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    #3512
    Star Lord
    Registered Users Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    Listen, I love the goose and all, but Outer Wilds is the kinda game that floats around ‘game of the decade’ territory

    *HONK* Sorry I *HONK* can't hear you *HONK* over the sound *HONK* of Breath of the Wild...


    ...Honk?


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    #3513
    nix
    Registered Users Posts: 4,909 ✭✭✭nix


    Star Lord wrote: »
    *HONK* Sorry I *HONK* can't hear you *HONK* over the sound *HONK* of Breath of the Wild...


    ...Honk?

    Ah same could be said about the Witcher 3, the only way to quantify "the best" is vote really (which is bull****) and im pretty sure a lot more have played the witcher 3 than BOTW..

    So whos to really know? :P


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    #3514
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,411 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Lots of games in that conversation - from Breath of the Wild to Bloodborne, Obra Dinn to Kentucky Route Zero. Hey, a lot of games I’m not even personally big on - Minecraft etc... - are in there too.

    All that’s just to emphasise that Outer Wilds is outrageously spectacular.


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    #3515
    iLikeWaffles
    Registered Users Posts: 4,325 ✭✭✭iLikeWaffles


    Played a lot of AC6 great game once you stop listening to the dialogue.


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    #3516
    hellsing101
    Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭hellsing101


    Will there be a GOTY poll here or a prelim where we all suggest games as contenders?


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    #3517
    Zero-Cool
    Registered Users Posts: 29,811 ✭✭✭✭Zero-Cool


    hellsing101 wrote: »
    Will there be a GOTY poll here or a prelim where we all suggest games as contenders?

    If Mr. E decides to graciously hold a Boards GOTY awards again this year, that's where it'll be.

    https://touch.boards.ie/forum/499


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    #3518
    CastorTroy
    Registered Users Posts: 29,038 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    For me it's between Mario Maker 2, Untitled Goose Game, Link's Awakening or Luigi's Mansion 3.
    Think they're the only recent releases I've played. So looks like I won't be voting


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    #3519
    iLikeWaffles
    Registered Users Posts: 4,325 ✭✭✭iLikeWaffles


    Very impressive that POE stream, they announced POE 2 (patch 4.0.0) loads of new content over the next few months. Engine changes rolling up to poe2 / 4.0 (next year) 7 acts with more added, it will to be a new part to the game all purchases will still work, it is set 20 years after the last act, 19 ascendancy classes, skill gems no longer linked to weapons but the gems themselves. Also announced poe mobile (joking they wanted to announce last year).


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    #3520
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,282 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Found the triple A space especially poor this year but the indie scene and smaller projects along with Nintendo more than made up for it and made this a spectacular year for games.
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    #3521
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,411 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    I dunno... obviously differs from person to person (I thought DMC5 was fairly uninspiring, for example) but I was pretty happy with quite a few bigger tiles this year: Control, Death Stranding, Apex Legends, Resi 2 and Sekiro were all good to great, not to mention Nintendo. Most of my favourite games were still indies, but felt there were developers doing interesting and successful things on a larger scale. Perhaps more than usual, if anything - you wouldn’t get a single game quite as strange as Control and Death Stranding most years, let alone two of them in relatively quick succession.


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    #3522
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,282 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    In my defence I'm waitin on pc version of death stranding and not played control.

    As for Sekiro, I need to get back to it. Release day conincided with a nasty collarbone injury and when that healed I'd kind of forgotten about it.
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    #3523
    RasTa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,116 ✭✭✭✭RasTa


    How is the switch doing sales wise anyway? More then Xbox?


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    #3524
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,967 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    RasTa wrote: »
    How is the switch doing sales wise anyway? More then Xbox?

    If you were to check it now, yes, the Switch has sold more, but MS stopped reporting the sales of their consoles at the end of 2018 so...


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    #3525
    Greyfox
    Registered Users Posts: 3,790 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    I reckon this year wasn't as good as 2018 or 2017 some really good games this year though and Resi 2 remake was the best by far


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    #3526
    CastorTroy
    Registered Users Posts: 29,038 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    So now we technically have the next Half Life coming, what big games are remaining on the list of vaporware?

    Yes, I know it's not Half Life 3/Episode 3


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    #3527
    eyerer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭eyerer


    Beyond Good and Evil 2 comes to mind, still not happened. Last thing I saw was a vague overly ambitious galaxy-spanning game. Which also wasn't a sequel.


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    #3528
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,326 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    No One Lives Forever; maybe not a sequel but getting the series out of the licensing limbo / hell it's trapped in, and give it the HD polish (maybe rework the awful first level in game 1).

    I love that first game, I'd honestly put it up there with Deus Ex as a pinnacle of the genre (adventure FPS, as it were)


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    #3529
    Mr Freeze
    Registered Users Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭Mr Freeze


    pixelburp wrote: »
    No One Lives Forever; maybe not a sequel but getting the series out of the licensing limbo / hell it's trapped in, and give it the HD polish (maybe rework the awful first level in game 1).

    I love that first game, I'd honestly put it up there with Deus Ex as a pinnacle of the genre (adventure FPS, as it were)

    No One Lives Forever was amazing and it had stuff in it that I'd never witnessed in an FPS before. That plane level was something else. It was one of those games that you were unhappy once you finished it, it was that good.


