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Ok the MW3 COD nerds got their remaster now it’s time for BO2 remastered.
Pls n thanx
#I need black ops 2 remastered#or#I’ll go postal#those cod fags got the MW3#now it’s blops TIME 😤😤😤😤😤😤#I need it back#I need to spank lobbies again#I miss s&d#😭😭😭😭😭#I used to have a 2.3 kd#I fucking rektd kids#Remington and a scar-h#absolutely destroyed in 1v1s too#god pls answer this one prayer#lmao
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Normally I like to tally up everything I've beaten on an annual basis but I've been lacking the last two years, so this is three years' worth of finished games: 2021-2023. Also been lacking in finishing stuff until the last third of this year but I think I've got the swing of things again. There are other games finished/completed I've chosen to not count here as they were simply different ports of games I've already done before, but I'm still counting MW1 Remastered to make it a nice even 50.
Since this is all getting typed up right now in one afternoon, enjoy some quick thoughts on each of these.
Finished
Yakuza Kiwami (2017) - Yeah it still feels like a weird version of the immaculate Yakuza 0. I'm not the authority on these but I'm unsure if I'd recommend this over the PS2 game to someone who is willing to play the original.
Call of Duty: Black Ops II (2012) - I liked the split campaigns, though moreso the 80s one. Probably need to play Arma 1 or Reforger to satisfy that Cold War craving now that '83 is canned.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered (2016) - I think I got this with Infinite Warfare off of a keysite primarily to use this remaster as an excuse to replay CoD4. Still enjoyed it and really ended up liking the enhanced visuals/touch-ups in animations. 2007 is still fine to play but this was a fun detour. I want to try the Wii version at some point.
Death Stranding (2019) - A game I was way more curious about its story than I was its gameplay pre-release ended up being enjoyed the other way around. I loved Hiking Simulator 2019, cresting peaks and sliding down into cities while some Low Roar kicks in... and everything about the environments as you head west are the greatest. I'm probably gonna get the PC version of Director's Cut to play it again at some point.
Shellshock: Nam '67 (2004) - What should be a simple arcade third-person shooter ends up being frustrating because reticle bloom is way too much for some of the engagement distances. Not the worst I've ever played but I'm probably not going back to it ever.
Thunder Force AC (1990/2020 Sega AGES release) - I mean I like Thunder Force IV more but hey III's pretty good, and so is its arcade version.
Vietcong (2003) - Originally recommended to me by a friend and I kick myself for not getting to it sooner. Fun, tense campaign of having to take caution every with every move, guns felt great, and overall I had a good time. Regrettably couldn't play the online but ah well.
Postal 2: Paradise Lost (2015) - More of what I remember from playing Postal 2. It's still silly.
Touhou Youyoumu ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom (2003) - This is the one. Yeah, 6 gets the recognition because it's the reboot and has the top-tiered fan favorite characters but 7 takes the wrinkles of 6 and irons them out to a fine crispness. Good patterns, good bosses, and good music. I have no complaints. Want to play a Touhou game? This one.
Touhou Reiiden ~ The Highly Responsive to Prayers (1997) - I first played this at an anime convention in a hotel room full of Touhou cosplayers on their laptop they had hooked up to their TV, mainly wanting to show off where it all started. Touhou's kinda fun as a Breakout game, but this is more of a curiosity than anything nowadays.
Ninja Gaiden (1988) - My second favorite Castlevania game, but man FUCK Act 6.
NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139... (2021) - I mean what else can be said that hasn't already. It's nice that Nier 1 got a revisit after Automata set the world on fire and even though this didn't do its numbers, I missed my friends :)
U.N. Squadron (1990) - Glorious. The SNES/SFC version offers a fantastic and better conversion from the arcade game allowing for choice in mission order and choice in plane selection (though the YF-23 and F200 are effectively the only way to win) to work in tandem with your pilot's unique skill. Not particularly a great adaptation from Area 88 if you're looking for its story and characters but that's not what this game is aiming for - instead, it takes the elements that would work in a shooter and only those elements. You're mercenaries so money is the key to everything, mainly your weapons loadout. There are large superweapons, some taken straight from the manga. The only downside is the grinding element to get more money for better planes in the form of a strafing run special stage that you'll have to play over and over. Highly recommend.
IKUSAAAAAAAN! (2018) - I actually can't comment too much on this one since I only played it through once but it was fun and highly energetic, and Iku is my second fave 2hu so that's a plus.
Halo: Fireteam Raven (2018) - "hey let's play this since we're all together and it's a Saturday night which means bad co-op game night but now IRL!" (moments before friend temporarily lost their wallet.) We finished the fight, but at what cost? About $20 and an hour.
F-Zero X (1997) - Everyone likes GX (and you should) but I like to describe X as the first five feet of stairs on the difficulty curve of F-Zero. You absolutely can lift yourself up those missing steps but wouldn't it be better to ease your way on up? Very fast and grippy compared to SNES F-Zero. I also like the rock/metal soundtrack as opposed to GX's industrial (which again, still good, just not as good). Dream Chaser the greatest. Also that arranged music album is killer.
Project Wingman (2020) - Did you like Ace Combat Zero? Of course you did. Here you go, have some more. It's kinda weird how even with the option to bring in multiple types of special weapons, the strongest thing you're armed with are your normal-ass machine guns.
Neo Contra (2004) - The Shock Troopers 3 we deserved. All I have to do to sell you on this is show you the opening to the one stage where Bill and Jaguar are running on top of helicopter blades.
Udongein X (2021) - There are a surprising amount of Mega Man-inspired Touhou fangames out there to the point where they can be divided into inspired by classic series and X amongst others (maybe there's a Battle Network one too?) This is the latter and since it felt most like MMX1 to me, I liked it a lot.
Dimension Tripper Neptune: TOP NEP (2022) - Welcome to the Fantasy nep Zone.
Mega Man 8 (1996) - I hate this fuckin game.
Made Man (2006) - Frustrating. I was expecting a mafia clone of Max Payne but instead it's a cover-shooter with the most mediocre gunplay and braindead AI I've seen in a while. Also the bullet time only activates once you fill the meter and upon manual-deactivation, you lose all of the remainder. Kind of a shame too because some of the setpieces are fun (one of my favorites being a gunfight in the rafters above a rock concert at Madison Square Garden) but it just sucks otherwise. The main voice actor, Rick Pasqualone, does too good of a job for this game when everyone else is phoning it in and I'm glad he got a second shot in a better game as Vito from Mafia II.
P-47 Aces (1995) - Recommended by my friend @bizarredawdler. I got my ass beat.
Carrier Air Wing (1990) - If you liked the arcade version of U.N. Squadron specifically, this is more of the same. Not as good but hey, dogfighting the space shuttle isn't something you do everyday.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (2022) - This was fun, and probably the first beat'em up that I began to understand rather than just fumble my way through. Would like to do a co-op run with friends at some point. Played as Donatello, he seems cool.
Freedom Planet 2 (2022) - My GOTY 2022. Despite my teasing in numerous late night calls that this was one of those games where the slightest inconvenience resulted in a delay, I can honestly say my expectations were met, exceeded, and blown away. Enjoyed Freedom Planet 1 a lot back in 2015 and while originally hesitant that the artstyle change would bring a gameplay change, all of that faded away when that first demo came out. It's still just as fast and hard-hitting as the first one if not moreso. The reworks to each characters' movesets are nice. Neera is a great additional player character. God I wish someone could get these homebrew'd onto a Saturn because that's the only way this could get more perfect. My one (1) complaint is now Classic Mode being locked behind beating Story Mode once which, while I like the cutscenes and characters, makes it a little harder to recommend to people who just want the pure gameplay that you could immediately access in 1. That's the only thing I'd change.
Panzer Dragoon: Remake (2020) - It sure is Panzer Dragoon 1 but prettier, but oh boy I would not recommend it for full-price precisely because it is Panzer Dragoon 1 with all of its under-an-hour length intact. There's an achievement for playing it for 100 hours... also one for dying once. Don't have either!
Drainus (2022) - Team Ladybug caught my eye and captured my heart with Touhou Luna Nights, and ever since then I'm on board with whatever they've thrown at me. I still haven't finished Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth but I did play this, which was a pretty fun, if not easy STG. Looks nice too!
Call of Duty: Black Ops III (2015) - God the campaign sucked except for one part (you know the one). If you get this, only get it because Zombies workshop support is still alive and well.
Halo 5: Guardians (2015) - I cannot, cannot, cannot stress enough how many times I said "Halo 4 did this better." An absolute goddamn slog of a singleplayer with a dumbass story. The teammate AI will not save you or will kill themselves trying to save you despite the game being designed around squad mechanics. Halo's never been good at boss fights, so here have the same one over and over and now there's three of him hahahaha! I hear "multiplayer is good though!" sure it might be, wouldn't know, don't really care to know.
Dolphin Blue (2003) - Neat little run and gun. Liked the 2D sprites on 3D backgrounds here, very vibrant.
Demonizer (2020) - Neat little shooter, though it does punish you harsher later on for taking hits and losing your allies. One of those if you mess up late you might as well restart.
Ace Combat: Joint Assault (2010) - I really enjoyed Skies of Deception, the other PSP Ace Combat. This one is not that, dropping the Strangereal setting for our own and going with a plot involving insurance CEOs I think. Back to linear mission structure, no choosing the order. Could not play the Joint missions in which you and friends tackle operations at the same time affecting one another which is this game's entire gimmick. I don't remember any of the original music but there are plenty of AC2/3 tracks here which are good.
Demon Front (2002) - Kinda hard run and gun, though it's something I'll have to put more time into to get the groove of it. Otherwise, neat Metal Slug-inspired game! Recommended by a friend who I'm not sure wants to be named.
Raiden II (1993) - I like Raiden. Raiden II is more of that. Simple as.
Burnout (2001) - Another one of those games where you probably played a later one and went back only to discover there's kind of an idea here but it needs to get flushed out a little bit more. I started on this one back in the day and only finally got around to finishing, this time on the Xbox version. Not a whole lot going on here apart from being a standard AA racer of the time with a crash mechanic that's more discouraged than encouraged like its later entries. That AI rubberbanding isn't nearly as bad as NFS Underground 1's but it gets pretty bad. I don't regret playing this but I don't see myself going back, especially now having started 2 which is the ideal form of early Burnout.
Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn (2013) - After teasing my friend @thathomestar for years about it, I finally caved. I don't know MMOs or their systems or what makes for a good one, so I won't speak to its quality. I can make my catgirl fish so hell yeah.
Quake: Dimension of the Past (2016) - Where's the ammo? My gun needs more food!
Quake: Dimension of the Machine (2021) - Gameplay-wise it's more Quake which I love but holy shit do some of these levels look good.
8-Bit Commando (2011) - I thought this would be an okay Contra clone but instead it's subpar. I do like the verticality of your path, but it does feel more linear than it should be. Difficulty is easy even on Hard Mode. There's this weird thing where it'll upload replays of your gameplay as workshop items if you let it, so turn that off as soon as possible. Otherwise, you can't buy this anymore outside of keysites. Done to get footage of the dopefish in it.
Operation C (1991) - Quick, easy, but it is Contra, and nobody does it like Contra.
Contra III: The Alien Wars (1992) - Much like Super Castlevania IV, the jump to the Super Nintendo meant that Contra was gonna get a boost in just about every aspect... and much like Castlevania, I still prefer the original NES game to its SNES sequel. That said, I do think Contra III comes out ahead of CV4 with the amount of cool moments that happen, and abilities like locking the aim direction or standing in place and rotating your angle of shooting are accounted for in the increased difficulty. Very cool title, but personally not my favorite.
The Citadel (2020) - This is a fascinating game. While riding the retro-FPS wave, it still includes mechanics from modern shooters like bullet drop, travel time, weapon condition, hunger(?), full-body awareness (even as sprites!), and so on. Levels are really monochromatic. Very bloody and loud when it gets violent, and boy howdy does it get violent. And yet, there's this certain bleak serenity during level exploration that I haven't felt in a while. Looking forward to the sequel.
Castlevania: The Adventure (1989) - You know what? "Battle of the Holy" isn't just a good song, it's good even by Castlevania standards. And that's about the only good thing I can say about this dull game. I'll have to play ReBirth at some point.
Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge (1991) - Better, but I'd rather be playing something else.
Risk of Rain 2 (2020) - This is cheating since I've only seen credits twice or three times, and I normally don't do the roguelikes so again I won't speak too much to it, but I like this one. I've had a fun time alone but it's definitely a lot of fun with friends, and I hope we can come back to it.
Kid Dracula (1990) - What if Castlevania was Mega Man? is my clickbait attention grabber, but also a pretty apt description. It's easy apart from this one railcart section which I felt like I got through on sheer luck than anything else. Still enjoyable.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992/2021 Absolute Version) - I've never actually beaten Sonic 2 legit, half from getting pissed off by the special stages and half because I get bored by the time Oil Ocean rolls around. Now that the special stages are actually in 3D and have a draw distance, I finally was able to get through and grab all Chaos Emeralds for the first time without save states or sound test cheat codes. And I was finally able to appreciate just how good Sonic 2 is once that weight was lifted. The levels are fun and a vast improvement over Sonic 1's, and the 2-Act structure works a lot better for pacing. And during the final boss, doing it legit gave a level of pressure that a final boss should rather than turning on debug mode and spamming rings to help out. I think I can go beat this even more legit on my Genesis without the modern assists, but it is thanks to this version that I gained the confidence to do so. Just needed a little help up is all.
Sonic Triple Trouble 16-Bit (2022) - I had a big old dumb smile on my face the entire time.
Sonic After the Sequel (2013/2017 DX version) - I enjoyed this one too. A bit more lengthy due to a four-act structure per zone and the special stages are slightly more miss than hit for me, but it all worked out in the end. The true final boss had my friends and I laughing.
That's all. I'm gonna try to finish up a couple more Sonic games in the new year and also try to beat the Burnout series, with some other stuff along the way.
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Hello I would like to join ur game my initials are SS
The gender I'm attracted to is Male
- for your reading: I used my intuition but I wouldn't say I'm good but I tried, so it might Higley not be accurate
The first thing I searched for is Dark aestethic, so I feel this is their vibe! Also I think he really likes sweet n tea! I feel his career is related to business bcs I keeo seeing u someone wearing a black suit! And I thought he might be a lawyer as well but nah I am not sure, I felt he's definitely into classic music.
I think he loves looking at the sky and maybe that something u do both have in common? The sea as well, I feel he feels free when he looks at the sea. Maybe you gonna notice or love his laugh? He kinda reminds me of jin from bts or maybe he's foodie like him? 💗 (As I said I'm not really sure about my reading so it's some assumptions about him so it might resonate or not)
Btw, I think he really loves sea bcs when I was shuffling some song I kept seeing songs that has sea as album cover lol
Songs:
Omg , ahh wasn't expecting a reading 💕💕💕🏃🏾♀️🥹
Girl you ate. The mood board is so pretty . I think his vibes would be dark to .lol everyone around me loves sweet tea , except for me. I love sweets.Im normally attractive to someone voice 🤭. I like to live near the water in the future. I'm not someone that cooks so need a Jin in my life does seem similar to him
For you ,I got more of a summer aesthetic ,then it change to this lol.
He like , traveling ,long drives in the car, jogging , seeing the sunset , sweets, and being playful. I just pictured him , dancing with no music. ,😄 just enjoying the vibes.
The way the gif match board , and The only one I see right now lol.
Your future Spouse reminds me Of Dex / Kim Jinyoung. he is athletic, good with kids and respectful to elders. Competitive, leader, and sweet.
So your spouse can be connected to the military , intelligent, loyal to his friends and love ones. Not religious. Lol the song image , after I said that . Maybe he came from a religious family. Foreign , speak different languages. Sexual as well 😉.
