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MGSV definitely takes it this year, but I can't wait to hear the fight around it tomorrow. It's interesting to see how scattershot everything is after MGSV. Not too many unanimous opinions.

Their deliberations during the podcast for it was kind of thin, but the reasoning is actually explained quite well in this article.

Yep, Canada in the 90's around grades 6 to 8. Late elementary or junior high.

Honestly the worst part of the end for me is the portrayal of love between Triss, Yennifer and Geralt. I disagree with, but I understand society's notion of if you love two people you're a bad person, you can only love one person. That's a much larger debate, but that's not what I have a problem with here. So, to set this up, I will first say that there is a justification that Geralt loves these two women, because of the amnesia he has no memory of Yennifer and falls for Triss with fresh memories. He eventually remembers Yennifer, which makes the situation confusing emotionally as he's combining his two lives he lived. Now you have to make a choice and that's fine and completely valid.

Here's where the problem starts. I chose Yennifer and made it clear to both of them that I wanted to be with Yennifer, in which they both seemingly understood and were cool with the situation. There were apologies and the dialogue and sequences that follow make it clear that I'm now faithful to Yennifer. But then in a weird moment at the end, they both cut all ties with you and think that you're trash in a way that was really sudden and surprising, undermining all of the thoughts and sentiments that they were sharing previously, their history with Geralt, and added by the fact that my Geralt was never an asshole about anything.

True love is such a weird and complicated force that it just felt like these writers had a very specific thought process of how they interpret love and it their view of it was forced down my throat. It made me dislike my time with those characters in a huge way, BUT, it also made with connect a lot more with Geralt as a person and made it that much harder that Ciri can't be a regular thing in his life either.

Haha, yeah, but unfortunately Austin did pick a poor selection of tracks to showcase the variety for Undertale, like Dan's blunder with Tropical Freeze. Two great soundtracks in their own right too. One day they'll come into this category with specific songs already in mind and ready to be queued up for their argument. Maybe.

This is cool! I'll bookmark this thing and check back as the lists come out. I'm also unsure if Rorie's list should even influence the points here, but whatever seems best, it's not my call to make!

I don't think Life is Strange will be talked about all that much during these deliberations.

I really felt for Vinny throughout that part, but yeah Austin was making the better point during that particular moment.

This is a great question. I generally associate Final Fantasy games with very specific eras and situations of my life and certain music and moments in those games remind me of people who are not in my life anymore and that can be hard, but for the most part there's a lot to take in while playing a game and I can separate those memories when I'm replaying them. It's more so when I listen to the music on its own that I'll have an involuntary nostalgic reaction.

Vinny, Austin and Brad have all played way more Metal Gear than Mario Maker. And while Jeff and Dan most likely prefer Mario Maker over Metal Gear, they still very much enjoyed Metal Gear. MGSV will be Giant Bomb's agreed upon GOTY and Mario Maker will go first on personal lists and other categories.