this looks like a less maddening version of stephen's sausage roll, which is something I could get into cause that game broke me pretty early on even though I enjoyed it.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 26 March 2021 18:17 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/OhCil4x.png14 - 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim - 30 points / 2 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 26 March 2021 18:24 (three years ago) link
I spot an infuriating placement. Do I get a prize?
― emil.y, Friday, 26 March 2021 18:26 (three years ago) link
hahaha bingo!
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 26 March 2021 18:34 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/YkjnLwo.png13 - Among Us - 30 points / 4 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 26 March 2021 18:36 (three years ago) link
Seems sus
― emil.y, Friday, 26 March 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link
still need to play 13 sentinels but everyone i know who has has only superlatives for it
― ciderpress, Friday, 26 March 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link
lol i've often thought about playing the Aegis games
― Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Friday, 26 March 2021 18:42 (three years ago) link
but still so many Ateliers i haven't gotten to
sorry this call is lmost over
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 26 March 2021 19:24 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/jPL0xkh.png12 - AI Dungeon - 30 points / 0.5 First-place votes / 1 Vote
lmao I didn't realize votes were still allowed for MPQ, I would have voted
― Dana Jel Pey (DJP), Friday, 26 March 2021 19:26 (three years ago) link
haven't played this, but it looks like it can be played in browser so I'll drop the link https://play.aidungeon.io/main/landing
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 26 March 2021 19:27 (three years ago) link
ok i am finally 100% here good lord that took a while
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 26 March 2021 19:32 (three years ago) link
so yeah among us, glad to see it rank high... a simple and goofy game but it reallllly made for some fun twitch-watching as well as a very good time with pals as we all kinda got good at it at an equal rate. never really felt like it was about winning or losing so much as it was about laughing at people's inability to lie. we've all played the kinda mafia werewolf things before but this one was just snappy and complex enough that it was endlessly entertaining. i'd probably still be playing it all of the time if my buds were still playing it. i've played on some pub games because i am a sicko and they are never good!
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 26 March 2021 19:37 (three years ago) link
also, how about the fuckin ai dungeon screenshot eh
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 26 March 2021 19:38 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/EZiQ1Nv.png11 - Tony Hawk: Pro Skater 1+2 Remastered - 33 points / 3 Votes
if i didn't have 6 games on the go right now and/or this game was on sale for $20 i'd grab it immediately, i'd love to get in there and fuck around with a tony hawk remaster. just too many games!!
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 26 March 2021 19:40 (three years ago) link
Indeed! How about when this is done we really annoy imago and start a 'Games About Farting' thread?
― emil.y, Friday, 26 March 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link
Sludge Life has a dedicated fart button, I forgot to mention this yesterday.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 26 March 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
tony hawk is so fun
― na (NA), Friday, 26 March 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
Yeah I really need to get that Tony Hawk, spent so many hours with those on the original PS - especially 2.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 26 March 2021 19:56 (three years ago) link
i played a lot of tony hawk 3 and underground, and the mechanics came back to me so quickly
― na (NA), Friday, 26 March 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/YevpE8z.png10 - Mortal Shell - 34 points / 0.5 First-place votes / 2 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 26 March 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
was shocked when this placed number 10 because despite how much i like to think i have heard of a lot of video games... i had never heard of this video game. seems like the kind of things my souls-liking friends would talk about a bunch!
(im assuming it's that kinda game)
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 26 March 2021 20:01 (three years ago) link
haha, i gave it the other 4 points. i assume forks was the #1!
I need to spend more time with it. I kind of hit a point where I was a little stuck, and then i took a nap and drifted off into the gates of hell, at which point i was forced to abandon all hope
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 26 March 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link
When I played Among Us, it was all right, but if you find the right stream, it can be gripping and hysterical. Case in point, pretty much all of Outside Xtra's Among Us streams are worth watching, but I think this is the one with the most "UH WUT" play of all time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mFFmZUVQNA
― Eleanor of Accutane (Leee), Friday, 26 March 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/E27Cm9n.png9 - There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension - 35 points / 0.5 First-place votes / 3 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
sorry this is taking me so long haha extremely having to work today has made this tricky! but im done so lets finish this eh
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:08 (three years ago) link
I've been meaning to play the free gamejam version of this on steam.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/0U1pO3X.png8 - Crusader Kings III - 40 points / 3 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:21 (three years ago) link
i sure did vote for this, what a good time. i never had the energy to get into any of these, but a combination of it being free on XGP and being extremely (relatively) accessible (for these games) meant i ended up playing in it for ages. i barely even cared about the conquest! i was in it for the ~FAMILY DRAMA~
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:26 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/SBc1DC2.png7 - Paradise Killer - 43 points / 1 First-place vote / 3 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:40 (three years ago) link
I voted for this, but only gave it a few points because I haven't gotten super far in the story yet, but what I have played I've liked a lot.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/99g4Rgo.png6 - Final Fantasy VII Remake - 45 points / 4 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:57 (three years ago) link
there's the third one from my secret list from day 1!