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Let’s play bad take roulette, where you have to guess which I agree with and which I do not
I think warzone should add black ops 2 c4s
Black ops three was the best cod game
The persona 3 story is overall mid
Dead cells is too easy, I prefer skyrim
Bethesda, activation, and Warner brothers are good companies that care about all of their employees and customers
Sonic is mid and tails is kinda annoying
The assassins creed series’ last good game was origins
Mortal kombat is the best fighting game series and the plot is airtight
Borderlands three has too many bosses.
borderlands 2 is not fun to play
Hollow knight is too big
Punch time explosion xl needs a remaster
Hades two was unwarranted
Terraria is not fun
Ark is not fun
The horizon series is not fun
Minecraft fell off when c418 was fired
The Arkham series had too much joker
The Arkham series is the truest form of Batman representation
I believe and throw away your mask are underwhelming songs
Infinite warfare is a good game
Battle passes and loot boxes both destroyed the AAA gaming industry
Chloe must die in life is strange.
Uncharted is a good series
Tomb raider is a good series
The Lego games are well thought out
Eruptor was the best skylander
Getting over it is a great game
Extinction was overrated and the ghosts campaign was underrated
NO ONE WANTS TO PLAY YOUR HARRY POTTER GAME ROWLING
#gaming#video games#persona 5#dead cells#call of duty#hades supergiant#persona 3#skyrim#elder scrolls#assassin's creed#mortal kombat#borderlands#borderlands 3#hollow knight#silksong#sonic fandom#fallout 4#fallout 76#minecraft#terraria#uncharted#tomb raider#skylanders#life is strange#horizon zero dawn#horizon forbidden west
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I want to confess my love for Call of Duty; Ghosts. I fucking love it. The first call of Duty game I ever played, and I did not understand the plot for years (Because I was a baby playing with guns) 90% of my love is nostalgia, you could say, but regardless, it will always be near to my heart.. The other 10% of my love comes from Riley <3
Call of Duty: Ghosts is a relic, and regardless of the cliffhanger (We can all assume what happens, it does not need to be said) I think it should stay how it is. No remaster, No Ghosts 2. Even with it’s plot holes, it is perfect how it is. Like, protecting an art piece with a specific tear that adds to the character of the piece.
My first COD game was probably Black Ops 2, but we’d never play the campaign, just Zombies and why I don’t really count it.
There are multiple Call of Duty campaignes I’ve watched on YouTube (they’re expensive :c) But Black Ops 1 (One I have the pleasure of playing) Is by far the best COD game. I can’t even explain. I played it about 2-3 years ago after getting a 360 and pack of games from my brother, and the game only fueled my interest in international affairs..
Anyways, this has turned into me lecturing, but who cares. Most posts do, you’re used to this.
MW2019 was.. Good. The (only) thing I like the most about MW2022 is the relationship building.. MW2023 sucked shit. I hate Everything Activision has done with new-age MW.
Black Ops is by far my favorite series (Yes, I know they are ‘technically’ one) simply because it was left alone and love was put into it. No remasters/new-era, and (apart from CW(?)) no seasons. Story is fluid and draws you in historically, not to mention visual aesthetic. I’m hoping they don’t fuck up Gulf War, Black Ops is the series they haven’t managed to fuck up yet.. I <3 BO1 and BOCW
MW (prime) is a masterful in execution, despite how MW2 is just an action movie, MW and MW3 balance it out. (MW3 is a game I’ve actually played) MW prime is everything new-age MW is not. MW prime’s old graphics, good story, relationship bulding, VS good graphics, degrading story, and terrible relationship building …
I won’t even talk about Mobile. I know absolutely nothing about Mobile.
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Looking forward as to what excites me for each CoD game:
CoD3: Treyarch’s first real game! And the final missing link before CoD4, which feels like the real first “modern” Call of Duty in more ways than one. Fingers crossed for sprinting to be in this game, and maybe the knife melee. I know that last one isn’t intrinsic to the CoD formula anymore but it’s been sorely missed in these early CoDs with their wimpy gun butt melees. Will anyone still be playing the multiplayer on 360? Does the MP just have “pick a weapon” like 2 or does it have a prototype version of class creation? Or just classes at all?
RoV: I mean, the idea of PSP CoD is just funny to me. Could be unplayable. Will try to beat this before 4 though.
CoD 4: I’m super excited to have the remaster and to finally get to see the proper introduction of Soap and Price, who have been omnipresent despite me never playing this game. Of course excited to see the nuke and All Ghillied Up and finally have a context for MW2 like when I relatively recently finally beat Halo 2.
The DS games: recently played the first of these in local multiplayer but using a faulty L button so I can’t wait to see how I do instead on my DSi XL with working buttons. I’ll have to play one of the later ones on Wii U or PC just to mix it up.
WaW: it’s been so long since I’ve played this game and even longer since I’ve done the campaign. It’ll be a good warmup for checking out the classic zombies maps too. I’ll have to play at least a match of multiplayer too. This was my first CoD so it has a special place for me. I may want to speedrun it on recruit on ps3 so I can comfortably do the coop later.
WaW FF: uhhh I mean it’s funny that this exists
MW2: Again, this one was so huge to me as a kid. I’d love to finally hit max level and max out a gun or two. Can’t wait to see the original boost, the big snowy cliff level, kill shepherd, no Russian, underwater infiltration mission, burger town, all of it. I loved WaW to death and I was a zombies fanboy then and maybe even now, but the modern weapons and setting were so much more appealing to me as a kid and MW2 just felt like the epitome of “cool” even more than WaW and even Black Ops 1 with their historical settings to the point where I remember being mad at the MP40 in BO1 zombies and the M14/Olympia in TranZit and such.
BO1: I barely can remember any of the campaign besides Reznov being in it and an awesome prison break. Other than that…very little comes to mind. I remember loving this campaign so I’m really in for a treat there. And this is one I’ll absolutely have to dig back into the multiplayer for to dig up old memories. I’ve even still got the first dlc from back in the day! And I owe it to myself to play Five and Ascension at least a time each. Oh, and my cousin had COTD.
MW3: now this one I played much much later in my mind, but looking it up, I actually beat it just a year later on 2012, so that’s funny. I beat it just a month before Black Ops 2 came out in fact, and I know I played that game day one. I had totally forgotten that part of the story. That means it’s been over ten years since I’ve touched this campaign. In retrospect, all I remember remotely is the juggernaut ending and the New York opening. I didn’t even recall who makarov was while playing the new MW3. Oh, I do remember the Paris gas mission of course. So this is going to be super fresh for me actually. I think I always wanted to like Survival mode since it’s a little like zombies and I always liked the idea of it being an option on every map. What’s funny is that I think I can only recall ever doing it on the one map. I need to try it on terminal if that’s an option. Maybe I can try it splitscreen on PS3 if that’s an option. I’ll also have to pop my head into the multiplayer here even if I don’t have as much nostalgia for this game.
BO2: oh man, this game was everything to me when it came out. I have a ton of nostalgia for the multiplayer most of all, i think. TranZit was a huge letdown to me at the time. I have a hard time remembering much of the multiplayer though since the maps from it have been recycled so much and now my memories of hijacked, raid, express, etc. are all jumbled. I remember liking the low recoil assault rifle with the threat identification scope and generally like the pick 10 system a lot. Im super curious to see my old class load outs and combat record. I probably won’t play much TranZit but I’ll have to at least do a round on Town and Bus Stop. Maybe get the game going on PS3 just for the DLC zombie maps once each. And of course the campaign - I remember making choices, the split timeline, a sniper mission, dragon round shotgun, and the weird RTS missions. I wanna say you also got to customize your gear a bit but I might be misremembering. I think this game hit a real sweet spot with the technology level that even AW/BO3 go too far past long before even IW/BO4 and I really want to play this game and envision my ideal next near-future CoD title. Plus I remember the weird avenged sevenfold credits and I have grown to like them a lot since then. Plus this story will be more fun with the events of BO1 fresh in my mind, and possibly help tie in to BOCW, not sure yet.
Ghosts: I had this game as a kid exclusively to help train my dad for the incoming release of Destiny 1, which is what we owned a PS4 for in the first place. We played exclusively splitscreen with bots. I’m sure I played a bit online or started the campaign but I have zero recollection of those. I only even remember the unique perk point system because someone on Reddit brought it up recently. I do remember the soldier customization but not how it works exactly so I’m excited to see that. I remember this game feels very slick and polished actually so I’m super excited to give it a second shot. I also wanna say that you can level up by playing bots? This has massively been on my peripheral vision from long before this current CoD phase so I’m pretty excited to check this out. Oh, I do vaguely remember Extinction so it will be fun to briefly pop my head into that, possibly drag a coop partner in too. And having the first map pack will be a nice novelty. We had this physical and sold it so I never played this past the launch of Destiny 1 which was a long time ago now. UPDATE: yep, I checked and I have 7/100/19 hours in SP/MP/Zombies confirming that of course I remember the multiplayer way more.
AW: now this one I think I just outright owned on PS4 digitally but I just never chose to revisit it. This one was just for me, I think, but I still only got a level or two into the campaign and didn’t get super far in multiplayer. I remember struggling with the exo suit controls. I think I did a bit of offline bots with my dad here but it’s all blurry now… The added context of comparing this to WWII/Vanguard/new MW3 will be fun. It’s going to be rough seeing Kevin Spacey so much. And I’m excited to try Exo Survival and Exo Zombies a little bit. I think this was also the first game to experiment with loot crates in CoD which I want to say ended with BO4? But tracking that from game to game is a point of interest for me since I hated that so much and to really defined the “dark age of CoD” to me especially when combined with a 50 dollar season pass that has all the zombie goodness in it. I mostly just remember using the 3D printing ammo gun (will likely continue) and having some kind of weird novelty gimmick LMG. Curious to see if this game has laser beams, im pretty sure IW does. Also curious to compare the customization in this game and Ghosts before things get Operator-based in BO3/4/CW and MW1/2/3 but I can’t remember what IW/WWII are like in that regard.
BO3: actually about 1/3 through this already since it’s the main coop friendly one, so not looking forward to a ton here besides Maybe playing some more multiplayer outside of splitscreen, seeing more maps than just nuke town. I always contemplate buying the deluxe zombies edition and I likely will one day but that’s for another phase. And I’m torn between whether to get that on console for the easier splitscreen or PC for the mods. This campaign kind of sucks so far to be honest, but it’s a nice excuse to do a bunch of coop shooting galleries. I almost wish this game had opted to have a spec ops mode instead of coop campaign or otherwise simplified the coop experience. It’s impressive to have skill trees, ability wheels, and custom load outs in a splitscreen game but I’d honestly have preferred to just be given a standard loadout and no abilities when playing splitscreen, and less rambling cutscenes too. I am continuously impressed by how much content is crammed into this one game, but I scream at the screen every time I heard about the 54 immortals. In conclusion, train go boom. UPDATE: forgot to mention that I owned this on PS4 but no longer have a PS4 so that’s where I did just a little bit of everything, but then I only have the multiplayer on PC. Also briefly owned all the DLC but lost access to it, don’t ask how. So I weirdly have these brief fond memories of zombie chronicles and the dlc zombie maps. But I do hate gobblegum with a passion.
IW: I definitely played this game, yep. I think I owned and sold it on PS4? But I definitely currently own it on steam where it says I have 16 hours currently. Most of my memories of this game are the stellar Zombies in Spaceland so maybe I could get the season pass or *cough cough* find a way to play it once or twice without getting the whole thing especially since it has Elvira and Kevin Smith. I loosely remember the faction system from the multiplayer but not a ton else. I’m very excited to play a campaign that stands out from the rest though. I’m rooting for this one to end up being a hidden gem.
WWII: similar, I want this to be a hidden gem. I do remember playing this on PS4 I think, mostly bots with my dad, a bit of multiplayer by myself, and a little bit of zombies. I’m excited to see the zombies again once or twice but mostly because I never even booted up the campaign. I mostly remember the war mode from multiplayer, the HQ, the “random” class that respawns you with a new gun each life. Excited to compare this to vanguard. I think this might be the final loot crate CoD, because I know Black Ops 4 has a battle pass AND a season pass which I found egregious but I can’t recall if it also had loot crates or not.
Black Ops 4: I’m hoping for the single player missions to end up being more fun than people online give them credit for. This game is really the end of an era for CoD, even if that era is what I consider to be its dark age. I own this on battlenet, so I’ll have to check my playtime later, but I somehow also own this on Xbox so I may just play there for the purpose of splitscreen. I did enjoy the multiplayer at the time but I especially loved having 3 zombies experiences with no extra purchase required and with bots and leveling up no less. I mostly played the Ancient Rome one because it was so much faster to spin up but I really appreciated all the zombie quality of life changes here. I know literally nothing about the rest of the dlc zombie maps so that could be fun to try sometime when I have even more cash to throw around on stupid nonsense. I never did the single player much, I literally can’t remember how it worked. I know it doesn’t have story mode but just training missions but in my head that still sounds fun to me. I also want to try our “operator mods” even if just against bots. Maybe a round of “heist” as well. I remember playing the beta for this one on PC, but also being stuck playing this game on super low graphics and being jealous of how good it looked on my dad’s pc. I also remember the beta for BO3, BOCW, Vanguard, MW2, and MW3 but can’t recall if I did any others.
Skipping MW2019, it’s the only one I don’t have access to at the moment. I’ll be nostalgic for it in a few years but it’s too recent for now. Did the campaign and lots of multiplayer on the old ps4. But this game really marked a new era for my relationship with CoD. The new camo system and gunsmith system really lit me on fire and reinvigorated my love for the series. It is similar to how I loved Smash Bros Melee and Brawl and 3DS but didn’t truly get halfway decent until Ultimate. I truly loved this series as a kid but as a teen from Ghosts-BO4 it was just something I was half interested in. MW is what pulled me back in and made me a fanboy again. Since 2019, I’ve gotten even better at camo grinding and in general but this game is the reason I pre ordered MW2/3 and even Vanguard sadly. This game was so good it made me suspicious of BOCW just because it was different. And what’s funny is that I’m sure for a lot of people who feel that way, it’s because of Warzone, but I played practically zero of it unless I had to for a challenge to unlock something. I just loved the look and feel and vibe of this game and the quality of life stuff a lot. This game invented camo grinding as we know it now and that meant everything to me despite just being a checklist. I love me a checklist. But I don’t get nostalgic for the campaign despite relatively enjoying it. And I barely touched spec ops.
BOCW: own this baby on Xbox AND PC. I reckon I’ll do the campaign on Xbox since it’s more cinematic on the bigger screen. Especially after skipping MW19, this is where we get into games that are still extremely fresh in my memory. Especially since I went back to this game after Vanguard and double especially since I played this one a fair amount recently with my girlfriend so we didn’t have to do split screen on MW2. The multiplayer of this game is seared into my brain which is funny because I bought this game on PC for the zombies after a free weekend and slight discount convinced me. I ended up really liking this game but I’d wager I played at least 10 times as much multilayer as zombies. But more importantly here - I never even booted up the campaign. I’m super excited to get a follow up to the original black ops once I have that game’s story much more fresh in my mind. I’ll also have to pop my head in and play the round based zombie maps once each since I was really into those for a time before zombies outbreak became the main thing for me since it was so much easier to play with more casual players like the people I know IRL. I would like to play more of the multiplayer map zombie survival mode too though. I’m very much done with the multiplayer though.
Vanguard: I pre ordered this game and very quickly got disillusioned with it after getting just 1 or 2 guns gold. I’m actually pretty excited to revisit it though. I quit the campaign asap after it was super goofy and lighthearted but now that seems like a fun change of pace and I’m really looking forward to seeing the final evolution of all these classic WW2 guns that I’m still in the middle of using. It’ll be a super fun reunion to see the M1 garand, MP40, PPSH back again after missing them for several several games. and I never played the post-launch zombies like shi no numa so that’s actually super exiting for me to check out as an OG zombies fan. I’m not eager to revisit the multiplayer though beyond a cursory re-inspection. The weird attachment-locked camo challenges killed the camo grind for me. And I remember this game being weirdly similar to MW19 in a lot of ways. I’ll have to at least check out the Waw maps one more time maybe.
