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Yours Truly's 2023 Game of The Year Awards 1
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Yours Truly's 2022 Game of the Year Awards 0
This was a year I spent way too much time in long, long, looooooooooooooooooong hour games of an alarming level of complexity.
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Yours Truly's 2021 Game of the Year Awards 0
I dont really have a full #1 this year, but that's less that the winner was a disappointment but it was more that the top 5 made it a "first amongst equals" thing.
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Yours Truly's 2020 Game of the Year Awards 0
I had feared that this year would have been one of much personal toil and stress. New job. New reality. New life choices. That sorta thing. But due to a once-a-century pandemic, I had time to play more than I would have otherwise. Old games, new game
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Yours Truly's 2019 Game of the Year Awards 0
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Yours Truly's 2018 Game of the Year Awards 0
2018! We've survived another one. I have played a ton less games this year compared with any year since 2010 for me. Work was tough, lots of personal life stuff, but that's not what we're here for! I bought a Switch, so that's a neat little thing. I'
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Yours Truly's 2017 Game of the Year Awards 0
2017 was a year that was to be much worse than it actually ended up being, and for that I am grateful. More to the point of this forum, the year 2017 in video games was much better than it was already predicted to be. I've had some tough choices to
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Yours Truly's 2016 Game of the Year Awards 0
This year in gaming for me is chategorized by a few things 1. Self-sabotaging games takes the "games at war with themselves" I kept running into in recent years to a disturbing new height. 2. I picked up a much higher percentage of Japanese games tha
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Yours Truly's 2015 Game of the Year Awards 0
This year's list is almost a distilled version of last years list. Every theme and trend in 2014's upped to rotgut strength: the polished classic topper, the strong but single-flawed second tier, the half off/half amazing bottom tier, and a few under
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Yours Truly's 2014 Game of the Year Awards 0
This has said to have been by others to be a "down" year. A "disappointing" year. I don't myself think this, but there has been a few clouds obscuring new-for-2014 games for me. One, that much of my game time has been eaten up clearing out my backlog
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Yours Truly's 2013 Game of the Year Awards 0
Been an odd year, but the spread of games is similar to the last two: 2-3 Japanese games to each indie, few on console. I missed a ton of stuff like FE, Ys Celceta, and SM3D Land would probably bump 8, 9, and 10 off the list, but what can you do?
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Yours Truly's 2012 Game of the Year Awards 0
2012 was when the event horizon of AAA design tore itself apart, and the entire "preseason list" of ringers imploding left the field open for some very strange GOTYs. For me though, it was another year as any other.
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Yours Truly's 2011 Game of the Year Awards 0
It felt good to be out of a funk, with a new job, a new lease on life, and a fresh new view on the world of video gaming.
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Games I like in concept more than in execution. 3
It's pretty simple. Sometimes, I want to like a game far more than I am actually liking it. While I guess they could also fall in my "Wasted Potential" list, I find that the key difference is that not all of these games are generally bad, but more li
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Best games of 2010... that didn't actually come out in 2010. 2
I play old games. This much is sure. Even though I will no doubt make a list concerning my favorite games of this year, that actually came out this year, this list is just as important. Remember, these are games that I came to this year. Not games th
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Best of 2010 0
I also play new games, believe it or not. And I actually played games that came out this year. Like Alpha Protocol. But that game sucks. As per usual, the ordering on these things is pretty shaky and should be taken with a grain of salt. Chances are,
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Jumping the gun: My worst impulse buys 9
I'll admit. I occasionally have a problem buying things on impulse. Sometimes this ends well, such as in the case of Devil May Cry 3 and Resident Evil 4. Sometimes this ends poorly, which usually results in me losing money because I will never play t
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I'm ArbitraryWater, and these are my favorite old games on the citadel (2009-2013) 4
As you might know, I've played quite a few old games since I started doing this blog thing in the summer of 2009 (When I basically said that "You know, despite having aged super poorly, Goldeneye is still ok") Now,\ years later and with quite a repos
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Playstation 2 Library 0
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Steam Sale Summer 2011 Haul 2
I figure this is as good a place as any to express some fairly poor decision making on my part. Thankfully, I didn't go quite as crazy with the deals as I did the previous holiday sale. Prices rounded up to the nearest dollar, but I'm just glad I sp
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Playstation 3 Library 0
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XBOX 360 Library 0
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Nintendo Wii Library 0
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Blog fodder that I would like to write about before the end of the year. 2
With the laptop capable of playing games arriving at some point in the near future, I might as well catalog all the games that I'd like to finish before the end of 2011, so that I may blog about them and thus be able to say snarky things about them t
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Games I have purchased more than once 3
Once, when I was a 14 year old kid without a lot of money but with a lot of crappy games, I sold stuff. Sometimes, I sold stuff I would regret selling later on, thus leading to me re-purchasing them at some point in the future. Also, GOG and Steam ha
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The Official Jeff Rud Honor Roll 0
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Best games of 2011 that didn't come out in 2011 0
As someone who until recently had a totally garbage computer and not much spending money, I had to make due with whatever old games would come my way. Thanks in no part to Good Old Games, as well as that shady Gamestop downtown, I have been able to p
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GOTY 2011 0
Alright. I figure now is as good a time as any to put out my GOTY list for this year, as I probably won't be playing any more new stuff for the remainder of December. Unlike last year, I actually played an acceptable amount of actual console releases
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2011 GOG Holiday Sale haul 0
In order to be something resembling fiscally conservative, I am not going to buy anything during Steam's Holiday sale this year. However, I didn't say anything about GOG's holiday sale, which I managed to reach my spending limit of $20 with little tr
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Fighting Games played in 2011 0
Apparently having a PS2 pays off in multiple ways, considering the amount of fighting games released for the platform. Here are the ones I played this year, for reference's sake.
