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brutal group, love most

gen 3 and 4 offerings peak, going surskit here since i sure won't be giving a vote to masquerain lol

also extra shoutout to the pokemon ethereal gates (fangame) bee it is a very good bee (and also so are the forest cocoons in it. their evos suck tho)

I associate splinter cell with stealth more than mgs actually, mgs is... too mgs

seconding zork for text adventure

leaning love plus for dating sims as it feels like the key inspiration for most since then
... clannad for visual novels in general? anything ryukishi's in an odd place, zero escape and danganronpa and ace attorney are pretty much their own entities and... well, when i think of fate now i think gacha

speaking of probably fgo for gacha? possibly granblue. some probably think of genshin too though i definitely don't associate its core gameplay enough to associate it.

actually puyo puyo (or maybe columns) for the puzzle subgenre it's in along with tetris. i feel like i've seen a lot more games take inspiration from it than any other game like it
puzzle bobble also comes to mind and arguably warrants its own classification as a title to associate with its own genre
and arkanoid for breakout clones (unsafe as it is to say that and not breakout it's definitely also the most representative of its archetype. i guess peggle fits in here too)

fighting is pretty hard given the spread of different series these days. guilty gear feels like it's more or less in the middle of all of them now, between all the anime and non-anime fighters, so i guess guilty gear strive's the current answer? sf2 for more retro fighters but it's not what comes to mind to me when i think of fighting games nowadays and i don't think the answer is necessarily any newer sf either

simulation... i don't know. sims 2 for... well, sims-esque simulation games is probably still safe
for city builders, cities skylines is probably the easiest to picture these days compared to any individual simcity game though this may just be me.
this is definitely a controversial take but i'm leaning rollercoaster tycoon 3 for non-city builder tycoon games, since the more recent ports have probably placed it in a more relevant position than its predecessors or contemporary, planet coaster. plus planet coaster definitely has more of its dna than prior ones.
there probably should be one for shop-management sims too given how many of them are but no titles come to mind besides recettear (and it's not recettear lol)
i can't not associate vehicle simulation games with gran turismo (specifically 4 for me since it's the one i played the most). yes forza exists now but still. alternate mentions to assetto corsa and on a different note, flight simulator x.
ace combat 7 or maybe still one of the ps2 ones for arcadey planes
still burnout 3 for arcadey cars
mario kart wii for kart racers even if my favourite is still bomberman kart (8 may be way more successful than it now but the gravity gimmicks separate it too much from any other ones imo, answer could've maybe been sonic transformed but that game kind of fell too far out of relevance)

wrpgs goes to witcher 3 these days and jrpgs... hm.
i feel like the "image" of jrpgs to me is snes-era games with dragon quest-type first-person battle systems and usually fantasy themes, as has been reinforced even in popular indie offerings like undertale (sure deltarune generally contradicts this but still), and partially with others like omori, lisa, jimmy etc., but i don't think it'd necessarily be a dragon quest game (as it generally didn't stick out with its visual style compared to dedicated first-person dungeon crawlers up until they were pretty much at the point of going 3d and its particular battle windows until then were kind of too much a dq-only thing) or non-persona smt (likewise, and more recent examples often feel too close to dungeon crawlers). also it may have been the cause of most of the indie titles further up but the mother series is kind of just too thematically offbeat to fit (and its angled overworld perspective is still a little too out there imo). there are of course plenty of others, like the far east of eden, tenshi no uta, early saga games/final fantasy legend or even the numbered phantasy star titles but there's no way the answer is any of them... so. clearly the answer can only be one thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iPgH_rgVjY
just kidding i'm conceding it's probably something else and more popular like ff7/ffx or dq8/11 or persona 5 or smtv. or a pokemon generation. arguably even stuff like atelier's valid these days given the state of the jrpg scene >_>

did play jimmy so i didn't post when i saw the topic earlier lol. have indeed not played vice though.

for what it's worth, jimmy was in that one itch.io megabundle a year ago so chances are a lot of people have it and should definitely play it

Sumire

swadloon may just be a redo of snorunt effectively but still top tier

spewpa/charjabug/dottler good too

kakuna best of the more traditional ones

Big Bob posted...

