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I think for me I need to wait and see how history shakes out for this year. 1998 was not only a year of amazing sequels, but games that rewrote game design. I think I need to see what from 2017 gets taken forward, and which of these new games become something we're still talking about years from now. If Horizon only has one good game then it will fade into history, but we're still talking about Metal Gear Solid and Half Life today. 

Yeah, since there was such along time between episodes I only put the call out on twitter.

Thoughts about the Giant Bomb deliberations. I have a lot of them.

I thought the world building debate was absurd, and I was genuinely shocked that they couldn't come to a consensus on what world building is, and equally shocked that, not only did Horizon not win the category, it wasn't even in the top 3. That game is like 80% world building, and is the main reason I love it so much.

No animosity between Alex and anyone else. Alex has his battles and will fight for them. Now, if Fire Pro was disqualified for not having been released at the time of recording, I think it's total bullshit that PUBG wasn't disqualified. They took it as fact that the game would actually release in 2017, and I think they all gave it a pass because they had pretty much already decided it was GOTY way before sitting down to record.

I was curious how Ben and Abby would mesh in that room. I like Abby a ton on the Beastcast, but lowkey can't stand anything Ben says or does. I felt like Ben never added anything of merit to any of the discussions. I was surprised at how ready to mix things up Abby was, but the longer the discussion went on, the more I decided that she must not be much of a reader. She seems to pull from the same limited vocabulary. Maybe I do that too, but at some point I was trying to see if I could count all the times she said "very" "cool", and "good". 

But my main take away was that this was the first time in a decade that I have not only disagreed with the GB top 10, but it actively made me angry. You can probably tell from my top 5 list that I wasn't pleased with their list, and as someone who really doesn't understand why people love Nier, I was shocked when JEFF GERSTMANN of all people tried to get it in as the top game. 

I know, right? It's the gift that keeps on giving!

I just bought that book recently and am lookung forward to reading it!

FF V is the "intellectual" best game in the series, the one that fans of will use to thumb their nose at people like me who don't care for it as much. 

FF IV was technically my first RPG too. I played just a teensy bit of FF I at a friend's house, and when I saw the SNES game for rent I convinced my cousin to take a chance on it. We instantly fell in love.

Hitman was one of my favorite games of 2016, and I am looking forward to jumping back in to play the newer content. 

This may just be an Xbox issue, and a recent one. When my PSN flakes (which is all the time), it keeps me from gaining trophies, but I can still play my games.

I was thinking that too, but after his character growth in TNC I don't want him reduced to a silent protagonist. I would love a scene where he has this impactful monologue about doing the right thing and stopping Demon Hitler (because there is a Demon Hitler in this fantasy game of mine), and the Doom Marine just stares at him silently.

Actually, now that I think about it, this is an entirely different problem, because I bought Evil Within 2 on disc and that still happened. But it definitely happened with my digital copy of Agents of Mayhem. The Xbox suddenly asked if I owned the game and booted me when I lost internet connectivity.