halos 4 and 5 are not videogames
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ok
- sekiro
- saga scarlet grace
- death stranding
- resident evil 2
- ninja warriors once again
other stuff i liked: amid evil, link’s awakening switch (though i probably prefer the gbc version?) reach pc, romancing saga 3 hd
still yet to play the podcaster rpg or outer wilds
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Y’all, I just realized Wattam comes out in one week. Will we all be revising our lists?
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Here’s my moderately well maintained Media Diary, ignoring the fact that the movies, music and books sections basically languished. I estimate I played about 30 straight days of games this year, which is…fucken weird, I guess
Anyway, I was trying to come up with a top 5 games of 2019 but I’ve only played 9 games released in 2019 that I remember, so here’s a list of 2019 games that I really liked
- Baba is You
- Shakedown Hawaii
- Dragon Quest Builders 2
The end
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Total Year of Release is the best field on a spreadsheet I have ever seen
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update: i did play the podcaster rpg and it was good
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so it seems like the outer wilds and disco elysium are the games of 2019, right. i look forward to playing them in 2022
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I wrote a list that I will not spellcheck until tomorrow morning welcome to the end of 2019
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Inspired by Rudie, I done did something similar
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Wow i wrote that list and forgot I played Her Knight All For Princess and Tomak Save The Earth Again.
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honestly you should play Outer Wilds right now
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no Ori2, no GTR3, no surprise.
Otoh:
Baba is You has been a pleasant surprise,
EDF5 a mainstay this year,
Ace Combat 7 was blue skies (with some cloudy skies overhead),
Forza Horizon4 somehow didn’t get old for a revisit for a few hours every month,
CONTROL never got out of control of being fun,
Sanic Kart 3 had been super, but not SUPERSONNICK,
Link’s Awakening was a nice revisit of a place you knew as well as your hometown,
Warriors Orochi 4 is not-as-trashy-goofy-2p-couch-coop’y as Orochi 3 was,
Katamari HD has been a glorious Réunion with old friends and lovers,
and Astral Chain… somehow didn’t click totally with me yet.
goty.... still a bit on the fence, since i haven't gotten Wattam yet. Most fun i had though, was EDF5, so technically that would be my GotY then, and is a worthy contender.
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I’m definitely waiting to make my list until I play Wattam.
2019
best game that no one played even though its the best of its genre
cats who stare at ghosts
best gamepass free game
void bastards
best game i played completely wrong for three hours cuz i hate lunar lander and would rather crash my ship once and wander around til death
outer wilds
best game i didn’t play
disco elysium
sleeper hit of the summer
etrian odyssey nexus
best game that came out last year but was released on more platforms this year so i can put it on a list this year
dragon quest 11
disappointment of the decade
sayonara wild hearts
best free game that’s obviously some kind of interactive art by someone who likely hates videogames as they’re colloquially known
moss as texture as space folding in on itself
best arcade game that no one talked about bc there’s only room for one beat up em a year and waybackward did one
ninja warriors once again
best VR but only for me and it actually sucked but it gets points cuz i could hug myself and blow kisses
calm down stalin VR
best high score chaser
shakedown hawaii
best sound to distract me from whatever im doing to make me stare for hours
control
best game by a forum member
10 beautiful postcards
best game i kickstarted
hypnospace outlaw
game i put the most hours in that actually had an expansion come out this year so i need to stop forgetting to put it on my lists
final fantasy xiv
best unfinished game
type dreams
best game of 2019 that ill NEVER play
pathologic 2
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ok now to talk about what I conspicuously didn’t like
goose game was probably the most overrated title of the year for me
it’s not bad but it really is just hitman with a narrower and more frustrating / less playful possibility space, and in a year in which there were like two dozen games doing new and more interesting things it didn’t rate very highly
likewise with wattam
elsinore is the game whose presentation and writing I bounced off of despite really liking the concept
sekiro I was pretty vocal about disliking and haven’t moved on
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can’t believe you pushed through on god of war and not sekiro
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sometimes you gotta call yourself basic
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Felix and I are the basic babbies of the forum, and there’s no shame in it
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