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Haha for some reason, I thought the game was like a Japanese American version of slutshaming
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Nancy Drew 13: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon (PC)

Okay this was good. The voice-acting improved. Loved especially the Hardy Boys. I think the animation also bumped up slightly here. The mystery was centrally focused on finding the treasure of the day and the villain himself was in a hilarious twist, a dumbass. And as if to mock the cliche, there was this tiny bit near the beginning that hinted something spooky was afoot but it was explained away very early into the game as a logical plot device.
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Pagan Min is kewl. He's honestly the only thing that saves FC4.

Saving yourself for Primal may be good or bad depending on your preferences. Primal is basically FC4 without guns. And the ending is pathetic "yay we win" stuff. FC5 changes things a bit, so that might be divisive depending on how much you liked FC3 and 4's mechanics.

KCF0107 posted...

Well, I'm pretty sure that the company that made Hob went under, so they probably couldn't afford much in marketing.

Yes but. Hob doesn't even have a trope page. Nobody on reddit knows about it. Nobody in any place, any blog talks about it. There's no news articles, no buzz, no reviews.

Even the Ocean is the same, except for one review I managed to scrape.

And yet both are pretty cool games in their own right.
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Even the Ocean (PC) and Dragon Quest 1 (Android)

One might wonder why play the most boring jrpg in existence. Well I had to goto work on the last day of the year and decided to pass the 8 to 5 grinding. Better than an gacha game could in a day. I'd like to say I appreciate a piece of history but this is just too boring for me in the end.

Anyways. I am surprised Even the Ocean has less marketing to it than its predecessor (Anodyne) but not like Hob at least. It's a beautiful game with a beautiful message although I must admit these games about the Environment end up always being so tragically inevitable. That said the game is easy. Its puzzles are divided into so little chunks, I wish they bridged some of them to feel a little bit annoying. It only really got annoying in the end and by then I was done with it.

And then I played Developer Mode. And I found out that the game was meant to be alot harder. And that 2 games were originally planned. Even. And The Ocean. Somehow, only the latter got made. The dev notes stated that the game had alot of challenges chalked up to bad design, instead changed to make it flow better. I can ride with that. It wasn't pathetically easy at least and the stuff you did mattered and made sense not like another stupid puzzle game I played earlier this year (Spectrum Retreat).

Would recommend Even the Ocean.
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I'm thinking if my new year's resolution is to nut up and binge on my horror games next year
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Nancy Drew 12: Secret of the Old Clock

Unfortunately I could not get ND11 running so I had to skip it.

This one was okay. For the first time I actually got the bad guy wrong. But the game was actually shorter than usual, or in the very least less taxing and thus the complete opposite of the previous game. The bad guy also had nothing to do with the "treasure" of the game, and had another scheme running in parallel, which I thought was refreshing.
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Villains who NEED a villain song
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You and me both!

It's been quite a ride this year. Somewhere around game 70 I had gained a fan.
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INFRA (PC)

Wow. So this game's been around for 2 years now. I remember playing what was then known as Part 1 and kind of giving up in the middle because of how quickly batteries ran out. They've patched it since, and was surprised that it went up to 3 Parts total.

Certain technical things stop me from admitting this as my game of the year. But I will say it runs very very close a runner up. This game is beautiful. It uses the aging Steam engine to produce some absolutely realistic settings. There is simply no game like it. It's a walking sim yes, but there's no supernatural elements, no terrorists to kill. It's just you an engineer, against some rather intricate urban exploration. For the most part yes you are isolated, but I love how the game puts in the effort to ground you in reality in some places. Occasionally, you'll see people walking around. At one point you even see a bunch of them at a rally. And even though 90% of the game is isolation, the devs put the effort to fully animate these NPCs. Heck, even bothering to make them exist is a step forward from every walking sim who wants to cut corners by never showing anyone.

I've been at this for 2 weeks now I think and I didn't think it would be this long. It was starting to get senseless by the end too but I stuck through it because I wanted to see the end. There's just so much to see and hear in this game and that's not even including the secret lore if you manage to find most of the documents.

