Earlier last year, and against my better judgment, I decided I was gonna try to make an effort to play more modern games. If only for this year alone, I wanted to pick up at least one new game for every month of 2020—but then, of course, a world-stopping monkey wrench known as COVID-19 was thrown into every industry known to man, with video games being no exception. There have been a great deal of delays and push-backs aplenty over the past six months, and there doesn't seem to be an end in sight, leaving a relative dearth of overhyped and overproduced bullshit for us to consume. Whether that's ultimately good or bad is up to you, but that's just kinda the state of things right now.

Nonetheless, I still wanted to follow through with my plan, even if it meant buying some bum-ass indie game on Steam, because nothing else came out that month. So, here's everything that's been on my radar:

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January

☐ Journey to the Savage Planet
☐ Yakuza: Like a Dragon (Japan only)
☐ Hypercharge: Unboxed
☐ Puzzle & Dragons Gold
☐ Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIV
☐ The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners
☐ Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot
☐ Kandagawa Jet Girls (Japan only)
☐ AO Tennis 2

Basically nothing came out this month, which, for January, isn't out of the ordinary. I was initially somewhat interested in the new Yakuza, but it won't be coming stateside until later this year, and I haven't even played any of the others anyway. On top of that, I guess it's going to be an RPG, which seems to be a major departure from the rest of the series—so I'll have to pass on it, unfortunately.

That doesn't really leave very much, though. The only thing here that has me mildly interested (at best) is Journey to the Savage Planet, which looks kinda decent, but it also just looks like a bootleg Ratchet & Clank game to me, so I'm hesitant to drop $29.99 on it. I'll see if I can't get it on sale, or something.

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February

☑ Dreams
☐ Granblue Fantasy Versus
☐ Vitamin Connection
☐ Boris and the Dark Survival
☐ Katana Kami: A Way of the Samurai Story
☐ Persona 5 Scramble (Japan only)
☐ Death end re;Quest 2 (Japan only)
☐ Zombie Army 4: Dead War
☐ Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix
☐ Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash!
☐ Dota Underlords
☐ One-Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows
☐ The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics
☐ Monster Energy Supercross 3

To think that if Dreams never came out, I'd be stuck playing some weebshit fighting game instead. Long story short—Media Molecule did it again this year, having dropped what is almost assuredly going to end up being my GotY, although it's certainly debatable as to whether such a release should even count. Nonetheless, playing Dreams is the most consistently mind-blowing virtual experience I've had in the past ten years.

Dreams isn't just a sandbox game, or a simple creative tool—it's a straight-up game engine, but streamlined to be as welcoming and as user-friendly as possible. You can make anything with it; the degree of creative freedom that you're granted is seriously un-fucking-paralleled, and truly something to behold. As much I'd love to prattle off a list of things that I've seen created in Dreams, it would be futile, because the list of things that I haven't seen would be significantly shorter. The possibilities truly are endless with this one, and to top it all off, it's only $39.99. How can you beat that? An absolute and emphatic must-have for any PlayStation owner.

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March

☑ Animal Crossing: New Horizons
☐ Ori and the Will of the Wisps
☐ Half-Life: Alyx
☐ Nioh 2
☐ Doom Eternal
☐ Good Job!
☐ Biped
☐ Murder by Numbers
☐ Twin Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Adventure
☐ Bleeding Edge
☐ Cooking Mama: Cookstar
☐ Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX
☐ Panzer Dragoon: Remake
☐ Black Mesa
☐ My Hero: One's Justice 2
☐ One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4
☐ MLB The Show 20
☐ R.B.I. Baseball 20

Probably the strongest month of the year in terms of options. I'm definitely interested in the new Ori game, but I still need to play Blind Forest. I love Half-Life, but I don't have a VR device (nor a PC powerful enough) to handle Alyx, so I'll keep my fingers crossed for a PSVR release. I also haven't played Nioh, so I'd rather hold off on the sequel, and I've never really given a shit about Doom, so Eternal was kind of off the table for me.

That pretty much leaves Animal Crossing: New Horizons—which is just as well, because as several others have pointed out, this game could not have come out at a better time. After putting up with the ongoing turmoil in the outside world, day in and day out, some of us really needed a relaxing game where all you do is hang out in a cute little village with your cute little animal friends. It's not a game for everybody—and indeed, it's yet another one of those games that challenges the definition of "game" itself—but regardless, with 13 million units sold in six weeks, it seems plain enough that AC was exactly what a lot of people needed in their lives.

