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[Incandenza]

I'm definitely in for the return of Fear Gauntlet feat Abby.

 

[robotrock]

Netflix shows are released all at once though. It's not a day to day discussion like the GOTY week.

I mean whatever though, I still spoiler my posts because it's more about how others feel about it than me personally.

3+ hours of podcast a day for five days straight is an insane amount of audio to ask people to be up to date with.

 

[Infinite Justice]

Janina's reaction to Dan's statement says so much LOLOLOL

 

[Lari]

I mean whatever though, I still spoiler my posts because it's more about how others feel about it than me personally.

Yes same. I absolutely do not care about reading spoilers. If I really want to go in fresh it's easy to not read the thread around the time some video is released.

But I try to spoiler tag some critical info out of respect for others.

 

[Death Metalist]

I appreciate spoiler tags as well but yeah...whenever it's GOTY time, I won't be in the thread until I listen to the entire thing.

 

[robotrock]

I appreciate spoiler tags as well but yeah...whenever it's GOTY time, I won't be in the thread until I listen to the entire thing.

Yeah, guess I'll do that too.

 

[OdysseusVA]

I'll go into other threads and spoil GOTY stuff

 

[Teddified]

.hack comes out on the same day that I'm having surgery....hmmm I wonder when I'll finally play it.

 

[Death Metalist]

I'll go into other threads and spoil GOTY stuff

 

[robotrock]

I am too smart to let spoilers affect my enjoyment of the content. Pickle Rick was still hilarious to me, and goddammit, GBGOTY will be too!

 

[Lari]

Can't wait to see Abby getting scared again! That megadate with the terrible horror games was one of my faves.

 

[Blitzrules240]

Speaking of VR, been awhile since that last VRodeo.

 

[Tagyhag]

Speaking of VR, been awhile since that last VRodeo.

Yep, and they stopped right as GORN came out.

 

[Curufinwe]

Is Jeff the only one of them who has finished Horizon? I just finished it yesterday.

I liked the story overall and Aloy is a cool character, but she ends up becoming too much of a sassy superwoman by the end and a lot of the other characters are just weird. It's almost like there's a competition going on to see who can be the most sarcastic person in the world.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Is Jeff the only one of them who has finished Horizon? I just finished it yesterday.

I liked the story overall and Aloy is a cool character, but she ends up becoming too much of a sassy superwoman by the end and a lot of the other characters are just weird. It's almost like there's a competition going on to see who can be the most sarcastic person in the world.

The disneyfication of games.

 

[Wunder]

Is Jeff the only one of them who has finished Horizon? I just finished it yesterday.

I liked the story overall and Aloy is a cool character, but she ends up becoming too much of a sassy superwoman by the end and a lot of the other characters are just weird. It's almost like there's a competition going on to see who can be the most sarcastic person in the world.

Rorie finished it and Brad said its on his list of must-plays before end of the year

 

[robotrock]

Is Jeff the only one of them who has finished Horizon? I just finished it yesterday.

I liked the story overall and Aloy is a cool character, but she ends up becoming too much of a sassy superwoman by the end and a lot of the other characters are just weird. It's almost like there's a competition going on to see who can be the most sarcastic person in the world.

Dan finished it

 

[Curufinwe]

Rorie finished it and Brad said its on his list of must-plays before end of the year

I wonder if he can fit Horizon and Nier in. They both took me close to 40 hours.

 

[Teddified]

Brad will play like 1-3 hours of the games he said he wanted to play before the end of the year, then just go play some destiny instead.

 

[Wunder]

Brad will play like 1-3 hours of the games he said he wanted to play before the end of the year, then just go play some destiny instead.

I thought that said divinity and got excited

 

[Joeku]

Brad will play like 1-3 hours of the games he said he wanted to play before the end of the year, then just go play some destiny instead.

Nier is gonna need Brad or Jeff behind it to have a chance, with the kind of clout they bring in the discussions. And Jeff soured on the combat. Did he finish route A?

 

[Antiwhippy]

I thought that said divinity and got excited

C'mon now.

C'mon.

 

[Teddified]

Nier is gonna need Brad or Jeff behind it to have a chance, with the kind of clout they bring in the discussions. And Jeff soured on the combat. Did he finish route A?

Yeah I think he finished A, I dunno if he even attempted to play B yet.

 

[sungahymn]

Wild (not really) speculation/prediction of this year's GOTY discussion: Nier Automata will get robbed.

Crossing fingers for Best Story, at least.

 

[BTA]

Nier will deserve better but do ok.

Night in the Woods will deserve much better but will at least rank if Abby and Alex fight for it.

Pyre will be robbed since no one that finished it seems to be passionate about it. Maybe that'll change with Abby, though.

 

[Teddified]

.hack will be robbed

 

[daveo42]

Game that will get robbed during GotY by Destiny 2:
Nier: A
Wolfy 2
Night in the Woods
Divinity Original Sin 2
Every game that came out this year that you like

 

[def sim]

I wasn't sure about the first hour or so of Automata, but this

Spoiler

ken doll sephiroth fight

is hilarious and has got me interested in what the hell is happening in the world.