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:58 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/e6ZADgs.png5 - Yakuza Like a Dragon - 50 points / 2 First-place votes / 3 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 26 March 2021 22:04 (three years ago) link
lol did i lose everyone on account of taking so long
WELL, we're almost at the end, which means it's time for the last side poll of the thread...
TOP 10 GAME-RELATED CONTENT (OPEN-ENDED POLL)
Some of these we've already seen of Forks's excellent year-end tv/streaming poll but many of them we did not! Since this is the games poll we get lots more games content! Twitch streamers! Podcasts! Other YouTube channels!
Some solo first-, second- and third-place votes tied at 8th, 5th and 3rd respectively, but three voters each (in the same configuration as well -- two firsts and a second each) gave us two consensus winners. And, at least in 2020, they included the same person! wow! congrats to tim.
T8. Vektroid - linkT8. Playstation AccesslinkT8. Jacob Geller - linkT5. Gary - linkT5. Matt McMuscles's "What Happened?" series - linkT5. Outsidexbox / Outside Xtra - linkT3. Videogamedunkey - linkT3. Wario64 - linkT1. Action Button - linkT1. Insert Credit Podcast - link
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 26 March 2021 22:18 (three years ago) link
xp
my #1 (out of the 3 2020 games i'd played when i voted)
honestly a bit disappointing, yakuza revealing its true form as a turn based RPG sounded great to my ears, especially since i'd played DQ XI in late 2019/early 2020 and it became probably my all-time favourite jrpg, but the combat in Y7 never felt as good as DQXI and the ui issues were aggravating
still, it's a yakuza game, i enjoyed it despite not living up to my expectations but i've already put serious time into about 5 of those and if i was submitting my ballot today the top spot would have gone to 13 sentinels instead, which i began playing in the meantime
― chihuahuau, Friday, 26 March 2021 22:20 (three years ago) link
xp to the media... Plenty of honourable mentions for me in this category that i couldn't include in my top 3:
- Hbomberguy had only one 2020 video game video, but it's real good and about New Vegas!- AOC playing Among Us with Hasan, Contra, Ilhan Omar, Jagmeet Singh, The Serfs, XQC, Hbomb and others was a distinctly surreal experience- Limmy's Twitch, or if you live in the exact opposite sleep schedule like I do, the highlights on his YouTube- Speaking of, plenty of comedians ended up moving to Twitch to play games. Some of these are pretty good! I've enjoyed watching john hastings (nb: irl friend).- after the AOC thing I checked out xQc, and while it's not always for me, him trying to speedrun Who Want To Be A Millionaire while knowing very little of anything about anything had me scream-laughing by myself in my house- speaking of blaseball, fans of the Seattle Garages made an album and it's... pretty good!- fumble dimension from Kofie and Jon Bois is an utter delight
name some others gamefreaks!
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 26 March 2021 22:22 (three years ago) link
it was also my #1 (yakuza)! although i hit a wall real hard and haven't returned yet, i should do that soon. i was so excited, and spoilers start now, when i got to majima... but then he stomped me multiple times and i realized i had to actually grind and i just haven't gotten around to it. if anyone is gonna kick my ass though, it should be him...
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 26 March 2021 22:23 (three years ago) link
same here, and i agree the storytelling nailed it by making that fight such a difficulty spike
reaching top floor at yapi's (sp?) arena is enough, worked for me but even so not at the first attempt, i finally was forced to put a bit of thought into the combat vs playing on auto-pilot like i had until then. the boss run for that section is such a PITA too
― chihuahuau, Friday, 26 March 2021 22:31 (three years ago) link
There Is No Game is really funny and full of surprises. I'd recommend it as a group activity on Zoom or etc.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 26 March 2021 22:48 (three years ago) link
I was surprised by how funny Crusader Kings 3 was to me. The interfamily squabbles and scenarios that develop are great. It's a storytelling machine.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 26 March 2021 22:49 (three years ago) link
Paradise Killer was my number one at the max points available. It's set in a hellish dayglo cult society, who kidnap, enslave and sacrifice humans to eldritch gods, and you're a detective who has to solve the murder of your occult council. The detective game is fairly simple, you interview people and find clues and bring them all together in a trial (the in-game tracker is very good in a way I'd not seen in a detective game before, so plus points for that). The world is massive and immensely fun to explore while collecting blood crystals for optional extras, and chatting with the weird demon who keeps popping up is A+++ fun.
In terms of games I didn't vote for, I very much enjoyed the original There Is No Game and may well pick up last year's one at some point.
― emil.y, Friday, 26 March 2021 22:52 (three years ago) link
Also, you totally get to boff a couple of characters if you want to, hehehe
― emil.y, Friday, 26 March 2021 22:53 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/8RkbiNI.png4 - Fall Guys - 58 points / 6 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 26 March 2021 22:57 (three years ago) link
I probably should have put Fall Guys at #1 since it's the 2020 game I played the most.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 26 March 2021 23:02 (three years ago) link