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the end of year lists are starting to roll in

https://games.avclub.com/the-a-v-club-s-favorite-games-of-2018-1830750674

Celeste is my goty no question

i tried to list out my top ten and ran out at 8 :( ive played more rereleases than actual new games this year i think

playing (w/ my daughter) Waku Waku Sweets for Switch, we are cooking mamas
that may be the only console game that came out in 2018 that I've played
otherwise I've played a lot of old console games as usual and the polls will just list games maybe to play maybe another year maybe

Hollow Knight for me even though I never finished and it came out last year.

hollow knight def counts for this year via 'year of impact' imo

Have there been any great, new-to-2018 Switch games this year?

I mean, speaking as someone who's had the best gaming year of their life playing BOTW, I don't mind at all. But I want more.

I meant that to be "more." not "more."

Like, greedily, I want more games that move me as much as BOTW. I'm definitely not in a "Nintendo have lost it already" mindspace.

My computer keeps correcting and removing my exclamation points... Weird.

here's (some of?) what I think is Great in 2018 on the Switch:

Celeste
Towerfall (this game has been Great for a long time but it's new to Switch)
Octopath Traveller (ymmv, this is a JRPG)

plenty of games I have spent a lot of time on and think are good and fun but idk "great" is a tall order.

Glad they gave a nod to Bloodstained, a really nice surprise for me this year.

yeah Celeste was the only switch game i played this year that had that Important Game feel. i really liked ys 8 too but idk how appealing it is to people outside the anime rpg rabbit hole. nintendo's output was mostly rereleases and multiplayer

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2018-in-review/the-best-video-games-of-2018

hollow knight new to switch in 2018 ?

:( at the AVC list for not listing what platforms the games are on.

yeah that was annoying. the game that looks like a ps1 game isn't on a playstation console.

Pleased to see Return of the Obra Dinn made the AV's list - one of the most original games I've played in a while.

Don't know who suggested they start each review with "I liked...", though.

(I liked that bit, because it made everyone argue for "this is an enjoyable game" rather than "this is important in the industry")

here’s where I port beg for a switch version of obra dinn AGAIN

I haven't finished it yet - about 1/3 of the way through. It's a HARD game.

i did the whole game in one 12-hour session, couldn't put it down until it was solved

yep me too. i got one thing wrong initially so i got the bad ending. for a moment i thought it was going make me do the whole thing again from the start and i nearly threw my laptop out the window.

I started and finished AC Freedom Cry this week, just a handful of gameplay sessions sufficed. It's about as satisfying to murder slavers here as it was to murder Nazis in the Saboteur: very satisfying. I think I'm gonna skip Rogue though and just make the leap to ~~~ next gen ~~~ AC finally (i.e. Paris)

but not right away. I started Diablo III, doing co-op with my son. haven't played a Diablo since the first one nearly twenty years ago, wearing my first child on my chest while I hacked and slashed. it's always been a family affair.

prob gonna start a (Switch) RPG at the same time just b/c my boy won't always want to play Diablo when I do

The Game Awards is tonight, don't care about the cringey awards show but looking forward to getting some peeks at new stuff

make sure to unmute for Celeste composer Lena Raine playing with the orchestra!

dope

the Oscars would be better if they just premiered teasers for the subsequent autumn's Oscar bait imo

instead of idk having jokes

CS:Go is free to play now, and they've added a PUBG/Fortnite ripoff mode

the game awards had a ton of ads for pubg and fortnite. that must be where the money is being made now.

i'm playing System's Syzygy, https://mdsteele.games/syzygy/ -- a tribute to system's twilight and cliff johnson's games.

only things that excited me from TGA reveals were the obsidian not-fallout game and persona 5 in smash bros

kinda psyched for MK11 and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3

The obsidian game just showed up on my fb feed and it looks v cool

Very cool and very legal, even.

been playing Battlefield V , I always need to have a FPS in rotation for some reason

Outer Worlds trailer looks like a skinned Fallout and I guess that’s ok

Actually, it looks like a taunt aimed at Bethesda.

...with a bit of anti-corporatism/anti-branding tossed in. I'm imagining it will play like interactive Idiocracy.

its pretty good timing for them to have a not-fallout game ready to show right at the moment, though i know its been in the works for a while as a new vegas spiritual successor

Loving Rise To Ruins on Steam, a sweet DOS style looking game of city building with enough extra stuff to keep it interesting.

got the yogscast humble bundle which reveals games through December, advent style. Games that I found interesting; Unit 4, Westerado, Tower 57, Slime-san, Lakeview Cabin Collection, Freaky Awesome

Also like the look of Dusters, a kind of space ship exploration game with drones but looks gorgeously complex.

Company of heroes 2 is free today on steam. Apparently it’s one of the best RTS games of all time. The RTS genre stresses me out to the point that I don’t have fun but it’s supposed to be really good.

I played the first CoH and it was fun enough, though I only felt like i had about 50% control over my troops

Huh, I had no idea that AC: Origins was well-received.

https://www.polygon.com/2018/12/10/18130965/best-games-2018-assassins-creed-odyssey-games-of-the-year

ok Dragon Quest Builders rules

my unwieldy backlog going into the holidays:

jrpgs:
persona 4
final fantasy xv
ys origin
atelier arland trilogy
tokyo xanadu ex

indies:
crosscode
timespinner
gris
the missing
iconoclasts

that's a lot

most of them are pretty short games other than persona which I'm already 50 hours into

Let us know how Gris is so I know how hard I should pray that it gets ported to PS4.

PS to anyone who played Assassin's Creed Odyssey -- what were your thoughts? I've heard it's super grindy for the bulk of the story with so-so side quests.

I'm about 15hrs in, it feels like around a quarter. There is a little grind, but the side missions aren't any less fun than the rest of the game tbh. It's not like jrpg grind.

I compare to the other AAA game I played this year (FC5) and I'm getting bored on much the same way. After I meet the stock characters, the gameplay feels fairly samey. I very much doubt I'm going to finish the game let alone beat it, but ninja-ing around an area silently murdering everyone is still pretty good fun.

As with FC5 most of my enjoyment seems to come from gawping at puddles and light beams and vistas.

MK8 deluxe
enter the gungeon
hollow knight