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April

☑ Telling Lies
☐ XCOM: Chimera Squad
☐ Streets of Rage 4
☐ Moving Out
☐ Legends of Runeterra
☐ Predator: Hunting Grounds
☐ Final Fantasy VII Remake
☐ Resident Evil 3
☐ Trials of Mana
☐ SnowRunner
☐ Gears Tactics
☐ Picross S4
☐ Bokuhime Project (Japan only)
☐ MotoGP 20

If you're anything like me, and you don't really give a shit about remakes, then this month was even weaker than January for you, especially if you don't care about XCOM. Streets of Rage is a classic series, and all, but I don't necessarily need a fourth one. That leaves Telling Lies—a live action game where you try to solve a mystery by listening in on Skype calls between four people, and piece together whatever bits of information you can scrounge up, which is an admittedly neat concept, but I'm not sure how much I'd be willing to spend on that.

If you do care about remakes, then this was a pretty good year. Final Fantasy VII Remake dropped, which is kind of a big deal, as well as Resident Evil 3—both of which seem to have been very well-received. I'm interested in picking up the former, but only after I play the original Final Fantasy VII—which, in turn, I will only play once I've beaten I-VI, because I want to be the first American to ever play the Final Fantasy games in sequential order. That's gonna take a very long time, though... so, maybe I'll have to settle for Telling Lies.

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May

☑ Wildfire
☐ Crucible
☐ The Persistence
☐ Maneater
☐ Minecraft Dungeons
☐ Deep Rock Galactic
☐ Cannibal Cuisine
☐ Synaptic Drive
☐ Umihara Kawase BaZooKa!! (Japan only)
☐ The Elder Scrolls: Blades
☐ Golf With Your Friends
☐ Super Mega Baseball 3

Slim pickings this month once again. Both my initial pick and my back-up pick—The Last of Us Part II and Ninjala—were pushed back from this month, which pretty much left nothing else to look forward to. Maneater looks kinda funny, I guess, but not something I'd spend real money on. Crucible is appealing strictly on the basis that it's free to play, but beyond that, it looks like a generic piece of shit. The Persistence is mildly interesting, but also not really.

So, the game I'm currently waiting to go on sale for is Wildfire. $14.99 seems a bit steep for a game like this, but it does look like the best option available.

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June

☑ The Last of Us Part II
☐ Death Come True
☐ Liberated
☑ Ninjala
☐ Valorant
☐ Disintigration
☐ Desperados III
☐ Brigandine: The Legend of Runersia
☐ Pokémon Café Mix
☑ Jump Rope Challenge
☐ Kingdom Hearts: Dark Road
☐ SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated

I've had my sights set to three games in June—The Last of Us Part II for obvious reasons, but also two lesser-known games: Death Come True and Liberated. The former is another live action game, this one being Japanese and created by some of the people behind Danganronpa and Zero Escape. It's a choose-your-own adventure where you wake up with a dead body in your apartment, but with no memory of how it got there. The police arrive shortly thereafter, leaving you to think fast and Heavy Rain your way out of the situation. It looks pretty cool, if you ask me.

Liberated, on the other hand, is an action game with graphics made to look exactly like you're reading a comic book. I'm a sucker for cool gimmicks like this, so I'll probably pick this one up down the line. The Last of Us Part II took precedence, though, of course. Despite the controversy surrounding it, I've been thoroughly enjoying myself so far, and I guess you could say I'm still waiting to understand why people are so upset about it.

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That's pretty much it, I think. July's not looking spectacular right now, but I'll probably end up choosing Ghost of Tsushima if nothing else.

Just for fun, I made a tier list for sorting out all the games you're interested in playing, and I included everything that isn't a port, remaster, update, expansion, collection, or anything that's not a new and original title, or a full-fledged remake. I couldn't be bothered to add sports games like MLB: The Show 20, so I apologize that those are missing, and Battle for Bikini Bottom: Rehydrated is included because it was advertised as a full remake, even though it turned out to just be more of a remaster.


So, what have you been playing?

