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Between Pizza Tower, ANTONBLAST, Battle Brothers and The Binding of Isaac: Repentance for me. Happy final gaming weekend of the year everyone 🥳

@N00BiSH
My man, you beat me to it. I know what I’m playing this Christmas Eve 😁

Absolutely loved what I’ve played so far when it hasn’t crashed or had frame dips. Patiently waiting for the new patch. 🙏

@Pillowpants I completely agree, TBOI was one of the first roguelikes I’ve played and I’ve been chasing the dragon ever since. It introduced me to a whole genre and I have pretty much every decent roguelike/lite going but they still don’t deliver what Isaac can. I think the only comparable roguelikes in terms of replayability and quality are Slay the Spire and Monster Train. I know they’re very different games to Isaac but very well designed games/roguelikes.
Keep chasing those marks friend, there’s a great Isaac guide on app stores which is my goto.

@Pillowpants
The Binding of Isaac is digital crack. Recently picked it up again to try and clear some more marks. Pretty sure it’s my most played game of all time now

I’ve racked up about 1300 hrs of playtime. The joys of being in unemployment for the most part of the year. Hours have gone right down now I’m back at work.
Balatro takes the win at 257 hrs.
Second place goes to Unicorn Overlord at 160 hrs
Third Place goes to SMTVengence at 130 hours.
The rest of the games are made up of all the brilliant action platformers we’ve been blessed with this year, Pizza Tower, Volgarr, Pepper Grinder, Shadow of the Ninja to name a small few.

Up there in my top five of the year.

My girls absolutely love the MVC collection. My youngest face (4yo) when she realised she’d found a game you could play without much thought in it. Her face even more when she realised she could win. Priceless

Get Pizza Tower, my GOTY, you won’t regret it

@IronMan30 I second your opinion on Black Sabbath. They created a new genre of music by accident and paved the way for heavy metal and what it is today. I think any respectable metal artist would credit Sabbath as a key inspiration. Just like the Astro team has for Nintendo.

Amazing news, Monolith Soft are up there with the big boys IMO. Nintendo please get them to help Gamefreak out or even better, make Monolith Soft lead devs on Pokemon.

Ultimate by name, Ultimate by nature.
What a crazy reveal, launch and following few years for Smash Ult. When you say it out loud, it is an inconceivable concept and an amazing achievement.

@Yalloo
The RPG elements are extremely light, it’s all about the brutal combat in this one. Can be brutal to the point you’ll question whether you’re having fun but that’s down to personal preference.
There’s a pretty dark and grown up story behind it as well so don’t be fooled by the anthropomorbphic characters

1st game has some brutal difficulty, I’m still yet to finish it. Maybe it’s time I finally did

My names not Dave, it’s Rodney

I never got round to finishing XC3 so I started a new play through last weekend and been having a great time with it and will continue on this weekend. I never realised the first time round, the huge level of scope in the world design. It’s such a lush game. Got the expansion pass for the full fat experience. I’m aiming to finish it this time 💪🏻
Happy gaming all

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin was beautiful. I must replay it sometime in the build up to this

Now Nintendo has a huge player base for the Xenoblade games, I have no doubt this will lead into Y & Z sequels with some connection to the main series.
I’m excited that the latest MMO-esque play test Nintendo did recently may be linked to XCX’s online functions.

Oooo Arkham City is tempting. Best game out of the three followed by Asylum, then Knight. The Arkham universe building in City is superb.

Such great memories of ten year old me playing this. It was one of the first games where I took noticed of the narrative and helped me realise the potential of story telling in video games.
I’m so tempted by this. Is there going to be a physical?

@Serpenterror @8bit4Life legends, thanks for the info dump! I got a feeling following quite possibly some massive sales for XCX, we may see those New Tokyo’s and New New York’s in future instalments. Very exciting times to be a Monolith Soft Fan!

Very sorry Stardew you will have to wait but Core Keeper has me utterly addicted. I won’t be out the mines any time soon

@Samalik @Tyranexx thank you both for explaining! I’m very excited about the release

Would someone kindly tell me if the story in X has any relation to the mainline series? I know they’re all separate stories with the most loose of connections but I’m interested nonetheless.
Not that it matters, I will still be buying!

@LikelySatan
I think people are likely being put off by the price. I’m a fan boy of the Evil Dead and old retro horror classics so this was an instant purchase for me. The games play like clunky megadrive side scrollers and the pixel art is amazing, full of character and personality.
I’m very pleased that there will be more licensed games coming in the future and seeing the in-game arcade grow accordingly.

This week I purchased Retro Realms (double pack), Faith: The Unholy Trinity and Core Keeper so I’ll be busy playing them this weekend. Happy gaming everyone

I’ve heard enough hype for years from the WiiU gamers that this is easily a day one purchase

Love the sound of this, just snapped up a physical copy. My daughter and I will look forward to playing this!

World of Horror should be added. I’ve been playing that the last week. Won’t be everyone’s cup of tea gameplay wise but it’s steeped in horror funnily enough

Just to add to my comment in the Ash Vs. review.
We are being utterly spoilt with the abundance of 8/16bit inspired action platformers. I’ve got Shadow of the Ninja, Moonrider, Iron Meat, Bzzzt, Volgarr 2 all in rotation with Pizza Tower on the side. Will be adding this horror duo to the collection soon.

Evil Dead is my favourite horror series ever. Corse I’m getting this

but does it run Skyrim? This is a deal breaker

Some excellent news to hear in this current industry climate of lay offs and uncertainty. Great studio, great games, great future ✌️

@N8tiveT3ch English vox actor being trash is a widely popular opinion haha. I still love XC2 though in all its cheesy glory.

My wallet has taken a serious beating the past few months I tell you that

Monster Train First Class

Had the physical sat wrapped and unopened for a while now. Think I’ll wait just a little bit longer so my daughter and I can play through together 😁

Nintendo don’t have to worry about the console wars because they bloody well won it, with a handheld of all things. They are dominating.

Amazing game, still need to finish it though. Damn you SMT Vengence

Give me the switch but with more power baby. Just imagine how glorious 1st party games are going to look with Nintendo hands on with the optimisation.

Nintendo need to take advantage of Sony’s recent blunder for sure

@Divide_and_Wander I like this sizzle reel idea a lot!

I’ll be grabbing the physical of this once it releases. I have the most fondest memories of playing a ripped Japanese copy of MVC2 on the Dreamcast back in the day

Yeah this one is gunna be a physical buy for me fellow gamers. Looking forward to it!

@Walterd Oh god yeah how can I forget?!

@The-Chosen-one
No joke, all its moves are physical thrusts attacks or thrusting piercing buffs. Oh and a charm debuff for enemies 😂

I spat my coffee out when I first fused Mara 🤣

@cosmograph keep up the great work 💪🏻

This weekend I’m still playing Pizza Tower. I honestly think this could be GOTY for me.

Happy gaming all ✌️

@Glasso
Gosh how did I forget about Gravity Circuit?! That is top tier

I can’t help but say, just play 30xx instead. That game has everything you’ll ever want if you’re a megaman fan