An addendum: I got to play Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for 3-4 hours at the New Year's party I was at. Gotta say, it might be the best game I _have_ played in 2018 now. I really enjoyed playing King K.Rool in particular. And I'm impressed at how effective it was to give everyone a part of the controller to play on. They're tiny, but it's actually better to play Smash on those than playing on a Wiimote for Brawl, 'cause you've got enough buttons in basically the right places.
I also forgot to mention the games I played during Christmas and added that section. I also played Hidden my game by mom 2, but I don't have much to say about it. The hidden my game by mom series is funny and sweet and I forget it exists when I'm not playing the games themselves.
When the list leaked ahead of time, I had a real good laugh. How can anyone be mad about Tetris Effect taking it? I think it's very funny in the final discussion how, after arguing about games for hours, you all come together at this one game I totally would not have expected. It's not my game of the year by any stretch, but I'm glad you got to chill out with what you loved lmao. Happy new year, and thanks for all the great content this holiday season!
Most Disappointed was the Minerva's Den vs Lair of the Shadow Broker/Dream Daddy vs Yakuza of this year, but this time I knew to skip an hour ahead.
Well fuck me for not being able to listen I guess...
I mean for the last three days it's just been them chatting about every game of the year. What's there to say? An article that just sums up everyone's opinions on every game?
The Smash talk is always frustrating. Fighting games are fun! I think it's more fun to play Smash Bros. more like a fighting game and less like a Mario Party.
I think the emotional Spidey stuff in the game can get pretty old. The only tricks in their book for making people care are dead family members and being mentors for/friends with Peter(Look forward to more of that in the sequel, with Harry Osborn being Venom this time). So it's a little annoying that the cast are so taken with those parts of it. I don't really think "I wasn't trying to make a death robot, I was trying to make a healing robot" makes a villain better than if he was just an enterprising and charismatic through and through self-interested bad man. It just makes them feel like the Mr. Beans of supervillainy.
I think what does elevate Spider-Man is just the polish and production. It looks good and it feels good and it's got some good story beats here and there. It doesn't have a lot of gameplay depth and it's got some crappy open world elements and stealth sequences, but it does manage to make a game that feels good to play and a story that is in no way embarrassing compared to the movies it's aping. If you wanted games that "feel like movies", then welcome to 2018 with detroit and spidey and god of war who all ape as hard as they can.
Next time, I hope they don't spend 3/4ths of the game on chasing a boring bad guy and instead get to the fun parts. Every boss fight sans 3 were right at the end. I know Rhino isn't exactly the deepest character in the world but I promise he would be better with more than like twenty lines in the whole game. There's not enough screentime to go around when you spend all that time beating up mr. Negative's goons.
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