And…that’s it! I beat the new MW2/3 campaigns when they came out so there’s no need to revisit those. Vanguard is the “cherry on top” so to speak (haha). I reckon step one here is to just see if I even have the time/willpower/energy/attention span to get through the campaign of each game, especially considering I won’t be able to stop myself from dipping my toes into the multiplayer and coop modes a bit as I go along. Then I’d make another step to maybe set a little goal for each of the multiplayers that I want to revisit, like hitting max level or maxing out all the guns. After that or instead of that would be getting ahold of all the map packs whether by slowly overpaying for them over time or nefarious means.
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there were "claims" by some people apparently 6-7 months ago i think saying how Ghost's VA was talking that there will be a game focusing on Ghost and his backstory, but i've looked everywhere and never found anything. Was it in one of Sam's interviews? Or was this his old VA? Either way i don't see it, especially now, maybe in MWIII we'll get something more but i don't see IW or anyone really going that far to unravel a mysterious characters backstory and whatnot, it would kinda ruin the whole vibe and purpose me thinks. Alas.
From what I looked at I couldn't find anything. Trying to find information on upcoming installments is getting increasingly difficult, with promises for a potential second release this year. As well as many hopes for a remaster or sequel to Call of Duty: Ghosts, and the usual installments in order placing Black Ops as needing the next game.
As for speculation as to why these rumors popped up... Might actually have to do with Call of Duty: Ghost's cult following.
Classic Ghost does have a comic completely going into detail about their backstory, while Reboot doesn't. However when searching up "Call of Duty Ghost", searches can easily get mixed up with one of the forgotten children of COD.
There's the historical line (Cod: Vanguard, Cod WW2, etc), Black Ops' line (Black Ops, Cold War, World at War), Modern Warfare, Futuristics (Infinite Warfare, Advanced), and Ghosts.
Ghosts is kind of it's stand alone. The game itself took a lot of inspiration off of the character Ghost, and ties itself into the story with references to him. In fact the Modern Warfare 2 (2022) campaign also made a lot references back to the game Ghosts, even potentially tying it to the story more than already done.
Perhaps the hopeful speculation to see another Ghosts installment turned into a rumor along the way. Or maybe people got confused about the origins of Ghost's backstory in the comics, and prompted ideas about a game forming in its stead.
Maybe people's obsession with this unique character is bringing up ideas for him to have his own game, as this same rumor has happened in the past with the first one. Either way I didn't find anything.
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Donkey Kong Z Episode 11
Act 3 Begins
*Donkey Kong Jr enters the black screen*
DKJR: My father isn't here right now so I'll give you this piece of wisdom. Life is going to get you down, it'll tear you apart until you're nothing. But remember to keep fighting until the very end, our time will come and we must use it wisely. Life isn't always about happy endings, it's about fighting for the life that you have and for your mother gave you and fighting like hell to keep it. Remember my lesson well viewers, for it'll help you in the near future. *Walks off and vanished*
Act 3 OP - Dragon Ball Z - 1989 Japanese Opening - Cha-La Head Cha-La - Remastered 1440p 60fps
What we know so far / Episode Recaps - Wild Arms 3 OST 24 - Flying in the Midst of the Storm
*The start of the episode starts with going back to previous acts 1 and 2 to recap all the episodes in flashbacks until the beginning of act 3*
Act 3: Planetary Warzone
Episode 11: Fight to the Sea and Beyond (With DK and Diddy going after K Rool to get the rest of the fruit gems. The crossover gang is going to deal with the shadow alliance. Starting with going into Planet Zoness where Spyro teams up with Fox and Falco to battle Emperor Andross and Gnasty Gnorc.)
Beginning Act 3 - Resident Evil 3: Nemesis - Complete Rest [EXTENDED] Music
*The great fox continues to fly in space as everyone is together while DK comes out of the bathroom after flushing*
DK: Whoooo! What an eruption. Oh by the way guys we ran out of toilet paper. My bad. ^^;
Falco: Of course we did..
Sora: We'll need to do some shopping too. We're running out of supplies here.
Roxas: There's no time for that now. We need to finish the fight here and now.
Russ: Roxas is right, it's now or never this time.
Sora: Yeah okay...
Last briefing - Policenauts Soundtrack [PSX][Sega Saturn][PC98] 28 - Abandoned launcher
Fox: Okay team let's go over what we know, Donkey Kong and Diddy will be flying straight into planet Katina since most likely that's where k rool is with the rest of the fruit gems. Meanwhile, all of us are going to take down the rest of the villains. Me, falco, and Spyro will be fighting against Emperor Andross and Gnasty Gnorc on Planet Zoness. Then Crash, Koriju, and Banjo will be dealing with Neo Cortex, Ripto, and the sorceress on Planet Fortuna.
Koriju: Let natsumaru to me.
Fox: You got it.
Peppy: Approaching planet zoness now.
Diddy: Okay big buddy let's do this.
DK: *Hoots as I beat my chest* Let's do this!
*Peppy landed the ship allowing Fox, Falco and Spyro flies out*
Diddy: *Hoots as I beat my chest* Let's go!
*Both DK and Diddy transformed into their super kong form and flies out of the great fox and back into outer space*
Krystal: Godspeed DK and diddy.
Planet Zoness - Baten Kaitos ost - Condemnation of Darkness
Falco: Gnasty and Andross might just be waiting for us.
Fox: If K Rool planned this whole thing out then it's more than likely.
Spyro: They might have a mech to use against us too.
Fox: Well, in any case, keep your wits about both of you.
Spyro:...
Falco: Having second thoughts?
Spyro: No. It's just a lot that has happened since this journey began, and to end it all in one fell swoop seems too good to be true.
Fox: Think nothing of Spyro.
Spyro: One thing is for sure. I'm going to make them pay for what they did to ember. She didn't deserve that kind of treatment. Not ever.
Falco: Just keep that emo form of yours out of this, got it?
Spyro: Got it.
Falco: Here comes trouble!
*Andross Army and Gnorc Fighter Ships flew towards fox, falco, and Spyro*
Fox: Accelerate to attack formation and take'em down!
Andross: Time to meet your faith fox boy! Everyone charge!!
Gnasty Gnorc: Take them down!
Spyro: *Shot out electric balls which took down several of the fighters*
The attack begins! - The Valedictory Elegy Guitar Version) Baten Kaitos Origins Music Extended
*Fox, Falco, and Spyro flew into separation to get a better advantage, fox shot down five ships using the target guidance system in their Scouters*
Falco: I got five of them!
Fox: Then we're tied.
Falco: We'll see about that fox!
Spyro: A contest? Now? Really?! WAH! *Dodged the laser fire*
Falco: Come on Spyro live a little!
Spyro: Awe what the hell.
*Spyro went into flight pattern as he torched one of gnorc fighter ship wings*
Spyro: WOOHOO!! I KNOW I'm alive!!
Falco: Shoot, he's right behind! I can't lose 'em! *Did an aerial roll to try to get away* Damn!
*Fox flew behind and shot down three ships behind falco*
Falco: Great, I guess I owe you one.
Fox: Don't relax, we're not done yet.
Spyro: *Switch to electro mode as I got struck by lightning to supercharge my electricity then breaths lightning and shot down ten ships* I'm so good, it's shocking!
Falco: Show off!
Peppy: How close are you to Andross and gnasty gnorc?
Fox: About ten more miles, they just keep picking us off though!
Peppy: Keep trying fox, no matter what we have to end this here and now!
Fox: You got it peppy!
*The trio kept going while also dodging enemy laser fire and continue shooting most of their ships down*
Spyro: Hostile down!
Falco: Enemy ship down!
Fox: Keep going guys, we're nearly there!
*The music went silent as there was a flashing light then it glew even bigger as an energy beam came flying right at them*
Fox: Everybody dodge!!
*The trio flew out of the way to not get hit by the beam*
Emperor Andross and Gnasty Gnorc / Vs. Gnastydross Mech - Atlantis: The Lost Empire OST (PS1) - Leviathan Attack
Gnasty: Awe man! I missed!
Andross: No matter. We got their attention. Now let's kill them.
Gnasty: Yeah baby! *Laughs*
*The Gnastydross Mech flew directly toward fox, falco, and Spyro*
Slippy: I've analyzed the mech guys, aim for the power core in his chest! But take out the arms first!
Fox: Thanks slippy.
Spyro: Ready Sparx?
Sparx: *Buzzes*
*Both Fox and falco went to shoot the arms first to weaken it and also distract Andross, Spyro went into the core to destroy it*
Andross: You imbecile! Stop the dragon before he destroys both of us!
Gnasty: I'm trying here!
Spyro: *Went in front of the window and make faces* Naaaaah, naaaah!
Gnasty: Why that little pest!
Spyro: Hello! ^^
Andross: Get off our mech!
*The gnastydross mech opened its mouth to shoot out energy until Spyro dodged, two of its arms were destroyed*
Peppy: That's it guys, the mech is weakening!
Andross: You think you've stopped me? Think again!
*The core closed up as four more extra arms came out along with lasers and missiles came out of its hands*
Fox: Impossible!
Gnasty: HAHA! You'll have to do better than thaaaaat!
Gnastydross Mech 2nd Phase - The True Mirror Guitar Version) Baten Kaitos Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean Music Extended
Falco: Man did he upgrade.
Fox: Its shield is impenetrable, I don't think even our laser can get through.
Ossein: Cu, cubone!
Ghaster'hauns: Thought you guys could use some "ghostly" assistance.
Falco: Where the hell have you been?!
Ghaster'hauns: Sleeping.
Falco: -_-
Ghaster'hauns: Being lazy is one of my specialties what can I say.
Andross: GO TO HELL!!!
*Gnastydross fired all missiles at fox, falco, and Spyro but it just went through ghaster'hauns, including lasers. All three of them were dodging and barrel rolling through them*
Ghaster'hauns: *Yawns* Any requests?
Falco: Breaking the damn thing apart would be good!
Ghaster'hauns: Got it. *Flew right into the mech and started taking it apart*
*The controls electrocuted and some of them were fried*
Andross: What?! No! Something's messing with the controls!
Gnasty: Don't look at me! I didn't spill any drinks on it!
Ghaster'hauns: *Flew right out and dust my hands*
*The Gnastydross started exploding as pieces came off then flew down to the ocean and its entire mech was destroyed*
A Moment of Victory - Trevor Rabin - Bad Boys For Life (Pt. 1)
Fox: *Sighs in relief* ....And that's the end of Andross.
Spyro: Let's return to the others.
Eyecatch B/Now back to Donkey Kong Z - Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze Soundtrack - World Clear
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INFP Music Collaboration Project: Complete!
The INFP Collaboration Playlist Project is now complete!
In total we had about 200 songs submitted and that completely blew me away! Thank you all so much for participating, I had no idea that it would get this many responses!
Thank you especially to @rokokokokolores, @stillnotknowing, @anypassingthought, @2nerd4this, @sonsoftie, @aseratreasures, @infp-relatable, @lunagirl0013, @idunno-justpicksomething, and @namhamjoon (please let me know if I accidentally forgot to tag you)
These are just the participants who were okay with being named but also thank you to all of the anonymous participants!
Here’s the final playlist from everyone’s suggestions, including some of mine that I threw in even though some of you beat me to the punch for a few songs.
Here is the INFP Music Collaboration Project!
Spotify Link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2F8xgXYEKiJSBOo7g8IvON
I was thinking of doing another one of these in the future but just make up my own prompts and put them all in one form and leave it open for a while or forever and just update the playlist twice a month or something like that. If you have ideas, just drop a comment or an ask if you want it to be anonymous.
For those who want to know what the playlist turned out to be, here’s the list of songs with their categories below this break:
PROMPT #01: A SONG YOU LIKE WITH A COLOR IN THE TITLE
Silver Dagger - Live at Cecil Sharp House - The Staves
Today I Sing the Blues - Aretha Franklin
Pink Moon - Nick Drake
White Flag - Joseph
Black Swan - BTS
Indigo - Origa
Everything Black - Unlike Pluto
Red Sun - DREAMCATCHER
Yellow Lights - Harry Hudson
Red Hill Mining Town - U2
PROMPT #02: A SONG YOU LIKE WITH A NUMBER IN THE TITLE
.stage 4 fear of trying. - Frank Iero
Symphony No.5 In B-Flat, Op.100: 2. Allegro marcato - Sergei Prokofiev
One More Time with Feeling - Regina Spektor
100 Bad Days - AJR
R.I.P. 2 My Youth - The Neighbourhood
+THNX190519+ - CL
100 Ways - Jackson Wang
Day 1 â—‘ - HONNE
18 - Anarbor
Two - Sleeping At Last
Three Tree Town - Ben Howard
PROMPT #03: A SONG THAT REMINDS YOU OF SUMMERTIME
Fumes - EDEN
Summertime Sadness - Lana Del Rey
T-Shirt Weather - Circa Waves
ME! (feat. Brendon Urie of Panic! At The Disco) - Taylor Swift
Dream - Priscilla Ahn
Carnival Hearts - Kayla Diamond
Yam Yam - No Vacation
Motivation - Normani
Wake Me Up - Avicii
PROMPT #04: A SONG THAT REMINDS YOU OF SOMEONE YOU'D RATHER FORGET
Alligator Alley - Michael Daugherty
Because of You - Kelly Clarkson
Sincerely, Me - Mike Faist
Cheerleader - OMI
Viva La Vida - Coldplay
Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
Over You - Ingrid Michaelson
PROMPT #05: A SONG THAT NEEDS TO BE PLAYED LOUD
Shine A Little Light - The Black Keys
Dynamite - BTS
Prelude in E-flat minor - Dmitri Shostakovich
Sick of Myself - Matthew Sweet
Salute - Little Mix
Smother - Daughter
Ship To Wreck - Florence + The Machine
I Am The Best - 2NE1
Baba O'Riley - The Who
Mr. Brightside - The Killers
King - Years & Years
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) - Whitney Houston
I'm Coming Out - Diana Ross
PROMPT #06: A SONG THAT MAKES YOU WANT TO DANCE
Rain - MIKA
My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up) - Fall Out Boy
Jump in the Line - Harry Belafonte
We Are the Tide - Blind Pilot
I'm A Believer - Radio Edit - Smash Mouth
PROMPT #07: A SONG TO DRIVE TO
So Much More Than This - Grace VanderWaal
Open Road - Lost & Found Music Studios
Vasoline - Stone Temple Pilots
Walk in the Night - Kaori Kobayashi*
Fáinleog - Live - The Gloaming
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers
Kiss - Prince
Olalla - Blanco White
Sweater Weather - The Neighbourhood
PROMPT #08: A SONG ABOUT DRUGS OR ALCOHOL
Whiskey and Morphine - Alexander Jean
Meds - Placebo
High - Sir Sly
June - Florence + The Machine
Here's to Never Growing Up - Avril Lavigne
Void - The Neighbourhood
Clouds - BøRNS
PROMPT #09: A SONG THAT MAKES YOU HAPPY
Love Wins - Carrie Underwood
Shukumei - Official HIGE DANdism
Boy With Luv (feat. Halsey) - BTS
The Man Who Can't Be Moved - The Script
Love Come Down - Kalafina
Here Comes The Sun - Remastered 2009 - The Beatles
You Are the Best Thing - Ray LaMontagne
Pokemon Theme Song - The Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet
PROMPT #10: A SONG THAT MAKES YOU SAD
Someday - From "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"/Soundtrack Version - All-4-One
How We Love - Ingrid Michaelson
Everything You Ever - Neil Patrick Harris
Bluebird - Sara Bareilles
The Christmas Shoes - Newsong
Amen - Amber Run
Empty - Ray LaMontagne
In Dreams - Roy Orbison
The Beach - The Neighbourhood
PROMPT #11: A SONG YOU NEVER GET TIRED OF
Kimi Ga Hikari Ni Kaeteiku - Kalafina
Memories - Maroon 5
No Choir - Florence + The Machine
Should I Stay or Should I Go - Remastered - The Clash
Love On Top - Beyonce
Keep Your Head Up - Ben Howard
PROMPT #12: A SONG FROM YOUR PRETEEN YEARS
Fight Song - Rachel Platten
Samson - Regina Spektor
One More Sad Song - The All-American Rejects
No One - Alicia Keys
Poison Prince - Amy Macdonald
Love Story - Taylor Swift
7 Things - Single Version - Miley Cyrus
Rude - MAGIC!