 

[valeo]

Just played Edith Finch and the cannary sequence surely has to be a shoe in for moment/sequence of the year?

 

[imBask]

i'm digging route C so far but route B was enough for me to accept the game not making it to the top 10. I'm having a hard time understanding the free pass it's getting...

Spoiler

I can't imagine playing 6h of Metal Gear Solid 3, having the game cut, reset and having to replay 4h in order to get slight differences and a reveal before continuing on with the original story. Just replace the word "route" with "chapter" and you might understand where i'm at a little better, it's not really a route since route C isn't the same

I really liked route A, I really like route C so far, but route B cost that game a lot of points in my book

 

[Antiwhippy]

Just played Edith Finch and the cannary sequence surely has to be a shoe in for moment/sequence of the year?

Definitely one of the better moments of the game.

Did anyone on the staff play edith finch or did I miss the discussions about it?

 

[Human Trashcan]

Yeah route B's bad and everything about 9S is worse than 2B. It's very weak.

 

[wild_fire987]

One of the best GB reactions of all time.

 

[Moaradin]

Route B is great and so is 9S

 

[Joeku]

i'm digging route C so far but route B was enough for me to accept the game not making it to the top 10. I'm having a hard time understanding the free pass it's getting...

Spoiler

I can't imagine playing 6h of Metal Gear Solid 3, having the game cut, reset and having to replay 4h in order to get slight differences and a reveal before continuing on with the original story. Just replace the word "route" with "chapter" and you might understand where i'm at a little better, it's not really a route since route C isn't the same

I really liked route A, I really like route C so far, but route B cost that game a lot of points in my book

Some people really dig the added context B brings, and I agree, but it's still waaaay too similar for me to forgive. The good news it it just keeps going up from there.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Route B setup a lot of characterisation for 9S that works into C.

Some of it is "now that I know that you know and you still reacted like this?"

 

[imBask]

Route B setup a lot of characterisation for 9S that works into C.

but all of that could've been done in an hour TOP

 

[daveo42]

Early Route B is probably the weakest part of the game though I like

Spoiler

the hacking.

Things ramp up though when the paths diverge. Everything in path C along with endings D and E more than make up for any shortcomings during B.

 

[imBask]

Early Route B is probably the weakest part of the game outside of

Spoiler

hacking.

Things ramp up though when the paths diverge. Everything in path C along with endings D and E more than make up for any shortcomings during B.

I hope so and i'll keep going since I did make it to route C, but this "just push through it gets good" thing doesn't work in a year this strong

 

[Ashby]

The hacking is good.

 

[imBask]

The hacking was good for an hour, after that it's the same 6 patterns over and over and over and over and over again

 

[Joeku]

The

Spoiler

hacking

is great.

Added spoiler, and also FTFY.

 

[robotrock]

The hacking is good.

I liked the

Spoiler

hacking

a lot more than the actual combat system. Although I didn't ever use spears, and I guess that means I probably fucked up.

 

[Young Liar]

Nier is still in the running for my personal GOTY, but yeah, route B could have done with a good deal of editing. I think the reason it didn't was

Spoiler

to give players one more go at cleaning up sidequests.

 

[Antiwhippy]

but all of that could've been done in an hour TOP

Maybe not an hour, but maybe they could have truncated from

Spoiler

discovering that the aliens are dead to the big water monster fight?

Otherwise i feel like the rest are pretty essential.

Also it's the route i spent the most time doing sidequests.

 

[Human Trashcan]

Legit can't understand that anyone would with a straight face claim the hacking is good. Baffling. It's a total pace killer and completely disconnected from everything else you're doing in the game and your character progression. And it's usually braindead easy but has a couple of ridiculous difficulty spikes. It got to where I was really reluctant to play as 9S.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Legit can't understand that anyone would with a straight face claim the hacking is good. Baffling. It's a total pace killer and completely disconnected from everything else you're doing in the game and your character progression. And it's usually braindead easy but has a couple of ridiculous difficulty spikes. It got to where I was really reluctant to play as 9S.

It's not really disconnected at all, if anything its the thing that ties most of the narrative together.

One of the better examples of tying gameplay to narrative.

Also i actually enjoy the gameplay of it.

 

[wild_fire987]

Am I crazy or have they not done a Divinity Original Sin 2 quicklook? Game came out almost 2 weeks ago...

 

[robotrock]

Legit can't understand that anyone would with a straight face claim the hacking is good. Baffling. It's a total pace killer and completely disconnected from everything else you're doing in the game and your character progression. And it's usually braindead easy but has a couple of ridiculous difficulty spikes. It got to where I was really reluctant to play as 9S.

I just got really tied of the B-tier Platinum combat in the first route. The hacking was an OK way to try and keep the second playthrough of the game fresh.

Spoiler

A bigger pace killer than the hacking is having to play through a good chunk of the game again in Route B.

 

[Aselith]

Am I crazy or have they not done a Divinity Original Sin 2 quicklook? Game came out almost 2 weeks ago...

I believe Vinny said he was going to