day

hoping they get to show up in other contexts after this wish theyd use RPG characters more in general. I should be able to play tennis as Fawful, damn it.

Booster Pass 2: Oops, all Bowsers!

catching up on this series in reverse now

that Snoopy game segment was so funny. I cant imagine how much it would suck to actually have purchased that game, brought it home, and then its just like five minutes worth of terrible minigames

kind of wish Jeff would at least glance at a manual for some of this stuff though. Doesnt feel fair to judge some of this stuff without that context

like Im not saying Athena is good, but its gotta be better than Snoopy if you know whats going on

they gotta keep a few out of this game to bring back in the next one

JackMan posted...

I mean, Quantum Break IS referenced in AW2 too, so...

fuck it is on game pass and its not very long

UshiromiyaEva posted...

I can't wait for some completely left field game to make the list, like Lies of P.

honestly its probably not in my top 6 games of the year, but I wouldnt be mad about it at all

hi-fi rush is the other left field dark horse I wouldnt mind seeing nominated

JackMan posted...

The Remedyverse is pretty analogous to the MCU at this point. You can get by playing just the main Alan Wake games, but there's a ton of references to everything else that you won't realise are references unless you play the other games and DLC.

no, you must play everything

unironically this is why I just finished Max Payne for the first time this morning and have just started Max Payne 2

probably going to draw the line at quantum break though and go into AW2 next

Aside from the cultural references, original psychopath translations had issues with space limitations. Now that they can have two lines of text, anything is possible!

newest upf was extremely good stuff, anybody check it out if you havent

aw, I think Armored Boss sounds cool

I love a good horn

for a long time Bastion would have been my #1 if I was making this list

now its probably Hades? Supergiant is so good at video games.

got lucky and saw Jeff tweet that he was going live right when it happened

dudes having a rough time right now, jeeze.

both older kids getting sick just a couple weeks after the new baby was born, and the new baby has some (theoretically temporary) breathing issue, so theyve had to quarantine the new kid with his wife at a second location to try to avoid having them catch what the other two kids got

he seems very tired, yet he is still diligently committed to science

that was the first stream of his Ive watched in I dont know how long. I gotta watch more often, I miss the guy.

_SecretSquirrel posted...

I think what really bothers me about Claymorton is that it changes him from a knife pun to a sword pun, and Exor (or I assume is now an Excalibur pun) is the sword of the group.

I agree, but based on his Japaneee name/the Japanese websites description of him, hes intended to be a sword

he gives off big dagger energy to me, but I guess I am a fool

GANON1025 posted...

I'm more upset over Frogfucious becoming Frog Sage tbh

hadnt seen this yet

this is by far the worst change

its closer to the Japanese name, but sometimes the Japanese name is wrong and bad.

dude looks like Confucius as a frog. I never would have considered that this wasnt the intention.

Luigi

They bungled Mack

https://x.com/videoChess/status/1720205265910518181?s=20

but like all the dialogue seems to be the same so far, so Im betting the Bruce Lee reference stays

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/55974331.jpg

Shy Away is confirmed renamed to Beezo, and Mukumuku is renamed to Thropher. also the Psychopath ability got renamed to something boring. (this stuff came from the UK Nintendo website)

presumably Neosquid will be changed too

dont think any other name change has been confirmed yet, but I would definitely bet on Kinopio changing at least.

Im most curious to see if theyll change Smilax/Megasmilax and if theyll rename Terrapins to Koopatrols

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never really considered it could be confusing

I think my main beef with Speardovich is I always thought of the d as the end of a syllable and now it is definitely the start of one. Also I just like the flow of the extra syllable.

but I get why they would change it, the original name was totally untranslated from Japanese for some reason.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/05df5d08.jpg

mallow is so happy

tgs2 posted...

Apparently the JP site is saying there's an even more special stone than Culex's given what people are saying. Either that is for his rematch, or we are fighting another Square inspired boss.

it would be pretty funny to drop a full modern HD, original Nomura-style (character into this game, to just go the total opposite direction of Culex. An ersatz Sephiroth with multiple forms.

oh also they retranslated a bunch of enemies. Yaridovich is Speardovich now and I do not care for it.

some people speculated he might be removed or replaced for some reason

https://x.com/Stealth40k/status/1719898395693752364?s=20

literally just brought back the same sprite lol

ive never heard of this but I just looked at the Steam page and I find it to be bad to look at visually with my eyes

i know most of these so far, but I feel like youre going to get into a bunch of stuff I dont know if you somehow have 150 games above Battleblock and Tokyo Jungle

or maybe Im just underestimating how many really good indie games there are now, because time has lost meaning and my memory doesnt function so good anymore

this seems like its going to be a total disaster

Im stoked

I started the first DLC, but I got pretty annoyed with how it was just the same gameplay through basically the same environments

but if the second is more interesting, maybe Ill power through the rest of the first. Based on the collectibles I found, I was like somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 done when I quit probably, so it wouldnt be a big deal.

On Alan Wake 1 combat, it is really fun the first time. Then you realise how much you are going to have to keep doing it.

finished AW1 last night and yeah, I liked it, but by the end I was really ready for it to stop. The combat encounters got pretty repetitive.

but I was into the rest of the games whole vibe

ill probably check out American Nightmare next, save AW2 for Christmas time

they should give you a choice of a run button or a walk button

I like holding a button down all the time, its comforting

ok Im like fifteen minutes in and I can see how it might be a bit janky, but also I get the vibe this might be like if Deadly Premonition was made by competent developers

and thats pretty appealing

I honestly felt super smart when I realized it

i completely forgot that game even existed, its like its been deleted from our collective memory

Ok, after serious consideration of the clues:

1. on sale on steam
2. bad
3. oldish, but more recent than 15 years ago
4. dmc on the right track
5. dead rising on the wrong track

I have come to an answer that I feel good about:

its on sale on Steam, like ten years old, a sort of reboot/black sheep of an established series like DMC, and not from capcom (I feel like that is the wrong track Dead Rising was on)

Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z

its $3, which is cheap enough to justify an impulse buy of crap and a giveaway. It all works.
maybe!

when I was looking up some stuff after finishing spider-man 2 I somehow stumbled upon the information that Liz Allan is a super person now?

is no supporting character allowed to just be a regular human being anymore

how long until they resurrect uncle Ben as a dude named Uncle Long Legs or some shit

Castlevania Lord of Shadows 2

remastered is on sale on the Microsoft/Xbox store for like $10 so I went for it

I loved Control, so Im probably willing to overlook some stuff to be able to fully engage with the universe.

92 average on the PC version right now

i guess I should play the first game finally

current Simpsons is like current Bobs Burgers level now, which means its pretty enjoyable and occasionally great

both my characters are cubes now

my personal footage of this is heavy on late-game spoilers, so here is someone elses clip:

https://twitter.com/g27status/status/1716337800482635812?s=46&t=eadwHKE22SYsw5v5V_16FA

At some point after it happened I had a hard crashed and havent booted the game back up yet. I dunno if Im cubes forever or not.

theyre only pleading guilty to lull the deep state into a false confidence, before the kraken storm comes very soon

oh, also it was fucked up of them to introduce a side quest line involving bees and then not have it lead to a boss fight with Swarm, the man made of bees. Or any reference to Swarm at all. Give me my bee man.

less seriously, it was kind of disappointing that the stolen instrument missions villain was just some rich asshole instead of The Hypno Hustler. is it so much to ask that you give me one goofy villain, Insomniac?