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
PROMPT #13: A SONG YOU LIKE FROM 70s
Lean on Me - Bill Withers
Cat's in the Cradle - Harry Chapin
More Than a Feeling - Boston
Killing Me Softly - Frank Sinatra*
PROMPT #14: A SONG YOU'D LOVE TO BE PLAYED AT YOUR WEDDING
How Sweet It Is - Michael Buble
This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) - Natalie Cole
I'm A Believer - Radio Edit - Smash Mouth
Hold You in My Arms - Ray LaMontagne
Never Stop (Wedding Version) - SafetySuit
PROMPT #15: A SONG YOU LIKE THAT'S A COVER BY ANOTHER ARTIST
Skinny Love - Birdy
That's the Way It Is - Cassidy Janson
Angel - Darren Hayes
Titanium - Madilyn Bailey
There Must Be An Angel - ORIGA*
Mr. Tambourine Man - The Helio Sequence
Rude - Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox
Bad Guy - The Interrupters
PROMPT #16: A SONG THAT'S A CLASSIC FAVORITE
Africa - TOTO
Beautifully - Jay Brannan
Creep - Radiohead
Cupid - Sam Cooke
Your Favorite Thing - Sugar
Livin' On A Prayer - Bon Jovi
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
PROMPT #17: A SONG YOU'D SING A DUET WITH SOMEONE ON KARAOKE
For Good - From "Wicked" Original Broadway Cast Recording/2003 - Kristin Chenoweth
Take Me or Leave Me - Idina Menzel
Something To Believe In - Jeremy Jordan
Dancing with the Devil - Wolf Gang
Holding Out for a Hero - From "Footloose" Soundtrack - Bonnie Tyler
PROMPT #18: A SONG FROM THE YEAR YOU WERE BORN
A Thousand Miles - Vanessa Carlton
Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me) - Train
Waterfalls - TLC
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) - Green Day
Wannabe - Spice Girls
PROMPT #19: A SONG THAT MAKES YOU THINK ABOUT LIFE
Memories - Maroon 5
Men Of Snow - Ingrid Michaelson
The River - Kyla La Grange
Saturn - Sleeping At Last
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
The Fear - Ben Howard
Dog Days Are Over - Florence + The Machine
The Good Part - AJR
Build It Up - Ingrid Michaelson
PROMPT #20: A SONG THAT HAS MANY MEANINGS TO YOU
Freckles - Natasha Bedingfield
Happy Home - Lukas Graham
Barely Breathing - Duncan Sheik
The Road - Hurts
Lost in My Mind - The Head and the Heart
Love Like You (feat. Rebecca Sugar) - End Credits - Steven Universe
PROMPT #21: A SONG YOU LIKE WITH A PERSON'S NAME IN THE TITLE
Esmeralda - The Hunchback of Notre Dame Company
West Side Story: Act I: Maria - Leonard Bernstein
Nina Cried Power (feat. Mavis Staples) - Hozier
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
Roxie - Renae Zellweger
Grace - Florence + The Machine
PROMPT #22: A SONG THAT MOVES YOU FORWARD
Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto
Fuckin' Perfect - Melanie La Barrie
Who's Got a Match? - Biffy Clyro
Into The Fire - Thirteen Senses
Bang The Doldrums - Fall Out Boy
I Was Here - Beyonce
PROMPT #23: A SONG YOU THINK EVERYBODY SHOULD LISTEN TO
Neon Gravestones - Twenty One Pilots
Danzon No.2 - Arturo Márquez
Most Girls - Hailee Steinfeld
(Finally) A Convenient Truth - Get Well Soon
Stand by Me - Otis Redding
PROMPT #24: A SONG BY A BAND YOU WISH WERE STILL TOGETHER
Such Great Heights - Remastered - The Postal Service
To the Beginning - Kalafina
Here Comes a Regular - 2008 Remaster - The Replacements
Night Rather Than Day - EXID
Wonderwall - Remastered - Oasis
PROMPT #25: A SONG YOU LIKE BY AN ARTIST NO LONGER LIVING
Waiting for the End - Linkin Park
All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Human Nature - Michael Jackson
The Longest Time - Billy Joel
Love, You Didn't Do Right by Me - Rosemary Clooney
Before Our Spring - JONGHYUN
PROMPT #26: A SONG THAT MAKES YOU WANT TO FALL IN LOVE
girls - girl in red
Conversations in the Dark - John Legend
Just like Heaven - The Cure
On The Street Where You Live - Frederick Loewe
Still into You - Paramore
PROMPT #27: A SONG THAT BREAKS YOUR HEART
Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus" - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Black Woman - Danielle Brooks
Eyes Nose Lips (feat. Taeyang) - Epik High
Empty - Ray LaMontagne
Just a Dream - Carrie Underwood
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
Requiem - Laura Dreyfuss
PROMPT #28: A SONG BY AN ARTIST WHOSE VOICE YOU LOVE
Hurt - Christina Aguilera
I'M OKAY - SAAY
So Much More Than This - Grace VanderWaal
Pretty Hurts - Beyonce
Just like Heaven - The Cure
i'm lonely - Luz
Skylark - Aretha Franklin
Never Let Me Go - Florence + The Machine
Ship To Wreck - Florence + The Machine
PROMPT #29: A SONG YOU REMEMBER FROM YOUR CHILDHOOD
Going Under - Evanescence
Muddy Hymnal - Iron & Wine
Rush - Aly & AJ
Smooth (feat. Rob Thomas) - Santana
Who Let The Dogs Out - Baha Men
She Looks So Perfect - 5 Seconds of Summer
PROMPT #30: A SONG THAT REMINDS YOU OF YOURSELF
Never Let Me Go - Florence + The Machine
Vienna - Billy Joel
The Pros and Cons of Breathing - Fall Out Boy
In Dreams - Roy Orbison
Car Radio - Twenty One Pilots
Sweet Nothing (feat. Florence Welch) - Calvin Harris
Lonely Dance - Set It Off
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Jack's End of Year Video Game Round-up.
There were many things I couldn't do this year, being in lockdown and all, which in turn meant I played a hell of a lot more video games than I normally do. Here's a quick rundown of what I thought of them.
Hitman 2
IO have sort of perfected the Hitman formula now, so future entries in the series simply have to ask the question of what new directions you can take that formula. In that regard Hitman 2 is a resounding success, setting sneaking and assassination in scenarios around the world from race tracks to holiday resorts, and thus making it the best entry yet. It's possible one day the Hitman conceit will wear thin, but today is not that day.
Thronebreaker
Most people will go into Thronebreaker just wanting a stand-alone version of the Gwent we played during Witcher 3. Thronebreaker is not that. Indeed, even beyond the changes to the mechanics brought in by the online version, Thronebreaker is more of a puzzle game which uses the mechanics of Gwent to concoct unique scenarios. Still, the story is pretty good and it is fun overall, even if it didn't end up scratching the itch left by Gwent.
Black Mesa (Xen)
I returned to Black Mesa after Xen was finally added, eager to see what the team had come up with. My feelings are complicated. The Xen portions of the game are really well designed, great to play and visually beautiful. However the levels hew so far from the Half-Life originals that it kind of stops feeling like Half-Life. I would have like to have seen a more faithful recreation to be honest.
Neon Struct
If you've been wanting a spiritual sequel to Thief that actually used the mechanics of Thief, here you go. Though low budget, and therefore having somewhat uninspiring visuals based on reused assets, it's still a really impressive game from what the team had to work with, and it's short enough that it doesn't outstay it's welcome.
Acid Spy
I'm generally usually okay at stealth games but this one was well beyond my skill level. Got through the tutorial but just got frustrated and quit on the first mission.
Salting the Earth
A wonderfully put together visual novel about the legacy of war and the nature of national identities. Also you date buff orc women. One of the best VNs I've played, but it does have some pretty bleak potential endings that clash somewhat with the rest of the story's tone.
Hedon
Speaking of buff orc women, Hedon is a vivid, perfectly designed retro-shooter that really uses the most of it's engine to bring it's world to life, with shades of Thief and Strife thrown in there. Wears its hornieness on it's sleeve, but if you can roll with that you'll have nothing but a good time.
The Painscreek Killings
I really really loved this immersive narrative game, where you explore an abandoned town to piece together a series of suspicious deaths. My only gripes are the town looks very British despite being set in the US, and the final confrontation adding a chase scene felt a little over dramatic.
Deus Ex Mankind Divided
There are many problems with Mankind Divided. Trying to find another story to do with Adam Jensen. Making the game more of an open world by taking away the usual Deus Ex globe-trotting. The clumsy use of racial metaphor being applied to cyborgs. All in all the game just didn't really come together, which is a shame, because the DLC showed such promise, and hinted at the real Deus Ex game we could have had.
Warhammer Armageddon DLC
I managed to complete the Salamanders DLC and got stuck near the end of the Blood Angels one. All in all it's simply 'more' of what the base game offered, and I'm not sure it really needed it.
Unavowed
Easily one of the most interesting games I played this year. So good It inspired me to write a cheesy fanfic. Sure the mechanics of applying squad mechanics to a point and click are interesting, but it's the world, the art and the characters themselves that really make this game. Highly recommended.
Devil Daggers
The ultimate distillation of classic shooter mechanics. One platform, one weapon, endless enemies. I didn't get all that far into it and I think most people won't, but I'm not going to complain for the price. Overdue a revisit.
Dream Daddy
A fun and fluffy dating game that actually does a good job of putting you into the mindset of a recently bereaved bisexual dad. Come for the hunks, stay for the really affecting story of a strained relationship between father and daughter.
Greedfall
Greedfall falls short of the mark in most aspects, but I have to give it credit for being one of the few games to give us a Bioware companion-centric adventure during this drought of Bioware games. It lacks the zing of something like Dragon Age, and handles the subject of colonialism really problematically, but if you can get past those issues, it's a fun ride, and a world I'd like to revisit.
Endless Legend
I've been wanting a game to scratch the Alpha Centauri itch for decades now and Endless Legend finally did it. There is a risk of being overwhelmed by the sheer number of unique factions to play, and I know I still haven't really scratched the surface even after 4 full campaigns. Is that a criticism? I suppose it depends if you think you can have too much of a good thing.
Space Hulk Deathwing Enhanced Edition
A valiant effort was put in to make a faithful FPS of the Space Hulk experience, but ultimately it falls far too short. The visuals look great and the game-feel of stomping around as a Space Marine really works, but the game lacks charm and character. Up against Vermintide, there's no comparison.
Sunless Sea
This is a game that feels like a bottomless abyss of secrets and mysteries tied up in a very brutal one-life-only system. I really enjoyed my time with Sunless Seas, with the music calling me like a wailing siren every now and again, yet in many ways I did find it a bit too unforgiving, and it could have benefited from having a bit more of a progression between lives than the almost solid reset it leaves you with.
Age of Empires / 2 / 3 Definitive Editions
The first Age of Empires has an important place in history, but is borderline unplayable by today's standards. Almost every aspect was improved in 2 and going back now feels like trading a car for a horse and cart. It's clear that the game was intending your slow crawl out of the stone age through hunting and gathering to be part of the game in its own right, but today it's just tedious, and the rest of the game is just so slow.
There isn't much to say about Age of Empire 2 that I haven't already said, but I will point out that multiplayer AOE2 has kept me sane over the course of the lockdown, and I'm glad the Definitive Edition enhanced that experience.
Age of Empire 3 tried too hard to reinvent the wheel. Instead of taking 2 and building on it, it instead contorted it around a colonisation theme, and it didn't really work. On top of that, the mechanics really felt they were built more for single-player story missions. The maps are too small, and the expansion factions clash with the rules badly. Still, there is fun to be had, and I'll be checking out the campaigns next year.
Hand of Fate 2
This game takes the original Hand of Fate and adds way, way too much into it. While I appreciate the addition of companions, a longer story mode, and optional side missions, the game is far too experimental with it's formula, and leaves me struggling with complex missions around being lost in a desert or evading barbarian hordes, when all I wanted was a straight forward dungeon crawl. I tapped out two thirds of the way through the campaign.
Wild Guns Reloaded
I love the style and aesthetic, but I just don't have the reflexes (or the gamepad) for these fast paced arcade games.
Vermintide 2 Drakenfels
Fatshark gave us an entire Vermintide campaign for free this year, at the cost of having to be subjected to obnoxious cosmetic micro-tranactions. Hard to say it was worth the price, but Fatshark really do continue to improve, bringing new scope and ideas to every new mission. As good as it gets.
Pendula Swing
A fun little game that apes the visuals of a Baldur's Gate style RPG but the mechanics of a point and click adventure game set in a fantasy version of the roaring twenties. A strong introduction to it's setting but definitely needs building on if we're to see a continuation. A lot of the world-building feels too simple and half-baked at times, and the gameplay feels like too much is going on too fast. Still, a charming story though.
The Shiva / The Blackwell Series
At first I had no idea that Unavowed was connected to a host of other Wadget Eye adventure games, so naturally I had to check them out. I'd known about The Shiva and the Blackwell games for years, but never actually thought about picking them up. Playing them all back to back was a great experience, and almost felt like a prototype to the episodic storytelling many games do today.
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light/Temple of Osiris
Guardian of Light is a fun, inventive co-op game for killing some time with a friend. The puzzles are often unique and interesting and get you thinking, and the story, while nothing fantastic, is fun enough to keep you interested and have a laugh about with your co-op partner in a B-Movie kind of way. Temple of Osiris adds way too much to the formula, with more characters, mechanics and more open exploration and it absolutely loses the charm of the first game, and even then it's buggy as hell. Skip the second one.
Command and Conquer Remastered
Big chunks of my childhood are taken up with memories of playing Command and Conquer and Red Alert, so it's difficult to really gauge my thoughts on the remaster. On the one hand the art direction looks great and preserves the feel of the original, and the quality of life improvements to the gameplay help make it more playable. The nostalgia hit is also palpable. That being said, the mechanics have not aged all that well, with much of the game being far, far too hard. Probably the best way to experience the genesis of the RTS genre but just know what you're getting in for.
Superhot Mind Control Delete
I wrote a lot at length about how unsure I was about Mind Control Delete at the time, and that's because it does feel a little unsure about itself. Is it a continuation of the first game? A fun bonus mode? A mediation on the nature of addiction? A critique of video game content? A joke on the player? I don't know, but I do know one thing, and that is that Superhot is still as addictive as hell.
Opus Magnum
Zachtronic's steampunk alchemy game requires far too much maths brain than I am capable of , and so I had to rely on guides a lot of the time, but that being said, it's still amazingly put together and vividly presented. Really feels like a game that could be used in schools.
Necromunda Underhive Wars (Story Mode)
I'll be checking out Underhive's Campaign mode in the new year, but for now I just want to talk about the story mode. Much like Mordheim, this is a game that's not going to work for everyone, but I really dug it and like it's unique take on a squad based TBS. However, in many respects the game does feel like a missed opportunity. The storyline is fun enough, and the arsenal robust, but much of the character of the tabletop game, the weird, chaotic, and sometimes comical things that can happen over the course of a battle seems to have been lost in translation, as has the quirky character to a lot of the gangs.