Pokemon Go probably wins best mobile game. Unless FFVII: Ever Crisis is released before nominations, in which case that wins.

yeah probably pkmn go crushes given the demographics here

i wonder if ingress would be able to make the bracket

Group 1
Gnosia
Sumire

Group 2
Nier Replicant
Christmas Tina: Ephemeral Views Of Winter

Group 3 (Top 4 voted will make the tournament, bottom 3 will miss it!)
The Medium
D4DJ Groovy Mix

oh yeah i still play sometimes, as oofeight

i aim to flood the jukebox with vtuber songs (currently have about 100 accepted i think)

seph in the distance with obligatory hms to everything else in that trailer

also the amazing snk showcase too though

luigi dying in the simon trailer stood out to me more than that ridley moment (and also that sephiroth mario moment) but i'm glad it was included anyway

banjo kazooie was just a redux of k rool so it would've been easily my least hyped moment on here if not for the sheer levels of disgust the steve reveal evoked

i know it's a very hazy and wrong classification but i feel surskit fits best in a spider poll these days due to its association with dewpider (also sure it's "early game" but also "basically impossible to find naturally" in rse). spinarak, joltik are givens but there's also room to fit stuff like maybe skorupi or sizzlipede, and maybe also nincada or even paras

or those extras can fit in a second runoff with the bees and ledyba/burmy/kriketot/snom i hate that i'm suggesting this but there's too many to fit otherwise so welp

also i wish every later gen early bug besides scatterbug wasn't so darn strong compared to the classics and and also so late to evolve now...

anyway tough call between these besides blipbug and venipede which i don't particularly care for, i guess my answer is wurmple though. quite a few of the ones in theoretical later polls are in my top 50 or so mons so that'll be even harder

the reason is clearly because they have transcended humanity and become a god

this is also why they said to use sama

a shame fearow evidently is the weakest bird statwise these days

it isn't even faster than pidgeot any more and that's before factoring in mega

noctowl and swellow good too (voted noctowl but could've flipped)

Come on, you need to be more formal than that

DOMO arigathank you very gozaimuch should do the trick

no covid here

in saying that, my (and my also now late grandmother's) 1 year old kitten passed away very recently from a strain of feline coronavirus so that's something

i voted pokemon but in an absolutely no holds barred sense it'd be mario, if everything remotely associated with characters in their respective franchises that i so much as opened once are counted (like say, smash, or uh, each individual minigame in nintendo land) at 71...

by that method, pokemon is a respectable second at 54 though. would be about 60 with fangames i think...

1. Sumire
2. Christmas Tina: Ephemeral Views Of Winter
3. Here Comes Niko
4. Pokemon Unite
5. Gnosia
6. Transiruby
7. Famicom Detective Club(: The Missing Heir if counting both isn't allowed)
8. White Girl
9. The Adventure of NAYU
10. TASOMACHI: Behind the Twilight

i played quite a lot of stuff (started like idk 100-200 games from this year alone, but didn't actually finish much so this list is admittedly a little bit weird. hundreds of games this year i wish i had gotten around to instead of throwing tens or hundreds of hours at stuff like pokemoba or 2hu autochess (dolldraft)

i guess i could count tgaa chronicles but i don't really feel like it since i didn't play it this year lol

andylt posted...

You're always full of games I've never heard of lol, I'm impressed! More stuff for me to look up >_>

oh yeah i might as well share stuff about them myself

Retro Game Aliens(which i guess technically has a release date if you count "q2")
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1753280/Retro_Game_Aliens/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmpkMkpEzsA

ghostpia Season 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W_vHW3WIZg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofWR82e7jII
https://twitter.com/yo_ka_ze/status/1468553986903252992

Fox and Frog Travelers -The Demon of Adashino Island-
https://twitter.com/yo_ka_ze/status/1473264085743828996
https://twitter.com/23057/status/1472038916190609411

OU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3mv_FwP50s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tURQQuFNE-g
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1633430/OU/

NOJI: Natural Overpower Japanese Ironman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA5s23sj_AA

Personally looking forward to Retro Game Aliens and all the enhanced versions of things that were in the Yokaze Night game showcase last month the most I think.

I beat the final boss in Touhou Ibunseki: Ayaria Dawn ReCreation (a monopoly-like game) recently

i like the game but also now hate a lot of it with a passion, including the entire story mode

hmm

can't say there are really that many games where i've actually bought them at more than like $40nzd blindly

that said, i did back chuusotsu's localisation on kickstarter for like $100usd (with exclusive collector's edition copies and other merch) and that was... well, probably not actually worth that much but i don't regret a cent. very glad i played that.

wow that went a lot better than i thought it would

R1: 8
R2: 15 (10 games, and 5 from the last theme)
R3: 24
R4: 9
R5: 21 (4 songs fully and 1 game lol)

so 77 total?

for me it was pokemon unite >_>

i'm not certain if this is actually set for next month or not but Wuppo: Breft Festival (Forever) does seem to have a hidden preliminary date set to January 15th. Windjammers 2 is definitely the real multiplayer game of this month, but I'm still very excited to see a wuppo revival, even in a multiplayer realtime worms-esque form. Also Kuukiyomi Online may also be seeing a release this month too, which is neat.

Also planning to pick up The Hundred Year Kingdom, and definitely eventually getting Trinoline Genesis too, probably not straight away though.