Can't wait for the DLC and apparently they have a spin-off in the works.
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Nancy Drew 10: The Secret of Shadow Ranch (PC)

Fuckin' Finally! I haaate the puzzles in this game. Some of them are needlessly taxing, but most of them are just really tedious and about 50% of them are pointless seeing as they're basically chores! Also, having to ride out the ranch everytime required you to hoist your horse up. Every. Single. Time. I expected such bullshit only in a Sierra game. On the plus side, they finally went and made the game fullscreen instead of the inventory showing in the same place like oldschool adventures do. And as far as the plot goes it was yet another Scooby Doo hoax, even more lame than the Ghost Dogs. Next one should be the first actually scary one I guess. Can't wait till the game actually modernizes.
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Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty (PC)

Wow. I found out alot of things about this game series, why the devs disappeared and reappeared again in recent time. First off, this is a GREAT remake. It's not perfect. I personally don't mind the criticism behind the change in style which removed several of the tense moments in the old game. I didn't like the changes to the music though as it made the game more comedic than usual. Also, that Evanescence clone of a music video by the end was cringe. All in all, I was so glad to finally finish Oddessey as the remake had alot of sensibilities to it such as the ever-loving quiksave feature. Now I can savescum this game!

Looking forward to the true sequel Soulstorm, next year.
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Oh alright. Umm, how bout Life Hacks
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Rewards you can only acquire on New Game+
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Fictional Characters themed on Probability / Luck / Gambling
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Instead we get a live action trilogy. What do you think of those?
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top 5 superpowers that suck but not really
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Darksiders: Warmastered Edition (PC)
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What to put in the 500th post
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Okay maybe just simplify mine to just comic book cliches
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I mean like modern cliches in comics. I mean just something not from ages ago that everyone clearly knows is cliche to death at this pt
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Comics cliches... In 2018
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Shonen cliches
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1st world problems
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The only reason why Bethesda keeps getting a pass is because all their games were also terrible on release but have since managed to outlive their shelf lives through its mpdding community. But Betheada doesn't know this; they think its because they're awesome people.

I bet if 76 had the decency to host private servers and a mass modding option, it wouldn't get as much shit as it is currently getting.
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Unfriended was a waste. They had such a unique perspective and they wasted it on laziness
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Cybat posted...

I definitely recommend watching videos like this to gain an appreciation for Pac-Man. I don't know how their brains work.

Thats insane! How is he making the pound cake appear?
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Mystery Case Files: Rewind (PC)

You know there was a time when HOGs were really difficult. And I was so excited when this game was first announced. Time-limits are back, none of that pseudo-pt click adventure bullshit, and trips to past games. Yeah, I should've known that they would only bring back the most recent ones and some iconic ones although surprisingly they brought back the bad guy from the first game ever. Initially the HOG was amazing; it was the early games all over again. But there was a flaw in the design. See, every object you found wouldn't come back in the next scene and alot of scenes were re-used. So, the game actually got easier the further you went by process of elimination.

It pisses me off that BigFish proves they could still make a good HOG but refuses on the principle of attracting more "casual" fans of the series.
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Call of Duty: United Offensive

Ahh simpler humbler times. I miss these games. And I thought Modern Warfare was going to change everything. I like how the credits to this expansion continued from the credits of the original CoD. The missions were also better and more grand a scale although the final Russian level was kind of lame.
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider (PC)

Ehhh. It could've been better. On the plus side, there were more exploration and puzzles. The combat was crappy which honestly wasn't so bad. What I hated was that the villain of the trilogy that was so built up in the 2nd game turned out to die in a cutscene and offscreen. It did all these "improvements" but, it just messes up whatever character Lara has left.

This honestly never really needed a trilogy. The first one was enough and it was the best. Rise and Shadow should've just been "after" the prologue to Tomb Raider, it would've been so much better.

Goddamnit, I want my badass Lara Croft back. Maybe I'll play the 2000 trilogy again sometime. Or the original 2013 Tomb Raider.
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bump
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TLoU pulled on my heartstrings the first time I played it. I don't think I can harshly criticize its gameplay as much. But I can be harsher to its sequel if it proves to be more of the same thing
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Omensight (PC)

Had no idea this was a spiritual successor. Might play the previous one.

Anyways, it's a time travel plot so repetition is expected. I'm suddenly having Radiant Historia flashbacks but to a more annoying degree as there are only essentially 6 dungeons that just loop over and over with the difference being who's accompanying you and what the plot's after. But, because it's time travel, I guess I can excuse it. In the very least, combat was very satisfying and challenging so that kept me entertained. The story itself was average, but the way it was told through these perspectives and characters was nice.

The ending was...interesting. In a twist to these kinds of games, everyone still dies even if you technically save the world from an abomination because the kingdom was already at war
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Im thinking of nominating an all sniper team
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Always the thimble.

It looks so powerless that when you win it's almost cathartic
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