Outer Wilds
There is little I can say about Outer Wilds that hasn't already been said by others, particularly that one should go into the game as blind as possible. A beautiful piece of interactive art, words would fail me in describing it anyway.
Life is Strange 2
Fantastically written, amazingly animated, wonderfully acted, and grim and depressing as all hell. I really love Life is Strange 2, but it it a tough game to bare witness to, especially in 2020. It treats it's subject matter with great maturity, but is so dark it's hard to motivate yourself to continue each gruelling episode. Also, I really think it would have fared better if it had not named itself Life is Strange 2, as not following Max and Chloe turned a lot of people away from a game I think they'd have otherwise enjoyed if they'd named it Wolf Brothers or something.
Half Life 2 / Episodes / Portal / 2/ Mel
After playing Black Mesa earlier this year I decided to revisit the entire Half Life 2 and Portal series. What I concluded is that Half Life 2 is not really all that good. A well told story wrapped around weak combat and average encounter design. This much improves across the episodes of course, but in the end I rather feel Half Life 2 is pretty overrated.
Portal, on the other hand, still feels fresh, though I was surprised I'd forgotten just how much was added in Portal 2, to the point Portal feels more like a game demo. That being said, I think the slowly growing mystery and menace of Portal has aged a lot better than the gagfest the series became with 2. Mel, a stand-alone mod that feels like could be a Portal 3 in it's own right, returns to a more serious tone, and feels all the stronger because of it.
Control
Control has gone from a game I didn't really care about all that much to one of my favourites of the year, if not the decade. Sure there are criticisms I could make, but the world has so much depth, the characters so much potential, and the gameplay such perfectly designed chaos, that it wouldn't really matter. A great time was had.
Icewind Dale 2
Finishing Icewind Dale 2 was the final banishing of the old ghosts of Infinity Engine games I never finished as a kid. Sure there was the nostalgia, but Icewind Dale 2 also feels prefect for the Baldurs Gate era's swan song. Beautiful environments, a well written story and great interface and design, only pulled down due to some overly long busywork at various points and the plot being dragged on a little too long. Still, sad to know I have no further Infinity Engine games left to conquer.
Elsinore
The first half of Elsinore is an absolutely great time-loop mystery, which seems to be an interesting interrogation of Shakespearian tropes and asks the question of how much of a Shakespearian tragedy remains the more you change it. The second half, however, quickly devolves into a cosmic horror story that feels a poor fit for the genre and far too grim for the art style, and that's even before it basically devolves into trying to do the same thing Undertale did but worse. A well put together game whose ending did not sit well with me.
Gwent: The Witcher Card Game
Since Thronebreaker didn't sate my appetite I started playing competitive Gwent. It is a wholly different game than the one that appears in The Wither 3, but is certainly fascinating in it's own right. After 200 hours I am officially addicted, somebody please send help.
And that's that. Not doing a top 5 games of the year because I played too many this year and I've spent too much time thinking about them already. Here's hoping I play less in 2021 and can get back to a more normal life.
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Top 10 Games I Played in 2019
Another year has gone by just like that, and here we are with another year’s worth of games played! There were some good releases this year, and I’m excited to talk about them all. Before that, though, let’s touch briefly on the criteria for these lists:
Any game that I played for the first time in 2019 is eligible, regardless of initial release year. Games that I started late in the previous year but spent most of the time playing in the year in question also count.
Ports, remasters, remakes, etc. of games that I have played before do not count.
I have to spend a certain amount of time with a game or the game has to make some kind of significant impact on me to be considered.
Lastly, these are just my opinion out of a very limited pool of games that I was personally able to get to this year, so if a game you played this year doesn’t show up, chances are either I didn’t have a chance to play it, or it just wasn’t personally as impactful to me as some of the others on the list. Now, on to the list!
10. Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Switch)
Developer: Intelligent Systems / Koei Tecmo
Publisher: Nintendo
Genre: Strategy RPG
Release Date: July 26th 2019
Before Three Houses, the only Fire Emblem game I played was Awakening on the 3DS. I mostly enjoyed it, but I couldn’t get into the marriage aspect of the game, and I felt that many of the battles a bit too lacking in any sort of story context other than “There are bad guys here, let’s take them out!”
However, Three Houses really succeeded for me where Awakening failed. The academy was a really great home base and actually gave some meaningful context to most of the battles in the game. I really enjoyed micromanaging the different lessons in the game and tweaking each of my students into exactly the build I wanted for them, however I felt the drawback of this was that there weren’t really a whole lot of different classes to really explore. Most of the game’s character classes are just stronger variations of lower-level classes, and it definitely felt like some skill categories became woefully underutilized as the game went on, so there was no point in training people for them. I also liked recruiting other students to my house, but I felt like the other houses students didn’t really offer anything that my current house already had, so some students ended up feeling mechanically similar to others.
The battles were exactly what you’d expect from Fire Emblem, and gave me a bit of a tabletop RPG vibe, which I enjoyed, particularly when there were large monsters to fight that took up more grid space than standard units.
That being said, the story was really interesting, and I really liked watching everything unfold. I picked the Black Eagles house (because Edelgard is great), but I felt like that story didn’t really do a great job of explaining everything, and expected you to just side with Edelgard on some of her more bold decisions with no explanation as to why what she was doing was right, which felt kind of unfair. The game really wanted you to go through and play each one of the houses stories, but with around 80 hours poured into a single house, I didn’t really feel like there was much point at the end.
Overall, I think Three Houses is a great fit for the Switch and I’m excited to see what the future of Fire Emblem on Switch will look like.
9. Luigi’s Mansion 3 (Switch)
Developer: Next Level Games
Publisher: Nintendo
Genre: Adventure
Release Date: October 31st 2019
When it comes to Luigi’s Mansion, I enjoyed Dark Moon on 3DS back in 2013 while waiting for Animal Crossing: New Leaf to drop, but I never really had much of a reason to come back to it. Still, I really enjoyed the exploration aspect of the game and the attention to detail really impressed me with how nearly everything could be interacted with.
Luigi’s Mansion 3 on Switch is more of what you’d expect from the Luigi’s Mansion series. The game centers around Luigi exploring a haunted hotel to stop King Boo and rescue Mario and his friends. While Dark Moon focused more on a few isolated mansions with different themes, LM3 brings things back to a single gigantic building. This time, each floor of the mansion has a different spooky theme, from ancient Egypt, to classical music, to a floor overgrown with plants. Luigi has to defeat the boss of each floor to reclaim the elevator button for the next floor as he gradually works his way to the top.
Like with previous games in the series, you can expect loads of environmental interaction, such as all the items you can suck up and mess with using the Poltergust, but LM3 brings some new mechanics to the series, including a launchable plunger than you can then pull on to yank certain objects around, as well as the remote-control Gooigi, who is as fun to use as his name is cursed. Gooigi is basically a slime doppelganger for Luigi who can be deployed at any point to assist Luigi with different tasks, or split up for local co-op play. He also has the ability to squeeze through grates and pipes, allowing all sorts of hidden areas that only Gooigi can explore.
LM3 is a game that oozes with charm (no pun intended), though the combat does get a tad repetitive. Also, I was a bit disappointed that there was not more interplay between different floors of the hotel. They’re almost exclusively completely isolated levels, which definitely takes away from the feeling of having a huge building to explore.
8. Blasphemous (PC)
Developer: The Game Kitchen
Publisher: Team17
Genre: Adventure Platformer
Release Date: September 10th 2019
Blasphemous is a game I remember seeing teasers for earlier in 2019, but saw little to no hype for otherwise. However, the concept and the stunning hi-bit pixel art immediately drew me in. The game is a 2D adventure platformer set in a gothic fantasy world reminiscent of Dark Souls. In fact, quite a lot of this game is reminiscent of Dark Souls, with a lore thicker than gravy that’s brimming with little tidbits of information in every NPC dialogue, every item flavor text, and in the bosses you encounter. The world takes inspiration from Christianity, though not actually being about Christianity itself, instead a fictional religion with many similar aspects (an approach I wish more developers would take).
In Blasphemous, you play as The Penitent One as you explore a rotting gothic world and learn more about a strange quasi-religious curse called The Miracle and other fascinating bits of the world. You explore such locations as rotting cathedrals, a frozen mountain, the interior of a colossal bell set upside down into the ground, and more. Along the way, your eyes will feast on some of the most gorgeous pixel art in games this year.
The Penitent One is able to battle with their sword and certain special abilities picked up along the way. While the combat is fairly simple at first, it gets much more deep and nuanced as you go along, dodging enemy attacks, parrying and countering, using spells to buff yourself or shoot projectiles, and much more. Personally, the game feels a lot like Dark Souls meets Castlevania, particularly Symphony of the Night. It’s definitely a lot of fun, though it may not be everyone’s cup of tea due to tone and difficulty.
7. Mario Maker 2 (Switch)
Developer: Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development
Publisher: Nintendo
Genre: Action Platformer and Level Editor
Release Date: June 28th 2019
I was a big fan of the idea of the original Mario Maker on WiiU, so I was really excited when Mario Maker 2 was announced for Switch with a plethora of new parts, themes, mechanics, and features. I have a pretty big soft spot for classic Mario games, and level editors really get my gamedev side going, so this game pretty much checked all the boxes for me.
I was glad this time around to see an extensive singleplayer mode, where Mario has to play through Nintendo’s own pre-made levels to gain coins to rebuild Peach’s castle after the Undodog resets it all to nothing. It was a great introduction to the game, particularly showcasing what all you can do with the new parts. It was the perfect thing to get any creator’s brain tingling with ideas for their first level.
The editor itself is largely improved from the WiiU, though you’ll almost certainly need a capacitive stylus in order to really take advantage of the Switch’s touch screen, though it’s nice to finally have a Switch game with proper touch screen support, since it seemed like Nintendo had all but forgotten about this part of the device. There are tons of new improvements here, too, such as all modifiers for objects can be accessed by long-pressing on an object. One thing I wasn’t fond of though was the way the Select and Copy modes are accessed, needing to toggle through them and normal edit mode instead of just having a single button for each.
Unfortunately, the Amiibo costumes have not returned, which would have been a great use for Amiibo on Switch (anyone remember that the Switch is Amiibo compatible?), though with the recent release of the Link costume, it seems that Nintendo has plans in mind for these alternate forms.
Fortunately, if you’re not much of a creator, there’s still plenty to do in MM2, as there are tons of ways to play levels online, including an endless challenge mode with different difficulties, browsing top level lists, and a new speedrun mode where levels are available for a limited time and you can grind them to get your best time, playing against the ghosts of other players’ best times.
All in all, I’ve had fun with MM2, and I’m excited to see what Nintendo will bring to the game in future updates (please implement level playlists).
6. Baba Is You (PC)
Developer: Hempuli
Publisher: Hempuli
Genre: Puzzle
Release Date: March 13th 2019
Out of nowhere back in March came a little indie game known as Baba Is You. In this programming puzzle game, each level contains the rules of the level as physical objects that you can push around and recombine to manipulate how the game plays. Each rule statement can (usually) be broken down into three components: an object (such as Water), a verb (such as Is) and a property (such as Stop). Each one of these components can be pushed around at will, and if you line all three of them up you get the statement “Water Is Stop”, meaning that all water tiles in the level do not allow other objects to move over them. If you break this statement, the water loses this blocking property and you can walk over it. It doesn’t stop there, though, and there are tons of combinations and complicated scenarios that will leave your brain hurting after too long. While some of the puzzles are unfortunately rather obtuse in their intended solutions, and the game doesn’t always do a great job of teaching you the skills you’ll need to face harder puzzles, you at least have the option of completing multiple different levels, so it’s rare that you’ll be stuck on just one.
It also helps that the art for the game is a cute but simplistic hand-drawn style that makes it easy to distinguish all the various elements of each level. The only reason this game didn’t rank higher on my list is that I got stuck and I found most of the levels to be a bit too hard for me (shocking, I know).
5. Gato Roboto (PC)
Developer: doinksoft
Publisher: Devolver Digital
Genre: Adventure Platformer
Release Date: May 30th 2019
Gato Roboto is a cute Metroid-like adventure platformer that sees you taking the role of Kiki, a cat who has to explore an alien planet to rescue her master’s crashed ship. Fortunately, while Kiki is defenseless on her own, she is able to pilot a robotic mech suit to run, gun, and jump across different zones of the planet. While a Metroid-esque platformer is nothing new, it’s the charming 1bit graphics and the interesting interplay between power suit mechanics and suitless cat mechanics. Sometimes there are gaps that the suit can’t fit into or walls that you need cat claws to climb, so you’ll have to abandon your robot suit and proceed on foot for a bit. In true Metroid fashion, you’ll acquire many upgrades for your suit as you go along, including movement abilities and health upgrades.
The game is short, but very sweet, and the mechanics are super satisfying. You could maybe finish the game in a few hours, but the controls and speedrun potential will likely keep you coming back for more.
The only downside I have to the game is that there is at least one section where you have to explore extensively on foot, and since you die in a single hit while on foot, it makes for some frustrating moments when you just barely mistime a jump and graze an enemy. Also, at one point I managed to softlock the game by accidentally bypassing a barrier that the player isn’t meant to and getting stuck in a boss area when a required button doesn’t work after you defeat the boss. Fortunately, the developers managed to patch this, so I was able to continue playing after a while.
4. Hollow Knight (PC/Switch)
Developer: Team Cherry
Publisher: Team Cherry
Genre: Adventure Platformer
Release Date: February 24th 2017
I’ll admit, I was a bit late to the party on this one. Hollow Knight released back in 2017 on PC, and while I played it for a bit on there, I didn’t get far and just never had time to come back to it. However, when it was released on Switch in mid 2018, I ended up picking it up again some time later and gradually worked my way through it into 2019. Hollow Knight is a Metroid-esque adventure platformer with light Dark Souls elements set in a dark and dismal world of a fallen insect kingdom. You play as a lone knight who seeks to explore the Hallownest and learn its secrets. Armed only with your Nail, a rusted sword, you explore the caverns and abandoned civilization beneath the town of Dirtmouth.
The game has tons of exploration, and allows the player to explore Hallownest at their own pace with minimal signposting towards destinations. Additionally, the game has an interesting map mechanic where you start off completely without a map and have to rely on memory to navigate the tunnels, however very quickly you’ll be able to purchase a blank map where you can record rooms you’ve been to at each save point. However this map only works for the current area, so for each area you discover, you’ll have to start this process all over, finding a map so you can chart out the area. While this sounds like a pain at first (and definitely can take some adjusting), it’s actually really interesting as you feel like you’re really discovering a forgotten realm and charting out your own personal course through the world. There are also plenty of points for nonlinear progression, as many areas are often open to the player at once, so it’s up to them to choose where to go (or just stumble across new areas at random like me). Each area offers vastly different visuals, from a mushroom-filled series of tunnels, to an elegant garden, to dank sewers, to a city drenched with perpetual underground rain. In each area you’ll explore every nook and cranny to find upgrades and new abilities.
Along the way, you’ll find many badges that you can equip, a la Paper Mario, that give you various passive bonuses and abilities, however you are limited in the number you can have equipped at a time, so strategic planning of which badges to use is crucial.
One of the game’s main features is challenging boss battles. The further you get in the game, the more the balance shifts from exploration to combat, with the late game mostly revolving around hunting down multiple different bosses. Many bosses are optional, however, and some are even hidden, so many players might miss them entirely. Personally, while I found many bosses to be fun challenges, it got kind of tedious to constantly be fighting bosses at every turn, which led to me not completely finishing the game.
3. Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition (Switch)
Developer: Square Enix
Publisher: Square Enix
Genre: RPG
Release Date: September 27th 2019
I’ll admit I slept on Dragon Quest XI when it released for PC and PS4 back in 2017. It was constantly on my “maybe someday” list, but it wasn’t until the Definitive Edition released on Switch back in September that I decided to give it a go, and boy am I glad I did.
DQXI tells the story of a young man who finds out one day that he is the reincarnation of a legendary hero called The Luminary, who is said to defeat an evil known as The Dark One and bring peace to the world. However, he soon finds himself hunted by a corrupt kingdom that has branded him as The Darkspawn, claiming he is responsible for bringing The Dark One to the world and causing disaster. Thus, our hero travels the world, meeting friends along the way, and finding out what it means to be The Luminary.
The game’s plot may seem a bit generic, but that’s the thing. The whole conceit of DQXI is that it’s a classic JRPG at heart, but with a lot of modern touches to make it feel accessible today. So while there are plenty of turn-based battles, MP gauges, and a story that’s simplistic at the surface, there are loads of surprises throughout and lots of mechanical tweaks that drastically improve the quality of life of the game. For instance, as characters level up, they gain skill points that they can spend on a grid of skills to improve their abilities in different disciplines. Usually, each character has a sector of the grid for each weapon type they can use, as well as one section full of character-specific buffs and special abilities. By the end of the game, you’ll be able to unlock nearly every ability, so it becomes more of a matter of deciding which abilities to prioritize based on how you want to customize each character.
Speaking of characters, there’s a pretty full cast of characters to enjoy, and I found myself loving all of them, such as the spunky Veronica, the flamboyant Sylvando, or the warrior princess Jade. Each character has their own battle style, too, including casting spells, using strong weapons, buffing the party, and more.
The game will easily get you over 100 hours of playtime, with myself clocking in at around 120 hours so far. I’m not quite done yet, but I’m almost there. See, there’s a ton to do in DQXI aside from the main story, including crafting and improving items in a quick minigame at your Fun-Size Forge, gambling in the casino, horse racing, side questing, and exploring various parts of the world.
As for quality of life features, there are such things as the Horse Hailer, which allows you to immediately summon a horse on the overworld for quick travel, early access to the Zoom spell, which lets you teleport back to any town, important location, or campsite you’ve visited throughout the world for free, campsites being free healing, a speed-up option in combat, multiple auto-battle options, the ability to quick-heal in the menu, and more. It’s hard to really list everything, but there are tons of instances where you’ll think “Oh, that’s really handy”.
The visuals of the game are fantastic, with lots of that Akira Toriyama style that’s become synonymous with the Dragon Quest series. The characters are all really well designed and memorable, though some of the NPCs have a bit of a case of same-face, which is especially jarring considering that the game’s world is inspired by many diverse real-world cultures, making it odd that people from a Japanese-inspired area look exactly the same as people from an area based on northeast Europe. Still, I think the game otherwise does an excellent job at respecting world cultures, and even incorporates real-world languages into different regions. For example, the in-game city of Gondolia is based heavily on Venice, Italy, and the people of that city sprinkle bits of Italian into their dialogue. It’s a charming touch.
The music for the game sounds really great if you enable the orchestral version. Unfortunately, the game originally released with only a synthesized version of the soundtrack, which sounds terrible by comparison. Unfortunately, I felt that although each of the compositions were very memorable and pleasing, there sometimes didn’t feel like enough of them. The overworld, city, battle, boss battle, and dungeon themes are exactly the same wherever you go in the world, and I felt like that was a missed opportunity to really spice up the soundtrack with more unique themes to each area.
Overall, If you like JRPG’s, you’ll definitely like DQXI. My only complaints are that it can be a tad on the easy side, and that there are a few points of no return in the story that cause certain quests to be locked out without warning.
2. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Switch)
Developer: Bandai Namco Studios / Sora Ltd.
Publisher: Nintendo
Genre: Fighting
Release Date: December 7th 2018
Was this really a surprise? A new Smash Bros. game releases the day before my birthday? Of course I’m gonna love it! I had been hyped up for Smash Ultimate for months preceding its release, going as far as watching any gameplay videos on YouTube I could find from various demo events and tournaments around the world. Even after the game’s release, there have been tons of content updates, new fighter DLC, and just so many reasons to come back to the game. It doesn’t hurt that one of the most accessible fighting games of all time is available on a handheld system (literally the only reason I played Smash 3DS). Smash Ultimate stands out in more than just its portability factor, though. While it largely recycles content from previous games, it can be seen as the “Ultimate” Smash Bros game, bringing back every single fighter from the series history, nearly every playable stage, and tons of familiar modes. Not only that, but new content is also present in terms of fighters, stages, and more. Long awaited characters include the Inklings from Splatoon, Ridley from the Metroid series, King K. Rool from Donkey Kong, and surprise guests, including Simon and Richter Belmont from Castlevania. On top of that, a plethora of DLC fighters and stages have been added, with the 5th DLC fighter still upcoming and shrouded in mystery.
Most prominent of the new additions is the game’s approach to a story mode. Unfortunately not as robust as the Subspace Emissary from Super Smash Bros. Brawl, The World of Light is still a welcome addition. In this mode, a strange angelic being called Galeem has turned all of the Smash fighters into evil controlled puppets, except, of course, for Kirby, who sets out to free each of the game’s 70+ fighters from Galeem’s control across a large board of levels, each connected by pathways. Each level features a battle against a copy of one of the game’s fighters possessed by a Spirit, essentially the essence of a video game character, and you have to free the Spirit and claim it by defeating the possessed fighter in a themed battle. This was a really nice way of including references to characters across not only Nintendo’s history, but the whole history of gaming as well, including some characters who do not otherwise appear in Smash, such as Shantae and Rayman. These Spirits, once collected, can be equipped to your character to not only improve your power level, but also offer different buffs, such as resistance to certain attacks, powering up your Smash attacks, starting you off each battle with an item, etc. I definitely enjoyed the World of Light mode, though I felt like it was a tad on the shallow side, and battles could get fairly repetitive after a while.
Fortunately, Smash really shines on its core mechanics, and the most fun I’ve had from the game is exploring all the different characters and finding which ones I like best. My current main is Ganondorf, though I still love playing as Ness and Lucas. Really, this is Smash at its best, and a number of much-needed mechanical tweaks, such as dodge fatigue, directional midair dodging, holding smash move charges, and an overall faster pace make this my favorite Smash game yet.
1. Persona 5 (PS4)
Developer: P-Studio
Publisher: Atlus
Genre: RPG
Release Date: April 4th 2017
Okay, wow. What a game. I’ve never played a Persona or Shin Megami Tensei game before, but buzz for Persona 5 was everywhere, and with the inclusion of P5’s Joker in Smash, I had to check it out. Even though I got to the game nearly two years late, I’m so glad I did.
Persona 5 is an RPG where you take on the role of a high school boy (he doesn’t really have a default name, but the most common name for him is Ren, so that’s what we’ll use) who has gotten tangled up in some legal trouble after intervening in a drunken assault on a woman he witnessed on the street. Turns out, this guy was something of a bigshot, and Ren soon finds himself placed under a form of rehabilitation where he is forced to transfer to the illustrious Shujin Academy in Tokyo. While at Shujin, Ren must live under the guardianship of a man named Shojiro who runs a coffee shop. Ren must stay out of trouble at school and live honestly.
However, trouble almost immediately finds Ren again as he discovers a lecherous teacher is mistreating many of the school’s students, and while investigating, accidentally slips into a strange dimension called the Metaverse, where the twisted perceptions of corrupted people are manifested into reality, and a sprawling Palace exists for the evil teacher. There, Ren meets a strange talking cat named Morgana who offers to help Ren if he will help Morgana find the Treasure at the heart of the Palace. Turns out, the Treasure is the manifestation of what caused the person’s desires to become corrupted, and stealing it causes them to lose their distorted emotions and confess.
Thus, Ren becomes a Phantom Thief, infiltrating Palaces and stealing Treasures by night and masquerading as a humble high school student by day. The Palaces are effectively the game’s dungeons, and this is where combat and exploration take place. Along the way, he’ll discover the power of his Persona, effectively an avatar of the user’s personality that enable them to unleash their true power inside the Metaverse, as well as use special abilities. And of course, you’ll recruit many friends to the Phantom Thieves, all of whom have their own motives and Personae. However, Ren has a special power. Instead of just being limited to one Persona, he has the ability to capture many Persona from the Metaverse by recruiting the game’s enemies or fusing Personae he already has to make more powerful ones. Thus the game has a light monster-collecting aspect to it, as each Persona can be leveled up to unlock new abilities, fused with others, and much more. What’s cool is that each Persona must be persuaded to join you by knocking it down in battle and then speaking to it in whatever way you think it wants to hear.
Outside of Palaces, you’ll investigate your targets, infiltrate a mega-palace called Mementos, as well as managing your free time. You see, Persona 5 allows you a limited amount of time to do everything you want to do, and it’s crucial that you manage your student life as well. This means spending time studying for exams, reading books to improve stats, working part-time jobs for money, playing minigames, and most importantly, hanging out with different NPCs, your teammates and supporters, to boost their friendship levels. As you get higher in friendship with each NPC, you’ll unlock new abilities, some of which are truly game-changing. I really enjoyed this aspect, as it felt like a puzzle trying to figure out how best to use my time. Almost nothing felt wasted, but I knew I wouldn’t have enough time to do everything, so I was always thinking about how best to optimize my time. Unfortunately, you can’t do everything in a single playthrough, but fortunately you can carry a lot of your progress over into New Game+. Some features are actually restricted to NG+, so it makes it feel like that second playthrough is really necessary if you want to see everything.
While the dungeons and the battles are mechanically fairly straightforward JRPG faire, the battles are interesting in that each enemy species has its own strengths and weaknesses, and exploiting weaknesses can knock down the enemy and allow you to take an extra turn, which can lead into strong combos. Furthermore, once all enemies are knocked down, you can perform a powerful All-Out Attack for massive damage. It honestly doesn’t get too much more complicated than that, but there is enough depth to the system to keep you engaged until the end of the game.
Each of the game’s characters are extremely well-designed, and I loved pretty much all of my party members, though Yusuke didn’t click with me as well as some of the others, despite being voiced by the amazing Matt Mercer. My favorite, of course, was the imperious Makoto, who appears little more than a bossy student council president in reality, but explodes into flurries of righteous blows in the Metaverse, alongside her robot motorcycle Persona.
Of course it’s impossible to talk about Persona 5 without mentioning the absolute masterpiece that is this game’s presentation. If you know anything about the game, you’ve likely seen the striking art style used in all of this game’s art and UI. It’s honestly every bit as eye-catching and jaw-dropping as it seems. The music is an utter masterpiece as well, with all manner of swingy jazz tunes, somber piano pieces, heart-pounding rock tracks, all of which come together with the visual style to give you something unlike anything you’ve ever played before and to truly make you feel like a suave Phantom Thief.
I managed to not only get through the main game, but get all the way through a NG+ playthrough back-to-back to get that platinum trophy and not once did I feel bored doing so. I clocked in at around 200 hours in total and it was one of the best gaming experiences of my life. If you like RPGs, time management games, good anime-style stories, or just good games, do NOT pass this one up, especially the upcoming Royal version that’s releasing in March.
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My Top 20 Games of the 2010s
I will still be doing my usual top 5 this year, but seeing as it’s the last year of a whole decade, I am going to start off with a list of games that encompasses the whole of the last 10 years.
A couple of things to point out before we get cracking:
This is a personal list, so there’s gonna be some games that you the reader may not agree with. I’m actually in a privileged position to play whatever I want, but I don’t necessarily agree with everything professional game writers say. There will be a list of “honourable mentions” at the end, this may include a few of the games you might have been expecting
I do cheat a little, some entries are dedicated to a franchise of games. At the end of the day, if you are into Destiny, chances are that Destiny 1 and 2 sort of merged into each other, Destiny 1 changed as much over its 3 year lifespan as the final product changed into Destiny 2
There are no games from 2019 in here, apart from part of one of them, see my previous point. Maybe one day I will look at Apex legends and say “yes, that was the best game of the 2010s”, but it’s too early to say now.
I know there are a lack of Nintendo games. There is one Nintendo exclusive and another that I played on a Nintendo platform (in the top 20, there may be more in the honourable mentions), but all in all I won’t be mentioning what system I played these games on unless I have to. If you must know, the majority were played on either PlayStation 4 and PC. A couple of Vita, PS3, Switch and Wii U.
I will be adding information on where each game scored in my previous yearly top 5s though and I did do those on separate platforms up until 2013. So in a way, that’s confirming what systems I played these all on.
If you have followed my yearly top 5s, you’ll see some inconsistency, as in the fact that I have got my number 1 game from 2015 further down the list than my number 2 of that year. Also that I have my 1st and 3rd best game from 2018 on the list but my number 2 game is merely on the honourable mentions. This is because your thoughts towards a game can change. I still love all the games I have ever placed on a top 5, but some games age better than others.
And I’m not going to write descriptions, I always write something in my yearly lists. As I said before, I’m not a games writer, it’s going to take way too long and I don’t think anyone's going to read what I write anyway, just look at the list.
At the start of this decade, I had no idea if I would still be playing games by the end of it or where I would be. I’m actually still sort of in the same place I was in 2010, but it’s been a fun ride, in a sort of “slipping into middle age” sort of way. But I think I was born to be old to be honest. Now I find myself at the start of the 2020s, I’m wondering how my hearing/eyesight/reactions will be at the end of the next decade.
Now that I have depressed the hell out of you, let’s begin!
20. PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (2nd on both my PS3 and Vita lists in 2012)
19. Vanquish (4th on my PS3 list from 2010)
18. Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (1st on my 2015 list)
17. Steamworld Dig 2 (3rd on my 2017 list)
16. Marvel’s Spider-Man (4th on my 2018 list)
15. Gravity Rush 1 & 2 (GR1 1st on my Vita 2012 list, GR2 on my honourable mentions from 2017)
14. Dangonronpa Series (D1 5th on my 2014 list, DV3 honourable mention for 2017, D2 not listed)
13. The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt (2nd on my 2015 list)
12. God of War (1st on my 2018 list)
11. The Last of Us (2nd on my 2013 list, though I really started to enjoy it more when the Remastered version came out on PS4, 1st on my 2014 list)
10. NieR: Automata (2nd on my 2017 list)
9. Horizon Zero Dawn (1st on my 2017 list)
8. Persona 4 Golden (Not listed, this is the only game I didn’t play in the year of its release on here)
7. Diablo 3 (3rd on my PS3 list in 2013, Honourable mention for PS4 in 2014)
6. DOOM (2nd on my 2016 list)
5. Portal 2 (2nd on my PS3 list for 2012)
4. CoD Series (yes, all of them, here’s a list within a list:)
10. Ghosts (2nd on my PS4 list in 2013)
9. Advanced Warfare (3rd on my 2014 list)
8. Infinite Warfare (Honourable mention in 2016)
7. Black Ops 3 (Not listed, but didn’t do honourable mentions in 2015)
6. Modern Warfare (not listed yet, but like I said, it’s too early for me to feel confident in a 2019 game, though MW is a cracker)
5. Black Ops 4 (5th on my 2018 list)
4. WWII (Not listed, not even on honourables, weirdly)
3. Black Ops 2 (2nd on my 360 list from 2012, making this my only Xbox game on my list)
2. Black Ops (Not listed, didn’t do honourables in 2010)
1. Modern Warfare 3 (1st on my PS3 list from 2011)
3. Mario Kart 8 (Not listed, the only top 5 I can find from 2014 is a PS4 list, I got this rather late in the year though)
2. Overwatch (1st on my 2016 list)
1. Destiny 1&2 (D1 2nd on my 2014 list, D2 5th on my 2017 list)
Destiny there being a good example of a game that gets better over time, I think the whole “live game” scene found its stride in the 10s and it’s made sure that this game that was never number 1 in its year of release could go on to be the game I have perhaps put the most hours into. You also have multiplayer games taking up my entire top 4 too (I mostly play CoD for multiplayer), though all in all, the majority of this list are single player titles.