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    #3530
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,326 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Mr Freeze wrote: »
    No One Lives Forever was amazing and it had stuff in it that I'd never witnessed in an FPS before. That plane level was something else. It was one of those games that you were unhappy once you finished it, it was that good.

    I think the sequel wasn't quite as good, but only because the original pretty much threw every conceivable set-piece you could want from a Spy game; in comparison NOLF2 came off quite tame! As you say, the plane sequence was just fantastic. Man, that whole game was just so inventive, always throwing in new little variants and sequences.

    There was talk of NighDive doing their thing & remastering, but fell into licence hell: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/07/05/no-one-will-sell-no-one-lives-forever-so-lets-download-it/

    TL:DR? Basically nobody outright owns NOLF, but no party is willing to give up their part of the license either.


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    #3531
    Mr Freeze
    Registered Users Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭Mr Freeze


    pixelburp wrote: »
    I think the sequel wasn't quite as good...

    I never played it, only played the first one.

    Like you said, what could the 2nd game offer since the first one literally had everything from scuba diving levels to levels in space.


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    #3532
    Homelander
    Registered Users Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭Homelander


    I bought 3 games from Gamestop online as they had a 3 for 2 promotion. Games arrive, two sealed copies and one empty box...I email them explaining and with pictures. They apologise and send me a replacement....it arrives and it's the wrong game. I send them an email again with more pictures, literally explaining I am missing a certain game several times.....get an email saying "Very sorry for the mix up, we are sending you a replacement copy of X this afternoon".

    X is still the wrong game. Starting to feel like it's a weird joke now.


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    #3533
    KilOit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,992 ✭✭✭KilOit


    Homelander wrote: »
    I bought 3 games from Gamestop online as they had a 3 for 2 promotion. Games arrive, two sealed copies and one empty box...I email them explaining and with pictures. They apologise and send me a replacement....it arrives and it's the wrong game. I send them an email again with more pictures, literally explaining I am missing a certain game several times.....get an email saying "Very sorry for the mix up, we are sending you a replacement copy of X this afternoon".

    X is still the wrong game. Starting to feel like it's a weird joke now.

    Staff are stealing them and putting in different discs


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    #3534
    Homelander
    Registered Users Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭Homelander


    I don't think so, the initial missing game was just an empty display case, genuine mistake probably, but the replacement was the wrong game altogether, still sealed. And in the latest email, they apologised for all the mix up, said I could keep the wrong game and they'd sent out X game immediately....which is STILL not the game that was missing from the order.

    Looks now like I will end up with 2 copies of one game, and 2 of another, instead of 3 separate games. I could understand one error, but 3 in a row over such a simple problem is just a bit much...


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    #3535
    SolvableKnave
    Registered Users Posts: 4,470 ✭✭✭SolvableKnave


    Homelander wrote: »
    I don't think so, the initial missing game was just an empty display case, genuine mistake probably, but the replacement was the wrong game altogether, still sealed. And in the latest email, they apologised for all the mix up, said I could keep the wrong game and they'd sent out X game immediately....which is STILL not the game that was missing from the order.

    Looks now like I will end up with 2 copies of one game, and 2 of another, instead of 3 separate games. I could understand one error, but 3 in a row over such a simple problem is just a bit much...

    Trade in the duplicate sealed game with them against the missing game.


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    #3536
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users Posts: 14,309 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    New Tony Hawks game supposedly coming out if it is anything like Pro Skater 5 that came out on PS4 and Xbox One it was trash, absolute garbage. No voice acting or anything.

    I have fond memory's of playing Tony hawks pro Skater 4 game on my brothers Gamecube and thought it was brilliant. We bought Underground and Underground 2 when they were released also.


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    #3537
    J. Marston
    Registered Users Posts: 23,163 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    THPS3 was my favourite. Sunk countless hours into it. Godly soundtrack.


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    #3538
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,967 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    I think I'm one of the few that never got into skating games. BMX XXX was about the furthest I got into those types of games!


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    #3539
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users Posts: 14,309 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    I think I'm one of the few that never got into skating games. BMX XXX was about the furthest I got into those types of games!

    You missed out at the time. I don't know if they hold up now game wise but for the time they were brilliant.


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    #3540
    J. Marston
    Registered Users Posts: 23,163 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    wotzgoingon wrote: »
    You missed out at the time. I don't know if they hold up now game wise but for the time they were brilliant.

    I think they would hold up. Obviously it's been ages since I played them but the one thing that sticks out is just how smooth they were to play.


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    #3541
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,967 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    wotzgoingon wrote: »
    You missed out at the time. I don't know if they hold up now game wise but for the time they were brilliant.

    I dunno, I was never into skateboarding, so it never really appealed to me. Quite hard to use a skateboard on grass, and being brought up in the country I suppose the whole skaterboi stuff passed me by. I think, similar to NFL, NHL & NBA games, you need to be into it to really enjoy it, due to the amount of rules and plays, etc each game requires you to know, so I've no idea what an olly or all those other weird names for skating moves.


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