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Not the start I was hoping to see from Gus
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Fuck Jon Jones.
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scarletspeed7 posted...

Amanda "The Legend Killer" Nunes

She hears voices in her head
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We're a Gus win away from a fantastic night.
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Holy fuck
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I guess it's settled on who got the better end of Tavares to the Leafs and Martin/Komarov to the Isles after tonight's blowout.
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It is exactly on time
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Any result that involves Seattle not being a factor is a good one
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Buffalo Bills
Green Bay Packers
New England Patriots
New Orleans Saints
Dallas Cowboys
Atlanta Falcons
Houston Texans
Los Angeles Chargers
Kansas City Chiefs
Los Angeles Rams
Minnesota Vikings
Pittsburgh Steelers
Seattle Seahawks
Philadelphia Eagles
Baltimore Ravens
Indianpaolis Colts

1) 13
2) 5
3) 45
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Buffalo Bills
Green Bay Packers
New England Patriots LOCK
New Orleans Saints
Dallas Cowboys
Atlanta Falcons
Houston Texans
Los Angeles Chargers
Kansas City Chiefs LOCK
Los Angeles Rams
Minnesota Vikings
Pittsburgh Steelers LOCK
Seattle Seahawks
Philadelphia Eagles
Baltimore Ravens
Indianpaolis Colts

Tiebreaker: 666
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The end to a mediocre year.
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It's been a busy holiday week for me with family and events but I will read everything. I've got a couple issues of Omega Men left, then this week is a smaller week so I'm not too far behind.
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It's a good thing I already watched it all because I guess we don't care about spoilers anymore.
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I also played the Octopath demo, picked it up on day one, and have yet to play it. Every time I think about getting to it I think, "do I really want to invest this much time into this game right now?", and then go play something else.

One day!
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Overall, a fantastic top 10 list and easily my favourite in years (maybe ever?). There are 9 games on the list that I have either played/am going to play/want to play because of these discussions, and I could see my own list being very similar in terms of the games on it.

Heading in, I knew that Red Dead had no chance of winning, but would have called top 3 a win, so I'm a little disappointed it fell just short.

I actually agree with a lot of the criticism that was presented about Red Dead despite it being my GOTY. I played it more as a "game" and less in the way that Alex/Vinny/Brad described, and also got annoyed with how literally slow it was in places, but I don't think those "faults" were enough of an annoyance to have it effect how powerful the rest of it was for me.

The only two points I took issue with in the entire Best Game deliberations were:

1. Ben's idea that the game was worse off because he didn't play it the way it asked. "The game is giving me instructions and I'm choosing to ignore them, I can't believe I am failing because of it, this is terrible design" What? Doesn't nearly every game ever present you with instructions that must be followed? Yes, obviously in a lot of cases a game will present you with an objective and give you the freedom to approach it how you see fit, but there are multiple times that happens in Red Dead when you can choose how to approach a firefight, for example. When the game is saying, "hey, push this cart and protect your friends", I don't think it's unreasonable that you need to push the cart to protect your friends in order to succeed. There's a time for "go crazy and find a way to beat this guys", and a time for "follow our instructions in order to succeed because they are important to the narrative".

2. Vinny's "I tried to play the game but then it forced me to play the story and that is not what you described", when Brad literally talked about how his own "separate" game of exploring with Arthur connected with the "game" presented through the mission structure. He did add in an "I'm not an idiot, I know you need to play the game", but it seemed like a really weird, unnecessary point to make to undermine the approach of Alex/Brad.
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I did not expect Dan to be the person I disagreed with most this year.

I have 20 minutes left then I can read through this topic and post my full thoughts.
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Red Dead seems to be the big spoiler game of this year's deliberations. I was able to skip only about 10 minutes of both days and avoid all God Of War talk, but the Red Dead stuff is throughout.

I haven't listened to Best Game but I feel like most of the narrative stuff has been discussed already.
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https://twitter.com/DownGoesBrown/status/1078770863380615168?s=19
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I will say it's not in my top 5 of "fun games to play" of the year, but it is my game of the year.
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https://twitter.com/seanshapiro/status/1078754664009613314

lol stars
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I haven't started the final category today yet but I'm wondering if this going to be one of those Game Awards things where Red Dead wins nearly every category it's in but doesn't actually win Best Game.
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Played a Shaman where Shudderwock barely factored into the outcome but who had the most annoying, unfun gameplan I've seen since Shudderwock.

The entire class is just garbage.
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I found exactly ten games that I want to play from those various lists, other than the TBA games that obviously won't be released in 2019.

