Kirby and the Forgotten Land definitely deserves some awards. If I did a top five list of all my favorite games of 2022, it would be way up there.
The new LEGO Star Wars game isn't one of the better LEGO games, but if you can play it for free on Game Pass, I'd say go for it.
I hope I get Atari 50 for Christmas!
That's why I'm glad I only spent 20 bucks on the Alexa hockey puck. It's turned off and unplugged now!
It doesn't look like my cup of tea, but High on Life at least sounds somewhat original.
I'm not really into Rick and Morty, but I sure did like Invader ZIM!
I didn't watch the Game Awards show. I like my own Game Awards show better. :)
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A lot of my thoughts on the current state of games will make me sound like a hypocrite. But I'm a human being and I'm not perfect, so there you go.
While I do like classic game collections and remakes, I feel like game companies have been relying on too much of those lately. And I know this has been a problem for a while, but I'm getting tired of companies nickel and diming you with DLC. I guess I just miss the SNES, PS1, and PS2 days where I could just pop in the whole game and play it. Also, from what I've been reviewing lately, indie games are overrated. That's not going to be a popular opinion I'm sure.
Cage Match
Even though I should give it to Mario Odyssey, Mario just gets too much recognition nowadays so I'm going with Chrono Cross this time. Plus "Odyssey" is too hard to spell. Now, if it was Mario Galaxy vs. Chrono Cross, the results would be different!
And speaking of awards shows:
http://www.pixlbit.com/blog/20441/carys_best_games_of_2022_awards_show
A few years ago I got one of those Alexa hockey puck things for super cheap (like 20 bucks), so we just played around with it for a while, asking her funny questions, making her do fart noises, etc. Now they want you to use her to operate everything in your house. I can flip the light switch myself just fine, thank you.
Yeah I heard the Disney Dreamlight Valley game is like Animal Crossing but with Disney characters. You'd think that would get me to play it, but I just can't play ALL the games out there. I think that's cool that Scrooge McDuck is in it. He's one of my favorite Disney characters. You'll have to let me know if Chip N Dale, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, or Wreck-It Ralph are in it.
If you've ever watched the Pacific Rim movies, the computer voice in that one is the exact same voice as GlaDOS.
The only other thing I remember about Juice Box the Robot is that in Poker Night 2, when GlaDOS comes out to deal the cards, when Juice Box sees her for the first time he says, "Hubba hubba!" Of course, GlaDOS isn't too pleased at that.
One other Borderlands thing in Poker Night 2 is that one of the stages is a bar from that game and the bartender is some kind of creepy mime/clown lady.
One thing that creeps me out about Amazon's Alexa is that she apparently knows Dr. Wily on a first name basis and also says she "doesn't speak with GlaDOS after what happened." Hmmm.
It's all right. I break the rules a lot in my podcasts. We make up the rules as we go along and break 'em all if we're not having fun. That's from a song.
