dialthedude

oops, here's my list. didn't mean to post it on the community page https://www.giantbomb.com/profile/dialthedude/lists/top-10-of-2022/373781/

Working my way through the Yakuza franchise and I'm anticipating reaching Like a Dragon cuz I need to know the context for what this plays over.

I feel like I'm gonna be in the minority opinion by saying this, but here goes:

I really liked the loop-based, puzzle box gameplay where the goal is hunting down information and figuring out how to unlock the next bit of narrative. It had a ton of plates spinning in the air and with how reactive the characters and environment are to your actions, it's super impressive. I also understand that I may have had a breezier time through all the puzzles because I hyperfixated on one thread at a time, which isn't everyone's playstyle. If there is one thing the game excels at, it's giving you that "Aha!" moment, because I felt like the smartest guy in the world when I thought up a solution and it got executed exactly as I planned.

All that being said:

Oh man did the twist ending really drop the ball and sour the rest of the game. It's one of the few times I said "Oh no." out loud while playing a game and the final sequence really deflated by enthusiasm for it.

This is probably the biggest let-down I can think of in recent memory, even after being up on it in the beginning and middle parts. Hey that first 9/10ths? Really solid! Too bad that final tenth undid everything it had going for it.

Bit of a fondness for one of the more recent games

The only good loot box is the one with a cat in it.

I set the quality to High and it still stutter back and forth a second every so often too. I'm on the same version of Firefox as well.

Well, shoot! Almost everything I thought of to make any of these categories have already been filled in. Really feel like Tetris Effect will take Best Music in a landslide, or at minimum a runner up. Astro Bot seems to be THE surprise of the year from what I've played of it.

Only thing I could suggest that would be on Best Moment/Sequence list would be reading the Trashopedia from Donut County because basically everything in it is gold. Even still that's a pretty mild moment compared to the rest.

Maybe we can add Old Game of the Year entries?

Virtue's Last Reward Syndrome strikes again!

The conference will actually just be Nintendo destroying every copy of Mother 3, to ensure the West never gets their hands on it.

They rolled out some patches a couple days ago. Pre-patch, the only issue the game was giving me was tiny black specks sometimes appearing on complex textures and facial animations. I have an Nvidia card and I noticed it tended to appear in a lot of the drivers from this year. The fact that it also happened in this game was a disappointment, but the patch really seemed to smooth everything out.

I played this at launch and had no other problems, though I am bummed out that a lot of others didn't have as good experience on PC as I did. For me, this and Doom ran like magic thanks to that magical engine known as id Tech 6.