1. Kingdom Hearts 3
2. The Last of Us 2
3. Pokemon Switch
4. Fire Emblem: Three Houses
5. Life is Strange 2
6. Days Gone
7. Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
8. Far Cry New Dawn
9. Devil May Cry 5
10. Resident Evil 2
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Portable Bluetooth Speaker for my Dad

Bluetooth Headphones, Candle, Coffee Mug for my Mom

Beard Grooming Kit for my Brother

Jenga, Uno, iTunes Gift Card for my Sister

Gift Card, Makeup for my Grandma

Gift Card for my Uncle

Casey Neistat Tee, Lego Harry Potter for Switch, Harry Potter Cookbook, Adidas Toque for my Girlfriend
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Hearing them talk about these Red Dead moments is giving me the feels all over again.

What a good game.
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Glad to see Fallout 76 get the recognition it deserves in the deliberations.
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Snake5555555555 posted...

Worst but she's pretty great anyway so it hardly even matters.

George > Jerry > Kramer > Elaine

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I was ready to make a "disappointed in Canada" joke after they surely would have won in a less dominating fashion than yesterday, but they were legit a little disappointing tonight.
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I was the final Undisputed Champion in UCA history,
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My favourite part of going through all these top 10 lists is all the games I get to add to my wishlist that I somehow had never heard about before.
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I was the final Undisputed Champion in UCA history,
however Advokaiser was the Guru Champion!

Best Debut: I'm coincidentally playing OnRush while watching this and had no idea it got as much recognition as it is right now. I think it's a cool concept, but I'm nearing the end of my time with the campaign and kind of want it to be over.
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I was the final Undisputed Champion in UCA history,
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Day 4 deliberations have been great so far. I don't foresee myself getting fatigued this year even with the long run times because it's only two days of deliberations, so that's good.

I'm very excited to see today's video as well. I love when the crew reacts to older Gamespot stuff.
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Canada with the hard fought 14-0 win over Denmark tonight.
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I think they still have numbers, and also believe that the current edition will be the last one.
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Three Nike/Reebok/Puma tees
A stocking filled with candy and chocolate
Socks and Underwear
Dove mens kit
Puma toque
Sapporo gift set
Batman The Wedding Deluxe Album
Miniature Arcade machine with Galaga on it
Two Sweaters from H&M
PS4 Controller
$400 Cash

I have a very large extended family but their gifts are unispired which is why there was so much cash (not complaining). All that cool stuff at the end of the list was from my girlfriend.
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I played the new Mario Party for the first time today and I can't imagine doing anything other than an endless loop of randomized minigames.
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One of Fire/Blizzard for single targets, and then Thunder for groups and Cure for healing covers the offensive stuff. Reflect and Aero are both very good but on Normal you can beat the game by mashing the attack button so they aren't really necessary.

Even on Proud I've always been a "Mash the X button and hit everyone in the face" kind of player.
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LeonhartFour posted...

davidponte posted...

I'm pretty sure I've said it multiple times just on B8 in the last few months.

You guys are old.

weird flex but okay

I was hoping this would happen
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I'm pretty sure I've said it multiple times just on B8 in the last few months.

You guys are old.
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I don't know if I'm ready to write a segment just yet, but it is nice to see my character not jobbing out anymore!

Merry Christmas!
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I was the final Undisputed Champion in UCA history,
however Advokaiser was the Guru Champion!

Merry Christmas! Looks like I picked myself back into that bye barring an awful week this week.
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I was the final Undisputed Champion in UCA history,
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I am currently in the process of reading!
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Merry Christmas, Scarlet, and Merry Christmas to Board 8 as well!
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I still have a lot to play but I don't think anything will beat out Red Dead Redemption 2.
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If only the top team in the NBA could be fortunate enough to get a Christmas game.
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LapisLazuli posted...

I would like to disassociate my dissatisfaction with this format from BT's.

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Oh ya go my Canada
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The Mana Sword posted...

I don?t mind the new format, it?s nice to have a chance to talk about stuff that ?doesn?t hang?.

Also the runtime hasn?t really changed, saw a count on Twitter and it?s still almost 25 hours of podcasts over the course of the week, so it?s all good.

https://twitter.com/MarinoV1/status/1077271235485147136?s=19

Yup. There goes my "might not have time" excuse.
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This actually does seem pretty cool in that some games are going to be getting some positivity that they won't otherwise be getting in the award categories. In past years, it kind of sucked to hear a game I was very passionate about dismissed after 10 seconds in the only category it could compete in.

This is a blessing in disguise for me because I don't know if I'll have the time to sit through everything and this is 3 hours less of content that I won't feel like I'm missing out on if I don't watch because I'll still be getting all the awards stuff over the course of the rest of the week!
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