And all CoDs in the list? It’s basically just CoD itself that’s at number 4. If I was forced to adhere to a list where there was only single games listed, there would be no way I would have Ghosts or Advanced Warfare on there at the end of it all. I would just keep MW3 on there perhaps, but then I would feel iffy about some of the games at the bottom of the list. Do I really like PS All-Stars and Vanquish more than Black Ops 1 & 2?
So what of the decade’s honourable mentions? Will it feature GTA or Red Dead. The answer to the latter is “yes” and the former, here:
GTA 5
Batman Arkham city
Uncharted 3
Red Dead Redemption
Super Street Fighter 4
Hyper Light Drifter
Dishonored 2
Titanfall 2
Battleborn
Watch Dogs 2
Ratchet and Clank
Red Dead Redemption 2
Tearaway (Vita and Unfolded)
Sonic Mania
Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild (yes, in my honourables!)
Hotline Miami
Bioshock Infinite
Tomb Raider (2016)
Borderlands 2
Life is Strange
Uncharted 4 (and Lost Legacy)
Persona 5
Assassins Creed Origins and Odyssey (Origins I played the year after it came out, it would have been considered a game of the year if I’d had played it in 2017)
Far Cry 3 (Plus its legacy, even FC5)
Bulletstorm
And I’m just going to add Control to that list too as it’s the only game from 2019 that I have enjoyed that I see as being something that will stand up in a couple of years, maybe the Outer Worlds (I haven't played Wilds) too, but I will need to give that another play.
So there you have it, 10 years in gaming from me. Will I still be playing games after another? Time, and my body, will tell. Look out for my top 5 of 2019, I still have to give Judgment and Death Stranding a good go before I can make up my mind, maybe I will play Outer Wilds too.
#call of duty#overwatch#bulletstorm#uncharted 4#tearaway#destiny 2#gravity rush#tomb raider#playstation 4#xbox 360#PC#Switch#Nintendo#nintendo switch#Life is Strange
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TNG Rewatch 1.03
I’m gonna preface this one with an oof
time to watch *sigh* code of honor
fun fact: I usually skip this one cause it’s real bad but no skips this time through
Ligon II: the racist caricature planet
this ep makes me so 😬
I can’t believe this ep got made
this sucks so bad!
but at least yar got to do her job
the theme is the only place safe from the grossness of this ep
hey uh, Katharyn Powers and Michael Baron, what the actual fuck were you thinking when writing this?
they have a ceramic horse prop that looks like it came from a thrift store
THIS IS BAD
I HATE THIS SO MUCH
the lutan’s necklace looks so cheap
😬this😬is😬so😬bad😬
at least the holodeck is cool?
yikes yikes yikes
yar gets kidnapped
1000 meters from the surface seems like it may still cause damage though
I hate this ep so much
alsdjklahs wesly in the turbolift may be the only laugh I get from this on fire garbage can
WHY WOULD YOU LET THE BOY SIT AT OPS?
“temporarily”
😬
please don’t call native americans that
“...obscure language known as french” data, your captain is french
oh no! not report!
so they can get all these black actors together for this bad ep but whenever it’s time to cast klingons they just got white actors and put makeup on them
(some notable exceptions include michael dorn as worf and tony todd as kurn)
yareena vs yar
TROI DON’T READ HER MIND
some women like to be kidnapped NO! GROSS! NO! BAD!
this sucks!
AAAAHHHHHHHHHH
I HATE when men (or anyone else really) refer to women as “females”
I'm a lady, not a scientific specimen
shaving without your visor seems dangerous geordi
GEORDI MAKES A BREAK FOR IT
I too wish I could run from this ep
DATA BLOCKS GEORDI’S EXIT
he just shakes his head
“sir, I know you’re french but you can’t just do an imperialism”
I’m glad they dropped most of these voiceovers in later seasons
yar: watch out, I'm gonna kick your ass
yareena: not if I kick your’s first!
the music is uh...not great
it’s well-composed but the motifs are bad
EVERYONE KNOWS DAINTY WOMEN CAN’T HANDLE BIG HEAVY WEAPONS
BITCH, YOU’RE STILL ATTRACTED TO HIM AFTER HE KIDNAPPED YOU
what the fuck kinda weapon is that?
doesn’t even look practical
wesly still in the turbolift
STOP LETTING THE 15-YEAR-OLD SIT AT OPS
this fight reminds me the most of the tos fights
all we need now is a torn shirt
rip to that random ligonian bystander
this episode didn’t deserve to be remastered
TASHA DOES A MURDER EPISODE 3
okay dr. crusher
YES YAREENA, TAKE HIS CRAFT STORE NECKLACE!
fuck you lutan!
you let wesly man ops before you left picard why are you mad?
Review: 2/10
tldr; 😬
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The Best Gaming Deals Black Friday 2019
Saty Tune For More, I will add more info later on.
Playstation
Console
PS4 Slim (1TB) with God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn and The Last of Us Remastere $200
Playstation VR
PlayStation VR Mega Pack bundle with five games (Astro Bot: Rescue Mission, Resident Evil 7, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR, Everybody's Golf VR, PlayStation VR Worlds) $200
PlayStation VR bundle with Astro Bot and Moss $200
PSVR with camera, two Move controllers, and Everybody's Golf/Blood & Truth $250
Controller
DualShock 4 Wireless Controller $40
Games
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare $40
Need for Speed: Heat $35
Monster Hunter World: Iceborne Master Edition $35
Shenmue 3 $35
NHL 20 $30
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint $30
Borderlands 3 $28
Madden NFL 20 $28
FIFA 20 $28
NHL 20 $28
WWE 2K20 $28
Control $25
Red Dead Redemption 2 $25
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice $25
Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled $25
Spyro Reignited Trilogy $25
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 $25
NASCAR Heat 4 $25
Call of Duty: WWII $25
American Ninja Warrior $20
Team Sonic Racing $20
Resident Evil 2 $20
World War Z $20
Days Gone $20
Marvel's Spider-Man Game of the Year Edition $15
Kingdom Hearts 3 $15
Resident Evil 2 $15
Tom Clancy's The Division 2 $15
Devil May Cry 5 $15
God of War $10
Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition $10
Grand Theft Auto V $15
LEGO DC Supervillains $15
LEGO Harry Potter Collection $15
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege $15
Need for Speed Payback $15
Watch Dogs 2 $15
UFC 3 $15
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy $15
Overwatch: Legendary Edition $15
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt $15
The Last of Us: Remastered $15
Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition $15
God of War – PlayStation Hits $15
Xbox
Console
Xbox One X bundle with Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order Deluxe Edition + 3 months of Xbox Live Gold $350
Xbox One X bundle with Gears 5 $350
Xbox One S bundle with Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order $200
Xbox One S bundle with two controllers and 3 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate $200
Xbox One S All-Digital Edition Bundle $150
Controller
Select Xbox One controllers $20 off
Games
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare $40
NHL 20 $30
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint $30
Borderlands 3 $28
Madden NFL 20 $28
FIFA 20 $28
WWE 2K20 $28
Control $25
Red Dead Redemption 2 $25
Gears 5 $25
Forza Horizon 4 $25
Mortal Kombat 11 $25
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice $25
Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled $25
Spyro Reignited Trilogy $25
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 $25
NASCAR Heat 4 $25
Call of Duty: WWII $25
Sea Of Thieves Anniversary Edition $25
Team Sonic Racing $20
Resident Evil 2 $20
World War Z $20
Tom Clancy's The Division 2 $20
Kingdom Hearts 3 $15
Tom Clancy's The Division 2 $15
Grand Theft Auto V $15
LEGO DC Supervillains $15
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege $15
HALO 5 $15
Need for Speed Payback $15
Watch Dogs 2 $15
UFC 3 $15
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy $15
Overwatch: Legendary Edition $15
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 $15
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Nintendo Direct Feb 2019 BREAKDOWN
So, that direct was pretty okay right? If you missed it or even if you didn’t, I’m gonna be taking a look at everything announced and giving it a vague excitement rating! Enjoy!
Super Mario Maker 2
This was a pretty great way to kick off this direct. With the promise of a host of new features coming in this entry to build upon the first, including the introduction of slopes (finally) and a new texture pack based on Mario 3D World, I reckon this is definitely one to mark in the calendar. Mario Maker 2 is slated for a, gratefully soon, June 2019 release.
Excitement Rating: YEEHAW
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order
The long awaited third entry in the MUA series, to the surprise of many, is in fact a Switch exclusive. For those who don’t know, this is a hack-and-slash fighting game, of course tied heavily to Marvel comics. This entry seems to be riding in off the back of Infinity War, with Thanos and the Black Order showcased as central villains. Honestly, this game looks like it could be fun, especially with friends, though I don’t think it’ll turn out to be anything special.
ER: Sure, why not!
BOX BOY! + BOX GIRL!
This adorable little puzzle platformer is making its debut on Switch this spring, with the promise of local multiplayer and more levels than ever before. Looks to be a goodun for fans of cute, minimalist art design and box-based puzzles and the like.
ER: Cool! Those boxes can move!
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Ver. 3.0
Nintendo sort of slapped us in the face with a lovely, welcome announcement of a new Smash update! Oh boy! New features! And then they turn around and say they aren’t gonna tell us what they are.
Oh.
Kind of makes me question the point of putting this in the direct a little, but I’m sure whatever they’ll add will be cool! On top of that, a tentative release window for Joker was given (before the end of April this year) and we got a cheeky look at some of the new spicy amiibos, being Snake, Simon and the Pokemon Trainer lot.
ER: Yay?
Captain Toad Treasure Tracker Updates
Here’s one that definitely caught me offguard, but I’m more than happy with it considering I just picked up the game. Part of the new Captain Toad content is free, adding in proper 2 player co-op where you can both play as Toad. The paid ‘special episode’ stuff struck me as a little odd, considering this game was already a Wii U port that’s now getting even more paid DLC. Regardless, it’s not too pricey and you can even pick up the first DLC course now, with the rest coming March 14.
ER: That’s cool!
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
This not-quite-Castlevania game could easily be mistaken for a knock off of that franchise, but seems to have some defining elements of its own. The art style is bold enough to make it unique and the game seems to have an interesting variety of puzzles and side quests to make this more than just a run of the mill 2D platformer. An obvious choice for those with a Castlevania shaped hole in their hearts.
ER: You go bouncy vampire lady
Dragon Quest Builders 2
What is basically just Dragon Quest Minecraft with a story mode apparently, this oddly charming sandbox game was seemingly popular enough to warrant a sequel. And I won’t lie to you, it got me a little excited. As a fan of Dragon Quest its art style and general building-ness, I think I might have to pick this one up. And it’s got a cool retro map!
ER: I’m not excited, you are
Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age: Definitive Edition
In case you hadn’t guessed, I literally adore Dragon Quest. The bright colours, the developed characters, the expansive world, awesome monster designs, great soundtrack and lame sense of humour, it all just gets me. It just sort of sucks I already own this on the PS4, where I can’t access all this new content. Oof. But yeah, pick this up if you can. You won’t regret it if you’re a JRPG fan.
ER: More like echoes of an exclusive age amirite
Disney Tsum Tsum Festival
Oh.
I won’t lie to you right now, nothing screams ‘soulless’ to me more than small Disney plushes with all the personality taken from them being stuck into totally random minigames. Don’t get me wrong, I love Disney (mostly through Kingdom Hearts but that’s besides the point) but I don’t think this elicited much excitement in anyone.
ER: I guess this exists, huh?
Starlink: Battle for Atlas - Spring Update
This was another one that surprised me. Considering how mind meltingly badly Starlink bombed, partly down to its odd reliance on the whole ‘toys to life’ craze that died out in 2013, I really didn’t think there’d be any further support for the game and they’d just sort of slip it under the rug. But nope, we’ve got some more Switch exclusive missions involving some more Star Fox characters, as well as the introduction of Wolf’s buddies. Honestly, I think Nintendo needs to do themselves a favour and just release a new Star Fox game.
ER: Great, if for some reason you bought this!
Rune Factory 4 Special & Rune Factory 5
Here’s a series I’d literally never heard of until last Wednesday, but the only way I can describe it from what I’ve seen is it looks to be a cross between Animal Crossing and kind of also Dragon Quest. You cook stuff, you farm stuff, you fight things and you can get married if you want, so definitely cool if you’re a fan of the series. But also cool if you’re someone who wished Animal Crossing was a bit more JRPG. Alongside the announcement of a remastered Rune Factory 4 later this year, as well as confirmation of Rune Factory 5 sometime in the future.
ER: Cool! Plants and stuff!
Oninaki
An action RPG with an intriguing premise and a rich, dark colour scheme, Oninaki seems very eager to set itself apart from other JRPGs on the market and still manages to stand out just a bit, even in a direct that’s basically been packed with JRPGs. Oninaki explores themes of reincarnation and grief, following the story of one grey-haired dude saving lost souls from a place called the Upside Down the Beyond to stop them from turning into monsters. Another one to add to the list if you like edgy RPGs!
ER: Edgy and cool
Yoshi’s Crafted World
Another update for this adorably cardboard entry into the long running Yoshi series, we’re finally getting close to actually being able to play it. Nintendo showcased some of the more interesting variants of gameplay, with the use of rafts, cars and planes definitely making this seem that there’s some substance here to go with the style. Alongside this, a demo released on the eshop so go play that if you haven’t already and decide if it’s for you!
ER: Wow, this game has a Labo costume! I’ll definitely grind for that!
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Finally some more info about Nintendo’s latest instalment in their anime Game of Thrones series Fire Emblem, we got a big ol infodump about some of the stuff to do with the game. While the video itself will explain everything better than I can, this time players will be able to interact with three kingdoms and three main protagonists, all of this centralising around one academy the game is set within. Overall, this game certainly looks interesting to play, but one I’m not quite sure I’ll be picking up just yet. Basically, if you’re unfamiliar with the games but love a tactical RPG, this one is a no brainer.
ER: Edelgard’s design is pretty cool. If one of them has to get into Smash, I hope it’s her.
Tetris 99
The game many have been calling Tetris Battle Royale, this is the very first Nintendo Switch Online exclusive offering and it’s totally free if you’re a member. It’s Tetris and you have to win against 98 other people, also playing Tetris. Nice!
ER: Tetris block for Smash
Dead by Daylight
As a game I got for free through Playstation Plus, it should be fairly obvious that this port isn’t one that excites me greatly, especially after seeing the quality of the graphics in the trailer the direct showed us. While the concept of an online match with several survivors and one killer sounds good on paper, it seems as if the quality of this port may leave a lot to be desired. But still, this could still only be early development footage and we really have no idea how it’ll look by the end.
ER: Tentative
Deltarune
Undertale is one of my favourite games of all time, so of course it excited me to find out I’d finally be able to play the sort of sequel, Deltarune, which Toby Fox has taken in the interesting direction of splitting the game into chapters. The first of these chapters will be free (yay I like free) and it certainly seems like the same abstract sense of humour and charm present in Undertale has been carried over to this sequel. Definitely one to watch.
ER: Always excited about cartoon doggo
Daemon X Machina
This mech-fighter has been floating around in various Nintendo directs for a fair while now and it’s encouraging to see the game come close to release. In a commendable move, the producer of the game has offered a free demo of the game allowing you to pilot your own custom mech and experience a boss battle in the demo known as ‘Prototype Missions’. The aim of this to gain feedback from potential players in order to make the game as good as it can be, which is amazing! It’s honestly a bit of a dream world where every game developer and publisher is as open and transparent as these guys, so kudos to them. As well as this, the game looks pretty heckin’ fun so it’s definitely worth picking up the demo off the eshop and giving these guys your feedback!