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Steam Sale Winter 2011 Haul 1
To keep myself honest. Really though, I've bought a lot of stupid shit on Steam already, so don't be surprised if this list is rather... brief.Will update as sale goes on.
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IT CAME FROM THE DOS BOX 0
Throughout my internet travels, I have run into stuff that, to put it bluntly, can only be described as OLD. Not necessarily bad, per se, but more "aged to the point of ridicule". Here are games, that are both obscure and not obscure that I probably
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Games I will willfully admit to being an apologist for 2
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Steam Sale Summer 2012 Haul 0
Once again, this is as much for me as it is for you.
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Games you've probably heard me endorse/accidentally endorse one time too many 3
Everyone has games that they tend to get a bit... enthusiastic about. In my case, it's often niche, underlooked CRPGs from the late 90s. Chances are if you have been on these forums long enough, you've heard me mention these games multiple times when
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Being thrown to the (figurative) wolves 0
This is not a list about games with wolves in them( For that, just look at the wolves page), although wolves certainly can be featured. No, instead what this list is about are games that pull no punches from the word "GO" and immediately start punchi
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Ye Old Skoole Resident Evil games rated in a numerical fashion 1
When it comes down to it, there are only a few games and franchises that really incite the kind of mad, salivating fervor that I display on the internet. Fire Emblem is one of them. Resident Evil is another. Since I have played every single main-seri
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Best Games of 2012 (that didn't come out in 2012) 0
Ah, it's december, is it not? A time to reflect, a time to spend with family, and a time to wallow in self-loathing whilst studying for finals. It's also the time when people order games in a numerical fashion and declare them as having significant q
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GOTY 2012 3
My personal games of the year. As per usual, the optimal place to see this list is in the blog form, where any game marked with an asterisk (*) has additional commentary, and the ones that don't probably don't because I wrote something lengthy about
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Steam/GOG Sale Winter 2012 Haul 0
For me, not necessarily for you. Here you go.
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Summer 2013 Steam Sale haul 0
Because I can. If you haven't noticed, it's pretty slim this year. This is intentional and means I'm this much closer to becoming a responsible human being.
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Questionable and Bad Games Initiative 2013 16
Oh sure, I could be playing games that aren't sort of soul-crushing, but where would the fun be in that? This year, even moreso than usual, I've been playing through titles one might generously call "Middling" for the purpose of my dumb internet blog
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TOP 10 VIDEO GAMES THAT ARE ALSO VIDEO GAMES SEXY BIKINI MOMENTS 9
In which is chronicled the most video game. REMEMBER TO LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE AND DISABLE ADBLOCK OR YOU CAN DIE IN A FIRE.
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Stuff I should probably finish one day (AKA: Backlog of Shame) 10
I'm probably going to take a break from video games soon, but before I do that I figure I should make a list of stuff I'd like to finish one day (or start, for that matter). Unfortunately for you, this list is populated by GOOD games, as I think my b
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Some games that came out this console generation that I thought were pretty good (in a unordered manner) 4
I think the idea of an all encompassing "Game of the Generation" is really stupid. While I happily participated in the popularity contest that happened on the forums and and am more than willing to tell you dickbaskets exactly how much New Vegas is b
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GOTY 2013 14
And here comes the Game of the Year list, in all its glory. Games marked with an asterisk have additional commentary, assuming you're reading the blog like you're supposed to.
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Best games of 2013 (that didn't come out in 2013) 5
Let's be real: This is the true GOTY list, but you'll want to read the blog for additional commentary.
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Crowfunded games I have helped fund and their relative merits in the cosmology of the universe 0
Crowdfunding is now a thing. It's funny to think about, that years ago Double Fine said "We want to make an adventure game like those old adventure games" and started this wave of everyone and their dog trying to pitch video games, from indie startup
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Games that I played a notable amount of in 2014 3
This is really as much for my benefit as it is yours. The title says it all: Games I played a decent chunk of this year so I can actually remember come GOTY stuff or maybe for personal recollection without having to search through all of my blogs.
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Steam Sale Summer 2014 Haul 1
Whoops.
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GOTY 2014 7
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Best of 2014 that didn't actually come out in 2014 9
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Scratched Off 1-100 0
This is a comprehensive list of games I've actually played to completion. Considering I've been putzing around with video games since I was four, this list is WAAAY too short. For the record, I am defining "completion" here as either Playing through
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