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Sun, 19 Jan 2020 14:19:15
Listening to the GU podcast about the Top 10 and why Tetris Effect was chosen. I think that might be the one big thing I would argue on the list. Including something related to VR was important I think, but I'm not sure this was really the game. I enjoyed it, but the aesthetics aside I don't think it really is a great example of what VR could do. Plus, I don't even think it's anywhere near the best Tetris game of the decade.

I think I would have voted for Beat Saber, as it takes just as much advantage of the VR as Tetris effect, but it also offers up a more original gameplay experience. Astrobot would probably be the most polished VR game that was released, at least for PS and might deserve a nod. Maybe even resident Evil 7, as it's a good recognizable mainstream entry and offered up a solid example of what you can do with VR.

Anyway, that's just the peanut galleries comment. Resuming listening now.
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Sun, 19 Jan 2020 14:38:00
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And on a unrelated note to a top 10 list, but completely related to the podcast, I would just like to correct you both in that the finest video game novelization was actually "The Authorized, Uncensored Leisure Suit Larry Bedside Companion." It was a novelization / hint book written in a first person memoir style chronicling Larry's adventures in his first four games.
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Sun, 19 Jan 2020 21:40:15

I had to let one of his choices go so that I could replace and re-order all his others. Nyaa

Beat Saber is the top pick, I think. On the other hand, Tetris Effect and Obduction are the two big choices where the medium is being used for expression, so I think there is an argument to be made for the both of them, even if they haven't has as big an impact as Beat Saber etc.

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Mon, 20 Jan 2020 00:26:04
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Read the list


>Tetris effect: sure, fine Tetris lit


>Walking Dead: shit game


>Depression Quest: not even a game, I actually bothered to read the reason and it was still a lame reason.


>last of us: sure, but given how much is about "mah impact" the last of us the least impactful media darling of the decade. Its a generic video game conceptually


>dear esther: aids


>Dark Souls: yeah


>pokemon go: not even the most important cell phone game of the decade


>Fifa: the reasoning makes sense


>Forkknife: uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh no? PUBG did it first, pubg got big and legitmized the butt royale games. Tho if you really wanted to go the mile you go all the way back to DayZ, but forkknife, is just another battle royale game that became the biggest one. It is not the influential, it still isn't the influential one


Minecraft: sure, game still wack tho.

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Mon, 20 Jan 2020 01:33:22

Gagan is ultimately little more than a hipster confirmed.

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Mon, 20 Jan 2020 03:50:07
Foolz said:

Gagan is ultimately little more than a hipster confirmed.

All of those are actual factuals, One Hunnit Pa Cent.


Exact same energy as the last time I said something is One hunnit pa cent.

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Mon, 20 Jan 2020 05:21:07
Gagan said:

All of those are actual factuals, One Hunnit Pa Cent.


Exact same energy as the last time I said something is One hunnit pa cent.

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Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:17:41
Foolz said:

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No such thing as good written games blah blah blah. You linked some nonsense, the end result was the same, your bois were massive failures in their entire existence. Absolute state of Tomas in 2019

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Mon, 20 Jan 2020 21:19:55
Gagan said:

No such thing as good written games blah blah blah. You linked some nonsense, the end result was the same, your bois were massive failures in their entire existence. Absolute state of Tomas in 2019

Yeah, but how does what you wrote mean that? LOL

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Tue, 21 Jan 2020 03:14:58
Foolz said:
Gagan said:

No such thing as good written games blah blah blah. You linked some nonsense, the end result was the same, your bois were massive failures in their entire existence. Absolute state of Tomas in 2019

Yeah, but how does what you wrote mean that? LOL

Just like last time my take is an actual factual

one hunnit pa cent fax

objective truth

A truthie smoothie

With no valid counter point, because again, a truthie smoothie.

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Tue, 21 Jan 2020 03:28:51
Gagan said:

Just like last time my take is an actual factual

one hunnit pa cent fax

objective truth

A truthie smoothie

With no valid counter point, because again, a truthie smoothie.

Your previous post was about your experience playing VR, so that's one bizarre non-sequitur.

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Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:09:22
Foolz said:

Your previous post was about your experience playing VR, so that's one bizarre non-sequitur.

