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Dec 19 - DJMAX respect V EA
Dec 17 - Wattam
Dec 17 - Periodic Deliveries
Dec 17 - Potata Chapter One
Dec 16 - Melbits World (Indie, Local Multiplayer, Family Friendly)
Dec 13 - Dead End Job (Action, Top-Down, Shooter, Local Co-Op)
Dec 12 - Detroit Become Human (david cage)
Dec 11- Raccoo Adventure (Adventure, Action, Platformer, Colorful)
Dec 11- Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York (Vampire, Interactive Fiction, Visual Novel)
Dec 10 - Last Year (Action, Violent, Gore, Survival, Horror, Co-op)
Dec 10 - Shovel Knight King of Cards (Platformer, Deck bulder, Adventure, Action, 2D)
Dec 10 - Hades (Steam EA) (Action, Indie, RPG, Rogue-lite)
Dec 10 - Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek (narrative, Adventure, Action, Horror, Singleplayer)
Dec 10 - Dragon Quest Builders 2 (RPG, Action, Adventure, Building, Sandbox)
Dec 10 - AVICII Invector (Arcade, Rhythm, Music)
Dec 10 - Terminator: Resistance (Action, Adventure, Violent, RPG, First-Person) <-- Apparently this came out in November for Steam, delays were console only!
Dec 10 - Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries (Epic Games Store, Mechs, Simulation, Single Player, Multiplayer)
Dec 10 - Boneworks (VR, Action, Simulation, Physics, Adventure)
Dec 9 - Frog Detective 2 (Adventure, Indie, Detective, Short, Singleplayer, frog)
Dec 9 - GTFO Early Access (Early Access, Action, Horror, FPS, Co-op)
Dec 9 - Ashen - steam release (Adventure, RPG, Action, Souls-likeCo-op)
Dec 5 - Mosaic (Adventure, Atmospheric, Dystopian, Dark)
Dec 5 - Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory (Epic Game Store, RPG, CRPG, Humor)
Dec 5 - Darksiders Genesis (Diablo-like, Twin stick, RPG, Adventure, Action, Hack and Slash)
Dec 5 - Heroland (RPG, Casual, Retro, Pixel Graphics, Story Rich)
Dec 4 - Everreach: Project Eden (RPG, Action, Sci-fi, Story Rich, Space)
Dec 3 - Tools up! (couch co-op, funny, multiplayer, party)
Dec 3 - Phoenix Point (Epic Game Store)
Dec 3 - Halo Reach (PC)
Dec 3 - SaGa SCARLET GRACE: AMBITIONS (JRPG, Squenix)
remember remember the Games of December
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You mean a gilm?
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
Disco Elysium! But haven't played Hades yet.
Alpha protocol. Gott every year for a decade
Please eliminate 3.
PS I am not a crank
No single video game stood out to me in 2019 that was far above everything else. I think what is most telling though is a lot of games I enjoyed were those pesky EGS exclusives.
Note: I did not play several of the big releases this year and only play PC games (Three Kingdoms, Metro, Gears 5, Disco Elysium, and more).
At the time, it felt amazing. It looked really good, and was well scale-able. But it's mostly the narrative/quest design that is still seldomly replicated.
It's one of the few open world games where very few quests are one dimensional. Everything has a few complications, a minor twists, a small choice. Or sometimes goes wildly out of control. It feels... unpredictable.
I also really like that in a series that started out the adolescent kind of 'mature' content, they pivoted to a main story-line about growing old, and about having to let go.
There's also a real balance on the impact Geralt has. He is important, he can make lives better or worse, he can make decisions with terrible consequences, but he is not an overwhelming force.
End game spoilers
I don't love the economics, the weight management and the busywork in the open world. You can probably cheat past that and have a 33% shorter game that is way less annoying.
The combat is decent, but not more than that.
I also think it showed a narrative path forward that a lot of big studios have taken note of. Particularly the late generation PS4 trio (Spider-man, Horizon ZD & God of War), that all play in a similar space, and in many ways improve. But the leap at the beginning of the generation made me real excited.
Other considerations:
L4D2 - came out nov2009, but dominated 2010-2012 multiplayer for me. VS - Realism is an amazing time with 8 people.
FTL - The modern start of runbased games. Its gamedesign dominated the indie space the whole decade. Also a real example of what made the last 10 years great: You can do a lot with having a few strong gameplay elements, a limited but well implemented scope.
Hades - My current favorite of runbased games, it plays and combos upgrades so well, and has a ton of personality
Apex - Dominated this entire year for me. A 5% chance of winning feels like beating the odds like few other game wins do. It shoots wells, fights are interesting.
HZ:D - My favorite of the current crop of open world CAGs. (waves a little Dutch flag)
Dark Souls - It's the Dark Souls of Dark Souls. The fact that the game openly is a dick and tells you to getgud, while also giving you tons of tools to cheese the fuck out of it. And it has amazing level design. (Which they never really replicated again)
Mass Effect 2 - A really unique approach where it felt like a TV season: A bunch of big meaty storydriven quests that take 45-90mins each, mostly focusing on 1 character or to advance the main plot. Interesting characters and good voice work. ME3 multi gets a mention.
Crusader Kings 2 - What Civ IV was in the decade before it, CK2 got an ungodly amount of play, with huge patches, big DLC and an endless amount of mods. Probably the most hours of the decade. There was even a time when I ran in it 0player mode for hours just to see where the AI was at.
Hitman 2016 - This game is only good because of how meticilously crafted it is. How all the guards are just the right amount of dumb. It's an incredible clockworld that you can poke at in a million different ways. It has a dry sense of humor that works so well.
PUBG - I won't play it again, but the year it came out I spent so much time on incredibly dangerous motorcycles, sniping fools. The long lull - short intense fight adds incredible tension.
MGS:V - The best unfinished game ever made. There are a hundred things wrong with it, but the solution space is enormous and the score-attack replayability was a great way to get me to try a ton of things.
like now I don't know half of the characters and also the item shop is all different
how the hell do you even get into a moba as a new player, I'm an old player and I'm totally lost
hmm
-Hollow Knight
-Ori and the Blind Forest
-Prey (2018)
-Dark Souls 3
-Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
That's not even to mention the host of smaller titles like INSIDE or GRIS, or more open-ended games like Destiny.
FYI, if you have not played Hypnospace Outlaw yet, you absolutely should. It's a truly delightful game.
Tomorrow looks to be APE OUT
Trails in the Sky trilogy as my favorite game (series) after Skies of Arcadia
Hollow Knight
Celeste
EVE Online (blissfully retired)
Overwatch
Crosscode
Steamworld series
Edit: Maybe add Valkyria Chronicles 4 for delightful stupid anime bullshit
If I'm being more sophisticated it would probably be Obra Dinn.
I am not sure if the trend is going to continue but more and more recent games having been starting to put quite a bit of souls into their games
You will probably find something with the right amount of souls for you
Also on a unrelated note I found out that I am not really a masochist after playing Hollow knight
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Man a mmo with warframe combat would be very exciting
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More recently, PUBG. Actually, if I'm gonna give an award, it's to Insurgency. It's not an open world or whatever but a good simple shooting game with great shooting goes a very long way.
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you done did pacman championship edition dx+ dirty
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Somewhere, Gaben nods. He snaps his fingers and says, "Done."
Ghost Trick is great and until now I kinda forgot that there were DS games released this decade. Obviously there was, the 3DS launched 2011 and there was still a few DS games after that, but to me it feels like a lifetime ago.
Doom 2016 would be near the top of my list.
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