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I know Lance Reddick does a good job as Sylens but that guy is such a gigantic shithead that I can't even appreciate the voice acting. I just hate the character so much. I guess that in itself shows he did a good job.
As much as I love Yakuza 0's story it is impossibly overcomplicated and borderline incoherent and the idea that it is one of the three best stories of the year is nuts
Pyre is 100% about friendship, unity, trust, acceptance, and hope. It was the kind of story I needed in 2017, and it is bonkers to me that Vinny and Alex just kinda rolled over in favor of Yakuza.
Just seeing that final screen of the library full of books after having a title screen of burning books is hopeful enough for that world.
Also Bound Together varying based on who escaped; Hedwyn getting to be with his harp girlfriend, Jodariel becoming a mother figure to fledglings, Rukey reuniting with with family, -ae and Ti'zo finding a new home, Gilman becoming a pacifist hermit, Pamitha potentially making amends with her sister, Sandalwood and Bertrude's plan coming to fruition to reform the entirety of society, and even you can return home too after being told repeatedly you'd never be able to.
I started playing Rainbow Six Siege due to the talk around it and its continued placement on the top selling list on steam during the sale.
That game has a bizarre loot box set up.
After every game there is a chance to get a loot box, every time you don't get a lootbox your chance goes up by a percent (more if you won, less if you lost) until you get a lootbox and then it resets.
And in my lootbox I got a violently purple geometric pattern for a shotgun that I don't think I even have access too yet?
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Mx. QuillI now prefer "Myr. Quill", actually...{They/Them}Registered Userregular
I started playing Rainbow Six Siege due to the talk around it and its continued placement on the top selling list on steam during the sale.
That game has a bizarre loot box set up.
After every game there is a chance to get a loot box, every time you don't get a lootbox your chance goes up by a percent (more if you won, less if you lost) until you get a lootbox and then it resets.
And in my lootbox I got a violently purple geometric pattern for a shotgun that I don't think I even have access too yet?
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Ubi does weird shit with their loot boxes.
In Siege you don't get the chance to win a box unless you win, if you lose or don't get a box from the spinner after a win your percentage goes up.
In The Division, you trade in a complete Decryption Key for a box, which you can either buy for real money currency, or put together with Decryption Key Fragments that drop from in-game achievements (there's a ton you can earn) or as a chance to drop from any endgame named enemy. You can just go farm them in groups, it's super weird but kinda neat. Also, you have the chance to get fragments in the box, and any dupes you get instantly turn into fragments as well.
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Decided I'm gonna start Nier Automata tonight instead of getting too deep into my P5 NG+ run
My main concern is that the story will be nonsense
Everything I've ever heard about Drakengard/Nier makes me feel like it might be the case? But I enjoyed the demo way back last Christmas so I feel like I'll at least dig the character action gameplay even if nothing else hits
well just as a sort of writing exercise for myself I picked my own winners and runners-up for a lot of the Giant Bomb GOTY categories, except the ones I didn't care about or have anything to say
spoilered because nobody cares
2017's Old Game of the Year
XCOM 2
The War of the Chosen expansion was such a huge addition to the game that it might as well have been XCOM 3, taking the sequel from a game I liked a lot to one I full-on loved, as well as fully solidifying the Firaxis games' identity separate from the original series.
[Windjammers, Puyo Puyo Tetris]
Most Disappointing Game
MASS EFFECT: ANDROMEDA
What makes it most disappointing is it isn't just entirely terrible! There's a lot I like about it, in fact! But the less excellent things about it, of which there are many, start to pile up and made Andromeda into an experience I didn't want to finish until they had put more work into it, and even now that they have, the franchise being shot in the head and buried 'round back eliminated whatever remaining enthusiasm I had left for it.
[The Sexy Brutale, Horizon: Zero Dawn]
Best Looking Game
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: BREATH OF THE WILD
I posit that this game would not work at all if the world didn't look just so pleasant to be around, the landscapes and the things you can find encouraging you to explore even further. This game came out 9 months ago and I am continually astounded by how nice even just the grass blowing in the wind looks, it's a game I find incredibly soothing just to experience, and the amazing visual look is a massive part of that.
[Persona 5, Cuphead]
Best Multiplayer
DIVINITY: ORIGINAL SIN II
I have friends that talk about their experience playing RPGs, doing insane things like killing absolutely everyone in Megaton in Fallout 3, and I have never had any concept of what that's even like. In comes Divinity: Original Sin II, to let me know exactly what it's like! Your friends can be your greatest allies or forces of nature themselves, making choices that you have to deal with the ramifications of. It's the kind of thing where I have to keep a second playthrough just for multiplayer, because I know things are going to go a completely different direction they ever would've gone just playing by myself.
[Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, Snipperclips]
Hottest Mess
STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT II
I liked Battlefront! I was very excited for a second game that smoothed out the weirdness, and added a fun campaign with some good Star Wars action. There's not a single thing in Battlefront II that is not compromised in some way by exploitative business practices, and any attempts at fixing them are either too little & too late, or not actually a real fix that baffles me when it gets praise. Plus, there are now two different games called "Star Wars Battlefront II," and that's just plain embarassing.
[Mass Effect: Andromeda, Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite]
Best Surprise
MARIO + RABBIDS: KINGDOM BATTLE
That this game would ever exist, and that it would be damn near the best strategy game of the year, is miraculous. Legitimately a super fun twist on the XCOM formula, one of the only games aping that one that I like nearly as much as the Firaxis games, and a really silly and enjoyable take on the Mario universe. I liked the Rabbids before they were cool.
