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Let’s get it started! I also scored 6 points for Loco Motive (which is included in my 65 score), one of several indie games that let me down this year. To think that I considered Balatro but dismissed it… I guess it cancels out me getting lucky with Norco last year.

Would love to play a FFVIII remake on the scale of the FFVII Remake. Ditto IX. Otherwise, The Legend of Dragoon would be nice.

@shinymcshine The Case of the Golden Idol is much easier and less obscure than Return of the Obra Dinn, I wouldn’t let that put you off. Although I love Obra Dinn.

Just came back from seeing Thom Yorke. Here’s the setlist for anyone interested: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/thom-yorke/2024/line-cube-shibuya-tokyo-japan-3515d5b.html It was great, very electronic heavy and not at all a Radiohead “best of”. He played a lot of songs from Anima, Suspiria and The Eraser, and even a song from Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, which I don’t even own. And one new song called Back in the Game. The absolute highlight was probably Hunting Bears/I Might Be Wrong, which brought the house down. I got chills when he started playing Hunting Bears. Other highlights, Atoms for Peace and Cymbal Rush from The Eraser, an acoustic guitar version of Let Down, the one-two combo of Idioteque and Everything in its Right Place. In general, I loved the electronic rave-up vibe of most of the concert.

In addition to the above, The Rise of the Golden Idol is out now and has gotten excellent reviews, which has made my Fantasy Critic somewhat respectable. Reviews: Gamespot - 9 PC Gamer - 87% Eurogamer - 4/5 Polygon RockPaperShotgun

Reviews: PC Gamer - 91% RPG Site - 9 Nintendo Life - 8 Eurogamer - 3/5 Polygon RockPaperShotgun I think I might actually get this on Steam.

Loco Motive is out next week, good for my Fantasy Critic I guess. https://www.gematsu.com/2024/11/loco-motive-launches-november-21 Looks great.

Requires 150GB SSD space: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/holy-cow-stalker-2-needs-150gb-of-ssd-space-and-youve-got-9-days-to-figure-out-where-youre-going-to-put-it/

Vanilla game, around 140 hours in now. I have no idea what to think about this game but I’ll try to give some detailed thoughts when I’ve finished it.

Booted this up again after another month or so lapse. Need to finish it. I completed Astarion’s sidequest with Cazador.

If you ignore the DS only IX and the mmorpg X, I think DQXI was quite a significant drop-off from DQVIII. Guitar Hero 3 was definitely a drop-off from GH2, understandable given the change of developer I guess. I hated the change of direction Jak and Daxter went in after the brilliant first game. I think Broken Sword 3 was definitely a misfire after the first two games, the switch from 2D to 3D didn’t work out so well. Age of Empires 3 and Empire Total War were also both disappointing sequels, maybe because they dealt with a relatively uninteresting time period in history.

Trailer of the year. https://www.gematsu.com/2024/10/showa-american-story-launches-in-2025-five-minute-trailer

Asylum, which I backed all the way back in February 2013, is finally being released on March 6th: So it’s been in development for at least 12 years. I backed it because I loved their previous game, Scratches. One of the most haunting and weirdly melancholic games I’ve played. I’ll probably play this day one.

Lovely jubbly. Only took a decade or so, but better late than never!

A game that probably fits this week and last week’s question is Outer Wilds, a game that will definitely stand the test of time as a modern classic and made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Not to mention, the DLC is straight up terrifying.