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One of the most satisfying things from following Giant Bomb over the many many years (almost its entire life for me, personally) has been the growth of Alex Navarro
He's really come a long way over the years, to the point where I would say this might be easily the best-written list of everyone's
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Worst Game:
Andromeda is completely disappointing and is a bad game. But it has a few redeeming qualities like the shooting still being good and the multiplayer still being fun.
Without listening to the deliberations, that winner feels more like, "we have to get out of this room and if we try to put Zelda or Nier in the top spot we're going to be here until we die"
Andromeda is completely disappointing and is a bad game. But it has a few redeeming qualities like the shooting still being good and the multiplayer still being fun.
But Bubsy and Drawn to Death are actual trash.
The combat and multiplayer are significantly worse than they were in ME3
Andromeda is completely disappointing and is a bad game. But it has a few redeeming qualities like the shooting still being good and the multiplayer still being fun.
But Bubsy and Drawn to Death are actual trash.
The combat and multiplayer are significantly worse than they were in ME3
God that's fuckin crazy, they polished out a charming little gem and then they scuffed it back up again
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Andromeda is completely disappointing and is a bad game. But it has a few redeeming qualities like the shooting still being good and the multiplayer still being fun.
But Bubsy and Drawn to Death are actual trash.
The combat and multiplayer are significantly worse than they were in ME3
Really? I played that 10 hour trial with almost all of it in multi and it seemed good.
Best Buy supposedly has Nier Automata on sale but when I went to the store they didn't have any copies so I didn't buy it, thus ends my Nier Automata tale
Best Buy supposedly has Nier Automata on sale but when I went to the store they didn't have any copies so I didn't buy it, thus ends my Nier Automata tale
I've kinda come to the sad realization over the last year or so that Giant Bomb as a whole doesn't really do it for me anymore.
It bums me out because there was a time when I was super into it.
But I dunno, as time marches on I've found my interests in both games and types of content drift further and further away from what the site cares about.
Now I just end up getting frustrated with how often they overlook or dismiss or are apathetic towards games I would like to see more on, and focus more and more of their video content on stuff I just don't care about(PUBG and Kingdom Heartache were the big one-two punch that made me fall off I suppose).
It's no one's fault, this isn't really a complaint or anything. I'm just kinda sad.
jeff straight up addresses horizon not being on his list here
miikkamononen asked:Though arbitrary lists are arbitrary and as such asking this question feels pointless, I'm intrigued; What changed with your relationship with Horizon: Zero Dawn, a 5/5 game to you at time of review, to drop it off your top-10 list to the point of not even making the honorable mentions?
It didn’t “drop off” the list. It was never there to begin with.
A game that reviewed well isn’t obligated to appear in some kind of awards context, and the suggestion that something must have “changed” is a pretty weird way to think about things. I’ll put it this way: if you asked me to name 25 games I like more than Horizon this year, I could do it extremely easily.
Now think about the quality of Horizon and think about how it’s been a really great year for games.
if you think horizon was Supposed To Be On His List because it was 5/5, maybe that is more of a reflection on you than jeff
I don't think Mass Effect Andromeda is the worst game I played this year, and some of the vitriol against it is a bit misplaced. It's still the worst of that series to me, and by a pretty comfortable margin.
the most frustrating aspect of goty time is alex refusing to ever stand his ground on anything except for fire pro wrestling, an early access game, to be considered
I don't really listen to the podcasts anymore. The most frustrating thing about GOTY stuff, for me, is that the process mostly becomes about them talking about games they love in a context of "this part's bad, this part's fucked, I hated this thing," and there's no real way around it, so the whole thing ends up as a huge downer. As is, I'm glad they put up stuff like Hitsmas up alongside this stuff because listening to the podcasts, it's easy to forget that these people generally like each other
I've ended up on the wrong side of history and I hate it
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Best Game:
Destiny should've been cut in favor of both Dream Daddy and Yakuza. There were passionate defenses for both, and Destiny was just a "yeah I guess" sort of agreement. Makes me wonder if Jeff and Vinny just know how bull-headed Brad gets and didn't want to have that argument.
destiny is a game where you play it until you don't like playing it anymore and you ended up with 60 hours that you really enjoyed but also there is no graceful ending in the way other games might have
now, one might say that nier automata is 60 hours of bad game followed by the most graceful of endings
Every few years I get sucked into playing one of those WWE2k games, for some reason. I did again, this year, and I think I finally reached my limit. That career mode is fucking garbage, but the entire thing is a mess that barely seems to work, and the core game has been shit for probably about a decade. They just keep bolting on new garbage to it. I know a lot of sports games get shit for never really changing, year after year, but at least the parts of those games where you play sports is actually good.
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Yeah, Dan is definitely supernaturally bad at singing. Like that's his superpower or something.
One of the most satisfying things from following Giant Bomb over the many many years (almost its entire life for me, personally) has been the growth of Alex Navarro
He's really come a long way over the years, to the point where I would say this might be easily the best-written list of everyone's
But Bubsy and Drawn to Death are actual trash.
which is fair enough, really
God that's fuckin crazy, they polished out a charming little gem and then they scuffed it back up again
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Glad to know at least someone was correct and had Danganronpa on their list.
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He asked one of my favorite twitter people to make a top 10 list for Giant Bomb
A sad story, thematically appropriate.
Also wants a Horizon anime, nice.
You might want to spoil that, just in case.
Mass Effect Andromeda is better than Horizon: Zero Dawn.
It bums me out because there was a time when I was super into it.
But I dunno, as time marches on I've found my interests in both games and types of content drift further and further away from what the site cares about.
Now I just end up getting frustrated with how often they overlook or dismiss or are apathetic towards games I would like to see more on, and focus more and more of their video content on stuff I just don't care about(PUBG and Kingdom Heartache were the big one-two punch that made me fall off I suppose).
It's no one's fault, this isn't really a complaint or anything. I'm just kinda sad.
jeff straight up addresses horizon not being on his list here
if you think horizon was Supposed To Be On His List because it was 5/5, maybe that is more of a reflection on you than jeff
This is how it tastes on the real menu, Zack. Not that watered down stuff.
Maybe next year instead of letting Dan weigh in on story or characters they can just let him play with some keys or something
I would probably agree with this
at least there is more I remember about Andromeda fondly than Horizon
I've ended up on the wrong side of history and I hate it
now, one might say that nier automata is 60 hours of bad game followed by the most graceful of endings
I'm not saying that but one might
WHAT IS GOING ON.
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