2020 GOTY

Delly · Jan 1, 2021

1. Cyberpunk 2077 - not what was promised but still a great experience.
2. Yakuza 7 - fuck y'all losers for not even mentioning this. A total genre change with a new set of main characters but in the same world and they aced it. I almost wanted this as my GOTY.
3. Hades - solid all around and could have also been my GOTY but I've been playing it forever in early access and that killed some of its momentum for me.

Intrinsic · Jan 1, 2021

Delly said:
1. Cyberpunk 2077 - not what was promised but still a great experience.
2. Yakuza 7 - fuck y'all losers for not even mentioning this. A total genre change with a new set of main characters but in the same world and they aced it. I almost wanted this as my GOTY.
3. Hades - solid all around and could have also been my GOTY but I've been playing it forever in early access and that killed some of its momentum for me.

Hey now,

Vorph mentioned Yakuza 7 early on! My excuse is I just haven’t booted it up yet.

Attog · Jan 1, 2021

Never heard of Hades but I bought it today based on all the praise in this thread.

Brikker · Jan 1, 2021

Hades

Hateyou · Jan 1, 2021

Intrinsic said:
May have to trust y’all and try this Monster Train game out. Thought it was like $30 but I guess $17 isn’t bad. The genre isn’t one that appeals to me at all after trying out a couple of others. Not sure it was Slay the Spire or something way earlier than that. Kind of in a couch / PS4 mode at the moment. Wish it was out on there (no Xbox).

I started it today and couldn’t put it down. Played off and on all day. It’s really good.

Mist · Jan 2, 2021

Shadowlands, said no one ever.

Ritley · Jan 2, 2021

After playing hades for awhile, it is a fun game but a far cry from anything I’d consider a game of the year

Hatorade · Jan 3, 2021

Hateyou said:
I started it today and couldn’t put it down. Played off and on all day. It’s really good.

Noticed a bunch of new players getting those rank ups. We could do some races and such if enough on at the same time.

Hateyou · Jan 3, 2021

Hatorade said:
Noticed a bunch of new players getting those rank ups. We could do some races and such if enough on at the same time.

I haven’t unlocked everything yet and still learning synergies but I’m down. Have only done normal solo play so far.

Attog · Jan 3, 2021

the game is addicting but I am terrible at it, the double bosses with minos are tearing me up every time. I can click into the skills menu on the left and you are able to select individual skill diamonds with a little icon - what is that for?

Hateyou · Jan 3, 2021

Attog said:
the game is addicting but I am terrible at it, the double bosses with minos are tearing me up every time. I can click into the skills menu on the left and you are able to select individual skill diamonds with a little icon - what is that for?

When you upgrade spells and units that’s where the skill goes. You can get two skill ups per card and there are some events that bump it up to three.

Chimney · Jan 3, 2021

Tried out Monster Train due to thread last night. It feels very easy/less beholden to RNG compared to other games in the genre. Some artifacts are just so busted and common and you get so many attempts at pruning your deck/upgrading cards during a run that it feels like you need to actively go out of your way to lose once you recognize it which makes it hard to want to progress/unlock other stuff if the balance is that bad early on. I think I stopped at L8 hellhorned/L6 awoken with all wins except 1 run. That said it's neat otherwise.

Gavinmad · Jan 3, 2021

Chimney said:
Tried out Monster Train due to thread last night. It feels very easy/less beholden to RNG compared to other games in the genre. Some artifacts are just so busted and common and you get so many attempts at pruning your deck/upgrading cards during a run that it feels like you need to actively go out of your way to lose once you recognize it which makes it hard to want to progress/unlock other stuff if the balance is that bad early on. I think I stopped at L8 hellhorned/L6 awoken with all wins except 1 run. That said it's neat otherwise.

lol the game doesn't even really start until you start grinding up covenant levels. Right now all you're doing is unlocking all your clan cards.

Chimney · Jan 4, 2021

That may be the case, but there is no real power curve/learning curve off the bat which is weird for a rogue like game. You can instantly start off wrecking the entirety of the crawl.

Gavinmad · Jan 4, 2021

Hellhorned and Sentient are very straightforward to play for the most part, and yes the base game with no covenant levels is pretty easy. Melting Remnant, Umbra, and Stygian Guard require a bit more thought.

TJT · Jan 4, 2021

Chimney said:
That may be the case, but there is no real power curve/learning curve off the bat which is weird for a rogue like game. You can instantly start off wrecking the entirety of the crawl.

Not sure what you mean I may only be like 15 hours deep but I've only finished the crawl like a dozen times. I routinely die to the last boss Seraph due to not paying attention or failing at building out well enough to have sufficient damage output to do it.

Gavinmad · Jan 4, 2021

TJT said:
Not sure what you mean I may only be like 15 hours deep but I've only finished the crawl like a dozen times. I routinely die to the last boss Seraph due to not paying attention or failing at building out well enough to have sufficient damage output to do it.

Now imagine beating her when she does 2x damage and has 4x hitpoints kek

TJT · Jan 4, 2021

Gavinmad said:
Now imagine beating her when she does 2x damage and has 4x hitpoints kek

My most recent failure as the wax guys boned me because Seraph rallied whenever I put units on the train. Fucking me over hard at replacing burned out waxers I was buffing.

Bandwagon · Jan 4, 2021

I really hate JRPG games, the humor and relationships, characters and voice overs, even the menus and UI and stuff. Most of the time it's just weeb shit I hate, but I don't even like games like Dark Souls just because of the menus and.....uh.....vacant(?).... feel of the game. If that makes sense. But I like open world games like Fallout4 and Skyrim, especially if there's a building component to it.

All that being said, is it worth it to pick up Ghosts of T? I don't think I knew it was open world until this thread. Anyone else here despise JRPG games but like Ghosts?

Fight · Jan 4, 2021

Bandwagon said:
I really hate JRPG games, the humor and relationships, characters and voice overs, even the menus and UI and stuff. Most of the time it's just weeb shit I hate, but I don't even like games like Dark Souls just because of the menus and.....uh.....vacant(?).... feel of the game. If that makes sense. But I like open world games like Fallout4 and Skyrim, especially if there's a building component to it.

All that being said, is it worth it to pick up Ghosts of T? I don't think I knew it was open world until this thread. Anyone else here despise JRPG games but like Ghosts?

Sucker Punch made Ghosts of Tsushima. I believe it is an American studio that has nothing in common with JRPG studios.

I'm in the same boat as you though. Japanese and JRPG games are super cringe to me. I hate most of them. I think Ghosts of Tsushima is just a game based in 13th Century Japan.

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