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@assirra: https://www.giantbomb.com/articles/heres-what-won/1100-5847/

I think this is what you're looking for.

I'm also glad they spoke about it! It's important that they talked about labor and the larger problems facing the industry, but the dismount of then putting Fallout 76 above it as in some way being more problematic or "hot" or "messy" just bothered me to no end. I hope we hear them acknowledge these larger problems more going forward, in fact I'm certain we will, but man that all just left a bitter taste in my mouth. I really think GB should be more thoughtful than this.

(Spoilers for hottest mess below)

It really bothered me to see the GB crew put Fallout 76 over the exploitative labor practices of Rockstar, ArenaNet kowtowing to a mob's harassment of a developer and then firing the developers that tried to stand up for her, the cultural sexism of riot (and what ever else happened there this year), the overnight laying off of the entirety of Telltale due to mismanagement, and whatever myriad of other "questionable workplace practices & culture" that were in the games industry this year (presumably like Quantic Dream's toxic studio culture even though I don't remember it being directly mentioned). Having an impassioned discussion about how people should respect developers over their products (talking about The Walking Dead specifically) then followed by them putting a game over much of the mistreatment of developers this year didn't seem thoughtful, to put it mildly. To have such a generalized, all-encompassing hot mess that covers so many of the abuses of the people working in this industry and then put the poor launch of a Bethesda game over it just seems to malign developers to me, even if it doesn't quite fit in the category as neatly as Fallout does. I think either it shouldn't have been in the category to begin with or it should have won, and anything else inbetween comes across as egregiously disrespectful. Jeff also had a point about being unable to 100% guarantee the veracity of these stories (I may be overgeneralizing a bit), but I think then putting Fallout 76 over them either says that the site doesn't believe them, or believes that Fallout 76 was worse than the mistreatment of developers, otherwise it should have just been avoided entirely. I may be off base on that point, please tell me if I am.

I don't like to get mad about these year end deliberations and lists because they're just video games, but that falls apart here where it's about the people very directly. I know this is supposed to be "for funsies" but I can't help but be let down by the editorial staff acknowledging and then maligning this year's abuses of the people within the industry. I know there was no ill-will in doing this, but it disappointed me none the less. I really respect GB, like hell, I listened to something like 15 hours to get to that discussion and didn't really have a complaint, but this just seemed so ill-conceived and frustrating.

I haven't seen anyone else responding this way, so if I'm ignoring or missing something, or being thoughtless then please tell me. And sorry if this is a bit scattered I just needed to get this out of my head.

I think the best obscure game I can think of is Weapon Shop de Omasse. As well as that, the Starship Damrey is really cool. Any of those level 5 experimental games are really interesting and unique. Beyond that I'm pretty taped out. It's too bad there's not just a yakuza game on there so that you could just never not be playing yakuza.

Also Unholy Heights is a kind of rad japanese indie game you should check out.

Are B and E the same answer.

The new format's fantastic. Giant Bomb's strength has always been their conversational take on games, and if someone's looking for a good opinion on a game and don't listen to the bombcast, it's not like they can be reasonably expected to sit down and scrub through one/listen through one to find the opinion. This is just playing to the site's strengths, and honestly what is a regular review but an unsatisfying middle ground between an in-depth discussion and a byline. If you want something short, there's a succinct few paragraphs and a score, but otherwise there's an hour long discussion. Seems fine, honestly losing 4-5 paragraphs and gaining an hour long conversation is a pretty good trade off.

I've been dying trying to find that Kino's Journey clip, but the one on twitter is just a dead image as far as i can tell.

I guess this is just a poll for people who drink then.

Lorenzo Music was great and the Garfield movie was bad.

Someone's going to pay $110 just to get that concussive rubber duck, and I hope to god it's not me.