N64 pick-ups:

Blast Corps (finally)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
Dark Rift
War Gods
Shadow Man
Razor Freestyle Scooter (the antepenultimate game released for the system)
Micro Machines 64 Turbo
WinBack: Covert Operations

They also had AeroGauge, Mickey's Speedway USA, Mike Piazza's Strike Zone, MRC: Multi-Racing Championship, Off Road Challenge, Ridge Racer 64, Rugrats: Scavenger Hunt, and Wheel of Fortune, but I had to pass these up for now, since I was going over-budget and didn't wanna starve today. Had I caved in, though, I'd officially have over 50% of the N64 library.

If I get Mickey's Speedway USA next time around, the only Rare game that I'll be missing for the system is Banjo-Tooie.

I also got Devil May Cry 3 for like $5, so I own the PS2 trilogy now. Not sure when I'll actually play them, but at least I have the ability to.

“Hola Principal Snickers” dice El Bart
“Bart vas a estar en una gran problema si seguís llamándome eso” dice El Principal Skinner
“Principal Snick-“ dice El Bart
“HIJO DE LA GRAN PUTA” dice Skinner dandole una bofetada al Bart

i recently learned the joke behind sneed's feed and feed (formerly chuck's) the other day

You're implying that all of them have sexual intent in mind. What about the ones that don't? What about the ones in environmental situations such as sparse populations? What about ones who can't seem to fill the intelligence gap? Or the ones who lost the genetic lookie loo lottery?

all of these people have better things to worry about than relationships, and because of this, even if they do feel lonely every once in a while, they're essentially incapable of being pathetic about it, because their situation has forced them to have priorities

I'm not defending the behavior nor the pity parties of the thirsties

well, they're the only people i'm talking about obviously

you say you're not trying to defend them, but i've personally never seen anyone try to defend whining about petty shit this hard—where i come from, it is universally reviled behavior

But I'm not constantly bitching about not having a gf

You made too many assumptions coming in here
It's almost like you're projecting

i don't have to project—i am lonely

the difference is that i'm okay with that, and would never post a thread like this about it, because it's cringe

Why can't a person think it'd be nice to have a gf instead of being a rock who doesn't need anybody or a sad puppy who can't survive without a partner

you can, i just don't think that person posts threads like this

Quote from: Verbatim on June 28, 2020, 04:20:38 PM

i never said there was anything wrong with it

i've just always thought of this "tfw no gf" meme as the most pathetic, whiny, and obnoxious shit ever, because it just so happens that the only people who post things like this are the ones who place too much stock on relationships in general

What about "tfw lonely af" instead?

what about being an interesting person instead

then you wouldn't have to be so lonely

or if you still are, you can try to embrace it, and come to the realization that you don't really need people all that much to be in a contented state of mind

just chilling, watching a shitload of movies and listening to a shitload of albums

the last of us 2 has been pretty good so far, despite the controversy

Plus, I dare to ask the question of what's the matter with somebody wanting a partner?

i never said there was anything wrong with it

i've just always thought of this "tfw no gf" meme as the most pathetic, whiny, and obnoxious shit ever, because it just so happens that the only people who post things like this are the ones who place too much stock on relationships in general

>tfw your self-worth and happiness is not beholden to another person because i'm capable of making myself whole

how long do streams with fansubs typically take to get uploaded

Dina's dialogue really does make you cringe sometimes. No one calls their SO "babe" in real life.

Coincidentally the game picks up once you ditch her at the theater.

i will say that some of the dialogue has made me wince a bit

there's a part where ellie's talking to jesse about how joel used to think he had a crush on her, but then she said, "i'm not into your type"

you know, instead of "you're not my type" like a normal person would say

I just meant the take that doing anal makes you borderline a scat fetishist

the two are completely unrelated and I would be weirded out if I accidentally gave someone shit dick and they didn't think it was gross

that would be abjectly horrifying, but also, i can easily imagine someone who's really into anal not caring about that because he knows the territory, and nobody wants to take the extra time to prepare themselves just to have sex

most people work on a "good enough" principle and i wouldn't be shocked if you did too, and personally, i think it takes a special kind of stupid to dig in somebody's asshole, find something, and be surprised about it

even if you're squeaky clean, the only way i'd feel safe going down there is if i personally cleaned you myself—and even then, i'd be apprehensive as fuck, because if you're eating healthy, it's not like your body doesn't constantly produce waste

So if we use your brain's logic, does that therefore make all ass men scat men?

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