Rasix
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Shadow Hearts: Covenant Best JRPG that no one ever played. Probably my favorite game of all time. And it has to go up against one of my other favs in VTM: Bloodlines. The first Shadow Hearts was near FF7 quality, although the combat system and story are far better. The second improves in every way possible and dials up the weird Japanese humor to Persona levels. I would give up a toe for an HD remaster.
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Falconeer
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Shadow Hearts Covenant was a gem. The old man collecting porno magazines was weird though.
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schild
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Shadow Hearts Covenant was a gem. The old man collecting porno magazines was weird though.
Perfect, you mean perfect. The only part of Covenant that was weaker than the first was the first area. SH starts dark af. Covenant less so. A PS4 remaster of the series would be a dream. Or even a new one.
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Cyrrex
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And KOTOR2 came out the year after KOTOR? Crazypants.
KOTOR was Bioware and KOTOR2 was Obsidian so there was a bit of overlap in that early work on KOTOR2 started before the original released. Also KOTOR2 got rushed out early and had a bunch of stuff cut from it. Yeah, I know, which is why I didn't say "no wonder it was so buggy". It simply hadn't occurred to me that they were so close. Still great games, I still occasionally take one or the other for a spin. I think the gameplay and style holds up just fine...I wish they would make another one with nothing more than a graphical overhaul.
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carnifex27
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VTM-Bloodlines: I still go back and play it from time to time. Plus one of the greatest soundtracks in gaming history. God do I love that game, despite all its bugs and jankiness.
I replay it every few years as well. The haunted hotel level was the first time I remember a game honestly scaring me. The way that they made the different clans, especially the Malkavian and Nosferatu clans play so differently still impresses me.
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schild
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This is a fucking embarrassment to gaming. Many apologies to Fumito Ueda, Shinji Mikami, and Hiroyuki Kobayashi.
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Trippy
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What’s the purple octopus head?
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schild
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Dark Corners of the Earth.
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schild
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2006, the year of Diablo 2.1.5.
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Teleku
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Huh, GH2 was winning at 6 votes last time I looked. But yeah, TQ was fun.
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor." -Stephen Colbert
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schild
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(っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ You're not a good person. You know that, right? Good people don't end up here. Can you hear me? ♥ The winner of 2007 is the... well, it's kinda the Orange Box. But yeah, Portal.
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schild
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lol i think i'm the only person who plays games here
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Sky
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beeg American teetees
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schild
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I present to you, 2009. The only year that mattered. To me, at least. I made some threats around Demon's Souls losing, but they were ignored. People played the odds I wouldn't follow through. Now we'll never know.
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Trippy
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Dark Soul's is the better game
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schild
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no
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Sky
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so many nadir years
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schild
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New Vegas takes it and it's not even really close. This is likely the last we'll see of Mass Effect since Origin came out.
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Teleku
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12 to 10 is pretty close. We wont see anymore Mass Effect because this is where the series ended.
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor." -Stephen Colbert
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Sky
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Even I agree with New Vegas for that one.
Wasn't ME3 the one with the good multiplayer? As someone who completely shuns multiplayer, I liked it. I'm not saying it's Best Game for its year, but it's not automatically out of contention.
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Trippy
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Yes, ME3 had a super-fun horde mode.
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schild
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So I let this one run long to see if Minecraft would somehow sneak into a win even though I didn't give a shit about the results of 2011. Turns out it wasn't even a race between Minecraft and anything else. It was Portal 2 and Skyrim to the end. Wild.
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Jeff Kelly
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Minecraft didn't surprise me because none of us was ten when it came out. I'm more surprised that Dark Souls ranks so low. Even though Schild has been leading the witnesses here a bit.
It wasn't a marquee year though going by the list.
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Minecraft had a pretty big following here even back when it was still in beta/early access.
Demon's Souls was the best Souls game. The other Souls games have been varying degrees of good but not to the extent of any of us pushing for them for GOTY. I don't know that schild has even finished any game in the series other than Demon's Souls.
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schild
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nope not even a little close to finishing any besides demon's souls, which I finished X times where X is a number I don't remember
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Rendakor
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I think I've played more Minecraft with f13ers than any other game. Except maybe 2013's winner. Ahem.
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"i can't be a star citizen. they won't even give me a star green card"
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schild
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you idiots, you fools kidding, if PoE wants to win this year, so be it, king of trash mountain
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Sky
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Minecraft didn't surprise me because none of us was ten when it came out.
We had various f13 minecraft servers for years. It's been kind of a big deal. Rocksmith 2014 deserves a vote from me, they fixed the latency issues of the original and cleaned up a lot of UI stuff. It's basically a band if you don't want to play adult musician babysitter sim irl.
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schild
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Well. The dragon takes it. wildcard entry shadowrun: dragonfall has knocked out 2014 who knew people cared about that game
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HaemishM
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I did. That game was fucking awesome.
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schild
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2015 was not, as they say, lit. Witcher III took it.
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Rasix
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MGS V was good once you got past the initial awkwardness.
Weird to see Soma get that many votes. I don't remember much being said about it once it released.
Witcher 3 is still a solid winner. Fantastic game.
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schild
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Hex would've been a clean sweep if Cory Jones wasn't a big poopyfaced assbag. But for real, this is a fine victory even though Firewatch was better.
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schild
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Persona 5 took 2017 and it wasn't even close.
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Trippy
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Uh, k.
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