3d fantasy zone ii
pc port of mushihimesama
Game I Will Buy A PS4 For In 2016
And hopefully convince nearby friends to buy it/come over more often so we can coop and blow each other up.
Oh Deer
(thanks to unknown SB-poster who did share this some year(s) ago, since then, i just cannot unsee this ā¦)
Oh Deer Lord
Oh, well, Iām glad we got that figured out before anyone else said the wrong answer.
Just helpinā out.
My personal GOTY2015 might be Monument Valley, now that Iām thinking of it. Or maybe A Link Between Worlds. Mind you Iāve barely been home all year so Iāve hardly ever had access to my consoles/PC so under different circumstances my answer might have been wildly different.
I played the first hour of some other things but I can barely recall them. I basically need to restart Bloodborne from scratch when Iām unemployed again.
NOT:
MGSV - Fuck you, half the content was recycled bullshit.
Undertale - Sick of everyone making the Mother comparison. The Mother games were written by an adult with actual life experience and a unique/cynical worldview. Undertale distills all the cutesy nonsense from Earthbound without the weighty context and barfs it down your throat like a baby bird eating a meal from mommy. Undertale reeks of unearned millennial ennui and the result of receiving participation trophies your whole life. There was some nice ideas from time to time though.
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In terms of games I actually played and finished, Iād have to be boring as well and go with MGSV and Tales from the Borderlands
A bit hesitant to give a GOTY mention to Downwell because I think an arcade game must be at least Treasure-grade good to qualify for GOTY, but Downwell is still pretty damn good, soā¦ Honorable mention, I guess?
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Tempted to change my answer to Assault Android Cactus. I wish I was better at it. Good challenge, fun characters.
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Iām glad Iām not the only crazy person to love the holy fuck out of this game
I still need to S+ the boss rush, a thing that will never happen
Yeah, thatās a far off dream for me. Not even close to being coordinated enough to do that. I may play through the bosses with different characters just to see dialogue though.
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Itās the last thing I have to do then I will burn the game off my drives
Just cause 3 has catapulted to near the top of my list
Someone please gift me Assault Android Cactus - it looks like a game I would enjoy but I really donāt like how it looks.
Would you rather have a game you like mechanically but cannot enjoy how it looks at all, or a game that is absolutely up your alley in style but has no gameplay or isnāt enjoyable for you to experience at all?
This is probably a better Axe thread starter than here.
Anyway, my GOTY 2015 is Etrian Odyssey 4 because I only beat it this year. No wait, Fantasy Zone 2 came out this year, right?
GOTY 2015: FANTASY ZONE 2
IF YOU HAVENāT PLAYED IT YET, KILL YOURSELF YOU JOYLESS CHILD
interestingly, Iāve played Sin & Punishment: Fancy Title Wii Edition yesterday (technically speaking: still this morning until 1AM tbh) and that was quite the experience.
so in other words, might be
ā¦ if it wasnāt for Fallout 4. Saw yesterday how a friend of mine plays this game, and it was only then that it dawned on me how different this game can feel, even for someone that Iāve been playing games with for a good 6+ years.
Cactus has a demo, hit up the Steam page
I would rather a game interest me mechanically even if it looks like a bunch of pixels humping each other but charm and aesthetics can go a long way with me
Or I could just play a Nintendo game and get both
chill out grandad
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lol I myself am a millennial. I think the difference between Undertale and the Mother series is the difference between modern Disney movies and Studio Ghibli films.
Disney films are produced by very talented people with good intentions but the end result always feels lacking somehow. Thereās nothing quite so unsatisfying/hollow than modern Disney because the films are made by people who never wanted anything in their life other than to make Disney films. They were raised on the films, never stopped watching them, never really matured, and never engaged with any other art to inform their world view.
As for Studio Ghibli, it still has Miyazaki, a man who has seen the effects of a world war; a man who had a skill and utilized that skill because he needed to generate an income, not because he was sheltered his whole life consuming childrenās entertainment.
A good example of the generational gap can be seen in the special features of āSpirited Away.ā In a production meeting, Miyazaki is instructing his team of artists that he wants to depict a dogās fangs when you pull their gums back.
The entire team of young artists had no idea what he was talking about, none of them had ever been around a dog and couldnāt conjure from their memory what it would look like to see a dog show its fangs.
Itās been a while since Iāve seen this featurette but I remember Miyazaki calling them pathetic and sad. The team actually had to take a trip to a local kennel and see for themselves what a dogās fang looks like. Those talented guys at Ghibli were raised on Miyazakiās films, they consumed them, they practiced their craft relentlessly, but they missed out on the most important component of what makes Miyazakiās work special; life experience and humanity. Itās no wonder Miyazaki is so pissed off all the time, he knows damn well whatās going to happen to his studio when his time is done. Itās going to turn into Disney, itās going to become the product of incest and not a true piece of art inspired by life experience. The specificity - like the way a dog bares its fangs - will be gone from his films. The humane will be replaced by an earnest facsimile that will be effective on the surface (like Pixar) but ultimately forgettable because none of it will ring true.
I know Toby Fox was a mod at the Starmen.net forums before he made Undertale, so itās safe to say heās passionate about Earthbound and the Mother series. He probably knows just as much about the series as Itoi and the game probably inspired him to learn programming, but I just donāt see the attention to detail and heart the Mother series - and Ghibli - has. What I see is a love letter to his favorite game written in an email instead of by hand.
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