I was invited to the Hooked Games of the Year 2024 Recap video for the first time. It was fun and a bit surprising at times.
https://youtu.be/JQxqRR4NA0M?si=y3jVkoMLVSe2M3Dh
#Gaming #GOTY
I kinda missed the Resetera #GOTY thread. Pretty solid top 10
https://www.resetera.com/threads/resetera-games-of-the-year-awards-2024.1087728/
Vote #RandyandManilla for the Devuego Awards 2024!
¡Voten Randy y Manilla para los Premios Devuego 2024!
https://www.devuego.es/premios-devuego/2024/
Here Are The 28th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards Finalists
https://fullcleared.com/news/here-are-the-28th-annual-d-i-c-e-awards-finalists/
Even though I picked up the basics in Tekken 7, I still began my Tekken8 journey hitting buttons more or less haphazardly to watch my character do cool things. But, partially because Tekken8 has good training tools, and partially because I was sick of watching fighting games from the outside, I pushed through, and it became less of a game, and more a spiritual journey of self-improvement.
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I’ve never played anything quite like RimWorld. It has the same basic tenants of a city builder, where you need to keep your people fed and happy as you accumulate wealth and expand, but the focus is much narrower, more personal. Instead of a metropolis, you have a handful of colonists.
The new paradigm makes mountains out of what was previously mole hills. If your cook gets sick, the whole colony is at risk of food poisoning or starving!
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It feels like Millenia was made by people who had the same obsessive love for #Civilization 5 as I did. The core design choices are all focused on fixing flaws in Civ5 that you only notice if you’ve done at least half a dozen playthroughs.
Take Millenia’s marquee feature of being able to bend the timeline in alternate history scenarios with altered technologies and different mechanics.
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SideQuesting’s Games of the Year 2024: Balatro & 1000xRESIST
For the first time in our history, TWO incredible games have been selected as Game of the Year
https://www.sidequesting.com/2025/01/sidequestings-games-of-the-year-2024-balatro-1000xresist/
#Editorial #OriginalContent #SideQuesting #1000xresist #balatro #GameOfTheYear #goty #indie #indiedev #localthunk #SunsetVisitor
#GOTY
4. #Stellaris + DLC
Stellaris is #1 on the list of “Games I tell my semi-interested wife stories about”. It’s equal parts mechanical challenge and narrative generator, with a scope that feels as vast as your interstellar empire. Did I tell you about the time my people desperately took to the stars as their home world crumbled around them? About the arrogant empire whose only place for xenos was in zoos?
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Perform brutal kills to please the audience. Fail and die, their likes are your life. You have 10 seconds… 9… 8…
That premise is great satire of instant gratification culture, but it’s also a great setup for a unique FPS experience. 10 seconds isn’t enough time to hide in cover. Nor is it enough time for analysis or second guessing. For the minute or so each level lasts, you need to be a flow state murder machine.
Last Epoch is like Path of Exile for people that don’t want to do 8 hours of research before they start playing and there’s lots of smart design decisions that go into that. The biggest one is skill-trees for every skill instead of making one massive skill tree. This means that while the overall space of builds remains humongous, it’s much easier to find a reasonably effective way to use that skill you like.
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RGN C64 Gamers’ Choice Award 2024 – The Best Commodore 64 Games for 2024!
#C64 #Commodore64 #GamersChoiceAward #GOTY #2024 #RetroGamerNation #Top10
https://theoasisbbs.com/rgn-c64-gamers-choice-award-2024-the-best-commodore-64-games-for-2024/?feed_id=988&_unique_id=6777f471d9a02
My year in video gaming:
Finished #ChainedEchoes (my #GOTY2023) Didn't play much post credits, hoping for the DLC to catch me.
Tipped my toe into #Snowrunner: great game; gifted it to my dad who played through the campaign (I did not).
Abandoned #ApexLegends: It's been very fun 5 years
Slightly underwhelmed by the length of #PinballSpire
Burned brain cycles in #TheCaseOfTheGoldenIdol: fantastic, quirky, challenging
Completely obsessed with #DerailValley
#Vanillaware’s previous game, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, felt like an absurd auteur gamble where every bet hit a jackpot. Unicorn Overlord feels like what happens when only some of those risky choices pay off.
The biggest success for me is the tactical combat, which is really in a league of its own. It takes some inspiration from Fire Emblem in the way that calculus takes “some inspiration” from algebra.
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#GOTY
8: #TacticalBreachWizards
Tactical Breach Wizards was the best-written game I played all year and there’s a ton of work that goes into that.
To start with, it’s really funny without denigrating the gravity of the central plot. The silly premise of pairing a world of wizards with the trappings of a SWAT tactics game is a great starting point for ridiculous and entertaining scenarios.
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#GOTY
9: #KingOfFighters15 + DLC
Despite not having played any of the previous games, I immediately recognized #KOF15 as having an all star roster and fell in love with it. The characters are all super cool in vastly different ways. Want an iron-man dad with ridiculous mutton shops? A psychotic cannibal sexy secretary? A weeb mob boss with magic kung fu? The classic leather jacket hero with fiery rush down? KOF15 has all that and more in its 61(!) character roster.
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#GOTY Honorable Mention: #LastTrainHome
In the aftermath of WW1, Czechoslovak soldiers make a desperate journey through the frozen fields of Siberia and the Russian Civil War. Their armored train odyssey is a founding myth of Czechoslovakia, and I was completely ignorant to all of this before playing Last Train Home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0lJ9A4AtFo
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Hyvää uudenvuodenaattoa! Tässä Panun peliuutistoimiston lista vuoden 2024 parhaista peleistä!
https://peliuutistoimisto.fi/2024/12/31/vuoden-pelit-2024/
#pelit #vuodenpelit #2024 #goty