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I will definitely play RiME and The Beginner's Guide.
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Yes
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I actually beat Snakebird. I managed to only beat no more than three puzzles in Stephen's Sausage Roll.
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I ran what should be the first of two, mayyyybe three games featuring games that I have played in 2019. It was a tight race until Mycro started to pull away from the rest of the pack. Place made a late rally but fell a 2.5 points shy of the upset.
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Absolutely yes even though I dropped the show midway through its second season
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Uwabami
Don't
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game in approximately an hour
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game in less than 5 hours
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Yikes, two of the four Zelda games in the poll that I cared about already eliminated.
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I will be running a game tonight at approximately 7:30 PM ET.
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Obellisk posted...

Hey, I beat God of War this month. Do I get a point? Working on wrapping up platinum now.

You bet
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I stopped once it became 12-17 not in my favor. Should have stuck around to see the 10-1 run, which I assume included my votes.
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Fairytale
Hell
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Ruined the comeback? Unless you meant Gunshot, I stopped counting votes around midway disheartened and assumed Sky was going to curbstomp me into oblivion.
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Okay, so I apparently never specifically stated that I was drawing today, so I apologize if anyone was affected by that. Keep in mind that the I draw on the 24th-26th of the month like 98% of the time, so in the event that I do not specifically mention a date again, be cognizant of where we are at in the month so you do not miss out.
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And for the second of our Second Chance events, Lolo Guru has selected The Adventures of Lolo (NES/3DS/Wii U/Wii) as a special fourth game.

Congrats to Wigs for having another nom selected!
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Foxborough is like 20 miles outside of Boston, and the Patriots' championship parades take place in Boston, so it totally counts.

If the Giants/Jets count as NYC, so do the Patriots as Boston!
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While I hope that Boston doesn't win its like 13th championship since the turn of the millennium, the novelty of winning it all while being one of the least knowledge hockey people participating is too good to pass up

+8 Bruins

If someone does post a standings update and my original findings were incorrect, I will probably change.
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No, but I have a team in mind that I will give him if he doesn't make a final decision by the deadline.

It would give you some company Ranlom
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RiME is currently available to play on Game Pass for XB1 and is also free on PC via Epic Store (at least in US and requires you to download Epic Game launcher)

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/rime/home
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1. RiME
2. Beginner's Guide
3. Earthbound
4. Resident Evil 4
5. Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
6. What Remains of Edith Finch
7. Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
8. Star Fox Zero
9. Adventures of Lolo
10. Star Fox 2
11. Spider-Man (2018)
12. Gardens Between
13. Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage
14. Mystery Dungeon: Shiren
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And your June Games of the Month are...

RiME (PC/PS4/XB1/Switch)
The Beginner's Guide (PC)
Earthbound (SNES/Wii U/3DS/possibly other systems in the West)

Congrats to myself, Wigs, and Crispy for having their games selected!

I was hoping to make another announcement at this time, but that will have to wait. I assure everyone it will be made within the next day or so.
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Gunshot
Boss
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Nominations are closed. I will draw momentarily
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I like how nobody is talking about the Twins owning the league's best record
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You seeded my song 23rd? You really assume that all of my noms are going to get blasted R1 lol.
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Today's
Attack
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Anniversary is Halo: CE with an updated game engine. If you played it via MCC, there is a button to toggle between the two, and you will see that it is a carbon-copy except for visual details.
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My compatibility is starting to get a little dicey. The median compatibility keeps dropping, and it seems inevitable that I will be left with maybe 20 with 50+% compatibility, but my highest is rising ever so slightly. My top three this year would all be my #1 from last year.
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Nano
Flash
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Apparently I was mistaken about something, so Nick is off the hook.

I'm not a fan of the series overall, but Link to the Past is easily in my Top 3 favorite games, so I'm going to ride that as far as I can.

LttP > FSA > Majora's Mask > Legend of Zelda > rest don't matter, but I haven't played BotW
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I want to say Blues, but I think that there is the possibility of me winning (who would have thought?), so I might have to see if I need to pick Bruins.

So my fast and possibly inaccurate research says that I am 4 behind Nee who picked the Blues. Ugh.
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Tokyo 42 for PC

The camera really lets you down when you try to do sniping, using other guns at long range, and platforming, but the game really shines when you limit yourself to stealth and switching to a short-range firefight if you become seen.
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The Detail for PC

I always get a kick out of seeing people from another country have a game take place in the US. The Finnish (I think) studio behind this did a relatively good job with their take of a modern, gritty, crime noir, but they kind of threw it all away toward the end that I still am trying to settle my feelings toward the game.
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bump
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My top recommendations are of the puzzle variety:

Monument Valley
Monument Valley 2
Hitman GO
Lara Croft GO
Deus Ex GO
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Rhuzerv
Country
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No
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Missile
Soaring
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Hiveswap: Act 1 for PC