[Sonic Mania, Subsurface Circular]
Makoto is a self-made Type A woman who comes to understand that the system is bullshit and deserves some smashing. She decides to take on the mob(??) basically on her own, and somehow it ends up working out? Her Persona is a goddamn motorcycle, and her weapon is PUNCHES. No other characters were eligible or deserving of this award.
[Ti'zo, Pyre; Goro Majima, Yakuza 0 (yes I know)]
Best Mario Odyssey Capture
YOSHI
Mario has gone down a dark path. He's become addicted to his dominion over all living (and some non-loving) beings, to the point where he no longer recognizes his friends. Yoshi is no longer a patner in his adventures, rather another tool to be bent to his whims and used however he demands. Yoshi is expendable.
[Glydon, Uproot]
Best Cast of Characters
PYRE
Pyre gets the leg up here for being the only one of these games to use how much you like the ensemble as a weapon against you, continually having to choose between your most-used characters to reward with their freedom, but at the cost of not having them around anymore. It makes you have to perform a potentially selfish kind of altruism, which is not an experience I can say I've really had in a game. It's made all the better by those options including a mustache dog, a very large horned woman, a bog witch, a worm knight, a bird that can drive a car, and a tree man.
[Persona 5, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy]
Best Game
#1: THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: BREATH OF THE WILD
#2: Super Mario Odyssey
#3: Persona 5
#4: Pyre
#5: NieR: Automata
#6: Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
#7: Heat Signature
#8: XCOM 2: War of the Chosen
#9: Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
#10: Subsurface Circular
#11: Cuphead
#12: Divinity: Original Sin II
#13: Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle
#14: Hollow Knight
#15: Yakuza 0
Really surprised by how down the Bomb crew are about Horizon.
Hearing them say they hated the combat sounds crazy to me.
The combat is my second least favorite thing in the game behind the resource management (specifically picking medicinal flowers, which is just infinitely tedious).
The robot variety is really good but a lot of the robots move too quickly and erratically for precision shots with travel time, especially when you’re trying to knock off certain components. Even when slowing down time I’ll line up a shot and the dino will jerk to the left and my arrow will hit a random piece of armor instead of that canister I was aiming at.
It does have the most satisfying bow in gaming though.
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
Man I wish I liked Nier even half as much as everyone else.
pyromaniac221this just might bean interestin YTRegistered Userregular
Nier seems like it should be right up my alley from the tone and the commitment to doing weird shit, I just wish the minute to minute experience of playing it weren’t so fucking drab
psn tooaware, friend code SW-4760-0062-3248 it me
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Mx. QuillI now prefer "Myr. Quill", actually...{They/Them}Registered Userregular
edited December 2017
I still think Nier could've been better if you selected missions and side quests from a menu, and were then placed into a map designed for it.
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Just seeing that final screen of the library full of books after having a title screen of burning books is hopeful enough for that world.
Also Bound Together varying based on who escaped; Hedwyn getting to be with his harp girlfriend, Jodariel becoming a mother figure to fledglings, Rukey reuniting with with family, -ae and Ti'zo finding a new home, Gilman becoming a pacifist hermit, Pamitha potentially making amends with her sister, Sandalwood and Bertrude's plan coming to fruition to reform the entirety of society, and even you can return home too after being told repeatedly you'd never be able to.
Steam Switch FC: 2799-7909-4852
It’s definitely an RPG thing. And I admit I skipped it last time.
You should listen to their attempt at stealing the New Year's Eve ball.
But the first annual Giant Bomb Winter Games is the funniest goddamn thing they have done in ages
The last 10 minutes are perfection
That game has a bizarre loot box set up.
After every game there is a chance to get a loot box, every time you don't get a lootbox your chance goes up by a percent (more if you won, less if you lost) until you get a lootbox and then it resets.
And in my lootbox I got a violently purple geometric pattern for a shotgun that I don't think I even have access too yet?
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Edit: why do they have a taxidermy ferret
plenty of time right, lotta month still to go????
That was a modifier on Brad's run to make it tougher. Dan lucked out and drew a way more beneficial one.
Which, as it turns out, let him get away with all kinds of bullshit.
when Ben Pack mathematically proved that anyone who didn't like Nier Automata was a cop
Ubi does weird shit with their loot boxes.
In Siege you don't get the chance to win a box unless you win, if you lose or don't get a box from the spinner after a win your percentage goes up.
In The Division, you trade in a complete Decryption Key for a box, which you can either buy for real money currency, or put together with Decryption Key Fragments that drop from in-game achievements (there's a ton you can earn) or as a chance to drop from any endgame named enemy. You can just go farm them in groups, it's super weird but kinda neat. Also, you have the chance to get fragments in the box, and any dupes you get instantly turn into fragments as well.
My main concern is that the story will be nonsense
Everything I've ever heard about Drakengard/Nier makes me feel like it might be the case? But I enjoyed the demo way back last Christmas so I feel like I'll at least dig the character action gameplay even if nothing else hits
Gosh, I wonder how this is going to go
Flawless Silent Assassin
spoilered because nobody cares
except for Best Game, which is 5 hours long
Hearing them say they hated the combat sounds crazy to me.
The combat is my second least favorite thing in the game behind the resource management (specifically picking medicinal flowers, which is just infinitely tedious).
The robot variety is really good but a lot of the robots move too quickly and erratically for precision shots with travel time, especially when you’re trying to knock off certain components. Even when slowing down time I’ll line up a shot and the dino will jerk to the left and my arrow will hit a random piece of armor instead of that canister I was aiming at.
It does have the most satisfying bow in gaming though.
The kinda open world in Nier is actively bad.
I can't find the day five winners and it took a while for day four's to show up as well
They were all set to go up 2 hours after the podcasts
Hour 20 minutes from now.