Also that other gunvolt-like game (COGEN, that one with rewinding and a sakuraba soundtrack) seems to be releasing the same day. Definitely not up to date on gunvolt proper so i'm not looking to pick that one up but if cogen's good then maybe.

oh yes and hopefully arceus is good too. not committing yet but i'd be lying if i said it didn't have my attention

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Both Apex and Minecraft have very large Vtuber communities, too.

that too (tbh, the vtuber scene is like, two thirds of the japanese streaming scene now anyway and i'm being generous to the remainder here purely because i'm watching rta in japan currently)

anyway i'm a little surprised to see nobunaga's ambition make the list, and... that one specifically? ok

KamikazePotato posted...

The only non-Japan-developed games on the list are:

66. Ghost of Tsushima
59. Dead by Daylight
30. Apex Legends
20. Minecraft
13. UNDERTALE

Xtlm posted...

Some of that is kind of shocking actually. Never knew Japan took a liking to Minecraft or undertale.
And Street Fighter is so low.

they're not as big but they are still big and 2 of the most actively streamed multiplayer and singleplayer games respectively

speaking of, dead by daylight and apex are probably the top 2 most streamed currently and tsushima's like maybe top 20 too

i forgot gnosia counted as this year oops

pretty sure i can't receive or for that matter send steam gifts thanks to regional prices lol

i will say i recommend getting this tho, it got translated this year

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1049100/_/

eg.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/0/7/AARWb-AACvDP.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/0/9/AARWb-AACvDR.png
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/1/2/AARWb-AACvDU.jpg

shoutout also to monster strike, it's definitely called that because of its exceptional strike rate when it comes to creating absolute monstrosities when it comes to adapting famous figures (which it has done many a time at this point, with a total of about 6k versions of characters now according to the wiki)

Clash on the Big Bridge
The Extreme
Hip Hop de Chocobo

well the correct answer is Return of the Obra Dinn if you haven't and my answer is Hypnospace Outlaw but of that overall list... eh. The Witness?

Extreme

The Decisive Battle

Extreme

Seymour

watching the jp version now

Chicory (not out in Japanese till next year but they actually dedicated a segment to it here. i liked what i saw, i'll have to pick it up...)
Loop Hero (already out duh)
Unpacking (already out duh)
Vivid Knight (roguelike-ish game out on switch today, oddly only in japan and korea despite being on steam worldwide anyway)
Timelie (they also dedicated a proper segment to this too)
DEEEER Simulator (already out duh)
Astroneer (on switch next month)
FILMECHANISM (simple puzzle game with an item resetting gimmick, out on switch and also steam today)
Dungeon Munchies (because they needed at least one game on here that wasn't just included in the highlight reel)
Oritsu Anapoko Gakuen (party-based dungeon crawler with 120 playable characters. very low-spec but honestly looks pretty unique. out today but jp only (duh) also jeez this thing costs a lot)
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension (already out but now in japan too)
Let's Play: Oink Games (of all the games from the regular indie world to also include here... at least it's not really shovelware)
and they had a much bigger Omori trailer it was very good

petered out a bit by the end and i feel like this is the first time that the jp version had less games than the regular one (i guess it had more putting aside the highlight reel), but it was still pretty good

dang a lot of stuff came out on steam in the last few days i wasn't expecting

Below The Ocean, Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk (sequel to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk), moon: Remix RPG Adventure (also on PS4 now. either way i have it on switch but the steam version tempts me...)

ninkendo posted...

also has the guy that did the music for Trigger and Cross

on a tangential note, i'm slightly surprised they didn't mention he did early mario parties. good excuse to cross-promote superstars that way

Good notDirect. As far as the indie showcases of this month go, I definitely enjoyed Flyhigh Express and Yokaze Night more (that Yokaze Night thing might actually be my favourite showcase i've ever watched, damn) but this was all good stuff here. Also definitely infinitely better than the eastasiasoft showcase.

Seems likely there will be a different lineup for the japanese version this time, since it's not even going up for another 8 hours or so. Looking forward to checking that and hoping that the ghostpia dev managed to get in touch with indie world jp folks for that

this is good

but not even the best trailer of the year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X781_LH9PN8

https://twitter.com/chosuido/status/1467837855011852288 also would be nice to see this game

edit: oh it was in this showcase earlier this month that's nice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMSTEETyej8
(also jeez, there was this on top of the flyhigh works direct and the eastasiasoft showcase earlier this month? good thing i thought to check on this game...)

gonna cross my fingers for news on various games from the recent Flyhigh Works direct (Flyhigh Express 2021.12) since it only covered steam releases despite most of them clearly also having switch versions planned

especially hoping for news on Transiruby and Picontier

Extreme

i would definitely play ff7r on the switch

hotel dusk isn't a vn ftr it's an adventure game

hotel dusk is worth

Fight with Seymour
meh

The Decisive Battle
Full Speed Ahead