It was okay? The environmental art and puzzles were good, but it did not have a good success record with its humor, and the puzzle fights were just annoying.
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Monthly Progress
Wario - KCF, Wigs
God of War - Lolo
Octodad - Cody, KCF

Nominations
Ark - Resident Evil 4
KCF - RiME, The Gardens Between, Shantae: HGH
Wickle - Castlevania: CotM
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Break the
steelchambers
Battle
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Purpose
Level
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I had to hurry, but do not hesitate to ask me for more clarification on anything I said.
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6. No Auto Saves

Modern sports games have gone all-auto save. I don't know if it has to do with cheating for achievements or something, but whatever. You are human, you will make mistakes. With the autosave, there will be mistakes that you can't take back that you absolutely need to. With you playing on Steam, I assume you can backup your saves, so you will absolutely have to take advantage of that often.

7. Ability to alter coaching strategies and minute distributions

Giving the users more freedom and opportunity to mold a team into their own vision is a great way to keep people involved. There's no way that NBA 2K doesn't still offer this, but you'd be surprised that many basketball games don't

8. UI is pleasant to view

This is a bonus one for you. You will spending a hundred hours or so every season on this, so you will be looking at the menus a ton. You have to like what you see or you will grow weary in a hurry. I always liked Madden 06's aesthetics, so I didn't have this issue.
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The fifth one I am extremely confident is included in NBA 2K still as nearly all sports games offer a fantasy draft. You can't roll out with the original rosters or the league already begins with a massive talent gap that won't improve. In Madden 06, the original team ratings for teams ranged as low as the upper-60s to as high as the mid-90s. In B8NFLL with the fantasy draft, the team ratings were all between 85 and 87 to begin, and since then, no team has dropped below 83 and risen above 91. Never. Every team has had a fighting chance every season as a result. You don't have to do a randomized draft like I did since there will be 15-ish players on each team instead of the 50-ish for B8NFLL, but I would do playtesting to see what kind of gaps you are looking at. Because of what I said above, people might gravitate toward younger superstars since they will want to hold onto them for dear life.
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Okay, here were the main qualifications that I was looking for when I was interested in starting this up. The first two were absolute requirements for obvious reasons. Not being included meant the league would be DoA.

1. Ability to control multiple user teams at once with no number cap
2. Ability to shift between User and AI control at some point every season

This is something that more modern sports games have gotten away from, but obviously you need to be able to control multiple teams and no limitations on it. Some games I found only gave you a max of four teams, but you need to have the option of all 30 teams being under user control. Also, given the fluctuations in participation, you have to be given the option to switch from user to AI and vice-versa at least once every season.

You claim to be able to do this in 2K19, which is good because NBA 2K used to not feature either of the two things in their franchise mode. Otherwise, you could only do what Nick would do with MLB The Show.

The next few points I believe are imperative to maintain a healthy league in the long-term, so I too find them necessary.

3. Ability to do away with the soft cap
4. Potential rating is eliminated or at least has minimal ties to player development
5. Fantasy draft option

I haven't been shy about my feelings toward the NBA's soft cap. In the video game world, it is ripe for creating a league of haves and have nots 5-10 seasons down the line. In my experience with the 2K series, you can change it (I prefer hard to no cap in a league like this) and you have said that it remains in 2K19. I'm not sure why the luxury tax is still a thing though. That seems like an oversight on 2K's part. Since you didn't mention a no cap option, I won't bring up my sub-qualifications for using that.

The fourth thing is huge, and if its still a thing, I won't be participating, and I encourage you to look into an alternative game. If not, you will have to do A TON of playtesting and come up with complicated measures to prevent the league from the issues this will face. The beauty of B8NFLL and using Madden 06 is that all players who enter the league, no matter where they were drafted (or even undrafted), the sky is the limit for them. I find this common in basketball games (and hockey), and NBA 2K did feature this as of 2K16 or 17, but they use a rating called potential that ruins player development and the talent distribution throughout the league will become ugly in the future. The potential rating is an arbitrary overall rating ceiling that for each player that renders their actual individual production meaningless and the value of all but the top few draft picks worthless.

As the incumbent veterans start to regress and retire (players in NBA2K tend to regress after X years in the league instead of age, which I find disappointing and lame), the amount of elite or simply even great talent shrinks dramatically as only the top few picks in the draft (usually all the high-potential rating prospects are at the top of the projected draft board) will reach the 80s or 90s. This hurts trading, parity, and the opportunity to field a competitive team in short span. In B8NFLL, you can turn a terrible team into a division winner and playoff team in one offseason. In my time spent with NBA 2K games, it took seasons and seasons, which would make a lot of users feel disenfranchised. If this is still prevalent in NBA 2K, then good luck coming up with a solution. If you can change the playoff format, making all series single eliminations is an absolute must to give anyone who makes the playoffs at least some semblance of hope.
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I will wait to finalize my date until cako determines they can only do the 25th since I can do either the 25th or 26th.
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