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I'm choosing games that I think highly of and I feel like are under 15 hours long. I also added a favorite of mine that is longer because I was only at nine

Cuphead
Ghost Trick
Hades
Hotel Dusk: Room 215
killer7
Metroid Prime
Ori and the Blind Forest
Secret of Monkey Island
Shovel Knight
Super Mario Odyssey

The key worked. Thank you very much!

I would like High on Life if one is available

Indiana Jones is on Game Pass for PC and Console

Minishoot' is on sale for $11.25 USD on Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1634860/Minishoot_Adventures/

Blood Orange is a free game on Steam and Itch.io
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2655840/Blood_Orange_Definitive_Edition/
https://decenttreatment.itch.io/bloodorange

Disco is on PS+ Extra

Disco is on sale for $10 USD on Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/632470/Disco_Elysium__The_Final_Cut/

Disco is on sale for $12 USD on Xbox and Switch
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/disco-elysium-the-final-cut/9ntrs771l8hl
https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/disco-elysium-the-final-cut-switch/

Monster Sanctuary is on Game Pass for PC and Xbox

Monster Sanctuary is on sale for $4 USD on Switch
https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/monster-sanctuary-switch

Monster Sanctuary is on sale for $5 USD on Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/814370/Monster_Sanctuary/

Just-for-Fun Top 10 Standings
KCF - 199
ArkOfTurus - 122
gameking - 116
Mr Crispy - 111
Lolo Guru - 71
Cody - 70
Seanchan - 53
KnightOfNee - 35
ViolentAbacus - 35
Kenri - 29
MegamanX - 29

Spreadsheet with history
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1X8E8oqzES42W4S82j7WTfNnzNa8c3uXdSE1rnqYG7WM/edit?usp=sharing

Additional noms this month
Cody - 1
Crispy - 1
MMX - 1
Sean - 1

Januarys Games:
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (PC/XSX)
Minishoot' Adventures (PC)
Blood Orange (PC)

January-March Games:
Disco Elysium (PC/XB1/PS4/Switch)
Monster Sanctuary (PC/XB1/PS4/Switch)

What is Game of the Month Club?
Game of the Month is a community project open to all B8ers where users share, discover, play and/or discuss a select few games every month. The games featured each month are chosen by YOU the users (and Lady Luck)

The Basics
- Each month will usually feature three games that were chosen via a random drawing from a pool of games that users nominated
- For each game you beat, you get a cool point on our just-for-fun standings as well as a nomination for next month's randomized drawing
- In order to receive the point and nomination, you must beat said game within the calendar month
- If you beat one of the current month's games in the previous month, you can apply for a "recently beaten waiver," but you will only receive a point and no nomination should you do so
- Drawing for next month's games is usually on the 25th
- If you periodically keep us posted on your progress and/or talk about different aspects of the games, then everyone will obviously think you are super awesome!

Nomination Rules
- You get one nomination automatically each month
- You receive additional nominations each month for every featured game that you beat
- Each game you nominate has to be unique from all other nominations and cannot include a game that has already been selected for GotM
- Each game must be a standalone game that can be acquired and played on its own (aka cannot be DLC/expansion that requires the base game)
- Nominations only carry over if you beat a featured game after the drawing for next month's games but before the end of the month
- You also have the option of supporting 1 game each month. Your only limitation is that you can't support your own nomination

Blastoise Event means that my go-to electric deck should do just the trick!

Balatro (Switch)

The game matched the hype. I'm still going to continue playing this quite a bit and trying to beat it with other decks and unlocking more cards, but on my 7th or 8th run, I finally beat Ante 8 using the green deck.

I foused heavily on upgrading flush, straight, and full house planets and was able to get all three to levels 13-16 at the end (thanks to several spectral black holes and the space joker for upgrading those hands when I played them). My first joker was one that gave you a 50% chance of getting a tarot card when opening a booster pack. At the very last shop before the last boss, there was a joker that gave +2 mult per tarot card used, and I had 17, so yeah I took that with me to the final round. My favorite joker to use so far, and what has been in my two best runs, is the four fingers one that lowers flush and straight requirements to four cards. I got another one early in this run, and it was a foil version to boot.

My joker and vague deck setup:
- Foil Four Fingers
- Fortune Teller (just for the final round)
- Scholar (I had nine aces)
- Drunkard (I kept it just in case I needed an extra discard, but I did not)
- 62 cards, including the aforementioned nine aces, 38 spades and maybe three clubs)

I had to discard a joker as my final boss rule, and I think it was the 50/50 tarot booster one (Hallucination) as it no longer had any use.

Just post each time you beat a game throughout the year and the platform you played it on. Do not hesitate to add some discussion in regards to the games you or others beat.

At the bottom of this post is a link to a Google word doc that you are free to edit to immortalize your gaming accomplishments. Feel free to tinker with your color, font, and/or bulletpoint/numbering options, but do know that users are supposed to be in alphabetical order.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19cag3hzL7Avj8DFKrJlpGYNFevpObFCCxiqfZTDwxq0

Again

Other than buying supporter cards shortly after I started this, I've just been accumulating shop tickets. I suppose that I should just spend them on booster/wonder pick hourglasses right?

Down

SirChris posted...

this year for the playoffs we will be returning to the best 4 people advancing rather than seeded matchups. Also I remember, no tiebreakers involving field goals

Not important, but this reminds me of something that happened here.

I have made the playoffs just once in the main pick 'em league. That was like a decade ago, and I believe that I finished with the best record. Each user was assigned a seed based on record, and we had to pick all four games in the wild card week against our opponent. The higher seed also had to choose a tiebreaker. I had no idea what to pick, so I went with field goals made just to choose something. Two users went 4-0 In the wild card round, and just as luck would have it, it was my opponent and I. My opponent either nailed or was one off of the field goal tiebreaker.

