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It's a bit of a joke the way they actually never stop singing, but the Doomstar Requiem is unironically really good.

New Mario Party looks nice.

I was wondering when they were going to release a new one/dlc since the switch lite can't even play Super Mario Party.

Or that could just be nostalgia glasses talking, because MP1/2/3 were my thing back in the day.

I feel like Spy as a concept worked better before hats.

Because if you had like three soldiers on your team, they all looked identical, so a 4th Spy soldier wouldn't stick out too much.

Like, when everyone looks the same it's easier to blend in, so there was an element of "Oh they're stacking engies, it'll be easy to blend in as an engie"

But in modern TF2 disguises aren't effective like that because everyone is rocking Hats so you instantly say "Oh, it's Festive Engie #2, that's a spy"

Of course, spychecking was a hardcounter and Pyros were a brick wall, but it was a different dynamic overall y'know?

It's a lot harder to tell who's a spy when you've got three or four people who look identical instead of two.

For Stuff I played this year,

Uh, Probably Bug Fables, Deep Rock, and Dusk.

Bug Fables is the Paper Mario Sequel I always wanted. It's charming, challenging, and consistently a joy to see the characters interact.

Remixes the combat formula in ways that make sense and I would be excited to see another layer added on in a sequel or something.

Finished the game with the option Hard Mode badge on and it gets pretty challenging, many of boss becomes a mini puzzle since you can't out dps them.

They added some post launch content and I'm really hoping they continue on with another game.

Everyone knows about DUSK, but I only played it this year and it's super good. Peak Quality Quake/Doom style running and shooting.

Honorable Mention to Project Warlock, which is cool, but a little jank, and a little unfocused at times. A fun time, but like B game polish/design.

Deep Rock Galactic isn't 'new' because it's been in early access for two years, but I got it when it released 1.0 this year.

Really fun to chill, mine, and explore caves with people, and then fight off a few waves of bugs.

I always liked exploring randomly generated cave systems in like, terraria and minecraft, so this takes that and focuses a game around it.

The new roughnecking missions are really good and I'm hoping that it gets a lot of post launch content.

Got to the end of the post before remembering that I Busted through Doom Eternal too.

I really enjoy Doom Eternal, even played the DLC and it's great, but it's so fast paced that it kind of becomes a blur though.

I also played Henry Stickmin this year, partially because I remember it coming up here at some point.

Despite never playing the originals back in the day, the remasters whisked me back in time to the golden age of flash animation and captivated me throughout every route and episode.

I was grinning the whole way through in a way that few games do these days. The character profiles and other gags had me trying to find everything.

I've heard the new Hitman games called 'Hitman 2016' or "World of assassination"
You could technically say that it's Hitman: Codename 47, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, but a lot of people skip straight to blood money and contracts.

So when people Say Hitman or Hitman 2, they're probably talking the new ones. Not Codename 47 where you shoot tigers in the jungle or Silent Assassin where power walking breaks disguise.

I kind of like the recent trend of game reboots/remasters even if they have confusing names.

There's a lot of 360/PS2 stuff that was great but trapped on old hardware.

Warning: Long Dumb Rambling ahead
 

So I guess all this to say that I'm glad old, mostly cool, games are getting remade because they were designed (for better or worse) without modern day trends, marketing, or GAAS.

And if they do well enough, they might inspire studios to revitalize that franchise.

6 hours ago, Rynjin said:

Most of the good ones got  ported to something else eventually, like Windwaker and Super Mario Sunshine.

 

...Geist might be an interesting game to emulate though if you've never played it. 

Still waiting for that Paper Mario TTYD port.

3 hours ago, Idiot Cube said:

Do I stay up late at night because of bad habits I developed in my college days, or because it makes me feel like I'm still in control of my free time?

TFW you can't find lobbies at 2:30 in the morning.

I still use my steam link all the time. Bummer that they don't sell it anymore.

I missed out on my opportunity to get the controller, at least big picture works with basically any controller you could throw at it now.

Once a lurker, always a lurker.

I never posted much on oldspuf, but I read just about everything.

Enjoyed participating in the spuf server when it was around, had superfast ethernet at the time so micspam was fun.

Never really made a name for myself or anything, I think the biggest thing I contributed was the sfm video in Medic's conga thread.

I forget the events that linked me here, but I appreciate this cozy little corner of the internet.

Fun Fact, I can buy emoticons for games that steam has delisted.

I can buy backgrounds and emoticons for Transformers Devastation, where before you couldn't because the market was disabled for the game.

1 hour ago, Moby said:

Itch.io is having a bundle with a thousand games, board games and game development assets (with more being added) for $5

 

https://itch.io/b/520/bundle-for-racial-justice-and-equality

Standout videogames include

-Night in the Woods

-Glittermitten Grove

-Heavy Bullets

-Quadrilateral Cowboys

-Minit

-Super Hexagon

You were real good son, maybe even the best

I always liked all the unusual flavors of Arizona and Cafinergy Sauce that the 7/11s carry.

Went and saw Undertale Live this weekend. Really fun show, a bit disorganized, but it all worked out in the end.

Hearing "Your best friend" live was emotional.

It was a small venue, but it was super packed. Couple of people in Sans hoodies, but nothing crazy.

A bit disappointed they didn't do a rendition of Dogsong, otherwise the show was aces.

Undyne voting

Metaton

Swag

Going to see Nier Automata on the 25th too.

I dunno, I just got Sword about a week ago and I'm having fun with it.

The two expansions averaged to 15 apiece just sounds like fallout dlc.

Annoying you can't get them individually though.

Two new areas that are gigantic wilds areas sounds really cool, because as soon as I hit the first wilds area I was like "what if they made a whole game like this" and the expansions should answer that question.

As for using DLC to sell cut content, I think this is at least a better solution than selling Pokemon Ultra Sword and Ultra Shield.

I'm like, turbo casual though, so I'm just here to catch the new mons and legendaries and stuff.

I still think it's stupid that a bunch of cool side activities from old games never came back.

Like the hollywood puzzle battles in Black/White 2.

7 hours ago, A 1970 Corvette said:

After thinking about all those classic rock songs that have been used in countless awful movie trailers, I've began to wonder if there's a quantifiable number of times that a song can be used in an advertisement before it stops being respected. Or maybe not respected, but associated with ads moreso than associated with just being a song? I'm sure someone else knows what I mean here.

Flashbacks to "Just what I needed" and truck commercials.

Belated Happy Christmas and Merry New Year.

I got warm sweaters for christmas.

H3VR is a silly game.

Having played Farpoint, I will say that VR Headcrabs will continue to be the stuff of nightmares.

Looks quality, but I'm not seeing anything particularly groundbreaking.

Still, looks like it's taking everything that "worked" in other VR titles, and adding a ton of polish and money into it.

I'm sure it'll be good and fun, but I'd be really impressed if it ends up being a full length game.

Realistically, the new Half Life is probably going to be one big tech showcase for the index controllers.

Stuff like "Alyx, you have to enter this door code by pressing the button with *one finger!*"

Who else playing Outer Worlds tonight (tomorrow)?

Big Excite Big Excite

At least a few