ER: Big ol’ robots hell yeah
GRID Autosport
As of yet, the Switch has lacked a realistic racing game. Enter Grid Autosport, which seems to be packed with a variety of cars, tracks and game modes, including all DLC from the original release of the game. Not one for me, but I’m sure there’s plenty of Switch owners out there whose racing fix isn’t quite satisfied by Mario Kart.
ER: V big if ur a car person
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
This game was notably created in collaboration with neurologists and those who experience psychosis in order to properly portray the main character and her mental health struggles. Following the quest of Senua as she fights to save the soul of her dead lover, this game created a huge wave through the industry when it first launched and won major awards for its artistic design and performance. While this isn’t one I’ve had the chance to try yet, it certainly looks as if it provides a brilliant, emotional experience from beginning to end.
ER: A lot
Mortal Kombat 11
This was one everyone basically already knew about, but this direct gave us a reminder of the release date and various features such as custom characters. For fans of this long running, brutal fighting game, get April 23 in ur brains.
ER: Cool
Unravel Two
This adorable puzzle platformer sees you and, optionally, a friend take control of two little creatures made of yarn as they navigate a colourful world and help each other pass various obstacles. For those fans of platformers like the Yoshi series, Unravel is definitely one to consider.
ER: Cool
Assassin’s Creed III Remastered
This is the iconic stealth fighting series Assassin’s Creed’s first outing on Switch, but if this footage is anything to go by, it’s not looking brilliant. While this once again could be put down to unfinished development, the first look at a game is often the most important, and a slow frame rate shown during the direct could mean this game isn’t what fans want it to be.
ER: Tentative
Final Fantasy Release Dates
For fans of the legendary and slightly intimidating JRPG series, several games in the series both new and old will be coming to the Switch in 2019:
Final Fantasy VII on March 26th
Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon EVERY BUDDY! on March 20th
Final Fantasy IX is out now!
ER: Cloud is my favourite twink
Astral Chain
Admittedly, at a first glance, this title in a brand new franchise didn’t particularly excite me. But after having another look, I can definitely see where all the hype is coming from. This looks to be a hack-and-slash sort of action RPG with all the edgy story elements and setpieces of that ever so popular steampunk genre that players seem to love these days. With all these mechs, explosions and edgy voiceovers, it makes me think that Xenoblade Chronicles and Deus Ex had some kind of torrid love affair. On top of this, with a dev team that has Bayonetta, The Wonderful 101 and NieR: Automata under their belt, this is a game that will almost certainly impress when it finally comes out on August 30. Platinum Games might just have another winner here.
ER: Big yes
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
oKAY, let’s be real, this is the one that really knocked it out of the park. At least for me it did. As the final reveal, this made me scream a little tiny bit. I think we’d all heard the rumours of a 2D Zelda coming to Switch, but I was highly skeptical to say the least. But a wonderfully charming and artistically bloody P E R F EC T remake of Link’s Awakening?? HHHHHH. They even kept all the Mario enemies for some reason! Oh boy, whenever they release this in 2019 apparently really can’t come soon enough.
ER: AAAAAAAAAAAAA
That was all for this direct! I hope you enjoyed my silly, unplanned breakdown of all the cool things that happened. Til the next direct!
Oh and if you’ve got a craving for more game news, be sure to check back on my blog March 1st for the second ‘issue’ (lol) of my monthly viddy game mag!
Stay hydrated my dudes.
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Top 285 Sonic Releases of 2018
000. Rosalia - El Mal Querer
001. Various Artists - 'I Could Go Anywhere But Again I Go With You'
002. Autechre - NTS Sessions
003. Various Artists - Kulør 001
004. Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of (Japanese Edition)
005. Sophie - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
006. Tirzah - Devotion
007. Blawan - Wet Will Always Dry
008. Cam Deas - Time Exercises
009. Leon Vynehall - Nothing Is Still
010. Ingus Baušķenieks - Spoki
011. Clouds - Heavy The Eclipse
012. Kyo & Jeuru - All The Same Dream
013. Topdown Dialectic - Topdown Dialectic
014. Snail Mail - Lush (remaster)
015. Pavel Milyakov - Eastern Strike
016. Robyn - Honey
017. Falcon Black Ops - Vol. 1
018. CTM - Red Dragon
019. Ariana Grande - Thank You Next
020. Robert Lippok - Applied Autonomy
021. Various Artists - LACKRec. vs. Magic Power
022. Henning Christiansen - The Executioner
023. Against All Logic - 2012-2017
024. Scandinavian Star - Solas
025. Happa - PT3.2
026. Prime Minister of Doom - Mudshadow Propaganda
027. Ciara - Dose
028. Joy Orbison - 81b
029. Drew McDowall - The Third Helix
030. Felix Blume - Death in Haiti: Funeral Brass Bands & Sounds From Port au Prince
031. Teyana Taylor - K.T.S.E.
032. Borai & Denham Audio - Club Glow Vol. 1
033. Demdike Stare - Passion
034. Christian Zanési - Grand Bruit - Stop! l'horizon
035. DJ Healer - Nothing 2 Loose
036. Suzanne Ciani - Quadraphonic LIVE
037. Amnesia Scanner - Another Life
038. Various Artists - BROR08
039. Joy O & Ben Vince - Transition 2 - Systems Align
040. Lamin Fofana - Brancusi Sculpting Beyonce
041. ACT! - Universalist
042. Randomer - HS002
043. Vladimir Dubyshkin - Cheerful Pessimist
044. Hugo Massien - Almost Becoming Lucid
045. Barker - Debiasing EP
046. CLUBKELLY - GLOBAL 93
047. Ron Morelli - Disappearer
048. Jenny Hval - The Long Sleep
049. Tierra Whack - Whack World
050. Chambray - Nectar of Joy
051. Deben Bhattacharya - Paris to Calcutta: Men and Music on the Desert Road
052. Stef Mendesidis - Klockworks 23
053. Various Artists - Running Back Mastermix
054. Andrea - Forse
055. François Bayle - Tremblements... LP
056. Childish Gambino - This Is America
057. Efdemin - Naïf
058. Skee Mask - Compro
059. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
060. 700 Bliss - Spa 700
061. Chontane - Red Island EP
062. Honnda - Maraschino Mic Drop
063. Martyn Bootyspoon - Silk Eternity
064. Objekt - Cocoon Crush
065. Addison Groove & Bim Sanga Present Bags Inc. - Dance Trax, Vol. 17
066. Puce Mary - The Drought
067. Gonçalo F Cardoso - Impressões de uma Ilha (Unguja)
068. EQD - Equalized #008
069. Félicia Atkinson - Coyotes
070. Low - Double Negative
071. The Mistys - Pregnant Mannequin
072. Adlas - Arrival by Air
073. Vainqueur - Reductions 1995–1997
074. Xzavier Stone - THIRST
075. Kelman Duran - 13th Month
076. Lyra Valenza - Scan, Deliver
077. Bjarki – Oli Gumm
078. Answer Code Request - Gens
079. Forward Strategy Group - East Port Rangers EP
080. Voronoi - Vis-Viva
081. Olsen - Dream Operator
082. Mih-Ty - MIH-TY
083. Textasy - Dallas Gun Club
084. D.Dan - Covert Operation
085. Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton - Music and Poetry of the Kesh
086. Duran Duran Duran - Choose Death
087. Jean C. Roché - Oiseaux Du Birds Of Venezuela
088. Vanessa Rossetto - Fashion Tape
089. Domiziano Maselli - Ashes
090. Smerz - Have fun
091. The Body - I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer
092. Grizzle – Quinine
093. Rkss - DJ Tools
094. SHXCXCHCXSH - OUFOUFOF
095. Perfume - Future Pop
096. Stefano Moretti - Land of Mikuni
097. Sim Hutchins - Clubeighteen2thirty
098. Yves Tumor - Safe in the Hands of Love
099. Martyn - Voids
100. Sophia Loizou - Irregular Territories
101. Fracture - Soundboy Get Nervous
102. ABSOLUTE. - Malfunction
103. Diptera - 001 (antenna)
104. Nathan Micay - Whities 017
105. Alex Kassian - Hidden Tropics
106. The-Dream - Menage a Trois Sextape
107. Regal - Still Raving
108. Fumu - Sinuate
109. Evol - Ideal Acid
110. Various Artists - Only Promo Ma Poule
111. Mariah Carey - Caution
112. Ian Isiah - Shugga Sextape (Vol. 1)
113. Marie Davidson - Working Class Woman
114. Aoud - SE MKII
115. Konrad Wehrmeister - 5050
116. The Advent - Klockworks 22
117. Lucy Railton - Paradise 94
118. Virtual Self - Ghost Voices (Raito Remixes)
119. BE3K - Exoneration
120. GALT Faculty - E B O W
121. Art Alfie - The Bo Allan EP
122. Pendant - Make Me Know You Sweet
123. DJ Boring & Frits Wentink - Wasted Years of Pumping Iron
124. Contactless - Static
125. Was A Be & Synth Ethics - Systems 011
126. Helena Deland - From the Series of Songs Altogether Unaccompanied Vol. I
127. Freddie Gibbs - Freddie
128. Tessela & Lanark Artefax - Blue 01
129. Erma Grid - From a Band of Thoughts That Ended My Year
130. Dold - Mother EP
131. Eartheater - Irisiri
132. Age Coin - She Who Sold Me Told Me
133. Agrippa - Mygraine Urgraine/Harbour Run
134. Shame - Songs Of Praise
135. Severin - Safe Following Distance
136. RAMZi - Phobiza vol. 3: Amor Fati
137. Yen Towers - First on Comedown
138. Ludwig A.F. Röhrscheid - Xhale
139. Tee Mango - #2
140. Swarm Intelligence - Against The Dying Light
141. Céline Gillain - Bad Woman
142. Repro - Feel Extraordinary
143. Gila - Shedskin Pt.33
144. Jan Nemecek - Recurrences
145. Various Artists - Midnight in Tokyo Vol. 2
146. Various Artists - HYS001
147. No Moon - Infinite Dreamz EP
148. Prayer - Vital
149. Cadans - Slit EP
150. D. Tiffany - Feel U
151. The Empire Line - Rave
152. DJ Seinfeld - Sakura
153. 3KZ - A Love Supreme
154. Overlook - Never Understand
155. Ligovskoï - Esam
156. FJAAK - Havel
157. Scalameriya - Hellzone Megapunk EP
158. Drake - Scorpion
159. Locked Club - Svoboda
160. Young Echo - Young Echo
161. Reeko & Jonas Kopp - Realidades Holográficas I Torre de Babel
162. Hiro Kone - Pure Expenditure
163. Bruce - Sonder Somatic
164. Arkajo - Avasarala
165. TML - I Need An Exit
166. Thom Yorke - Suspiria
167. Various Artists - EDITSELECT36
168. Patrick Siech - Our Exile
169. Lucrecia Dalt - Anticlines
170. Qnete - Shtum 018
171. Future & Juice WRLD - WRLD ON DRUGS
172. Demian Licht - Female Criminals Vol. 3
173. Veronica Vasicka - in silhouette
174. 999999999 - RAVE REWORKS
175. Azari - Gotasoul
176. Varg - Nordic Flora Series Pt. 5: Crush
177. Mount Eerie - Now Only
178. Rabit - Bricks in a Draught
179. Elad Magdasi - Liquid Dreams
180. Tomas Urquieta - Dueños de Nada
181. The Higher - The Core
182. Ross Birdwise - Drunk Formalism(s)
183. Alan Fitzpatrick - System Addict
184. H4L - Four Lights
185. John Maus - Addendum
186. L-Vis 1990 - 12 Thousand Nights: Club
187. BLD - For Rave Use Only
188. Various Artists - Don’t You Mess with Cupid, 'Cause Cupid Ain’t Stupid
189. Ksmisk - Mikrometeorittene
190. Mark Leckey - Exorcism Of The Bridge @ Eastham Rake
191. Ross from Friends - Squaz
192. Rae Sremmurd - SR3MM-Jxmtro-Swaecation
193. Ricardo Villalobos - Silent EP
194. Young Thug - Slime Language
195. Phobia NL & Blacksun - Crossfire EP
196. X-Coast - XTC
197. Asymptote - Belief System
198. Ambivalent & Alden Tyrell - Detente
199. Christine and the Queens - Chris
200. Big Miz - Build-Destroy
201. Locked Groove - From Beyond
202. A$AP Rocky - TESTING
203. Paranorman - FUD001
204. Subradeon - Walking Through Motown EP
205. LMajor - Dig the New Breed, Pt. 1
206. P.Leone - The My Lita Project
207. P€PA & Z$OLI - Pzs_Rave
208. Adryiano - Dreams With EP
209. Appleblim - Life in a Laser
210. Vril - Omniverse EP
211. Бassae - Untitled
212. Gabber Eleganza – Never Sleep #1
213. Senyawa - Sujud
214. Radial - Tympana
215. N1L - 山卂ㄒ乇尺 爪乇爪ㄖ尺ㄚ
216. Dibek & Lodig - Lap.AM
217. Jonny Greenwood - Phantom Thread
218. Urulu - Foreign Depths
219. David Goldberg - EMO Serialism
220. DJ Different - Permission 2 Dance
221. Prg_m - Berytus Groan
222. Funeral Future - Hard Candy EP
223. Voiski - Sick Parrots
224. serpentwithfeet - soil
225. Company - Prosody
226. Stanislav Tolkachev - Champions Breakfast
227. Asquith - The Conditioning Track
228. Awdha - UNO
229. Dedekind Cut - Tahoe
230. Harrison BDP & Garth James - Vapour Trails EP
231. Sugar - No Sex Only Feelings
232. Duppy Gun Productions - Miro Tape
233. Mike Davis - Communique From an Absent Future
234. Cabasa - Uncle Sigmund's EP
235. Various Artists - Eel Behaviour: Sniper
236. Silicon Scally - Live at Scand
237. E-Talking & Laksa - Blue 04
238. Jacquees - 4275
239. Marcel Dettmann - Test-File
240. Acre - Hollow Body
241. #.4.26. - MDR 24
242. Blood Orange - Negro Swan
243. Various Artists - Bavarian Stallion Series 003
244. Developer - Off Grid EP
245. 90 Process - No Warehouse Needed
246. Sector Y - CS_TMS
247. Charli XCX - Focus & No Angel
248. Paula Temple & Eomac - ETXC001
249. Cassius Select - Fake Death
250. hekla - Á
251. UNIIQU3 - Phase 3
252. Sedvs & Peel - The Plf Sessions I
253. Yugen - Ineffable
254. Europa - Alpanya
255. LSDXOXO - BODY MODS
256. Roper Rider - Motion Profile
257. Forest Drive West - Un
258. Petar Dundov - Dalmatina & Once We Were Here
259. Desiigner - L.O.D.
260. Renick Bell - Wary
261. Nicki Minaj - Chun-Li
262. Locked Club - ЛОМАЙ EP
263. Dopplereffekt - Athanatos
264. Glaskin - Grey Lines
265. Beta Librae - Subspecies
266. Oisel - Entroterra EP
267. Conforce - Zero Point-Field
268. Raito - One Step Beyond
269. Hioll - Hioll 002
270. Various Artists - AEX005
271. Rune Bagge - Pink Dreams
272. Tensal - Industrialsociety EP
273. Mathias Schaffhaeuser - Love Idol
274. Notzing - 014
275. Michal Wolski - Still Life
276. Aphtc - When Grounds Shift
277. DJ Sneak - 3D Print
278. Bylly - Mouth Full of Sand
279. CUB - Seeing From Above
280. Farrago - Risin'
281. Amotik – Amotik 009
282. D-Leria - Driving to Nowhere
283. The Cyclist - Alabaster Thrones
284. Roza Terenzi & DJ Zozi - Planet Euphorique
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