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Jeff Gerstmann's 2014 Game of the Year Is Here

Phew! Glad that's settled.

Dec. 18 2013

Posted by: Patrick

In This Episode:

Yoshi's New Island

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Is this the new millennium way to reach across the political aisle? Fake press releases about the opposition? Could make for an interesting future. :)

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@neox said:

I can't say that I dig the art style, looks very dated with the 'happy crayon' look.

What an opinion you have there!.... lol

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bum

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I know lots of people take it deadly seriously, but I am enjoying this Klepek-Gerstmann blood feud over the validity of Yoshi's Island as a good game.

Yeah, I am a fan of the Yoshi's Island game, but I do love the back and forth between Patrick and Jeff. Hilarious! I am not serious about defending it. But I also love Jeff's crazy vigor for his Genesis love and I am kind of in that camp of being a Genesis fan!

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This headline made my day after viewing the trailer.

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I can't say that I dig the art style, looks very dated with the 'happy crayon' look.

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@sarumarine: It's definitely one of my favorite inside jokes from the podcast this year.

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Just brutal. The ball is squarely in Jeff's court.

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I like the sounds that Yoshi makes, but otherwise have no interest in this game whatsoever.

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While listening to podcast about yoshi island I side with jeff on this debut but why you gotta bring zelda into this man. TLoz: a link between world is a great sequel to a great game. I just wished nintendo was more thoughtful in their choices to making direct sequels to their games but hey Reggie needs to get paid.

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Seeing the size of that egg, I can't help but think...my god, his anus must have been ripped in half!

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actively trolling, excellent work patrick

But this feels more like a spiritual sequel to the N64 game not the SNES game which was probably the DS game, and now nintendo has done again that lovely complicated timeline where in Yoshi fans embody Zelda fans

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Troll Patrick is the best Patrick.

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@purplespandex said:

One day Nintendo will make a new game, I might be dead when it happens but one day they'll stop remaking the same shit over and over again.

people still actually believe this "nintendo makes no new games" shit?

Yah, cant the op read, it says NEW right on the title.

But I half agree. Old characturs dose not mean an old game. Mario charactuers are more like actors, in that they are highly paid, cant act, and are in a thousand diffrent type of movies in a year, some of witch they never actualy knew they were in.

If you think of Mario not as mario, and more as Owen Willson, and Luigi as Vince Vaughn then it kind of makes more sence, the not being able to act part i mean.

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I got baited.

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Visually this looks like a really bad GBA game. Have they been sitting on this one for a few years?

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One day Nintendo will make a new game, I might be dead when it happens but one day they'll stop remaking the same shit over and over again.

people still actually believe this "nintendo makes no new games" shit?

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LOL that's the most tired "yoshiii" I've ever heard.

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I played the original Yoshi's Island game as a jaded high-school kid who had long moved on from the Mario games of my youth... I was glued to it- and I can't describe it very aptly, but I felt very satisfied playing through every moment of that game.

WHAT NOW BIG JEFFREY. SAY SUMIN, BUSTA.

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One day Nintendo will make a new game, I might be dead when it happens but one day they'll stop remaking the same shit over and over again.

One day people realize that Nintendo puts out "new" games all the time but nobody pays attention to them because they're not called Zelda and Mario and the world goes on thinking that's all they make. Or some arbitrary qualifier gets thrown around that makes all their original titles not count.

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2014's Character of the year will be Baby Mario. This will be declared as the Blood of the Gerst-Mans is spilled on the floors of the Giant Bomb offices.

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Hey look, another completely original Nintendo product!

Nice.

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Nice Patrick! :)

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This is starting to look much better. I didn't like what I saw of the early stuff they showed. But, I still to this day, do not know how to feel about baby mario.

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Nice troll but I stupidly thought this was a link to Jeff's list, so was a little let down to see the crap game. Why I think its 2014 already is weird as well?

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Touch fuzzy get dizzy.

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I was tricked into watching an ad!

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@jimmyfenix: Jeff scored the previous incarnation on teh DS a 9/10, so I guess he likes it?

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Well done Patrick, Well Done.

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Well played, Patrick. I hope you battle for your game this year instead the weak arguments you gave last time. And Jeff can't send you to Chicago again this time.

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DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN!!!!!!!!!! Shots fired

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@gatehouse: Uh, this is what Nintendo has always done. "Super Nintendo" or "Mario 64" (When the game came out on the N64) etc etc. They've never been particularly creative about naming their non-Zelda games.