The very next season, the matchup system was replaced with the best pickers among all the playoff users. I haven't been back to the playoffs since. I didn't even know that you brought back the matchup system lol.

Recettear was a fun novelty at the time, but after it came out, there's been plenty of those action/shopkeeper hybrids that are far better at both aspects that I can't see myself wanting to return to Recettear

I did a vs. battle for the second time, and this person used an attack that could paralyze my Pokemon if a coin flip landed on heads. It landed on heads every single time. I didn't stand a chance.

To avoid the final day of the NFL regular season, I intend on making the award ceremony and playoff sim both occur on Saturday, January 4th, so please submit your ballots no later than 6 PM ET on that date. I will probably have the award ceremony take place an hour or so after that with the playoff sim immediately after its conclusion.

Physical

wallmasterz joins Reg from the 2020-21 season to be eliminated in Week 17 (of course that wasn't during an 18 week season).

Congrats on a successful season and the longest solo-run since I've been running this.

See everyone next season!

Loddlenaut (PC)

A fun marine cleaning adventure with a creature collector side thing going on that I didn't do much with (just cleaned up the Loddles I came across and dumped them in my home cave) nor get why that was included. It's not a big map, but it does take awhile to get around with your modest speed, limited fast travel opportunities, and lack of certain features on the map. That was probably a conscious decision to bring up the playtime as a third or more of my time spent was going back and forth from somewhere to my base just to dump materials and get a full oxygen tank.

VirtuaVerse (PC)

A point and click adventure with a sort of weird vibe (in a good way!) because it is set in a dystopian future, begins kind of dreary, then it kind goes on for a long stretch of being of sort of goofy before ending somewhat serious. I wouldn't call it an interesting world or story, but I like a decent point-and-click adventure.

Metal Slug Tactics (XSX)

I wouldn't say that I'm a fan of Metal Slug, but I was curious on how it would translate to a tactical game. Honestly, the tactics are pretty great. Even though it is a roguelike and this is a crucial aspect to the genre, I was really taken aback by the variety and depth of passives and abilities (I think that they are just called special actions), especially what's unlocked from the start. You are forced to select a dual weapon setup from the start (and you only have one combo available for each of the three initial characters) that you can't change for your run, but it's the passives and special actions that run the game.

That being said, I can't fully recommend this because while the tactical aspect is great, the scenarios/map designs I was overall not pleased with. You have to complete three missions in a map before facing off against a boss and moving onto another map, but you are hamstrung with what missions to choose because you are only able to select those that directly connect to a liberated point on the map. Some of these tasks are pretty basic and you know what you are getting into for the most part (kill everyone, kill all the special targets, survive for x amount of turns, etc...), but some are just absolute shit and/or do not a good enough job describing the mission.

Had I known that ensuring that four civilians survive meant that there were just five on a small map full of enemies with map portions being added every turn full of enemies and that the civilians were out in the open, defenseless, wouldn't move, and would die in one hit, I would never have taken the job. Had I known that destroying a tower meant that the tower was armed and would fire homing missiles with a wide AOE at multiple characters every turn while destroying precious cover, and that the map would continuously spawn in enemies, I would never have taken the job. There are a couple of other mission archetypes that are just plain not fun or challenging in a cool and reasonable way, but man those two are run-enders.

I think that I beat it on my fifth run, which unlocked two more characters for me. I may dabble with this some more since it will presumably be on game pass until at least the fall of 2025, but I'm just dreading being forced into a really crappy mission.

Oh wow, gravy gave me Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection Vol. 1

I have played and enjoyed some games inspired by the series in the recent past, but I never played the MMBN series and was glad that they were re-released. Thank you very much!

Gum

Damn, I had a wonder pick that featured two Dugtrio, and I pulled a Heatmor.

On the bright side, my last two booster packs have added new cards to my collection (Blastoise EX and Melmetal)

Everyone should have received their player stats for the season

I'm just going to dump the rest of the week here

Chargers
Bengals
Rams
Bills
Raiders
Colts
Cowboys
Buccaneers
Jaguars
Dolphins
Vikings
Commanders
Lions

MZero posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/0cc8c8a6.jpg

Also feeling blessed

I got this card with my sign-in bonus pack

If I had to change anything, it would be removing the Metacritics, or at least the below 70.

I don't know what a different category based on review scores could be, so what I could come up with is making the release year categories go from 5 to 6 with this breakdown:
- 1980s
- 1990s
- 2000s
- 2010s
- 2020s
- 2025

11:11 Memories Retold (XB1)

Another game I dropped years ago and picked back up to do something with my hands while I was occupied audibly. The water color art style is still pretty cool to look at, but it is sometimes a double-edged sword when it comes to scanning for objects and interaction points to move the game along. As a WWII tale, it isn't particularly interesting when compared to many other works of fiction on the subject. There are numerous endings based on your actions at the end, and my ending made little sense or at least the aftermath.

https://steamcommunity.com/id/KCF0107/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1668310/24_Killers/

Getting close to the end!

I assume that if you name someone who didn't post, you will default to being the winner

still looking to hit 80%

Nearly 80% there

Getting closer

oh neat, we are over halfway there

Chipping in more posts toward the goal

keep it going

Over 40% of the way over

or not as I severely underestimated how long my data transfer was going to take

Maybe my last post for awhile

Oh, and see everyone for this next year!

uh oh, the pace is slowing down

nice, the bottom half!

inching our way to a third of the way

3. Die Harderer

lol

so close

nearly to 50

we will get to a fifth of the way at some point