My previous post was about your list, and the reference was towards "there is no games written shit by a journo or reviewer type that actually describes gameplay" way back when, sorry your memory doesn't go that far back old man

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Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:40:35
Face it you two, we live in a post facts world. This kerfuffle of not even being able to agree on what the last topic Gagan wrote about (totally verifiable) was, completely validates this.

Fo'shizzle.
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Tue, 21 Jan 2020 21:49:06
Gagan said:

My previous post was about your list, and the reference was towards "there is no games written shit by a journo or reviewer type that actually describes gameplay" way back when, sorry your memory doesn't go that far back old man

Yeah, I understood that part fine (and perhaps you've forgotten you admitted I linked you written things doing the same thing as the 5 videos you're so fond of? Albeit none of them called themselves reviews, but half the videos that are identical to 5 hour video "reviews" call themselves 5 hour video "essays" anyway), I was just giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming the dumb sentence I highlighted was not redundant, as a nonsensical reference would be better than that, but hey if you watch 5 hour YouTube videos and think they're good, you're probably fine with repeating yourself in progressively stupider and stupider ways, so my bad.

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Sat, 25 Jan 2020 02:37:17
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Foolz said:

Yeah, I understood that part fine

Nope. List sucks, Tom shills journos, Gagan's woke and right all the time confirmed.

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Sat, 01 Feb 2020 19:16:24
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Listening to the GU podcast about the Top 10 and why Tetris Effect was chosen. I think that might be the one big thing I would argue on the list. Including something related to VR was important I think, but I'm not sure this was really the game. I enjoyed it, but the aesthetics aside I don't think it really is a great example of what VR could do. Plus, I don't even think it's anywhere near the best Tetris game of the decade.


I think I would have voted for Beat Saber, as it takes just as much advantage of the VR as Tetris effect, but it also offers up a more original gameplay experience. Astrobot would probably be the most polished VR game that was released, at least for PS and might deserve a nod. Maybe even resident Evil 7, as it's a good recognizable mainstream entry and offered up a solid example of what you can do with VR.


Anyway, that's just the peanut galleries comment. Resuming listening now.

I relied on GOTY from others to give me the token VR entry (and from a writing perspective the Mitzuguchi angle was a good hook).

I'm sure if I had my own experiences in VR a different selection would have been made.

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Sat, 01 Feb 2020 20:59:38

I anrrowed down the finalists for my top ten of the 2010's:




















































































Thomas was Alone 2010
Sonic and Sega All Star Racing 2010
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2010
Fallout New Vegas 2010
Mass Effect 2 2010
Deadly Premonition 2010
Super Mario Galaxy 2 2010
Red Dead Redemption 2010
Driver San Francisco 2011
Saint's Row The Third 2011
Yakuza 4 2011
Walking Dead 2012
Retro City ampage 2012
Asura's Wrath 2012
Spec Ops The Line 2012
Tom Raider 2013
Wolf Among Us 2013
Papers, Please 2013
Lego city Undercover 2013
Tearaway 2013
Dragon's Crown 2013
Beyond Two Souls 2013
Last of Us 2013
Shadow of Mordor 2014
Jazzpunk 2014
Valiant Hearts 2014
Shovel Knight 2014
Wolfenstein 2014
Her Story 2015
Life is Strange 2015
Sunset 2015
Transformers Destruction 2015
Until Dawn 2015
The Witness 2016
Inside 2016
Stardew Valley 2016
Titanfall 2 2016
Doom 2016
Yakuza Zero 2017
Mario Odyssey 2017
God of War 2018




















































































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Sat, 01 Feb 2020 21:21:30
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The Last Guardian doesn't even get a nomination? Uneasy

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Sat, 01 Feb 2020 22:57:20
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Lego City Undercover... absolutely excellent game to consider. It certainly had its flaws, and the load times were just horrendous, but it might have just been the best genre parody of any medium in the past decade. The script had me laughing out loud on multiple occasions, and Frank Honey will always get my vote as best sidekicks ever.

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Sun, 02 Feb 2020 03:07:13

I managed to work it down to ten while editing the Devil May Cry 3 podcast. It was certianly easier with a committee of one!

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